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Visual studio for big web project

Yesterday I moved my first steps on silverlight, I
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Intersoft Sirius 2 showcase is live

In this blissful August 2008, Intersoft Solutions has once again rewritten the history of Web with the launching of Sirius 2 showcase. Sirius is the codename for Silverlight development in Intersoft Solutions. It shows strong innovations and unique concept in order to push the Web beyond. With careful study on User Interface and User Friendliness aspects, we are proud to say that this showcase is the best description for the future of Web UI. The non-blocking concept enables user to use only
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a ... TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF]

If you've done much work with WPF or Silverlight, chances are you already know what a TreeView is and what a DataGrid is. You know that a TreeView is good for showing hierarchical data and a DataGrid is good for showing tabular data. But you may not know...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export

At PDC, a customer told me about a prototype he had built using several tab controls. He then asked me how one could include the content of different tabs of a tab control in the Microsoft Word documents that the SketchFlow Word Export creates
Publication date: 2009-11-21 more

Latest Interesting Links September 1 2009

August was something else for me. I had some travel. I had a lot of work. And I did some things around the house. That
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

9 ways Google is discovering the invisible web

There are many parts of the web that Googlebot has not been able to access, but Google has been working to shrink that. Google wants to find content, and while many webmasters do not make it easy, Googlebot finds a way. 1. Crawling flash! Adobe announced today that they have released technology and information to Google and Yahoo enabling them to crawl flash files. It may take the search engines some time before they are able to integrate and implement these abilities, but a time is coming wh
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Response to A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post

Recently a friend of mine wrote a post about having his comments deleted from a post. It has caused a bit of a controversy because both of them are MVPs. http://flux88.com/blog/a-deleted-response-to-a-tfs-blog-post/ Go ahead and read it, Ill wait here. Seriously. Some people have said it was a bad thing that he wrote the post. I personally think he did a very good thing. At times it is very important to hold people accountable for something you believe in. While its not always the... Did you
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Arturo takes you on a .toolbox site tour on Silverlight TV

  On the latest Arturo Toledo episode of SilverlightTV, Arturo Toledo takes you through a tour of the .toolbox site a new site (went public during MIX10) to help designers and developers learn Silverlight and Blend from a UI and design-centric point...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update

Overview Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available now. For Silverlight developers, the most exciting news about VS2010 is that Silverlight designer will be in feature parity with WPF designer, and VS2010 will support multi-targeting for Silverlight development...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Web 2.0 Run Amok

In the past few months, Ive dramatically increased the number of channels from and to the community and since they are likely to cause some confusion, this post will briefly review and explain my intentions. First, the list: Tutorials Books Videos Webcasts Presentations Silverlight Blog OReilly Blog My Other Blog Amazon Blog Private Twitter Silverlight MicroBlog Silverlight HyperBlog  +Email +Forum Portal Book Support Email Phone... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles w
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

ASP.NET Podcast Show #121 - Phil Haack with an ASP.NET MVC Demo - Video

Subscribe to Everything. Subscribe to WMV format. Subscribe to M4V for iPod Users. Subscribe to MP3 (Audio only). Download WMV. Download M4V for iPod Users. Download MP3 (Audio Only). Show Notes: Phil Haack comes on the show and gives a simple ASP.NET MVC Demo. Source Code is below and downloadable. Source Code:
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Camtasia Crash Tip Update

Back on July 3 I posted a Camtasia Crash Tip for those of you who use this terrific product for screen captures. Since then, unfortunately, I
Publication date: 2008-07-28 more

Visualizing Data via Project Descry

This year
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Veteran iPhone/mobile developer concerned about

Ilium Software are one the long time mobile software publishers, and their blog is considered must reading for those that follow the business side of the mobile industry and has consistently good content on lots of mobile topics in general.Their Product Manager Marc has a very good post up on whether cheaper really is better
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Updated Silverlight FlickR demo for Beta2

I had a little time while traveling to South Africa so I thought I'd update my Silverlight FlickR demo to Beta2.    Download the full solution read the full writeup   (note: in the application, you can click on the image to advance to the next one)   Overall, the changes were pretty minor, the most  interesting one was a change in the way Isolated Storage is accessed.   I set up a page level variable called appsettings: IsolatedStorageSettings appSettings... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

San mateo gymnastics bifocals lead to million jackpot.

Sun is an intern in One a day vitamins coupon. And it centers on who has the bigger online audience. NBC has tried to keep Web viewership from cannibalizing its TV audience, partly by holding back some events until they
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the - PR Inside

Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the - PR Inside 2009-07-15 18:42:01 - Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the art search engine optimization services at a reduced rate. Tulsa Websites and SEO Supernova Broadcasting releases panamaNET information technology - pressbox.co.uk Supernova Broadcasting releases
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

This Week in jQuery, vol. 3

Another week, another collection of links to some of the most interesting and exciting new jQuery happenings around the web. Plugins Jörn Zaefferer
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0: Analogue of Adobe Flash

s p o n s o r e d   l i n k s Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 is the analogue of Adobe Flash. Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 to watch stream video and audio (clips) will need to install addition to the current browser. At this stage supported browsers are Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and Mozilla Firefox 1.5, 2 and 3. There is a lot of movement on the first day of the National Association of Broadcasters, one of the essential items in video and multimedia. read more
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Amyuni PDF for Silverlight (Freeware)

Use Silverlight to view PDF documents and forms 1 Stimmen
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

MediaPlayer control included in Silverlight 3

For some reason I missed this until just recently, but Silverlight 3 comes with a MediaPlayer control courtesy of the Expression team. If you open the Assets panel and search for media, you
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Watch the Live Broadcast of the Silverlight 4 Launch Event

  Want to be at DevConnections for the Silverlight 4 Launch but can;t make it? No worries, you can watch as Scott Guthrie launches Silverlight 4. Following the keynote you can watch Scott in special one hour edition of "Ask the Gu" along...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-10 more

Silverlight Cream for June 07, 2008 -- #293

Silverlight Cream for June 07, 2008 -- #293 I've got 17 links here tonight... Welcome to SL2B2.. :) ... Many are by the same folks, so I'm just going to list names: Scott Guthrie (duh), Michael Scherotter, Joel Neubeck(2), Kathy Kam, Walt Ritscher, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth(2), David Anson, Tim Heuer(4), WPFEDevCon, Mike Taulty/Mike Ormond, and Mike Snow. Wow... what a bunch of links! ... I tried not to pull all the "Silverlight 2 Beta 2" links since we're all posting that. There are
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Microsoft extends Windows 7 and Azure to open source developers (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Microsoft will unveil on Wednesday several open source initiatives to boost interoperability between Microsoft technologies, such as Windows 7, Windows Azure, and Silverlight, and open source technologies, including the Eclipse tools platform and Java.No tag for this post.
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Tip of the Day #19: Using Isolated Storage

Silverlight uses Isolated Storage as a virtual file system to store data in a hidden folder on your machine. It breaks up the data into two separate sections: Section #1 contains administrative information such as disk quota and section #2 contains the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

40 Fixes/Features Wishlist for Live Spaces (7/11/08) - revised

Just recently, I wrote a post on things I'd love to see for Live Spaces, but I think I put more new features, than I did put about fixing Live Spaces. I'm a Windows Live fan and all, and sometimes I think Microsoft could so much more to make something that exists much more neater, but they just don't. For some reason. To me, Windows Live is similar to a big puzzle with most pieces in place, but some aren't positioned right, some pieces can't be found, and some are just plain wrong. You can see
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Free ASP.NET, Ajax, and IIS Web Camps

My colleague James Senior ( @jsenior ) has organized some new Microsoft's Web Camps . These are free, two-day events that allow you to learn and build on the Microsoft Web Platform. At camp, you will hear from Microsoft experts on the latest components...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-03 more

Silverlight 2 is out!

Bam. Silverlight 2 is out . There's the expected stuff, like the final SDK, Expression, and Silverlight tools: Microsoft Silverlight 2 SDK Expression Blend 2 SP1 Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Deep Zoom Composer And from Tim's blog : Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-14 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #91

In addition to controls, the Silverlight Toolkit comes with a great set of themes that can easily be applied to your controls. These themes currently include: Bureau Black Bureau Blue Expression Dark Expression Light Rainier Purple Rainier Orange Shiny...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

ABC iView Launched and other local Digital TV happenings..

ABC TV in Australia (the gov run station) have launched an online video service iView - accessible via your browser (flash based) - featuring 5 channels of full screen on demand video (taken from their on air content). The service is free to the public (not clear if you can access it from outside Australia) - but might gobble up your monthly bandwidth if you don't keep an eye on things. (currently iiNet is the only ISP to announce they will make this site unmetered - however more will follow s
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Silverlight web application utilising MOSS 2007 content for School by cerbs

Silverlight web application utilising MOSS 2007 content. We are seeking qualified developers to create an application clone for the flash application located at http://www.cnetnetworks.com/annual_reports/2006
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Search problems with the Silverlight 3 beta documentation

If you have used the Silverlight 3 beta documentation on MSDN, you might have noticed that none of the new topics or APIs appear in search results, regardless of whether you are searching with MSDN or another search engine. This is intentional - none...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

DevExpress ASP.NET Themes Easy 3 Step Customization for Your Projects

Check out the difference between a naked ASP.NET project and the same project using a Developer Express theme: Nice upgrade, isn't it? Here are the 3 simple steps to add Developer themes to your project:  1. Add a Combo Box for Selecting the Theme First youll need to decide on which page you want to put the theme selection combo box. You can put it on a master page so that its available on all derived pages. Or you can put it on a user customization page,... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Open-source Silverlight released for developers

The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave, JavaFX, and Apple QuickTime.
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

What I miss in Silverlight 2.0

No, I do not miss a particular control or class. I am thinking about principle design issues. Search Engines The extension for Silverlight applications is xap.  The content is kind of binary. At the end of the line, no content for search engine spider. Proposed solution: add metacontent, like the original XAML file. Librarys Some of the new controls are not included native in Silverlight base installation. Datagrid or Tabcontrol are in separate dlls (e.g. System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll)...
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Silverlight Output Protection

The purpose of output protection is to increase content protection during transmission between a computer
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Invalid URI: The Uri scheme is too long

"Invalid URI: The Uri scheme is too long" - now that's a peculiar message. I got it while doing some Xslt transformations. It comes out that XslCompiledTransform can't just read any xml and transform it. There are issues if Uri scheme is too long. What is too long? Can't really tell, since mine wasn't THAT long. The following code did not work for me: XslCompiledTransform xsl = newXslCompiledTransform(); xsl.Load("t.xsl"); XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create("dest.xml"); xsl.Transform(File.ReadA
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #32: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page.

UserControls are a great way to separate objects into smaller, more manageable chunks of logic. These controls can reused by different applications and are independent from other controls. Each UserControl can contain any amount of content and logic and...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

MLB.com looks great on desktop Linux

f you visit MLB.com and look to see if you can watch baseball games over the Internet, you
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Silverlight 3 Hits the Street

Microsoft Silverlight 3 was released today and is now available for download , as is the Release Candidate for Expression Blend , while the associated Expression Studio 3 tool suite will be available within 30 days. This media and rich Internet application solution, along with Microsoft Visual Studio, provides a highly collaborative development and design environment that simplifies the process of delivering engaging user experiences. Silverlight remains a free runtime that almost anyone c
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

BarCamp KL Day 1

So I start the day pretty late coming into silverlight sessions by Kok Chian and another Silverlight developer. I can see the increase of Silverlight portfolios and they also introduce a new format called XBAP with the example can be seen on photosynth.net. Next, I
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

UI Virtualization

Today’s post is motivated by a scenario that’s common in business applications: displaying and interacting with a large data set. We’ll quickly run into performance problems if we use the na
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

ARTICLE: RIM to add full Flash and Silverlight support to BlackBerry Browser?

Despite the fact that BlackBerry devices are the best in the world (okay, maybe I'm ever-so-slightly biased), the browser can certainly use a bit of improvement - especially in today's world, where an efficient browser is a must on a smartphone.  It wouldn't be very smart if it had a completely non-functional browser, now would it? The good news?  Apparently, RIM has been cooking up a solution to the issue by building in full support for Flash and Silverlight into their browser.  And when they
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

High Fiving The Ballmer

Ah! A joyful day it was. Steve Ballmer came to Belgium. I got up around 7 this morning and hopped in my car with my camera and flaptops. Drove aaaaall the way to the other side of the language border in my country and joined the local DPE team in helping to deliver a pretty sweet combo of events, hosted by Microsoft. I invited a bunch of bloggers and put them on the list of the Press so they could attend a press conference with SteveB and ask him some questions in a Q&A. As soon as I arrived, I
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

List of Best Free Mobile Browsers

This post contains a list of Best and Free Mobile Phone Browsers . Download it and have internet on on your finger tip every time! Opera Mini Colorful skins. Faster page downloads. Sync bookmarks and Speed Dial. Download and upload files. Save pages for offline viewing. View pages in Landscape mode. and many more features! Download Opera Mini UCWEB Navigation function to easily access the sites. UC browser offers various search engines, such as Googl
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

The Weekly Source Code 44 - Virtu, an Apple Emulator in C# for Silverlight, WPF and XNA

I really advocate folks reading as much source as they can because you become a better writer by reading as much as writing. That's the whole point of the Weekly Source Code - reading code to be a better developer. Reading code in Open Source projects...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-15 more

Updated jQuery and WCF 3.5 JSON Samples posted

Since I last posted my DevConnection samples, there have been a number of changes with jQuery and jQuery Ui. During the conference and for some of my own applications I'd been using intermediate builds of jQuery in order to be able to use the latest versions of jQuery.ui beta which at the time didn't work with the last public release (mainly because of the intearation of the Dimensions Plug-in into the jQuery core). I've updated all the jQuery samples as well as the WCF 3.5 JSON samples from tho
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources

Microsoft Silverlight is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework. To see the magic of Silverlight, we must suggest you to check out this showcase applications on Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Recent Podcasts

My recent DotNetRocks interview with Carl Franklin and Mark Dunn is live now. The three of us discuss our experiences as small business owners. I also did a show with Craig over at Polymorphic Podcast last week that should be live next week on caching and performance with ASP.NET. I did a similar caching show last year on dnrTV that runs through some nice demos and has sample code with it, but the show with Craig for PP adds a few more things (though without the screencast and demo code - au
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Microsoft Experimental Search

Microsoft plans Google-killing search site - Experimental searh offering out this summer By Nancy Gohring, ComputerWorlduk (Feb 25) Microsoft is still trying to make its mark in search. It has the Live Search database - now for an interface. This article previews a new site called Viveri where developers will test out new ideas. "The site will serve Live Search results and is being built using Silverlight, Microsoft's technology for designing online user interfaces. " The first aim is to d
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Virtual Earth + SharePoint = Business (Location) Intelligence

In many of my discussions with customers I talk about the value Virtual Earth plays in data visualization, especially around business intelligence and visualizing that information on maps for analysis. Now, even the iPhone is making its way into enterprise applications hosted by SharePoint with IDV Solution
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Back again

For the past month its been pretty quiet in my blog since I have been a little bit busy with the best thing that has happened in my life, my first baby Sofia was borne and today we are celebrating her first month. Days have been incredibly full of love, fun and joy (but certainly not of sleep). Now nights are much better, sleeping for a few hours now and back at work with lots of enthusiasm for the upcoming work in IIS and the incredibly exiting times at the team. So now by blog should show a bi
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

DG.TV: DeepZoom with Jose

http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=692
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Congratulations To The Winners of Visifire

Thank you for all of the participants of contest in which Visifire, Giving Away 10 Developer Licenses Of Worth $99 Each . We and Visifire selected these 10 best commenter and decided to give them free Developer Licenses of Visifire . AstroMan Scott Kenilworth Amr Ellafi Worldly News Chris webcruzers Irfan Betty Surfhead Chris Spears Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

The real reason Microsoft has given in over Internet Explorer

So why is Microsoft giving in over Internet Explorer? What
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Fun with HealthVault transforms

It is sometimes useful to be able to display data in an application without having to understand the details of that data. To make this easier, HealthVault provides a couple of features: transforms, and the HealthRecordItemDataGrid class. Discovering transforms To find out what transforms are defined for a specific type, we just ask the platform:     HealthRecordItemTypeDefinition definition =              ItemTypeManager.GetHealthRecordItemTypeDefinition(Height.TypeId, ApplicationConnecti
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

My MSDN Flash editorial on Live Mesh

The MSDN Flash (signup) team in Australia let me write the editorial this month, below is what got sent: Angus Logan here! Finula has asked me to be Guest Editor of this MSDN Flash to share my insights on Live Mesh. I look after technical product management for the Live Platform in Redmond. It
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store

I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my  Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Netflix iPhone movie streaming on the way?

If the latest rumors are to be believed, apparently Netflix might just be offering up movie streaming for subscribers on their iPhones and iPod touch devices. And while nothing has been confirmed yet, it does seem somewhat likely. The
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Custom Loading Splash Screen

Flash vs Silverlight: Custom Loading Splash Screen Browser Integration No Comments
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Updated FlickrViewr for Silverlight 3

Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more! Go here to see the app and get the code....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-17 more

Microsoft Local Impact Map: Surface Edition

After the excellent reception of the Microsoft Local Impact Map Silverlight application, we
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Three New WPF and Silverlight Designer Videos Posted

The WPF and Silverlight Designer Team has posted the following new widescreen videos: Layout Techniques for Windows Forms Developers Grid Control Design-Time Row and Column Manipulation Features Creating and Consuming Resource Dictionaries in WPF and...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-16 more

Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 1

jQuery is a lightweight, cross-browser JavaScript library designed to ease JavaScript's most common tasks, including inspecting and manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM) and making out of band HTTP requests to support AJAX functionality. In plain English, jQuery makes it easy to perform client-side tasks like adding or removing attributes or CSS classes to elements in the DOM, or showing or hiding elements on the page in response to a user action (such as clicking a button). jQuery is use
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight applications

My whitepaper on Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight is now online: http://silverlight.net/learn/whitepapers/seo.aspx It provides a story for Silverlight 2 application authors and publishers who want their apps and content to show up in search...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Microsoft Kills Encarts, Teams up with MySpace

Microsoft is getting ready to pull the plug on Encarta , the digital encyclopedia that debuted way back in 1993 to compete with Encyclopedia Britannica. In doing so, Microsoft all but concedes that Wikipedia is the reference guide of the present and future. Encarta expanded rapidly throughout the 90
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

5 Reasons Why Silverlight Is My Preferred Web Development Platform

Item Solutions (where i work) has been using Silverlight ever since the first version came out, and by now we have quite a bit of experience and dare i say expertise in it. We generally suggest using Silverlight for every new project that we do, and the only time we don
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Silverlight - Databinding Images to URIs

Mike's already blogged about this one so I'll simply highlight his post. I was building a simple music jukebox app to demo OpenFileDialog and IsolatedStorage. You can select some tracks to play and add them to a queue. The queue is maintained in isolated storage so queued tracks persist through a re-start. The app also uses a bit of WCF to resolve the URIs for the album cover image and the wma file. All was well until I came to databind the images. This had worked when I'd set the image source
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Growl for Windows and a Web Notification API

I have talked before about the desire for a Notification API on the Web. As a Mac user, I would love to see Growl from JavaScript, and there have been libraries written from as far back as protoGrowl. The difference is between a JavaScript API that does notifications on the desktop, versus trying to get little custom notifications inside the browser window itself. I am talking about the former. Brian Dunnington has developed Growl for Windows, and with his latest version, he allows you to ta
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Getting friendly with jQuery (A beginners guide)

Learning jQuery the fun and easy way (hopefully).... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Preliminary Product Review

NB: This post is not about Silverlight; it is a short digression to share one of the cooler new products I
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

MSNBot Clicking on Bing adCenter Search Ads?

July 29th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment There is a thread I have been watching at the Bing Community where one member said that he had log files that shows MSNBot (Microsoft Bing
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Creating a Deep Zoom Slideshow

The MultiScaleImage control is quite flexible in that it allows you to do a bit more than just zooming in and panning on images. At its core, it is basically a layout panel that allows you to view high resolution images efficiently. Everything else that...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

MIX09: A Shot of Windows Live Messenger and a Pint of Microsoft Silverlight

Learn how to add instant stickiness and drive new users to a Web site while uncovering the hidden social network within. Hear how Effective UI quickly and easily added these capabilities to its customers' existing Microsoft Silverlight projects using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. Jordan Snyder At EffectiveUI, Jordan builds web applications using Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. She has been using Silverlight since v1.0 and is a member of Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0Beta TAP
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Improved Collection Support in Deep Zoom Composer

A couple of days ago, we released another version of Deep Zoom Composer. One of the major changes we made revolved around dealing with large collections of images, and this was something that Deep Zoom Composer never handled particularly well in the past...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Will the BlackBerry browser get full Flash, Silverlight support?

