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CES - What's in Store

David Yack — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:48:38 GMT

David Yack writes "...Steve Ballmer in getting warmed up...talks about the connections and convergence that is happening and how it will expand to reach 4 billion people in the future. In his keynote..."

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Workaround for SharePoint 2010 Timeout Install Bug

David Yack — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:26:24 GMT

David Yack writes "...honestly if I didn’t need SharePoint for something I’m working on I would have thrown it to the side and not looked back... it wasn’t a database timeout either...For me the following key did the trick and the config zoomed along past the error to a successful completion."

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RIA Services How to Load Only if Authenticated

David Yack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:02:04 GMT

David Yack writes "...One of the things I ran into in converting to the PDC release of WCF RIA Services is around error handling in the Domain Data Source. By default the PDC release handles error handling a little different...with this additional logic the page developer doesn’t have to worry about special code each time to decide if the query should be started. You also won’t get un-expected errors if the domain data source..."

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New Silverlight 4 Book Content

David Yack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:25 GMT

David Yack writes "...For developers that are new to Silverlight but are comfortable with .NET we are releasing a preview of Silverlight 4 Jumpstart. Silverlight 4 Jumpstart content builds on the success of the Silverlight 3 Jumpstart book to offer content focused at the business .NET developer. oth of these offerings are available today..."

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Cloud Computing Meets the Tax Man

David Yack — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:07:33 GMT

David Yack writes "...Part of the appeal of cloud computing is it’s ability to abstract you from some of the low level issues of hosting data and computing power. Power, cooling...taxes and more are all of the package that makes this type of arrangement interesting...Microsoft will make location decisions to where there is a strategic advantage for..."

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My iPhone Experiment Lessons

David Yack — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:04:42 GMT

David Yack writes "...I lasted almost 3 weeks before I terminated the experiment due to a few...issues. But before I did, I learned some interesting things...for now I’m a free agent, on the roam for a new phone. Maybe one of the new Windows mobile phones releasing in October will be interesting or maybe I will go through withdrawals and live with the iPhone quirks –"

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Kicking the Tires on SQL Azure

David Yack — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:01:28 GMT

David Yack writes "...The database I moved to SQL Azure had a few tables that supported an application that used Entity Framework. This is the part where I emphasize the improvements between the prior SDS and SQL Azure...almost a week of running this small database in the cloud with an application I use daily..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : SQL Server
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What to Know Before Choosing Windows 7 Upgrade or Repave

David Yack — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:00:03 GMT

David Yack writes "...That’s a decision many of you will be making in the future if you haven’t already. I’ve done both already and have had success with both approaches. I’m not sure there’s a single right answer to which choice you should make. I can tell you from past experience I tend to favor..."

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What to Know Before Choosing Windows 7 Upgrade or Repave

David Yack — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:44:05 GMT

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Samples of Behavior to Control DataForm AutoGenerate

David Yack — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:59:03 GMT

David Yack writes "...I will walk you through how you can add more control using a Silverlight 3 Behavior...Behaviors are cool because they can easily attach on to an existing control to add behavior that makes sense. By attaching on they keep the core control from becoming bloated with...If you think this might be useful to you..."

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Can HTML Keep up with Other RIA Technologies

David Yack — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:24:02 GMT

David Yack writes "...What’s the rush for HTML 5? Simple, HTML hasn’t kept pace with other emerging RIA technologies like Flash and Silverlight. HTML 5 promises a lot of fancy new features like built in video, audio...This has lead some to speculate if HTML 5 could be the death to Flash, Silverlight and other RIA technologies...HTML 5 has two big challenges. First, getting all the players to approve..."

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Can HTML Keep up with Other RIA Technologies

David Yack — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:22:02 GMT

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How to Use RIA Services and Stay Logged In

David Yack — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:40:47 GMT

David Yack writes "...would like to be able to click “Keep me logged in” and have it be retained for a period of time... I’m going to walk through one of the ways to enable this using the .NET RIA Services authentication service. The first step is to modify the LoginWindow to have a check box to allow..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : ASPNET

Workaround for RIA Services DomainDataSource.Data Not Updating

David Yack — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:57:26 GMT

David Yack writes "...I got tired of all the casting and have suggested they wrap that up to be a little more friendly to use. Until that happens, I have a MyDomainDataSource that inherits from DomainDataSource that I threw in a few helper methods to make it a little cleaner to work with. Here’s the methods – feel free to use them if they will help you out. One thing you will notice..."

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Snapshot of Silverlight 4 Wish List

David Yack — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:25:23 GMT

David Yack writes "...I had some help pulling together a summary of what people are asking for...The following is just a snapshot but thought you might find it interesting...The top 10 or so on the list all had multiple people requesting those items..."

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Workaround for RIA Services Domain Data Source Invalid Property Errors

David Yack — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:44:12 GMT

David Yack writes "...I’ve been caught in this trap a few times as I scratch my head trying to figure out why it thinks DomainContext is invalid when I know for sure it is a valid property. Unfortunately, there’s not an inner exception that you can get more details from so you are kind of stuck! So how do you get more info? The quickest way I have found..."

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Training Kit is a Fast Ramp up on VS2010 and .NET 4

David Yack — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:25:56 GMT

David Yack writes "The training kit is a good way to get to know some of the new features of .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010...You can download..."

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How to Suppress ValidationException in Silverlight During Debugging

David Yack — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:11:12 GMT

David Yack writes "...Validation for Silverlight .NET RIA Services throws a ValidationException if during validation it detects invalid data. When your debugging this can cause your debugger to break on the property setter each time a validation error occurs...You can turn off breaking on this unhandled exception by adding the type to the list of exceptions and unchecking breaking on user-unhandled exceptions of that type. Go to the Debug"

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Windows End to End Security Changes

David Yack — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:05:20 GMT

David Yack writes "...One highlight I saw was the right click enable of Bitlocker on a disk volume...Another good one is on mobile security...you will be able to have multiple active firewall policies...DirectAccess basically sounds like it deals with the need to jump on / off VPN to get to server resources like a SharePoint stored file. BitLocker To Go..."

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Silverlight 3 Data Services Error CreateNativeRequest

David Yack — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:20:12 GMT

David Yack writes "...The application uses ADO.NET Data Services to do some queries for lookup values and other application data. After a few tweaks for minor things to get it to run on Silverlight 3 I was off and running trying to get it to work out of the browser...Just when I thought things were going well I got a weird error on a Data Services calling “CreateNativeRequest” Looking at the stack trace of the error showed this:..."

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