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Last year I wrote an article that expressed the importance of developing not only desktop solutions but mobile ones as well.  Since then it has become increasingly important to present not only to a desktop market, but to a mobile one as well. That said, this article isn’t about convincing you to...

The Tallan CodeOff is an annual (*) event here at Tallan to challenge the development staff.  At the start of the contest, a simple programming task is emailed out to the participants, who then have an hour to complete it.  In the past, the winner was the first person to submit a correct entry...

Recently when deploying a site to IIS I got the following error. I tried several troubleshooting options such as checking the IIS mapping configuration to see if the .aspx pages were an accepted page extension, folder permissions on the deployment folder,  and I knew for a fact that .net was correctly...

Recently when deploying an application out to IIS we had the need to deploy a sub application within the same domain.  Essentially, what we were trying to do was make the sub application an extension of the parent application, but live in separate app pools and the code base would be kept separate...

HTTP handlers and modules are a great way to handle HTTP request sent to the server. They can be used to write a specialized image server, a process to handle custom level of security, or a file processor. This was the case for a previous project I worked on; we used HTTP Handlers for the [...] Blog...

After working several years with the Castle Monorail MVC framework, I decided to try ASP.NET MVC to see if it had caught up to Monorail. The transition seemed to go rather smoothly, but one area where I was surprised to find how clumsily it was handled, was the management of JavaScript files. Basically...

In .NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides all the support you need to build distributed service-oriented data access solutions. You can certainly work with WCF directly to create custom services and expose data from an Entity Data Model (EDM) with the ADO.NET Entity Framework, or from...

FILESTREAM is a powerful feature in SQL Server that stores varbinary(max) column data (BLOBs) in the file system (where BLOBs belongs) rather than in the database’s structured file groups (where BLOBs kill performance). This feature was first introduced in SQL Server 2008, and is now being expanded...

The configuration authoring experience remains one of the main challenges of .NET applications. Every time we need to create a new configuration files, we find ourselves going to MSDN or similar websites and trying to figure out the structure of different...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Story: Bob is an IT Professional ( ITPro ) responsible for maintaining dozens of enterprise .NET applications. One day, Bob gets a call informing him that one of the applications he is responsible for have stopped working after some changes in the configuration...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Reusability, or the lack of it, is one of the main problems with the .NET configuration experience. How many times do we find ourselves creating the same configuration sections over and over again as part of our .NET applications? And then when those...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Today Tellago is very happy to announce the open source release of Hermes , a new publish-subscribe messaging technology based on MongoDB and RESTful Services. Publish-subscribe messaging mechanisms are a fundamental component of distributed systems....( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Tomorrow I will be presenting the first webinar about Tellago Studios’ TeleSharp . I would like to keep things very practical and will cover the following topics: · Using TeleSharp to keep a catalog of you enterprise applications · Centralizing .NET configuration...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Configuration management is one of the biggest problems of enterprise .NET applications. Since the first release of the .NET framework, configuration has been the main mechanism used by developers to model aspects of applications in a declarative way...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

We are happy to announce the latest addition to Tellago Studios’ product family: TeleSharp . After the success of SO-Aware and the SO-Aware Test Workbench , we decided to tackle on a bigger challenge by taking the initial steps towards simplifying enterprise...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Practice #1: Catch Exceptions at the Highest Possible Level (Tier) In general, exceptions should be bubbled up to the highest possible level to be caught and processed. For example, in our project, a search goes through the following logical tiers: UI -> Services -> Data/SharePoint/Refinement...

Another month and another time for our Tellago Technology Updates webinar !! Next Tuesday, my friend and Tellago’s mobility practice lead Chris Love will be speaking about IOs and Android development from a .NET developer perspective. The session will...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Tellago Technology Updates is a monthly series of webinars on which our technical staff shares their experiences on new and emerging technologies with our customers and partners. We try to focus on technologies that are really changing the world and influencing...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Since the launch of SO-Aware , we’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of times other Microsoft partners in the middleware & integration space have positioned our product together with the rest of Microsoft’s Service Oriented (SO) technology...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

I know, I know….It’s been almost 2 weeks since Teched and I still haven’t posted the slide decks of my sessions :( I’ve been super busy with some exciting development on both Tellago and Tellago Studios but I finally got to it :) WCF Best Practices My...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

The number of open source releases from the Tellago team keeps growing! At Tellago , we like to dedicate part of our time to work of fun projects that we consider could be a relevant open source complements to existing Microsoft technologies. You can...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Last week I presented two sessions at Microsoft Teched USA. This year my sessions were focus on Real World Windows Workflow Foundation and WCF Patterns. Do I like challenges or what? ;) Well, both sessions received were jammed packed and received an amazing...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Last week, I was having a debate with a renowned technology analyst about the open source cloud fabric model and why, in my opinion, are destined to become one of the predominant models in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) space. In a nutshell, PaaS encompasses...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

I know this post is overdue, but I’m happy to say that in the time since MIX has elapsed, my wife and I have sold our condo and moved to a new home. I’ve also transition to a new contract, and I am excited to get my feet wet my new project. Despite [...] Blog Post by: bdewey

Keeping up with software technology is really hard. We are living in very exciting times for the software industry as we are witnessing revolutions in areas such as cloud computing, mobility, NOSQL databases among others that are changing the way we think...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx