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Silverlight Asynchronous WCF Calls Without Ruining Your Architecture
A while back I wrote a blog post about how Silverlight 4’s asynchronous network calls make a layered client-side architecture difficult. In that post I talk about wanting to have a loosely coupled, testable, n-tier architecture on my Silverlight client application. Basically, I wanted to have a client-side architecture that was nicely layered like Figure…
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TFS2010 Build: How to access Platform/Configuration variables in a build script
The Problem: You have a Team Foundation Server 2010 Team Build that compiles a solution (.sln) with more than one Platform and Configuration. When your build is compiling the Platform/Configuration combinations, you need to know which combination is currently being processed so that you can perform custom build logic in the workflow activities. The Solution:…
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Beantown .NET Meeting Thursday, 12/2/2010: Jason Haley, "Migration to the Cloud — Amazon vs. Azure"
Hi All – A quick reminder… Beantown .NET is going to be meeting Thursday, 12/2/2010. This month we have Jason Haley presenting “A Simple Web Site Migration to the Cloud – Amazon vs. Azure”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring your boss. Please…
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My First Windows Phone 7 App Is Live: NPR Listener
The title pretty much says it all. My first Windows Phone 7 (WP7) application was approved and is live on the Zune Marketplace. It’s called NPR Listener and (surprise) it accesses National Public Radio’s (NPR) web service APIs so that you can stream the audio for the stories that they’ve published. It’s free so go…
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TFS2010 Build Agent Cannot Talk to Controller: “There was no endpoint listening at http://servername:9191/Build/v3.0/Services/Controller/5 that could accept the message”
The Problem: I ran into a problem with a customer’s Team Foundation Server 2010 build server today. The server’s been up and running for at least 6 months and then suddenly it wouldn’t run builds anymore – the builds would start and then hang with the message “Run On Agent (waiting for build agent)”. When…
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TFS2010 Build Agent Cannot Talk to Controller: “There was no endpoint listening at http://servername:9191/Build/v3.0/Services/Controller/5 that could accept the message”
The Problem: I ran into a problem with a customer’s Team Foundation Server 2010 build server today. The server’s been up and running for at least 6 months and then suddenly it wouldn’t run builds anymore – the builds would start and then hang with the message “Run On Agent (waiting for build agent)”. When…
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Microsoft ALM Summit, November 16–18, 2010
I’ve been in Redmond, WA for Microsoft PDC 2010 this week and I keep getting reminded or asked if I’m going to the Microsoft ALM Summit. It’s happening in Redmond from November 16 to 18 and unfortunately, I’ve got a conflict and I won’t be able to make it to this conference. Anyway, there are…
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Microsoft ALM Summit, November 16–18, 2010
I’ve been in Redmond, WA for Microsoft PDC 2010 this week and I keep getting reminded or asked if I’m going to the Microsoft ALM Summit. It’s happening in Redmond from November 16 to 18 and unfortunately, I’ve got a conflict and I won’t be able to make it to this conference. Anyway, there are…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on Thursday, 11/4/2010: Andy Novick, "Partitioning SQL Server"
Hi All – Beantown .NET is going to be meeting Thursday, 11/4/2010. This month we have Andy Novick presenting “Partitioning SQL Server Tables, Views and Indexed Views”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring your boss. Please RSVP by email (beantown@benday.com) by 3pm on…
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Beantown .NET meeting on 10/7/2010: Shaun Avery, “Application Development with NHibernate”
Beantown .NET is going to be meeting Thursday, 10/7/2010. This month we have Shaun Avery presenting “Application Development with NHibernate”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring your boss. It is not required to RSVP for our meetings but if you know you’re coming,…