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Using Simple Web Token (SWT) with WIF
SAML 1.1/SAML 2.0 is the default token format when using ACS as the authentication service for your...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/22/2011
Distributed Cache Capabilities - Data Expiration
Data expiration contains elements that makes the cache allocation more efficient. The feature...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/17/2011
Distributed Cache Capabilities - Data Organization
Here is the third installment, this time focusing on the data organization. Capability Description...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/15/2011
Debugging ASP.NET MVC
One of the handy things about ASP.NET MVC is that the source code is available. I’ve found...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/10/2011
SharePoint 2010 - A comparison with SharePoint 2007
Our next SoundByte, “SharePoint 2010 - A comparison with SharePoint 2007”, will be run...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/09/2011
JavaScript Architecture
No, that isn’t meant to be an oxymoron. But something I’ve noticed recently is that...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/08/2011
Silverlight Claim-Based-Security
This would hopefully be a multi-part series showing some tricks to enable claims-based-security in...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/03/2011
Distributed Cache Capabilities - Data Manipulation
This is the second entry, data manipulation. Each one of them have a description and a generic...
Author: ukadc Date: 03/01/2011
Distributed Cache Capabilities - Data Storage
In this first installment we are going to share the data storage attribute and its capabilities....
Author: ukadc Date: 02/24/2011
What’s My Day Job?
If you’re wondering what it is I (Simon Ince) do all day, the UK TechNet Blog have just...
Author: ukadc Date: 02/22/2011
Detecting which button was clicked in MVC
I’ve seen a few hacks in the past to try and work out which button caused a form POST in...
Author: ukadc Date: 02/17/2011
ASP.NET MVC 3: Integrating with the jQuery UI date picker and adding a jQuery validate date range validator
This is post looks at working with dates in ASP.NET MVC 3. We will see how to integrate the jQuery...
Author: ukadc Date: 02/15/2011
Conditional Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3
Some time ago I blogged on Conditional Validation in MVC, and Adding Client-Side Script to an MVC...
Author: ukadc Date: 02/10/2011
Securing WF 4 Workflow Services
Our very own Zulfiqar Ahmed is a published author in this months issue of MSDN! To read his article...
Author: ukadc Date: 02/08/2011
Distributed Cache Capabilities guideline
In this series, I am going to publish a series of guidelines that can be used when selecting a...
Author: ukadc Date: 02/01/2011
101 LINQ Samples
OK, I’ve just discovered this. If, like me, you’re always struggling to remember the...
Author: ukadc Date: 01/27/2011
VS2010: Could not read result repository, Named Pipes etc
I've just come across a problem with load testing on Visual Studio 2010 (which probably amounts to a...
Author: ukadc Date: 01/25/2011
Reinstalling / Rebuilding COM+ on Windows 2008
Unlike on Windows 2003 it is not possible to Reinstall/Rebuild COM+ on Windows 2008 without...
Author: ukadc Date: 01/13/2011
Exposing Squeezebox Web UI on Windows Home Server
At home I use a number of Logitech Squeezebox Receivers and a Squeezebox Controller to listen to and...
Author: ukadc Date: 01/11/2011
WCF Certificates in Compute Emulator
Windows Azure SDK 1.3 introduced significant changes to the local development environment. The old...
Author: ukadc Date: 01/06/2011
Identity in the cloud: Access Control Service usage scenarios
Our next SoundByte, “Access Control Service usage scenarios”, will be run on Friday 14th...
Author: ukadc Date: 01/04/2011
ASP.NET MVC: ValidatePasswordLength and PropertiesMustMatch in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2
This is the fifth post in what is becoming a mini-series: ASP.NET MVC: Adding client-side validation...
Author: ukadc Date: 01/04/2011
Using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery to create confirmation prompts
Having coded up samples several times showing how to add confirmation prompts to links on a web page...
Author: ukadc Date: 12/30/2010
What is hard to do in Web Development?
Patterns and Practices are spinning up their next round of guidance soon, and they want to know what...
