This post is for my students this week. Follow up on how to connect Silverlight to WCF interacting with a database.
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.NET & PowerShell Cmdlet and Custom Collection Data
Posted: 12th January 2012 by admin in Uber MicroComments Off
This post is an extension from the post I did earlier this week on the Powershell Course. Found here: http://www.brianlockwood.info/2012/01/11/powershell/ Quick summary from my previous post: “Powershell is a scripting language that is deeply engrained in windows operating systems. It is a programming language for powerful automation, it can be used to interrogate and manipulate [...]
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This week (of Jan 9, 2012) I am taking the Powershell v2.0 course at Benchmark Learning with eduator Lu Patrick (my colleague). It’s been a very interesting week. As a developer it’s actually been very easy to understand, pickup and use. In fact, with powershell leveraging the .NET framework it made it easy to understand [...]
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Web services have been an extremely important aspect of integrated systems. Microsoft has now moved to a more robust service oriented architecture called Windows Communication Foundation. Although this video presents web services developed in Visual Studio 2010 most steps and concepts here can be applied to the request response style communications of WCF. Consuming a [...]
The advent of the .NET Framework 3.0 brought us extension methods. These methods have been widely used for LINQ queries but could be used so much more. Think about the data types (classes) built into the framework, we can’t modify them, we might be able to derive from them, but why can’t we just add [...]
One of the coolest extensions to add to Visual Studio 2010 has to be the Nuget Package manager. Ever been one of those blokes that just can’t seem to get add ins, plug ins, CMSs to work no matter how hard you try to plug in the dependencies needed? What about making sure you use [...]
On a recent project we had a need to generate a PDF for multiple pages within the application. After looking at our options we elected to use the winnovative HTML to PDF converter but this solution would really work with most PDF APIs I suspect. All pages worked great. We were able to set up [...]