Update (03/05/2012): A ‘Date and time formatting sample’ that showcases the DateTimeFormatter class has been published as part of the Windows Samples Gallery. You can download it here. The DateTimeFormatter class from the Windows.Globaliztion.DateTimeFormatting namespace provides convenient date and time formatting methods. However, I had some difficulties while trying to define my own date format... read more
If you want to get a sneak peak on what’s coming up in the next version of Visual Studio, the Visual Studio 11 Training Kit is the no brainer choice. The training kit includes hands-on labs to help you understand how to take advantage of the variety of enhancements in Visual Studio 11 and the... read more
Do you want to avoid having repeated code for performing a common task across your WebMatrix site? Do you want to perform a complex task on your WebMatrix site that depends on assemblies (DLL libraries) that are not directly accessible from the WebMatrix environment? Are you exposing an API for a service/website and want to... read more
The OSArchitecture string is a member of the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI class. You can use this string to check the architecture of the current operating system. This means discovering if it’s is 32-bit or 64-bit operating system. You can query this class using PowerShell as follows: $> Get-WMIObject win32_operatingsystem Strangely, I’ve found that this string can... read more
El martes 12 de Abril, junto con Miguel Saez de Microsoft, presentamos Microsoft WebMatrix en el MUG (Grupo de Usuarios de Microsoft). El objetivo de la charla fue introducir esta nueva herramienta en el contexto de la plataforma Web de Microsoft, junto con el framework ASP.NET Web Pages y su nueva sintaxis Razor. Buscamos enfocarnos... read more
Microsoft Visual Studio Light Switch makes it extremely easy to build data-driven applications for the desktop, the web and the cloud. In just a few steps you can have a high quality business application up and running, that mainly focus on your business logic and lets you write, read, update and delete business data (aka... read more
It seems Microsoft WebMatrix is out of Beta and its full power has been unleashed for you to start creating new amazing web sites. Microsoft WebMatrix makes it incredibly easy to integrate your web site with many other web sites and networks (whether social or not J) by offering a wide range of helpers. Briefly,... read more
WebMatrix Beta 3 is out and it ships with a nice set of Helpers for building your WebMatrix sites. One of them is the Facebook helper (check this descriptive post by James Senior), which you can use to integrate your WebMatrix site with Facebook, making it possible to add the Facebook Social Plugins, such as... read more
Estuve desarrollando una aplicación ASP.NET ayudandome de Dynamic Data, con la característica que el contenido de la misma se debía mostrar enteramente en castellano. La funcionalidad de Scaffolding ASP.NET Dynamic Data, permite generar muchas páginas de ABM muy rapidamente. Como Dynamic Data es muy customizable, se puede cambiar el texto de muchas de las páginas,... read more
The BizTalk Connectivity Service is one of BizTalk Services available for building Internet-enabled applications. It allows you to expose a service to the Internet that is located behind network address translation (NAT) boundaries and/or are bound to frequently changing, dynamically assigned IP addresses. The Connectivity Service offers two core features to applications: the ability to create... read more