Al Pascual

When the iPhone 3G 3.0 update came out, we were expecting some kind of tethering for people like me that goes on the road a lot and need the laptop connected to the web in regular basis. AT&T didn’t supply that option and they might be adding that for a huge monthly fee. Now some people found...

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Message based authentication managed by Silverlight not the browser. Silverlight can use the browsers cookies and send them to the hosts. When you authenticate with ASP.NET the authentication cookie stored to your computer will be used by Silverlight if you create a Silverlight Authentication Service...

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I deployed a Silverlight application that needs to access HTTPS resources, for the deployment of course I read the guidelines to declared on the clientaccesspolicy file the https explicitly. So on the resources that needed to be access by Silverlight I added the following clientaccesspolicy.xml <...

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At the MVP Summit I got more than just new technology and roadmaps, many people have the philosophy of building software. I now it’s being a while since the 2009 MVP Summit, I wanted to practice the philosophy before posting it and saying that is the best thing since slice bread. Just to make sure to...

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As many developers come to the wonderful side of Silverlight there are now many new resources to help you to write code in Silverlight. I would like to bring some very interesting ones into the light on my monthly link series. The Interesting list. GeoReference any XAML to place it correctly on an ElementLayer...

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As a geek and self proclaimed technologies I have a large list of gadgets that I would like to purchase, as a father and husband the list can only be accessed 3 times a year at most to purchase the next that makes more sense. Last weekend was father’s day, one of the marked days when my wife may purchase...

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The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ Release Candidate is now available. RC version updated June 2009 (build 255). Resolved bugs: Large features often render erratically when zooming in closely. Better and more accurate placement of elements in the ElementLayer. Elements with an envelope width...

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The web is great for learning patterns and practices when you are planning to deploy a solution. With Silverlight learning how to configure IIS for best results in a very secured environment is  a huge task, what happens if you just configure IIS to access Windows Authentication, would the request...

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Tonight I read the blog post from Brad Abrams a “developer” at Microsoft that I have been following from years, one of the first Microsoft people to have a blog really. I was very fortunate to meet him in person the last MVP Summit. When I was a kid living in Manresa (Barcelona, Spain) at my little school...

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To follow the post from yesterday I created a class to handle better HTTPS and HTTP web services. The problem is not seeing the request in HTTPS, just the connection to the server.   public class S S L S i l v e r l i g h t W e b S e r v i c e P r o x y : S S L S e r v i c e . S i m p l e S i l...

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