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Why RIA Services are great…but just not for me
Fri, Apr 9 2010 12:49

As I’ve said before, I’ve started porting an existing project to .NET 4.0. I’ve tried using the new features .NET 4.0 introduces (ex.: code contracts). One of the objectives I had was replacing the traditional WCF service calls with RIA services. Until now, I’ve watched a couple of presentations (for instance, Nikhil ’s presentation on MIX 2010) and it really... Read More...

by luisabreu | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, WCF, Silverlight, VS 2010

The OnDeserializingAttribute – part II
Wed, Apr 7 2010 9:44

Oh well…remember my last post …the happiness of getting everything working out…Well, unfortunately, things stopped working (read: code contract started generating exceptions) when you define more than one invariant. Here’s my initial code: public class Dumb { public String A { get ; set ; } public String B { get ; set ; } public Dumb () { Initialize (); } [ OnDeserializing... Read More...

by luisabreu | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, WCF, Design by Contract

Re-throwing exceptions
Tue, Dec 2 2008 10:33

While I was reading the Essential Windows Communication Foundation book (from Addision Wesley ), I found the following code (on a transaction required for a WCF service context): [OperationBehavior(TransactionScopeRequired = true,    TransactionAutoComplete = true)] public void Transfer( String from, String to, double amount){   try {    ... Read More...

by luisabreu | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, WCF

.NET 3.5 and VS SP beta1 goodies
Mon, May 12 2008 20:58

You can get them from here (VS) and here (.NET). I'm reading what's new on Brad Abrams post and I'm really digging the new features:) For instance, having the format option working with JS code is simply cool! Another cool thing: the ScriptManager is able to combine scripts so there's really no need for using the ToolkitScriptManager for that... Read More...

by luisabreu | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: MS AJAX, ASP.NET, WPF, C#, Trivia, WF, WCF