Anith Gopal

Our goal in this post is to re-use the Forms Authentication already in a website to secure a new Data Service. To bootstrap this we need a website that uses Forms Auth.

Noted TV and movie actor Jareb Dauplaise , from The Hard Times of RJ Berger and Meet The Spartans, will join Xbox LIVE Gold Members TODAY, July 21 , in our Game with Fame. Jareb will be online Wednesday, July 21, from 9-11 PM ET playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 . Check out the details , send him a friend request, and maybe you’ll get a chance to meet this rising star!

You may remember when I unveiled the Outlook Social Connector Provider Proxy.

The Windows Phone Developer Tools CTPs and Beta have only offered online documentation for general Windows Phone developer topics and Silverlight Windows Phone application development topics.  However, it is possible to use the Visual Studio 2010 Help Library Manager to download an offline copy of the Windows Phone developer documentation.  Here are the steps I’ve used to do this on my computer: Run this command:  "%ProgramFiles%Microsoft Help Viewerv1.0HelpLibManager.exe" /product vs /version 100 /locale en-US If you have never run Help Library Manager before, you will have to first select a local path to download the content to.  This dialog looks like the following: After selecting a local path, the main Help Library Manager page will appear.  Click on the link named Install content from online .  This dialog looks like the following: In the list of online content, scroll to the bottom, locate the item named Windows Phone Development and click the Add link.  This dialog looks like the following: If you would like, you can also use the Help Library Manager to install offline content for other technologies like the .NET Framework, the Windows SDK, etc. XNA Game Studio 4.0, which is installed as a part of the Windows Phone Developer Tools setup process, installs a CHM file with offline documentation, but the CHM file can only be launched via the shortcut on the Windows start menu (located at All Programs | Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 | XNA Game Studio Documentation).  The CHM cannot by pressing F1 while working on an XNA Game Studio project in the Visual Studio IDE

Taylorism* still has strong mental roots in the endings of post-industrial era; hence, many still try to reason about the creation process of software-based business solutions in terms of an old-manufacturing mindset: trying to characterize analysis, design, testing as discrete units for some kind of division of labor. But the concept of flow has started to raise awareness, slowly, in our trade. A blog post by Hamed Ahmadi is an instance of such awareness.