Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch - Part 8: More extensibility with the toolkit

Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch - Part 8: More extensibility with the toolkit

Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch - Part 8: More extensibility with the toolkit

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 07:52 AM PDT

We have arrived at part 8 in this article series on LightSwitch… And it is the final part. However, to go out with a bang, we'll look at some more extension building with the extensibility toolkit. Don't miss... Recording of Gill's advanced...( read more )...(read more)

C9 Lecture: C Runtime (CRT) Topics, by Mahmoud Saleh

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 09:00 AM PDT

In a recent Going Native episode in Channel 9, Charles (Torre) and I interviewed Mahmoud Saleh, the software engineer who keeps the C Runtime library.

Now Mahmoud prepared for you a 1-hour lecture on some of the CRT topics like

  • Memory leak detection (CRT debug heap).
  • Unhandled exceptions.
  • Assert and error reporting.
  • CRT entry points.
  • CRT support for Unicode.
  • SBCS and MBCC. And
  • Optimizing file IO in CRT.

You'll also find the slides of his presentation and the source code. [Click here]

Mahmoud Saleh on the C Runtime (CRT)

Preventing CSRF With Ajax

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 10:06 PM PDT

A long while ago I wrote about the potential dangers of Cross-site Request Forgery attacks, also known as CSRF or XSRF. These exploits are a form of confused deputy attack . Screen grab from The Police Academy movie. In that post, I covered how ASP.NET MVC includes a set of anti-forgery helpers to help mitigate such exploits. The helpers include an HTML helper meant to be called in the form that renders a hidden input, and an attribute applied to the controller action to protect. These helpers work great when in a typical HTML form post to an action method scenario. But what if your HTML page posts JSON data to an action instead of posting a form? How do these helpers help in that case? You can try to apply the ValidateAntiForgeryTokenAttribute...(read more)

Silverlight Page Navigation Framework - Basic Concept

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Let us start with a three days tutorial series on Silverlight Navigation Framework. Today in this post, we will discuss about Page Navigation Framework in Silverlight. Here we will learn what the Page is, how to kick start with navigation framework and...( read more )...(read more)
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