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SoundBytes 2013
Attached is a list of our SoundBytes scheduled for 2013. SoundBytes 2013.pdf
Date: 12/14/2012
October Newsletter - Forthcoming Microsoft UK Workshops
Please see the link below for information on upcoming Microsoft UK workshops. Workshop_Update.pdf
Date: 10/09/2012
Visual Studio 2012 & .NET 4.5 Tech|Briefing
Visual Studio 2012 & .NET 4.5 Tech|Briefing Multiple dates in 2012 | 1 day Presentation | 32...
Date: 10/09/2012
October Newsletter - Developing Mobile Applications
Focus – Developing Mobile Applications – and why you should care By Aidan Caffrey -...
Date: 10/01/2012
Service Bus Property Promotion Nuget Package
I have just published a Nuget package which adds property promotion features to Service Bus WCF...
Date: 07/24/2012
Migrated to Azure Web Sites
I’ve been thinking about moving this blog over to Windows Azure for a while, but I’ve...
Date: 07/12/2012
ASP.NET MVC: Supplying HTML attributes with EditorFor
My colleague Simon Ince and I recently discovered that we had been working on the same problem...
Date: 05/31/2012
Injecting Custom HTML Attributes in ASP.NET MVC
Recently Stuart Leeks and I have developed a worrying pattern of having the same ideas at the same...
Date: 05/31/2012
Claim-based-security for ASP.NET Web APIs using DotNetOpenAuth
Source Code Recently I worked with a customer assisting them in implementing their Web APIs using...
Date: 05/24/2012
ASP.NET MVC & jQuery UI autocomplete Part 2 (EditorFor)
I recently blogged about how to enable autocompletion of a text field using jQuery UI, and how to...
Date: 05/08/2012
ASP.NET MVC & jQuery UI autocomplete
If you get me started talking about ASP.NET MVC then it is quite possible that I’ll end up...
Date: 04/24/2012
Quantifying and Avoiding Risk on the Windows Azure platform
The Windows Azure platform is a solid, highly available, highly scalable environment - but, like any...
Date: 04/03/2012
ADM: Workshop: ASP.NET MVC 3 Development Ramp Up
Date: 3rd & 4thApril 2012 Location: Thames Valley Park, Reading SinceASP.NET MVC was released...
Date: 03/13/2012
Dynamic SQL scripting on Windows Phone 7 with LINQ
I recently had cause to look into running dynamic SQL on WP7 for a customer. On a desktop this is...
Date: 02/21/2012
Deploying Umbraco to Windows Azure
Umbraco is a fairly mature CMS system and recently I was engaged in an assignment to deploy Umbraco...
Date: 01/31/2012
WebGrid extensions on NuGet
If you’ve not read my MSDN magazine article on using WebGrid to render tabular data then go...
Date: 01/26/2012
Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views
I was with a customer in Germany this week, and just before I left one of the (rather talented I...
Date: 01/26/2012
Connecting to SharePoint on Office 365 with Windows Phone 7
One of my colleagues recently asked me to look into connecting to a SharePoint site running on...
Date: 01/26/2012
Is HTML5 right for you?
HTML5 is the latest buzzword in the web industry, if you’re not developing a HTML5 application...
Date: 01/17/2012
Distributed Cache Capabilities - Notifications
A notification system allows the cache to interact with external applications. This attribute can be...
Date: 12/06/2011
Distributed Cache Capabilities - Data Integrity
Data expiration contains elements that make the cache allocation more efficient. The feature removes...
Date: 12/06/2011
WebSockets with WCF
Notification & “Duplex communication” are important scenario over the internet but...
Date: 11/24/2011
Flexible Conditional Validation with ASP.NET MVC 3
What? My colleague Simon and I have each written conditional validators with a number of customers,...
Date: 10/11/2011
Mvc.ValidationTookit Alpha Release: Conditional Validation with MVC 3
My blog posts on doing conditional validation in MVC have always been popular, and I’m...
