AppFabric Caching (Velocity) and Versioning

To continue on the topic of Velocity, I will explore versioning today. As I showed previously, you can use DataCache.Add method to add an item to cache.  This, of course, requires that this item’s key was not to be found in the cache already, or an exception will be thrown.  This puts a damper on …

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Getting Started with Velocity (AppFabric Caching Library)

I have worked through my first Velocity project today, and I would like to blog about  the steps necessary to use caching. First, you should read my previous post and install AppFabric on your machine. I used Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 to create the solution.  You can download the solution here.  I create WPF …

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Windows Azure Application

This is purely a bragging post 🙂 I just deployed a test application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure): http://rolodex.cloudapp.net/ Here is the technology stack for it: Windows Azure SQL Azure CSLA 3.8.1 Silverlight Entity Framework WCF Prism (Composite Application Guidance) Silverlight Toolkit I promise to write a blog entry in the near future, the steps …

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Dynamically Styling Silverlight Applications

I spoke at GGMUG (Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group) on Thursday.  I was speaking about dynamically styling Silverlight applications using Implicit Style Manager from Silverlight Toolkit.  Silverlight toolkit comes with about a dozen themes that anyone can use to style there applications.  In the example I am posting I use four of them,  A theme …

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Rocky Lhotka is Talking Oslo at ALEMUG

At out next Atlanta Leading Edge Microsoft Users Group Rocky Lhotka will be talking about Oslo.  Please visit ALEMUG.NET home page to register for this exciting event! Here are the details of this event. Microsoft code-name “Oslo” includes the ability to define your own domain specific  language (DSL), a metadata repository hosted in SQL Server …

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