Silverlight, JavaScript, Forms, etc.).  RIA services has been on my radar for quite some time.  I was hoping to get some good conversations about this, but never expected to get almost an hour with Scott Guthrie,

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  One of the fun parts of being an MVP is that occasionally we get asked to help at Microsoft events and answer questions around topics that are just fun to talk about regardless (and usually includes a free lunch).  Today, I was sitting at the ASP.NET Dynamic Data table.  We probably had about [...]

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  So, for those of you that don’t know me well, suffice it to say, I have less than no sense of direction.  I always manage to make my way home, but often with a lot of zigs and zags.  So, why should this morning be any different.  After arriving in LA around rush [...]

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  We are in the process of “speeding up” our http://atashbahar.com/post/Combine-minify-compress-JavaScript-files-to-load-ASPNET-pages-faster.aspx and it’s working well for us.  This project does a nice job of calling a minifier, gzipping and caching. Hoe this helps!

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  Just a quick post in case anyone is wasting 10 minutes figuring out how to do this.  For me, this came up because in encoding) So, in my C# code, here is what you need to convert to the Linq.Binary:Linq.Binary carrierMatrix = new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(myString);And, to go back from Linq.Binary:string carrierMatrixString = [...]

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  Cutting to the chase, I choose ExtJS which gives us high quality “forms like” user interactions and MVC for getting the data.  That is, the Application looks like this: The data retrieval URL used by the JavaScript look like: bing or http://www.bodurov.com/JsonFormatter/ ) (more information at:

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  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from subversion into that directory All My Visual Studio Solutions are built All the config files (web.config,app.config, etc.) are updated with appropriate parameters (connection strings, etc.) The Web Site is copied to the [...]

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