Silverlight 5 + Internet Explorer 9 using old Content-Type from POST in a subsequent GET
We’ve been running into a super annoying problem at work. After our Silverlight application makes it’s login POST the next GET that we send fails with a NotFoundException. This only happens when using the Silverlight 5 runtime and only happens in Internet Explorer 9. I have tested now with Silverlight 4 as well as Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, and IE9/SL5 is the only bad combination. Here are the headers of our login POST: POST /login HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/xml Referer: http://localhost:8080/censored.xap?timestamp=1326148328000 Accept-Language: en-CA Content-Length: 38…
Localizing a Silverlight DatePicker control, a study in pain thresholds
For shame Microsoft. There is currently no way to localize a DatePicker. Instead of letting us simply specify a format string or any of the other beautiful conventions we are forced to basically re-template the entire control. In our application, at my day job, we support many different languages/cultures. This was becoming a mess with the various date formats so we decreed that all dates would be in the ISO standard format (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss). Styling everything in the app was a 10 minute job, until…
Mango App Challenge winner!
So a little bit ago my second Windows Phone app was approved. http://blog.shuttr.com/2011/11/20/shuttr-photographers-now-have-a-windows-phone-app-too/ Here are my two apps up on the Windows Phone Marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-CA/publishers/Shuttr Once the approval came through I filled out the form on the Mango App Challenge page. https://www.microsoft.com/canada/offers-promotions/mango-app-challenge/Default.aspx I didn’t hear anything back for a while, so I contacted Paul Laberge (@plaberge) on Twitter. He got back to me immediately and before long I was declared a winner! The phones that they were offering were a bit disappointing, so I have…
First Windows Phone 7 application published!
Well, my first application has been published. http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=e995f3ee-9fd4-4e60-bdba-a30168099cd1 My first attempt was a bit of a probe to see what the process is like. I whipped the app together in about an hour and it was quite basic. I wanted to see: If I would be rejected What I would be rejected for What the timelines are like Turns out I was rejected in about 2 or 3 days for two reasons. I had no error handling in my data requests so it would crash…
Writing a JSON API in ASP.NET MVC 3
Here is a snippet of the source for the current API on Shuttr. The repositories are bound using Ninject so that our code is unit testable. As you can see, the actual call is pretty simple using LINQ, anonymous objects and the new JSON helpers in .Net.
New Relic + Windows Azure package for NuGet
Installing New Relic on Windows Azure is a bit of a pain so I’ve created a NuGet package for it to make it dead easy. I’ll keep it updated with the latest NewRelic releases. Make sure you go to New Relic first to sign up and get your key. Performance monitoring will never be the same after you do! http://newrelic.com The package will be available through your NuGet package manager. You can view it on the web as well: http://nuget.org/List/Packages/NewRelicWindowsAzure Once you install the NuGet…