Research In Motion is planning on integrating full Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support into their BlackBerry web browser, according to a report. BoyGeniusReport notes that the integration is
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

SQLAuthority News Proposed eGov Standards Policy Benefit for All or Only A Chosen Few

Does the proposed eGov Standards Policy benefit all or only a chosen few? As a wider audience comes to accept new technology, so the technology itself grows. The recent debate in India on the eGov Standards policy has been a point of contention for some time. I would like to start our discussion on this [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Minimizing Email Distractions

I'm not sure why this didn't occur to me before... I read recently another brief article about the negative impact of email on productivity the other day, so I was thinking about a way to deal with it that didn't involve, e.g., closing Outlook and maybe even setting an "I'm not available by email until 3p today" out of office type message--seems a bit extreme, and it would also preclude my getting meeting reminders. It occurred to me that what usually happens is I get the nifty little toaster...
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Hands on: Coding a Silverlight application

Hands on: Coding a Silverlight application
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

SQL SERVER - mssqlsystemresource - Resource Database

Just a day ago I received following email
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Editable Silverlight ComboBox

Tim Heuer posted today about using the AutoCompleteBox control (Silverlight Toolkit) to enable editable ComboBox scenarios in Silverlight apps. This was originally one of the more complex samples that we included in the toolkit sample project, and Tim...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

XMLAuto version 2010

Ten years ago, I played with OLE Automation so we can write things such as the following, where Document represents an XML document:String name = Document.Bookstore.Book[1].Author.LastName;Document.Bookstore.Book[1].Author.LastName = "NewName";The experiment was named XMLAuto.I wanted to implement this again with C# 4's dynamic keyword, but I won't have to do it. Mark Michaelis and Michael Stokesbary already played with this (last year).I find it's an interesting way to learn how to implement I
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Extensible Templates in Deep Zoom Composer

In the previous post , I started talking about some of the collection-related improvements we made in Deep Zoom Composer. The crux of that post was describing how you can defer to the Silverlight application the task of arranging and positioning your images. Deep Zoom Composer ships with one basic template, based on my earlier Tag Browser, that handles simple arrangement of like-sized images during runtime. Of course, there are many more things that you may want to do beyond just having ite
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: HTML Hosting in the WebBrowser Control

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Introduction to HealthVault Development #8: Related items

Our current application allows users to track their weight, but some of our users also want to track the time they spend walking. In this episode, well extend our application to store and display that information. We will be storing that information in the Exercise type. First, well need to head off to the Application Configuration Center (theres a link at the bottom of the HealthVault Application Manager if you forget the URL) Locate your application, and look at the online access that is cu
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Tech News, Resources from Blogosphere - 31 March 09(2)

How To Make Your Television Play Anything in 3D Tech Giants Introduce
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

My Love Affair with FireFox 3

I get a pretty large number of hits to my old post on Speeding Up Firefox the Right Way. So much so that Brendan changed the algorithm we use to determine the top blog posts on CodeBetter.com! At least the ad revenue from that post helps pay for our servers and the large amount of bandwidth all of our wonderful readers consume (I'm not complaining, really). I downloaded Firefox 3 the day after it was released. Great download speeds and no dropped or busy connections. I have to say it is truly...
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Bing Visual Search Released!

And it uses Silverlight! Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Eric Griffin

Eric Griffin
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Web Cast-off

Due to a family emergency I had to postpone today
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Tweets from 2009-03-28

Ditto, but let
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

Video Wiki

This page will serve as the Overview of the VideoWiki Application to be developed as part of the AgOpenSource project. This particular application is on temporary hold pending its move to Moderated Open Source as of July 30. Definition VideoWikipedia...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Digging Into Custom Controls

Last night
Publication date: 2008-09-13 more

Prototyping with SketchFlow

Recently, we introduced a new set of tools that add on to Expression Blend 3 that are designed to address the early stages of design.     With SketchFlow, you can   a)      sketch out ideas b)     turn those ideas into working prototypes that are as rough or as real as you want them to be c)      present those interactive user experiences for review and comment in the SketchFlow player     SketchFlow prototypes are quick and informal, enabling
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

Nintex Offers Reporting Solution for SharePoint

In early August, Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex rolled out a solution for those concerned with governance in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-18 more

IIS Application Request Routing (ARR)

I've been spending a good deal of time focusing on performance issues lately. When your web properties count annual page views in the BILLIONS, it's inevitable. IIS 7 has great, often overlooked, granularity feature to help you hone performance and the IIS team continues to deliver in the performance space. Check out APR ! Application Request Routing (ARR) enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based... Did
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Sneak Peek of the Next MSDN Flash Newsletter

Next week my focus turns to an eight city series of MSDN Unplugged events to help web developers get ready for the upcoming release of Silverlight 2 and prepare for what you will see announced at PDC in late October. The session is titled Get Ready for Cloud-Based Services, IE8 & Silverlight 2. I will discuss briefly readiness and enhancements with Internet Explorer 8. I will introduce Silverlight 2 and WPF 3.5 for developers focused on service enabled rich client development and then lead into.
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

ITV: Please sort out your Champions League site

The Champions League starts today. And ITV seem to have cocked up their website. If you go to itv.com/sport/football/ and click 'Champions League' at the top, you go to itv.com/sport/football/championsleague/ (first picture - still showing last season's final). ITV.com champions league page Clicking 'Video' on the left hand menu takes you to championsleague.itv.com/ , shown below. The championsleague.itv.com site Under the heading 'watch now', this site says: "itv.com/foot
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Overview

Last Friday we announced the public release of the Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow Release Candidate and Silverlight 3 RTW. If you haven
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

SQL Server 2008 New Features - Row Constructors

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has brought many new features. In this article, Nidal sheds light on a new feature called row constructors with the help of relevant SQL Statements. This feature is intended to increase productivity and ease the lives of developers. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Community Credit

  David Silverlight (isn
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

The ESRI Web ADF 9.3

Remember this post ?  Count that as the most popular post ever on my blog (so much for a positive post being my watermark).  Anyway Doron Yaacoby has followed up almost a year and a half later with another look at where ESRI has taken the Web ADF since then. Almost none of the issues I addressed in my original post were fixed. The API is still overly complex. Resources, functionalities and all these so-called abstractions remain in place, emphasizing the strength of the JavaScript API
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

July 9. Celebrating A First Very Happy Year At Microsoft

    and thanking you all for your support and shared excitement as Silverlight evolves.     istockPhoto; rights reserved...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-11 more

SOA Patterns chapter 2 for free download

DZone recently published an interview with me on my SOA Pattterns book. Along with the interview you can also download chapter 2 of the book (I think you need to be a DZone member to actually download it). Chapter 2 includes the Edge Component , Service Host , Active Service , Transactional Service and the Workflodize patterns. Additional downloads related to the book includeChapter 1 which you can downlaod directly from Manning The Service Firewall Pattern which I published on InfoQ The... Did
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: FlowDirection

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Microsoft Silverlight 3 released with eye on SEO

When Microsoft released Silverlight, the thought of them trying to compete with Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash seemed crazy, but as the software has evolved, we
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

How MSFT/YHOO Could Affect Newspaper Consortium

July 31st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment How might the Microsoft/Yahoo search ad pact affect Yahoo
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Why Oslo Is a Great Idea?

Shawn Wildermuth will give you evidences with which to show  why Oslo matters to him so much. As many of you know, I used to go by "The ADO Guy". When I started to look into Silverlight and Oslo, I didn't leave my ADO Guy at the door. I always tried to let people know that it was data (not necessarily databases) that inspired my love of development. Oslo is a natural extension of that.
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Desert Code Camp Is This Saturday (May 31st)

Arizona's Desert Code Camp is this Saturday (May 31st) at the University of Advanced Computing building.  Here's the address: University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road (map) Tempe, Arizona 85283 It looks like there are a lot of great talks scheduled covering everything from iPhone development to game development to line of business applications.  I'll be giving a talk titled Integrating Data Into Silverlight 2 Applications on behalf of Interface Technical Training which i
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Bing 2.0 due next Monday, boasting cutting-edge maps via Silverlight

Taking its Bing search engine to the next level, Microsoft is allegedly prepping a host of eye-candy features designed to lure more users away from Google. According to ZDNet
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

The Morning Brew #359

Software SubMain acquires GhostDoc, releases new version, integrates it with CodeIt.Right - SubMain have taken on the GhostDoc tool, and have been further developing it to add in VB support, VS2010 support and done some re-architecting. Part of the agreement is that GhostDoc will continue to have a free version. Roland Weigelt, the orignial creator of Ghost Doc gives further details in his post The Future of GhostDoc Nova Commons - Nova Software make their first release of Nova Comm
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Silverlight XAP File Out of Date When Built with Expression Blend

  The latest project I am working on involves some rather tight integration between Silverlight and SharePoint so I
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

WordPress 2.0 for iPhone: Review

Wordpress releases a new app for mobile blogging on the iPhone. Will this revolutionize blogging on the go?
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

Microsoft wants Silverlight to be number one especially on mobiles

Some time back Nokia was the first mobile handset manufacturer to take onboard the Silverlight platform by delivering it to their Maemo, S40 and S60 based devices. Recently Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 3 MSDN documentation are combined

There is quite a bit of overlap between developing for Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 and so in order to not duplicate content in different locations on the web, both versions are covered in the same set of MSDN documentation. Below is a list of tips...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-24 more

4 Expression Studio 3 Starter Kits available for download

AGI has put together 4 starter kits for you to enjoy.  The Starter Kits cover SketchFlow, Game Programming, SuperPreview and Silverlight Support in Expression Web. Each Kit includes a guide, assets and tutorial videos. Introduction to Prototyping...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

Woo Themes

As you might know I am currently using WordPress for my blog engine. Recently, when browsing the web for a high-end professional looking theme, I came across a company called
Publication date: 2010-05-26 more

SharePoint + XAML = WOW (Next Gen Educational Guidance App)

SharePoint + XAML = WOW (Next Gen Educational Guidance App) by Don Burnett Over at the SharePoint Blog , they are exhibiting a educational application that the UK educational team are working on for excel tracking sheets. With this application, the teacher can see the pupil's data including attendance, average grade and emotional intelligence and can also filter... Continue reading
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Major Nelson

Microsoft have recently announced that they are bringing Silverlight advertisements to the Xbox 360. In an attempt to quell any fears people have about this development, Larry Hryb aka Major Nelson, has put a post up on his blog to reassure people that this will not lead to a massive increase in the number of [...]
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

MSN Games

Microsoft MSN Games
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Which came first, the View or the Model?

As I wrote and subsequently taught the Silverlight Tour workshop, I've had a number of discussions with students, clients and the community-at-large about how to architect Silverlight applications. The momentum behind the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern makes a lot of sense to me, especially with declarative views (as seen in Silverlight and WPF ). Most of my thinking around this was covered in my MSDN article about it: http://tinyurl.com/slmvvm One topic that the artic
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

WINDOWS NETBOOKS: THE PATH TO LOW COST COMPUTING

Windows Netbooks: The Path to Low Cost Computing 224 pages | Apress (September 28, 2009) | ISBN: 1430223995 | PDF | 41.5 MB Going from set netbooks in 2006 to 10 meg in 2008, it
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Pivots to the Rescue

One of the projects my company is currently working on has a requirement to be able to store timesheet data in a more flexible manner.  The existing Access forms application is being converted to Silverlight 3 and has a fairly rigid (albeit standard) database structure for timesheets.  Hours and quantities are associated directly with days using columns such as MonHours, MonQuant, etc.  (see the table image to the right).  The catch is that the company needs to be able to store several other p
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Shoutouts

Before I take off, a couple of shoutouts that I
Publication date: 2008-11-10 more

Saving ASP.Net Form Data with jQuery AJAX and JSON Parser

Using jQuery Ajax and JSON.Net parser to process ASP.Net webform data and avoid page post back... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Democratic Convention Video: Everywhere Online, But HD Awesomeness on Official Site

Democratic Convention Video: Everywhere Online, But HD Awesomeness on Official Site August 25th, 2008 Yes, I know..we don
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/14/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #28. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows Forms, Windows...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-14 more

ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 4

In this webcast I dive pretty deep into Data Access and talk about some architectural decisions I need to make, specifically how to get Linq To Sql to map to my model properly. I also go over some feedback I received at the MVP summit last week. Previously, On The MVC Storefront Part 1: Architectural Discussion and Overview. I cover the initial architecture here, in part 1, where I discuss the Repository Pattern with Ayende Rahien and Steve Harman. I also ask Phil Haack what's first: The Test
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #50

In the recent release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there is a new event that fires once before the rendering of each frame in your browser. This rendering event is routed to the specified event handler after animation and layout have been applied to the composition...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-30 more

Windows Vista Hits RTM!

me, signing my name on one of the many Vista disk posters well, if you're gonna sign it... make it legible, right? :-)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

NBC

Web video delivery - streaming content, in particular - isn
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

Making authenticated calls to flickr

There are few things to know , when getting photos from your stream , adding comments and overall doing adding and deletion of your photos. As with flickr you can take a look at this url => http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html  for authentication spec to learn more. But with Athena (formerly known as LINQ.Flickr) it's pretty easy to get things going. Last week, I made an update to the FlickrXplorer (The MVC starter project you don't want to miss :-)) project that now enables... D
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Drilling deeper into the Charting client-side API

ComponentArt Charting 2008.1 introduces an easy way for end users to customize the look and feel of charts. This is accomplished through a JavaScript client-side API. Charting toolbar demo in ComponentArt
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Tip of the Day #23

Silverlight currently does not support mouse wheel events. However, you can attach an event to capture the mouse wheel movement through the HtmlPage object. This tutorial will show you how to do it for IE, Opera, Mozilla and Safari browsers. To start...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #47

With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there is are a number of new controls that were not available in beta 2 including: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox Password boxes are great in that they hide the characters a user is typing for privacy and security...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-29 more

Rounding Up The Google Wave Week

Last week actually became a Flex 4 week towards the tail end, but read about that in the next post. Google Wave is a phenomenal project and I already told you that . One of our readers has a doubt:
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design

In this video, part of the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, demonstrates the basics of designing icons. Icons are a way to abstract a real visual object into a usually smaller representation that preserves the essence of the original object...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Printouts of the slides, presented on Silverlight 2.0 open house today

Thank you all, who participated today in Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications event. I uploaded printouts of the slides, presented during the session here. So, you can download it for reference. I
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Upcoming INETA presentations

I've been laying low from a lot of things while working on my book this summer, but I just confirmed two INETA speaking gigs. The first is only a few weeks away. I'll be doing a presentation on Silverlight 2.0 Annotation at the Western Mass .NET Group in Springfield, MA which should be about a 3 or 3 1/2 hour drive from home. There are three user groups that I can drive to in 3 hours. This one. Montreal and Albany. I am not a big fan of road trips, but I can endure 3 hours and I have enjoyed spe
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

HanselMinutes Interview on RIA Services

I had a great opportunity to chat with the famous Scott Hanselman recently on .NET RIA Services .    We drilled a lot into the background for RIA Services and what the high level patterns we are addressing with RIA Services.  Brad Abrams runs a number of teams at Microsoft, most recently working on "Rich Internet Application Services" (RIA). Scott grills Brad on the rebirth of 3-tier architect, XML, REST and JSON. What's this thing about and is it the best way to write dat
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Silverlight Support for Windows Mobile

Skyfire As you know, in the US, Microsoft is partnering with NBC for exclusive Olympics game contents at http://www.nbcolympics.com/. The site heavily uses Microsoft Silverlight instead od Flash for video contents. It would be a challenge for Mobile users, since there are not many mobile browsers that can support Silverlight (or even Flash for that matter). Luckily [...] ShareThis
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Getting started with Silverlight: Ste 5 – Integrating other controls

This is part 5 in a series on getting started with Silverlight . To view the index to the series click here . You can download the completed project files for this sample application in C# or Visual Basic . In our previous step we added better data binding...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

JUST RELEASED: p&p Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I - beta2

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-01 more

Generating thumbnails in ASP.NET (DotNetSlackers)

I just published a new article on DotNetSlackers. The post is about generating scalable and secure image thumbnails. http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Generating-Image-Thumbnails-in-ASP-NET.aspx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

Olympic YouTube Channel Puts International News in One Place

No doubt about it. Many eyes are tuning into the Summer Olympic Games. A record count, according to NBC Universal, which this Saturday divulged statistical details for the first day of its video-rich online venture, NBCOlympics.com. But say you
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Using WPF and Silverlight UserControls

UserControls promote code reuse, separation of concerns and simplify development by partitioning applications into smaller blocks of code. In this article you'll learn why you would use a UserControl, how to create one from the Toolbox, understand when...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-15 more

OpenId Part Three: Authorization

As promised in part two, Ill close the loop on OpenId by talking briefly about authorization. Weve already seen how to authenticate, so once youve got an authenticated OpenId identifier, the trick is what to do with it. This does not end up being all that exciting; in my case linked back to an identifier column in my user table and to get information about the newly logged in user. Based on characteristics of that user, I could then determine their authorization level or roles. Stick the roles i
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

April 29th - Silverlight Special Interest Group

Ad: : SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies ( more information ). I will be speaking at the Silverlight Special Interest Group. Here are the details -   Event Details |   Map |   Add to Calendar Title: SharePoint and Silverlight, perfect together Abstract: Silverlight is one of the most exciting things to come out of Microsoft lately. In this session, Sa
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Cisco VPN and Windows 7

Before I had posted a small blog entry on how it was basically impossible to get the Cisco VPN software working on a Windows Vista machine. It turned out to be one of the most hit blog entries I had mainly due to the amount of help that was being provided in the comments. In the comments, many folks tried to help others with a solution. Though, one of the last entries I read recently was about a gentleman that pointed out that if you get all the Vista updates, that it seemed to just work. There.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Flex Vs Ajax Vs Silverlight

The Internet was originally designed for simply transporting documents and information. The technology it was built upon lacked the interactivity of desktop applications. That's changed in the past decade as innovators have developed a richer user experience, despite huge challenges.
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

SketchFlow: Exploring Ideas

SketchFlow, the prototyping environment in Expression Blend, lets you build deep, dynamic prototypes with a lot of
Publication date: 2010-02-08 more

Convert PDF to word processing documents with Aspose.Recognition for .NET

Aspose has launched a new file format component: Aspose.Recognition for .NET Aspose.Recognition for .NET is yet another new file format component which is newly launched by Aspose. Now you can convert PDF files to almost all Word Processing Document formats. About Aspose.Recognition for .NET With Aspose.Recognition you can add intelligent PDF to word processing documents conversion to your 32-bit and 64-bit .NET applications. Aspose.Recognition reads a PDF file, recognizes editable document stru
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

RIM Is The World

Blackberry has been making waves this past week. First Fortune Magazine named RIM, the makers of Blackberry, the fastest growing company in the world . Then came the news that upcoming Blackberry devices, possibly next year, will offer Flash and Silverlight support in their their mobile handsets. It
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

6 New Silverlight Image Rotators

After working for one whole day, I have created another 4 image rotators. We have all together 6 image rotators now! All image rotators are redesigned such that they can be reused easily using XAML....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

The Morning Brew #393

Software Welcome NHibernate 2.1.0 - The NHibernate Team announce the GA release of NHibernate 2.1 GA, along with the news that the NHibernate 2.1.x releases will be the last releases to target .NET 2.0 IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released - Steve Schofield shares the news that the beta release of the IIS7 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 has been released by the IIS team. Available as a standalone install or through the Web Platform Installer this rules based rewriting engine allows you
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Microsoft details AJAX navigation implemented in IE8

Microsoft has given more details on a HTML5 Ajax feature included in Internet Explorer 8. The company has also taken the time to include guides for implementing the functionality into a Silverlight application. Read More...
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Entity Framework tonight at Vermont.NET

I'll be doing a presentation on EF tonight at my very own user group. I've decided to begin with a quick EF overview (all slides, no code) before I dig into the real presentation where I will show a slew of tips & tricks for EF. I always look forward to talking about Entity Framework. Plus I actually have some copies of my book in hand that I'll be able to give away. Thanks this month to Pragmatic Technologies in Burlington (who has job openings) for sponsoring the meeting, to GE HEalthcare... D
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services

Vijay , one of the folks working on RIA Services recently posted a very good overview of how to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services.  I think this is an important benefit of adopting the RIA Services pattern.  Check it out and let us know what you think!   Unit Testing Business Logic in .NET RIA Services
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Silverlight Feature Suggestions Forum

I happened to revisit the current list of feature suggestions in the
Publication date: 2010-08-12 more

More than just the application

From a comment left on this article: http://www.fastcompany.com/article/how-social-media-upending-enterprise   Successful companies put more value on the information than the application. Look at what Amazon has done for consumer buying or what Google has done for advertising. The key to this market is not on building the new 'it' application, but on helping companies understand how their brand is being discussed, what their customer perceptions are, and learning to innovate hand-in-hand with...
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Updated Silverlight media player using VisualStateManager

I
Publication date: 2008-06-11 more

MyShowroom.tv - Build Your Own Channel

In their own words
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Dreaming of RIA Services - Literally

I was having a hard time sleeping last night so I got up and did some work. I started reading up on RIA Services on Brad Abrams' blog and Nikhil Kothari's . I needed a refresher from the last time I dug into them just before TechEd. I'm really excited about RIA Services because they bridge a very frustrating gap when working with ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria).  I finally went back to sleep and dreamt that Brad and some other's from Microsoft were at my user group ( www.vtdotnet.org ) 
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Release Candidate ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF Now Available

The release candidate build of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available download from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server. Build numbers are as follows: Initial Release: 1.0.0.160 Updated Release: 1.0.0.209 Release Candidate: 1.0.0.255 There are a number of updates and enhancements along with a few breaking changes as well as a few bugs which have been resolved. The updates/enhancements include: Breaking Change: All assemblies and namespac
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 Released - Free Download

Microsoft has released their newest version of Silverlight plugin for internet browsers, version 3.0 with slogan
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

For DevDays attendees

Thank you for attending my 3 sessions in Amsterdam at DevDays 2008. I had a blast! + Resources for my Silverlight session. + Resources for my 5 Things (VS2008 client session). + Resources for my Parallel Extensions session. Comments about this post welcome at the original blog.
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

UX Pattern Explorer (

Quince is a
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Quotes about concurrency by AndersH

Yesterday a new 1-hour video interview on C# 4.0 was posted on channel9.At some point the question is posed to Anders:"What are some of the big issues that you are thinking about for the future?"and Anders' reply (ffw to 39:56) identifies concurrency as the #1 thing:"Concurrency is by far... profoundly changing... Moore's law... we've been ignoring concurrency because we could... now we can't... it is a damn hard problem..."My favorite quote comes at 45:13 and includes hand gestures too:"It is f
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Web services interop with WCF - Relevant Forum Questions

I was just browsing the WCF forum on MSDN. Here's a summary of the interesting threads dealing with interop: How to map complex data types exposed by a J2EE web services, into a WCF client? How to use connect from an AXIS 2 client to a WCF service using SSL? How to transfer a Hashtable or Vector over web services? How to transfer a Fault from WebLogic/Java to a WCF client How to tell svcutil.exe to use existing types when generating proxy classes Contract-first design with WCF and the svcutil.ex
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

See the Light

Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

MSN Toolbar 4

Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Silverlight at Microsoft PDC09 – we will be there!

