In this episode of 10-4, we discuss a new feature coming in the next release of ADO.NET Data Services: server-driven paging. This allows you to constrain the size of result sets that can be requested by clients, eliminating potentially problematic scenarios. In addition, clients can also now request the total …
Architecting an enterprise or web application for high performance, scale, and availability can be a challenge without an appropriate caching strategy. One approach is to leverage a distributed caching platform to support the needs of performance, scale, and availability. In this ARCast episode, Scott Hanselman and Joe Shirey discuss Microsoft’s …
Beyond the simplest scenarios, all objects had collaborators that they work with. This flies in the face of testing objects in isolation. This is the problem that mock objects were created to solve. In this talk you will learn what mock objects are, how to utilize them and best practices …
For many, building large scale service based systems equate to using SOAP. There is, however, another way to architect service based systems by embracing the model the web uses – REpresentational State Transfer, or REST. .NET 3.5 introduced a way of building the service side with WCF – however you …
For more than thirty years, people have been learning the language of computers. It’s now time for technology to learn the language of people: touch, voice and gesture. This session will outline the design philosophy behind Microsoft’s efforts to create natural, intuitive and emotional products, and provide a glimpse into …
Modern applications are often built from pluggable parts composed together either at development time or at runtime. Such parts might include reusable libraries, application add-ins, host provided services, or internal parts separated from the main application for engineering reasons; The .NET framework currently provides basic functionality for loading such parts, …