My Technobabble
Glenn Block - .NETFX
Another ALT.NET guy at Microsoft
Updates to our Azure Cross Platform tools
In my last post I talked about the new goodies we added to Powershell. Well I meant to get a follow...
Date: 11/09/2012
Integrating MVC routes and Web API routes
Several folks have been complaining for a while about Action Links not being properly...
Date: 08/04/2011
REST In Practice the book, RestBucks the sample
The book If you’ve watched any of my recent talks, one book you may have heard me mention quite a...
Date: 06/06/2011
Message Handlers vs Operation Handlers which one to use?
In WCF Web API we have 2 extensibility points which seem very similar. They both are designed for...
Date: 05/17/2011
Using DataContracts with WCF Web API
A few folks have been asking if it is possible to serialize/deserialize using the...
Date: 05/14/2011
Hypermedia and forms
Updated (with a lot of new content) One challenge when building REST based systems is how can the...
Date: 05/08/2011
WebSockets, RIA/JS and WCF Web API at MIX, a whole lotta love for the web
MIX was indeed a busy time for the WCF Team. We delivered several talks, and released several shiny...
Date: 04/24/2011
Adding vcard support and bookmarked URIs for specific representations with WCF Web Apis
REST is primarily about 2 things, Resources and Representations. If you’ve seen any of my recent...
Date: 03/07/2011
WCF Web APIs Roundup–Volume 2
Been a while since our last roundup and since my last blog post for that matter! Fortunately there’s...
Date: 03/06/2011
WCF Web APIs Roundup - Volume 1
A little over a month ago we launched our new WCF Web Apis on Codeplex. Since then a bunch of folks...
Date: 12/12/2010
Streaming over HTTP with WCF
Recently I had a customer email me looking for information on how to send and receive large files...
Date: 11/24/2010
Are you using WCF within your organization?
Do you use WCF within your organization either for internal apis for exposing services and...
Date: 11/16/2010
WCF Web APIs, HTTP your way
At PDC in my session “Building Web APIs for the Highly Connected Web” we announced WCF Web...
Date: 11/01/2010
Taking HTTP support in WCF to the next level
If you are building for the web and the cloud, then you know that HTTP is important. WCF is no...
Date: 10/25/2010
Yet another simplification of Prism’s EventAggregator syntax
It’s been quite a while since I worked with Prism’s EventAggregator. Today however I need to use it....
Date: 10/10/2010
Being fueled by developer passion
Tonite I came across this really nice post from Kelly (@kellabyte) on how passion drives her to...
Date: 08/24/2010
Bringing MEF and REST love to the UK and at FEST 10
Next week I’m coming to the UK where I’ll be spreading the MEF love at FEST 10 and in events in a...
Date: 07/10/2010
Help my friend Scott Hanselman raise $50000 for Diabetes!
I’ve got a good friend Scott. He works at Microsoft, he’s a technical leader, and an...
Date: 07/08/2010
Open sourced .NET libraries in Mono
Recently Miguel did a post that made me smile. He talked about several libraries from Microsoft...
Date: 07/08/2010
RESTing from MEF (or The MEF dealer is at REST)
Side note: I am having serious writer’s block these days….or maybe it’s...
Date: 06/30/2010
Way of MEF slides and Code
Thanks to everyone who came out to the “Way of MEF” education day in Cupertino. I had a great time...
Date: 06/13/2010
MEF day in SF, “The Way of MEF, the Path to Enlightenment”
On Saturday June 12th I am stoked to be coming to the SF bay area on behalf of the Bay.Net UG where...
Date: 06/03/2010
MEF has shipped!!!
You might have missed it, but a few weeks ago MEF V1 shipped in .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4! As a...
Date: 06/02/2010
Caveats about DeploymentCatalog
The information below was wrapped up in my previous post on DeploymentCatalog. As a bunch of folks...
Date: 04/13/2010
View Model Locator – MEF Style
At MIX, Laurent Bugnion and I had a brainstorming chat around improving on the ViewModel locator...
Date: 03/30/2010
Speaking at MIX!
Sunday I leave to Vegas to attend my first MIX. It’s exciting to finally attend this event that has...
Date: 03/11/2010
Speaking on “Ignite your coding”
This Thursday, I’ll be joining John Bristowe and Joey Devilla to talk about composite applications,...
Date: 03/08/2010
Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel
In the last post we migrated over to the new DeploymentCatalog. In this post we’ll look at...
Date: 03/08/2010
Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog
Continuing on with the series. In part III we introduced the concept of application partitioning...
Date: 03/07/2010
Learning about MEF in SL4 from Mike Taulty
One of the questions we get quite often is “Why should I use MEF?” and “How can i use MEF?”....
Date: 02/16/2010
Exporting dynamically changing configuration values
In my last post I discussed how to export configuration. A follow up question in the comments was...
Date: 01/31/2010
How do I expose configuration information through MEF?
<Goal>Post in 15 mins or less :-)</Goal> This question which recently popped on our...
Date: 01/27/2010
MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading
About a month ago I posted some ideas around MEF and Prism together. As part of the post, I...
Date: 01/03/2010
“MEF in 2 hours or less”, I am all for it.
Some posts titles just really grab you. I couldn’t help but think about one of those annoying ads in...
Date: 12/30/2009
CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code.
Ever need to share code-snippets with the twittersphere? If so, Codepaste is for you. It's my...
Date: 12/17/2009
Building Hello MEF – Part III – XAP Partitioning (with the host’s permission) and the sweetness of recomposition.
In our last post we saw how using metadata in MEF allows us to provide additional self-describing...
Date: 12/15/2009
Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing.
In Part I of the series we built the basics of our dashboard end ended with our app displaying a...
Date: 12/04/2009
MEF and Prism, to be or not to be.
Now to the question, what is the story on Prism and MEF? I am getting asked this now several times a...
Date: 12/02/2009
MEF Refresh of Preview 8 for Silverlight
Note: This only applies to using MEF Preview 8 on Silverlight, it does not apply to MEF in...
Date: 12/02/2009
Building the Hello MEF dashboard in Silverlight 4 - Part I
In my last post I illustrated some of the basics of MEF through a Hello MEF dashboard app that I...
Date: 11/30/2009
MEF has landed in Silverlight 4. We come in the name of extensibility.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/markusram/3641457838/ At PDC we announced that MEF has is now part of...
Date: 11/29/2009
Building extensible RIAs at PDC
This week I’ll be attending PDC in Los Angeles speaking about...
Date: 11/16/2009
Should I use MEF with an IoC container? - Part 1
In my post "Should I use MEF for my IoC needs" we took a look at the question of whether or not it...
Date: 11/01/2009
Open-generic support in MEF Contrib
A while ago I said it couldn’t be done, at least without hacky string parsing. Folks weren’t happy...
Date: 08/20/2009
Herding code on MVVM and other presentation patterns in WPF and Silverlight
Recently I had the pleasure of having a nice lively discussion on Herding Code with my cohorts Ward...
Date: 08/20/2009