Navigation of Highball Series Part #1 | Part #2 | Part #3 | Part #4 I’m working through this next part of my HighBall Project, which I’ll be blogging regularly, using TDD and UI/X First Development. In other words, to give some context, I’m building out a UI first, then I’ll start from the back... Continue reading →

IIS provides the following compression options: Static files only. Dynamic application responses only. Both static files and dynamic application responses. It is important on dynamic responses that the resource is compressed on the fly every single time it is requested. This can cause some heavy processor utilization. To enable HTTP compression (IIS 6.0) follow these... Continue reading →

Silverlight leaves the browser behind! This is what I've been waiting for. Silverlight now effectively has all the parts & features I want to effectively rule out the need for Flex, Flash & Air. With Silverlight moving outside of the browser we provide, finally, a true speedy application for RIAs. Of course, yeah yeah yeah,... Continue reading →

If you receive this error, “TF31005: Team Foundation cannot retrieve the list of team projects because it cannot connect to Team Foundation Server”, or if you are debugging and the code you see on screen is not what is being stepped through or you see VS stepping through white space lines, try this out. Clear... Continue reading →

In the last entry I covered several points about using the Policy Injection Application Block (PIAB) for some AOP based cross cutting work. If interested, check out Part 1. Setting up IIS for Self Signed SSL Certificates on Windows 2003 and Vista. Mention IIS Toolkit, etc. Show IIS security settings for Windows Auth, Basic, Digest,... Continue reading →