I've been seeing a lot of people hyping how awesome the Silverlight Polling Duplex Channel is and I just want to put a word of caution out there for developers of large-scale apps

I thought I would take a few minutes to explain why I haven't been posting on the blog lately

When you create a new ASP.NET MVC project, you get a fully unit tested controller but there are also hundreds of lines of wasted code creating Mock classes. In this blog post, I remove all that stuff and replace it with some easy Moq code.

One of the first things that I did after creating a new ASP.NET MVC project was to rig it up so that it was dependency-injected via Unity, including the controller factory itself

This evening I discovered a minor bug in the new project template for the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release

Recently a friend of mine introduced me to Heroku, a hosting site for Ruby on Rails applications. The novel thing was their approach to deploying those applications. They exemplify what true cloud deployment should be, and MS should learn from them.

In this blog post I take a quick tour through the act of taking an existing "M" model, compiling it and storing the compiled model image in the repository

One of the simplest use cases of Oslo is using the "M" modeling language to define models. These models can be stored in a repository or simply converted to SQL schemas

Oslo is suffering from mixed messages, poor marketing, and lack of developer understanding. This post tries to take all of the different pieces that make up "Oslo" and simplify them so that you can hopefully figure out if Oslo should be on your radar

This past weekend my family and I went to a hotel + indoor water park for some vacation. In addition to having a blast vacationing, I took special note of the overall User Experience of one of the hotel's games.

An interesting Microsoft product in beta right now is called "Geneva". This blog post takes a look at Geneva and distills it into bite-sized morsels that a non-security-guy can digest.

T4 is a Text Template engine that comes with Visual Studio 2008 and I've somehow managed to remain ignorant of it until now. Check out this blog entry to see how powerful T4 really is.

Just this morning I managed to get my hands on some interesting new bits. Read the rest of the blog post for more details!

The cat is out of the bag and despite rumors of my retirement from writing, I am actually contributing to another book.

Silverlight 3 adds the capability for your applications to be installed and launched out-of-browser. Live Framework MEWAs also have a similar capability for SL2.. How do these capabilities mesh?

.NET RIA services is one of the new toolsets made available during MIX 2009. In this blog post I talk about what it is and why you should care (trust me, you'll care)

In this blog post I walk through the process of creating an out-of-browser application using the new Silverlight 3 features.

In this blog post I'll talk about some of the things we've been hearing at MIX 2009 about the new features in Silverlight 3

The first day of MIX 2009 was an interesting mix (har har, get it?) of new technology, glimpses at Microsoft plans, and networking with other geeks

I am sitting in the gigantic meal hall at MIX 2009 inside the Venetian hotel, trying to take it all in as I wait to go up and get a seat for the keynote.

Microsoft dropped the latest Live Framework bits yesterday, which include a number of stability features, fixes, and streamlined workflows.

Rumor has it that CTP3 of Velocity, Microsoft's distributed cache service, is going to drop at MIX 2009 next week.

Just recently saw a blog entry detailing the future features for SSDS, including just calling it SDS and dropping the ACE model (good riddance!)

I've finally managed to spend a decent amount of time using Windows 7 Beta 1 as my routine operating system for my usual tasks. In this blog post I talk about my experience and what I think of the new OS.

In a previous blog entry, I talked about using JAX-WS. Now I'll talk about using yet another acronym, JAX-RS and see how that compares so something like WCF's RESTful extensions.