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You probably already noticed that Microsoft has enabled access to the source code of parts of the .NET Framework 3.5. Here is the announcement of availability in case you missed it. And there are detailed instructions on how to enable this as well. This...
Best wishes to everyone for 2008! In the first day of the new year, I've released version 0.9.0.0 of my Flickr Meta Synchr tool . You can always find the latest version on CodePlex . I had been working on this new version for a while now, but didn't...
Microsoft used the keynote in the SOA & Business Process Conference in Redmond to present its vision on the future of Service Oriented Architecture on the Microsoft platform. That vision and the wave of technology that will come with it, is codenamed...
Scott Guthrie did a major announcement on his blog yesterday: Microsoft will be releasing the source code for most .NET Framework libraries with the release of Visual Studio 2008. There will even be integrated support for debugging into framework classes...
Today I encountered a problem with accessing the metadata for a WCF service that was deployed on a Windows Server 2003 machine. The WSDL part worked just fine for the metadata exchange endpoint ( url ?wsdl, url ?wsdl=wsdl0, etc.). These WSDL files refer...
After a long day and night of coding, I released version 0.8.0.0 of my Flickr Metadata Synchr tool on CodePlex this morning. I finally solved the long-standing problem I was having with the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) to update metadata. So this is...
If you are interested in the history of LINQ to SQL and how it works internally, go watch Charlie Calvert's video with Matt Warren and Luca Bolognese . The first 30 minutes of this video are primarily about the internals. The last 10 minutes focus...
Back in January 2006 I wrote a blog post about a way to add input validation to declarative query string parameters in ASP.NET 2.0. This involved adding code to the code-behind of each ASP.NET page to hook an event handler. This quickly becomes tedious...
PDC07 has been postponed indefinitely. Dennis already warned me just before MIX07 that Microsoft wouldn't have anything to announce at the PDC after the MIX conference. No new date for a PDC has been given, yet Microsoft already announced the date...
Martin Fowler notices a trend: interest in the .NET platform is declining . Ruby is all the rage. He has some recommendations for Microsoft on how to better collaborate with the community instead of going its own way. Martin noticed how Microsoft created...
Not many Microsoft employees dare to publicly refer to WinFS as a black hole. Matt Warren does in this blog post . He gives us great insight into the origin of LINQ to SQL and how it managed to survive. He ends with: So, for the sake of LINQ and the customer...
WPF comes with great support for animation using XAML without needing to code this in for example C#. With Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") you can also do animations from XAML. If you want to perform custom animations in code that you can't do using XAML, you...
Via Brad Abram's blog : Microsoft has made available a Silverlight 1.1 Developer Reference as a beautiful poster . Go check it out to get an overview of what Silverlight is all about. The only thing missing is an image of a penguin ;)
If you haven't heard the news yet, you must be living under a rock ;) There is a new CLR in town. Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") 1.1 comes with its own CLR. And the best news is that it runs both on the Mac and the PC. Go check it out at silverlight.net ....
Microsoft has announced that the little cross-platform, cross-browser cousin of Windows Presentation Foundation will be called Silverlight . This technology which was first announced at PDC05 was codenamed "WPF/E". Tim Sneath has the best list so far...
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