I was asked: "How can I call into a Windows Service to get it's status?" A little more background said that status was to be retrieved by clients (a website) on the same machine. My response was to use WCF with the NetNamedPipeBinding. Since…(read more)
The papers in Sweden reported last week that resources with expert level knowledge on standard platforms and systems are hard to come by. In summary it says that its an emerging trend in Sweden to use standard platforms, but the fact that resources are…(read more)
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has brilliant support for WCF out of the box; in fact I use it’s WCF based adapters almost exclusively now, unless I have a specific line of business system, like S.A.P / Microsoft Dynamics to connect to. It is really painless to Read More……(read more)
Yesterday I was hanging out at the Microsoft office in Los Angeles for an “Architecture Council” meeting on the new Cloud Computing platform. You can find the slide materials on the Strategic Architecture Council blog.
Overall, a worthwhile session that you should attend if you get the chance in your city. My favorite local evangelists were […]
My friend Jon Flanders‘ most recent book, RESTful.NET, is now available. Jon’s a masterful instructor, always doing a great job explaining technologies to the masses. I’d highly recommend this book if you’re doing anything with REST.
Great job Jon, and you’ve now forever associated catfish with REST 🙂
You’re probably surprised that I’ve kept this up, aren’t you. Here we are, five interviews into this series and still going strong. This month, we chat with the one Flanders that Homer Simpson actually appreciates: Jon Flanders. Jon is a blogger, MVP, thought leader in the SOA space, and is comfortable wearing a skirt. Jon […]
Just found the .Net Services Team blog entry where they explain that they are retiring the labs.biztalk.net stuff.
I personally never quite got BizTalk.NET as it had nothing to do with the BizTalk product. Did anyone else ever get the correlation?
Now the it is called Azure, and you can see all of the things you can do on the Azure Services Platform Developer Center site.
Uploaded new version of SSO Config Tool including fix for the browsing SSO Config Store application and some usability/UI improvements. Download source code.
I came across this a while ago and thought it’s too good to keep quiet. The classic
problem we’ve all been in “works on my machine” says the Developer.
Basically this certification is easy – you launch the app, get to the main screen
and shutdown.
If that can be done – you’re in! 🙂
Check it out below….
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000818.html
Last week I was teaching the U2U Advanced SharePoint Development course in Brussels when one of my students showed me a web part he had created. The web part showed a cool 3D chart (rendered with Adobe Flex) based on some data coming from a SharePoint list. This idea inspired me to create an addition to the SmartTools project on CodePlex: the SmartTools.Charts component. The SmartTools.Charts component contains a web part that can show charts rendered by making use of a very cool open source Silverlight control created by Visifire (since I don’t have any knowledge about Adobe Flex). The web part can be configured to read data from any list or document library of that site on which it’s placed. At the end of this post you can see a screenshot of the web part in action. I’ve created a small video as well since the charts have some fancy animations when they’re shown, so you need to see it in motion! A high resolution version of that video can be download from this page (bottom right). If you’d like to try the SmartTools.Charts component, you can download a first beta version from the CodePlex site (direct link to the releases). Since this is an early beta version, things can go wrong, and breaking changes in future releases can be expected; so basically use it at your own risk (source code is included). As usual, let me know if you have any comments, remarks or feature requests.
SmartTools.Charts from Jan Tielens on Vimeo.