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So I *finally* managed to get a videocast/podcast done. Wally has been harassing me for ages, and I eventually had the time to get one done. This one is on the Peer to Peer support in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and how easy it is to do. Its
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In Part 1 of this series on pushing data to a Silverlight client with a WCF polling duplex service I demonstrated how service contracts and operations can be defined on the server. WCF has built-in support for duplex communication (two-way communication
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Subscribe to EVERYTHING <-- What you REALLY WANT TO DO! Subscribe to WMV Video only . Subscribe to M4V Video only . Subscribe to MP3 Audio only . Download WMV . Download M4V . Download MP3 . Show Notes: Understanding PNRP Clounds http://blogs.msdn.com/p2p/archive/2007/06/12/understanding-pnrp-clouds.aspx
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Silverlight provides several different ways to access data stored in remote locations. Data can be pulled from Web Services and RESTful services and even pushed from servers down to clients using sockets (see my previous articles on sockets here , here
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This post is more for my own records than anything and I have been meaning to write this down for some time. Problem: Had a WCF Web Service that was being hosted in IIS. Worked in dev and test fine. Moved to prod and bang, I get the following error: This
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Bill Gates and S. Somasegar announced several new features at TechEd for Silverlight Beta 2 that are great additions to the existing functionality. Here's a list of the highlights in Beta 2: UI Framework: Beta 2 includes improvements in animation
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Arizona's Desert Code Camp is this Saturday (May 31st) at the University of Advanced Computing building. Here's the address: University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road ( map ) Tempe, Arizona 85283 It looks like there are a lot of great
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Two great learning opportunities in Mid-Atlantic tonight. First is the May BaltoMSDN meeting, which will feature Vishwas Lele of AIS presenting on WCF and WF, and the concept of Workflow Services. The meeting will be held at DuClaw Brewing Company in
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell at DevConnections Orlando to record a session of .NET Rocks about Silverlight 2 . They're both a lot of fun to talk with and could probably talk all day without realizing
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Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements. Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET
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You can get them from here (VS) and here (.NET). I'm reading what's new on Brad Abrams post and I'm really digging the new features:) For instance, having the format option working with JS code is simply cool! Another cool thing: the ScriptManager
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I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics. It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events. This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET
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So a little while ago, I mentioned that I did a WCF beta exam for a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist. Its been a long time since I did that and I had kinda forgotten about it, but today I received the good news that I am now a MCTS in WCF! WooHoo!
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I've been spending my nights working on a new book covering Silverlight 2 and have been focusing on the new networking features that are available in the System.Net and related namespaces. Silverlight's great at animating objects, performing transformations
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On a different set of machines...I'm stumped. I mean, I though I'd nailed it with the proxy problem , but unfortunately there are still some machines where the 1st call is really really slow and removing the proxy isn't helping. I've even
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