Exploration of Thought

Woo hoo! I created another Dime Cast and its up and running today! Learn how to migrate from your old asmx web services to new fancy WCF web services. Check it out here    

I'm delving into some audio based development with Mark Heath and the NAudio library for a side project. This is a ton of fun and I hope to make a good presentation out of it for some code camps and eventually larger venues. Everything was going good until I started playing with the MIDI controller.…

The Prism team dropped another version of Prism last Friday at the usual spot: www.codeplex.com/compositewpf . This is Drop 8 of their product. Breaking Change #1 - Cannot Find CompositeWpfEvent However, there is not note of a breaking change in this drop that is not noted in the release notes. The type "CompositeWpfEvent" has now…

I have a new Screen cast available on  DimeCasts.net. It is entitled "Introduction to WCF: Creating your first Service". In this episode we will take a look at how to create your first WCF service. We will first walk you though the ABCs of what a WCF service is, we will then show you step…

I will be speaking at the Twin Cities Code Camp 2009. The topic I will be presenting is: "Testing With Mocks" Abstract: Test this, test that, no problem. But what about when we need to start building full object graphs into our test in order to test an interaction or state? Yeah, Houston, we have…

The Twin Cities Give Camp is set. The date of the camp is April 26th and April 27th. If you are in the Twin Cities area (Minneapolis/St Paul, MN) please consider helping out the cause. We need sponsors, and volunteers. At this time we're working on securing our charities. If you have a charity that…

This post is part of a series. Part 1 Part 2 (this post)   Implementing a POST HTTP Verb Call In this post we're going to cover what it takes to implement a PUT into our REST Service that we defined in Part 1 of this series. First of all, what is the POST HTTP…

After some research into a Service Reference problem I was having with Silverlight I came to find out (but not officially) that VS2008 DOES NOT use SvcUtil under the hood to get its service reference. It uses its own internal implementation of a proxy generation tool. I'll have to confirm this conclusion with some authority/book/etc,…

I recently created a small 10 minute recording on how to create a WCF RESTful service. This screen cast has been published on Dime Casts .NET here. This is part 1 of the series in which I go into how to create a WebGet based WCF RESTful service. This screen cast is a video extension…

I'm going to try a new thing out on my blog. It's called the "Technical Timeout" ... its a small time to take a break from Technology and get a laugh or two. With that said, here is Technical Timeout, Part 1. Introducing.... Terry Tate - Office Linebacker: I advise that you use headphones on…

The Store Locator I built for ASP.NET has been getting a lot of traffic over the last year and requests have been coming in for new features like crazy. To manage this project a little more effectively, I've decided to move the project to CodePlex.   You can now download the source from Codeplex here…

If you're doing any kind of Silverlight work you're bound to get "Error on page" in Internet Explorer. Here's what I'm talking about. You fire up your app in the browser window and BLAM. Screen is empty and you get the "Error in page" error. Double click the error and you get an Internet Explorer…