While doing a little browsing, I found a product that let you program with PHP inside Visual Studio 2005 & 2008.  They even have a standalone version for those who don't have Visual Studio installed.  The price is dirt cheap: $99.  The only strange thing is that there is absolutely no info at all about the company on their Website.  Strange is you ask me.

www.jcxsoftware.com

For those of you who are extra eager to get down and dirrrty with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1, you'll find plenty of brand new hands-on labs here to keep you busy (and improve your skills!!).  You'll need to install VS08 Tools as well as download the Silverlight 2 Beta.  Happy Easter - finally a legitimate excuse to overdose on chocolate and wear my bunny ears!!!  Fin

Just a quickie and a dead simple example, CPUSS is really easy to use with any managed language including C++/CLI, VB.NET and F# but I chose F# to create a real easy program to show the synergy between the two as you might expect is very good.

Enjoy!

MIX Las Vegas brought us many exciting announcements including the unveiling of Silverlight 2 and Expression 2 Betas.  Back here in Australia, we decided to bring you the great MIX experience in a one day event in Sydney and Melbourne on 20th and 22nd of May respectively, it's our second ReMIX down under.  We haven't locked in our venues yet but, if you want to join the coversation around all that is The Next Web now, save the dates and give your boss a "heads up" that you'll need to plan for a day out of the office to learn from your peers and some of the most innovative local software companies in Australia!  For just $199 (inc GST) you will get a full day of content and know-how that you can start applying right away -  and you'll even get to take away a full copy of Expression Studio worth over $1,000.  Watch this space for more news and, drop me a mail at finulac@microsoft.com if you need more info.  Registration site will go live around April 7th.

latest days I was interested with .net remoting service and events delegation between client and server sides, then I decided to write application that cover event delegation between clients and server and vis versa using .net remoting service, we can use this technique in chatting applications or any other business applications that depend on messaging between client and server.

the first application is simple broadcasting message application, Download Link.

the second application is more complex where you can specify which client you need to send message to it, also all calls are performed concurrently. If connection to the specific client is slow (or is broken), sending to other clients will not be delayed until that specific client replies (or server recognizes clients unavailability via time-out), Download Link.

this tow applications written by me using Remoting Service technique.

To understanding samples you must be aware about remoting service and event delegate

References And Links

Books:

MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components

Advanced .NET Remoting, by Ingo Rammer

Links:

.NET Remoting Overview

.NET Remoting - Events

.NET 2.0 introduced a check for FIPS certified algorithms if your local security policy was configured to require them.  This resulted in algorithms which are not FIPS compliant (or implementations which were not FIPS certified) throwing an InvalidOperationException from their constructors.

In some cases this isn't a desirable behavior.  For instance, some applications need to use the MD5 hashing algorithm for compatibility with an older communication protocol or file format.  Prior to .NET 3.5, the AES algorithm was only available in an implementation which was not FIPS certified, and if you needed to use that algorithm the FIPS check could also block you.

To help these cases, we added a configuration file switch to .NET 2.0 SP 1 (and therefore .NET 3.5) which allows an application to say "I know what I'm doing, please don't enforce FIPS for me".  For these applications, they can setup a configuration file similar to:

<configuration>

    <runtime>

        <enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false"/>

    </runtime>

</configuration>

Which will prevent the CLR from throwing InvalidOperationExceptions from the constructor of uncertified algorithms and implementations.

Today Microsoft published the source code of ASP.NET MVC Framework at Codeplex:

We’re delighted to give you an early preview of the first release of the ASP.NET MVC source code on to Codeplex. You will be able to find this project at http://www.codeplex.net/aspnet and it represents the first of a number of planned releases of the source code for the ASP.NET MVC framework as well as some others in the future. Please take a look and feel free to send us feedback about the MVC framework and about using Codeplex for this type of release

The license won't enable you to redistribute your patched version of ASP.NET MVC (Microsoft wants to avoid having multiple incompatible ASP.NET MVC versions floating around and colliding with each other).  But it will enable developers who want to get started building ASP.NET MVC applications immediately to make progress - and not have to worry about getting blocked by an interim bug that they can't work around.

Read ScottGu's post for more details...

I just discovered these videos by Johnny Chung Lee showing some pretty interesting projects using C#, a Wii controller and a bluetooth connection. My favorite is "Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote":