Best Silverlight Demo so far

image Whilst there have been some excellent demos out there and Im thinking Hard Rock here, this is undoubtedly the best so far and demonstrates what Silverlight will be fantastic for

 

http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/

 

This is RIA at its best.

 

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Some Tools a .NET developer should not be without

Recently I had the joy of trying to work with some Web Services from a 3rd party system not written in .NET.  In this age of full understanding of XML and Interoperability and Basic Profile 1.1 compliance  this was of course completely easy.

NOT!!!!

This was a complete pain in the neck.  I had problems at every turn.  Our existing .NET web service that provides a similar service, soon to be retired though, was written in .NET 1.1. So I just wanted to modify it rather than do an upgrade.  The remote system used  Http1.1 Chunked mode.  .NET 1.1 does not handle this.  So .NET 2.0 here I come (I know I know that’s still legacy !).

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