Steven Cheng's MSDN Notes

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This book finally gets published on October 20th 2010. I'm trying to provide some useful WCF sample cases and tips in this cookbook. Due to time and resource limitation, there are many drawbacks in this book, but I hope it will help you some. Also, if...

Recently I received some questions about the IE language setting that affects the MOSS search results. It seems the MOSS (like ASP.NET 2.0 application) has taken advantage of the CultureInfo class to directly convert the client browser's user-language...

As Introducted in previous entry, the Microsoft Online technical forum support team is building a code sample framework including many useful code that cover most of the development technologies of Microsoft. You can get the All-In-One Code Framework...

ASP.NET MVC request pipeline in-depth http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2008/03/18/asp-net-mvc-in-depth-the-life-of-an-asp-net-mvc-request.aspx ASP.NET URL Routing http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing...

I've seen many guys confused about the .NET app.config file for the exe application and the dll assembly(we can see Visual Studio generate app.config file for both of exe and dll project). Here is a good article discussing on this: #App.config in C#...

#Custom Cookie Handling http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/01/17/custom-cookie-handling.aspx #Managing shared cookies in WCF http://megakemp.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/managing-shared-cookies-in-wcf/

Eli Robillard has given a good blog entry introducing the WSS/MOSS ULS log which is important for sharepoint troubleshooting: #SharePoint Trace Logs and the Unified Logging Service (ULS) http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2008/07/31/sharepoint...

#Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530302(printer).aspx #Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services...

Here is a blog entry from Wenlong Dong's blog which explains the "ASP.NET Compatibility Mode" in WCF: #ASP.NET Compatibility Mode http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2006/01/23/516041.aspx

Just found some good BP articles from Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog: #part 1 http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-best-practices-part-1.aspx #part 2 http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/archive/2009/04/03/asp-net-mvc-best-practices...

John has posted a good blog entry describing how to make vhd image work between VPC/Virtual server and the new windows server 2008 hyper-v based virtualization solution. #Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC? http:...

[ASP.NET]How to implement file upload and download in ASP.NET MVC File upload/download is very useful functionality in web application. Here is a simple implementation of file upload/download in ASP.NET MVC 1.0. The sample use a “FileManager” controller...

Finally, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 comes to RTM. Anyone who're interested in ASP.NET MVC (and prefer non-beta installation) can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en Enjoy...

Here is a good MSDN tech article which demonstrate using custom MessageInspector to validate WCF xml message: #How to: Perform Message Validation with Schema Validation in WCF http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949095.aspx

Some of my colleagues are building a code sample project on codeplex. I think it an very useful and interesting project which can help many community members who want to startup in a certain programming technology and look for some basic samples. Here...

[WCF]Exposing WCF service to raw MSMQ client via msmqIntegrationBinding WCF has provided two built-in bindings to help work with MSMQ. NetMsmqBinding and MsmqIntegrationBinding . NetMsmqBinding is good for client & services which are both built...

If you're interested in the underlying transfered bits of WCF messages or if you want to build a custom WCF client based on raw network programming interfaces, here are some useful resource about WCF message framing: #[MC-NMF]: .NET Message Framing...

ASP.NET MVC RC2 just came out. We're getting closer and closer to the final RTM. You can get the RC2 at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee4b2e97-8a72-449a-82d2-2f720d421031&displaylang=en

Just a placeholder for some good ASP.NET performance tuning and troubleshooting resources. Learning Links: *ASP.NET Health Monitoring Overview http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398933.aspx *10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications...

[WCF]How to inspect and modify WCF message via custom MessageInspector Recently I received some questions about how to modify message content of WCF operation calls. By checking the WCF extensibility, it seems “ MessageInspector ” is the proper...

[WCF]Secure a dynamically added message header via behavior extension(part 2) This article is the continue of my previous one demonstrating how to secure a custom message header added dynamically in WCF message. In the previous part 1 , I use a...

[WCF]Secure a dynamically added message header via behavior extension (part 1) Recently I receive some questions about how to sign/encrypt a custom message header which is dynamically added when calling WCF service. Sure, sign/encrypt means...

Just a placeholder for ASP.NET debugging resource, will continue to update them. #How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot "hangs" and "crashes" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350 #Troubleshooting ASP.NET using WinDbg and the SOS extension http://support...

#Offical Site http://www.asp.net/ajax/ #ASP.NET AJAX roadmap: http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14924 #jQuery and ASP.NET http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft...