Mesh

Wohoo! Got an invitation to mesh.com from Microsoft. Going to play with it today.
So far it works well in Firefox. :) This is good.

Linq to SQL Compact

SQL Server Compact - Compact & Capable : LINQ with SQL Server Compact (a.k.a. DLINQ with SQL CE)

Trying to convert a data provider from SQL Server to SQL Compact for ease of transfer of application and data I run into a problem of converting the data schemas. The ones I created for SQL Server would not readily convert to SQL Compact. Hopefully, there is a solution in the above article.

SQLMetal <options> [<inputfile>]
sqlmetal /dbml:test.dbml test.sdf

Retrieving web pages in .Net

Retrieving HTTP content in .NET with WebRequest/WebResponse

Looking for Mesh.com invites

I'm trying to find some mesh.com invites to test the service. Apparently, it is enough to invite a friend to use a shared folder.

Google App Engine - Hosting the Web Applications

Google App Engine - Google Code
Google has an interesting project, also in a preview mode. They are to host dynamic web pages, finally. Now, instead of having html hosting for free, the dynamic sites are becoming the norm for everyone. Great.
I was thinking to achieve the same with some sort of client-side execution (JavaScript, Silverlight, Flash, or whatever) and passive hosting (googlepages, dropbox, ...). Hopefully there would be some sort of sync API to connect to a mesh. :D

Mesh - The Solution?

Live Mesh Tech Preview
Here it is. A preview of what is to come. Web as a platform is coming to life in a solution from one of the giants.
Mesh includes synchronization service, online storage, virtual desktop, and remote access to members of the mesh. This is all I need at the moment.

Script# Links

Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

Script# Project page at CodePlex.
WSDL proxy generator.

GWT with C# = Script#?

Nikhil Kothari's Weblog : Script#

Greg reminded me yesterday of Google Web Toolkit (GWT). And that's exactly what I was working on, even had the html page open. The point is to have all the active content happen on the client side as I don't have processing capability on the server side for my personal site. And, I just thought that JavaScript is mature enough for something like that.
So, here's the link to Script#. I'm going to play with it today.
It's a tool that compiles C# code into JavaScript. Applications can be created that run in a web browser. The data is available online - pictures, rss feeds, xml files...

webHTTPBehavior

Finally found what I was missing all this time in regards to WCF services. It is not basicHTTPBehavior but webHTTPBehavior. :)
Yesterday I succeeded to invoke a WCF service from the browser and pass some parameters, too. The output is pure XML, without any additional crap. I really, really like it. I'm becoming such a fan of SOA.

Btw, since I'm using this blog as a reference, let me add that, in addition to using webHTTPBehavior, there is the [WebGet] element that needs to be added to methods exposed through this endpoint. This is for using GET method. Another element goes for POST and others. But that doesn't matter at this point.

Australia Blog

I'm currently posting all the personal messages to Australia blog (http://alenaustralia.blogspot.com) as I see this phase as a temporary thing. This blog will be my diary to remind me of the time spent in Melbourne, Australia.