Mario Briana

IE8 - Managed Code PlugIns

mariobriana — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:44:00 GMT

The Microsoft Technology Center in Germany developed a managed wrapper for COM Interfaces of IE Plugins. It works with IE7 and IE8, is targeted at Express Editions (Both C# and VB.NET) but also works with the other versions of VS. The project is called...(read more)

.NET Ria Service

mariobriana — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:21:12 GMT

While evaluating the latest RIA services I followed this walkthrough . Not sure what I did wrong but trying out the POCO – aka plain old CLR objects - example with Cities I could not get the data down to the client and figured a simple problem was causing...(read more)

Building an Accelerator Part II

mariobriana — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:30:50 GMT

Today I finished a webcast on the latest features of my Currency Converter. In the video I show the usage of localstorage as well some jquery features. Let me know what you think....(read more)

WPF Control Browser

mariobriana — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:25:50 GMT

Mike Taulty built a nice app to show controls available for WPF and Silverlight. And finally it is now also working on my 64bit Windows7 machine....(read more)

Building IE8 Accelerator Webcast

mariobriana — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:56:00 GMT

I recorded a webcast about the Currency Converter Accelerator that I developed. The stream is powered by Microsoft Silverlight Streaming ....(read more)

the beauty of the client ... a cool Demo from Michael Köster

mariobriana — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:01:00 GMT

Michael developed that cool demo where he uses the power of the client to access devices through bluetooth. What he did is a very nice way of showing the beauty of our technology stack ... I personally had never thought of connecting Nintendo WII controls...(read more)

Currency Converter

mariobriana — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:55:00 GMT

I wrote an IE8 accelerator which can be found at http://ie8.brianas.de and is also registered at http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/other/Currencty_Converter/...(read more)

Customer Support in the aggregator scenario

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:17:00 GMT

As the hosting business is a low margin business support cost is a very critical area that they want to have as low as possible. In many low-end offerings you actually don’t have any support other than calling high priced hotlines. If you do get support...(read more)

What is the definition of Software as a Service?

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:16:00 GMT

If you go to www.microsoft.com/saas you will end up with the definition: “Software deployed as a Service and accessed using Internet technologies”. To me this is very broad probably too broad. Unfortunately I don’t have anything clearer and more precise...(read more)

Ownership of customer relations

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:16:00 GMT

Many hosters make their money servicing consumers in a low margin business. Many of them have a business brand like Cohaesio vs. Surftown or Schlund&Partner vs. 1&1. I’m not sure how realistic a scenario would be where a hoster would give up customer...(read more)

Design-time vs. Run-time

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:15:00 GMT

In a hosted environment an application will not have the full freedom of choosing it’s runtime behavior and the way it is being provisioned. There are many policies defined in a hosted environment that need to be enforced from the service provider. Therefore...(read more)

Design and Architecture of a SaaS Delivery Platform

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:12:00 GMT

Michel Baladi posted a lot of information on the outcome of our efforts regarding the SaaS Delivery platform in his blog. You can find the information at blogs.msdn.com/baladi...(read more)

Application Manifest and Platform Manifest

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:12:00 GMT

The two most significant innovations which came out of the Architecture sessions are those two manifests. The application manifest is something built by the software vendor to actually define the needs of an application in a hosted environment. It contains...(read more)

Shared database scenario – Why care?

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:10:00 GMT

We discussed the shared database approach or multi-tenant data layer and came to the conclusion that running backups is not so much of a problem but restoring data on a tenant by tenant basis would be a complex pattern that is not supported currently,...(read more)

My view on Architecture of a multi-tenant application

mariobriana — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:08:00 GMT

with the nex posts I'd like to share some of my experiences with Software as a Service. They are intended to be a basis for a discussion and my very personal view....(read more)