I've been working on some 3D using WPF and was making heavy use of some largish (around 1 megapixel) images with ImageBrushes applied to DiffuseMaterials. Naturally, being WPF there was some animation thrown in for good measure to make sure I'm working...

I was struggling with a rather complex ViewModel (from Model-View-ViewModel or MVVM) that was actually composed of a number of ViewModels. Most of the problems was internal notification of change - i.e one ViewModel wanted to know when another ViewModel...

Our very own Josh Twist has been announced as a finalist in the British Computer Society  (BCS) and Computing magazine’s annual UK  IT Industries awards . Nominated in the System Developer of the Year category Josh has been selected as one of...

I was recently asked if it's possible to expose a base type (maybe an abstract class or interface) as a parameter in a WCF operation and allow different types to be specified when invoked. Unsurprisingly, the WCF guys thought of this and included some...

The ADC Team has two SoundBytes scheduled over the coming months. One is a repeat of a popular session by Ryan Simpson, and the other is a new one delivered by Simon Ince. Ryan has also updated his session to include a brief overview of the new features...

The idea of reading a 'bar code' using your camera phone isn't entirely new, but the capabilities of Microsoft Tag blew me away when I saw a colleague had embedded their contact details into a tag itself that he used in the signature of his e-mail. ...

Let’s say you have implemented federated security and now you have bunch of services all of them requires a token from a trusted STS to provide any service. Now some of these services are logically part of same security realm but are still distinct entities...

I’ve been playing around with Unity recently, and in particular I’ve been trying to get Unity to resolve dependencies from factory methods, and more specifically manage the lifetime of those dependencies. If you’re not familiar with the factory method...

Having spent some time using the sample from my previous post on ObjectQuery.Include, I’ve encountered a bug! It turns out that the code generates the wrong include string for context.Customers.Include(c => c.Order.SubInclude(o=>o.OrderDetail...

I spend quite a lot of time nowadays advising on architecting applications to be scalable, recommending performance testing approaches and processes, and being called in to help an organisation remediate problems with an existing application. It’s one...