I am very happy to announce the introduction of the Ask the Expert (ATE) sessions for the Twin Cities .NET User Group. I have been seeking for a while to diversify the user group’s format to be more than just speaker driven presentations, and this format came highly recommended by many members, friends, and co-workers.
This blog entry is intended to solicit questions that you would like to ask an expert. There are no strict guidelines. You can feel free to ask a technical questions regarding any area of the .NET framework, languages, developer tools, or just about anything that can make you a better developer.
You can enter your questions by simply writing a comment to this blog entry. The more questions you ask, the more succesful the user group events will become. I will continously scan your questions and seek experts in the Twin Cities area, who would be willing to visit the user group events, and answer these questions.
I am also dedicating the first 20-30 minutes of all future user group events to conducting the ATE sessions. There will undoubtly be some sessions where we will only get to answer a couple of questions, and then there will be sessions where we will be able to answer a lot more.
These sessions are your opportunity to engage the experts and enhance your skills.
What are the differences between ASP.NET Ajax and Silverlight functionalities? Should I develop web application using ASP.NET Ajax project or using Silverlight platform? Thanks!
I’m interested in Test-Driven Design and automated unit testing. There are several environments where this is very challenging. I would be interested in hearing from those who have pushed the envelope of testing. Some specific areas I find challenging include:
1. testing rich web UI functionality, including Javascript, AJAX, and these emerging new technologies like Silverlight.
2. testing Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software like Microsoft CRM
Just wondering if anyone has heard anything new about the following topics in regard to Silverlight:
Silverlight Mobile (Features, release dates, etc.)
Silverlight and USB
Silverlight 2.0 (Features, release dates, control list, etc.)
Hi, Farhan. Thanks for blogging!
At the last usergroup meeting where we introduced the idea of Ask the Expert to the group, I received this list of very good potential topics from someone at the meeting.
Here are the topics I was handed:
How to produce RIA in Silverlight
Business Application concepts in Silverlight
10 Best Eye Catching examples for Business RIAs in Silverlight
SOA with Silverlight
Best Practices in Silverlight
LINQ with Silverlight
WCF and Silverlight
Google map in Silverlight
Patterns examples in Silverlight
I have some very specific questions, which as a practitioner I have ran into. If the Ask the Expert is supposed to be more general, then I apologize. That said, it might be good idea to clarify the level of questions you are looking for.
QUESTION #1
Is there a way to auto-stub your event handlers when in Source view of an ASPX?
For example, as soon as I type:
<asp:Button ID=”MyButton” runat=”server” OnClick=”
I would expect the same handler stubbing action that I have grown to love in the behind code (with += ). Is there a setting for this, or am I forced to switch into design view and click the lightning bolt and double click the event, or even worse manually stub the signature by hand?
QUESTION #2
How can you use WCF with a load balancer?
A problem that we had was during the Add Service Reference, we pointed to the load balancer (lets say GMBIGIP), which in turn does it’s job of forwarding the request on to one of n servers underneath it (let’s say SERVER1). The problem we experienced was that it tried to set the endpoint to SERVER1, which is locked down (not visible).
Next we tried adding the Service Reference to that same WCF Service in our development environment (let’s say DEVSERVER1) which doesn’t have a load balancer, and then changed all references of DEVSERVER1 to GMBIGIP (textually in all files), but still no luck.
Here is the kicker… When converting the same functionality to a WebService, everything functions as expected (through the load balancer).
I’m sure there are settings for this, or a better way to handle this situation.
Thank you.
-Jessy Houle
@Jesse: this is exactly what we’re looking for, concrete questions that can be answered in a few minutes. Of course, more general questions are fine too! Thanks!