So now you have a service, congratulations! What are you going to do with it?

Entity Framework has evolved  in the light of feedback. ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 is now better able to accommodate different development methodologies.  A welcome improvement is the way that, the application designer now has a range of options in the way that Entity Framework creates the Data Access layer. Prasanna returns to Simple-Talk to explain the significance of the changes

Investigating a subtle memory leak can be tricky business, but things are made easier by using The .NET framework's  tool SOS (Son of Strike) which is a debugger extension for debugging managed code, used  in collaboration with the Windows debugger.

Whatever your purpose for using twitter is, if you’re too tired keeping up with the real time natures of tweeting, and you still want to “keep your timeline alive” throughout the day, we’ve got some really neat twitter schedulers lined up for you

Skeddle is een handige online tool voor het beheren van To-Do lijstjes binnen een team. Skeddle zorgt er voor dat ieder teamlid het overzicht bewaart van wat hem nog te doen staat en tegen wanneer. Voor degene die het team aanstuurt, biedt Skeddle de mogelijkheid om in één oogopslag de status van het project te evalueren. Skeddle kan worden gebruikt voor ieder project waarbij meerdere mensen dienen samen te werken.

Do you have friends that always owe you money? Or do you lose track of how much you owe your colleagues for lunch?

In groups some people always owe money, while others pay too much. All of this may lead to stress, submerged anger and small nuclear conflicts. The answer to all this? Credeble.

Cardboard…2.0

Do you have fond childhood memories of gathering around the table with the family for a game of Monopoly, Scrabble, or LIFE?
Cardboard is making a comeback.

In an era of tech-based entertainment, word is spreading about a new breed of board game. Going Cardboard takes you into the designer "German-style" board gaming scene, from its community of enthusiastic fans to the creative passions of the designers and their journeys from concept to reality.

This is a special section of the site dedicated to the A-Z of Awesomeness, a project I undertook for 'fun' in June-July 2009.
Each day I would post a new drawing, based on suggestions from followers of my blog, Facebook and Twitter. 26 drawings over 26 days, one for each letter of the alphabet.
There were no rules as to what people could suggest, merely that it be… Awesome.

Er wordt steeds meer met infographics geëxperimenteerd om informatie op een creatieve manier in beeld te brengen. Op het internet duiken regelmatig leuke filmpjes met visueel aantrekkelijke data.

You think you know them. Think again.
Violently ripped from the pages of folklore come the Enchanted. Supernatural immortals living in a dark, steampunk, creature-infested world where nature, technology and foul magic are in constant conflict. When the twisted, burnt remains of the half-wooden, half-mechanical warrior, Pinocchio, are discovered, wolf hunter Red Hood and giant killer Jack realize the fragile rules of their existence have been shattered. With the help of other powerful Enchanted (the mercenary, Goldilocks and psychic exterminators, Hansel and Gretel), Jack and Red team up on an adventure to stop whatever, or whoever is destroying their powers and murdering their kind.

Life moves pretty fast. Sometimes it moves so fast we just don’t have time to stop and maintain all of our social networks individually. But that’s no reason to leave your Facebook profile barren, because you don’t even have to make it all the way to Facebook to update your status.

Here are some methods of updating your Facebook profile when on the go or while using some of the other networks and services you already use.

This toolkit is provided as a Facebook Client Library similar to Facebook's PHP Client Library or Facebook's JavaScript library. The goal is to enable .NET developers to quickly and easily leverage the various features of the Facebook Platform. This toolkit has evolved over time with input from the community and from Microsoft. The latest release (v3.0) includes new architectural improvements and provides an asynchronous interface for using the toolkit from Silverlight and from WPF.

By far the easiest way to start using the .NET Facebook API Client is to install the Starter Kit. The Starter Kit will install the Facebook Client binaries as well as a project template for Visual Studio that you can use to quickly get started developing your Facebook application.

The Facebook Developer Toolkit project has just released version 2.0 of their ASP.NET API into the wild, so let's go over the basics. In this article, we focus on creating an absolutely bare bones FBML application that leverages the API. Enjoy!

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown to create what most people would call a social media revolution. By the very nature of the short messages it hosts, Twitter is a wonderful marketing and promotion tool that no serious blogger can ignore.

In this article, we have compiled 15 most useful Twitter plug-ins, hacks and tips for WordPress to help you get the most out of Twitter in your WordPress blog.

WCF Data Services (formerly known as "ADO.NET Data Services") consists of a combination of patterns and libraries that enable you to create and access data services for the Web or an intranet. WCF Data Services exposes data as resources that are addressable by URIs. This enables you to access and change data by using the semantics of representational state transfer (REST), specifically, the standard HTTP verbs of GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE.

Through this hands-on lab you will learn how to create a data service using the Entity Framework as its data source, and how to consume the service using both the .NET client APIs and the ASP.NET AJAX APIs. You will also use Service Interceptors to add validation support and Service Operations to perform custom queries. Additionally, you will be introduced to the new Row Count feature, that provides support for determine the total number of entities in a set without retrieving them all.

MEF is based on 3 keywords: export, import, compose. Since these 3 words all start with a letter that can be combined to a word, and MEF is cool, here’s a hint on how to remember it: MEF is cool as ICE!

I hope most of you are by now aware that in .NET 4.0, there have been some major changes made in Windows Workflow 4.0. Most of the activities of WF 3.x are now changed by new activities. In this article, we will see how a workflow can be designed using procedural activities, how input arguments can be specified in a workflow and how a hosting application can pass these input arguments. We will be using Beta 1 release of VS2010, .NET 4.0.
This article explains following activities of WF 4.0:
- Sequence Activity.
- IfElse activity.
- InvokeMethod.

Disabling controls on a Page using jQuery is a cakewalk, thanks to the wonderful Selector API. Here’s an example.

Sliding labels adhv jQuery. Updated script te vinden op http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels-v2/

Forms are usually seen as that obnoxious thing we have to markup and style. I respectfully disagree: forms (on a par with tables) are the most exciting thing we have to work with.

Here we’re going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you’ve read this article.