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Jun 8 Mon
Web Services in SL3 Beta Tips on Performance Improvements
Yavor Georgiev writes "The best part is that this is done entirely in the service configuration file (Web.config) and does not affect the way you use the service...I wanted to share some data that shows exactly how noticeable this performance improvement is..."
May 15 Fri
A New Breed of Hero - Direct Access
Hunter French writes "I am (almost) not exaggerating here. Scott’s WSV320 session entitled “Reinventing Remote Access with Direct Access” was nothing short of amazing to me. All week I have been wandering the LACC thinking about the most exciting technology of the conference, Exchange 2010, TMG, and Windows 7 are all sexy but DirectAccess blew me away..."
May 11 Mon
Get Your SaaS off my Cloud
Lori MacVittie writes "...There is a very real difference between the architectural models and benefits of cloud computing ...and multi-tenant hosted software, a.k.a. SaaS...The issues with SaaS are not the issues with “IaaS cloud”; they are very different simply because they are two different architectural models with two very different goals. Applying the success or failure of one to the other isn’t realistic..."
Apr 6 Mon
How to Generate a Custom Letter Using PowerTools for Open XML and PowerShell
Eric White writes "...His scenario is interesting – he generates a service level agreement (SLA) report based on information that he retrieves using PowerShell cmdlets...When assembling the final document, he takes content from one document that has customer specific information in it:"
Mar 26 Thu
Cloud Computing Manifesto
Sam Johnston writes "...I am pleased to announce the Cloud Computing Manifesto which has been seeded with Microsoft's three initial suggestions:...It's an open wiki driven by community consensus and anyone can join and contribute (there's no invitations, membership fees, etc.) so be bold and if you have something to add then go ahead..."
Mar 23 Mon
ICommand Descriptions and Best Practices
Mike Hillberg writes "ICommand in WPF is a pretty simple thing at its core. But it gets more interesting and complicated as you build up functionality on top of it, and integrate it into the higher layers of the UI...So here’s a step-by-step description of how it all fits together…"
Feb 26 Thu
Tricking the Content Editor Web Part Width to 100%
Phil Wicklund writes "
...I found a neat way to tell the content editor web part to set its parent table cell's width to be 100%. The trick is to grab the parent table cell's ID and run some javascript in the content editor to set the width...Take a look at the code I entered at the end of my content editor:"
Full SQL Server Planned for Azure Platform
Brandon George writes "...now there will be a Full version of SQL Server in the cloud, vs. just having SQL Server Data Services. The story was first came out at the register..."
New Silverlight Media Experience for WindowsClient.net
Tim Heuer writes "
...Our team is working on a new design for the Silverlight Community Site and one of those aspects includes a new media experience for the online media/video portions of the Silverlight, Windows Client, and ASP.NET sites. Today we rolled out the new experience..."
Twilight 1.5: Multiple Views with MVVM
Bryant Likes writes "...Hopefully this will serve as a great twitter badge for your blog and also a decent example of MVVM in Silverlight along with some unit testing examples as well. Feel free to join the project on Codeplex and create your own views. I am still working on at least one more version..."
Feb 18 Wed
Is Cloud Computing Really Risk Transference
Kai Axford writes "I’ve been doing a lot of research on the topic of “cloud computing security” the last few weeks, as I prep for my session at TechEd North America 2009 entitled “Securing the Cloud”. I have to tell you, I don’t see a lot of companies agreeing to become liable if your data gets breached..."
Feb 16 Mon
Silverlight Custom Carousel Control Code and Sample
Jesse Liberty writes "
...I'd like to build a simplified version of the custom Carousel control that I create in greater detail in a forthcoming video, and examine the role of the SLS in laying out and animating the objects in the Carousel. We'll start..."
Feb 12 Thu
How to Databind to a SelectedItems Property in WPF
Samuel Jack writes "...I’ve knocked up a toy ViewModel: it has on it an AvailableNames property that will be the data source for the ListBox, a SelectedNames property which is the reason we’re going through the whole exercise, and a Summary property which displays the number of selected items to prove that the data binding is working correctly...The XAML looks like this:"
Feb 11 Wed
Moonlight 1.0 Collaboration Exceptional
Scott Guthrie writes "...Recently the official Presidential Inauguration Committee broadcast the inauguration of President Barack Obama using Silverlight. Over 50,000 viewers using Linux installed Moonlight and watched the event live using it. Miguel de Icaza and the volunteers behind Moonlight made a tremendous effort to make sure that Linux users were able to watch..."
Network Side Scripting Code Sample
Lori MacVittie writes "...while the technique of overlaying data/information/images on a page has a variety of actual, real business use, it's not exactly secure...Any piece of code that includes content external to the document via HTTP or language-specific "include" mechanisms is a potential security hole and should be treated as a possible attack vector. But there are valid uses for such techniques..."
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