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All posts published in July 2007

Blog of latest news, updates, and stories for developers

Upgrading your project to Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh

Scott Hanselman [1] wrote on his blog about how to upgrade your project from Silverlight 1.1 Alpha to Alpha Refresh [2]. There are a couple of breaking changes in Silverlight 1.0 RC1 [3]. Because the 1.1 version does include the same core it will be necessary to change Silverlight Alpha 1.1 projects, too.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, July 31, 2007


SwirlChat Module v2 (for DNN)

swirlhost [1] has released their new chat module [2] that is designed specifically for DotNetNuke [3]:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


Silverlight Configuration Tool

With the latest Silverlight bits you will find a new configuration tool in the Silverlight application folder (i.e. c:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight) names slup.exe (SilverLight UPdate?). You can open the configuration from any Silverlight host, too, by right-clicking on the host control and click on Silverlight Configuration.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


Updated My Silverlight Surface Version

I have updated the Silverlight "Surface" demonstration with video support [1], too. The only thing I had to do is to replace the Silverlight.js JavaScript file and change the boolean properties in the createObjectEx to their string representations (true becomes "true").

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


ASP.NET AJAX Roles and Security

David Barkol [1] writes on his blog about ASP.NET AJAX Role Application Service with Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). [2] Well, it is a new service that is working similar to the profile [3] and authentication [4] service. As it is very easy to call it from the client-side JavaScript code you should be a little bit more careful using these new methods.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


[de] Kostenfreier Silverlight Workshop in Erlangen

Nachdem wir den ersten Workshop kurzfristig absagen mussten haben wir einen neuen Termin in Erlangen bei der the campus [1] am 9. August, ab 18 Uhr. Wir haben einen Raum, PCs, Kaffee und Kuchen! Anmeldungen über die neu angelegte Google Group NET-Workshops [2].

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


New Silverlight Links

The last weeks I was a little bit busy because of some projects and other work I had to do at home. But today I will publish some new links about Silverlight:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


Silverlight 1.0 RC1 available

As you may have already noticed: the RC1 of Silverlight 1.0 has been put online on the weekend. Since the last beta there have been fixed around 2000 (!) bugs and added some more features. English downloads are available here:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


Authentication and Session

In my current project I'm using a own User object that I store in the HttpContext.Session to have personalized data available without connecting on each AJAX method / page refresh to the database. If the session will end because of timeouts, Web server resets/crash or application pool recycle this data will not be available any more, I have to read all again and store it in the session.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


Throw new Exception with AjaxPro

Last Friday I had a discussion with Kris about some problems [1] he had with Ajax.NET Professional. The thing was that he was using Response.Write somewhere in his code to write exception details to the output, but that failed because the result was not a JSON response.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007


[de] Silverlight Get Together

(English: I will start new workshops about Ajax, ASP.NET and Silverlight in the next months, first will start on Thursday about Silverlight.)

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 23, 2007