Lars Wilhelmsen

Connected Systems MVP

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Month: July, 2008

Serve PDF as inline attachments – WCF REST style

9 July, 2008 (20:05) | .NET, REST, WCF, WebHttpBinding | By: larsw

Some time ago, a user with the nickname refaeldakar asked in the WCF/MSDN forum how he could serve PDFs with the WebHttpBinding so that where shown as inline attachments in the web browser.
I wrote a small test application that did what he asked for. The trick here is to add an extra HTTP header to [...]

Visual Studio Team System 2008 installation WTF

3 July, 2008 (19:36) | Uncategorized | By: larsw

Dependency on Live Messenger !?

Unity 1.1 Container Behavior for WCF

2 July, 2008 (20:35) | IoC, Programming, Unity, WCF | By: larsw

Some time ago I needed a way to wire up an IoC container in a WCF service I was creating at that time. Since I’ve used ObjectBuilder-based containers a lot in both Composite UI Application Block and Enterprise Library, I wanted to take a closer look at the Unity container and the 2.0 version of [...]

Product Test: IKEA “Bräda” Lap Pillow

1 July, 2008 (20:09) | Miscellaneous | By: larsw

Yesterday we went to IKEA to buy a bunch of stuff from our TODO list (turned out we actually forgot the handwritten list) and we ended up buying pretty much nothing. Partially because we didn’t remember all the items on the list, and partially because the where sold out.
When we moved through the Office department, [...]

New PDC’08 sessions published – 10 is the new 6!

1 July, 2008 (12:13) | Microsoft, PDC'08, Visual+Studio | By: larsw

Found out through the PDC’08 Facebook group today that they have published 16 sessions. A couple of weeks ago, I read on Don Box’ blog that 10 is the new 6 but I didn’t exactly understand why. It is a mantra of the VC++ team and is refering to the long-living version 6 (with a [...]