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WCF, Silverlight, and SharePoint… Oh my!
I was recently working on a project and needed to have Silverlight make a WCF call.  That is pretty straight forward until you place the Silverlight code inside SharePoint and want it to call a WCF that is also inside SharePoint. The first problem Read More...
ASP.NET MVC and JSON and when do you use Async
I wanted to post somewhat of a discussion starter around some of the new technologies that ASP.NET has recently released. ASP.NET MVC This technology has one huge benefit of allowing you to do unit testing on your site.  But there are also a number Read More...
Posted 03 April 09 06:00 by Tom | 4 Comments   
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ASP.NET Troubleshooting
So with how long ASP.NET has been out for now, I am really curious to know how people go about tracking down issues in their project. I’d like to know things like: How do you know there is a problem What tools do you use to confirm that the problem really Read More...
Future Vision UX ideas
If you haven’t seen this video, check this out and see what you think of one view of the future: What are your reactions to this?  Do you think this is something that is possible in the near future?  Do you think that Silverlight or other such Read More...
Posted 03 March 09 02:17 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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XPerf: A CPU Sampler
Seema just had a great about using XPerf to troubleshoot CPU issues when using Silverlight.  This can also be used in the same way to troubleshoot ASP.NET or IIS. What can XPerf tell you?  Seema answers that question, it can find out: Is my Read More...
The PDC this year…
Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PDC web site.  http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ We have Read More...
How are you using ASP.NET and Silverlight?
I have posted in the past about some new things that are coming with DeepZoom and the like.  What I am curious about is how is everyone using ASP.NET and Silverlight?  Are there plans in the future to use it? I think the options with it are Read More...
Posted 19 September 08 06:00 by Tom | 15 Comments   
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More about the Olympics and NBC
Tim Heuer has a great post where he talks about NBCOlympics.com and how things are going.  There is a great video talking about this and Silverlight , Eric Schmidt from Microsoft was interviewed about it..  Feel free to check out the video here.  Read More...
Posted 14 August 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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Silverlight control samples for Beta 2
Shawn has updates the Silverlight Control tutorial for Beta 2.  Not only is this a good thing because of some of the changes in the Silverlight platform, but there was a big addition that greatly simplifies creating controls, Visual State Manager Read More...
Posted 11 July 08 06:00 by Tom | 3 Comments   
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In case you missed MIX
There were a lot of great sessions at MIX this year and in case you missed them, I wanted to let you know where you can find them at.  For individual sessions, you can go here . But there is a better way to go through some of the really cool information Read More...
Posted 14 May 08 11:01 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Code Gallery and CodePlex, how are they different and what are their benefits?
So lately I have been looking into these two web sites a lot more and it isn’t always easy to figure out which one is used for what.  So I thought I would try to explain it here. Code Gallery is a community-enabled Web site where you can share developer Read More...
Debugging videos anyone?
I am considering creating some videos showing some debugging tips.  My original idea is to create short videos that just some doing some specific things.  So not full debug sessions, but rather specific parts.  So that when you are debugging, Read More...

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