Geo Grandfather ESRI Makes Strides on the Web

By On August 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

ESRI ArcGIS JavaScriptMost of the time we write about mapping, it admittedly includes Google Maps (we list over 2000 Google Maps mashups). However, ESRI, the biggest supplier of geographic tools for the enterprise, has made huge strides this year with its tools, including its own web mapping platform, ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript API.

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Kwwika Silverlight API – Chat Example

By On May 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This video shows a chat application built using the Kwwika JavaScript API and a chat application built using the Kwwika Silverlight API. Both applications can communicate with each other in real-time using the Kwwika service.We'll releas…

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Kwwika Silverlight API – Chat Example

By On May 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This video shows a chat application built using the Kwwika JavaScript API and a chat application built using the Kwwika Silverlight API. Both applications can communicate with each other in real-time using the Kwwika service.

We'll release the source code for both applications in the very near future.

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Silverlight uses XCP tmp files for Web Requests

By On February 5, 2010 · 1 Comment

It would appear that the Silverlight runtime creates a file named XCP*.tmp of around 20MB within a users %temp% directory (where * can be replaced by random characters). This file would appear to be used in some way by the Silverlight runtime for web requests. If you refresh your Silverlight application then this file [...]

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MSDN e-book and podcast

By On January 3, 2010 · 1 Comment

A few months back I wrote an article for the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. That article is now available in a free e-book and my podcast interview about the article with Eric Nelson is now also available.

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Which Rich Internet Application Technology will dominate?

By On November 7, 2009 · 4 Comments

I’ve been a member of the RIA Developers Group on LinkedIn for a short while now and the other day Patrick Bay posted a link to an interesting article on Computer Weekly about the prominence of RIAs. A few comments were posted and then Patrick questioned which RIAs would “bubble [...]

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A Real Time Rich Internet Application (RTRIA) Example

By On November 3, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’ve just had an article published in the latest UK MSDN Flash newsletter on How to consume real-time data in a Silverlight RIA. As part of writing up the article I developed a sample Real-Time Rich Internet Application (RTRIA) that consumes real-time data from the Twitter [...]

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Using Fiddler to trick Silverlight into allowing a crossdomain Web Request

By On October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments

If you are trying to make a web request from a Silverlight application the first thing the Silverlight runtime will do is request a security policy file (see Network Security Access Restrictions in Silverlight) from the root of the server you are making your web request to. This happens if you are making [...]

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Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIA)

By On October 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIAs) are RIAs that consume and display real-time data. They have all the characteristics of an RIA with the added feature that data is being pushed to them in real-time as soon as it becomes available. This is in contrast to the current polling solution employed by most RIAs [...]

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How to make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2

By On October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

To make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2 really isn’t that tough. I did have some problems with RC0 but I have no idea why. I just tried writing a little app to do this and it worked straight away.

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