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My blog covers the technology areas I focus on here at Conchango, namely Architecture using the .Net Framework, ASP.net 2.0, WCF and Agile development practices.
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I never really got that excited about Silverlight 1.0, mainly because whilst it had a great core graphics engine and did video streaming very well, it's feature set was just not rich enough to make it really useful to applications that demanded deep functionality. Read More...
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There are several blog posts out there that cover the subject of how to consume JSON enabled services from Javascript using ASP.net AJAX. Having scouted around the usual suspects, I think the best article is by Fritz Onion here: http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2008/01/31/50121.aspx Read More...
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So I just got back from TechEd Barcelona, and I had a great conference in no small part due to the people I went with: Merrick Chaffer, James Dawson and Paul McMillan. This is a selection of some of Conchango's finest from the world of .Net development, Read More...
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Overview of WCF architecture Figure 1 illustrates the generic architecture WCF employs for all services. Figure 1 - General WCF Architecture The outer service represents the AppDomain of the service. A WCF service consists of contracts (data, fault and Read More...
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By default, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) uses the DataContractSerializer to serialize and deserialize XML in a service, but this serialization mechanism can be replaced to use the XmlSerializer. The following article on MSDN covers this in more Read More...
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Here at Conchango we have community days every six weeks where we get together to discuss common work interests. As a .Net Architect, one of the core communities I participate in is the .Net community. At our last community day, I presented on Windows Read More...
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Last Tuesday I conducted a presentation at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference entitled "Architecting web sites using Microsoft ASP.net AJAX". You can download the presentation below. The aim of the presentation was to get attendees thinking Read More...
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So, my blog has been pretty quiet of late. This is mainly due to work (and DIY!) commitments, but it is also due to the fact that I have busy preparing for my ASP.net AJAX tutorial for this years conference, which begins tomorrow (5 th March). My session, Read More...
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When I first gained knowledge that Microsoft were developing "Indigo" well over two years ago, I must confess, I missed the point. I first saw demos of WCF at a conference around that time, and my initial reaction was "show me something Read More...
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Introduction Last June, my collegue Howard van Rooijen blogged on the need for continuous education in the .Net development world. This blog points out one very true fact in the Microsoft development space right now; technologies are diverging and becoming Read More...
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Introduction The web part framework provided as part of ASP.net 2.0 provides a rich framework for creating portal based web sites. The concept of a portal is to separate the layout of content from what is hard coded onto the page design. This enables Read More...
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Using themes in ASP.net allows you to "skin" the look and feel of a web site, much like CSS, but with more control, because now you can affect the rendering of the HTML in server controls. The recommended use of a theme is to put as much as possible in Read More...
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Introduction If there’s one thing I like in life it’s a subject that brings out passionate love or hatred. Some examples include Marmite, The Smiths, and the work of Woody Allen. All of these examples I happen to love, but the best part about Read More...
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In my last blog entry , I covered the new ASP.net 2.0 solution structure and compilation model. In this article, I am going to cover some of the specifics of using MSBuild with the ASP.net compiler, and some of the issues I have with using it. Note that Read More...
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Unlike the move from ASP to ASP.net 1.1, I was expecting the move to ASP.net 2.0 to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary; a few new controls and a reduction in the amount of code I would have to write was where my anticipation level was set. Whilst Read More...
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