With WCF now being around for some time, it supports many protocols, mainly SOAP, but it does also support Rest, the question is how do you do it? Well I have got the sample working from the MSDN Magazine. If you’d like the full detailed explaintation then you can go to An Introduction To RESTful Services With WCF
Some times you need to cast from one object to the other, and then back again, the easiest way of doing this is using Interface casting, I’ve generated this simple project which show how it works.
MVC 2 has been released, I’ve been developing an application using the RC and I am very happy with the new features, there are so many, Areas, Auto-Scaffold UI Helpers with Template Customization which I just love.
I’ve just had to un-install my MVC 2 RC and install the official release of MVC 2 and it worked without any problems.
To download click here
For more details check out Scott Gu’s blog on MVC 2 Released
Enums are a wonderful addition to .Net, but won’t it be nice to have a real world description that you can display to the user interface? Well you can, and here is how define an attribute (or use existing DisplayNameAttribute) and annotate your enum with names as additional meta-data:
public enum Unit
{
[DisplayName(“Hz”)] Hertz,
[DisplayName(“%V”)] Volt
}
I know that conditional breakpoints have been around for some time, I just keep forgetting how to set it, so I though it should be time write how to set a conditional breakpoint on my blog.
When you only want to break under certain conditions, you can right-click on a breakpoint red circle (or go to the Breakpoints Window and bring up the context menu on a given breakpoint) and select Condition to bring up the dialog box for conditional breakpoints.
You’re given two options: break only when the specified expression is true or break only when the specified value has changed. For this example, since I’m in a for loop, i’ll break when the value of result.Id == 22.
You’ll notice that the breakpoint circle now has a red plus on it to indicate it is conditional.
MVC 2 is ready for use and designed to work with both VS 2008, as well as with VS 2010.
Click here to download the ASP.NET MVC 2 release candidate for .NET 3.5 and VS 2008. Nice thing is that it can be installed side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC on the same machine.
Many a time you use the <a href’#’ title=’display a message’ /> to display a message when you want some hover over text to display additional information, which is fine, but what if you want to display some more fancy text, lets say in HTML you are stuck.
So I went on the search to find something that was easy to implement.
I came across a number of different popups
When you are playing with Web Services you quite often find information held in an Attribute, but how do you get it out?
e.g.
public enum Classification {
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnumAttribute(“Test drive demonstrator”)]
Testdrivedemonstrator,
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnumAttribute(“Showroom vehicle”)]
Showroomvehicle,
By using reflection you can gain access to the attribute, here is how:
Type enumType = typeof(velocityUom);
foreach (FieldInfo fi in enumType.GetFields())
{
object[] attrs = fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(XmlEnumAttribute), false);
if (attrs.Length > 0)
{
Console.WriteLine(((XmlEnumAttribute)attrs[0]).Name);
}
}
It’s a new year and it’s must be time for me to go over what toys I have played with in 2009.