It
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration

If you
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

LINQ im Einsatz, LINQ in Action in German

Today, I received a copy of LINQ im Einsatz. This is the German translation of LINQ in Action. It's now available from Amazon.de and from Hanser. Bonus: The German version is bigger than the English one. It contains chapter 14, which covers LINQ to DataSet and is provided in English only as a PDF download from Manning's website. Maybe we'll see translations in other languages next. French would be a good idea, for example ;-) Viel Spa beim Lesen! Cross-posted from http://linqinaction.net... Did
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Creating Testable Modules - Links MVP

In this series of blogs, I have been describing my investigation into building Testable Modules, as I prepare for a talk I am giving at Open Force Europe next month.  In earlier blog articles I have described some of the concepts and created a simple testable application using the Model View Presenter design pattern.  In this blog post I start building a DotNetNuke Module - Links MVP - using these concepts and the MVP pattern.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles writ
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2009 -- #712

In this Issue: Mark Miller , Kirupa , Sergey Barskiy , Timmy Kokke , Laurent Bugnion , Jeff Prosise
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

WTF Step by Step guide to installing Silverlight Tools

With Silverlight 4 shipping and Expression Blend 4 RC made available, now was a great time to update the Flash to Silverlight section on the Project Rosetta site. My main goal was to update the Getting Started series to take advantage of new version 4...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-29 more

SQL SERVER Query Optimization Remove Bookmark Lookup Remove RID Lookup Remove Key Lookup

Today, I would like to share one very quick tip about how to remove bookmark lookup or RID lookup. Let us first understand Bookmark lookup or RID lookup. Please note that from SQL Server 2005 SP1 onwards, Bookmark look up is known as Key look up.When a small number of rows are requested by a [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Silverlight Screencast Site

When I think back to where Silverlight was just a year ago, it is so exciting to see how far it has come and how much the community has embraced it. Recently I stumbled upon a nice Silverlight podcast called Sparkling client . Sparkling Client is a podcast by Eric Mork about Silverlight and other RIA technologies. This week they talk about a new community screencast site they are working on that will give the community a new place to learn about RIA technology. I was excited to see that
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Baseline Registry Settings for new Domain Controllers

I have a list of baseline registry settings which I put on any new domain controller. I thought I'd share the VB Script below which sets all these as well as enables some performance counters. Many of the settings are applicable outside of a Domain Controller. Note: These settings have been tested countless times with Windows Server 2003 domain controllers. I indicated where possible which settings do not apply to a Windows Server 2008 (or better) domain controller. I've used these on Windows Se
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

RadGauge for Silverlight - coming up with Q3

There are lots of exciting things coming up with the official release of "RadControls for Silverlight". One of them is the newly included RadGauge control in the suite. As it has already become a tradition - RadGauge for Silverlight will share the same code base as its WPF analogue. This will allow the users to use the same API with both the controls. With Telerik RadGauge for Silverlight you will be able to display and monitor live data using the rich set of features the control provides. Fu
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

ElementName binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviour

Colin Eberhardt has a blog post concentrated on ElementName binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviour. As a relative newcomer to Silverlight I was happily greeted by the warm feeling of familiarity when I started developing. It is surprisingly easy to make the transition from WPF to Silverlight developer, with most of the core concepts being just the same. However, there are some parts of the WPF framework that you start to miss. One of those is ElementName binding.
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

re: Silverlight Synchronicity

I would like to express my appreciation for making this commitment and for the other work you do as well.  Working with your tutorials was central to my Silverlight education so you have already had some impact but your stronger and clearer voice about the importance of this issue for everyone who uses the Internet is invaluable. Thanks...
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Internet Download Manager 5.15 Build 6+Crack

Internet Download Manager 5.15 Build 6+Crack Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that featur
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

Windows Vista Kagome Titanium SP2 Edition July.2009 For Designer

Windows Vista Kagome Titanium SP2 Edition July.2009 For Designer | 4.3 Gb MAC OSx -Se7en Style with Office 2010 & Photoshop CS4 . After RED Vista For Gamer.Keosoft & AMC will Release Titanium Vista For Designer Vista Kagome Titanium
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Upcoming Toronto Area Developer Events

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection . There
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Windows XP Professional SP3 Corporate February 2009+Official

RELEASE INFO   Release Date .... February 2, 2009  Program Type ... OS  Platform ............ Windows XP Professional SP3 Corporate  Language .......... English  Image Type ....... ISO   INSTALL NOTES   Unrar and burn with Nero/UltraISO  License Product K.@.y intergated.  RELEASE NOTES:   Design base on Original Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3  Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 - VL (x86) - CD (English)  Date Posted (UTC):
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

The Silverlight Documentation Sample Browser

The Silverlight 2 documentation includes many live samples. However, you can access these samples only from a topic with a "run this sample" link. The best way to find the samples in the Silverlight 2 documentation is to do a search on "run this sample...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

Flash and Java on the iPhone: Video Dream vs. Security Nightmare Redux

Last week the UK ruled that Apple was misrepresenting the iPhone
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy

One of the new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to sign your XAP applications so that your out-of-browser trusted applications look more friendly (trusted) to your users, they come from a verified publisher, and they can take advantage of the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

marketing

NewsNew Dashboard Commercials Bring Ad Breaks To Your 360By Luke Plunkett on July 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM As many of you have no doubt probably seen by now if you
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Nine New Community Gallery Entries

Learn some advanced Silverlight programming techniques with Pencho Popadiyn
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Flecks Flash By

There is a posting going around about how some part(s) of Microsoft are using Flash or some other not-Silverlight technology and how even Microsoft doesn
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Telerik Q2 2009 Release Week Webinars

[Cross posted from Telerik Watch ] Smell that? That's a freshly baked release from Telerik that's just about ready to "officially" launch. The Q2 2009 release is one of the biggest releases in Telerik's history, again delivering simultaneous updates to all 7 Telerik product lines at one time. An update of this scale is bound to have lots new and interesting stuff, and we can't wait to put it in your hands so you can start playing with it. The official launch of Q2 2009 is Monday, July 6th ,
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Design-time Resources in Expression Blend 4 RC

When building Silverlight and WPF applications that are composited (e.g. using MEF) or written to support UI customization, resources are loaded dynamically at run-time. This is a great solution on the development side, but can be a challenge when working...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Well today was the public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . It is the first time developers will have the chance to take it for a spin and kick the tires. I wanted to share some information specific for Silverlight developers with regard to Visual...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Silverlight Webcasts in June

Silverlight Webcasts in June Lindsay Rutter is working on a six-part webcast series on "Look at What You Can Do in Silverlight 2" Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 6): Overview of Silverlight 2 and the WPF UI Framework June 16th, 2008 1pm EST Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 6): WPF UI Framework Continued June 18th, 2008 2pm EST Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 3 of 6): Introducing Deep Zoom June 20th, 2008 1pm EST Look What You Can Do with S
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Extras for Internet Explorer

Extras for Internet Explorer On last visit to the add-on's for Internet Explorer before we move on to other subjects. Today, I want to share with you Microsoft's recommended add-on's for you web browser. Silverlight -Microsoft's lastest release to help you experience media. If you want to know more; click here. Surfulator - This add-on allows you to surf the internet and save text, images, and complete webpages. Surfulator can be called an information tool for you web surfers. read moreRobo
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Link Listing - August 21, 2008

ASP.NET Dependency injection made easy for the ASP.NET MVC [Via: cibrax ] A simple jQuery Client Centering Plugin [Via: Rick Strahl ] Ajax Control Toolkit released for .NET 3.5 SP1 [Via: Bertrand Le Roy ] WPF Building a WPF Application: Part 3 [Via: Christopher Bennage ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: August 21, 2008 - [Rough Cut] [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #163 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - August 21, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Interesting Finds: August 21, 2008 - [Final Cu
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

A few pithy thoughts on Architecture

As a follow up on the previous post. There are few things I consider as important for software architects. I wouldn't go as far as to call them axioms but I still think they are worthwhile. Think Hollistically It is always a trade-off ! Pay attention to your soft skills Get SPAMMED for architecture I wrote a lot about the forth one (see for instance this article in Dr. Dobb's). I'll expand a little about the others in the next few posts ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net ar
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

The Signs Of Having An Unhappy Marriage

by Katie Cheung People always want to have perfect marriage. Having a happy marriage isn
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Silverlight Client for Facebook available

Remember the final moments of the Scott Guthrie keynote presentation at PDC09? Where Brian Goldfarb came on stage and demonstrated a completed application using a lot of the features of Silverlight 4? Yeah, that Facebook application. Well, it
Publication date: 2010-01-25 more

Top 100 Global Brands of 2009

BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. It
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

The Lounge Advertising Network

If you haven
Publication date: 2010-04-29 more

Silverlight security overview paper has been officially published

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/A/A1A80A28-907C-4C6A-8036-782E3792A408/Silverlight Security Overview.docx (The content hasn't changed since RC but the formatting & presentation has undergone a facelift courtesy John Allwright) A little...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-07 more

New Shiny Silverlight 2 Healthcare Demo

Via Laurent I came across this excellent site showing off a cool new application called the
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

SSD (Solid State Drives) Seemed Too Good To Pass Up

Some Background I recently notice on Amazon a discussion thread of about 15 people saying how absolutely wonderful SSDs are and how the brought new life to their notebook computers. ...This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Parallels Virtualization and Automation Products Power New ActiveHost Services

Parallels announced that ActiveHost will offer Windows virtual private server (VPS) packages based solely on Parallels products. The new offering will be delivered by the newly created ActiveVPS division of ActiveHost. ActiveHost is using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Plesk Control Panel and Parallels Business Automation software to provide its customers with a complete platform to manage their own VPS resources and billing account information.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers als
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Interesting Finds: July 28, 2009

Other The TFS MVP Kerfluffle , Jeremy D Miller Unethical behavior , Ayende Rahien My Mistake + Here's Why I Like Team System , Ben Day Improving Mono's compatibility with .NET CLR , Miguel de Icaza Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code? , Eric Lippert ILMerge , Microsoft Downloads On effects and ubiquitous parallelism , Joe Duffy Windows 7 Creating a bootable/installable Windows 7 (and Vista & Win2k8) USB key the easy way -
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Microsoft Security Essentials To Arrive on Sept. 29

Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond's free consumer security software for PCs, will be available for download by the general public on Tuesday.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Programmer Symbology

Have you ever taken a step back and looked at all the funny characters we use in programming computers? I did this yesterday. Sometimes, when you look at familiar things in just the right light, they seem so strange. I use the period to terminate all my sentences. In many programming languages the period is more of a continuation character. It says: Im going to act on this thing, and here is what I want it to do. boss.MakeMeASandwhich(); That code uses a semicolon to finish a statement
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Windows Media Encoder Command Line Batch Encoding

Mostly for my own purposes I'm making this blog post to keep track of what commands to use to send to the command line to batch encode files with Windows Media Encoder. I'm trying to do this now with AVI files I've processed in Adobe Premier but want...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Some flexcoders stats

Some flexcoders stats Posted by: Doug, in flexcoders I
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #75 - Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools

I am proud to announce we have released Silverlight 2 Tools localized in 7 languages! Please follow the links below to get the language of your choice. DMT page details: Chinese - China Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1-33DA...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Advanced Tutorials

A quick note to thank so many of you for your excellent suggestions. The following topics are definitely on my list (though not yet in any particular order) and I have quite a few more to look into:   Creating a Skinnable Custom Control in depth...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-04 more

4 Awesome Visual Search Engines To Transform Your Search

Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

RIA Services Link Listing #1

Starting a new link listing series around interesting posts/content related to RIA Services. Hope you find these useful, and if you'd like to share something please send them along... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-07 more

Virtual Windows For all

Do you know about online virtual operating system? most probably many company
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio Beta land

In a previous post I wanted to call attention to the multi-targeting and design surface improvements for Silverlight developers with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . There has been some comments on that post and a few emails and Twitter replies as well with...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-25 more

Behind the Curtain

Our team (officially Community Program Managers, but from time to time our conceit is to call ourselves STO Ninjas) has quietly expanded over the past few months, including the additions of two amazing and terrific new voices: Pete Brown and Jon Galloway...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-07 more

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At Microsoft's remix event in Melbourne yesterday I caught up with Brian Goldfarb , Group Product manager, UX Platform and Tools Strategy, Microsoft Corp. Brian's group is responsible for Silverlight , their new product for developing rich content delivered through a browser, and Popfly , their Yahoo Pipes-like mashup ...
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

MSDN Blog Postings

A Bing software development kit (SDK) for iPhone and Mac is available for download on the Microsoft CodePlex community development site. The kit includes source code. The kit allows you to integrate results from Bing Search for Web,
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Microsoft Web Application Toolkits

Web Application Toolkits are designed to enable Web Developers to simply extend their web application capabilities by providing them with a packaged set of running samples, templates and documentation. The goal for the Web Application Toolkits is to provide Web Developers with resources such as project templates, controls, and code samples along with simplified documentation all in a consistent packaged format that is easy to download and run in a very short period of time. One of the key crite
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

Introducing Rx (Linq to Events)

It
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Solve the riddle, and get a free pass to MIX

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 As you may know, MIX is coming up very soon
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

vb.net/c# and javascript communication

vb.net/c# and javascript communication, how do i...... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model

Wednesday at MIX09 was a great day. I was exhausted, but after the keynote I was so high on excitement it was great. Throughout the day Twitter was buzzing (or is it fizzing?) about all the news around Silverlight 3 . In one conversation around the out...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Link Listing - June 18, 2008

Link Listing - June 18, 2008 Code Camps Code Camp San Diego [Via: ] Link Collections Dew Droplet - June 17, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for June 17, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Links (6/17/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ] The Morning Brew #117 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Interesting Finds: June 18, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] Dew Droplet - June 18, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for June 18, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Miscellaneous Everything You Wanted To Know About MVC and MVP But Were Afra
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App

So I think I
Publication date: 2010-08-28 more

Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services Keynote at VSLive!

I just finished up the keynote at VSLive in Vegas.     I did an update of my Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 3 talk from Mix09 .  I updated to the latest internal builds of Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services late last week for this demo.  It was very fun to see stuff come together an improve.  There are some great updates to the Navigation Application template, navigation in general, authentication, master-details databinding, dataform and much more that makes t
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython

Pop over to http://www.trypython.org/ and Python away. Using IronPython and the Silverlight 2.0 plugin, being CloudPythonic has never been so easy.
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Asp .Net Interview Question Part 2

Asp .Net Interview Question Part 2... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET

I was recently asked to review a licensing solution CryptoLicensing for .NET(disclosure I was paid for my time , the time it took to review it, but had only committed to doing a fair and balanced review). After reading Orens post a while ago about how he couldnt find a decent licensing solution to the point of making his own, I was sure that this one will fall out as well over some technicality. Typemock also has a home-grown solution for licensing, and while searching the web about a year ag
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications

My MIX 10 talk, an introduction to unit testing on Silverlight and the Windows Phone, is now online for streaming and download. Thank you to everyone who attended. An early preview set of bits are online at http://jeffatmix.com/
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

Flash Gets Transparent: Google, Yahoo! Learn to Index Flash

Flash Gets Transparent: Google, Yahoo! Learn to Index Flash By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Until now Flash (.SWF) media files have been pretty, well, opaque: search engines couldn
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+)

  So, this is kind of embarrassing, that it took me a while to figure this out.  I have not been doing pure asp.net server control programming for a while, but I figure since it took me a... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlig
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

The Use Of Adobe Flash

by Bonita Li The question is often raised during meetings with managers and business top dogs: Is it alright to have a flash animated web site? How do we use Adobe Flash properly to build a web site? Flash is a software for creating graphic-based animation that can help a website become richer and more interactive. Flash is a great tool for creating online training modules, product demonstrations and other types of contents that require interaction. However, one major drawback of Flash is th
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

Your First MFC C++ Ribbon Application with Visual Studio 2010

Earlier this month, I put together my first C++ sample in about a hundred years . I did that using win32 and Visual Studio 2010. Why? Well, a surprising number of folks are doing real work on impressive applications in C++, and not just inside Microsoft...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

Hospital Implements High-Tech Emergency Response System

The project I develop is in the news today: From Information Week: GPS-enabled cell phones and other mobile location-tracking technologies used for Enhanced 911 capabilities are helping emergency response workers find people in trouble. The deployment of a geographic information system and mobile applications in southern California is enabling emergency response personnel to more quickly and efficiently deploy rescue teams based on near real-time data about traffic conditions, the location... Di
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Swing links of the week: June 15, 2008

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Jan Erik Paulsen experiments with the new functionality of shaped and translucent windows in 6u10. The screenshots are impressive, and he is correctly pointing out two main deficiencies of the current (semi-private) API. The first is that you need to attach a listener to re-compute the window shape on window resize, and the second is lack of auto soft-clipping on the window shape outline. Jan Haderka has announced release 0
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #29

If your application leverages a Silverlight-enabled WCF service you may at times want to toggle the address to be pointing from the WCF service published and running on your server back to localhost in case you want to make modifications that you want...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages

I got a lot of great feedback on my post Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Bulk check-in for SharePoint

This has absolutely nothing to do with Silverlight or WPF, but thought people might find it useful anyway. If you've ever tried to check in a large number of files into SharePoint, you'll notice that there isn't a way to check them in bulk -- you have...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-14 more

Kitchen Updates

I updated my Kitchen PhotoZoom gallery with a few photos to show some progress I made over the last few weekends. Updates include adding crown to the cabinets some casing updates and we put in the backsplash (not grouted yet). The backsplash, shown below...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-03 more

Disney videos coming to YouTube, Hulu might be next

Filed under: ABC , ESPN-HD , Internet It's a bit surprising to see the Disney family of channels mixing it up with the riff raff like YouTube and, potentially, Hulu given so much time spent increasing its online video presence already ( ABC.com , ESPN 360, etc.) but here we are. The deal with YouTube will put video clips (with shared advertising revenue from 15 second prerolls, overlays and banners) and all ESPN to embed its own player on YouTube's page, similar to the deal with CBS a
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

MIX09: Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics

Come hear about the Silverlight 3 rendering pipeline, and learn how to enhance your application experience with the latest additions to the Silverlight graphics APIs. Seema Ramchandani Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Lucene.net: the main concepts

In the previous post you learnt how to get a copy of Lucene.net and where to go in order to look for more information. As you noticed the documentation is far from being complete and easy to read. So in the post Ill write about the main concepts behind Lucene.net and which are the main steps in the development of a solution based on Lucene.net. Some of the main concepts Before looking at the development phases, its important to have a look at the main actors of Lucene.net. Directoy The direc
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Virtual Earth Silverlight: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code

Now that we
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Highlights of 2009

I copied this idea from Eric (and Mike ) and thought I
Publication date: 2009-12-22 more

Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics

One of the new features to Silverlight 3 is the ability to add multi-touch capabilities to your application.  When I posed the question on Twitter , I got some responses of ideas people would use this for.  Honestly most of them could be accomplished with mouse events today and X/Y calculations.  These would be the touch applications that are pretty singular.  But I did get some multi-touch ideas that I think I
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

OpenID and ASP.NET MVC interop

Another one of those in-case-you-missed-it posts: Scott Hanselman's done a good review of the possibilities of integrating openID with ASP.NET. I mentioned this before as an interesting area for development. Looks like things are moving along. Excellent!... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Community Server 2008 Service Pack 1 is Now Available

I've been pinged by more than a few people about this today, but I can officially say that SP1 for Community Server 2008 is now available! On the download page you'll find updated install packages as well as an upgrade package for existing sites. The more notable items include these enhancements: New users have display names enabled by default Users can delete their own activity messages Admins can now delete user files and folders Control Panel link destinations are most consistent And... Did y
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

The Technology Post for June 1st

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #23 Daily Fact Just realized COBOL is over 50 years old! http://tinyurl.com/7uvd8 (Posted by Jason Gaylord ) Other Link Lists May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Scott Guthrie New
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

Telerik TV Launches Episode 3 - SimNet

Episode 3 - SimNet with Torger J. Wuellner Join Carl Franklin in the latest episode of Telerik TV as he hosts Torger J. Wuellner of Triad Interactive. In this episode Torger shows off SimNet, an e-learning platform which offers students the opportunity to learn Microsoft tools in a simulated Microsoft Office and Windows Vista environment. SimNet's portal site is built with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and is packed full of cool features. Watch as Torger demonstrates how he was able to use
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Helping designers learning from Flash to Silverlight

and much more! >> http://www.projectrosetta.com/ Project Rosetta is a site dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know. Each article on the site will focus on one technology, and through multiple lessons, demonstrate how existing knowledge and skills can be transferred to another technology. Articles will include assets and source code and show a direct comparison between accomplishing the same... Did yo
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

ALT.NET Canada

The first ALT.NET Canadian conference will take place on August 15-17 2008 in Calgary. Check all the details here:http://www.altnetconfcanada.com/home/index.castle... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Microsoft introduces Virtual Earth CDN (Caching Network)

Microsoft roll out  a new performance improvement for the Virtual Earth platform, called 
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for May 31, 2010, Holiday Edition

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #26 on Memorial Day 2010, a few hours late. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

Configuring WCF Services and Getting Them Ready to Ship

Get your WCF services production ready by learning all the configurable entities that make a WCF service rock solid and ready to ship.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Josh Smith

My great friend and partner in crime, Josh Smith has recently published an Advanced MVVM Book.  Currently the book is available in the following three formats: Adobe DRM digital copy Paperback  Kindle digital copy If you are using the MVVM UI...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-20 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #17

Silverlight currently has full mouse support for single click. However, double click is a another story. In this tip I Read the Rest......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

Showing "tooltips" for list items in RadComboBox

There are two ways of doing this: The first approach is to assign directly the text to be displayed to every ComboBoxItem. This is done through the API or through the design time. You must assign the required text to every item's ToolTipText. The second approach is to handle the ToolTipTextNeeded event where custom logic can be applied: private voidTestComboBox1_Load(objectsender, EventArgs e) { ComboPopupForm parent = this.radComboBox1.ComboBoxElement.ListBoxElement.Element
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

nRoute: Let's borrow some style

Ork Pad has posted about his experience of going over each file in the Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework template, and translating each Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework specific construct into its Silverlight 2/nRoute equivalent . One of the cool thing about the Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework (SL3NF) is that out-of-box it comes with an usable default template. But what is even cooler, is that Microsoft will provide a number of swappable themes for the default template. Now, I am no Mic
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Silveright Resource Directory Update (21 Aug)

3D Menu Carousel using PlaneProjection An 3D Menu Carousel effect using Plane Projection (Perspective 3D). The author also explained how this application is implemented. Original Post Hit Test (Get all objects in a specific point) Most of the time, when you are creating games, you will have to find out all the UIElement in a specific coordinate. (Or we can this hittest). In such circumstance, you will need to use the method VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHo
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight

Innovative solutions sometimes require multiple ingredients. Find out how to mix it up with SharePoint, WCF, and Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Code Camp Montreal 2009

The next Code Camp Montreal will take place on Saturday, May 30th 2009. Local speakers interested in presenting (French or English)? submit your sessions! http://www.codecampmontreal.com/Appel%20aux%20conf%c3%a9renciers.ashx I
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

paidContent.org - Silverlight's Olympic Return: NBCU Re-Ups With

paidContent.org - Silverlight's Olympic Return: NBCU Re-Ups With
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Get Started with Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 - Full course - Davide Zordan

I
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Webhosting Deals : 30% OFF Non Oversold Windows 2008 ASP.NET/PHP/MS SQL/MySQL Hosting - $3.50 / mon

Hostgator is the best shared web hosting provider and ThePlanet offers the best dedicated servers for cheap. This web hosting offer posted by SoftsysHosting-Rick on 03 March 2009 We are proud to announce the latest Windows 2008 / IIS7 / MS SQL 2008 Hosting Plans with DotNetPanel on our ultra fast dedicated server cluster with Quad Processors, 4-8GB RAM & 100Mbps connectivity. Supported Technologies: Classic ASP, ASP.NET (1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 SP1), PHP 5.2.x, Silverlight,
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

UK and Ireland Slides and Links

I promised to post the slides I used during my SLHVP and Robust (MVVM/TDD) Silverlight Applications presentations. As noted at the time, they don
Publication date: 2010-04-28 more

MLB.com is using the Silverlight v1.0 RC

MLB.com has just launched a Silverlight based video player as a companion for articles.  Click the image below to see an article using the new Silverlight player. 
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Yooba Flash CMS Up for Best of RIA 2009

Yooba Flash CMS Up for Best of RIA 2009In: CMS| News Article| Web| home 4Sep2009 By: cmswire.comIn June we told you Yooba Studio (news, site) would be worth a first and second look for those interested in Flash-based websites but not the cost of a creative agency.Today it seems the platform has gotten more than a look or two, as they recently landed a spot on the list of semi-finalists for Best of InsideRIA 2009, sponsored by O’Reilly Media and Adobe
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

RadFormDecorator Q1 2009 - more decoration options, faster rendering!

