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My annual review is coming up. This is the time when you’re encouraged to reflect on what you’ve done over the past year, and what you want to be when you grow up. While thinking through mine yesterday, and thinking about the ones from the past twelve years, I came to a realization: I’m in this for two reasons: I love the technology I ...

I'm really looking forward to next week's geekSpeak with Andrew Duthie and Glen Gordon. In that show, I'll be talking about (and showing code, of course) different ways to connect Silverlight 2 applications to the outside world (WCF, REST, Sockets etc.) Date: May 28, 2008 Time: 3:00pm eastern, noon pacific time Glen runs a really unique ...

Eugene Osovetsky made a pretty exciting announcement yesterday regarding pushing data to Silverlight in Beta 2. Beta 2 will likely include a new WCF capability for duplex services based on DuplexReceiver<T>. IMHO, this helps eliminate socket coding for some of the more common scenarios: Chat applications Data update notifications in ...

In preparation for my Silverlight for Business Applications webcast today, I decided to look more deeply into how Silverlight works with services. I originally concentrated a lot on security, and had a much larger post on how to secure your services, but ran into some issues there. More on that below.WCF Service Requirements for SilverlightIn ...