December 2008 - Posts

Year End Reading for 2008 by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

A small set of links reviewing 2008, and looking forward to 2009, from tech to news to photos, annotated with some personal comments... [ Full post continued here... ] Read More...
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Cool Software for iPhone/iTouch and Windows Mobile Devices by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Wow…there’s a lot of great software out there for mobile devices!  Over the years I’ve purchased a lot of Windows Mobile programs but I’ve never looked at iPhone software since I didn’t have a compatible device.  Over the holiday break I had...
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DeepEarth Released on CodePlex by Live Services

DeepEarth is a new, open-source project that integrates Microsoft Virtual Earth with the Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 platform, making it easy to add an interactive, Silverlight 2.0 map to your application. Get all of the code and a full description of the...

Update to Silverlight 2 DataGrid Released by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Microsoft just released an update to the Silverlight 2 DataGrid that fixes the following issues:  Rows containing focus no longer disappear when the ItemsSource changes DataGrid Selection is preserved when sorting Buttons outside the DataGrid work...
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Fluent Animations in Silverlight by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

A fluent (jQuery-esque) API for creating Silverlight animations easily in code, built on top of Silverlight.FX, along with some early thoughts on possible integration of animations and view models. [ Full post continued here... ] Read More...
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ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate by ScottGu's Blog

Today we launched a new ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery on the www.asp.net site.  The design gallery hosts free HTML design templates that you can download and easily use with your ASP.NET MVC applications.  Included with each design template is...
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MVC Controllers and Forms Authentication by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

I've been re-implementing portions of my site ( projects.nikhilk.net ) using ASP.NET MVC. One of the things I had to implement was login/logout functionality. When you create a new ASP.NET MVC Application, you get a sample AccountController that has...
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SQL Down Under Podcast by Extemporaneous Mumblings

I recently had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Greg Low from SQL Down Under fame and record a podcast with him.  I have to thank Greg for inviting me to ramble on about cloud services, data services like SQL Data Services and Microsoft's...
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Managing the lifecycle of security tokens (Geneva, STS, WCF…) by Matias Woloski's Blog

  One of the things I didn’t like of the WSFederationHttpBinding is that it encapsulates lots of things. In particular, the call against the STS to obtain a SAML token. I wanted to have control over that process.  The good news is that...
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Advertising with Silverlight by Silverlight SDK

If you are interested in using Silverlight for advertising, check out the Silverlight Ad Publishing and Serving Guide . This paper describes the Silverlight features that are most relevant to people who create, serve, and track advertisements. For example...

Multiple Cloud Service Configurations by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Jim has just posted an article on a workaround you can use to support multiple configurations of your Windows Azure Cloud Service. Read More...
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*** Hardt joins Microsoft by Vibro.NET

This is fantastic news! *** Hardt , superstar of the internet Identity community, just announced he'll be joining Microsoft . Besides having followed his work on the Internet, I had the luck of meeting with *** during last spring's IIW. He was...
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Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part III - SuperCloudySoftware meets VeryBigCorp CIO by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Actors : the CIO at VeryBigCorp , John ( SuperCloudySoftware's CEO) and a bunch of senior developers and architects. CIO : Gentlemen, welcome. Let me start by saying that our internal Customer is absolutely fascinated with your application. Believe...
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On-premises, hosting & cloud: a metaphor for understanding how they differ by Vibro.NET

[Dear loyal readers, be warned: this post will contain some identity, but it is more about "pure" architecture & cloud services] On a flight Honolulu-Seattle; vacation is over, and I'm back to sharing with you my wild thoughts (ok, not...
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Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part II - VeryBigCorp buys IssueTracker by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Now that we have introduced our characters, we will start this story describing the acquisition process of IssueTracker in VeryBigCorp . IssueTracker was first used in VBC by a very limited number of people. Someone in some business unit somehow learnt...
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