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Host the Windows Workflow Foundation Designer In Your Own App

Monday, June 19 2006

Mostly for my own reference, but here is an article on MSDN for hosting the WF design surface in your own application.

ScottGu Article on DLINQ

Monday, June 05 2006

Scott Guthrie has posted part 2 of a series of postings on LINQ . This one gets into DLINQ specifically and definitely starts to show off some of the reasons why you'd want to use it (iterating over your own object collection is neat and all, but doing SQL queries in code without SQL and System.Data is a spectacular demonstration). I'd still like to see more of the nuts and bolts of how to enable LINQ on your own custom objects, however....

ScottGu Article on LINQ

Monday, May 15 2006

Scott Guthrie has the best article I've seen so far on LINQ so far. He's glossing over how to do some of the fancier stuff such as supporting all this stuff in your own objects (so instead of just a List and arrays), but overall the article demonstrates LINQ incredibly well.

Source Code for the Built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers Now Available for Download

Thursday, April 13 2006

Ala Scott Guthrie's weblog, Microsoft released the source code for all the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 providers (membership, site map, session, etc).

I'm actually rather surprised they did this. I'm impressed they would understand the value of showing their source code (not in the way all the anti-MS zealots want) to the various real-world components they have. It's one thing to read an article on MSDN and get a Hello World example, it's another thing to see the code they actually wrote.

Tivo Home Media Engine For .NET

Friday, March 10 2006

Everyone who's been unhappy that TiVo only released their Home Media Engine APIs for Java can be a bit relieved. Gary at ByteBuilder has released a version for .NET. It doens't contain a UI toolkit, but it gives you a great start to building .NET server applications that enable your TiVO to interact with them. I've been packing for the past two weeks (that's about how long ago he put up the code) so I've only barely gotten to look at the code. It's similar to the Java APIs but takes advantage of some .NET specific classes and to un-Java the API. I'm hoping to be able to start building something...

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications

Monday, February 06 2006

On the VSTA blog they posted some info about the upcoming Visual Studio Tools for Applications a couple days ago. Included is a link to the Visual Studio SDK which includes VSTA.

I'm glad that there's finally a powerful script engine support for applications to embed (without having to completely reinvent the Visual Studio wheel) within themselves.

Expression Designer (Formerly Sparkle)

Tuesday, January 24 2006

They have a preview build out targeted towards .NET 2.0 and the January WinFX CTP.

Found Another .NET 2.0 Bug Today

Friday, January 13 2006

Something that works perfectly in .NET 1.1 but once you make it run under .NET 2.0 it looks like the .NET framework pegs the processor.

Take a peek.

For the artistically challenged web developer

Friday, December 23 2005

Microsoft has a number of website templates to give out on MSDN (ASP.NET specific templates). Pretty good for those of us without any sort of artistic ability.

Application Level Events (ALE) In A Nutshell

Thursday, December 15 2005

Posted on my other weblog today is more information about the Application Level Events (ALE) standard I discussed earlier . An excerpt: What is Application Level Events Overview Application Level Events (ALE) is a standard created by EPCGlobal, Inc., an organization of industry leaders devoted to the development of standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. The ALE specification is a software specification indicating required functionality and behavior, as well as a common API expressed through XML Schema Definition (XSD) and Web Services...

You just knew it had to be coming: ASP.NET project in VS2005 is back

Thursday, December 08 2005

Scott Guthrie is posting that they're developing a new project type for ASP.NET projects in Visual Studio 2005 . I still have no idea why that crackpot thought that removing the concept of a project from ASP.NET would sit well with people who had been creating ASP.NET applications for four or more years (with another year for betas). Enough people have complained publicly about it (I have, though not very vocally) that they're putting it back in. And I don't buy the crap that it's mostly for project upgrading from VS2003. It has nothing to do with upgrading projects. It has everything to do with...