Author: ukadc Date: 12/21/2010
View Model versus Domain Entity Validation with MVC
I blogged way back in January about what I see as the three variants of View Model usage in ASP.NET...
Author: ukadc Date: 12/16/2010
TechEd GadgetVote source code
For those people that attended Robert Garfoot's TechEd Europe session on end to end development in...
Author: ukadc Date: 12/14/2010
Different Routes for Different Hosts Using Constraints
I had the pleasure of visiting some guys in Munich this week to talk about ASP.NET MVC. Well, the...
Author: ukadc Date: 12/09/2010
Synchronizing Multiple Nodes in Windows Azure
Check out this MSDN artcile here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309174.aspx This...
Author: ukadc Date: 12/07/2010
Future of Silverlight
If you want to know more about the future of Silverlight, then the Silverlight Firestarter event...
Author: ukadc Date: 12/02/2010
Initializing Auto-Start WCF/Workflow Services
AppFabric AutoStart feature is built on top of IIS 7.5 AutoStart feature. IIS 7.5 provides an...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/30/2010
ADM SoundBytes: Identity in the cloud
Our next SoundByte is: "Identity in the cloud: Access Control Service usage scenarios" It is charged...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/25/2010
Changing the User Account for Reporting Services 2008 (not R2) in SharePoint 2010 in Integrated Mode
It looks like the R2 documentation is either wrong, or simply doesn’t apply when you’re...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/25/2010
DateTime as BigInt
Been looking at writing RML utilities for Analysis services, and having some success, however, the...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/23/2010
My new favourite diagnostic query for CPU
So, what do you do when you’ve been running a stress test, Sql CPU has been maxing out, and...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/16/2010
ADM SoundBytes: A lap around the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
Our next SoundByte is: "A lap round the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)". It is charged at the...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/12/2010
WCF Reliable Messaging Retransmission Algorithm
When configuring WS-Reliable messaging, you would notice that even though number of retries...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/09/2010
Getting good at Parallel: 1 - Cancellation
This is part of a short series of posts following my presentation ‘Getting Good at...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/04/2010
Web Services Federation with ACS v2
Access Control Service v2 is significantly enhanced compared to the first version which only...
Author: ukadc Date: 11/02/2010
Bubbling PropertyChanged Events in Silverlight
I’ve been working with Silverlight (specifically for Windows Phone 7) recently and something...
Author: ukadc Date: 10/26/2010
Offline Data Cache in Windows Phone 7
I’ve been building a Windows Phone 7 application that basically lets a user create records...
Author: ukadc Date: 10/21/2010
Cloud Artwork
Today I had a really enjoyable time presenting at the Microsoft Online Cloud Conference. A number of...
Author: ukadc Date: 10/19/2010
Generating images using WPF on the Server
… and ‘plugging any nasty leaks you might see’. Recently I worked on a proof of...
Author: ukadc Date: 10/12/2010
Simulated Push Notifications on Windows Phone 7
I’m currently prepping for my TechEd Europe WP7 session and I like to prepare for the worst....
Author: ukadc Date: 10/07/2010
Silverlight Navigation With the MVVM Pattern
I recently had a query from a customer that was one of those ones that you think “Aha!...
Author: ukadc Date: 10/05/2010
ADM SoundBytes: The Free Lunch is Over – Patterns for Parallelisation
Our next SoundByte, “The Free Lunch is Over – Patterns for Parallelisation”, will...
Author: ukadc Date: 10/04/2010
Workflow Activities and Data Templates
A.K.A. “Why won’t the workflow designer use my data template?” I was on site with...
Author: ukadc Date: 09/30/2010
Backwards compatibility and and preserving search engine ranking
Phew – that was a long title! This is a follow-up to a post that my colleague Josh wrote...
Author: ukadc Date: 09/28/2010
Learning MVC: Backwards compatible routes
I’m lucky enough to have sneaked on to some MVC training created and hosted by my talented...
Author: ukadc Date: 09/23/2010
The ThreadPool is dead
Of course, the ThreadPool isn't actually dead - it's just hiding. Or at least it should be. Long...
Author: ukadc Date: 09/21/2010