How to do SSL pass-through with WCF (a link for the MVP crowd) I sat in on a very informative roundtable discussion about WCF tips, tricks and pitfalls this afternoon here at the MVP conference. In that discussion one of the topics that came up was load balancing. After some brief discussion, I chimed in with a pitfall that people would need to watch out for which is […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Rob Relyea demos WPF 3.5 “Extensions” @ Mix Check out this Mix Session for all the skinny on the enhancements coming in the WPF 3.5 “Extensions” later this year. Unfortunately the Mix sessions site is designed quite poorly in terms of being able to provide direct links, but if you just go to there and look for session T11 – “What’s New in […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Will IE8 use JScript.NET? So what do you think? Will IE8 use the CLR implementation of the JScript engine or keep on using the legacy ActiveScript engine architecture that is plagued with COM circular reference issues resulting in memory leakage and a plethora of other performance problems? Seeing as how FireFox 3 is running about 10x as fast now […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
VS 2008 JavaScript support still not quite ready for writing rich web apps Ok, I have to vent a little here. I was really expecting Microsoft to step up the game for their JavaScript support in VS 2008 and unfortunately there are still some serious issues that prevent it from even getting close. These problems even exist after installing the hotfix rollup that came out last week. Let’s […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
The implementation I’d like to see in WPF for writing GPU shaders The recent mention of an improved effects API in the next enhancement release of WPF has gotten me thinking about this again. I’ve written before about how other platforms are stepping up their game when it comes to leveraging the GPU in their graphics stacks and how WPF really needs an answer of its own […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
ScottGu on WPF enhancements Scott Guthrie blogged today about the WPF roadmap and what kind of enhancements we can expect to see coming in the next few releases. Check out the post for full details, but here’s a quick list of things to expect: Improved setup for WPF apps (i.e. ClickOnce enhancements) Improved working set and startup times Performance […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Microsoft Unleashes Volta Well, I knew there had to be a reason that we haven’t seen any real movement in the ASP.NET AJAX Futures realm for a while… say hello to Volta. Basically it’s Microsoft’s approach to using .NET to emit client side code (JavaScript). It shouldn’t be too big a surprise that Microsoft was working on this […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
No implementation of a Session-State Store Provider over Memcache out there yet? All my searching tells me that nobody out there has created a custom Session-State Store Provider for ASP.NET that sits on top of Memcache. Are people just hardcoding themselves to Memcache API directly rather than using the provider model? Or are most people just happy with ASP.NET’s out of the box state server? So sad […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Microsoft rethinks Silverlight versioning scheme and plans to add more rich WPF features Well, in case you hadn’t already read today, Scott Guthrie has announced a few things about some upcoming beta releases. One of the betas talked about is the next version of Silverlight which used to be labeled as version 1.1. Microsoft has rethought this strategy and is instead going to call it 2.0. If you […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Adobe introduces GPU based filter technology, will the WPF team respond? MacOSX has had their Core Image API for a long time which abstracts you from the GPU. Now Adobe has stepped up to the plate by introducing a preview of a new toolkit who’s main technology is a new programming language, codenamed “Hydra”, that enables the creation of filters and effects that can be compiled […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
