WINFXPROGRAMMER

My Latest Pieces of Work

03/05/06 - Writing A Book!

I am currently co-authoring a book on Windows Communication Foundation for Addison Wesley.  I will be posting excerpts from the book on this website when available.

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03/05/06 - A Collection of ASP.NET 2.0 Controls

This is the start of a controls collection that I am writing.  There is currently one control in this collection called RSS HyperLink.  This control supports an RSS image, IE 7.0 Feed Icon support, and more.  It is also used on this page.

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GotDotNet Workspace

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03/04/06 - ASP.NET Web Resource Handler

This is a replacement for the WebResource.axd handler that is built into ASP.NET 2.0.  I am building this to add features that are either missing or not available.

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GotDotNet Workspace

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03/03/06 - ASP.NET Compression Module

I wrote an ASP.NET HTTPModule for HTTP Compression.  This site uses this module for compression.  It has some advantages over other HTTP Compression modules that I have seen on the web.

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GotDotNet Workspace

 

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02/12/06 - SQL Server 2005 CLR Types

This is the start of a number of SQL Server 2005 CLR Types that I am writing. There are two types currently available. The first one is a variant on the UTF8 String sample that supports compression. The second is a Uri type.

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GotDotNet Workspace

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04/04/04 - BizTalk SharePoint Adapter

This is an adapter for connecting BizTalk to SharePoint.  It allows for the creation of document based workflows using document libraries.  The current version of supports BizTalk 2004.  The BizTalk product group added this feature for BizTalk 2006.

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GotDotNet Workspace

Welcome to WinFxProgrammer.com!

Most of the content on this site will be related to Microsoft's WinFx platform.  This includes Windows WorkFlow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, and Windows Presentation Foundation. You will also find a significant amount of content that is not specific to WinFx.  Stay tuned!  I plan to post more stuff soon enough.

This site is currently a work-in-progress. I will post stuff as I add more features.  In the meantime, feel free to check out my blog.

Evil Genius In Training

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Highlight! - ASP.NET HTTP Compression Module

I would like to highlight a specific project that I am working on at the moment.  It is the ASP.NET Http Compression Module.  This module supports a number of features that one would expect.  However, every ASP.NET based HTTPModule that modifies the response output stream seems to break WebResources.axd.  This is annoying to say the least.  The problem was found after some discussions with folks back in Redmond.  There is a call known as IgnoreFurtherWrites.  This call breaks WebResources.axd requests if someone has used a response filter.  I am happy to say that my implementation gets around this issue. My implementation also gets around the Response.End issue that other HTTP Compression modules have. I hope to make this more feature rich over time.

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GotDotNet Workspace

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About This Site

I am using the ASP.NET 2.0 Personal Web Site Starter Kit for this site.  This is a stop gap until I get a chance to create a new website.  My hope is to create something that is simple and can be a direct replacement for the this starter kit. I have looked at a lot of professional blog software and have found them to be overly complex systems for my needs. My plans are to create a simple kit for the professional blogger that would like to host their own site.

Here are some of the features and/or assumptions for this effort...

1) Make much of the site data driven.
2) Where possible, leverage the latest technologies.
3) Create a simple syndication service.
4) Redesign for efficiency.
5) Add additional themes.