Gabriel Szlechtman’s Blog

During the last several months we’ve been helping David Aiken, James Conard and the rest of the DPE team to push forward to complete this project.

The project contains:

• A set of 20+ labs that can be used to learn and practice several technologies such as WCF, WF, CardSpace, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO (Word, Excel, Outlook and SharePoint), and SilverLight
• A set of decks (30+) that shows the technology key concepts
• 14 demo scripts that were used to present the technologies to customers and the community

All of the content can be easily navigated through HTML Web pages.

We think this is a very important .NET learning material for the community, which Microsoft has made available for download.

Don’t miss David’s original post.

Problem:

In Windows Server 2008 RC0 + .NET 3.5, JSON services do not work. An exception message is returned. If behavior is enabled, a “Method not found” exception is returned.

Cause:

Windows Server 2008 RC0 has an incorrect version of the System.Runtime.Serialization.dll file. In that DLL, the DataContract class does not contain a GetIdForInitialization method (which is invoked form System.ServiceModel.Web). The Windows Vista version contains that method, as shown below:

Workaround:

Use the System.Runtime.Serialization.dll file from the Windows Vista version.

• Copy the file on the user’s desktop
  
• Open a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt as administrator
  
• Go to the C:\Users\username\Desktop folder
• Run gacutil /i System.Runtime.Serialization.dll /f
• Run iisreset (to ensure the runtime is unloaded)

If you are creating XML documents or fragments from a String (for example, when using a template engine to create XML fragments), you may have wondered if there is a .NET method that escapes the string.

For those cases, this code snippet may come in handy:

string escaped = SecurityElement.Escape(“This  is being escaped!”);

You can obtain more information about this method in this page.

Cheers!

Gabriel

Hi Folks!

This is a project I was involved in, helping DPE, so I'm proud to announce that it was just released to the public.

This Developer Training Kit is composed of 7 labs:

For more information, please read James' original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon/archive/2007/07/17/just-released-windows-server-2008-developer-training-kit-beta-3.aspx

The download is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B36EE81A-AFF5-4314-95D7-DAD3ACFA8094&displaylang=en

Cheers!

Gabriel