Have you already started serious development with WF 4 and found security limitations? Have you struggled to implement authenticated messaging, claims-based security, role-based security and other security features in workflow solutions? WF 4 is...

Sometimes it is useful to be able to download extra functionality into your application at runtime. It's always been possible to make a server call from Silverlight to download an extra assembly and load it into memory. But what if you'd like to download...

Our next SoundByte takes a look at some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 that enable you to develop parallel applications with ease. It is charged at the rate of 1 hour from your ADC contract. For this price you may have...

Someone asked me if it’s possible to add a Ping method to every service contract without repeatedly defining it in each service contract? The answer is yes & and it’s fairly simply too. Here I have a LoginService, which...

Something I get asked by most customers starting out with ASP.NET MVC is how they should package, group, factor, and reuse their UI components. We're all used to thinking about User Controls, Custom Controls, and other Web Forms approaches. But rest assured...

If you attended the SoundByte that I ran today then this is a very quick follow-up post to get you started with handling errors with the simple example I used. If you don't know what a SoundByte is, or worse don't have an ADC Contract, you can get in...

A topic of discussion I've heard a few times when using Routing in ASP.NET concerns whether you should use the default generic route pattern for most of your controllers, or whether you should specify individual routes for every action. (this applies...

Not so long ago a colleague of mine, Josh Twist , did a post on .NET naming conventions using C# code to serve as an example. These are based on the .NET naming guidelines published on MSDN. Well, I happen to be doing a code review right now, but it’s...

Our next SoundByte takes a look at jQuery – a JavaScript library growing in popularity all the time as more and more customers add script to their web sites. It is charged at the rate of 1 hour from your ADC contract. For this price you may have up...

Q : Should I have a view Model in my ASP.NET MVC architecture? A : Yes. Well, that was a short post! J Being more serious, this is an interesting topic that the advisors and p&p team discussed a few times while they were building the Reference...