It took a couple of days to wind down again. The 2007 edition of the Dutch Developer Days were exciting and excellent. It was real nice to meet nearly everybody (or so it feels). I did get around to do both presentations on Linq and robotics. The Microsoft Robotics session was scheduled after all. So...
Over the weekend I have been working on a project that involves a file processor service. The purpose of the service is to watch one or more folders and dispatch the incoming files to a corresponding file processor. One of the processors uses Captaris Alchemy , a document management repository, to store...
My colleague Dennis just asked me how you would asynchronously invoke web services (in VB.NET). The new way As Dennis already figured out there is a new way to do this in ASP.NET 2.0. In fact, the new way is all over the .NET Framework 2.0 and is referred to as the event-based asynchronous pattern. There...