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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...
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   
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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 | 4 Comments   
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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...
Creating interesting Silverlight chart datapoints
I was reading this great post by Jeff Wilcox and quickly found out that some of the needed code to get this to work was missing from his post. So I went about recreating the missing parts and getting this to work.  Here is what mind looks like now Read More...
Posted 24 April 09 10:55 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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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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Silverlight 3 RIA controls and how they load
If you have started playing with the RIA controls for Silverlight, one thing that you will need to understand is that when you get a DomainContext and call one of the load commands, that it does this async. So if you do something like: var context = new Read More...
Posted 02 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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Silverlight updates – CBS and a contest
As reported on a few sites: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/silverlight-to-power-2009-ncaa-march-madness.ars http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61563 Silverlight is going to be the technology of choice for CBS to broadcast their Read More...
Posted 19 February 09 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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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...
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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