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In this interesting Forrester post about embracing the open web Jeffrey Hammond highlights the presence of two different developer communities. In his words: "…there are two different developer communities out there that I deal with. In the past, I’ve referred to these groups as the "inside the firewall crowd" and the "outside the firewall crowd." [...]
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Tags: Cloud Computing, IT Industry, Learning, Web Development
Sometimes, despite Visual Studio being an excellent IDE, you want to go the No VS route and hack your code in notepad. Perhaps you just want to make a quick change and its not worth firing up the full VS experience. Maybe you are only checking the code as a background time-filler in between other [...]
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Tags: Tools, Tools & Tips, Visual Studio
For anyone interesting in free online .Net & Microsoft platform development training here is a list of links I’ve compiled recently for my development team: Free Plural Sight Courses: http://www.asp.net/web-forms for web forms. Also MVC ones available http://www.asp.net/mvc http://www.asp.net hundreds of screencasts from the Microsoft web team http://www.silverlight.net/learn/ hundreds of screencasts from the Silverlight team [...]
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When building an ASP.net application it’s important to understand the authentication solution that you are planning to implement and then ensure that all your developers are aware of it. On a few projects I have noted that some developers lack this knowledge and it can end up causing issues later on in the project once [...]
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Tags: .Net, ASP.Net, Security, Web Development
In this post I’m going to cover the Entity Translator pattern and provide a useful base class for implementing this pattern in your application. The ‘Entity Translator Pattern’ (defined here and here) covers situations where you need to move object state from one object type to another and there are very strict reasons why these [...]
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Tags: .Net, WCF
There are occasions where you are aware of multiple exceptions within your code that you want to raise together in one go. Perhaps your code makes a service call to a middleware orchestration component that potentially returns multiple exceptions detailed in its response or another scenario might be a batch processing task dealing with many [...]
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If like me you’re always on the lookout for neat little icons and images to add to your shiny .Net applications then you might like to know that Visual Studio includes an image library for you to use. The library is located on your hard drive within the Visual Studio installation at: For Visual Studio [...]
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Tags: Tips, Visual Studio
Keeping up with the latest trends, applications, techniques and platforms can be very difficult. The amount of excellent resources available out there on the web is phenomenal, so much so that there are not enough hours in the day to read or watch it all. One source that I find very useful though is Podcasts. [...]
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For those of you unfamiliar with the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) it is a very capable web application framework for building web forms based thin client applications. It was created as part of the Patterns and Practices offering from Microsoft (alongside the more well known Enterprise Library). It shares many concepts with it’s sister [...]
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Tags: .Net, ASP.Net, CAB, WCF, WCSF
Whilst trying to host multiple WCF Services in IIS, each within it’s own web site, I discovered an issue with secure host headers and IIS6. The requirements were to securely install each WCF service inside it’s own web site, with its own application and application pool instance. In order to setup multiple sites I needed [...]
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