Blogging Frenzy 21 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development Looks like I started to blog a lot more lately, and so do a couple of my colleagues. Check out Nick’s blog: http://blogs.u2u.be/Nick/ And of course Kris’s blog: http://blogs.u2u.be/Kris/ Both of them have gone crazy with Extension methods… So should I?
Charting with WPF and Silverlight 19 October 2009 Diederik-Krols WPF Sometimes we need to decorate our WPF or Silverlight applications with things like bar charts or pie charts. There's no need to create these from scratch, since a lot of charting solutions are available, some of which are free while other are ... less free. On CodePlex you find the Silverlight Toolk... [More]
Static Reflection in .NET, part 2 18 October 2009 Kris-Vandermotten .NET A few weeks ago, I talked about static reflection and its advantages. You’ll remember that the main advantages, compared to the normal reflection API’s, are the compile time checking of parameters and IntelliSense support. How does it compare at other levels, performance for example? Before we dive... [More]
Cool! Copy as image in workflow foundation designer 17 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot Hey, I build slides a lot, so I like this cool feature in workflow foundation 4 designer (using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2): copy as image. If you need to copy a workflow (or part thereof this only works for the whole workflow, a pity, because you will want copy parts of your orchestration to a docu... [More]
WCF Streaming 16 October 2009 Nick-Van-den-Abbeele 1. Configuring and Tracing WCF can send messages in buffered mode and in streaming mode. The default is buffered mode, which means that the whole message needs to be transfered and received before the client can start processing it. When messages get too large to be send as one big blob and when t... [More]
WCF Streaming 16 October 2009 Nick-Van-den-Abbeele 1. Configuring and Tracing WCF can send messages in buffered mode and in streaming mode. The default is buffered mode, which means that the whole message needs to be transfered and received before the client can start processing it. When messages get too large to be send as one big blob and when t... [More]
Workflow 4 parallel and compensation activities 15 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, WF 4 So I’m looking into workflow foundation 4 (using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2). Let’s look at the parallel activity included within. The parallel activity will schedule all of its child activities asynchronously and then wait until all children have completed or the CompletionCondition evaluates to Tru... [More]
Adding Error Handling to content based routing with WCF 12 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot WCF Yesterday I blogged about content based routing with WCF. Today I want to talk about error handling. What if you route to a service that is not available. WCF allows you to define backup services using a backup list. So let’s do this: start by building a compatible backup service. In this case I wi... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 available today! 10 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development I’m downloading it as we speak. So please wait until I’ve done :) Oh, for the first couple of days the download is only available through MSDN subscriber download, but then MS will make it public for everyone. Today Microsoft announced a new (albeit beta 2) release of their flagship developer softw... [More]
Generate sequence diagrams with Visual studio 2010 09 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010 Cool! I’ve just discovered this new feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2) where you can generate a sequence diagram from your code. This should take the hard bit out of generating documentation from your code :) Here’s a screen shot: The only thing you need to to is to point to the method you ... [More]