In this episode of 10-4, we introduce another new feature of ASP.NET WebForms 4.0: Routing. The ASP.NET Routing engine was added in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release and is heavily leveraged by both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data to provide bi-directional routing functionality. With the relea...

I might be beating a dead horse here.But strongly typed dataset was giving me so much hard time that I have to rant about it. Actually strongly typed dataset is quite handy if all you have to do is just need to query or update a single table. The problem is that the real world is far less ideal than...

A while back, I posted some instructions that can be used to create an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 3.0 SP1.  Since then, the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 has been released (it is required in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1).  Here are some updated steps that c...

A while back, I posted some instructions that can be used to create an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1.  Since then, the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 has been released (it is required in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1).  Here are some updated steps that c...

I have heard from a few people who have run into error code 25015 with a data error (cyclic redundancy check) message while trying to install the .NET Framework 2.0, 2.0 SP1 or 2.0 SP2.  This error can also occur during .NET Framework 3.0, 3.5 or 3.5 SP1 setup because all of these versions of t...

I know, getting training budget is hard at the moment, but you really want to make yourself as employable as possible. Help is at hand (in fact, it’s only a mouse click away). There are, of course, a whole bunch of Virtual Labs you can do (for developers and for infrastructure people). There’s a...

In talking about Parallel FX yesterday, I was using syntax such as; Task t = new Task(() => { Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); }); and it generated some puzzled looks from the attendees. Not surprisingly, not everyone out there is on .NET Framework V3.5 Service Pack 1 and not everyone ...

Here are my notes from the Legacy apps session on Day 2 at the Cloud Connect Event put on by TechWeb. Thanks to David Berlind and Angela Bole and their team for putting on the event. Moderating: David Berlind, General Manager & Co-Creator, Cloud Connect Moderated: Rob Helm, Director of Research,...

Over the holidays, I was asked by a friend to look at a problem they were running into on their Windows Vista system.  They were unable to connect to Windows Update and check for updates and received a cryptic error message.  After a few minutes of poking around on the system, I recognized...

Declarative Services is one of the exciting new features of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0. By declarative, we are referring to services that are completely modeled by using the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). As you might think, this capability will open to door for a who...