On September 19th, I made the initial contribution to Open RIA Services, committing the RIA Services codebase. The project is officially under way, giving developers even greater input into a framework that they love and reinforcing existing investments. Right off the bat, I’d like to thank you for your patience...
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RIA Services Silverlight NuGet Packages
As we look forward to the Open RIA Services project, we want to make sure we’re helping lay out a transition for those that desire to make the switch. As part of that transition plan, we have just published 2 new NuGet packages for RIA Services: the Silverlight Client and...
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RIA Services is Getting Open-Sourced
It’s about time, right‽ In fact, it has been 3 and a half years since I first declared that getting RIA Services open-sourced was my stretch goal. Since then, I’ve seen dozens of forum posts, hundreds of tweets, and over 13,000 page-views for my original declaration. There was even a...
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The "We accept pull requests" Addiction
Hello, my name is Jeff. I last said “We accept pull requests” one week ago on February 18th during the MVP Summit. My apologies I want to apologize to the MVPs who heard me say this last week. The words did not convey the message I was attempting to convey....
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Bulk Publishing NuGet Packages
One of the responsibilities I have come to own is our group’s NuGet package publishing. My group owns all of the ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Web Pages, Razor, and SignalR packages, among others; and there are quite a few of them. When it’s time to publish a set of packages,...
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