February, 2012

I’ve been part of several conversations over the past few weeks where someone posited the question: Now that WebAPI is out, how do I (or my customers) decide when to use it or WCF? This question actually has many different flavors? Is WCF done? Does WebAPI replace WCF? Should I stop using WCF HTTP? Why is WebAPI part of ASP.NET? Wasn’t WebAPI originally a WCF framework? If WebAPI is part of ASP.NET, why don’t I just use MVC? What does WebAPI give me over MVC?   Is WCF done? WCF is not done,...

The game is on. The competition is open. It's time for FrameRate Fest 2012 . Internet Explorer 9 challenges you to play yourself to the front line of HTML5.   In this creative competition it's all about building an awesome HTML5 frame. In this year's edition there is an extra challenge: create a small but nice, awesome or freaky game component in your frame. Your ultimate chance to gain fame.   Cause we've got a worldwide scoop: a developers Kinect code in combination with...

This post is about an error we encountered during the installation of the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Leap Year Date Hotfix (See KB article 2435900 for details). The hotfix requires a certain product version key for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, while this product version key is too low when the necessary prerequisites are installed. In this post you can also see the workaround I've found to deal with this error.

This post outlines the various extensibility options of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and how this can be integrated with the Azure Service Bus to integrate with on premises applications. This is part 1, focusing on the out of the box capabilities.

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 ships with some assemblies that assist you with the administration and deployment of your BizTalk environment. There was a small challenge to dynamically detect the BizTalk Servers of a BizTalk Group, during an automated deployment.

In deze, tijdens de TechDays opgenomen, podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Steve Sanderson over de toekomst van web development met de moderne browsers. Ze spreken ondermeer over Knockout.js, een JavaScript library die MVVM stijl databinding mogelijk maakt binnen HTML/JavaScript applicaties. Je kan de podcast hier beluisteren. Enjoy!   TheProblemSolver DotNetEvents Blog Post by: Maurice

Several people asked about getting the slides and samples from my HTML5 & REST talk at the TechDays 2012 conference in the Netherlands. You can download the slides and the sample if you like.   Enjoy!   TheProblemSolver DotNetEvents Blog Post by: Maurice

Read what auto certificate rollover in AD FS is and how it can impacts your services. Also learn how to prevent this feature of having impact on your services.

Several people asked about getting the slides and samples from my HTML5 talk at the TechDays conference in the Netherlands. You can download the slides and the sample if you like.   Enjoy!   TheProblemSolver DotNetEvents Blog Post by: Maurice

Experienced a problem with side-by-side deployment of pipelines. We opened a case at Microsoft Support and found a decent workaround.

In the previous two blog posts about getting started with Knockout.js and controlling updates using Knockout.js I showed to to get started with the awesome Knockout.js library. In this post I am going to show how easy it is to load a collection of items from a REST service and data bind to the complete collection. To data bind to collections of data Knockout supports the foreach data binding. This lets us point at a collection of data and create a new item for each object in the collection. In the...

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Roland Guijt over de moderne manier van het ontwikkelen van web applicaties. Roland verteld over het gebruik van Knockout.js voor de data binding van data aan de HTML elementen on de browser. Verder verteld hij waar hij jQuery allemaal gebruikt en geeft hij diverse tips over het ontwikkelen van single page web applicaties.   De podcast is hier te downloaden.     Voor het gemak kan je natuurlijk ook een RSS feed, iTunes of Zune link gebruiken...

WIF Tracing - A big time saver

People have been wondering for a while what the future of WF3 was since the release of WF4. So far both workflow stacks have coexisted in .NET 4 and there has been no official statement about the future of the older WF3 stack.   That has just changed! The workflow team at Microsoft has just announced that they are marking the WF3 stack as deprecated with the next release of the .NET framework, .NET 4.5. Of course the types are still there but you will get compile time  warnings for using...

In the previous blog post about Knockout.js I showed why and how to get started with Knockout.js. And I explained that the reason I really like Knockout.js is that it is a very familiar way of working with its MVVM style. I created a small demo where we could update the first and last name of a person and the ViewModel would combine the two and display the concatenated parts as the complete name. This worked just fine as soon as I started using observables except for one thing. Whenever I start typing...

Once you get into doing more client side JavaScript code with business applications and REST services you are going to run into the question of how to construct the client side HTML required to show the data to the users.   Using jQuery Assuming most people are going to be using jQuery on the client you might start with some jQuery code to generate HTML. Your code might look something like this $( function () { $( "#btn" ).click( function () { $.getJSON( "/services/books"...

Kinect for Windows is now available. Below are details from the Kinect for Windows Blog …   On January 9th, Steve Ballmer announced at CES that we would be shipping Kinect for Windows on February 1st.  I am very pleased to report that today version 1.0 of our SDK and runtime were made available for download, and distribution partners in our twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware, enabling companies to start to deploy their solutions. The suggested retail...