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It's been a long time since I last wrote a blog post; around six months to be exact. It's not that I have not been busy writing though. In April I began embarking on one of the hardest things I've ever done; writing a book with my co-author John Shaw. And now for a brief advertisement; the book is called ''Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working ...

I never really got that excited about Silverlight 1.0, mainly because whilst it had a great core graphics engine and did video streaming very well, it's feature set was just not rich enough to make it really useful to applications that demanded deep functionality. One of the features that was clearly lacking was connectivity; you could not ...

There are several blog posts out there that cover the subject of how to consume JSON enabled services from Javascript using ASP.net AJAX. Having scouted around the usual suspects, I think the best article is by Fritz Onion here: http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2008/01/31/50121.aspx That said, I haven't found it all plain ...

I came across an interesting issue today when I was creating a new ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2005 (with the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista applied) on Windows Vista. After hitting F5 to start the launch the web app in debug mode I received the following error:    Unable to start ...

Just a quick note more for my future reference more than anything else.  To get ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 to work with Sitecore you need to add the following to the ignoreurls section in your web.config <setting name="IgnoreUrlPrefixes" ...