For the RadFormDecorator to be able to perform its task of decoration efficiently, there is a tradeoff between features, flexibility and speed. It is a complex control that uses many hacks designed for different browser - very often the *same* visual result is achieved in a [slightly] different manner for different browers.   We have just finished the new rendering of RadFormDecorator. As we have used a totally different approach - heavy use of inheritance and attribute selectors in or
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Agilitrain: Model Driven Development with Oslo

Holy cow -- another Oslo course, this one from Agilitrain: "Microsoft's Oslo is trying to change the way that software is designed, developed and delivered. They are introducing a platform for building real, scalable and manageable model-driven applications. Being an early adopter of this platform will prepare you for our changing world. "This course will show you how to build models and domain specific languages and use them all at runtime using the Repository to create great applications for y
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Still have good fun updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I wanted to consider how we might build the admin site of our site.. Because it is just for a very small number of trusted users, I
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

A New ASP.NET Blog from Down Under

The web is great, it has helped me build relationships with folks from all over the world. Recently Bartek Marnane contacted me to let me know he was kicking off a new Blog about ASP.NET. Bartek is from Australia, which I am going to visit one day before...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Getting Started with WPF : Button Control Part 2

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

TechEd AU

Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Ibrii - A virtual notepad

Ibrii is a virtual notepad which allows you to write your personal notes, organize and share them with your friends. Within your personal notes you can place any content you see from any browsed web page. Through the use of the bookmarklet called
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Addressing authorization with OAuth or the .NET Access Control Service

OAuth As I mentioned in the post, "OAuth Channel for REST services", OAuth allows a client application to obtain user consent (as access tokens) for executing operations over private resources on his behalf. Resources in this context represent anything from the user that the service provider make public through services, they could be for instance contacts, pictures or personal information to name a few. The access token that the consumer gets from the service provider represents in some way an
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #109

Using Visual Studio you can attach to an instance of your browser that has a Silverlight application running from the server (IIS). This is very useful especially since unexpected problems can occur once you deploy and run your application on the server;...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-08 more

.NET Framework 3.0 has shipped (KICKASS!)

.NET Framework 3.0 has been officially released! Go get it at: .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components Windows SDK for Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) Visual Studio 2005...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

SQL SERVER Fix : Error : SQLDUMPER library failed initialization. Your installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with. Please uninstall then re-run setup to correct to correct this problem. in a modal dialog with the title SQL Writer

I often receive emails from reader requesting solution to following error:
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Dew Drop - July 26, 2008

Silverlight / WPF SilverlightFlyoutPanel (Ola Karlsson) Improved XAML
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

On Meeting the Needs of Every User

I received a public flame recently that I've become complacent in this job and am not doing the hard work of meeting the needs of those who want to go beyond the basics.  While it is tempting to talk about 16 hour days, missed weekends with my...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Accordion, part 1

Accordion is a fun control with a lot of properties and options. I had great fun building it and I hope you will have great fun while using it. This post gives an overview of the control. Next parts will look into other controls that are used with Accordion...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Silverlight 2 in Action [ILLUSTRATED]

Chad Campbell, John Stockton,
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #58

TextBlocks are a great control to use in Silverlight to display read only text. In Tip of the Day #45 I covered the basic usage of TextBlocks including formatting and text runs. For this tip I would like to show you how to make a TextBlock with wrapping...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-10 more

New bridge broadens Java and .NET interoperability

[ Update : more details from Noelios Technologies as well as a complete tutorial ]  Much of the work that we have collaborated on in the past several months has been centered around PHP, but rest assured we have been focused on other technologies as well. Take Java, for example. A big congratulations goes out this week to Noelios Technologies, which just released a new bridge for Java and .NET. Noelios Technologies is shipping a new version of the Restlet open source project , a
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Silverlight Office(r) 2010 App

With little Chinese naming ingenuity I present to you Office
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Improving Mono's compatibility with .NET CLR

For as long as we remember, most new versions of IronPython, IronRuby or the Dynamic Language Runtime exposed new missing functionality in Mono. After a major release of any of these tools that deeply exercise the internal Reflection.Emit support and the runtime we would implement the missing features and ship a new Mono version. As part of the Microsoft/Novell collaboration on Silverlight for Linux, a couple of months ago, we received from Microsoft the test suite for the Silverl
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

My Visual Studio 2010 Dark Theme

Everyone has their preferences for their development IDE. Colors, fonts, tools, keyboard shortcuts, etc. I
Publication date: 2010-04-20 more

Claims negotiation between a consumer, STS and Relying Party in WCF

According to the WS-Trust specification, a service consumer has a way to negotiate or ask for specific claims to the STS. Those claims (or some of them) will be generally used by the service implementation running on the relying party. They are negotiated through an "claims" element in the RST message, ... ... ... Did you know that Dot
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Silverlight HVP Design Update

  This blog post is part of the documentation for the Silverlight HyperVideo Player Open Source Project Design Change: Create an Interface: IMarkerEventHandler Optionally derive a base class MarkerEventHandler that implements the interface Instantiate...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-28 more

How about some LIVE Silverlight service debugging?

I
Publication date: 2008-07-11 more

Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit's TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0]

Now that Data Visualization is part of the Silverlight Toolkit and the WPF Toolkit , it has an official release vehicle for both platforms of interest. This is great because it means that any customers who need to be running signed bits from an official...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

ViewModel Pattern extended with the Dynamic Language Runtime

In my last post, I posted an implementation of the ViewModel or M-V-VM pattern for use in Silverlight applications. This pattern allows you to decouple your view presentation logic and data from the view, thereby facilitating independent development/design of your app as well as easier unit testing of your application code. I will highly recommend you check out that post for the more detailed description and intro sample if you haven't already done so, as this post will build further on that.Now
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

SkyFire Raises $5 Million More For Rich Mobile Browser

SkyFire is getting ready to roll with its rich mobile browser. Last May, the company (finally) released its Symbian program after a long beta trial and announced that a BlackBerry version was in the works. Earlier this Summer they hired former Travelocity executive Jeffrey Glueck to lead the company into the next phase. Now a regulatory filing reveals the startup has raised a Series C closed off its earlier Series B round of funding with an extra $5 million, reports peHUB . Ther
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Microsoft files lawsuits against "malvertisers"

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Thursday filed five civil lawsuits in Seattle, Washington against alleged "malvertisers." Malvertising is the term used to describe harmful online advertising and works by camouflaging malicious code as harmless online advertisements , Microsoft's associate general counsel Tim Cranton wrote in a blog. "The lawsuits allege that individuals using the business names "Soft Solutions," "Direct Ad," "qiweroqw.com," "ITmeter Inc" and "ote2008.info" used malvertiseme
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Vista Ramp Up Is Happening Now, Study Says

Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a Forrester Research report by Benjamin Gray et al., published last week.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

A Big Day for the Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services teams

The release of Visual Studio Service Pack 1 today (currently available for MSDN Subscribers to download), marks the RTM of Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. It's been a long haul for EF, initially shown off in early 2006. ADO.NET Data Services, or ANDS as I've seen Shawn Wildermuth call it (though I still call it Astoria) is a bit younger, making its first public appearance in March 2007 at MIX. So they are finally here. There were a lot of doubting Thomas' in the first year or so of..
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Asian Americans Going for the Gold & thoughts on the Opening Ceremonies

I was in San Francisco yesterday and saw the front cover of the printed edition of AsianWeek, and was happy to see a nice profile of all the Asian Americans performing in the latest issue, titled,
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Craig Shoemakers hilarious desktop backgrounds

Craig Shoemaker has created a series of desktop backgrounds themes for .NET developers and featuring the one and only Gu, Scott Guthrie. Download them here var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released

Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools.  You can download them here . What is included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-13 more

A Silverlight 3 FireStarter event narrative

Minimal event description: FREE Silverlight and Expression Training on Sep. 17 in Redmond and online presented by Microsoft product team members and evangelists. Flavorful description: When you wake on Sept. 17th the year of 2009 you have a smile on your...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

NBC Sports goes Silverlight for HD

NBC Sports has announced it will be moving all its HD video- streaming feeds to the latest build of Microsoft's Silverlight , including the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics. The broadcaster will use Silverlight 3 across all its HD sports broadcasts, and committed to Microsoft after testing "many different technologies" , says Perkins Miller, senior vice president of Digital Media at NBC Sports, via VB . NBC Sports used Silverlight for the stunning HD feeds of the Summer Olympics in Chi
Publication date: 2009-08-09 more

Flash Is Searchable

This is a Big Deal. Now, I want to know: how will Flash files be ranked? Any ideas? Adobe is a major competitor to Microsoft in this front. How will Microsoft make Silverlight searchable? And will Google index all both equally? (My take: Oh yes it will. If it does not, that spells trouble in any congressional hearing...)
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate WPF & Silverlight Designer Known Issues

I have posted Known Issues, Application Compatibility and Designer Limitations here on the Cider Team blog. If you are using Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate for WPF or Silverlight development, I strongly encourage you to read the above blog post...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-16 more

New SilverlightTV Episode: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever!

Yes its a bold statement. But we can at least claim its the Best Blend 3 Video Ever on SilverlightTV, since this is the first episode where Blend is covered. I spend 30 minutes explaining to John just how cool Blend is by going from a prototype to a working...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-03 more

Silverlight 3 to launch July 10

May 28th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 1:17 pmCategories:.Net Framework, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Expression Studio, Silverlight (wpf/e)Tags:Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 3, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing, Mary Jo FoleyEarlier this year, Microsoft officials said they planned to deliver the final version of Silverlight 3 before the end of 2009. Looks like they meant months before
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Rendering Historic Maps on Bing Maps

One of the Bing Maps APIs feature that has gained a lot of traction is the ability to overlay custom tiles atop the Bing Maps tiles to illustrate tons of data in a raster format. But when you want to render census data, weather illustrations or even historic maps of what an area used to look like, you
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #67

1. Debugging The following items will help you debug performance in your Silverlight application: EnableRedrawRegions
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Improved Version of Deep Zoom Composer Now Available

URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/0... The Expression team has released a new Beta version of the Deep Zoom Composer with a plethora of changes. These include: Better Exporting Improved Design Experience Better Collection Exports Help Actually works. If you're looking at Deep Zoom, this is a must have. Add Comment | digg this
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Trend Check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX

It
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Installing Silverlight no longer requires a browser re-start

A few weeks ago I noticed changes in browser
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

ASP.net Blog Platform avaialbe for review

Hi everyone,  I have created a blog platform made from mircosofts asp.net technology and i want too see what everyone here thinks. It is called Jumbilo and is at http://www.jumbilo.com http://www.jumbilo.com/JBlog.zip  Regards Paul Briggs... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Dew Drop - Weekend Edition - April 25-26, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing The difference between Infrastructure & Application (Oren Eini) Practical Example of YAGNI: Good Intentions Gone Horribly Wrong and   How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos with Specification Tests (Bobby Johnson) The Scatology of Agile Architecture (Uncle Bob Martin) Pimp my architecture - Dan North and   OO with a bit of functional mixed in and   Writing unit tests can be fun (Mark Needham) Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners - Part
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

How-to: Consume WCF services from Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight(Prism-v2) Modules

Yesterday, while developing a demo app that uses Prism-v2 , WCF services , ASP.NET web application and interaction with WebBrowser controls (we will post it soon.. stay tunned!),  I run into a little problem trying to consume the service from a module.  I thought could be useful posting about it to save someone a little time. The Problem I had a WCF service in place. It was working fine with a ASP.NET web app, but when I tried to cunsume it from a Prism-v2 module I got the following ex
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Crappy Image Resizing in WPF? Try RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode

A WPF enthusiast on twitter is building an application. They noticed that the images they were using looked like crap in the toolbar. We checked, and it wasn't an issue of SnapToDevicePixels or UseLayoutRounding. Nope, this was something else. So I asked...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-01 more

Sharing skills and code with Silverlight and WPF: MIX

Check out my Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF talk from MIX '09. Yeah, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Building a Simple Windows Phone App

Learn how to use Expression Blend to create a simple Windows Phone application that uses animations and behaviors....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

DotNetNuke 5.1.4 Released

After we released DotNetNuke 5.1.3 last night, a community member discovered a packaging error in the release. Specifically the DotNetNuke WebControls 02.02.00 package was not properly integrated. This package was added in 5.1.2 and included some additional defensive coding to help harden the DotNetNuke Web Controls against potential security issues. The latest web controls package does not fix any specific security vulnerabilities, but rather improves the baseline security posture of the platfo
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Trackonomics

Standard Podcast [95:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Week Three of The Gillmor Gang on TechCrunch went as well as could be expected. After the reunion cattle call and last week
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Displaying Detail Records for User-Selected Master Records :: Saving the User's Search Preferences

Last week's article, Using a Dynamic IN Clause, showed how to display detail records for a set of user-selected master records. This entailed creating a User Defined Function (UDF) in the database that would translate a comma-delimited string into tabular data that could then be parsed by SQL's IN keyword. Following that, the user interface was created using a CheckBoxList to enumerate the master records and a GridView to display the details records for the checked master records. The demo avail
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

DataSprings Dynamic Forms Completion Events

This tutorial demonstrates working with Completion Events in DataSprings Dynamic Forms. We demonstrate how to setup Completion Events, we show you how to send an email to the users if they tick a box in the form, how to send an email out to the administrator of the website which reports customer responses when a form has been completed and how to redirect a user to a new page on completion of a form. The videos contain: Video 1 - Introduction, How to create a Dynamic Email Completion Eve
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

Looking at Your Computer Desktop through 3D Glasses

Ah, those crazy Linux-using, Deviant Art artists. Someone has created an anaglyph theme for the GNOME (Linux) desktop. Don some red and blue-tinted glasses, and watch your desktop pop out of your screen. After all, it
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More!

Today we released MEF Preview 6 on codeplex .  Not only is this the feature complete build for MEF V1.0 (which will ship with .NET Framework 4) but it also has the first drop of MEF for Silverlight!   Nick has the best summary of what is new...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

First the big news: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise patent licensing to both C# and the CLI. The announcement was done by Peter Galli at Microsoft over at Port25 and it states (emphasis is mine): I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs. ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C# programming language, while the ECMA 335 standard
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

A prototype tool for designers and developers: converting XAML to ISM themes and back again

The Silverlight Toolkit contains implicit style management features that let you create a nice theme
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger

How to create a Double Click Trigger in Silverlight 3 to compose rich interactive experiences.
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Silverlight at Gamefest

This week I had the privilege of attending and helping with some Silverlight in casual games presentations at the XNA Gamefest conference happening in Seattle. I say helping because the real game experts were there. Two Silverlight presentations were...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Learning Blend with .toolbox (Silverlight TV #29)

In this episode , Arturo Toledo demonstrates all of the new content he and his colleagues have created to teach you to design and develop with Expression Blend and Silverlight. He shows off some really cool samples, all of which you can download and do...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

AudioOrchard: Awesome Silverlight app, Interview with Eric Herbrandson

I'm not a musician, but I've always loved tinkering with synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. I worked at a music store in high school, so I got to play with all the new toys. Since then, I've bought myself a new synth-related toy every once in...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-01 more

Green Eggs and Blend

  I
Publication date: 2008-07-12 more

Microsoft MIX 2009 Wrap-Up

I'm sure that there are about a million MIX wrap-up articles out there, but this one is going to be filled with mystery and intrigue... The first day keynote was actually quite interesting, with Bill Buxton leading up the group with a very interesting talk on interactive design. He gave a very cool presentation on why user experience matters and gave numbers from within Microsoft showing that they have been hiring user experience professionals at an even faster rate than developers. He even c
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Multi-Monitor Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Universal NAnt Script for Gallio

So Gallio has been out for a little while and I admit that I am a little slow when it comes to looking at new frameworks. I mean there is so much to look at and only so much time in the day allocated to programming. Anyway, there really isnt much documentation out there yet for using Gallio with NAnt. I am of the thought that is due to all of the people who are really smart with builds are using Rake and/or PSake now. So I set off to create another universal script. This basically follows the co
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Internationalizing Forums/Groups/etc.

Ok - I have a strange question - i've been looking @ internationalization of forums (as well as the base internationalization support in CS08sp1) - it seems like specifying a forum that is: Automobile (french) Cars (U.S.) is pretty simple to do... However what if i wanted to have one unifed forum and the label of the forum driven from a resource file: so forum id: abc123 in EN: Cars: FR: Automobile this way you could have the forum share information from different users languages... inside... D
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

How To Proofread Your Articles/Post With Microsoft Research ESL Assistant

If English is your secondary language, then you will probably make more mistakes than your English speaking counterparts. Microsoft Research ESL Assistant is a free service from Microsoft that helps people solve grammatical errors in their sentences. Most software and browsers have spell checking tools build-in, but they only correct spelling mistakes and are not good at correcting grammar errors that most non-English native speakers make. All you have to do is paste a text, page, or par
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Silverlight Tip of Day #97

Once you have an image loaded how do you go back and get the original file name for the source file? This can be accomplished through the Uri property of the images Source . However, you must first typecast the images Source to be a BitmapImage . The...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-01 more

Setanta-i Product Review

Setanta Sports last week unveiled Setanta-i, their new broadband video player that replaces Setanta Broadband. And it
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Gotuit Media sues Microsoft over Silverlight patent

Video software developer Gotuit Media has sued Microsoft, claiming that its Silverlight multimedia software infringes several of the company
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Silverlight.TV with John Papa and Me!

When I was on campus in May, John and I recorded an episode of Silverlight.TV. Topic was Silverlight printing and reporting, including the codeplex project I created at http://silverlightreporting.codeplex.com . John's Silverlight.TV show is an awesome...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-02 more

Tracing PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4

Did you know it is now easier to debug the server side PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4? With the addition of tracing, you can now get a peek at what is happening internally within your service. Traces from PollingDuplex will include information about what...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-10 more

Democratic National Convention: John Chiang & Mike Honda

Video of speech (Microsoft Silverlight required) Tuesday was the second day of the Democratic National Convention, being held in Denver, Colorado. The highlight for the evening for most was Hillary Clinton
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

We love your comments!

Have you ever rated a topic on MSDN or provided a comment and a rating? Have you ever wondered if anyone looks at your rating or comment? The answer is yes. We (the User Education team) roll up the ratings data, and in particular, look at topics that...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-11 more

The Economics Behind Writing Subsequent Editions (for Computer Trade Books)

The economics behind the college text book must be interesting. I've not written any textbooks, so mycomments hereare basedmore on assumption than knowledge, but what I but what always intrigued me -whilst a collegestudent, at least - was how authors would release different versions of books and how teachers would require students to buy the most recent version (or whatever version the class was using). I can understand updated versions for cutting edge fields, like biosciences and computer-rel
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Vista Hub on Gizmodo.com.au

Microsoft and Gizmodo.com.au/Lifehacker.com.au have created a collection of smart tips and tricks on Windows Vista. The local Microsoft team asked me to contribute some articles. Writing with an editor with deadlines is tough! Thanks to Nick Broughall for his patience and assistance. My articles: Silverlight Redefines Video On The Web Watching One Minute of Online Video Equal To Reading The Dictionary Step Back In Time With Turning The Pages 2.0 Use WindowsLive Photo Galleries To Tag, Uplo
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Is Here!

