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Sesame Data Browser for OData tour

 Lohith G N (aka Kashyapa) has just published a tour of Sesame Data Browser for OData on his blog. He did an excellent job! I strongly advise you to head to his post to learn ...

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I haven't blogged for a long time because I'm busy working on an exciting new project. It's too early to tell you more. I'll provide details in a few months. Meanwhile, I wanted to write a quick post ...

Facebook development survey

With Tuneo Events, I gained experience on Facebook applications development.I can help you with this subject. Feel free to contact me for training or contract jobs.I created a quick survey to learn mo...

Dveloppement Facebook (sondage)

Avec Tuneo Events, j'ai acquis de l'exprience en dveloppement d'applications Facebook.Je peux vous aider dans ce domaine. N'hsitez pas me contacter pour de la formation ou des missions. J'ai cr un so...

OData Shared Vocabularies, Annotations, and Sesame

During MIX11 this week, Pablo Castro, Software Architect in the Data and Modeling Group at Microsoft, gave a talk named "OData Roadmap: Services Powering Next Generation Experiences". Pablo ga...

Telerik and Azure DataMarket case studies

Some time ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Microsoft and Telerik about Sesame. The results are two case studies. I was impressed by the job done by the interviewers and the editors. The ...

Sesame update: recent connections, videos, feedback and more

Sesame Data Browser has just been improved with new features. Here is what you get this time: Most recently used connections rememberedSupport for videosComplex types are not displayed by default any ...

Scheduling events on Facebook with Tuneo

My new project reached the beta stage a few weeks ago. The first version of Tuneo Events is a Facebook application that allows you to easily schedule events with friends. Tuneo Events is already us...

SDC2011 slides for "How to detect and avoid memory and resources leaks in .NET applications"

The slides and the source code for the session I gave at the Scandinavian Developer Conference today are available:SlidesSource codeThis presentation is based on my article How to detect and avoid mem...

MVP in 2011

I just received an email from Microsoft telling me that my MVP status has been renewed :-)I'm an MVP since 2004!I'm still very busy this year and I don't see this change soon. I already have a lot of ...

Speaking in Sweden in April

As this is my first post in 2011, I wish you all the best for this new year. I don't know for you, but it will be a year of changes for me. I'll tell you more about that when the time comes. For the ...

Silverlight 5 roadmap announced

With the confusion that followed the PDC, Microsoft had to announce their plans for the future of Silverlight. This has been done today during the Silverlight FireStarter event.A beta release of Silve...

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I have good news if you need a web hosting solution, ASP.NET or not.Arvixe, which I recommend for your web hosting needs, has a very special offer for you: Only today, get 50% off all shared hosting p...

How does Microsoft see Silverlight's future?

Mary-Jo Foley offers an article you must read if you are using Silverlight or plan to: Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted.So whats a developer to make of Microsofts messaging (or lac...

OData feeds for Proagora.com

There's a new OData kid on the block: The data from Proagora.com is now available as OData. + As on the website, data published as OData is about jobs, companies, and experts.   Two feeds ar...

LINQ or Lync?

There's a new "link" from Redmond. It's not LINQ this time, but Lync.Isn't it great to have two names colliding in the Microsoft world?Is someone working on LINQ to Lync? Cross-posted from http://li...

Testing object databases for .NET: Eloquera, STSdb, Siaqodb, Ninja Database Lite

Given all the activity around databases lately with the NOSQL movement, I decided to give a try to some of the new contenders. Lately, I've added some object database management systems to SharpToolb...

Sesame: Spatial OData on Maps, Service Operations, HTTP Basic Authentication

Sesame Data Browser has just been updated to offer the following features for OData feeds: MapsImproved Service operations (FunctionImport) supportHTTP Basic Authentication supportMicrosoft Dallas sup...

Sesame: Microsoft Dallas support

With the release of Microsoft Codename "Dallas" CTP3 and the features announced in the previous post, it became easier to add support for Dallas to Sesame Data Browser.The new version of Sesame publ...

PropertyOf and INotifyPropertyChanged.PropertyChanged without strings

When coding applications using design patterns such as MVP (Model-View-Presenter) or MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), you'll find yourself using data binding and the INotifyPropertyChanged interface all o...

Code signing certificates

If you need to sign a piece of code - eg. a Silverlight application, like I did with Sesame, an EXE, a DLL, an AIR application, a JAR applet - you need a code signing certificate.A code signing certif...

Sesame improved: now signed, with auto-updates

A new version of Sesame has been uploaded. It contains several fixes and adjustments. The fixes concern mainly the filtering row.This new version also introduces client-side paging, signed bits, and a...

VS 2010 tabs appearance improvements

As a follow-up to my post about Visual Studio Pro Power Tools, I advise you to take a look at the following post from the VS team: Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options.It provides great options for...

Sesame Data Browser: filtering, sorting, selecting and linking

I have deferred the post about how Sesame is built in favor of publishing a new update.This new release offers major features such as the ability to quickly filter and sort data, select columns, and c...

VS 2010: New Add Reference dialog, tab layout and options

Microsoft has just published a new free extension for Visual Studio 2010 that provides an improved Add Reference dialog, an improved tab bar, and much more.The new Add Reference dialog comes with a lo...

