Anith Gopal

Learn more about SP2 going out of support on the XML team blog. MSXML4 SP3 has been around for over a year now and has had a very positive reception. Get it! Share the good news with your friends! Of course, we’re still encouraging everyone to migration to MSXML6 whenever possible, as that’s our best-by-default implementation

Suppose you are hosting a WCF Data Service on a particular URL, but for some reason you’d like the consumers of your service to hit another URI – perhaps an IIS re-write, or a cookieless session. You can do this via setting one of the custom properties in the OperationContext: OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageProperties[" MicrosoftDataServicesRootUri "] = serviceUri; You need to do this per instance of the data service, so it makes a lot of sense to do it in the service class’ constructor. Normally, WCF data service will try to resolve the absolute service URI by asking the underlying host.

A few days ago Scott and I recorded a “hanselminutes” episode where we spent some time talking about OData. Scott came armed with a whole bunch of questions to help tease apart the current transition we’re going through regarding products names

It’s been great to see the enthusiasm of people looking forward to using the entire Windows Azure Platform in Europe. I’m happy to announce that SQL Azure is now available in North Europe

The ASP.NET AJAX library is one very cool, performant work of engineering that has smoothed the programming experience for web developers, and now they’re taking it to the next level. Dino Esposito writes about Live Data Binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 , and shows how some of the cool tricks are pulled off to get things like two-way data binding. Definitely worth reading.