In general, sticky connectivity should be avoided when creating Azure-based services. However, there are situations, e.g. migration of a legacy application which relies on stickiness where it would be good to be able to support it. Here is a solution...

Here are some techniques to dynamically modify a running Azure application. They all rely on using blob storage as source of modification and presume that the application was originally written to use these changes: 1. New/changed Silverlight applications...

Here is an approach to providing ASP.NET server-side customization data post-deployment in Azure. It is particularly applicable to multi-tenant solutions, where individual users may need to be served pages using different master pages, user controls,...

Silverlight client does not support TransportCredentialOnly to enable Basic authentication. Here is some code to add the basic authentication http header to a standard Silverlight WCF proxy: ServiceReference1.ServiceClient svc = new ServiceReference1...

The attached project contains a custom element (FrameworkElement-derived), which allows definition of line paths (straight lines, Bezier curves, etc.) with custom-defined line caps. The following graphic contains two lines: a straight line with an arrow...

The attached project shows how to display data which is both tabular and hierarchical in nature in the Silverlight (or WPF) DataGrid. Employee list is an example of such data, where each employee is described using the same set of data column but there...

I recently gave a presentation to a number of ISV regarding use of WPF and Silverlight 2 for developing applications that can be deployed to both the desktop and the web. The attached presention and demos show the main similarities and differences between...

This blog describes how TemplateSelector in WPF can be used to dynamically modify contents of the UI. This is particularly useful in a common scenario many ISV's need to support: ability of 3rd parties and users to extend the ISV's data model with their...

WPF Templates are useful for defining common themes and styles. They can also be used to extend the functionality of controls. Following is an example of a ListBoxItem template, which makes individual items in a listbox in-place editable (provided the...

Karsten Januszewski and Jaime Rodriguez in The New Iteration ( http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/thenewiteration.aspx ) point out the ability of WPF infrastructure (framework and tools) to allow for clear separation between the roles of designers...