Во многих научных работах, презентациях и вебкастах последних лет звучит одна и та же мантра, смысл которой сводится к одному – параллельное программирование это актуально. Еще один тренд современной разработки ПО заключается в том, что традиционный параллелизм...

In Part 1 of this post, we developed our Silverlight application to access data through an ADO.NET Data Service. So far we are able to load the data at run time and navigate through the data records back and forth. Let’s now develop more functionality...

  que tal adicionar 45M de usuários na tua página, cada um deles trazendo junto suas centenas de amigos?  é grátis, simples e muuuuito poderoso  :)    e melhor ainda: o kit novo tem novidades: User experience : smoothed out...

Sometimes you’ll find you need to issue a query or command that the Entity Framework can’t support. In fact this problem is common to most ORMs, which is why so many of them have a backdoor to the database. The Entity Framework has a backdoor too… .NET...

Problem: Imagine that you have these entities public class Product { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public virtual Category Category { get; set; } } public class Category { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name {...

November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 Tim Heuer Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight.  In this...

November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 Tim Heuer Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight.  In this...

In the last days I implemented a typical enterprise cloud app on Windows Azure. WARNING: Beyond this step no Hello World scenarios! Watch your step! The scenario is based on the famous TimeTracker SL3 Sample which you can find in the Expression Gallery....

To get single sign on in the Cloud Microsoft offers Windows Indentity Framework (WIF)  a new addition to the .NET Technologies Stack formerly known as Geneva Framework. WIF is now available as a Release Candidate from MSDN Eval Center together with...

ASP.NET is a platform for creating Web applications while at the same time it belongs to the larger application platform provided by the .NET Framework. Because the SharePoint 2010 application platform is based on ASP.NET, learning how to use it isn’t...

The one-off 599 was hand painted by Chinese artist Lu Hao with a classic porcelain pattern of the Song Dynasty and has been auctioned off for $1.77 million. Wonder what happens when it crashes? Does it fall in to a million pieces to be put back together...

- Visual Studio Documentary - VS2010 Floating Windows Maximizable - Mobile Development in Visual Studio 2010 - VS Profile - Parallelizing a loop with tasks correctly - SuperComputing 2009 - HPC Server 2008 - Parallel Debugging content updated for Beta2...

IE 8 makes it simple to create great add on experiences for users. Specifically, a site can provide web slices, accelerators and visual search. If you want to learn more about these features look here . I have heard a number of stories where people have...

James wanned me to explain the set of steps I use to enable Convert-Media under a PowerShell remoting. First a disclaimer: running these steps will lower the security settings of your PC, use with caution. Here there are: In your encoding server (mine...

Setbacks and Triumphs The domain registration task became exponentially more challenging on March 4, 2009, with the discovery of Worm:Win32/Conficker.D. Investigators reverse-engineered the new variant and determined that it was programmed to generate...

In this blog post I will walk through how to add a custom button to the new SharePoint 2010 ribbon.  One very big and noticeable update in SharePoint 2010 is that we now have an awesome, Office client-like ribbon the provides most of the controls...

We are hosting a number of startups in the Atlanta Microsoft office that are interested in moving their web based applications to the Windows Azure Platform .  At the end of the week we are going to have a panel of judges evaluate the various applications...

Recently, our New England-based team partnered the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org) to create a new solution to help health workers find best practice information to improve patient care and support.    The solution is called...

Enterprise Architecture has a role to play in both developing a vision of the future, and in providing governance and oversight to make sure that the organization can measure its progress towards that future. The governance part is tricky.  Architectural...

In case you missed this on the Windows Azure blog, there were a couple of neat announcements around new storage features: Content Delivery Network: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/11/05/introducing-the-windows-azure-content-delivery-network.aspx...

Have you ever wondered how well the Messenger Web Toolkit scales? What if we told you it scales enough for some of the largest web sites in the world? Well it does! Hotmail and MSN both depend on the Messenger Web Toolkit to offer instant messaging functionality...

I, along with other Microsoft colleagues, participated in the ApacheCon 2009 in Oakland, CA this week. This week also marks the 10 th Anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation – so congratulations to the ASF and overall Apache community, which has...

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In this three-part video Brad Stevenson goes through a high-level overview out-of-the-box functionality provided by Business Connectivity Services. You’ll be able to observe: Full read/write capability of BCS Create an external content type which connects...

I started playing with the .NET Framework 4.0 composition namespace (also known as MEF) and I want to share the most simple example I could write. The program prints out the providerName field, but the actual value is provided by the ExternalProvider...