Date: 10/06/2011
Immersive MVC and jQuery: Project Silk
Patterns and Practices have just released their latest round of guidance for developing web...
Date: 09/27/2011
Pluggable Model Conventions
One of the things that I really like about ASP.NET MVC is its extensibility story. In the recent...
Date: 09/27/2011
Current WordPress Plugins
Seeing as a certain member of the team expressed an interest (you know who you are @Plip!), I...
Date: 09/08/2011
Getting up and Running with Crescent on CTP 3
The sharepoint requirement for Crescent is a bit of a show stopper if Sharepoint isn’t your...
Date: 08/04/2011
ASP.NET MVC resources
One of the fairly common questions I get asked is "what good resources are there for ASP.NET MVC?"...
Date: 07/14/2011
Get the Most out of WebGrid in ASP.NET MVC
My first MSDN Magazine article is up: Get the Most out of WebGrid in ASP.NET MVC. So, if you want to...
Date: 07/12/2011
Our team is hiring!
The Premier Support for Developers team is hiring. Our Mission: Microsoft Application Development...
Date: 06/29/2011
WindDbg – setting up symbols
I don’t do this often enough, so Rob Martin just dictated this to me over my shoulder:...
Date: 06/07/2011
Pub/Sub with WCF (Part 2)
Source Code Download Service Bus May CTP has a small glitch when it comes to pub/sub messaging using...
Date: 06/02/2011
Pub/Sub with WCF (Part 1)
In yesterday’s post I have explored how to use Service Bus queues as a transport to...
Date: 05/31/2011
WCF with Service Bus V2: Queues
May CTP of Service Bus introduced tons of new messaging capabilities including Queuing and Topic...
Date: 05/24/2011
ADM Workshop: ASP.NET MVC 3 Ramp Up, 21st & 22nd June
ADM Workshop: ASP.NET MVC 3 Ramp Up, 21st & 22nd June Our next Workshop, “Windows Azure...
Date: 05/20/2011
NuGet Package to enable SWT in WIF
Just found Daniel Cazzulino@Clarius has packaged some of my work in a reusable NuGet package. Pretty...
Date: 05/17/2011
Project Silk: Patterns and Practices do Rich Web Apps
My blog has been quiet of late – because our team is busy I think. We’re recruiting by...
Date: 05/12/2011
Notes from HTM01 @ MIX11
IE9 compiles JavaScript down into machine code. There are eleven subsystems which impact...
Date: 04/19/2011
Notes from HTM01 - MIX 2011
IE9 compiles JavaScript down into machine code. There are eleven subsystems which impact...
Date: 04/19/2011
ASP.NET MVC: Partial rendering and AjaxAttribute
On a number of occasions I’ve been working with a customer on a scenario where we were adding...
Date: 04/14/2011
Partition limit increased to 15,000 in Sql 2008 R2 SP1
Just been going over the whitepaper ‘Support for 15,000 partitions in Sql 2008 SP2′...
Date: 04/12/2011
Query Tuning Quick wins: Bookmark lookups – Kill Bill
Frequently a quick win in query tuning is to remove a bookmark, or key lookup. A key lookup occurs...
Date: 04/07/2011
SoundByte: Windows Azure Orientation
Windows Azure Orientation, Level 100, 15th April, 10-11am UK Time Our next SoundByte, “Windows...
Date: 03/31/2011
IIS Express and System.Threading.ThreadAbortException
If you’re moving over to IIS Express and you spot these kind of entries in your trace log: - A...
Date: 03/31/2011
Silverlight Claim-Based-Security Part-2
In part 1 I talked about a simple approach to combine WCF Routing service and claims-based security...
Date: 03/29/2011
Using standard icons in a rehosted Workflow Designer
In this post I’ll show how you can easily use appropriate icons within the Workflow Designer...
Date: 03/24/2011