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September 2007 - Posts

Monday, September 24, 2007 11:21 AM

Architecture Webcast Series - Architecting the Customer Experience With WCF and Silverlight

Thought I would let everyone know about a webcast that I am putting on this Wednesday! I am going to show off Silverlight and WCF together, showing how to use things like JSON encoding from services and using that within a Silverlight 1.0 application.
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 10:28 PM

UGA Beats Alabama in Tuscaloosa... Go Dawgs!

I was really dismayed about UGA's loss to South Carolina, knocking us down to 22 in the rankings. Last week, they looked good, but it wasn't really a question going in who should have won. But today... UGA came through in overtime and beat Alabama in
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Friday, September 21, 2007 5:31 AM

Today's Woot.com offer - White Zune for $129

My teammate, David Jung, turned me onto Woot! . It's a site where they put one technology item up for sale for 1 day at a really, really low price. David likes to show off some of the amazing deals that he has snagged including an external hard drive
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:06 PM

If LINQ to SQL Is Good, Is SQLCLR Still Evil?

I just got off the phone with a customer, a huge telco, that is in the process of rearchitecting some of their solutions. They had some great questions about using technologies like SQLCLR as part of their architecture. When SQL Server 2005 (it was code-named
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Monday, September 17, 2007 8:17 PM

Highlighting Activities in the AJAX Workflow Monitor Example

In my last post, I showed how you can use Jon Flanders's AJAX Workflow Monitor example with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 . After I got it working, I was so giddy that I kept on tinkering for most of the day. If you have seen the DinnerNow scenario , you
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Monday, September 17, 2007 9:11 AM

Using the AJAX Workflow Monitor With .NET 3.5 Beta 2

Awhile back, Jon Flanders posted an excellent example of creating an AJAX enabled Workflow Monitor using ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. What's really cool is that you can very easily upgrade this sample to use with .NET 3.5 Beta 2 and use it without downloading the
Posted by kaevans | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:32 AM

Hi, My Name is Kirk... How May I Help You?

I am going to be as blunt as possible... what do you want me to do for you? I am an Evangelist. My job is to bring you the good news about Microsoft's technologies and show you what's possible. How do you want me to do that? When I was a consultant about
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:30 AM

Understanding ParallelActivity in Windows Workflow

You might think that the ParallelActivity in Windows Workflow Foundation is misnamed. At the very least, the ParallelActivity within Windows Workflow Foundation is deceptive. It would seem that you can just place any activity within its branches and each
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:58 AM

Silverlight for Web Hosting Companies

With all the buzz around Silverlight and developing games and cool media demos, you don't hear much about what it takes to host Silverlight apps. And for good reason: that's because it's a client-side technology. Since Silverlight is a browser technology,
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:31 AM

My Friend Rocky Tucker - His Murderers Still Walking Free

This is unbearable to read. http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=101989 We are praying for you, Ruby.
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Monday, September 10, 2007 7:43 AM

Getting Started With DSL Tools - Part II

I decided to install the August CTP for the Visual Studio 2008 SDK since I have been working solely in VS 2008 recently. Installation was quick and painless; I was able to create a new minimal language template that functions without any magic incantations.
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Saturday, September 08, 2007 8:41 PM

Using SyndicationFeed to Access a Secure Feed

Prasad asks how to use the SyndicationFeed type in .NET 3.5 to access a secure feed . I have to say, it depends on what you mean by "secure feed." RSS and Atom are typically delivered through HTTP GET with text/xml as the content-type. I have to assume
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:27 PM

The Third Pipe

The FCC is auctioning off the 700 MHz spectrum, which is currently being used to offer phone service on airplanes. This spectrum could be used to bring broadband to airplanes (yeah! finally!), but the auction has a lot of eyebrows raised because Google
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:01 AM

My Bad Day

Bad days. Everyone has them. The days when the Fates seem intent on testing your resolve to Job -like levels. I had one of those days. My annual performance review was not nearly what I expected. It was the kind of review that makes you question if the
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:26 PM

Creating a JSON Service with WebGet and WCF 3.5

I couldn't let it go. Tim's post had me intrigued about how to convert RSS to JSON using some of the new goodness in .NET 3.5. If you use the JavaScriptSerializer (which, unfortunately, is marked as obsolete), then your code is as simple as this: <%@
Posted by kaevans | 10 Comments
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:48 AM

Use LINQ and .NET 3.5 to Convert RSS to JSON

Scott Guthrie posted a great example of how to create a feed reader using LINQ to XML . Today, I see Tim Heuer's post on the JavaScriptSerializer type in .NET 3.5 . So, I thought I would mash them up and show how to use LINQ to implement Tim's idea of
Posted by kaevans | 21 Comments
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:56 AM

Using WCF, JSON, LINQ, and AJAX: Passing Complex Types to WCF Services with JSON Encoding

In my previous post, I showed how to use the DataContractSerializer with the classes generated by the LINQ to SQL designer . As a refresher, here's the service. It is a trouble ticket lookup service based on the 3 parts of a phone number (referred to
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Monday, September 03, 2007 11:24 AM

WCF and LINQ

Jim Wooley posted an article about how to decorate LINQ datatypes with DataContractAttribute and DataMemberAttribute so that they can be serialized by WCF. Sadly, this approach doesn't work anymore with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the LINQ to SQL classes
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Saturday, September 01, 2007 8:18 AM

Are you ready for some football?!?!

It's that glorious time of year again... time for College Football. If you are thinking, "so what?" then you probably didn't grow up in the South. For example, this piece understands what college football is like in the South: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=southernfootball
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