I was intrigued by this post from Tomek which has links to a prototype of an application built with Silverlight but using WebSockets. It’s kind of interesting because running the application in IE9 gives me; now, the only bit of that application that’s actually Silverlight is the highlighted blue square...
I did a short session on the Open Data Protocol (OData) last week at the NxtGen User Group and I thought I’d share the slides here. There are quite a few builds/animations in that slide-deck so I’d suggest that downloading it will produce a better experience than viewing it on SlideShare.
I used to have lots of hassle around reserving portions of the HTTP namespace so that ( e.g. ) WCF services can listen on them. I remember writing about it here in the past. In more recent times, I avoid all that stuff altogether and just use a simple netsh command and this is a reminder to myself of...
Just a quick plug – tomorrow evening I’m doing a session on ADO.NET Data Services (“Astoria”) at the SQL Server User’s Group at Microsoft, Reading. See here for details; http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/167/Sessions-on-Understanding-ADONET-Data-Services-Windows-7-features-indepth-and-the-usual-SQL-Nuggets...
I had a quick look at the binary XML encoding for SOAP messages with Silverlight 3’s updated WCF library. One thing that struck me in all this is that it looks like (i.e. as far as I can tell so far with reflector) that the WCF stack has gained binary XML encoding but hasn’t gained MTOM XML encoding...
Tantalising post from the Astoria team.
I did a talk on Data Services at DevDays, Amsterdam last week and so I had to take a rather speedy look at batching support as that had been added to the VS 2008 Sp1 bits since the previous preview. Batching is explained up here but here's just a little example of using it. If we take "hello world" style...
...and followed Christian's great advice over here to get myself hosted inside of a console application; Self-Hosting Your ADO.NET Data Services ( Astoria ) Services took about 3 minutes. Now need to figure out what the heck I can do with this framework in its revised form.