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Jul 2 Thu
XBox Kodu Makes Game Programming Friendly
Chris Bowen writes "As of yesterday, Kodu is now available on XBOX Live Marketplace as a free trial or purchase for 400 points (about $5) and lets you create games using only the XBOX controller..."
Code Sample Retrieves XML From a List Available to Anonymous User
Liam Cleary writes "This of course is very straight forward but the complication here was that it needed to be available to an anonymous user who would consume the XML stream. After a little thought I decided that we could use the "owssvr.dll" method. For those that have not used this before it is very simple. You make a call to the following URL:"
Workaround for Kerberos Configuration Issue is Reboot
PSS SQL Engineers writes "The situation was an 8 node cluster with multiple instances across the nodes. These were running Windows 2008 with SQL 2008. One node in particular was having an issue when they were issuing a Linked Server Query from a remote client...When trying to hit the linked server from within Management Studio on the client machine, we received the following message: Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Line 1 Login failed..."
Code for Scrolling Large Images on Windows Mobile Devices
Maarten Struys writes "...I needed a simple solution to scroll a large picture inside a managed application....This is the complete code for this simple example"
How to Remove Disabled Virtual Network Adapters From the Parent Partition
John Howard writes "To date, I haven’t come across a script which removes disabled virtual NICs in the parent partition. So here is one such example...Obviously with any script which does destructive things, I urge caution and that you make careful note of your configuration..."
MCsla on the Olso May CTP
Rockford Lhotka writes "
...I’ve updated my prototype MCsla project to work on the “Olso” May CTP. The update took some effort, because there are several subtle changes in the syntax of “Oslo” grammars and instance data. What complicated this a little, is that I am using a custom DSL compiler because"
Updated Proxy Generator
Michele Leroux Bustamante writes "...change I made to my proxy wrapper to automate creating the channel in the constructor actually had a nasty side-effect that didn't surface until I tried to use it for a federated security sample. ClientCredentials was not accessible since the channel was already created...have since updated the proxy generator here:"
Snapshot of Silverlight 4 Wish List
David Yack writes "...I had some help pulling together a summary of what people are asking for...The following is just a snapshot but thought you might find it interesting...The top 10 or so on the list all had multiple people requesting those items..."
Jul 1 Wed
MVVM and .NET RIA Services Demos
Jonas Folleso writes "...The MVVM demo is basically a the Dive Log example application taken further, with multiple View Models communicating through an Event Aggregator and a touch of navigation using the Silverlight 3 navigation framework. The .NET RIA Services demo is a “plain” data centric application, as well as a second demo app which uses nHibernate and the XML Metadata..."
Workaround for WCF Bug When Using a Certificate Reference
Michele Leroux Bustamante writes "...I have never run into this problem before, but I just realized that in WCF applications when I provide a certificate reference with FindBySubjectName - it can fail if you have two similarly named (not identical) certificates. I don't think this is by design, it has to be a bug, but I found a workaround..."
Approaches to Uploading Files to SharePoint 2007 from ASP.NET Web Apps
Erika Ehrli writes "...there are multiple possible ways to accomplish this task in SharePoint 2007. Here are some popular approaches I’ve learned about and some great possibilities and drawbacks for each:"
Silverlight 2.0 Authentication Services Code Sample
Al Pascual writes "Message based authentication managed by Silverlight not the browser. Silverlight can use the browsers cookies and send them to the hosts. When you authenticate with ASP.NET the authentication cookie stored to your computer will be used by Silverlight if you create a Silverlight Authentication Service..."
Windows 7 How to Register New File Associations
Guy Burstein writes "Lets say I have a standard Windows Forms application that works with .guy file types...This application can be launched from the command line with a file name as an argument:..Since this application is the only application that knows how to work with .guy files, we would like to associate this file type with my application. In order to do that..."
Code Sample of Binary Http Binding
Nicholas Allen writes "...all you need is a custom binding because we don’t include a standard binding with that configuration out of the box. Here’s a quick example of putting binary and HTTP together with either code or configuration:.."
SQL Auto-Shrink Should Be Off
Buck Woody writes "...shrinking a database can cause your Indexes to be fragmented, especially if it happens a lot. I never shrink my databases unless I have a huge deletion of data, and I know that the data won't come back. That's a pretty rare event, and when it does happen..."
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