Get it from http://silverlight.net/GetStarted , along with the developer tools, documentation and the June update to Blend 2.5. Lots of new goodies
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Scalability: I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Does

Via Mark Pilgrim I stumbled on an article by Scott Loganbill entitled Googles Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed which contains the following excerpt The best way to explore Protocol Buffers is to compare it to its alternative. What do Protocol Buffers have that XML doesnt? As the Google Protocol Buffer blog post mentions, XML isnt scalable: "As nice as XML is, it isnt going to be efficient enough for [Googles] scale. When all of your machines and network links are... Did you
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension

I
Publication date: 2010-03-22 more

Personal - Software Development Meme

Personal - Software Development Meme My buddy Dan Rigsby called me out in his Software Development Meme. I guess it's my turn... How old were you when you first started programming? When I was about 12 years old, my parents were building a house. By building a house, I mean they were physically building it. During that process, there were some stages that I couldn't help with. To keep me busy, my dad showed me a book that had some old BASIC code in it. He told me if I entered all of that cod
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Silverlight MVP, and why I love Silverlight

When I first became an MVP in January 2008 there was some questions as to what bucket Silverlight would fit into. After all, it was brand new; the only versions people were using publicly were Silverlight 1 and the Silverlight 1.1 alpha
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

Throwing Together An Application

Creating a Quick and Dirty App in Silverlight There comes a point, usually within 3-6 months after I commit to a new technology, when it becomes my platform of choice for throwing together quick applications
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!]

Friend and fellow Charting fan Bea Stollnitz has just completed a 3-post series describing how to add annotations to pie charts created by the Data Visualization package that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit . Because annotations are...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine

Thanks to modular MSBuild tasks and components, you can actually build Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on the same build machine, without having .NET 4 installed. This is great for constrained TFS build environments, and although not supported...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-21 more

ADO.NET Data Services + Silverlight 2 B2 = Happiness

ADO.NET Data Services + Silverlight 2 B2 = Happiness Posted by on September 5th, 2008 This one almost snuck by me, but on my Microsoft Downloads email today I saw that the ADO.NET Data Services bits had been updated to work work with Silverlight.  I had a demo a week or so ago that I tried to do where I was wiring up an ADO.NET Data Services service (that sounds weird) to a Silverlight client and it just didn
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Silverlight Window Control

Cameron Albert has posted  a draggable Window control that he wrote in Silverlight for Perenthia . A screen shot of the Window being used can be seen at  http://cameronalbert.com/post/2008/11/19/Silverlight-Game-Controls.aspx
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Making a good posting GREAT

An example of the difference between an
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Episode #1 of the Misfit Geek Podcast is now LIVE !

The first podcast in my new series is now live at http://misfitgeek.com/podcast/misfit-geek-podcast/ This episode is an interview with Senior Lean PM Scott Hunter on the future of Web Forms. Hope you will listen, subscribe and enjoy ! Technorati Tags...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Silverlight Presentations On the Horizon

I am sitting down writing about WCF interaction with Silverlight, cross domain issues, and other fun communication stuff. As I am drumming through these examples for the book and for some articles and presentations (phew) I am running into minor issues that really cause me to think differently about how to tackle them. For example, I wanted to produce a model popup window in Silverlight. Sure, no problem, Ill just use the wait there is no modal popup control. There is a popup control, but its...
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

SQL SERVER - Fix : SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition Install fail due to .NET Framework 3.5 missing

It goes without saying that computer running slow is a common problem we all face, a pestering one indeed! Last week, I had to format my computer as it was running at an annoyingly tortoise pace. After formatting it, I installed Visual Studio 2008. When tested Visual Studio 2008 worked all fine. However, when I [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Tak
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

MIX 09

Two weeks ago we held our MIX conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is my favorite conference of the year
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Army of One…and Silverlight

Just doing some getting caught up from my holiday recently and I was reminded of a
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

The CodePlex Foundation - New Open-source Non Profit Foundation Funded by Microsoft

The mission of the foundation is to help the exchange of code and understanding, to involve software companies and open source communities.  It is completely separate from Microsoft.  The software hosted on CodePlex is not to compete with other open source communities, but rather to enhance and add value with offerings.  Microsoft has donated 1 million to get the Foundation going, which is non profit with it
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

The Manhattan Project

Google Wave may be a big deal for Google, but it
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

HTML5 is a Big Deal for Enterprise Developers

I was recently made aware of HTML5's canvas element and I believe that this could render Silverlight, JavaFX and Flex obsolete. The "canvas" tag allows you to embed script based graphics, usually JavaScript, in your page. Expect the leading Ajax frameworks, like JQuery and GWT, to provide programmer friendly APIs for canvas based visualizations.
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Let Your Skin Glow

Don't let your complexion suffer as temperatures drop
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

A rose by any other name... [LayoutTransformControl on track to ship in the Silverlight Toolkit under the name LayoutTransformer!]

I'm a believer in the power of LayoutTransform - so much so that I wrote a control to graft this capability onto Silverlight 2 (which natively supports only the slightly less practical RenderTransform ). I've posted extensively about what my LayoutTransformControl...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Test Center review: Office killers pack some heat

There are few pieces of software that users touch more often than office productivity suites. The market monster is, of course, Microsoft Office, with the lion's share of all licenses for office productivity tools. But two trends -- open source and cloud computing -- are offering a new generation of Office alternatives that businesses may want to consider.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in sever
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

YouTube Meets Hulu, Sort Of; Shows Premium Pay Potential

YouTube is going live with a new way to look at "thousands of television shows," a better landing page for movies (expanded from a few dozen to a library of hundreds) and a wider rollout of in-stream ads. (It's supposed to launch at 8 p.m. ET.) What it's not : a massive redesign or the launch of a premium pay area. But Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) CEO Eric Schmidt hinted at the possibilities during the company's earnings call , referring to upcoming plans for micropayments and subscriptions on You
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Silverlight 2 is released!

As you may have heard , Silverlight 2 is now live and ready for prime time. Check out the Get Started page over at Silverlight.net to download the SDK. The Get Started page provides links to all the tools you'll need to start developing in Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video

Okay, on my Mac it doesn
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Using SketchFlow to Prototype for Windows Phone

Since we introduced the Blend 4 add-in for Windows Phone at Mix, several people have asked me how to use SketchFlow to work on Windows Phone projects. In the current Blend 4 beta release, there is no special project template for prototyping of Windows...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-20 more

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Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

SQLAuthority News - SharePoint - Steps To Create A Custom WebPart - Deploy It SharePoint Site

SharePoint is one interesting software from Microsoft. My outsourcing location unit is working on one large project of SharePoint. Based on users feedback and overwhelming response to article SQL Server - Error : Fix : SharePoint Stop Working After Changing Server (Computer) Name I am posting one more article which is very important for SharePoint [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Linq to LLBLGen Pro: feature highlights, part 2

In the first part of this series I talked about the fact that Linq to LLBLGen Pro is a full implementation of Linq and why it's so important to use a full linq provider instead of a half-baked one. Today, I'll discuss a couple of native LLBLGen Pro features we've added to our Linq provider via extension methods: hierarchical fetches and exclusion of entity fields in a query. Furthermore some other features will be in the spotlight as well. What I also want to highlight is that using an O/R mappe
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Behaviors, Actions and View Models in Silverlight

Richard Griffin talks about creating behaviors, actions and View Model actions in Silverlight . Behaviors are new to Silverlight 3 and WPF. The main reason we now have Behaviors in Silverlight was due to the lack of support in Silverlight of triggers. Triggers in WPF are incredibly useful as they provide the ability to change the look and feel  of UI Elements dynamically based on the state of the application directly in the Xaml. In fact they are so useful we have 2 types Data Triggers and UI
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Bigger, Stronger, Faster

I have a new talk I am giving this Fall at user groups called Bigger, Stronger, Faster : Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free. The premise behind the talk is really an answer to a common question I get, How do you create web sites so fast?....(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-12 more

The Silverlight Toolkit grows up a little with an install experience

The Silverlight Toolkit's March 2009 release is out, now with an installation experience that adds controls to the Visual Studio and Expression Blend toolbox, and improves the design experience....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Links (4/16/2009)

SharePoint Inconvenient programmatically working with SharePoint users (SPWeb.EnsureUser) Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SQL Server 2008 - Better Together! Fixing MOSS Search Call for Speakers - SharePoint Saturday Chicago
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

New Features Hit Windows Live SkyDrive Today

The Windows Live SkyDrive Team just announced several updates to Windows Live SkyDrive which begin happening today. Using Silverlight , you can now arrange your photos within a SkyDrive Folder just the way you want them. All you need to do is choose
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Virtualized Ubuntu: Virtual PC or Parallels?

I'm a Windows guy. That's my job, that's what the family runs, so that's what I do. But I'm fascinated by Linux, and I appreciate a lot of the rethinking the Linux crowd has done. One of the more popular distributions of Linux is Ubuntu, and it's supported by several virtualization programs. Two that I have in my hands are Virtual PC and Parallels. Since I'm pretty deep into Windows work, I'd rather virtualize Ubuntu, as opposed to a dual boot, and dedicating hardware is out of the question ri
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Gadget: Beijing 2008 Olympics Game Countdown Timer

The grand opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympics Games (officially known as Games of the XXIX Olympiad) is on the 8th of August 2008 (08-08-2008). That
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/7/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
Publication date: 2009-10-12 more

Symbian-Guru Featured In SkyFire

The SkyFire web browser was updated a few weeks ago with a hot new Facebook and Twitter integration - allowing you to customise the browser
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Microsoft Virtual TechDays are here

Microsoft.. yes. One of the biggest software company providing you the chance to learn directly from there experts. Microsoft Virtual TechDays is an even where we can learn some of the new technologies directly from Microsoft professional and yes,, Free of cost. !! Microsoft Virtual TechDays will be held between August 19 to 21 [2009]. The registration is open and free . Just go to VirtualTechDays.com register yourself using
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

JavaScript ListBox Control

This article describes how to create a ListBox control using JavaScript.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup 038 for 8/23/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #38. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-24 more

Big update for the Project Rosetta site today

We just shipped a major update to the Project Rosetta site, including a new a series of Flash to Silverlight tutorials, an updated API Guide with a quick reference list and a full list of recommended tools, code samples and frameworks to download. Getting...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

MTV & Silverlight 3 at NAB 2009

Jit Ghosh wrote about the  very cool Silverlight 3 application that a team from MTV, Vertigo, and Microsoft is building. Viacom/MTV announced a web based Digital Asset Management Workflow application completely built in Silverlight 3 (of course using the beta bits for now) and .Net 3.5.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Tracking Dangling Object References In Silverlight

One of the downsides of working with a young platform like Silverlight is that the tool support isn
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Need My Website Redesigned by Brad242

Hello. I need my website redesigned ASAP. I just want to start over and have a more amazing design. Please view what I currently have here: http://www.snik.it/my-design and then let me know your price. (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: CSS, PHP, PSD Coding, Silverlight, Website Design)
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Getting Started with Silverlight 2 Controls

(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight 2 provides a variety of controls that can be used to collect and display data, display collections of items, and play media. Developers coming from ASP.NET will find that using Silverlight controls is similar in many ways to using ASP.NET server controls because the Silverlight controls can be defined using an XML syntax and expose properties, methods and events.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Bing Silverlight SDK

Auf Codeplex gibt es nun die Silverlight SDK für Microsoft Bing. Damit kann man Bing in eigenen Anwendungen verwenden und neue Funktionen hinzufügen. The second component is the Bing Silverlight service runtime itself
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Dew Drop - June 8, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing Reflecting reality (Jimmy Bogard) TDDing an Interface - a Twitter influenced discussion (Brett Schuchert) The Impact of Staffing Practices on Software Quality and Productivity (Derick Bailey) Multiple roles (Steven
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Viewing a LOT of Images Effectively (plus 700 Obama Newspaper Covers in Silverlight Deep Zoom )

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/politics/730_Obama_Newspapers_from_66_Countries_DeepZoom_Collection'; I don't talk politics as a rule on this blog. However, regardless of your political affiliation, the last week has generated a lot of news. When I saw these...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-08 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Data Grid Enhancements

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

SQL SERVER 2008 Design Process Decision Flow

I was recently invited by a company that is primarily using other RDBMS as their primary database for solutions. It was a different experience for me, as I am used to having pretty good SQL Server Smart crowd in my presentations, but this time there were smart people but no SQL Server experts in front [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

PDC Lounge Lizards

PDC2008 is building lots of opportunties to network during the event, but the doors to the LA Convention Center do close nightly. Where will you debrief from the news of Windows 7, Live Mesh, cloud services, Silverlight, and more? Popular places to soak it all in have included the lobby lounge at the Westin-Bonaventure and the rooftop cabanas at The Standard Hotel. Share your favorite debrief spots in LA.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking Screencasts

I
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Converting from hex string to varbinary and vice versa

Converting hexadecimal values to varbinary and vice versa is now easier using the XQuery functionality available from SQL Server 2005. The code samples below show how to perform the conversion(s): -- Convert hexstring value in a variable to varbinary: declare @hexstring varchar(max); set @hexstring = 'abcedf012439'; select cast('' as xml).value('xs:hexBinary( substring(sql:variable("@hexstring"), sql:column("t.pos")) )', 'varbinary(max)') from (select case substring(@hexstring,... Did you know t
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Silverlight's Big Bang Moment

Silverlight's Big Bang Moment Tomorrow is the official start of the 2008 Summer Olympics and, along with it, the "big bang" moment for Silverlight. It's really the first site with mass appeal to really show off the capability of the platform, especially in places where it excels over Flash. Comparisons with Flash are unavoidable and expect pundits to dissect everything on the site. For decision makers and web designers, this will be their first chance to evaluate Silverlight in a real world
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Book Content Will Be Online

Ive been asked by a few people where the code content for my book will be. I decided to host it on my site in a separate section. Originally I had planned an entire site for the book, but due to time, I decided to just create a section on my site for now that will cater to the book. So once the book goes live I will host all of the source code for the book on my site (assuming OReilly is cool with that). And I will create a RSS category for the book. I am not a big RSS category fan, in fact I us
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Using one platform to build another [HTML 5's canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!]

Background There's been some buzz about the upcoming HTML 5 standard over the past few months. In particular, there are a couple of new features that people are looking forward to. One of them is the new <canvas> element which introduces a 2D drawing...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

Saving Files Locally in Silverlight

Learn how to take some data from Silverlight and write it locally to a file....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-01 more

New feature in Subtext 2.0: publish in the future

In the last two days I wrote about two new feature of Subtext 2.0: Enclosures and performance optimizations for skins. Today Ill talk about another new feature of Subtext 2.0: Future Posting. I already anticipated this feature while I was testing it last week: posting in the future allows the blogs author to write a post either with the post editor online or with any offline blogging application (like Windows Live Writer), set the date and time, save it on the server as published (not as draft),
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

TechEd Schedule is filling up

And I haven't even had a chance to look at any presentations yet. Here's what's on my schedule so far. Monday morning - speaker training Monday afternoon - INETA User Group Leader Meeting (yay!) Monday evening - Speaker dinner Tuesday 1-2: Vista Ask the Experts Booth demoing Annotation in Silverlight Wednesday Lunch: Women in IT Panel (yay) Wednesday 2:45: Birds of Feather "Is Entity Framework right for your application?" Wednesday 7pm: Birds of Feather with Steve Smith: "Going Sol
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

WPF Toolkit and Silverlight compatibility

At PDC the WPF Tookit was made available which provides several new controls to WPF to help bring even more compatibility to the WPF and Silverlight story. The new controls were the DatePicker , Calendar , DataGrid and the VisualStateManager concept to...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

SQLAuthority News Shaivi Dave Baby SQLAuthority

Six days ago, on September 1st, 2009 07:03:40 AM, God blessed us with beautiful baby girl. As per Hindu Namkaran Sanskar (naming ritual), we have decided to name her as Shaivi. Thank you all for all the wonderful suggestions for the baby name. Selecting the right name for little one is really one of the [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Parts & States Model with VisualStateManager (Part 1 of )

In Silverlight 2 Beta2, we've added significant new support for managing states and transitions inside of controls. To help explain the Parts & States Model, I've put together a 4 part post series that will show how to: Create a control contract...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Silverlight Team Twitter List

Last week I wrote about the new Silverlight MVP Twitter list I created to make it easier to follow all of the Silverlight MVPs and the evangelists. You can follow the entire group using this link: www.twitter.com/john_papa/SilverlightMVP   I also...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

To XAML, with love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight)

I
Publication date: 2010-07-25 more

Flash Making a Push for Smart Phones

The battle between Flash and Silverlight is heating up. In the most recent round, Adobe has announced that the full version of Flash 10 would be supported on all major mobile phone platforms including Windows Mobile, Google's Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and Palm webOS. By Jonathan Allen
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

DevDays2009: my sessions are online

For the first time, I'll be giving 2 talks on DevDays in the Netherlands, DevDays 2009 . This event, aimed totally at developers, will take place on May 28 and 29th in The Hague (Den Haag). I'll be giving 2 talks: 10 tips you can
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Molding code to your will with Sculpture

CodePlex
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Creating cross platform GUI's with IronRuby

Have you ever been shamboozled by the WinForms designer in Visual Studio?  If you haven't, its likely only because you've never used it.  Over the last several years I've had many wars with the WinForms designer, and unfortunately I've lost every single time.  Not long ago as I was exploring a couple interesting open source ruby projects, I came across one that had me longing for something as simple in the .NET world.  The project was shoes, done by none other then why the lucky stiff.  For t
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

Open Mobile: The Web, Telecoms, Media and Social networking perspective

I have been working on this topic for a while now and I will be covering some of these issues at CEBIT/Trendforum - Competition and innovation. The influence of Open Mobile Here is an outline of what I mean by Open Mobile - any comments welcome The expansion of the Internet and the Web to Mobile devices has always held huge potential. This change however, is more than just technological. It brings together different players who have varying strategies and conflicting business models. Specificall
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Divelements Releases SandDock for Silverlight and SandRibbon for Silverlight

Divelements Limited announced today the immediate availability of SandDock for Silverlight and SandRibbon for Silverlight. These products are being used by developers to bring line-of-business functionality to their web applications with cross-browser capabilities. SandRibbon is a comprehensive implementation of the Office 2007 Fluent User Interface, delivering features like dynamic resizing, popup resizable galleries, contextual tabs and conforming to all relevant sections of the guidelines pu
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Microsoft confirms Silverlight 3 to launch on July 10

Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 designer tools on July 10 company spokespeople confirmed today. Silverlight 3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin. Dramatic video performance and quality improvements are also expected. Microsoft is curr
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Saturday

Technorati Tags: web 2.0,He Kexin,blogging,wiki,Framemaker,Articulate,Adobe FrameMaker,elearning,blended learning,online collaboration,silverlight,madcap mimic,DITA It
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Microsoft health hazard?

