xinqiu's blog for his Microsoft career

I was trying out VS2010 RC WCF Data Service Reference today, and did the following: 1. Create a web application project, build, no problem 2. Add a ADO.NET Entity Data Model, referencing to NorthWind database, build, no problem 3. Add a WCF Data Service...

If you check the code below, you will see the client side script src does not have ~ in front of the script path.  the server side (runat=”server”) script path has a ~ in front of the script path.  If the server side omit the ~ , it will still...

I was so busy last year, that I didn’t put any new post to my own blog (But I did post a few in team’s blog).  I got some time today as my internal email is down. :) Today, for the first time, I’ve to use kernel debugging to debug an application...

When following method of attaching sqlexpress mdf file from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165673.aspx , I meet an error in win2k3. The procedure is: 1. Create a ASP web application in default location 2. Create a database inside app_data...

When debugging a web page which uses a file system based web service, I met an error message in Visual Studio 2008 which troubles me for a while. Here are the steps and the solution. 1. Create a new C# file system based web site (website1) 2. Add a...

The steps are: 1. Adding the following functions to the Page.xaml.cs private string m_filePath = "TestHistoryStocks.txt" ; #region "Local Cache storage" /// <summary> /// Append the current cacheString to the local storage file...

The steps are: 1. Change the column XAML for “Trade” to use cell template: < data : DataGridTemplateColumn Header ="Trade" Width ="80"> < data : DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate > < DataTemplate > < TextBlock TextAlignment...

The steps are: 1. New Project, select C#/Silverlight/SilverilghtApplication. Click OK to “Add Silverlight Application” dialog, which defaults to “Add a new ASP.NET Web project to the solution to host Silverlight”. I named the project as StockQuotesForBlog...

Here is a Silverlight demo for getting stock quotes using data grid. It also demos how to use stored cache to save all the queried symbol before. The design would like: I used Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with Silverlight 2.0 RC. For stock...

Step 5. Replace the Page.xaml control with the following XAML: < UserControl x : Class ="ShootBalloonForBlog.Page" xmlns ="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns : x ="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml...

Step 4 . Add BalloonActions.cs class file with the following code: using System; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Windows.Documents; using System.Windows.Ink; using System.Windows.Input; using System...

I’m using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK. 1. New Project, select C#/Silverlight/SilverilghtApplication, if there is any dialog asking options, select OK for default. I named the project as ShootBalloonForBlog. 2. Add a new...

Here’s the demo of how to write a simple silverlight game: Design: I played a computer game Monopoly before. There is a fun balloon shooting game which I’d like to design myself. The player clicks on the flying balloons and get the marks corresponding...

I wrote a simple function to get all property name from a msbuild target file. Such as visual studio’s Microsoft.WebApplication.targets file in direcotry of “%ProgramFiles%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\”. It checks for possible...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 provides an easy way to reference the ADO.Net Data Service (formally code named as Astoria). ( Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are now available for download . ) The following example uses the Astoria...

Here is a simple way to use iframe in asp.net. In responding to a Chinese asp.net forum question, I write the following code to direct a new page to the iframe when clicking a button. Here’s the sample code I write with VS2008. <% @ Page...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available! You can download it here . ADO.net Data Service is included in the SP1 beta, and there is a bit difference from CTP time. Let’s follow the following procedure to create a C# website, which provides ADO...

I recently have to delete one of my blog talking about VS2008 and IE8 beta, since I made some comment that may be easy to misunderstand. I will be careful this time. J If IE8 beta1 is installed on the OS, when F5, Ctrl-F5, view in browser is fired...

Some of my project files were created with Orcas Beta, which cannot be opened by double clicking in Vista with VS2008 RTM. This is a known issue in VS2008, and is probably not going to be fixed. The work around is very simple. If you change...

1. Generate dump file for hanged application: Option1 : If you are using vista, you can simple open task manager, go to process tab, right click the hanged process and select create dump file. Option2 : Use Visual Studio 2008(You can download a...

Visual Studio 2008 had RTM in November 2007. During the test, we found a problem when creating FTP site on Windows 2003 X64 host machine. The repro step is: 1. In host machine create ftp virtual directory test1 (Read and Write access), and a http...

Summer comes! There are much more activities in the group during the summer, movies, lunch, dinner, picnic, and the upcoming company-wide picnic. But at the same time, the work load remains heavy. J Our group contracts some testing work out to a...

Microsoft hosted internal China Business Day in Redmond Campus on April 6th, 2007. I spent couple hours listening to the show. Here are some my person opinions: 1. China Market is still booming quickly and more drastic actions need to be taken by...

One workaround way to find out a network drive’s remote network name in VB, that’s because I have such a little time to find the proper way for the test case… 用 VB 找到网络硬盘的网络 名称 的一种另类方法，因为我没有时间去为一个测试程序找正确的方法 : System.IO.File.Delete( "c:\a.txt" )...

My name is Xin. I joined the Visual Studio Web Development team as SDET in December 2006. I have worked as software designer in Canada and China for over 10 years before joining Microsoft. Why do I choose an entry level position here? I’ve thought...