I was just looking at setting up Mercurial on my Windows Home Server and found some good blog articles. My first one was on Jeremy Skinner’s blog here which shows how to configure it under CGI on IIS 7. I’d like to run it as an ISAPI extension...

Why do you write JavaScript? It's probably for one of two major reasons – Responsiveness or Richness. Richness we know about – it's the flying, sliding, flashing, and sometimes annoying UI features we see J But Responsiveness is much less tangible – it...

In some interop scenarios, subject name and its format needs to be included in the Saml token/assertion generated by the STS. You can easily configure a WIF based STS to generate this by adding a NameIdentifier claim and by settings it’s format property...

If you write a lot of JavaScript, you really should consider adopting Progressive Enhancement as the standard way that you work. This is basically whereby you write a web site without script, and then enhance it with script. The result is a site that...

Two of our ADCs ( Simon Ince and Stuart Leeks ) have been coordinating work with people across Services and various product groups to produce a comprehensive set of coding standards for the Ajax Control Toolkit. This was in direct response to requests...

Contents Automatic Factories Property Injection Container.BuildUp Introducing “Automatic Builders” Creating “Automatic Builders” Automatic Factories I’ve been working with Unity 2.0 on a couple of projects recently (the source...

WF 4 introduced messaging activities which provides a visual way of creating web services and their clients. In VS 2010 when you do “Add Service Reference” (in a workflow project), the wizard automatically generates activities and config in contrast to...

When you use the new operator to create an instance of a class, the class constructor is called before the reference to the newly created object is returned. This also applies to the reflection scenarios where you call Activator.CreateInstance , which...