http://acadianaug.org/Acadiana .NET User Group EventsAcadiana .NET User Group © Copyright 2007http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/55GeneralLafayette<p>Lately I have been playing with WCF 4.0&#39;s new ability called Routing Services to play around with choosing services based on input values. This seemed pretty difficult with the XPath query to get right until I stumbled onto this blog post by Richard Seroter. This really is a simplified blog post that shows an easy approach to utilizing Routing Services based on input values. The only hard part about this is getting the namespace alias correct, which is pretty easy once you look at the wsdl of the service generated. If you have any issues concerning this, please dont hesitate to email me, and I can help you out. I really like WCF&#39;s Routing Services, and its ability to route services based on any criteria you deem necessary (such as input values, header values, multicasting, etc), and its ability to have a backup service if the first one fails. This really is a great addition to WCF 4.0. Click for more details...</p> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:03:54 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/54GeneralLafayette<p>I have been over the past couple of weeks playing alot with ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1, and I must say it is really nice. The enhancements put it even closer to Ruby on Rails (even though it still has a ways to go) in terms of simplicity and easy of use. I am especially excited about the JSON auto serialze in the Action Methods and the new View Engines, as well as the ability to utilize MEF to bind your Controllers. I have recently read a <a href="http://www.michaelhamrah.com/blog/2010/08/the-new-webapp-architecture-asp-net-mvc-3-jquery-templating-with-pure-and-the-json-value-provider/"> post</a> by Michael Hamrah and I must say I am definately interested in looking into the PURE JSON Templating Engine. I have used the Microsoft AJAX Javascript tools to do Html JSON Templating, and it works fine, but seems to be alot more verbose than PURE seems to be. It seems as if PURE can make enough assumptions to cut down on how much templating you actually have to do. Click for more details ...</p>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:00:26 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/53GeneralLafayette<p>Lately, there has been alot of excitement for Html 5, and reasonably so. It promises alot, but is still a ways off from being complete and a standard in our industry. But once that happens, what will happen to Silverlight and Flash? Will they be necessary? How will this affect those technologies? As Mobile devices become more prevelant in our culture, and the increasing web traffic from mobile devices, this becomes a very interesting ecosystem. Considering all new Smart Phones have a Html 5 capable browser and supports Javascript, perhaps this is a place to look first for Html 5 adoption. As desktop will take some time to adapt Html 5, I think it is safe to assume Mobile will get there first. Alexey Zakarov has a blog post about a new Javascript Framework that specifically targets Html 5 and Javascript for Mobile Devices. Check it out ...</P> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:50:30 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/52GeneralLafayetteSql Azure now supports Spatial Data Types.Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:05:37 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/51Lafayette<p>If you have ever used RIA Services with Windows Authentication, you probably noticed that you are getting SQL Exception issues. The reason for this is by default, the Authentication Service in RIA Service is tied to the Membership of ASP.NET, which tries to load the ASPNET Memberships from a Local SQL Server by default. You have to override this functionality, in 4 easy steps to get the Windows Authentication to easily flow from ASP.NET to Silverlight via WCF RIA Services. The reason to use Windows Authentication with WCF RIA Services is you are typically creating a Silverlight Application that functions within your Intranet, and have no need for Forms Authentication since all of the users are already managed in Windows Active Directory. Click for details ...</p>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:05:09 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/50Lafayette<p class="auto-style1">As<font size="2"> many of you have probably realized I have not added an Article in over a week. I was on vacation last week, so please excuse the lack of articles last week. Now on to business. This weeks article is from Scott Gu who is letting us know that a brand new control is released called PivotViewer. </font><font face="arial" size="2">The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly find what you’re looking for. It’s ability to compare information, and navigate it in a way that feels natural and fast, is really unrivaled in the market today.&nbsp;Click for details...</font></p> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:47:40 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/48GeneralLafayette<p>There may be several times where you want to perform a lofty task in the background thread of Silverlight. Just because Silverlight is asynchronous by default, does not mean that it runs your asynchronous request in the background threads. You must force it into the background thread by utilizing an often forgotten class in Silverlight called BackgroundWorker. Click for details ...</p> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:03:34 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/47GeneralLafayetteBrandon Potter has posted a really great article explaining the science behind Smooth Streaming and Silverlight Clients. He breaks down very simply how it works, and what makes it tick. If you are at all interested in Smooth Streaming and how it works across several clients and how adaptive streaming works, please take to time to check out his article. Click for details ...Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:14:17 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/46GeneralLafayette<p>Amazed Saint has posted another really interesting article on MVC2 and utilizing his Elastic Object, which I am a real fan of utilizing. This time he is showing us how to utilize it in a ASP.NET MVC 2 application. This is a really slick way to quickly utilize an object and have it work without alot of headache of creating all of these objects and maintaining them as the application evolves. It does come with some risks though.</p> Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:09:04 -0700http://www.acadianaug.org/Article/Post/45GeneralLafayetteJake Ginnivan has posted an interesting framework he made using a Fluent Interface to make chaining Asynchronous results really simple and straight forward. This is especially useful in Silverlight where every call outside of your application is asynchronous. Click for details ...Thu, 27 May 2010 12:23:19 -0700