I stumbled upon this great series of articles that go into much more detail about functional programming in C#, the culmination of which is to write implementations of the "big three" higher-order functions: Map, Filter, and Reduce.

http://diditwith.net/PermaLink,guid,a1a76478-03d2-428f-9db6-9cf4e300ea0f.aspx

I have an ASP.Net 2.0 form that uses Teleriks RadServiceManager to call a web service in the same application. All was working fine, but when I deployed it to another machine, the web service calls failed. I checked the Event Log and found something like this:

Request format is unrecognized for URL unexpectedly ending in '/ArtifactSearch/'. 

Googling turned up this helpful article. Apparently, web service calls using HTTP GET and POST are disabled by default on 1.1 installations, and I guess that can linger in machine.config or somewhere, and even though my app was a 2.0 ...

You can write your own cmdlet ("command-let") to extend PowerShell in the .NET language of your choice.  You need to write both the cmdlet and a PowerShell snap-in to help install and register the command.  Here's an example snap-in for a "get-food" command  that lists tasty Mediterranean foods (like Falafels):

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Read all about it here. Something that looks very interesting is support for sometimes connected applications...

Today I worked on an AJAX application that uses JSON over xmlhttp to provide a quick search feature in our product ActiveFocus. Here you can see it in action: as you type in the searchbox, each time a key is pressed, the search string is sent to the server, a freetext search is done against the database, the results are returned in a JSON array, and then rendered as a HTML table:

If you create a brand-new web application in ASP.NET 2.0 or later, client-side validation will automatically work in Firefox. However, if you have legacy applications originally written in ASP.NET 1.1 or earlier, client-side validation will not automatically work in Firefox. To enable this feature in legacy applications, simply open your web.config file and locate the xhtmlConformance element and change it to this:

<xhtmlConformance mode="Transitional"/>

At Tech Ed in Orlando last week John Waters picked up "Windows PowerShell Unleashed by Tyson Kopczynski" and as John has a eye for cool technology I did likewise and got hooked on PowerShell.  I'm not usually a live-on-the-command-line-love-batch-files kind of guy but PowerShell covers enough ground in a powerful and consistent way that I'm considering adding this to my technology toolbox.  Although PowerShell is intended for system administrator use, there may be a place for PowerShell in development to do limited testing against .NET objects, task automatation and general exploration.  In any case it's a great toy and a hoot ...

San Jose, CA June 2nd 2007 - While the software industry has benefited greatly from project productivity management solutions, very few industries have seen a truly all-inclusive easy-to-use tool for managing projects throughout their entire lifecycle. Falafel Software has recognized this industry gap and has developed ActiveFocus, a Web 2.0 application that allows multiple types of organizations to take advantage of modern project management technologies. ActiveFocus represents the first truly multipurpose project productivity solution on the market today and Falafel Software is proudly launching it at Microsoft TechEd in Orlando, Florida, June 4th to 8th 2007.

"Calling ActiveFocus a multipurpose ...