Here is a snippet to convert a bindingconfiguration xml fragment into a Binding (with a few limitations). Configuration configSystem = ConfigurationManager .OpenExeConfiguration( ConfigurationUserLevel .None); var bindingSection = BindingsSection ...

The Policy Injection Application Block (PIAB) provides a way to dynamically apply cross-cutting concerns by configuration or attributes. The combination of this technique and composition using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) can be realized through...

var engine = new System.Data.SqlServerCe. SqlCeEngine ( "Data Source=" + filename); engine.EnsureVersion35(filename); --HELPER CLASS--- public static class SqlCeUpgrade { public static void EnsureVersion35( this SqlCeEngine engine, string...

See details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff632023.aspx and read Grigori's post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2010/04/20/microsoft-enterprise-library-5-0-released.aspx

Neat tool for grouping "stuff" on your desktop - fences from Stardock.com - go here

Those of you interested in Software Factories and Visual Studio Automation may find it relevant to investigate the new Feature Builder Power Tools. I will be happy to hear about your experiences and suggestions. Exerpt from landingpage : Feature...

Another free book from our Patterns&Practices team about something that you know you ought to know a little about :-) - Claims Based Identity and Access Control. Get the Book here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID...

Intercept the Run method of your bootstrapper by defining a new Run method, fetch the list of modules (list trimmed to the user in question of course) and populate the catalog from this. poc code? Here you are (note I am using a custom RIA domain service...

pre-conditions, post-conditions, object invariants in .NET - go here

Sharing code between Silverlight and WPF Applications has been a returning wish from several of the customers in our Microsoft Innovation Center in Denmark. The base class libraries are very similar, but obviously something is missing in the 3-4 MB Silverlight...

Unfortunately on g**g** technologies but the idea of a search shell is quite fun - look here A modern alternative is the Silverlight based search front-end tafiti (not new, but to some people i may be)

Just stumbled over a "new" distributed cache CTP from Microsoft - codename Velocity Having played a bit with NCache in the past i welcome this initiative very much - go have a look

Here's a very simple webpart that randomly shows pictures from a picturelibrary. The part is configured with the name of a picturelibrary. Pictures should have the Title property set to the URL of the sponsor web site ... very few lines of code solves...

ThinkTecture's Dominick Baier has helped MSDN in Germany to create a number of clips and How-To's covering several aspects of security on the .NET platform. If you remember any german from school I would recommend you point your browser this way

Microsoft Code Name " Acropolis " has finally been released to the public as a technology preview. Having played with some internal releases it has become clear to me what a huge amount of work the team has put into this technology. I would like to...

A couple of my colleagues from across the pond have recently blogged about SaaS and the so-called Service Delivery Platform. Check it out here

If you haven't done so already I recommend you take a look at our latest Biztalk Services CTP from the Connected Systems Division ( http://connectedsystems.spaces.live.com/ ). Quite a few people has already commented on this and I will just forward...

Some of your (unit) tests may be required to run with predefined credentials, and if all your tests should run as one single identity your might as well use the command line runas.exe tool to start your testrunner (or whatever your favorite naming for...

The P&P team has finished the third major release of the enterprise library. See Tom's post for more information. Try the new WCF integration with logging, exception handling and validation application blocks. Download from MSDN .

The P&P team has updated guidance related to Visual Studio Team System on Codeplex

I have found myself explaining SaaS a few times the past weeks and recently found the WIKI pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_Service Also Lars Fløe Nielsen from SiteCode has a series of good posts on SaaS from the ISV perspective. ...

I keep writing this code - now I can find it on my blog in the future :-) public static class StringXmlSerializer { public static string Serialize<T>(T obj) { XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer( typeof (T)); StringBuilder sb...

Hosting Workflow in WCF is described in the before mentioned article by Jeremy Boyd. In the article it is shown how to create an extension class for Workflow, and add this to the ServiceHost Extension collection. The code presented in the article is something...

In general the Web Service client proxy generated by “Add Web Reference” in Visual Studio is all you need to start talking to a Web Service. Some of you may need to present a certificate to the remote server you are calling and for this purpose you would...

The Guidance Automation Extensions have recently been released in a new version. From the GAX web site : The February 2007 CTP of the Guidance Automation Toolkit and Guidance Automation Extensions is a minor update to the previous June 2006 CTP, and includes...