http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan I program, therefore I exist. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:07:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I’ve hit the size limit for a WCF service contract. It might seem unbelievable, but it’s almost true. I have a service contract with about 40 operations. After adding a new method to the contract, I get an error from the WCF Test Client: ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2009/05/28/wcf-contract-limits/ In the previous parts of this articles I’ve talked about the service components of the XNA Streaming system. In this part, I’m going to talk about the Communication Broker. The role of the Communication Broker is to cover the communication with the Streaming Service. By doing so, the code ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2009/03/23/xna-streaming-part4/ After quite a long break, I resume the series of articles on my XNA Streaming project by describing the actual Stream Service component. This component is responsible for transmitting the broadcast information to all connected users. The information is encoded in (<property name>, <value>) pairs. All serializable data types are supported ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2009/02/27/xna-streaming-part-3/ In part one of this article, I did an overview of the XNA Streaming project. In this part I’m going to describe the File Transfer Service. The main responsibility of the File Transfer Service is to provide access to streamable games. The service stores the game files in a database table, ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2008/10/26/xna-streaming-part-2/ Introduction As I mentioned in my previous post, at this year's Microsoft Community Bootcamp I entered in the demo competition together with Adi. We've had some issues in the past with (cheap) broadcasting of presentations. There are plenty of professional tools out there that accomplish this goal, but that's not my ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2008/09/21/xna-streaming-part-1/ During 11.09.2008 and 14.09.2008 I attended the fifth annual event dedicated to Microsoft professionals from the industry and academic environment. I also attended last year and wrote a bit about the experience here. A change from last year's event was the fact that this year, the professionals invited were almost ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2008/09/18/microsoft-community-bootcamp-v5/ Introduction Some while ago I did a post on how to create a Vista Sidebar gadget using JavaScript. I also mentioned that I tried to create the gadget using XBAP or Silverlight, but due to the limitations in those technologies at that time, I decided that I had to ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2008/08/02/creating-a-vista-sidebar-gadget-using-microsoft-silverlight/ Introduction It is very common when entering a search string in a textbox to get a small list of valid search results that match the search string entered so far. This feature is called auto complete and it has been widely used in web pages and desktop ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2008/06/01/auto-complete-for-textboxes-in-wpf/ Introduction There always comes a time while developing an application when a programmer has to introduce some "constants". These may be Id's, names, time intervals. The first action is to just put the literal constant where it's needed first. Once the value of the constant is needed in additional ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2008/01/20/managing-global-constants-with-a-database/ After about 2 years of sobbing because none of the big band names I like were even considering a visit in Romania, something finally changed. On the 4th of August 2008 Iron Maiden is coming to Romania. Tickets are very reasonably priced, so get your's while they're cheap and available ... http://www.lazarciuc.ro/ioan/2007/12/27/iron-maiden-in-romania/