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Slide decks and demo code from my Visual Studio Live 2011 (Orlando) sessions

Ido Flatow — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:22:28 GMT

Yesterday I had two session in VS Live, one about the new features of WCF 4, and the other about the new way to develop web applications using ASP.NET MVC, the Razor view engine, jQuery, and IIS 7.5 Express.

The slide decks and demo code for both sessions can be downloaded from here: http://bit.ly/vslive-2011-orlando

I really enjoyed delivering both sessions, and congratulations to all the people that won Angry Bird balls for answering my questions, and for asking tough questions.

Hopefully we will meet in next year’s VSLive (if my sessions are picked up again).

My Fiddler Session in Sela’s Dev Days

Ido Flatow — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:26:37 GMT

Today was my last session in the Dev-Days conference, and this time it was about Fiddler.

In this 1-day session we saw how Fiddler can be used to sniff communication, use it as a reverse proxy, manipulate the communication, and how to extend Fiddler with your own custom inspectors and request/response tampering code.

We also saw several extensions for fiddler such as the SyntaxView, the request code generator, and the FiddlerScript utility that enables you to edit the Fiddler’s script using intellisense.

You can download the presentation and the code samples (including two sample inspectors I wrote) from here.

Hope to see you again in our next conference.

What’s new in WCF 4 lecture for the .NET Developers User Group

Ido Flatow — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:33:58 GMT

Two days ago I gave a lecture at the Israeli .Net Developers User Group (IDNDUG) in Microsoft. The lecture went great and there were a lot of good questions.

The presentation and the code samples are available for public download at the following link.

During the lecture someone asked me a question regarding support for JSONP (JSON with padding) in WCF RESTful calls, and I answered that as far as I know there is no such support. But… since I’m quite senile I forgot that I did see such support with WCF and the WebHttpBinding.

To use JSONP with WCF you’ll need to do the following:

1. Enable the crossDomainScriptAccessEnabled attribute in the webHttpBinding binding configuration element:

 <bindings>
  <webHttpBinding>
    <binding crossDomainScriptAccessEnabled="true"/>         
  </webHttpBinding>
</bindings>

2. When calling the service, add the callback key to your query string, for example:

http://localhost/myService/getSomething?id=7&callback=getSomethingCallback

3. Make sure your service returns responses in the JSON format, either by settings it in the service code, or by setting it in the webHttp behavior configuration (sample code and configuration can be found in my presentation samples).

מה משותף ל-Entity Framework ו-AJAX ?

Ido Flatow — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:36:00 GMT

בכללית, שתיהן טכנולוגיות שהן "תוספות" לתשתית המוכרת - Ado.Net Entity Framework ו-Asp.Net AJAX.

בפרט - כל אחת מהטכנולוגיות באו לענות על צורך שהיה חסר: EF באה לענות על מחסור בכלי ORM מיקרוסופטי (לאלו שאינם נוטים להשתמש בכלים צד שלישי) ו-AJAX בא לפתור בעיה חמורה שהיתה בביצועים של אפליקציות ASP.NET.

המצחיק הוא, אגב, ששתי טכנולוגיות אלו לא ממש עובדות טוב ביחד.

ב-15/9 אני אעביר הרצאה על כל אחת מהטכנולוגיות בפורום מפתחי דוטנט צה"ל

לאלו מכם שעדין לובשים מדים, והנושאים מעניינים אתכם, אתם מוזמנים להרשם.