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Data Access and Silverlight 4

By Damien White | Published: December 20, 2010

You’ve decided to create a new business application (meaning some n-tier application) using Silverlight as the frontend.  Is Silverlight the best choice?  That’s a debate for another post…  Anyway, now it comes to deciding on a data access strategy, which one do you choose?  Well this is one of those things where there is no [...]

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Introducing a Ruby OData Client Library

By Damien White | Published: June 12, 2010

Ever since the ADO.NET team started development on Astoria (pre-release), I have loved the concept.  Since its release (it was called ADO.NET Data Services and is now WCF Data Services), I’ve used it a ton (you may remember the example from this post).  Back at MIX10, Microsoft announced a commitment to the Open Data Protocol [...]

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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX – Preview 4 – Client Templates

By Damien White | Published: April 28, 2009

A little over a month ago, Microsoft released the fourth preview of ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX.  This is the new release of the Microsoft AJAX Framework that will be released with ASP.NET 4.0.  We’re getting closer to the RTM release of .NET 4.0 (hopefully later this year), so I figured this would be a good time [...]

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ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods

By Damien White | Published: September 7, 2008

Technorati Tags: Page Methods,UpdatePanel,AJAX,ASP.NET If you’ve read things of mine, such as my Wrox Blox Hands On ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, or posts on the ASP.NET Forums, you may have noticed I talk about using ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods lots of the time.  Lots of developers using ASP.NET AJAX overuse the UpdatePanel, or use it [...]

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Excellent Reading Material – MSMQ, WCF, and IIS

By Damien White | Published: August 21, 2008

Technorati Tags: MSMQ,WCF,IIS If you are working with a WCF service, an MSMQ binding, and hosting in IIS, there are three wonderful articles by Tom Hollander that you should check out.  The series is entitled “MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice”, here are the three links: MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them [...]

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