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Spoofing the Host Entry in a HTTPWebRequest

I had this idea to create a dashboard that would ping different version of a site in order to get the build number. The details are as...

0 replies - 1981 views - 05/06/12 by Paul Stack in Articles

How To Fix the WCF Cache of Dynamic WSDLs

One of the least used WCF extension points is IWsdlExportExtension. This extension allows to customize the WSDL document which WCF emits. Since you rarely...

0 replies - 1477 views - 05/05/12 by Yaron Naveh in Articles

A Look At the CLR 4.5 Internals

eknowledger - CLR 4.5: .Net Framework Kernel Improvements "In this post I’ll go through some of the enhancements and improvements done by the...

0 replies - 1957 views - 05/05/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Cocoon - An Easier Way To Develop Windows 8 Applications

Cocoon "Cocoon is a framework to support the development of .Net Windows 8 Metro-style applications, in particular those that link to web...

0 replies - 2881 views - 05/03/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

EF Code First/MVC NotNullAttribute

Unfortunately MVC3 doesn’t respect the [Required] attribute’s AllowEmptyStrings property. When using a class both as an MVC model and as an EF Code...

0 replies - 1931 views - 05/03/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

Getting The Flights Above You, And Much More, On Windows Phone, With WolframAlpha

The reason I like WolframAlpha is because it is a "knowledge engine" that can give quick insights in a multitude of topics. Specifically, the most...

0 replies - 2002 views - 04/30/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Windows 8 Development Resources for Everyone

If you are starting with Windows 8 development, but have no idea where to look for tools and additional resources, then look no further. Here is a list of...

0 replies - 3863 views - 03/19/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

OAuth Callback in the Dropbox REST API

With this entry into the Dropbox series we come back to the beginning of the cycle. We started with authentication and that’s where we’ll end. Having a...

0 replies - 3842 views - 03/17/12 by Christophe Geers in Articles

Microsoft content @ GDC 2012

Visual Studio 11 for Game Developers The upcoming version of Visual Studio brings a slew of innovations for game developers with first-class access to...

0 replies - 2157 views - 03/16/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

My First Experience with NuGet Package Creation

Frankly, it is about time I started distributing some of my projects through NuGet. In case you are a .NET developer and were living under a rock for the past...

1 replies - 3104 views - 03/15/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Portability Goes Metro: A CLR and WinRT Love Affair

Part 1: Creating the Portable LibraryPart 2: Portability in Silverlight and WPF: a Tale of Type ForwardersPart 3: Portability in Metro: A CLR and WinRT Love...

0 replies - 4352 views - 03/14/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Entity Framework Code First Tips and Tricks

These days I do all of my development work with EF code first. One of the cool things about EF is its ability to drop and recreate the database when the...

0 replies - 2856 views - 03/13/12 by Michael Ceranski in Articles

Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 - Getting primary user input

If you missed the previous two articles in the series:Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 - Layout and basic bindingsPorting Visual Studio...

0 replies - 2010 views - 03/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Switching between mobile and desktop hosts (ASP.NET MVC 4)

Introduction:ASP.NET MVC 4 comes with a bunch of new features including lots of features for mobile. Mobile features include Mobile Optimized Project...

2 replies - 2842 views - 03/11/12 by Imran Baloch in Articles

Writing a simple named pipes server in C#

I solved a little problem last night when playing with named pipes. I created a named pipe that writes all output to a file. Named pipes are opened for all...

1 replies - 4506 views - 03/10/12 by Gunnar Peipman in Articles