I’m not sure how many other people on the planet may want to do this, but I developed a technique which I thought was really cool, and is somewhat non-obvious, so I thought I’d blog about it. When I develop, out of years of habit, I always install my development environment in a virtual machine, leaving the host with just my productivity software like Outlook. However, the Windows Phone emulator is not supported in a virtual machine. This forced me into installing in my host machine, leaving me with...

Recently Steve Marx and I spent a few hours working on a best practices document for Windows Azure. As expected, this was a fun and educational experience – plenty of goofing around, but also some really good discussion on things to think about when building applications for Windows Azure. One of the items we discussed [...] Blog Post by: Wade

One of the problems with running JavaScript in the browser is that everything usually executes on the same thread as the UI. With most scripts this is fine because they are short executing however if you start doing more complex calculations you might run into the vase where the UI becomes non responsive because of the JavaScript executing. And when that happens you will see one of these dialogs popup and you are at the mercy of the end user, not the best of places to be.   Fortunately there...

One thing that many web sites do is to verify email addresses by sending you an email to complete registration.  I decided to build a Registration system for ASP.NET MVC using Windows Workflow Foundation. When you create a new ASP.NET MVC web site, the site comes with a simple account controller that integrates with ASP.NET Membership.  It provides basic one step registration and log-in support.  I wanted to take this much farther and provide a simple self-contained registration verification...

I’ve been busy making videos of a few of the ISVs that I’ve had the pleasure of working with. This is the first of those video case studies. The video is available here . Enjoy! =============================================================== Most consumers are unaware of the extent of publicly available, online exposures of their information – including phone numbers, current and past addresses, birth dates, home values, income level, religion, and relative names (including mother's maiden name...