Kirk Evans Blog

Eric Ebell , working at one of our service provider customers in Atlanta, pinged me about a JavaScript question, wanting to know how to call a web service and then fill a table dynamically with the results. I am not a JavaScript developer by any means...

About a month ago, my cell phone was thrown into a bag at the pool along with the kids' pool toys. Next thing ya know, I am pulling my phone out of several inches of water at the bottom of a bag and feeling a sense of dread come over me... "Oh no... I...

One of the cool features of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 is the introduction of the SendActivity and ReceiveActivity, which provides a marriage of WCF and WF. Guy Berstein has a great overview of some of the new WF and WCF features . This makes creating...

I am simply amazed at the JavaScript debugging with Visual Studio 2008. The really cool part is that it is able to debug the JavaScript from PHP and JSP pages just as easily as it can with ASP.NET. Think about it... you aren't debugging the server-side...

Ken Cox has a great web post, " Speed Test: A No-Code LINQ-Based ASP.NET 3.5 Page " that shows the power of using ASP.NET and LINQ to quickly build a web page with no code. Yep... no code, and you get Sorting, Paging, Inserting, Editing, Updating, and...

I am just getting started with the DSL Toolkit. Admittedly, DSL has seemed like a black art, because it was hard to figure out all the interim releases and CTPs. The goal of this series of blogs is to walk you through my experience of learning to create...

" SOA is not something you buy. SOA is an architectural approach, not a product. Anyone saying anything differently either hasn't thought the whole thing through or has something to sell you." If you have heard my talks on SOA before, you have heard...

A customer asked about adding arbitrary headers to an outbound SOAP message from Compact Framework. I would have loved to show how to do this with WCF, but alas customers have to wait for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 for WCF support on the mobile device...