I have recently been using (and occasionally contributing to) RavenDB, a NoSQL (or Document) database for .NET written by Oren Eini, aka ayende.
My biggest contribution yet has been to help with the basic "glue" to drive the new UI for profiling RavenDB requests in an ASP.NET MVC web application.
This post is going to offer a few tips about changing your Windows Phone 7 push notification service from unauthenticated to authenticated.
Specifically it will focus on the challenges I ran into hosting a WCF service, in IIS7 on a cheap shared hosting account.
Now about that Image Control. I mentioned in my last post that it seems to download on the UI thread, or at least block the UI thread while downloading.
Personally I think this is going to be a major issue with v1 apps in the marketplace when used on 3G connections.
It is actually a difficult thing to test, so here is the methodology I have been using and the code I am using to get around the issue.
I am going to start putting together some posts on my experience writing our first Windows Phone 7 application, gReadie.
I have set up a quick WordPress site today to host information about our mobile development separately to our main software site. I will also use it to post future updates rather than polluting my otherwise coding focussed blog.
So for anyone interested in following the apps we create head over to www.quidsmobile.com
I promise I will make my next post about something I have learnt on the new platform and get back onto a technology focus.