Microsoft health hazard? Tue,06 Oct 2009 07:22 GMT -4:00 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29438 news viewAdvertising | Freedom:- Seriously, would you want Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer (right) to be in charge of your health records? That
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Silverlight TV 16: Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty Talk about Silverlight 4 RC at MIX 10

  While at MIX10, John catches up with Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer to discuss their favorite features in Silverlight 4 on this episode of Silverlight TV . Along with calling out and discussing why they're each impressed with their favorite features...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

Great timing! PHP toolkit for Astoria, err, ADO.NET Data Service

Yesterday I blogged that my client is writing a PHP app that hits an Astoria service that I built for them. He
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

WorldWide Telescope Aphelion

WorldWide Telescope
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Silverlight and WebSockets

I was intrigued by this post from Tomek which has links to a prototype of an application built with Silverlight but using WebSockets. It
Publication date: 2010-07-27 more

Link Listing - August 20, 2008

ASP.NET Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery [Via: DotNet Kicks ] Sharepoint Managing Web Parts in WSS and MOSS 2007 without using the Site Actions Menu [Via: Scott Spradlin ] September 1st : SharePoint 2007: Deep Dive for the Developer [Via: Sahil Malik ] WPF Better Data Editing Features in WPF with SP1 [Via: Beth Massi ] Teitlebaum's WPF Graphic Demos, Part 1 [Via: Adam Kinney ] Code Camps CodeStock Video Discussions [Via: Rachel Appel ] Link Collections Interesting
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Silverlight Behaviors

(Nikhil Kothari) In the past, I've written about behaviors and control extenders in the context of Ajax and HTML-based UI. This post introduces a similar behavior semantics for Silverlight and XAML-based UI as well.
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Microsoft Explosion Ultimate edition

Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

IPL 2009 - Live Streaming Video Links

After a lot of hoopla about security issues, the second iteration of Indian Premier League (IPL) is finally on its way. And if the first few overs are any indication it
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Official: DoubleClick will Serve Silverlight Ads

While this was announced during MIX 08 in a DoubleClick demo session. it was not clear about when exactly DoubleClick would start serving up ads done in Silverlight. this will be done for the Exclusive Silverlight  powered NBC Olympics coverage.  DoubleClick Serves Into Silverlight to Power Video Advertising for NBC Universal Digital Media via Silicon Alley Insider Technorati Tags: doubleclick,silverlight ads,in-stream ads,ria web,ria ads Share
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears

Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears Posted by maartenba on Monday, February 23, 2009 7:25 AM Offline web applications
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

NibblesTutorials: Beautiful New Tutorials On Blend and SketchFlow

Celso Gomes, who is an extraordinary designer on my team in the Expression Blend world, has updated his great tutorial site, all in Silverlight of course. There are now some great tutorials based on the new samples that ship with Expression Blend 3. See...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Slides and Demos From My MIX 08 Talk

Joe Stegman and I are giving a two part, back to back talk titled Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 at MIX today.  In this talk, Joe and I are building a video search site.  I've put up the demos and slides from my part of the talk here.  Joe is giving the first part where he builds the starting point of my demo.  I then add a custom animated layout and a control template on the search button, integrate local storage to remember the last search and browser history integration to be able to use the back and forawrd buttons to navigate between videos.  I've also got a deep zoom demo in the .zip. I had some help on my demos.  The AnimatingPanelBase class that drives my animating stack panel was written by Robby Ingebretsen.  He's planning to do an in-depth post on layout animations in SL 2.  Also, the NavigationManager class I use for browser history integration was written by Jesse Bishop, one of our interns last summer. The MIX crew is promising that videos of the talks will be available within 24 hours.  When they're up, I'll post links here. Update: The videos of the sessions are now live.  (It doesn't look like the deep linking directly to the sessions is working now, but you can find the sessions on the main app by clicking either of the links below.) Part 1: http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=CT01 Part 2: http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=CT02  
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Thoughts about Entity Framework and Upcoming talks

Entity Framework has been out a while now, I did some talks on the early and late beta bits and have written some code around the RTM bits. It's an interesting piece of technology and I think it will create a bridge between the ALT.NET kind of developers where NHibernate and ORM is an everyday piece of technology and the dataset oriented guys. I really don't think it'll take that much market from NHibernate though. Not this version of EF. The Entity Data Model is a very interesting modeling tool
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

SketchFlow

Shown for the first time publicly today at Mix 2009 in Las Vegas, SketchFlow is a fun, informal, flexible, quick and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich, dynamic interactivity with Expression Blend. SketchFlow is part of Expression Blend - I’ll...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Orbiting Text around an object

This is another 3D text effect without using any 3d library. The texts will orbit around an object in a 3d manner. I have also applied a tricky technique in which the texts will actually move behind the object. It works with all kind of transparent object...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 2 book

Just a quick note while I'm coming up for air :) I've had lots of questions around the release plans for Silverlight 2 and what's happening with the book (which is based on beta 2). I can't give any specifics about the SL2 release at this...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-19 more

Integrating FCKeditor in ASP.Net

Integrating FCKeditor in ASP.Net... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Is there a Microsoft tax for attending Microsoft

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Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development

So the news is out! Silverlight IS the platform for Windows Phone 7 Series development! Sweet. We also made available an update to Silverlight 4 that you might be interested in too! You may be wondering how you get started. If you are new to Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

The Curious Incident of the MessageBox in the Silverlight App

I've been puzzling over how you'd actually do; MessageBox.Show() in a Silverlight 2 application. I don't mean HtmPage.Window.Alert(""). I mean something that stays within the bounds of the SL control but asks the user a question. Naturally, there's many ways of doing this without a MessageBox class but it provided me something "interesting" to play with on the train. The API isn't part of the Silverlight framework so you need to do something yourself. I'd want MessageBox to follow the trad
Publication date: 2008-08-18 more

How Corporations Should Handle Mistakes

Every large corporation, sooner or later, is going to do something bone-head stupid.  It is the nature of people to make mistakes now and again, and if you aggregate people into a large organization that affects lots of other people, those mistakes...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

New Development Snapshot

Yet more changes to support -sharedclassloader and while I was at FOSDEM I tried running SPECjvm2008 so I did the fixes necessary to get that to run. Note that if you want to run SPECjvm2008, you'll have to generate rt.jar (ikvmstub -shared ikvm.openjdk.core && ren IKVM.OpenJDK.Core.jar rt.jar) and create an ikvm.exe.config file to set the boot class path to rt.jar: Changes: Implemented JPEGImageWriter.getDefaultWriteParam(). ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles writ
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Silverlight 2.0 plugin ID or not ID

My original problem was a call from HTMl via Jscript to the internals of a Silverlight plugin. My code fails I had huge problems to find the issue cause debugging doesnt help and jScript doesnt support intellisense i a complete matter. My checklist 1) Silverlight 1.0 uses a findname construct, Silverlight 2.0 the xaml class must expose a member and it must be registered with RegisterScriptObject HtmlPage.RegisterScriptableObject( "hannespre", Me) 2) The Call by... Did you know
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Most Frequently Asked Question: When Will Silverlight Ship?

My way of acknowledging that you need to know , and we want to tell you as soon as we can .  As an aside, about four months ago I started to buy photos to make my presentations
Publication date: 2008-09-13 more

Sobees - Twitter and Facebook in Silverlight 3

Switzerland-based deskNET SA has been testing various versions of their Sobees online social interface as well as their social client app bDule for several months now in Alpha. While numerous others have similar products permeating the growing Twitter API client landscape, in this space most notably Tweetdeck and Seesmic , Sobees has garnered a devoted early adopter audience with their products, with reviews appearing on blogs again over the past few weeks. Earlier today, Sobees went to
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

The June Microsoft Silverlight links

As many developers come to the wonderful side of Silverlight there are now many new resources to help you to write code in Silverlight. I would like to bring some very interesting ones into the light on my monthly link series. The Interesting list. GeoReference any XAML to place it correctly on an ElementLayer by Morten Nielsen Hanselminutes Podcast Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer where Scott Hanselman and time Heuer discuss the new features of Silverlight 3 Hanselmans Breaking all the rues w
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Case Study - TwittZure Silverlight Twitter Client on Azure

Schematic used the engaging rich internet application of Silverlight 3 and the responsiveness of Windows Azure cloud platform to build a cutting edge Twitter application, the recently released Beta version of Twittzure. TwittZure enables users to access...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-23 more

A Future of Googling for Twitter Results?

July 29th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment After checking out Bing
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Where is the Silverlight content?

The content is there, but it turns out there is a little problem with filtering when you've integrated the Silverlight help into the Visual Studio help collection. If you set any filters for local help in Visual Studio, the Silverlight documentation is...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Microsoft Joins Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

It’s Silverlight week in Seattle

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Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

An Integrator

By: Nathan Dunlap, Director of UX Integration of IdentityMine, who shares his experience developing for Windows Phone 7 Series using the Silverlight platform. Let
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

Please Don

Scott Hanselman , who has the most popular blog in the world, will tell you that if you want to have a popular blog you must never make promises
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

Control System Works 1.0.623.0

updated on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:22:07 +0300 - Web HMI/SCADA/EMI Silverlight-based framework
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Upcoming Silverlight 2 Webcast Series

In June I
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Extending the SLHVP Player to a Platform

  This post is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform  documentation   Everything Flows, Nothing Stands Still
Publication date: 2010-01-05 more

SQL Server files for my Data Access Videos

A couple of folks have emailed me because that haven't been able to reconstitute the Video Database I've been using in the Data Access video tutorials. Here is a .zip file. http://www.misfitgeek.com/downloads/SQLDATA_VideoDirectory.zip It contains a .mdf as well as a .sql script and the data exported to an Excel file. Hope it helps. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment

Calculating and even trying to understand what all adds up to the UX ROI is difficult task. When we are faced with clients and investors
Publication date: 2009-10-11 more

Sharepoint Debugging with WSS V3

SharePoint debugging experience in WSS V3 can get annoying, when exceptions start looking like this generic message "An unexpected error has occurred" To enable stack trace similar to the ASP.NET error page, edit your web.config at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories and edit the following entries as follows: and there you are...go fix it now! ;) Did you k
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

The Telerik CAB Enabling Kit and SCSF - Tutorial 6: The RadTreeView UIExtensionSite

Welcome to the sixth tutorial in my series of tutorials about the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit. This week, we will learn how to use the RadTreeView UIExtensionSite. I will be using a TCEK enabled Smart Client Application as the base for this tutorial. Ive also create a simple module called the Settings module that I will use in this tutorial. Adding the RadTreeView UIExtensionSite To add the RadTreeView UIExtensionSite, the first step you will need to take is to simply drag a RadTreeView onto th
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

More Halo Legends Details Emerge

The anime compilation Halo Legends was announced yesterday, bringing several legendary Japanese animation studios together to produce short stories based on the popular Xbox 360 franchise. Now we have a few more details based on what we heard at Halo
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Open Source and Interoperability

Open. Source. Is. Not. Interoperability. Ted Neward is an entertaining and talented writer, not to mention a stand-up guy, and a first-rate technogeek. But that doesn't mean he is always right. I was just reading and old post of his which I missed during my unscheduled sabbatical, in which he writes: They [Microsoft] need to have an interoperability story that developers can believe in, which means some kind of open-source-friendly play, I still, still totally do not get why Interop and Open...
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Dynamically updating proxy address for staging/production

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Publication date: 2010-04-06 more

SharpDevelop 3.0: everything .NET from Boo to F#

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Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac Debuts

In September of 2006, the New York Times released their
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Silverlight DataForm helpers

If you looked at the updated RIA Services Business Application template which had the authentication built-in, you may have seen the login screen with a little icon next to the password field: When you hover over this some helpful information displays...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

devLink Conference 2008 in Tennessee

The devLink 2008 conference in Nashville, Tennessee is already here! If you were lucky enough to get registered before it sold out then drop by the Developer Express booth and say Hello. Ill be there to answer your questions and show you some cool demos. There are a bunch of great new tools that weve been working on this year and you can come talk with me about things like: Our ASP.NET tools WPF DataGrid Silverlight controls Our rich WinForms controls My new iPhone 3G ... Did you know that DotNe
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Interesting Finds: April 4, 2009

Other stuff Refactoring logic from an ASP.NET page , Jonathan Cogley Dice.com Shows 45% Drop In Tech Jobs , Leena Rao Creating a functional programming model for MEF , Glenn Block Highlights From This Year
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashed on Vista x64

For the folks looking for an answer: I had something happen today that normally doesn't happen. I loaded a solution, and Visual Studio just closed. No error message, no dump. It just stopped. Gone. I tried many, many times, and it crashes silently when opening one particular solution. It works fine on every other solution. At first, I thought I'd disable my add-ins, so I disabled: ReSharper Gallio TestDriven.Net I even reinstalled PowerCommands because I... Did you know that DotNetSlacker
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Lightstreamer & Valemobi to offer Real-time iPhone Applications in Brazil

Milan, 23rd July 2009
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

MIX10 Talk - Slides and Code

At MIX10, I presented the Developing with WCF RIA Services Quickly and Effectively talk. For the demos I used a BookClub application - the scenario is a team application for team members to use to share books and browse/search/request shared books. The...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-22 more

Microsoft to launch iPhone competing device - with Verizon?

Microsoft Corp. plans to take aim at Apple
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Mike Snow and Silverlight

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Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Starting my new life at IdentityMine

I am very proud, and excited, to announce that I will soon join IdentityMine  as a Senior UX Developer!  IdentityMine specializes in designing and developing excellent user experiences via technologies like WPF, Silverlight, and Microsoft Surface.   The firm is very well-known and respected in the Microsoft Client App Dev space, so I
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Could MS Take the Shine Off Chrome?

Microsoft has no plans to support Silverlight on Chrome - at least according to a post by Yi-Lun Luo on the Silverlight forums : "Hello, currently we don't have plans to support Chrome. We will support it in the future if it gains enough market share...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Offline Docs (get 'em)

You want to get a CHM file of all the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 MSDN docs? Get it here . Using this file you don't have to deal with the delay of online browsing and when you do a search, you are only searching in Silverlight content. Note that these docs...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-11 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 - Special Edition

...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

Jesse Liberty at TechDays and on UK Tour

Jesse Liberty ( the Silverlight Geek ) is doing a UK and Ireland Tour talking about Silverlight and calling at; Bristol, London, Cambridge, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin You can find details on Jesse
Publication date: 2010-02-19 more

ASP.NET MVC RC Released!

The new version of ASP.NET is very, very close. Scott Guthri just announced that the RC was publicly available. I'm pumped about this release not only because of my book, but also because this new release makes delivering with ASP.NET sooooooooooooo much easier than WebForms. One piece of functionality that is not spoken about so much is the ability for a partial view to use a layout (Master Page). That's right, folks. You can have a partial that only displays a snippet... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone Developer tools from MIX10

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Publication date: 2010-03-19 more

Scrollable GridView

Creating a scrollable gridview with a fixed header.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

links for 2008-07-29

IBM Announces Plans to Acquire ILOG ** TBSM uses ILOG extensively for its GUI. I hope this makes the much needed GUI improvements a reality and I hope we include the capability for end users to build their own data driven GUI widgets now. ** (tags: IBM Tivoli ILOG TBSM m&a) IBM to Buy Ilog for $340 Million Ilog
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Q2 Asp.Net skinning

It's that time of the year again and we're getting ready for the next quarterly release here at telerik. This time we have a major visual update coming for the ASP.NET product line. Almost all skins will get a refresh - some a minor QA to bring back to original designs, others a more thorough facelift. Wanted to get back to you even before the beta release next week with a sneak view of what's coming so you can have your say. Here's the major planned changes in skinning: Black skin preserves
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Microsoft invests in online video startup Move Networks

Microsoft just made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in Move Networks, a startup that helps companies offer high-definition video on the web. The investment should promote Move Networks
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

XSL Transform : Rendering XML Data using XSL - Get HTML output

Rendering XML data using XSL transformation... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

What is ARAX all about?

Up till now we just had AJAX around but now we have what we call is ARAX. Asynchronous Ruby and XML or ARAX is dependant on Ruby on Rails and it bypasses JavaScript in the process. This is totally a new web development technique and in no way it should be confused with AJAX. You would be surprised to know that none other than Microsoft is backing ARAX and the man behind it is John Lam. It started off as web development application support for Silverlight and it's still not sure whether Micros
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

New animation API for Silverlight (Easing Functions)

Easing functions allow you to apply custom mathematical formulas to your animations. For example, you may want an object to realistically bounce or behave as though it were on a spring. You could use Key-Frame or even From/To/By animations to approximate...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-08 more

Link Listing - June 27, 2008

MSBuild MSBuild Conditions on Targets [Via: Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi ] ASP.NET ASP.NET tips: Golden rules for Dynamic Controls. [Via: Shahed Khan ] ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Customizing the UI [Via: BradA ] Sharepoint Opening and Reading an XML file in a document library [Via: axshon ] SharePoint DateTimeControl Validation [Via: Greg Galipeau ] WPF Contrasting Control Templates & Styles in WPF [Via: Christopher Bennage ] Code Camps Code Camp San Diego [Via: communitymegaphone ] Conferences de
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Want to Join the Google Wave Testing Movement?

Want to Join the Google Wave Testing Movement?In: Google| News Article| Web| Web Development| home 23Jul2009 By: cmswire.comHey, remember when Big G revealed Google Wave at this year
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

ModalPopupExtender to show a MessageBox

ModalPopupExtender to show a custom MessageBox using AJAX.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Silverlight.net and WindowsClient.net Update: Your Input Requested

We've been making some small but important changes to the Silverlight.net and WindowsClient.net sites lately. One of the more visible is the use of a larger-sized video player, so you can see more on the screen. At the same time, we took a dependency...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

Photosynth

Photosynth
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

92% of Flash users affected by 0-day hole?

Jul.26, 2009 in Security, Short newslinksSecunia released some interesting statistics last week; according to their numbers, at least 92% of the people using their PSI scanner that have Flase Player installed are running a version that is affected by the zero-day attack that was recently discovered. The real number might be even higher; they didn
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Hire .NET Programmers | Hire .NET Developers | Hire .NET Programmer | Hire .NET Developer | Hire .NET Team

We offer you cost effective - high quality software & Web development outsourced services at almost 1/3rd of the current cost in US. About .NETMicrosoft .NET is a technology that connects information, people, systems and devices. .NET connects a broad range of personal and business technologies, enabling the access and use of important information, whenever and wherever it is needed. Built on XML Web service standards, .NET enables both new and existing applications to connect with software...
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #40 I wont be posting anything tomorrow due to the US holiday of Independence Day on Saturday. I will be taking the day off. Daily Oddball The Best Way to Photograph Fireworks (Tweeted by Dana Coffey ) .NET Framewo
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook!

Yesterday we announced our news for NAB next week in Las Vegas. Today we wanted to point out some other cool experiences to check out in Las Vegas. First we are showing the industry’s most exciting demo of live 3D HD streaming using IIS Smooth Streaming...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-10 more

How to always open the vsixmanifest in XML view

The new VSIX projects contain a manifest that is by default opened with a designer. No matter how many times you specify that you want to open it with the XML editor by default, VS will continue to open it with the designer. The only way to force the change is to manually modify the .csproj as follows: DesignerCode (on Beta1, the manifest file name would be... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles i
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Getting started with the ASP.NET MVC framework (excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action)

(excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action). Depending on how long youve been building web applications on the Microsoft platform, youll relate to some or all of the following pain. In the 1990s, developers built interactive websites using executable programs that ran on a server. These programs (CGI was a common technology at the time) accepted a web request and were responsible for creating an Html response. Templating was ad-hoc, and the programs were difficult to write, debug and test. In the late.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Microsoft Security Updates October 2009 Online

Microsoft has published all security patches for today
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Managed Html Controls source code

In early October I blogged about the managed wrapper for client-side HTML controls that we use in the Silverlight unit test framework. If you were intrigued by it, you’ll be happy to know that the source code is published and part of the Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-21 more

Free Silverlight DataGrid with source code!

Um. Whoa. Okay, DevExpress rocks. I think this will be very well received by the community and you
Publication date: 2008-06-06 more

The Top Search Engine Optimization Software for the Expense

I put a lot of my thought into developing strategies for search engine optimization (SEO) for my business
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Microsoft Expression Studio

 Microsoft Expression Studio http://www.microsoft.com/expression/   Microsoft Expression Studio Vision    Microsoft Expression Community http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx   Learn Microsoft Expression http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc136522.aspx   Expression Web   Understanding the Benefits of Standards-Based Design with Expression Web Styling Text using CSS with Expression Web Understanding CSS Pseudo Classes for Styli
Publication date: 2009-03-07 more

Taking XML Validation to the Next Level: Introducing CAM

The generic-sounding Content Assembly Mechanism, or CAM, is actually an exciting step forward from XML Schema, but it's new, and not well documented. This article series represents CAM: The Missing Manual.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works

What is SketchFlow? SketchFlow, new in Expression Blend 3, provides built-in
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

How Do I Video Series on Hyper-video released

More: Start of thread on hyper-video (Note: This link jumps to the start of the thread rather than the most recent entry) I'm pleased to say that the third and final part of my series on Hyper-video is now available (just click on the image or click here...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Elevator Pitch: Skyfire has designs on your mobile browsing habits

Elevator Pitch: Skyfire has designs on your mobile browsing habits Since 2006, Skyfire has been trying to do something different with your mobile web experience by simply making it better. The latest version of the free, downloadable browser supports the usual text, video and audio but also lets users download media files, update their social networking profiles and supports Silverlight, Ajax and Flash 10. Skyfire employs 40 staff, has already raised $17.8m in venture funding from Lightspeed
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Check out our new Learn page!

We listened, we heard, we acted. The new Learn page is designed to make it easier to get started, and easier to find what you are looking for. It is also pretty snazzy.  I
Publication date: 2008-07-22 more

HeadTraxExtreme Sample Application Updated

David Anson has posted about  an "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release . A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme, an organizational hierarchy viewer loosely based on an internal tool . That blog post has been fairly popular, and I wanted to update the sample code for the recent
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Starter Kits available for SketchFlow and Behaviors

SketchFlow was designed to enable you to rapidly create and iterate on application prototypes. Initially concentrating on the flow of the application UI you then bring the prototype to life through the use of sketch styled controls, easy to use transitions...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Silverlight 4 Beta Offline MSDN docs (CHM) is available

You can get the Silverlight 4 Beta Offline MSDN documentation here . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot view content...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Tip of the Day #17: How to Animate a Rotating Image

Each Silverlight element exposes a property called RenderTransform that is used to set the transform information that affects the rendering position of the element. I will be demo
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Map your Data

Map your Data
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Dave Relyea's C# Layout Controls

Dave has put together a great set of Silverlight controls written in C# that include layout containers a textbox with text selection.  The controls in the package are: Layout framework LayoutControl and LayoutContainerControl base control classes Border StackPanel Grid Label Button (XAML courtesy of Mike Harsh) TextBox More information and source are in Dave's post.  Click the image below to run the sample.
Publication date: 2010-06-30 more

Redmond Shows Off Cure for Teleconferencing Headaches at TechFest 2009

 If you've ever been subjected to a babel of echoing voices during a teleconference, Microsoft Research is working on a solution. As demonstrated (link requires Microsoft Silverlight) at this week's TechFest, MR's audio spatialization project enables a PC with stereo speakers to spatially separate different members of a teleconference. Audio spatialization's been used for years in 3D gaming, but Microsoft Research has added a new twist: to make it work for teleconferencing, it's also added ech
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

SQL Server Citation is blog on SQL Server notes and articles

SQL Server Citation by Hemantgiri S. Goswami is a place where you can find information on sql articles, sql forums, sql event, sql faq, sql script,sql support,sql security,sql replication,sql high availability,sql cluster,sql log shipping,sql db mirroring,sql table sizing,sp2,sp4,sql 2005,sql 2008,sql 2000, slq forums,surat-user-group.org, sql-user-group.com,sql help,sql tip, sql tricks   read more By Hemantgiri S. Goswami Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written b
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Morgan on MVVM in WPF

Morgan ( a double ex-colleague of mine and all round genius ) has got an interesting blog post over here on how he finds it painful to implement commands in WPF application and a possible way around some of that pain via custom type descriptors. I spotted...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-30 more

Sucky Usability of Country Pickers

Recently, I had to rework a submission form which had a country picker
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Behold! Silverlight Streaming!

