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Windows Phone Fast Application Switching and Page State

dhananjay25 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

An overview of fast application switching and page state in Windows Phone.

Cascading ListBox Using MVVM in WPF

dpatra — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will see how we could implement a List Box and using the powerful Model View View-Model pattern in WPF.

Widget Refresh Timer in MVVM in Silverlight

dpatra — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we'll see how to refresh and disable widgets using the Model View View-Model pattern and Silverlight.

ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Model Binding

dingjing — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Dynamic model binding enables a single action to handle multiple forms.

Using HTML5 Web Storage in ASP.NET

bipinjoshi — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

HTML5 Web Storage provides a streamlined data storage mechanism that allows developers to store data on the client as key-value pairs. This article explores what Web Storage is, its flavors and illustrates how Web Storage data can be transferred between client and server in ASP.NET websites.

IIS FTP User Isolation - Week 46

scottforsyth — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This week we walk through the five isolation modes to gain a full understanding of the IIS FTP method of configuration for user isolation.

Understanding Multilayered Architecture in .Net

akhilmittal — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This article focuses on understanding a basic multilayered architecture in C#.Net.

Displaying Notification Messages in a Silverlight Dashboard Application

dpatra — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will see how we could display a notification message and further a list of notification messages in Silverlight.

Running multiple websites in a single hosting space

bipinjoshi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Develop a solution that supports multiple websites in a single hosting space and database.

Integrate Lua into Your Android Games

Xianzhong Zhu — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, we will show interests in the interoperations between Lua and Java, especially in the Android game development environment. And, as usual, since this story may involve a lot of tools, I list all of them below for your reference.

IIS FTP and IIS Manager Users - Week 45

scottforsyth — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

IIS FTP supports a new type of user called IIS Manager Users. This type of user can be used instead of Windows Local or Active Directory Users. This week I cover everything you need to know to properly support IIS Manager Users with IIS FTP. This is week 45 of a 52 week series, and the 2nd of a 4 week mini-series on IIS FTP.

Android for .NET Developers - Picklists and listviews

DinoEsposito — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I'll discuss how to arrange an Android view where the dominant element is the list. I'll start with a plain list of strings and then improve up to populating a listview with downloaded content arranged using a custom layout.

Introduction to Android JNI Development Using NDK - Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In the first part of this series you've learned the fundamentals concerning Java JNI programming. In this second part, we are going to focus upon Android NDK programming tips. As an elementary tutorial, I'm going to delve into some of the trivial other friends and I met during the NDK setup process.

Introduction to Android JNI development Using NDK - Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this first article of this small series, we will try to delve into the Java JNI inner workings and give elementary samples. In the subsequent article, we will explore Android NDK programming.

Implementing Website Pinning in ASP.NET

bipinjoshi — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Learn to enable website pinning features of IE9 on Windows 7 for your ASP.NET websites.

IIS FTP Basics - Week 44

scottforsyth — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol has been in wide use for years and is still widely used today. It's used for transferring files between locations and practically useful for deployment websites from a dev machine or continuous integration server to staging or production websites.

Increasing your productivity with Visual Studio 2010

djsolid — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Visual Studio is the program that most of the times a .NET developer is working with. This article contains a few tricks and plugins for VS2010 that are out there and whose sole purpose is to improve everyday tasks and provide a slicker development experience.

IIS 7.x Classic and Integrated Pipeline Modes-Week 43

scottforsyth — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

IIS 7 has two application pool pipeline modes: classic and integrated. This week we look at the differences and find out how to migrate a configuration file from IIS6 or Classic mode to IIS 7 Integrated mode. This is week 43 of a 52 week series for the web pro.

Change Password vs. Reset Password - Week 42

scottforsyth — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The difference between change password and reset password are not well known. This week's video walks through the differences and shows them in action. Tune in to find out more about password management. This is week 42 of a 52 week series for the web pro.

Android for .NET Developers - Execution of Common Tasks

DinoEsposito — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I'll focus on the execution of common tasks from within an Android application. I'll build the skeleton of an application that takes a photo and emails to the specified address. For both tasks I'll use native Android components.

Integrate Lua into WPF Games

Xianzhong Zhu — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Lua is a world-famous scripting language. It is a lightweight multi-paradigm programming language designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. In this article, we are to explore how to integrate Lua into C# applications, especially WPF games.

Building a YouTube-like Video Playing Site Using ASP.NET Techniques - Part 3

Xianzhong Zhu — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this final part of this series, we are going to discuss how to make the users play their selected videos, make possible related comments. And then, we will introduce how to manage sports video channel relate data in the role of an administrator.

Building a YouTube-like Video Playing Site Using ASP.NET Techniques - Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this second part of this series, we will start to develop the detailed pages in the YouTube-like sample website. And as usual, we will mainly dwell upon the key tips in the related parts.

Designing distributed applications

DeepakRaghavan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Distributed applications constitute multiple processes and modules working in symphony with each other. These processes need to be decoupled from each other so that a change in one does not create a ripple effect through the rest of the enterprise application stack. This article shows a strategy to design such an enterprise system to be scalable and decoupled using MSMQ as an underlying transport layer.

Line numbering in Notepad - Week 41

scottforsyth — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Notepad is so simple, yet so useful. Yet, at times the "Go To" appears to break and doesn't work as expected. This week's video is short and sweet. Learn about line numbering in notepad.

Calling WCF Duplex service In Silverlight

vishalnayan — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Vishal Nayan shows how to create a duplex WCF service at server side and let Silverlight access it at the client side.

