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I love the computing industry, it is never in short supply of acronyms and buzzwords. One of the newly added ones is "SignalR" - which in its simplest form is actually a technology that allows FULL DUPLEX communication between the client and a Web server in real time. A typical web page is driven by HTTP ( which is the protocol through which the browser communicates with the server. The protocol in this case, is analogous to a LANGUAGE that is used for communicating between the client ( browser) and the server. The server supposedly, understands a plethora of languages but the language (Protocol) of preference for serving up web pages is called HTTP). The biggest challenge of HTTP has been its STATELESS form - which means - the SERVER ( web Server) does not maintain an open channel of communication directly with the client making a request. All it knows is that - a request came in from an address via a port, which is processed and then sent back to the address from wher...

I have been developing in Silverlight (SL) for a while and the biggest challenge has always been debugging the binding values in the XAML end. I came across this post which really explained how to go about it. For any data driven application with declarative data binding, with in XAML ,this brand new feature is the significant in many ways. Personally I remember most of the time i used to skip XAML way of binding as it lacked debugging feature. Now with Silverlight 5 my previous approach will surely take a back seat and will allow me to consider both ways equally. Prerequisites Makes sure that you have downloaded latest version Silverlight Toolkit SDK. If not download from here . Also make sure that you are running on VisualStudio SP1. The XAML Data binding The example demonstrated here implement basic XAML data binding with DomainDataSource control, lets look at the XAML binding of one of the controls. The XAML Debugging Setting Up Breakpoint As of now the XAML...

Have you ever had a situation where you needed to update the environment variables and you were also forced to logout or reboot the system? Well - with these steps - you may be able to update the variables without rebooting. Initiate command prompt as administrator ( may work as non - not sure). Type: taskkill /f /im explorer.exe Then type: explorer.exe Type SET to confirm propagation of your changes