After my last post about .NET – Android, I was pretty excited about the possibilities. Therefore, I decided to create a new little “useful” app for my phone. If your mouse batteries are low and you have to finish something, you can use your phone as a mouse. How it works on Android: I created… Read More »
I often use my computer as a music player. But I don’t have a remote controller for it. If I want to change the song, I need to do it on my PC. That’s not cool. Yesterday I decided to build a remote control app for my Samsung Galaxy S (Android 2.0). This should solve… Read More »
WPF uses DirectX as its rendering engine. The framework allows much more than only 2D programming. Before we start with a simple 3D example, you should know some basics: 3D model A 3D model is an object that will be presented in your application. A model is defined by triangles. The triangles together build up… Read More »
Running a WCF service (svc) with basicHttpBinding and Https needs some configuration inside the web.config. First create a website for your service in IIS with a Https (port 443) binding. For this example, I created a test certificate with makecert.exe. Now develop your WCF service with default ABC-configuration (Binding = basicHttpBinding). Open the the service… Read More »
I found an interesting link about the feature of SQL Server: Microsoft will release a new language called “M”. Link: Update on SQL Server Modeling CTP (Repository/Modeling Services, “Quadrant” and “M”)
With DataTables you have the ability to set a Error Message per Row. This is useful, when you want to display i.e. the Validation Errors in the GUI. In a 3-Tier Application your client communicates with the Application Server via Services. Exchanging DataTables in a .NET Application works well. But if your services are used… Read More »
For hosting WCF Services in IIS you usually need a .svc file. This File exposes your Service. With ASP.NET virtual Paths you have the opportunity to load your service without a .svc file. You can put the WCF Service inside a DLL without adding a reference to the ASP.NET WebApp. Implementation: – Create a Class… Read More »
The new version of Visual Studio (Ultimate) brings a lot of new architecture features with it. It allows you to create UML sequence diagrams from extisting code. Or it visualizes the most important components in your application. This visualizations are very helpful when you have to modificate/extend an existing project written by other developers. Here… Read More »
Entity Framework is a built-in ORM in .NET. It’s great to work with. It handles the complete data access for you. (Connection, query generating, executing of SQL commands etc.) The performance is OK, if you don’t work with lot of data. The current release (.NET 4.0) doesn’t support batch processing. That means: If you add… Read More »
The motivation of aspect-oriented programming is to separate program logic. Application can be devided in two concerns. 1. Core: Contains the program/business logic like calculation etc. 2. System: Contains system specific processes like logging. In this example, I show you how to implement a AOP based logger. Logging is something you need very often. But… Read More »