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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...

Posted 31 August 09 03:33 by Tom | 0 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, .NET, Silverlight, SharePoint, WCF

Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 2

Just a quick update on this.  I had to make a few changes to my site and I now have it working! To fix the master page problem, I needed to load it from code behind.  Once I did that, I was able to have that show up.  But then I had a problem Read More...

Posted 15 June 09 01:02 by Tom | 1 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint, RIA

Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 1

I have been working on getting Silverlight 3.0 to work with SharePoint 2007 and I wanted to share with you the progress I have made and some of the challenges I have remaining. Project This project uses Silverlight 3.0, the Silverlight Toolkit for 3.0, Read More...

Posted 02 June 09 12:33 by Tom | 6 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint, RIA

Silverlight RIA calling Stored Procedures that don’t return tables

There are times where you want to use a stored procedure that doesn’t return just normal rows out of a database.  One classic example is if you are doing Full-Text Searching and want to return the Rank. The first step to doing this is the get your Read More...

Posted 07 May 09 10:07 by Tom | 4 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, Silverlight, ADO.NET, RIA, Entity Data Model, Data Access

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   
Filed under ASP.NET, AJAX, .NET, Silverlight, MVC, jQuery, RIA, JSON

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...

Posted 24 March 09 12:31 by Tom | 7 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, Debugging, AJAX, .NET, Silverlight, IE8, MVC, ADO.NET, Linq, jQuery

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   
Filed under ASP.NET, .NET, Silverlight

Creating an Auto-complete textbox

It seems that auto-complete is very popular these days with different sites.  So I wanted to show you how you can create your own Auto-complete textbox on your web sites.  There are two ways that this can be accomplished depending on what you Read More...

Posted 27 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, AJAX, Code, Microsoft, Silverlight, MVC

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...

Posted 10 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, IIS, .NET, Silverlight, High CPU

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...

Posted 29 September 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, IIS, AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Vista, IIS7, Silverlight, Windows, IE8, Live Mesh, MVC, Mobile, ADO.NET

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   
Filed under ASP.NET, .NET, Silverlight

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   
Filed under ASP.NET, IIS, .NET, Silverlight, Olympics

What Future Update are you looking forward to most?

There are so many updates coming in the near future, I'd love to hear which one you are most excited about. I'll give a brief list here, but feel free to include other things also if you are so inclined. ASP.NET Dynamic Data ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET AJAX ADO.NET Read More...

Posted 11 June 08 06:00 by Tom | 13 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Microsoft, Silverlight

Documentation, and Where to Find It

There are a lot of places to look for Microsoft documentation currently online.  Depending on the area that you are focused in, you may have to visit any of a number of sites to get the information that you require. One of the best places to start Read More...

Posted 10 June 08 06:00 by Tom | 4 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, IIS, Visual Studio, Microsoft, Silverlight

REMIX08 Demo of using DeepZoom to it’s fullest

If you weren’t at REMIX08 and want to see what Jose showed in his demo, just watch the video below. This is a really cool demo showing the power of DeepZoom, and the most amazing part… He only spent 30 minutes creating each of the demos!  Not only Read More...

Posted 30 May 08 11:05 by Tom | 1 Comments   
Filed under ASP.NET, Microsoft, Silverlight, DeepZoom

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