Resolving Legit Blocked Ports Through Windows - Week 40

scottforsyth — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This week's video shows how to easily and quickly track down IPs and ports that need to be opened to allow legitimate traffic through the firewall. This is week 40 of a 52 week series for the web pro.

Building a YouTube-like Video Playing Site Using ASP.NET Techniques - Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this series of articles, we'll try to build a popular YouTube-like video playing website using ASP.NET related techniques.

ASP.NET Site Traffic and Statistics Monitoring - Part 3

Xianzhong Zhu — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In the last part of the series, you've learned how to store the user into especially the re-processed info into the backend database. And later, we discussed how to bind our site traffic and statistics module to some target website or only to one page. In this last part, we are going to delve into the most interesting things how to design different kinds of statistic charts or analysis reports based upon users' requirements.

ASP.NET Site Traffic and Statistics Monitoring - Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In the previous part of the series, you've learned why we are going to establish the traffic and statistics monitoring module, the general flow of such a module. In this second part, we'll continue to discuss how to store the grabbed user info and especially we have to calculate part of the info and then update it in the database.

Take a Test Application in Windows Phone 7

dpatra — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we would see how to make a Test application, what I mean is an application where a user can select a category based on that some questions would be displayed and the user can test their knowledge in selected category.

Introduction to Log Parser Week 39

scottforsyth — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Log Parser is a powerful tool that every web administrator should become familiar with. With Log Parser we can do deep troubleshooting and data mining of the IIS Logs, Event Viewer, the File System, other file types and more.

High Availability for ARR Week 38

scottforsyth — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Application Request Routing (ARR) does not have high availability built in, so it's up to us to implement a solution to ensure that ARR doesn't become a single point of failure. Options include hardware load balancers, other software load balancers, or two Microsoft options-namely NLB and Clustering Services.

ASP.NET Site Traffic and Statistics Monitoring

Xianzhong Zhu — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this series, I will introduce to you a popular backend module in real ASP.NET websites - site traffic and statistics monitoring.

Android for .NET Developers - HTTP Calls

DinoEsposito — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Let's see what it takes in Android to place calls over HTTP to a remote endpoint.

Develop a Flexible 2.5D Scene Editor Targeting Silverlight RPG Games - Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I'm going to introduce to you how to construct such a 2.5D RPG game scene editor that targets Silverlight and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 from the very beginning.

Develop a Flexible 2.5D Scene Editor Targeting Silverlight RPG Games - Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Starting from this article, I'm going to introduce to you an excellent 2.5D RPG games scene editor - RPGSceneEditor targeting Silverlight and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Controller for Serving Images

schwarty — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Gain more control over images within an ASP.NET MVC 3 project by creating a controller to handle delivering image file data to the response stream.

Testing Inbound Routes

Manning — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It’s much easier to write automated tests for your site than it is to do manual exploratory testing for each release. In this article, based on chapter 13 of ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, the authors show how we can use MvcContrib project’s route-testing API to make this testing easier.

Create your first RESTful service with WCF

vishalnayan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Vishal Nayan explains how to create a RESTful service with WCF.

SQL Azure to Developers: Part 1

dhananjay25 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this part we will focus on overview of SQL Azure along with a first look on SQL Azure Management Portal.

Migrating PushBox Game from Android to Windows Phone 7 - Part 6

Xianzhong Zhu — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this last article, we are going to continue to research into the easy and difficult aspects in creating the Silverlight based game, with an eye to the Android platform based version.

ARR Tricks to Share with Web Server-Week 37

scottforsyth — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This video covers two specific tricks to allow the Application Request Routing (ARR) and Web roles to share the same server. This is useful if you have multiple servers and can't setup dedicated servers for ARR, or even if you want to leverage ARR's functionality on the same server as the website.

Understanding Unit and NUnit Testing

vishalnayan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Vishal Nayan discusses unit testing in Visual Studio.

Design and Deploy Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application in Windows Azure - Part 2

Msblogger — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This article is going to be Part 2 of a series of article on Designing and Deploying Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application on Windows Azure Cloud. In this part we will see how to deploy the application to the Windows Azure Cloud environment using the Visual Studio IDE.

Migrating PushBox Game from Android to Windows Phone 7 - Part 5

Xianzhong Zhu — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Starting from this article, we are going to introduce the key techniques of writing the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 based game.

ARR Binding Trick Week 36

scottforsyth — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This week's video shows a specific trick to allow a reverse proxy, Application Request Routing in this case, how to use only one IP address per web servers while supporting many distinct sites. This is extra useful if you have a wildcard domain name, or a large number of domain names pointing to a VIP, and you have multiple sites to manage. This is week 36 of a 52 week series for the web pro.

Design and Deploy Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application in Windows Azure – Part 1

Msblogger — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This article is going to be Part 1 of a series of article on Designing and Deploying Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application on Windows Azure Cloud. In this part we will see how to design the application and see the different options available to host and test the application locally. In the next part we will see how to deploy the application to the cloud using some in built tools available with Visual Studio IDE.

Three ARR Back End Binding Options - Week 35

scottforsyth — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ARR and other reverse proxies need a way to connect to the actual web nodes. This week I cover different options available to managing the site bindings for the sites per server. If you have a single site, it's straight forward, but once you start adding sites and servers, then need to plan how you manage the binding sprawl. This week covers the three primary options and how to configure them.

Migrating PushBox Game from Android to Windows Phone 7 - Part 4

Xianzhong Zhu — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The first three parts of this series have introduced to you the PushBox game based upon the popular Google Android platform. Starting from this article, we are going to develop the second version of the PushBox game based on Microsoft Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. Since you have gained a whole idea of the main functionalities, our attention will focus upon the similarities as well as the big differences between the two platforms.