I faced tons of problem on IIS 7/Windows 7 with the web tests (ASP.Net) using Visual Studio 2008. The following blog post from Alan really makes it clear how to make it work (although it is not … more

In order to learn the complex event processing, I have started looking into Microsoft StreamInsight lately. My first impressions of the StreamInsight is so far good and it looks promising. To the … more

I’m an using Admin account on Windows 7 and try to attach umbraco database to my local SQL 2008 R2 instance. I’m getting the following error: Unable to open the physical file "D:\Tech\umbraco\ … more

I’m speechless when I saw this last night. I wonder how this will shack the Flash/Silverlight world. By looking at the source & the fiddler, a great use of canvas object of HTML5 WebGL. Use the … more

Our team is interested in pursuing the development for SL4 with Blend 4. But the sales model from MS is such that we have to buy Expression Studio Ultimate 4 for $599 per license. That’s a bull crap. … more

oData is an Open Data Protocol for querying and updating data. You can view a few demos here. The PowerPivot is one of the most useful/HOT features in my view. Only drawback is it’ll be consumed in … more

I tried to create my own virtual machine to test and play with SharePoint 2010 but I was unsuccessful every time due to some errors and finally it became frustrating and I gave up. Now, Microsoft … more

Flot is an awesome library to produce the simple charts based on the great JQuery. Using the date/time data (e.g. X-axis data type) is a little difficult to get working right but after exchanging … more