Could Silverlight be used as a server-side sandbox for SaaS?

For the past couple of years, software-as-a-service has been in the tech headlines.  Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live provide customer relationship management (CRM) functionality. Google Apps, Zoho, NetSuite and many others offer productivity and database applications.  Amazon S3/EC2/SimpleDB, Google … Continue reading →

Posted on May 29, 2008 by John | Tags: saas, silverlight | Leave a comment  

WCF: Application Deployment Scenarios whitepaper

Michele Leroux Bustamante has published a whitepaper on WCF that describes a huge number of scenarios and how you can set up WCF services to support each one.  Posting here so I have it as a reference. Many of these … Continue reading →

Posted on May 26, 2008 by John | Tags: wcf | Leave a comment  

Balancing the information deficit

Earlier this year I was listening to an episode of DotNetRocks on which Don Box and Chris Sells discussed the future of technical book publishing.  Don was asked something about what blogs/books he reads, and his response — very roughly … Continue reading →

Posted on May 25, 2008 by John | Leave a comment  

LINQKit: great tools for LINQ

Thanks to a link from ScottGu I stumbled on LINQKit, a set of great LINQ tools from the authors of C# 3.0 in Nutshell.  Great stuff not only to aid productivity with LINQ, but also to learn about manipulating expression … Continue reading →

Posted on January 20, 2008 by John | Tags: linq | Leave a comment  

Removing dependencies between controllers and Linq DataContext classes with dependency injection

In ScottGu’s most recent post on ASP.NET MVC, he demonstrates using a partial class for the NorthwindDataContext created by the Linq to Sql designer.  In the partial class he creates some simple wrapper methods for the ProductsController to use when … Continue reading →

Posted on December 22, 2007 by John | Tags: asp-net, dependency-injection, linq, mvc, mvccontrib, mvctoolkit, windsor | Leave a comment  

ASP.NET MVC preview released

I’m far from the first to post about it, but I’m excited enough for a “me too!”.  Full details available from ScottGu, as usual.  And MVC isn’t the only thing included.  AJAX, Silverlight, and Data Services (aka Astoria) are also … Continue reading →

Posted on December 10, 2007 by John | Tags: asp-net, mvc | Leave a comment  

From ASP to WebForms to ASP.NET MVC

A long, long time ago I was one of many web developers working with classic ASP.  While anyone who worked (or still works, heaven help you) with ASP will tell you how quickly a site could become unmaintainable, there was … Continue reading →

Posted on December 9, 2007 by John | Tags: asp, asp-net, mvc, webforms | Leave a comment  

WCSF module to manage Membership, Roles and Profiles

This is a simple module to manage membership users, roles and profiles, built using the Web Client Software Factory. To use it, you must have a database configured for use with ASP.NET 2.0 SqlProviders for Membership, Roles, and Profiles. You … Continue reading →

Posted on March 12, 2007 by John | 2 Comments  

Annoyance with web project build process

This week I ran into a minor annoyance with our process for building web projects. We use VS2005 web application projects, along with web deployment projects, and in the deployment project we choose not to make the web site updatable … Continue reading →

Posted on November 12, 2006 by John | Tags: asp-net, master-pages, msbuild, web-application-projects, web-deployment-projects | Leave a comment