The WCF "Orcas" release (the WCF from .NET Framework 3.5 aka WCF 2.0) makes it so much easier to use your WCF service in conjunction with ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as 'Atlas'). Before Orcas you would build a AJAX enabled (web) service by adding the [ScriptService] attribute to the service...
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in the IT-Boxing event that took place last thursday, March 6th in Sofia, Bulgaria. The IT-Boxing event is a one-night competition, organized by the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD), in which a couple of teams battle to be the best...
The January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" has .NET FX 3.5 version 3.5.11209. One of the assemblies is System.Web.Extensions and hosts some great new additions to the ASP.NET stack. It has new classes in the namespace System.Web.Security, two of which are LoginService and RolesService. In...