In this post I will describe how to secure a WCF RESTful service with Forms Authentication. I blogged on WCF many a times, but usually skipped right over security aspects of the service. I will go into sufficient (hopefully) level of details now. The idea of having an un-secured service on the internet is not …
I got a notification today that my Microsoft MVP status has been extended for one more year. This is a great news for me, and makes me feel even more proud of the work I do in the community. I have always loved participating in the local Microsoft focused user groups and gatherings. I enjoy …
I have been learning WInRT in my “spare time” since for a while now. My big interest is working with data in Metro style applications for Windows 8. In this post I will describe step-by-step instructions of creating a WinRT application that is using WCF Service. I am going to use XAML application. To get …
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I personally have not spent a lot of time studying T4, but I am aware of tremendous power of the tool. I ran across a good use case, and I am totally convinced that I will not do another project now without using this code generation tool. To gets started, I picked up an editor …
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This is something I researched recently while working on an ASP.NET MVC application. My goal was to localize JavaScript messages based on user preferences. In this post I am going to document the approach I settled on. I am going to test based on browser culture and also drive the application based on the same …
I posted another small update to my WinRT database project on CodePlex. I added support for roaming. You can now specify the location of the database, picking either local or roaming folder. For example, here is how you can create database in Roaming folder: _database = await Database.CreateDatabaseAsync(DatabaseName, StorageLocation.Roaming); I added the same parameter …
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If you follow my posts, you noticed that I started up WinRT database project on CodePlex. I just published as small update to it that now support data binding of commands objects to IsDirty flag on database and each table. The code is quite simple, for example here is how Save command is setup. public …
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As I mentioned before, I presented at VS Live conference in Orlando, FL Thursday, 12/08/2011. I presented the following two talks Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …
INotifyPropertyChanged interface is the key to data binding in many UI Microsoft frameworks, such as Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight. All controls in all those frameworks listen to this interface in the classes these controls are bound to and refresh the UI based on those changes. This interface lives in System.ComponentModel, and you can read …
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I just posted new version for my CodePlex based project for WinRT database. This chance is small – I added IsBusy property to the database class in order to enable data binding scenarios between buttons and commands. You can take a look at the Quick Start project that distributed as part of the download for …