Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in November 2008

WCF REST Services and AJAX Callbacks
November 26, 2008 @ 2:10 pm

I've been getting a lot of questions in response to my WCF REST session in regards of whether I'd recommend switching to WCF from ASMX services for AJAX functionality recently. WCF provides a host of new REST features, but when it comes to AJAX functionality and especially ASP.NET AJAX compatible functionality there's really nothing compelling there to require changes. In this post I look at what WCF provides for AJAX and some of the things you might watch out for.

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Silverlight and Data Communications
November 20, 2008 @ 4:09 pm

Silverlight sports a host of 'data access' mechanisms that allow consumption of data from the server. However, if the data is highly dynamic and changeable the combination of a lack of dynamic data retrieval mechanisms, plus use of a static language like C# has made me wonder how to best approach the data access for a very dynamic application.

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ASP.NET Connection Session Slides and Samples Posted
November 17, 2008 @ 12:45 am

I've published my session slides and samples from the Fall 2008 ASP.NET Connections conference. The sessions include: jQuery and ASP.NET, WCF REST and JSON with ASP.NET and Dealing with Long Running Requests in ASP.NET.

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Wipeout
November 15, 2008 @ 2:11 am

Just got a funny picture from the Gorge Hood River from last summer that I’d thought I’d share. It’s one heck of a wipeout: I remember this day and this wipeout on a backloop in particular – the board just got away from me as I slipped out of the footstraps. I went one way (down) and the board went another. There are a couple more pictures in this sequence as the board gets backwinded in...

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jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft
November 09, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

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From ASP Stock Projects to Web Application Projects in VS 2008
November 06, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

Had to do a conversion of a stock ASP.NET project to Web Application projects after not having done so in quite some time and it looks that this process still is not any easier than it was when WAP was a separately installed project type. Here are steps to move a project from stock to WAP with a few hopefully helpful hints.

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Debugging a WCF REST/AJAX Serialization Problem
November 04, 2008 @ 12:06 am

Ran into a painful self-inflicted problem today with WCF Services for AJAX access where a service failed to serialize some data and simply returned no data of any sort. No error, no message - no HTTP content, not even headers. Here's what the problem was and the steps to debug the service to try and figure out what was wrong.

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My PDC 2008 Wrap up
November 02, 2008 @ 5:50 pm

Ugh, I’m finally back and settled from a long 3 week road trip. Ah, it feels good to sleep in my own bed again :-}. PDC last week was the last stop of the trip and as always it’s been an interesting experience. More than anything events like these are great to catch up with other developers and meeting people I’ve only seen virtually. I made face contact with a bunch of folks I only know through...

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