21 Sep
2010

OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”)

I was experimenting recently with the .Net implementation of OData and ran across one of my pet peeves. ?Magic Strings?. Apparently, the .Net community?s definition of magic strings is close but seems slightly different from Wikipedia. Therefore the magic strings I?m talking about here are what you?ll find on such posts as ?Functional .Net ? […]

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2 Sep
2010

Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0

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In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft released a new update for Silverlight 4 yesterday, along with a new SDK.  You can check out the details at KB2164913. The stuff I was interested in: Add New Row for the DataGrid Improved application startup performance Mouse wheel support for out-of-browser  applications on the Mac Media bug […]

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1 Sep
2010

Microsoft doesn’t create bad developers, developers do

Have you ever stopped to think about the industry you have choose to work in (I’m bluntly assuming that if you are reading this you are working in the software industry in some way)? I would call it one of the most complex industries in the world. Think about it. We are working in an […]

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30 Aug
2010

Pluralcast 23 : Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer

  Listen to this episode! [41:23] Have you been hearing the chatter about Visual Studio LightSwitch? It is a new technology from Microsoft targeted at quickly building line of business apps. And for a bit more sweetness, it builds tiered Silverlight apps for us! LightSwitch is currently in Beta 1, but seems destined for being […]

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27 Aug
2010

File uploads and MVC Controllers

Last week I had to implement some functionality to support uploading images to an MVC 2 application and then subsequently display them. Naturally there are a mountain of blog posts on this topic but I was unable to find anything comprehensive that covered everything that I needed on both the client and server side. What […]

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