Ok, I
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Dew Drop - August 19, 2008

  Silverlight / WPF WPF Datagrid & the WPF Toolkit (Marc) Prism, MEF and DI oh my (Glenn Block) The Curious Incident of the MessageBox in the Silverlight App (Mike Taulty) Terrain Tutorial Part 2 - Using Transform Matrices to Create 3D Looking Terrain and Tip of the Day #28: How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor (Mike Snow) Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, Docking, Expanding Panels (Part 2) (Martin Grayson) Deep Fried Bytes Episode 10: A Practical Look at Silverlight Part 2 (Keith Elder)
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Moonlight

Moonlight, which is an alternative to Microsoft Silverlight on Linux platforms has hit a public beta of it
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

RIM releases new tools for developers creating web apps

RIM have announced new and improved tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry. The new tools include the BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2. The BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse , will allow developers to create web applications and content more easily and in a familiar Eclipse 3.4 environment. This plug-in opens up more rich internet applications using AJAX, Silverlight, PHP, ASP, Ruby on
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Webhosting Deals : On High Performance Windows 2008 DotNetPanel Reseller Hosting

Hostgator is the best shared web hosting provider and ThePlanet offers the best dedicated servers for cheap. This web hosting offer posted by SoftsysHosting-Rick on 25 July 2009 Experience Fastest Hosting on our latest Windows 2008 / IIS7 / MS SQL 2008 Hosting Plans with DotNetPanel on our ultra fast server cluster with Quad Processors, 4-8GB RAM & 100Mbps connectivity. Supported Technologies: Classic ASP, ASP.NET (1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 SP1), PHP 5.2.x, Silverlight, Perl/
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (2

Following on from the previous post , I thought I
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

Silverlight Benched in a Flash by Major League Customer

Major League Baseball handed Microsoft some very bad news by reverting back to the Adobe Flash player after just one year with Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in.  This season, baseball fans will watch live and on-demand video at MLB.com via the Flash player.  MLB.com offers the Web
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

I'm a Mac Store, I'm a PC Store

There's something almost portentous about the news coming out on Friday the 13th, not to mention the day before Valentine's Day. Microsoft, following Apple's lead, will open its own line of branded retail outlets. Microsoft briefly had a San Francisco store during the dot-com boom, which quickly folded. Apple Stores, meanwhile, are prospering and flourishing. Openings in new cities are eagerly anticipated events on the scale of major rock stars coming to town: people stake spots in line a day
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Versioning your Silverlight application

When writing an enterprise level application it
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

The Zen of XAML: Designer and Developer Collaboration in WPF and Silverlight

Coming soon... Product Description With XAML, Silverlight, and the Expression suite of web development software, Microsoft has provided all the tools that designers, developers, and managers need to collaborate on creating breakthrough user experiences. However, designers and developers have traditionally found it difficult to collaborate, and the mere presence of the tools doesn't solve that problem. There's been a growing clamor for reliable, practical information on making this collabor
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

2009 NCAA March Madness On Demand Adds HD Video Streams

CBSSports.com announces that NCAA March Madness on Demand will have an additional, high-definition quality video player available for users when action from the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship begins on Thursday, March 19. CBSSports.com has selected Microsoft Silverlight to power its new high-quality player to deliver the enhanced video stream. By downloading the new Silverlight high-quality player, users can upgrade their NCAA March Madness on Demand experience from the stan
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

A bit more(er) than meets the eye [Easily animate and update LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator!]

Yesterday I posted the code for AnimationMediator, a simple Mediator class to make it easy to animate the Transitions of a LayoutTransformer . Today, Silverlight Toolkit teammate Ted Glaza asked why the LayoutTransformerName property was present and I...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Have you used the User Defined Table Module?

I must say a few things about the User Defined Table (UDT) module for DotNetNuke, I have seen it, but hardly ever used it. I had a site that was using it that I needed to make some changes to tonight, I've been putting off the changes because I was afraid...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (Silverlight TV #25)

In this video, Adam Kinney explains what the PathListBox is and why it is so compelling. Then, he demonstrates several ways of using it in creative examples. The PathListBox is one of the newest features available in Expression Blend and Silverlight 4...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

Playboy Enterprises Posts Collectible Back Issues Online for Free

(ChattahBox)
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject

I was thinking about an aspect of the new MVVM support that Expression Blend 4 has and how ( I think
Publication date: 2010-03-28 more

Link Listing - July 11, 2008

Link Listing - July 11, 2008 Link Collections Interesting Finds: July 11, 2003 - short edition [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #134 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - July 11, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Daily Find #88 [Via: Tim ] LINKBLOG for July 11, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Dew Drop - July 12, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Miscellaneous More on Syncronized - upgrade reader to writer [Via: UltimateRinger ] Javascript In the Wild for July 11, 2008 [Via: Eric Miraglia ] ASP.NET MVC ASP.NE
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Silverlight feature suggestions

I
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Catch Alicia Keys Live from the Apollo this Thursday, 1/7, 6pm PST

You’re invited to watch Alicia Keys perform live this Thursday, January 7, at 6pm PST. For more information about this exclusive event, watch the video promo below. Our World Live (OWL) , a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

Subclassing Shape (or more accurately, Path)

One of the more subtle improvements in Silverlight 4 is that we unsealed the Path class. That means you can write a class that behaves like a shape without re-implementing properties like Fill, Stroke, etc. -- just subclass, set Path.Data to render what...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Taking on dependencies

A recent discussion on how to deal with dependencies when you're an agile team got me thinking... Whether you are doing agile or waterfall (and whether the team you are dependent on is doing agile or waterfall), you should assume that what the other group delivers will be late, broken, and lacking important functionality. Does that sound too pessimistic? Perhaps, but my experience is that the vast majority of teams assume the exact opposite perspective - that the other group will be on time,
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Google Adsense - I share some info and tips. Useful Information to Know

Google Adsense - I share some info and tips Go check out the new Flat House Share site if you need or have a room or property! Have you ever wondered what exactly is up with adsense? This informative report can give you an insight into everything you
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Javascript Awesome Bar

Javascript Implementation of Firefox's "Awesome Bar"... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Improving ChartBuilder's cultural sensitivity [ChartBuilder app/source updated!]

Kind readers Eugenio and Thimp independently reported that the initial version of ChartBuilder did not work well on machines with certain culture settings. Specifically, ChartBuilder was inadvertently using the CurrentCulture for formatting numbers in...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-07 more

Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to!

One of the new features I mentioned in my What
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

Twitterlight

Twitterlight - Microsoft Silverlight Twitter client. Post to Twitter and view Tweets, replies, archive and public timeline. Couldn
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters

Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft's new search engine Bing. The real interesting contrast to us, as independent software developers, is the way developers responded to Silverlight as opposed to the reaction yesterday to Google Wave. Both Silverlight and Wave are aimed at taking the internet experience to the next level. To be perfectly honest, Silve
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Animating Items Into/Out Of ItemsControls

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Page Hunt: Silverlight-powered Microsoft Research game

Microsoft Research has launched a new online game
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!]

A few months ago, I described a proof-of-concept project and learning exercise I'd worked on to implement some of the basics of the HTML 5 <canvas> specification using Silverlight as the underlying platform: HTML 5 <canvas> announcement ,...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

WCF RIA Services v1.0 and Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2010 are Here!

Today both the WCF RIA Services v1.0 and the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 are officially released! You can download the the tools right here . You can find full details about this release on the download site. NOTE : To celebrate these releases...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Windows 7 Prices Announced! Pre-Order Your Copy of Windows 7 for $49.99 and $99.99 NOW

Microsoft has done a good job with Windows 7, not just technology wise but also in terms of creating a positive buzz around the software. I know quite a few people who tested Windows 7  beta and RC and are very excited to own a full version as soon as it is officially released. There is no mystery around the release date of Windows 7 which is October 22nd but the prices were being speculated. Well, today all of that ends as the prices of all the versions of Windows 7 are announced. F
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

I'm Deep Fried - It's live today !

The Deep Fried Bytes guys caught up with me at DevLink and we had a talk about developer security needs, mistakes, activities, etc ! Listen Here http://deepfriedbytes.com/...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-03 more

ToC for the Book Club RIA Services Application

Earlier this week, I published the RIA Services Essentials project on CodePlex to share some sample code. The first sample included is an updated version of the Book Club application. This application has become sort of a reference application. It was...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

Interesting Finds: September 24, 2009

Other Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program , Scott Guthrie Richard and Greg talk to Dana Epp about the free tools he uses to manage his networks , Susan Bradley TeamCity and CodeBetter update, or
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Online Library of UX Design Patterns - Quince

Quince is an on-line directory of UX design patterns created by Infragistics . If you are looking for design patterns or script resources or some inspiration with examples, then your search is over, you are at right place. A beautifully managed collection of design patterns, and what makes it good is it contains all these with a number of examples. I was thinking for some ajax type thing but i discovered that this online directory has been developed using Silverlight. Qu
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Microsoft faces lawsuit over Silverlight

Microsoft's latest legal headache is a suit from a little-known company called Gotuit Media, which charges elements of Silverlight infringe on the video metadata company's patented technology. ________________ Source: Beyond Binary
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

SharePoint Site Provisioning The Real World

This article will help you to create your own custom site provisioning that integrates your business process and will show you how to add some custom functionalities.   read more By Alon Havivi Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Toolkit release & Themes

Today at Microsoft PDC , Scott Guthrie demonstrated some of the new controls that have been provided as a part of the Silverlight Toolkit .  The Silverlight Toolkit was what was previously named the Silverlight Control Pack in the press release when...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Nokia improves on Series 40

With the impending release of the iPhone's version 2.0 firmware, Nokia is also improving on its Series 40 line of mobile phones. The sixth edition adds several new and improved features such as support for JSR-179 (Location API for JavaME) and JSR-205 (Wireless Messaging API 2.0), support for Flash Lite 3, and Web browser supporting HTML 4.01, CSS2, Javascript 1.5 and even AJAX. The first phone to use this new release will be the Nokia 7510 Supernova phone. More information on their website.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Setting up for Watin testing

To do automated web tests of your projects you can use a cool tool called Watin. Welcome at the WatiN (pronounced as What-in) website. Inspired by Watir development of WatiN started in December 2005 to make a similar kind of Web Application Testing possible for the .Net languages. Since then WatiN has grown into an easy to use, feature rich and stable framework. WatiN is developed in C# and aims to bring you an easy way to automate your tests with Internet Explorer and FireFox using .Net. Once..
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta

Support for the WCF net.tcp protocol is the key feature addition in the core of WCF offering in Silverlight 4 Beta. Read more about the benefits and limitations of the net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 to decide if it is a good fit for your application...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Awkward: The Other Microsoft Interview Story

Now that my friend Frank La Vigne (@ tableteer on twitter ) is leaving AIS, I can tell the "Awkward Interview Story" I've had to keep secret. This story takes place just a day after my wife and I returned from the hospital from the delivery of our second...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Keeping LINQ Code Healthy

In the BI space Ive seen a lot of SQL queries succumb to complexity. A data extraction query adds some joins, then some filters, then some nested SELET statements, and it becomes an unhealthy mess in short order. Its unfortunate, but standard SQL just isnt a language geared for refactoring towards simplification (although UDFs and CTEs in T-SQL have helped). Ive really enjoyed writing LINQ queries this year, and Ive found them easy to keep pretty. For example, suppose you need to parse some valu
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

StringFormat and CurrentCulture in Silverlight

I recently got a note about a nagging issue in using StringFormat in XAML binding expressions and how it doesn
Publication date: 2010-08-11 more

Link Listing - August 13, 2008

WPF dabbling around the new WPF datagrid (part 1) [Via: jaimer ] Code Camps Southwest Florida Code Camp [Via: Scott Dorman ] Link Collections The Morning Brew #157 [Via: Chris Alcock ] LINKBLOG for August 13, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Dew Drop - August 13, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Podcasts SharePoint Pod Show Episode 2 [Via: Rob Foster ] Podcast #17 [Via: Jeff Atwood ] Screencast - Creating your First WCF Service [Via: Sam Gentile ] Miscellaneous Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Pa
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Microsoft Surface Video

Most people haven't had a chance to play with Microsoft Surface. It's one of the coolest technologies in a long time ! [ Click HERE to watch the video. ] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview

Use Expression Blend 2.5 to create and modify managed Silverlight 2-based applications. Expression Blend for Silverlight 2 includes all of the features in Expression Blend 2 but has not reached the quality level of Expression Blend 2 for WPF or Silverlight 1 development. Find out more about what
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3

I
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

WPF and Silverlight Designer, Hey I

In the past two weeks, including a lunch meeting with an MVP yesterday, I have ran into developers that don
Publication date: 2010-06-15 more

Silverlight Charting Resources

David Anson has updated his collection of great Silverlight Charting resources. David: It's been a couple of months since I shared my semi-comprehensive page of Charting resources on the web. During that time, the Silverlight Toolkit's December release came out with some great new Charting features (Woot!) and there have been a number of fantastic Charting posts that I'd like people to be aware of. So I've updated my previous list of links (FYI: old links are grayed-out) with all the new cont
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials for Silverlight Games

My next set of blogs will be about creating realistic terrain for games that have a birds eye perspective on the world. To start, I will be creating this tutorials: Creating a scrolling map. In this tutorial we will go over the basics needed to create...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Re: Firebug 1.2b3 won't install to FF3 under Vista

I also experienced this problem. I could not install Firebug 1.2 on Vista. I disabled all the plugins and it installed. The following plugins were disabled: Adobe Acrobat iTunes Application Detector Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U5 Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin Mozilla Default Plugin Quicktime Plug-in 7.4.5 RealPlayer Version Plugin (huh.. gotta get rid of this crap =) RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) Shockwave Plugin Silverlight Plug-In Not sure which one it's con
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3

One of the goals of new versions of Silverlight is to be be backward compatible with previous versions. We make this a priority goal so that people can keep their previous applications deployed while not worrying that people with newer Silverlight will...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-06 more

TechDays Toronto Schedule and Details / FailCamp Toronto 3

TechDays Canada 2009 is Microsoft Canada
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

Debugging a

If you
Publication date: 2010-07-20 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 17: Evolving an Application

More from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Managing Files with SQL Server 2008's FILESTREAM Feature

SQL Server's new FILESTREAM feature simplifies the process of keeping file-based data, such as images, in sync with relational data.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 11 ! In episode 11 Glenn Block makes a return appearance on Silverlight TV and discusses the one of my favorite features of MEF: partitioning. Glenn explains how partitioning makes it easy...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Silverlight Design Day Registration open for NY, Chicago, Austin

The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day events in Chicago, Austin and New York are now available. May 4
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

  At MIX10 this week it was announced that you can develop Windows Phone 7 apps using Silverlight! In this episode, Mike Harsh comes back to Silverlight TV to show John how easy it is to develop a real world application for Windows Phone 7 Series...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

How to make Silverlight be AiR?

How to make Silverlight be AiR? Today we
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Yosemite Pano Mapping Silverlight DeepZoom..

Yosemite Pano Mapping Silverlight DeepZoom.. Check it out.. This is an interactive image of 20 panoramas for a total 45 gigapixel map of Yosemite.. http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_deepzoom/ClientBin/TestPage.html Thanks to the XREZ Team, for more info check out their site ! Thanks also to Adam Kinney for turning me on to this really cool use... Continue reading
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Brief Response to Corey on Software Craftsmanship

Coreys blogs comment box is failing, so posting my response here.  Read his response to my post for context.  Below is simply cut-and-pasted from a comment I was trying to leave on his blog: Hey Corey, thanks for the well thought out comments.  Let me consider my response and most likely post it on my blog, but while I'm writing here I'd like to describe a very real scenario I'm faced with right now that plays into my thinking on this subject. I am providing some coaching to a small business
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Silverlight, Web Services and Datasets

I sat down today to learn about using Silverlight and Dataset from a Web Service.  Something you
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

URL Rewriting using ASP.NET for SEO

An article describing how to implement URL rewriting in ASP.NET using three different methods... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

DropMind: Powerful and Highly-interactive Online Mind Mapping Tool

DropMind is online mind mapping tool with unique four sphere map layout. Create original mind maps and deliver superior and stylish presentations with Microsoft Silverlight. Learn more http://web.dropmind.com Brought to you by Go2web20.net - The web applications index
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Quick Silverlight tip: How to set format and validate value in TextBox?

Quick Silverlight tip: How to set format and validate value in TextBox? Today morning I got an email from one of Microsofties, asking following question: Is there any way to set format and validation on TextBox in Silverlight 2. TextBox format: Date Format, Currency Format etc, TextBox validation: Regular date expression, should allow only numeric etc. If it
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

RIM To Add Full Flash And Silverlight Support To The Blackberry Browser

Details over the last month have showed that Research In Motion (RIM), the recently named fastest growing company in the world and the mastermind behind Blackberry, are planning to add full Flash and Silverlight support to the phone company
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

iMeta Agility & Silverlight

Just a little plug for a video I made just before Xmas with the guys from iMeta , a UK company that
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

ts SQLAuthority News - Author Visit - Tech User Group Meeting, Markham, Canada and Toronto CA Solutions

I can talk about database almost all the day. Yesterday I had two technical meetings. One with Tech User Group of Markham and another with TorontoCASolutions. Let us go over my summary of both the meetings.Tech User Group of Markham, CanadaSteve Jagadishan is very enthusiastic leader of the Tech User Group. This user group is [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including S
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #56

In Silverlight you can interact directly with the HTML DOM (Document Object Model). This can be done through the HtmlPage .Document object: HtmlDocument doc = HtmlPage .Document; Make certain to first add a reference to the following namespace: using...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-07 more

Podcast on Templating

I'm pleased to announce that the first of my monthly Sparkling Client podcasts has been posted. This month, we take a Tour of Silverlight Templates. Resources Additional resources to supplement this topic include Tutorial on Templates Styles Video...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-24 more

SL TV 8: Silverlight Client for Facebook

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 8 John scores a cool interview with one of the developers responsible for the Silverlight client for Facebook application. This application made a big splash at the PDC 09...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Saving a few lines of code. Part II - Doing reflection

I was just about to write the second blog post of the series, this time involving currying, the forward pipe operator and other functional programming beauties when two people discouraged me from doing it. FirstMike from the WinForms team kindly implied that with functional C# programming I can get some permanent brain damages and I definitely won't keep my audience concentrated. Then came Joe Zydeco's comment tomy previous blog post and I gave up. I don't know why people don't like functional
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Silverlight/WPF: Implementing PropertyChanged with Expression Tree

Source Code: RaisePropertyChangedExample.zip [94.4 KB] Credits: Thanks to Paul Strong and Soe Moe for sharing this code with me. Introduction This article will show to how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface with Expression Tree . I
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Bitter Sweet - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Bitter Sweet is a free, tableless, fixed width, XHTML compliant website design. This skin comes with 2 layouts in 2 versions: Index 2 pane skin with text header Index 2 pane skin with logo Admin 1 pane skin with text header Admin 1 pane skin with logo It also comes with 3 containers: h1 content pane h2 right pane transparent, no title container Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in severa
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Balder: A Silverlight 3 Managed 3D Engine Optimized for Multicore

Silverlight 3 doesn't offer native support for loading and rendering 3D models. However, Balder offers a very complete managed 3D engine for Silverlight 3. It achieved the necessary frame rate taking advantage of Silverlight's threading capabilities.
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Adding users to a TFS project when youre not on the domain

Visual Studio Team System was obviously designed for user groups who are all members of a Windows Active Directory domain, all working in the same local network. Im able to work remotely (without VPN, even) as long as Im just checking files in and out, but the Visual Studio / TFS UI wont let me grant users permission to contribute to my projects. I messed around with TFS Power Tools, but that didnt work either. I ended up running TFSSecurity.exe /g+ from the command line you can find it in (b
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Any recommendation for WPF Datagrid?

Can anyone recommend the WPF Datagrid? Either the paid version or free version is okay for me. I just need nice and helpful WPF Datagird. Which Datagrid do you use in your project? Since I have started working with WPF (Windows Presentation Framework), I
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Microsoft Extends Exam Retake Offer to June 2009

Program provides MCP and Dynamics exam takers with one more chance to pass a failed exam.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

See You on Microsoft Day @ Dhaka!

Microsoft Community in Bangladesh proudly presents Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. This is a special day dedicated to all Microsoft technology professionals and students in Bangladesh. We will be having the best Microsoft community technologists from Bangladesh - Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) delivering sessions at the event. This technology marathon is a great opportunity to learn from the best and network with each other. Both Microsoft developers and networking professionals
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Speaking in Chicago about Expression Blend for Developers

In conjunction with my trip to Chicago for the Expression Blend Workshop .toolbox event, I have the honor of presenting at the Chicago Silverlight User Group meeting. On May 6th at 6:30pm, we will meet at the Illinois Technology Association and discuss...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Hanselminutes Podcast 120 - The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML

My one-hundred-and-twentieth podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Felix, a Designer, and Richard, a Developer about their Odd Couple relationship as they create Silverlight and WPF applications. They also speak frankly about their opinions as full...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-08 more

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application with this handy source code]

As computing devices have become more powerful, the trend has been toward more "fluid" user interfaces - interaction models that flow smoothly from one state to another. This differs from earlier approaches where resources were more limited and interactions...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

W3C

Paul Ellis writes "Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has said 'It's really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they're actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight.' But are they really subverting it? Where is the line between serving the consumer and subverting the Web? This blog post makes the case that the W3C's glacial process should share in the blame for the growth of proprietary technologies." Read more of thi
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Tips & tricks: Grouping in RadGridView for WinForms

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Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

PUG

PUG DevCon 2009 What: Pune User Group (PUG)
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Silverlight 3 talking to a RIA Service, Everything Hosted on Windows Azure

Mark Monster has published his first tryout of Windows Azure. He wanted to find out if it
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Silverlight: Hardware Integration Possibilities & Problems

One of the interesting capabilities in Silverlight is the ability to communicate cross-domain to socket hosts provided that certain policy requirements are satisfied. Specifically a policy file needs to be served up on port 943 and then a port in the range 4502-4534 can be used. One of the possibilities that this creates is the ability to run daemon
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

SNEAK PEEK: .toolbox design school for Silverlight and Expression

Almost there! Follow @designtoolbox to learn when the site launches…...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-12 more

Web 2.0 Expo and the state of the Enterprise 2.0 economy today (overview by Vassil Mladjov)

Ok, here is my 60,000 feet overview. (the video will be availabe soon) - There was not clear innovation that I can see at the show, nothing to get me exiting. There were a few clever tools in terms of clean UI and well execute ideas, but nothing of a WOW. - Most established Web 2.0 companies want to be now Enterprise 2.0 players
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Building A Casual Game in Silverlight

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight If you attended MIX08 you would have had a free sample copy of my Silverlight 2 book in the attendee bag. The book has 3 chapters, one on XAML, one on Silverlight 2 in Visual Studio and one on...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Programming news: iPhone development emergency guide, Embarcadero's great deal

Get highlights about these releases: Dryad, Iliad, Ruby 1.9.1-p243, Ruby 1.9.2 preview 1, Rails 2.3.3, IronPython 2.0.2, Bing#, Gestalt, and the JIRA Connector for Jama Contour. Also, learn about Embarcadero
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit

Quick callout to my colleague and evangelist Yochay Kiriaty, who posted a great set of learning materials and labs for Windows Phone 7 on Channel 9 . That
Publication date: 2010-04-02 more

Deep Thoughts on Silverlight

Jan just posted a great article about Silverlight, Flash and RIAs in general. As expected, Jan approaches the topic from a video angle, but comes to some of the same conclusions as many of us here in the Flash camp: "If Microsoft dropped Silverlight tomorrow, most web site owners and 'Netizens' wouldn't even notice, or care if they did." And of course I'd like to give Jan a hug for quotes such as "Flash caught on because it provided design functionality that HTML couldn't match and solved prob
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Feed Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer with the www.ASP.net web site !

