Alex D'Angelo's Blog at Microsoft
Adding client-side helpers to service-defined contracts
Summary: When a client adds a service reference to a service, the generated classes are marked as...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/19/2009
Adding a service reference for non-http bindings
In Visual Studio it’s easy to add (or discover) a service that uses an http binding. What about...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/18/2009
Debugging FaultException: authN failed: ‘…’ of PasswordCredential
Ever see “FaultException: authN failed: ‘…’ of PasswordCredential” when trying to call a method that...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/17/2009
Debugging FaultException: matched scope not found (Access Control Service)
FaultException: matched scope not found: applies-to-address is ‘…’ This can occur when trying to use...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/14/2009
Dumping logs from the Azure Development Fabric
How to view Azure logs (RoleManager.WriteToLog ) when running under the Development Fabric: Open the...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/13/2009
Enabling network connectivity on a Windows Mobile device emulator
I’ve been experimenting with writing programs for Windows Mobile. I write the code in Visual...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/03/2009
Viewing the contents of a MUI file
Need to look at the strings in a MUI file? Here's an easy was to do it with Visual Studio: In the VC...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/01/2009
Investigation: Text Service Framework (TSF) and Keyboards
Overview Windows has an entire API for text input and interaction. The Text Services Framework (TSF)...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 07/31/2009
Access Control Service and UserNamePasswordCalculatorService
Having problems getting the Access Control Service UserNamePasswordCalculatorService sample to work...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 02/20/2009
Media Center Gadgets Video Review
jk on the Run points to a video review of the Media Center gadgets for Windows SideShow:...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 12/13/2008
Automatically implementing classes in Visual Studio 2008
VS2008 Tip: Automatically implement abstract interfaces 1) Write derived classpublic class...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 11/10/2008
Binding to a MarkupExtension that Returns a Binding
Is it possible to bind properties to a MarkupExtension that returns a Binding? Yes! The...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 10/30/2008
Media Center Gadgets for SideShow released!
We've just relased the Windows Media Center gadgets for SideShow! There are four gadgets – TV,...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 10/21/2008
Hidden Forms Windows
Trying to hide your forms window? Here are a couple sample solutions: One cumbersome solution is to...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/05/2008
Using IPC Channels and with Multiple Users
When I'm working with a new technology or concept, I find that an ultra simple, bare bones code...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 08/01/2008
Debugging a Media Center add-in
Trying to figure out how to debug a Media Center add-in? See details on how to do it at the Media...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 07/07/2008
Media Center gadget for Windows SideShow beta released
I'm currently working on the Media Center gadget for Windows SideShow. We've just put up the beta at...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 07/07/2008
Academic and Book search, RIP
I was both surprised and sad to hear that Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects are...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 05/24/2008
Looking up error codes with Err.exe
Err.exe is a great command-line utility for looking up error codes. It works with multiple sources,...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 02/27/2008
Writing gadgets for Windows SideShow
Congratulations to the Windows SideShow team on the release of the Windows SideShow Device SDK...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 01/23/2008
Multiple Desktop Resources
I've been exploring using multiple desktops in Windows and found some great resources online: Chris...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 01/18/2008
Disabling Animations in WPF
Sometimes it's useful to turn off animations to improve performance, battery life, or simply because...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 01/03/2008
Loading embedded resources in C# using GetManifestResourceStream
Did you ever add some resource (some xml, bmp, mp3, etc) to your project yet were not able to load...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 12/18/2007
New Academic Search
I noticed the Live Search Academic website was released today and it looks great. New features...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 11/01/2007
Book review: Ajax Design Patterns
Ajax Design Patterns (by Michael Mahemoff, June 2006, 635 pages, published by...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 07/12/2007
CSS tip: Extract what's common (define class in multiple parts)
There are often cases where similar (but not exactly the same) CSS styles are defined. Avoid the...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 04/25/2007
CSS tip: Group identical classes together
There are often cases where the same CSS style is defined multiple times for different classes....
Author: Alex Dan Date: 04/24/2007
Adding ToolTips to a List-View control
Adding a tooltip to an entry in a list-view is far simpler than MSDN would have you belive. In fact,...
Author: Alex Dan Date: 05/16/2006