I wanted to make two of 3.5 framework additions to work together. I decided to make a WCF Web Service and LINQ. I had a few pitfalls with the LINQ. So, I created it in SQL first, then I re-did it in using LINQ. Creating a WCF web service is fairly simple. Open the newest and greatest version of Visual Studio to date; VS 2008. File, New, Web Site and highlight WCF Service. Choose how you want it to work, meaning file system or point to a web; I choose file system and uploaded to my web site. After ......
This week, I played with Expression Blend, started using Visual Studio 2008 and had another great meeting with Philly Dot Net User group. Expression Blend: I’ve built many flash applications. Microsoft has handled some of the complaints I’ve always had with flash. You can program to it!!! Flashes ability to develop beautiful sites is excellent. But the ability to manipulate the output via code is non-existent. The first thing I did is followed a couple of the great training videos from http://www.microsoft.com/Ex... ......
Another great MSDN session in PA. As usual Lindsay Rutter gave 3 great courses. The theme this time was the web. Session 1 was a great example of Visual Studio 2008. I hadn't seen it yet. I was very happy to see we can now pick which framework we are coding to. But even more impressive is managed JavaScript! The idea of being able to walk through JavaScript instead of testing live is going to bring scripting to an entire new level! Session 2 was a lesson in using LinQ and what MS is coining as A ......