Wednesday 29 February 2012

C# HttpListener

Setting up your own HttpListener can be useful, particularly when running a Windows service or perhaps unit testing your RESTful services.

Here is a little console app project that serves to remind how to setup the HttpListener and also how to interact with the WebRequest and WebResponse objects.

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Source code:  http://stevenhollidge.com/blog-source-code/HttpListenerExample.zip

Tuesday 28 February 2012

Metro styled UI

Here’s some offerings from 3rd party tool vendors Dev Express and Telerik to provide some inspiration for the new wave of metro styled apps.

I’ve also included some screen shots from Microsoft via their Azure and Visual Studio vNext offerings.

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Forward to 48 minutes to view video demo of the Ultimate Beer Ranger Windows 8 app:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MY4Ojs5ASQ

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The next set of images come from the Microsoft Office Future Vision videos:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/vision/

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