Dino Esposito's WebLogSolid Architecture for Quality ASP.NET AJAXMore on DataContext in (hopefully) a realistic world- March 19, 2008 A comment from Bigyan to my DataContext article on DotNetSlackers yesterday made me think that I probably had to put my thoughts down a little more explicitly. The question that Bigyan poses is expressed in detail in this post of his and revolves around the best way of dealing with DataContext in multi-tier apps. My experience suggests that you use a new instance of the DataContext for each unit-of-work you need. The DataContext is a lightweight object...http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/03/19/more-on-datacontext-in-hopefully-a-realis... DataContext and design patterns- March 18, 2008 An article on the internal structure of the DataContext object of LINQ-to-SQL is out on DotNetSlackers. Enjoy.http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/03/18/datacontext-and-design-patterns.aspx XAP has to be a MIME Type- March 11, 2008 I love the VS embedded Web server, but it too often makes you thinking that things are easier than in the real and bitter world. So a trivial Silverlight 2.0 sample page that works from within the auto-generated ASP.NET Web site stops working as you create an IIS application for it. The symptom No Silverlight content shows up and any network monitor tool you use reports that no XAP resource was found. But the resource is there. It's a simple matter of configuring IIS, though. I was going...http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/03/11/xap-has-to-be-a-mime-type.aspx Hot AJAX+Silverlight2 in Warm Mallorca- March 6, 2008 Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is out and I just installed it on my machines. OK--we're now ready for the next stage. A key question to answer for virtually everybody planning RIA development is: Should I go with a Plain New Web approach and opt for AJAX on top of ASP.NET (or whatever else) Should I go with a Silverlight 2 approach in just a few months when it'll be released Put down simply, it's a matter of deciding whether you may or may not afford a plug-in of approx 4 MB to be...http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/03/06/hot-ajax-silverlight2-in-warm-mallorca.as... Source code for ASP.NET 3.5 Core Ref- March 5, 2008 The latest baby, Programming ASP.NET 3.5 Core Reference, is out and you can freely download the full source code (21 MB) from here. It should be noted that for sort legal reasons (sic!), the binaries of the AJAX Control Toolkit couldn't be added to the package. It's therefore up to you to download and install it separately. Then make sure you have the proper DLL in the Bin folder of the book samples application. Enjoy :)http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/03/05/source-code-for-asp-net-3-5-core-ref.aspx Next Generation Web Applications- March 2, 2008 The Web was first instantiated in the August of 1991 in one of the CERN labs. All of it was in two machines connected to the same network and exchanging HTML documents over the HTTP protocol. The HT in both names is not surprisingit stands for HyperText. And, at the time, the Web was all about hypertext and logical linking of related documents. HTTP was a mere (and simple) transportation protocol designed to be stateless and with no security pattern in it. HTML was designed to be a basic syntax.http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/03/02/next-generation-web-applications.aspx Latest and upcoming book(s)- March 1, 2008 As per Thomas request, I'm posting here the TOC of the latest baby, that is Programming ASP.NET 3.5 Core Reference. Chapter Title 1 The ASP.NET Programming Model 2 Web Development in Visual Studio 2008 3 Anatomy of an ASP.NET Page 4 ASP.NET Core Server Controls 5 Working with the Page 6 Rich Page Composition 7 ADO.NET Data Providers 8 ADO.NET Data Containers 9 The Data Binding Model 10 The Linq-to-SQL Programming Model 11 Creating Bindable Grids of...http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/03/01/latest-and-upcoming-book-s.aspx |