ASP.NET hosting: better, faster, cheaper

After seven years with webhost4life, it was time to move on. Especially because of all the troubles with webhost4life due to their internal migration to a new hosting environment (the company has been...

Sesame update du jour: SL 4, OOB, Azure, and proxy support

I've just published a new version of Sesame Data Browser. Here's what's new this time: Upgraded to Silverlight 4 Can run out-of-browser (OOB), with elevated permissions. This gives you an icon on ...

Silverlight and .NET 4 tools

I've just added two new attributes to SharpToolbox.com: Built for Silverlight and Built for .NET 4. There are already more than 30 tools tagged as offering support for Silverlight, and 20 tools f...

Sesame OData Browser updated

Since the first preview of Sesame was published, I've been working on improving it with new features.Today, I've published an update that provides the following: Support for hyperlinks (URLs and emai...

MVP in 2010

Microsoft has just named me an MVP for the seventh time in a row!More .NET adventures with me expected in 2010......

Announcing Sesame Data Browser

At the occasion of MIX10, which is currently taking place in Las Vegas, I'd like to announce Sesame Data Browser.Sesame will be a suite of tools for dealing with data, and Sesame Data Browser will be ...

Hex Dump using LINQ (in 7 lines of code)

Eric White has posted an interesting LINQ query on his blog that shows how to create a Hex Dump in something like 7 lines of code.Of course, this is not production grade code, but it's another good ex...

TechDays 2010 session slides and source code

My session about memory leaks in .NET is over. Everything went well.Thanks Yann. Thanks to everyone who showed up.You can download the slides and the source code of the sample application (PhotoLight)...

My session at TechDays France 2010: How to detect and avoid memory and resources leaks in .NET applications

This year, I'll give a session during the French TechDays about memory leaks in .NET. This session is based on my article and will include a demo with a sample application and debugging/profiling tool...

Memory leaks with Infragistics NetAdvantage Windows Forms edition

When I finalized my article about memory leaks, I removed a part about Infragistics NetAdvantage. Here it is. It may be useful to some of you. Warning: It's based on NetAdvantage 7.3, and may or may n...

MVVM frameworks galore

The MVVM pattern (Model-View-ViewModel, also known as M-V-VM, the PresentationModel pattern, or the ViewModel pattern) appeared a long time ago now, but it took some time before it became more documen...

The core WPF classes

Jeremy Alles proposes a nice tour of the core WPF classes. It comes with a class diagram and quick descriptions.I'll keep a link to it here for reference. It's the kind of document I'll refer to sever...

New article: How to detect and avoid memory and resources leaks in .NET applications

My new article, which I've been preparing over the last few months, is now available. It's about memory and resources leaks in .NET.You'll find it in English on MSDN and in French on DotNetGuru.org. I...

New LINQ tools category on SharpToolbox.com

I've just moved the LINQ tools referenced on SharpToolbox.com to a new dedicated LINQ category.20 tools and providers are listed for the moment. I'll add more shortly.See Jim's blog for more resources...

XMLAuto version 2010

Ten years ago, I played with OLE Automation so we can write things such as the following, where Document represents an XML document:String name = Document.Bookstore.Book[1].Author.LastName;Document.Bo...

Forcing event unsubscription

Given my own experience, I'd say that events are the main source of leaks in .NET. They deserve double- and even triple-checks. Each time you add a subscription to an event in your code, most likely w...

The "Error creating window handle" exception and the Desktop Heap

"Error creating window handle" When a big Windows Forms application I'm working on for a client is used actively, users often get "Error creating window handle" exceptions. Aside from the fact t...

LINQ in Action is now available in Chinese (LINQ??) and in English in India

After English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, LINQ in Action is now available in Chinese.The title is LINQ??. The publisher is ??????? (Posts & Telecom Press). The book is also available on Amaz...

Who deserves a free MSDN subscription?

I have a free one-year MSDN subscription to offer. I believe that it has to be activated before June 30, so, I don't have time to organize a contest or something...The offer is MSDN Premium, which giv...

LINQ in Action XML samples now in LINQPad too

After we published the code samples for LINQ in Action's first chapters in LINQPad a few weeks ago, the samples of three more chapters have just been added. These chapters cover LINQ to XML. Thanks Ji...

LINQ in Action samples in LINQPad

Do you know LINQPad? It's a really simple but great tool for testing LINQ queries. Not only that, but it can be used to test all kinds of C# and VB code snippets. Another great thing about LINQPad ...

Modern censorship you shouldn't ignore

Should I need a reason to hate Apple, it would be censorship. This is not the first time Apple censors an application on the iPhone, but this time it's scarier. They censor software, and they censor b...

New York Times abandons WPF and Silverlight in favor of AIR

The first version of the New York Times Reader was showcased in 2006 as one of the first and major WPF applications. Then, the Times Reader was ported to Silverlight, so it can work on non-Windows pla...

ForEach debate continued

Eric Lippert, whose blog you shouldn't miss, adds his own arguments to the debate about whether using a ForEach extension method instead of foreach is a good idea or a bad one.I don't see a definitive...

LINQ em Ao, LINQ in Action in Portuguese

After English, German and Spanish, LINQ in Action is now available em Portugus.The title is LINQ em Ao. The publisher is Editora Cincia Moderna. Cross-posted from http://linqinaction.net...

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