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A new version is available. See the end of the post for a link. Major enhancements are support for mutliple sites, ability to view the response and the beginnings of a Vista Gadget implementation.
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I use Cuyahoga for my main website pages and relegate Community Server to be a subservient web app to take advantage of its blog and forums components. The latest Cuyahoga 1.5 upgrade threw a small wrinkle into the configuration process. The basic setup...
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RUAlive is a WPF utility that answers the question "Is my website still running?" RUAlive is written using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Orcas. Download the source here . To run RUAlive, you can either run the solution or run RUAlive.exe. Of course...
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When serializing objects over WCF you might encounter the following not-so-helpful message. System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException : The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. And the Close method of your service...
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This point is pretty obvious: when serializing objects in order to pass them through a service boundry, you should not bother to serialize the delegates. Since a delegate is a pointer to some method on some object in your memory space, that target object...
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Lately I've been upgrading my Winforms CAB applications to use the Windows Presenation Framework version of the Composite Application Block . This post will explain how you can do an "in place" conversion of your Winform project to WPF....
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It almost seems like a cruel joke. Innumerable WPF samples indicate that you can implement databinding in a particular way. However, doing so breaks designer support and you have to rearrange code to reflect the reality of current limitations with Cider...
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I spent the better part of a day downloading and setting up the new Orcas in anticipation of playing with .NET 3.0 and 3.5 (Greenbits). Unless you want to play with Entity Framework in its "Raw" format (no visual designer) stay away from this...
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Next week I start a new project for one of my clients. Its a premier project for the company that will be using the latest .NET 3.0 technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundataion. The best...
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WCF doesn't always serialize custom collections of objects the way that you would like. For example, a Family may have a collection of Members. public class SerializeObjectModel { [DataContract(Name = "Family")] public class Family { [DataMember...
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Many people (including myself) have had difficulties getting NHibernate to work with ASP.NET 2.0. The usual problem centers around how to get NHibernate to read in the configuration files for your entites and the problem is exacerbated by ASP.NET 2.0's...
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Since I have a couple of exam certificates that are expiring at the end of the year, I've decided to use them to get certified as an Enterprise Developer. The upgrade is spread over two exams 70-553 and 70-554. On 70-553 there are three parts that...
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My first son was born to us this week, entering into the world happy and alert. What a change! Now my days are filled with baby bottles and diaper changing. Here's a look at him during the weigh in.
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Sooner or later, I'm convinced that most advanced implementations of CAB will have to write their own version of the IWorkItemActivationService. The WorkItemActivationService is closely tied into the lifecycle of the CAB WorkItem so please make sure...
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Unit testing of CAB modules can be difficult because of all the dependency injection going on. Typically you will unit test at least all your presenters. The problem is that you will probably need the presenter to be built up by Objectbuilder which injects...