There are cases where your Silverlight app will be hosted or displayed on different web sites. Naturally it comes with the need to adapt some of the visuals to the target web site. Classics are colors, fonts and images. On a web page you will relay on loading a different CSS sheet. By default in Silverlight...

During my last post I point you to some resources in order to start to work with the WCF REST Starter Kit . Looking around I found another great sample where the WCF REST Starter Kit is used to tunnel a PUT through POST with RESTful WCF Services. This is really useful when you want to expose a REST interface...

During the October 2008 PDC conference, the CTP 2 of Microsoft code name project “Velocity” was announced. “Velocity” is targeting CTP3 for MIX ’09 in mid-March, and RTM is schedule for middle of the year. V1 of Velocity will be free available! But what is “Velocity”? “Velocity” is a distributed...

At Shape 2008 in late November, comparis.ch won one of the Sillverlight Early Adopter Award with their “Preisentwicklung für Immobilien”. This week, the solution went live. comparis.ch has been storing in their systems tons of real estate information during the years. Aim of the “Preisentwicklung für...

The goal of the REST Starter Kit is to simplify the process of building RESTful services with WCF, without having to wait for .NET 4.0. Just to be clear there is no guarantee that what you can find today in the starter kit will end up in the .NET 4.0! The REST Starter Kit is out since November 2008...

Being on holiday between Christmas and New Year I missed an update for the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, which solves a series of known issues. The update and the list of issues that this update fixes can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959209 . Between them, there is one that...

Gerade als Hersteller einer Standardsoftware möchte man seinen Aufwand bezüglich Datenbank Support gering halten. Meine persönliche Wahrnehmung ist, dass immer weniger ISVs Datenbanken (DB) von verschiedenen Herstellern unterstützen resp. spezifische Funktionalität der neuesten Version nutzen möchten...

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform , including Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and 7.0, SQL Server 2008 Express, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1....