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I made the fairly bold statement at my PDC09 talk that a DomainService IS A WCF Service. That is, everything you know about a WCF service should be true of a DomainService. I didn’t have time to get into this in my talk, so I thought I’d hit the highlights here. And in the process show how to consume a DomainService from a WinForms. You can also see more examples at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RiaServices You need: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (this actually works exactly the same in VS2008 and the corresponding RIA Services drop ) Silverlight 4 Beta You can download the completed solution as well. and be sure to check out the full talk . 1. Getting to the Service The first...
This series on updating my Mix09 talk to current bits has sort of taken on a life of its own and I am not quite through, but I have had numerous requests for a directory of these posts so folks can quickly find what they are looking for. Notice I left a few teasers for what is coming this week.. Core Features Visual Basic Class Library Project Custom Authentication Provider Authentication Evolving an Application Master-Details Sources of Data Entity Framework LinqToSql NHibernate POCO ADO.NET DataSet ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) WCF and WCF+Linq Data Transfer Objects Custom Linq Provider Presentation Layers Silverlight ASP.NET WebForms DataSource ASP.NET Dynamic Data WCF Service ASP.NET...
As I mentioned a few days ago , with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta we are taking some MAJOR steps toward making it easier for customers to acquire the .NET Framework. One of the ways we have done that is creating a client profile of the .NET Framework that includes only those parts of the framework that are relevant to client developers. Several customers have asked me recently exactly what is in this subset. Well the good news is it is a very large subset of what you need in a client application. We profiled tons of client apps to be sure we got the right set. But we'd also love your feedback. Justin Van Patten has recently blogged out the official list of what is in this profile . This includes...
VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 offer a ton of customer value from Linq to Ajax and much more. The service pack we have been working on to round out this release adds even more new value in addition to fixing a 100s of customer reported bugs! All of it is driven by customer asks and I am excited about how we have begun to embrace a model of providing great customer value on a very regular cadence. Omar Khan and I recently recorded a DotNetRocks episode where we talked about all these great things. I thought it would be fun to list just a few of my personal favorite new features in this SP... What is your favorite one? For Web Developers: - ASP.NET Dynamic Data makes building data driven web applications...
A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy! Read More...
Many of you have asked for an update to the .NET Framework namespace poster for 3.5... Thanks to Paul Andrew , Kit George and many others, we now have it! See Paul's blog for more details... Download the full PDF to a color printer near you ;-) Read More...
I am in the middle of a vacation to sunny, hot and humid North Carolina, but I had to take a break from it to make note of the impressive set of new bits there are to play with... Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Most importantly, we released VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 release Beta 2. This is a MAJOR step toward shipping. We'd love you to try out the products and give us your feedback... it is much cheaper for all of us if we can fix any issues you run into now before RTM. You can download the Visual Studio 2008 product here . You can alternatively download the smaller VS 2008 Express Editions here . For production environments, you can download just the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2 runtime here . Note, I strongly suggest you follow...
I just noticed that James Dobson recently got the FFClickOnce support added as an official FireFox plugin .. The latest release includes localization support! Thanks James, this really helps the community out a lot! Before the plug-in, you could not really do much with a clickonce application in firefox... With the plug in you get the much more useful "Run ClickOnce Application" Read More...
Wow – there has been some really good buzz on acropolis in the last 24 hours… Reading over the blogs and stuff two interesting questions are popping out: Question: When are you shipping Acropolis!! Answer: As soon as it is ready ;-) Seriously, we are very early in the cycle here, we came out at Teched to get some early feedback and find out if we are going in the right direction. Acropolis will NOT ship with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5… Rather it will ship as an “option pack” style release that works super well with your Visual Studio 2008. Later we fully expect to fold in Acropolis into the next major release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Question: Does Acropolis support WinForms Answer: Yes. While the UI aspects of...
Back in 2005 I spent a week with our Product Support professionals “helping” to answer support calls… I was amazed that at the world’s largest software company the tools these folks use were not well integrated (I believe it has sense been addressed). A customer call comes in via one application giving some limited caller ID type of information, the operator cuts-and-paste the name from there into another app to look up their account status, then opens a case in a tracking application and again cut-and-pasts that information in and then opens up a website to check out the availability of a hot fix the customer was asking for.. Wow.. one simple action 4-5 applications. Why didn’t we have one application to unify them all? Well, our story my sound...
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