Neudesic Blogs

A collegue of mine asked about my previous post where I attempted to distinguish between Silverlight RIAs and IDAs (internet desktop applications, or exclusively out of browser applications). The reason I wrote that post and created those project templates...

I’ve been trying to figure out why the out of browser only features new to Silverlight 4 haven’t been sitting right with me. I think I’ve got it and I’ll try to lay it out here. It's not about installing a Silverlight application so it can run out of...

New this week in Azure land (so far): There's an update to the Windows Azure SDK. This version (info here) only works with the VS2010 RC, so if you're using the Beta you should remain on the November 2009 SDK. It would be reasonable to infer that...

Volkan Uzun will be doing a session on Silverlight 4 new features next Thursday, check it out: http://www.iedotnetug.org/sf/Index.aspx...

I've been meaning to post this for 3 months and keep putting it off trying to make it bigger and better but it's not going to happen. You have probably seen other posts on how to hook up WCF RIA Services and Silverlight, hopefully you haven't seen one...

I'll be speaking at the Orange County WPF/Silverlight special interest group's January 5th meeting. I'll be walking through demos of many of the new features of Silverlight 4. If you can't make it, there are plenty of resources online that cover what...

Note: The contents of this post are based on SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta Update: We are currently experiencing problems with images… Summary Creating a workflow with Visual Studio 2010 is essentially the same as 2008 leveraging the SharePoint project...

You may have heard that Silverlight 4 beta was released last Wednesday, and there are several PDC sessions that demonstrate some of the coolest new features. Here are some references to give you the overview. I’ve also added a few demos to the solution...

For decades, IT departments have sought methods to best interpret business requirements, and plan IT initiatives that satisfy the expectations.  The gap between communicated goals and true expectations can be significant, and often results in...

Over the last several years, Neudesic has engaged in literally hundreds of "modernization" projects, including upgrades, replacements, rewrites, platform changes, integration planning, etc.  We have noticed a series of consistent themes among...

Anyone who has created reasonably complex BizTalk solutions has encountered this scenario: You need to access a specific piece of data in a message using an XPath expression.  Common scenarios include any custom XSLT inside a BizTalk Map, using the...

An example of the enhanced defect communication between softwar testers and developers using Visual Studio 2010...

A coded UI test is a new addition to the Visual Studio testing capabilities. It extends the capabilities of unit testing and ties in directly with the manual testing of software testers. Coded UI Tests can be manually written, or can utilize the built-in...

VSTS 2010 : Improved Testing Capabilities Discussion of the new testing capabilities that are arriving with Visual Studio 10....

I’m no expert when it comes to media in Silverlight. I’m not sure why that is. Maybe it’s because so many others are, I don’t think I can add value. Maybe it’s because I’ve never needed to deal with anything other than the basic use cases. At any rate,...

I originally did a first look of ESB Toolkit 2.0 for BizTalk Server 2009 in February of this year showing the CTP2 bits.  Following up on the original session, I am presenting the final ESB Toolkit 2.0 bits that came out in June.  Here is some...

If you are interested in finding out more about the ESB Toolkit 2.0 along with a deeper look at building BizTalk solutions using the Itinerary routing capabilities of the Toolkit, sign up for the SSWUG virtual conference!  Along with the ESB Toolkit 2.0...

I'll be doing a few sessions with Tim Heuer and Jon Galloway this weekend as part of a FREE one day event hosted by the San Diego .NET User Group. Register here. Location: AMN Healthcare Conference Center 12400 High Bluff Drive San Diego, CA ...

The article How to point to a custom 404 error Web page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides great direction on how to create a custom 404 error page for SharePoint. One of the steps that it requires...

Given that CCAG was developed for WPF and Silverlight, you might be surprised that there's not low-level support for module level resources, say in the same way of the relationship between System.Windows.Application and the bootstrapper. The reason for...

Well, I am certainly excited this week. I am also (Jan Eliasen's post) really excited about the book I am co-authoring on. The list of absolute rock stars that are working on it is amazing: Anush Kumar Brian Loesgen Charles Young Jon Flanders Scot...

Hello BizTalkers!  Some of you may have experienced the following issue when attempting to run the WCF and/or Web Service Publishing Wizards that ship with BizTalk: "Unable to load assembly [Your Assembly]. (System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaException)...

At the WPF/Silverlight SIG last Tuesday the topic of what's different between these two technologies came up. While the message is that Silverlight is mostly a subset of WPF, just how much of a subset is usually glossed over. Wintellect did a great paper...

As we all try to make our BizTalk solutions more loosely coupled, many of use have implemented dynamic mapping using a mere two lines of code similar to the following: [Initialize the Map Type variable, which is of type System.Type, inside an Expression...

Pre Installation Worksheet Use the following worksheets for performing an installation of ACES Server Environment RoleServer NameIPSQL Server<servername>0.0.0.0Web Front End<servername>0.0.0.0Reporting Services<servername>0.0.0.0...