My wife does a lot of work volunteering at our school.  No, check that, she does a metric ton of work. The school was planning a silent auction to raise money for various programs. As part of this, the group decided to hold an online auction allowing people to bid on various activities offered by the teachers. The only technology available to the group was a CMS for creating web pages and HTML forms that would send email messages.  My wife was planning to respond to email and update the...

BizTalk Server 2013 (the 8th release!) has released to manufacturing, and is available NOW for download at MSDN for MSDN subscribers. You can read the team blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2013/03/21/biztalk-server-2013-is-now-rtm.aspx A list of enhancements can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2012/11/06/announcing-biztalk-server-2013-beta.aspx Enjoy! Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

For a change an English language podcast :-)   In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Mads Kristensen about web tooling in Visual Studio 2012. Besides the standard build in tooling for web developer they also talk about Web Essentials 2012, the plugin Mads develops in his spare time to give web developers even more features and capabilities. Links: Blog: http://madskristensen.net/ Web Essentials 2012: http://vswebessentials.com/ Web Developer Checklist: http://webdevchecklist.com/asp...

I really like SignalR for its capability to do push notifications from the server to the client. But there are a few thing in SignalR I am not quite happy with. Fortunately SignalR is really pluggable and you can change it to suit your needs. :-)   PascalCase versus camelCase One thing I am not really happy about is the fact that all data is send over the wire with a request as is. And with SignalR the server tends to be C# where the convention is to have methods and properties in PascalCase...

Quite a few folks have asked me about updating WF Security Pack to .NET 4.5 as WIF is now integrated into .NET 4.5. Today I manage to spare sometime to upgrade the WFSP to .NET 4.5/WIF 4.5.  I have also pushed the updated source code to github which you can pull down from https://github.com/zamd/wfsp/ Please [...] Blog Post by: zamd