Perhaps you've been using the Windows Live Silverlight Streaming Service since in debuted in beta, however I've been using a private server to host Silverlight videos, nevertheless, recently I decided to claim my free 10GB of multimedia storage and play around with the service. What did I find out? Everything works great, however. [More]

Invoking cross-site services from client-side JavaScript generally requires the use of a proxy, however Internet Explorer 8 introduces the XDomainRequest object that allows for cross-site requests directly from JavaScript, a proxy may no longer be required for mashups.. [More]

What I wanted to do was upgrade to the February CTP of SQL Server 2008, however this wasn't possible, hence my obvious course of action was to uninstall the November CTP however the uninstall wizard failed and I could not uninstall via the typical methods.. [More]

I'm pretty excited to announce that I'm writing a new tutorial series. This series will be geared towards the beginning ASP.NET developer and I'm happy to announce that we're giving away five (5) free copies of ASP.NET AJAX Programming tricks absolutely free, no strings attached.. [More]

In this tutorial we'll briefly examine and introduce the HIERARCHYID data type, which as you may, or may not know, is a new data type bundled with the upcoming SQL Server 2008.. [More]

In this post I'll take a moment to talk a little about my latest book, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Beginners Roadmap.. [More]

A common issue when making use of client-side code and Ajax is the validation of controls on the client. For example, the submit button is clicked, however the page isn’t posted to the server in a normal fashion, rather, a custom client-side event handler has been defined so that we can perform Ajax operations, that is, send results to the server via client-side proxy web services. So what’s the problem you may be asking yourself?. [More]