Sam Gentile's Blog

ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming

• Using Seadragon with ASP.NET MVC - K. Scott Allan shows how to use Seadragon, one of the new controls in the AJAX Control Toolkit from ASP.NET MVC. It gives you all the goodness of Deep Zoom using only JavaScript.
• ModelValidator in ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Part 1 - The first part discusses ModelMetaData and related classes, along with a sample
• ModelValidator in ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Part 2 - The second part discusses ModelValidator and ModelValidatorProvider
• Fun with Func<T, TResult> Delegates, Events and Async Operations
• Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assembly - Maarten takes a look at what's new

Windows Azure/Identity Management/WCF

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/5/2009+
• Claims-based Identity & Access Control Guide - Early drafts available - Eugenio announces the CodePlex site
• MSDN Magazine: Contract-First Web Services - Schema-based development with Windows Communication Foundation - Christian speaks of the small overview article on the why and how of Contract-First, whiich focuses on WCF, the built-in support in Visual Studio and the command line tools. Then move on to show some basic first steps to do schema-based contract-first with WSCF.blue.