Archive for October, 2009

Oct200928

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Idle Timeouts in RIA Services Authentication

A question came up in the Silverlight Forums about how to timeout a user when using .NET RIA Services . Since I have implemented this before I thought I would share an approach I used. There might be a better way that is more integrated with the ASP.Net security, but for now this works. To start with, you’ll need the Sample Application that Brad Abram has been building and blogging about and you might want to read through this post on Authentication in RIA Services before going any further. Once you have that and can build/run it on your machine you can continue on. The security in Brad’s example uses a simple membership provider that is using RIA Services FormsAuthentication since it takes a username and password to log in. For our example we will extend the FormsAuthentication and add a timeout to it.

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Oct200917

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Migrated from Community Server to DasBlog

If you’re reading this then you’re on my new blog homepage at http://bryantlikes.com . I’ve wanted to move off of http://blogs.sqlxml.org for some time but every time I start to work on it I get overwhelmed by the amount of work involved. I would usually get stuck on (1) how to migrate all my content and (2) where to host it since there is a lot of content and most hosting providers give you very little SQL storage. I looked at a lot of options and even setup Oxite on Azure by following this guide , but since I didn’t know what the monthly costs will be I decided not to take that route. Since I was recently awarded the MVP award I decided to look at some of the benefits and I found that Orcs Web offers a free hosting account to MVPs. I know Orcs has a great service so I was excited to give that a try, but I didn’t think their SQL storage would be enough for my blog

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Oct200916

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Silverlight MVP

On October 1st I was honored to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for Silverlight . I am very excited that I received this award and look forward to continuing my contributions to the Silverlight Community . I wasn’t the only one to receive this honor as Tim Heuer blogged here : As of today (01 OCT 2009) we welcome some new folks to the Silverlight group: Rick Barraza ( @rickbarraza )– wicked interactive design/developer with kung-fu XAML skillz Bryant Likes ( @bryantlikes )– great contributor to the Silverlight Forums helping others solve their problems! Corey Schuman ( @cschuman )– UX design/developer in Atlanta doing a bunch of great Silverlight community work Davide Zordan ( @davidezordan )– over the pond in Italy spreading the Silverlight love! Jeff Paries – Silverlight animation wizard – get his book ! Robby Ingebretsen ( @ingebretsen )– another kung-fu XAML/Blend ninja Ambrose Little ( @ambroselittle )– co-author of Silverlight 3 Programmer Reference and the man behind Quince (no @ambrosesbeard was not awarded) Huijun Li – helping spread the Silverlight in China overseas! I’m very excited to be a part of the Silverlight MVPs group and look forward to working with them all.

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Oct200901

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Silverlike.net – A Free Silverlight Controls Directory

Today, Shinedraw will surprise you!!! http://silverlike.net It is a Free Silverlight Directory powered by Shinedraw.com We believe Silverlight, which is used in more websites everyday, has several beautiful free controls, components and tools that will help you develop websites faster and better. It is not easy to find the free controls as they are hidden inside the blogs of Silverlight developers or .NET products websites and there are still not so many resources where you can read about Silverlight. Silverlike.net have collected more than 100 free Silverlight controls, components & tools for you. You can see the Demo directly and download the code there. A reference website is also added in the Controls

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