One of the things that might be less obvious when doing applications with ASP.NET MVC, is the ability to download files without exposing your files directly and possibly applying other mechanisms such as authentication or registering emails before allowing someone download your files. Continue reading

I’ve been looking for flexible Reporting components for the WPF application I’m working on, and strangely enough, there are just a few. I think WPF component in general is still a work in progress, and even if you have the chance to find a working component, there ALL have a lot of short comings and lack design-mode features, developer-friendliness, etc. and when it comes down to reporting component, there is Infragistics with very basic feature set, ComponentOne with years of background in reporting tools and Stimulsoft with complete reporting set for WinForm, WPF and Web. Continue reading

Yeah, this might be a little old, but someone asked me how to send context information from client to the service with WCF. Continue reading