Here I talked about couple of approaches to enable durable duplex messaging in .Net 3.5. .NET 4 has added first class support for durable duplex messaging by extending Context Exchange Protocol to include a CallbackContext. So in addition to instanceId...

Unobtrusive JavaScript is a concept that’s been around for quite a while, but it’s now finally starting to make its way into the mainstream. The basic idea is that you should separate your JavaScript from your HTML – so instead of; < a href ="Default...

As part of my role I’m often sending sample code to customers. Sometimes this is a small snippet inline in an email, but often it will be a zipped up Visual Studio solution. Simply zipping up the folder as-is ends up including bin and obj directories...

A while back I posted some snippets for WPF here: WPF Snippets for Visual Studio . I've been wanting to update these for a while now and finally got around to it this morning. Here are the new snippets. basevm This is a snippet that effectively replaces...

On the ASP.NET ScriptManager control there is a useful little property that very few people have heard of called “LoadScriptsBeforeUI”. What does it do? Well, simply put... · When “true” (the default) it will render <script> tags for each...

I heard on twitter the other day (Yes, I now tweet occasionally. If you'd like to waste literally seconds of your day you can follow me at joshtwist ) that some folks at an Alt.Net UK event where giving P&P and Prism a rough ride. Specifically, they...

Recently I was working on diagnosing a performance issue with a customer’s web site with a colleague (this is one of our favourite engagement types so if you need some help let me know J), and we found that items were being trimmed very regularly from...

Workflow Services was introduced as part of .Net 3.5 and enables us to use WF workflows as implementation of our WCF services. Workflows are long running by nature so the usual WCF duplex messaging constructs (where correlation between client & server...