The VS / VWD startup page displays a collection of current items of interest to developers. But did you know that you can configure what gets displayed in your Visual Studio / Visual Web Developer home page. The default looks like this. But see here how I've changed it to show the list of new articles from the www.asp.net web site !!!! Now when I fire up Visual Web developer I get all the latest articles from the ASP.NET web site articles list. In a few days I'll have a NEW RSS feed that aggrega
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

Microsoft Relying On Flash To Help Sell Vista

Microsoft Relying On Flash To Help Sell Vista Posted At : 11:49 AM Related Categories: Stuff, Flash I like Vista. I've said it before, and will say it again, Windows Vista works for me, and works well. But, it's no secret that Microsoft has run into problems convincing the masses to really give Vista a try. And so Microsoft is trying something creative, a fun campaign named the Mojave Experiment. Microsoft assembled a group of users who'd not been exposed to Vista personally, but who seem
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Microsoft Office Labs on Silverlight 2.0 Launched

The Microsoft Office Labs 2.0 launched on a Silverlight 2.0 developed website. The site automatically loads the Silverlight version if the computer has the engine installed, and would load the html version if Silverlight is not installed. The image on the left is the new homepage of Microsoft Office Labs and in a previous post (Office [...]
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Microsoft Surface: Announcing Online Design and Development Training

I love the Surface. I want one in my home office. Alas, that isn't going to happen any time soon, but thanks to things like the Surface SDK for Touch for Windows 7, I can play with the cool surface controls all I want. What, you don't know how to develop...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-28 more

Link Listing - May 26, 2008

Link Listing - May 26, 2008 ASP.NET Ending a Response without Response.End() Exceptions? [Via: Rick Strahl ] UFrame: div meets iframe [Via: Dion Almaer ] Free book - Jit N' Run - Best of SimpleTalk - ASP.Net [Via: c1sbc ] Sharepoint Super Easy way to add WCF to SharePoint 2007 [Via: Sahil Malik ] ASP.NET Developers Introduction to SharePoint Webcast Series: Week #2 [Via: Andrew Connell ] WPF Simple skinnable and Theme management in WPF user interface [Via: alkampfer ] Of logical and visual t
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

SQL SERVER - Track Down Active Transactions Using T-SQL

Just a day ago, I was wondering how many active transaction are currently in my database. I found following DMV very useful - very simple and to the point.Following SQL will return currently active transaction.SELECT * FROM sys.dm_tran_session_transactions Reference : Pinal Dave (http://www.SQLAuthority.com)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Popfly game creator

We have just released an alpha version of a great new feature of popfly - the popfly game creator. If you
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 GDR 1

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 GDR 1 | 5.08 MB Silverlight is essentially nothing more than Microsoft's vision of a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in designed to be the source of rich online user experiences and to dislodge Flash from its current dominant position on the market. And when the Redmond company said cross-platform they indeed meant it.Microsoft revealed that it does not plan to leverage the existing Windows Update infrastructure in order to make available Silverlight to all
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Adhoc testing of .NET RIA Services

Suddenly my Silverlight 3 application breaks during development process. Cause I have installed Visual Studio 2010 a few hours before, I was sure: must be something with 2010. After uninstall and reinstall SP1 everything worked fine, except .NET RIA services :-( So back to structured trouble shoothing. What is the first point, the database- SQL Profiler shows no requests. Second point is Entity model. Till now I do not know any point to interactive test a model. Next point is the RIA Service. B
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Why Objective-J, Cappuccino and SproutCore are completely changing the web app industry

I
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Microsoft AJAX: Persist focus, prevent lost requests, and avoid click happy users

How to extend the behavior of async postbacks for update panels.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available for Pre-Order

Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available for Pre-Order Posted by on September 16th, 2008 I told someone awhile back, "Don
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

.NET and Java Growth

.NET and Java Growth Posted by on June 22nd, 2008 I was reading through the latest issue of Redmond Developer News. I most like this magazine as I can get a quick view of Microsoft development from a industry perspective, although sometimes I disagree with a few points here and there. In this issue, they have a variety of articles. I
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

50% more ASP.NET skins

A big thank you guys! Tribute to the generosity of you, our community, we now have 50% more skins available for the telerik ASP.NET components. Check out the latest additions in our Skins Exchange Program and feel free to download a copy for your project. Also, don't forget tovote for your favorite community skin - we have an Xbox and free RadControls licenses waiting for the winners. Voting will close on September, 15th. Once again, I would like to express our enormous gratitude to eve
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Install Prism on Linux for easy to use web apps

If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

The Importance of Community Driven Events - DevLink - OH WOW !!!

I go to ALOT of developer events. Usually, they are work - meaning I probably wouldn't go if I were a retired Millionaire. DevLink was AWESOME. It was kind of link that perfect summer back in school when all the right people were in the right place...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Help me pick the mini-apps that we

On March 14th, in the afternoon I will be hosting a pre-session called Design Tools and Techniques. We will design some mini-apps from scratch, all the way from sketching them, wireframing, prototyping and doing the final UI in Blend. I’ll provide...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

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Official Interactive Twitter Flash Widget by AvatarStumble this! February 02nd 2009I don`t know how this passed me up but it must be more than 30 days or so old because i have not seen it mentioned in no one of the big blogs. i guess that we are so used to Widgets made from the Twitter API that we no longer look directly from the source.But fortunately i stumbled with it on a blog and saw that it was a Official Twitter Widget in Flash. and not only that but that it was interactive!. you can che
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox

We're considering simplifying the AutoCompleteBox API be removing a few rarely used events, and would love to get some feedback from scenarios this might impact....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

TheRarestWords: Intriguing Semantic SEO Project from Russia

A mysterious yet intriguing project from Russia has come across our inbox. It is a search-engine optimization analysis tool for Websites called TheRarestWords. For any given URL, like Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Integrating WCF RIA Services with WCF Routing

If any of you have used RIA Services and tried to get that to work with the WCF router, you probably encountered some problems. The router could be useful in a DMZ scenario, or if you are trying to do content-based routing. I just blogged a quick sample...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-24 more

Woohoo! Subtext 2.0 released!

Ive just completed my upgrade to my site of the official 2.0 release of Subtext, the Open Source blogging engine that I use to manage content on this site. You can read the full announcement from grand poohba Haack himself here. Im loving this release because of the improvements made but also a little selfishly because the modifications Ive made to my own fork Ive been using have made it into this release! These modifications really make this the best platform for me when using Live Writer. This
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web. Easy work.

Stimulsoft reports has a web based report designer component that provides full report editing capabilities inside a web browser. Thanks to this component called Designer.Web you can now allow end users to edit reports to their requirements and save the report definition locally or on the server. The best part of the Designer.Web is drag and drop deployment, all you need to do is insert the designer component on an ASP.NET webform and write one line of code to start allowing users to edit existi
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

MIX09

   Scott Guthrie on Advances in the Design Experiences      - Web            - powerful set of tools and technologies            - Expression Web 3                   - Standard based web authoring                   - Multi-language targeting    Erik Saltwell (Group Program Manager) about Expression Web 3.0       -   Preview Feature that allows us to test the same design against several browsers and versions, and look at what are the differences    Announcement -
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Silverlight Announces H.264 Support for Online HD Video

Microsoft Silverlight has recently played a major role helping to shape some of the world
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Jacksonville Office Geeks: February 2009 Meeting: Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight

Jacksonville Office Geeks: February 2009 Meeting: Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight Our *last* scheduled monthly meeting for a while is on Thursday, September 18, 2008. Here's the session title & abstract to help you get a better idea of what we'll be discussing: Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight Silverlight and SharePoint are two up and coming technologies in the development world. SharePoint developers can create robust applications with a variety of tools, such as web parts, use
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Free eBook - Developer-Evangelism.com

My first job at Microsoft was as a developer evangelist. The company I ran before I came to Microsoft did a great deal of technical evangelism for ASP, Java, Flash, and others. And many of the folks who read my blog are Technical Evangelists, either as part of their job, or in their work with their developer community of choice. So I wanted to share this super (and free) eBook. http://developer-evangelism.com/ I love the part on Remove the Brand. Hope you enjoy it !   Technorati...
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

p2pnet World Headlines

Porn king calls for PS3 support MCVUK The kingpin of the world
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

.NET Rocks Interview on the Application Architecture Guide 2.0

If you read my blog by now you know I'm a big fan of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team !! Well, my buddy Carl Franklin just did a .NET Rocks episode on the new Application Guide 2.0 Check out .NET Rocks show #426, Rob Boucher on Application Architecture Guidance .  It's an in-depth interview with Rob Boucher from our Microsoft patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 project .  It's a behind the scenes look at th
Publication date: 2009-03-07 more

Fish Eye Control in Silverlight

Martin Grayson has a fantastic post, along with code, on one of the best Fish Eye controls I've seen implemented.  Fish Eye for the Blend Guy Using this as a basis we have been working on migration to Silverlight,  and finally got the time to get this working. The code is still a bit rough so I can't publish it,  but it does demonstrate that it can be done.   The main changes we needed to make were due to the lack of a Mouse position meaning we needed to pass this into the methods from our
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Microsoft Analysis Services 2005: Displaying a grid using ADOMD.NET and MDX

The article explains how to fetch data from Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 (OLAP) Cube using ADOMD.NET and MDX, and display it in the form of a grid.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF

9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Interesting Finds: April 3, 2009

Other stuff Exception Overhead - Part 2 , Jason Bock Twitter Poll Results: Favorite Visual Studio Add Ons , Jim Holmes Redmond Developer: Working with MEF in VB and WPF , Brad Abrams MbUnit 3 RTM , Andrew Stopford .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers And Queues - Part 2: Queue Policies and .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers And Queues - Part 3: The REST Queue Protocol , Clemens Vasters Pay as you drive 3 , Richard Veryard
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Microsoft NET Social Networking in Silverlight Project

by on June 8, 2009 We have project which is a social networking for farmers and food buyers in USA, we want some sort of design like basic amp;quot;orkutamp;quot; website that we have 2 years ago. Excerpt from:Microsoft NET Social Networking in Silverlight Project Share and Enjoy:Tagged as: asp-net, coding, computer, getafreelancer, quantcast, social, social media, software-coding, start-here
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Great Blog Post from Singapore: Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!

Here’s a great blog post from Jocelyn of the Microsoft Innovation Centre in Singapore, showing you how to do panoramic navigation for Windows Phone in Expression Blend, including a nice little behavior library for flick gestures. Nice! Oh, almost...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-30 more

Getting More Traffic To Your Site With An SEO Agency

Everyone knows that major principle of running a successful online business is attracting visitors to your website. If people do not visit your website, chances are, you will not have conversions as well. Generating traffic to your site is possible, you could do it yourself, or you could get an SEO Agency to do this. Prior to do that, do research on Outsourcing SEO , some companies offer great service and reasonable SEO pricing . There are many possibilities to do proper SEO on your own.
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

Site of the Day......

The Playboy Archive with 53 Issues. Uses Microsoft Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Microsoft Ships Visual Studio 2008 and .NET SP1

In what promises to be the most significant release for .NET developers this year, Microsoft today released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for June 7, 2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #27 -- on Expression Studio 4 Launch Day! The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-07 more

Binding to Silverlight ComboBox and Using SelectedValue, SelectedValuePath and DisplayMemberPath

Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

Web Site Clone Silverlight by kaiserem

We need a template clone of the web site [http://www.bierengel.it/] that can be customize in style e photos by us. WebSite must be in silverlight 2.0 and must be provided to be customized by us. Budged
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Writing Behaviors : Triggers (DoubleClickTrigger to be Exact!)

In my previous posts, I briefly discussed what behaviors are and how to use them . Let
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Microsoft helps Media Networks Converge to address multichannel opportunities

At 2009 NAB Show, Microsoft will showcase how its software and industry solutions can provide a foundation for media networks to drive down costs while investing in a future where flexibility will be fundamental to success. From video development and management to delivery and the end consumer experience, Microsoft and its partners are helping media companies modernize their existing IT systems and redesign the user experience across multiple screens. Microsoft is enabling a leading ecosystem of
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Link Listing - July 2, 2008

ASP.NET 6 Steps to N-Tier ASP.NET Dynamic Data [Via: craigshoemaker ] HttpModule For Timing Requests [Via: Haacked ] WPF Are You Using WPF as Well? Let Me Know! [Via: Pete.Brown ] Tabbing within a WPF Property Grid editor [Via: Ivan Towlson ] Code Camps Call For Speakers - The First Hartford CodeCamp (Aug 16th Sat) [Via: c1sbc ] CodeStock After Party! [Via: Michael C. Neel ] Spreading the word: first Hartford Code Camp Call for Speakers [Via: daveburke ] SQL Server SQL SERVER - 2008 - Insert
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

How to Add Silverlight to your Website

The following recordings were done by Mr Edu Lorenzo when he gave his workshop at Bitstop Inc 3rd Floor learning center. Silverlight 2.0 Driven Web App Demo Part 1 Silverlight 2.0 Driven Web App Demo Part 2 Silverlight 2.0 Driven Web App Demo Part 3 Silverlight 2.0 Driven Web App Demo Part 4 Silverlight 2.0 Driven Web App Demo Part 5 Silverlight 2.0 Driven Web App Demo Part 6 Silverlight 2.0 Driven Web App Demo Part 1
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Helping Flash Become SEO Friendly

Now that Adobe has made the modifications to Flash so that it will be indexable, and the search engines have begun to index Flash , does that mean you can just put any Flash piece up and it will be indexed without any problems? Not really, you still need to do a little extra work on your part to ensure that the Flash work will be indexed and read correctly by the search engines. Otherwise you may be in the same boat as you were before they were able to read Flash. So here are a few things to
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Validating Data

  To continue our series let
Publication date: 2010-03-24 more

Round-tripping Silverlight 3 projects with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010

Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out, it is a lot of fun to use the fully interactive design surface for Silverlight. However, it comes at a cost: you need to use the conversion wizard to bring your Visual Studio 2008 solutions and projects up to the expected format for the designer tools and new build environment. If you deliver your source ultimately to a Visual Studio 2008-targeted source project, or have issue adopting a beta product until its release, this is a pain. I wrote
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

The Roadshow Rides Again! - May/June Edition

The Northeast Roadshow We're at it again! It's time to pack our laptops and gear to head out across the northeast for our fifth Roadshow! Only this time, you're getting three of us for the price of, well, zero - the events are free after all... Jim O'Neil, our new colleague here in the northeast, is joining Bob and me as we set out to tour various cities, bringing you deep developer and architect content. And some giveaways as well, of course. What's the Roadshow?
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 11: The Client-Only World

I have had a great time so far with this series.. I hope you have gotten something out of it as well. Some readers have asked me if RIA Services is required for the client validation goodness. Nope, the .NET RIA Services bits are not required
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

WinForms on Silverlight

The team has been obscenely busy shipping Silverlight v1.0 and working on Silverlight v1.1 so I haven't had much chance to post lately, but this stopped me in my tracks.  Via Tim's blog I saw this implementation of Windows Forms on top of Silverlight by a company called Netika.  Having worked on the Windows Forms team for 5+ years I know how much work it was for our team to implement all these features on top of Win32 (especially ToolStrips).  Seeing Netika implement much of the WinForms library on the Silverlight alpha in just a few months blows me away.  They've implemented focus, text input including selectioin, combobox, ToolStrips with docking support, and my favorite, the design surface. There's a whole set of demos here, click the image below to run the design surface demo.  Notice they've implemented a preview as well, just click the green play button.  
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

SilverlightShow Eco Contest

The SilverlightShow EcoContest is a cool opportunity for Silverlight designers and developers to show off their creativity and data visualization skills. Here
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Overview Of Internet Marketing

Overview Of Internet Marketing Posted by Dele Ojewumi on Tuesday, August 05 @ 04:07:14 PHT (2 reads) Copyright
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Problem with Microsoft Silverlight

Ok...here is my problem. My audio card is Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2. When I upgraded to Vista I had to use the KX audio driver. It works perfect with all apps but with Microsoft Silverlight. The problem I have is with the MLB.TV (Major League Baseball) site. They use the Windows Media Player and the Microsoft Silverlight for streaming the games. If I use the Windows Media Player, I have perfect sound. If I use Silverlight, I don't have sound at all. The problem is that they stream the gam
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Announcement : RadDock for WinForms Beta is here!

RadDock for WinForms Beta is here! Telerik just released the new beta of RadDock for WinForms. The control offers enhanced design-time support as well as new simplified and completely transparent architecture based on a single interface - IDockWindow. You will also get a new drag & drop mechanism, re-dock support and many more. Read more info and try the demo. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 artic
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Convergence: Silverlight 3 To Support h.264 Video

Holy mother of all video codecs, Batman! Microsoft announces Silverlight 3 will support h.264. It
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

How To: Silverlight grid hierarchy load on demand using MVVM and RIA services

Ive made small example on how to load on demand RadGridView hierarchy child data using MVVM and RIA service:     Using partial classes you can extend very easily generated code with desired load on demand logic: public partial class Customer { bool ordersLoaded = false; public IEnumerable > CustomerOrders { get { if (!ordersLoaded) { var query = from o in MyDataContext.Doma
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Fantasy Soccer - Part 4 - Architectural Overview

Okay this Fantasy Soccer thing has got me thinking. What is this thing going to look like from about 100,000 feet? I.e. what are the big bits? Well being a pure geek, I really want to play with new shiny stuff (i.e. the new ASP.NET MVC Framework) but that has to be balanced against a desire to be real world for the average developer
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

News roundup: CBS picks Silverlight for March Madness on Demand; Full Flash coming on Windows Mobile; So many app stores; Maps as the metaphor for cellphone era

Silverlight, Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash in online video and rich Internet applications, will power CBSsports.com's March Madness on Demand -- the men's college basketball tournament, reports the SportsBusiness Journal. CBS was already using Windows Media Player for the service, which drew 4.8 million users last year. Silverlight will power a higher-quality version, SBJ reports. Also, Microsoft's Scott Guthrie wrote in a November update on Silverlight that "CBS College Sports is now u
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Creating Full Text Catalog and Full Text Search

Full Text Index helps to perform complex queries against character data. These queries can include word or phrase searching. We can create a full-text index on a table or indexed view in a database. Only one full-text index is allowed per table or indexed view. The index can contain up to 1024 columns. Software developer [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silver
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Professional LINQ

Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer) by Scott Klein Read more about this book... I am really getting into LINQ right now, so I am looking for good references to get the concepts in my brain. I ordered a copy of Scott Klein's Professional LINQ...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility

The Closed Captioning For Silverlight Media page at T2Sami.com says in its commentary: A number of very sophisticated Silverlight Video players are under development: some open source, some proprietary
Publication date: 2009-10-27 more

Exposing Events in ASP.NET Server Controls

Thoughts, approaches and major pitfalls in exposing ASP.NET server control events.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Putting the Silverlight Layout System to Work

More: The Layout Model (Part 1) In my previous blog entry I described the fundamentals of the Silverlight Layout System ( SLS ). Today, I'd like to build a simplified version of the custom Carousel control that I create in greater detail in a forthcoming...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Safari 4 Intros Nitro JavaScript Engine, Adds Dev Tools

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built-in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Eye On .NET

Eye On .NET is periodical listing series for .NET(Blogs, Articles, Media, Events and Announcing) I hope that my simple view to .NET development be helpfully at least reflect the best. And this is my first List that will be focus on Blogs Community  :)   Scott Guthrie links: April 28th, April 11th ASP.NET MVC: (Part 0): What is it? , (Part 1): Building an MVC Application , (Part 2): URL Routing , (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views , (Part 4): Handling Form Edit and Post Sc
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

View local (offline) help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension

Although I am involved with content creation (meaning I write the stuff) and not the actual publishing mechanisms for MSDN documentation, I've still heard the rumblings about the new help experience with Visual Studio 2010. A lot of folks don't like the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-28 more

Beginning Silverlight 3

Coming soon... Product Description Silverlight design tools have important differences compared to those used to create Ajax and JavaScript functionality. Robert Lair takes you on a tour of all the tools, including Microsoft Expression Design, which plays an important part in creating Silverlight assets; Microsoft Expression Blend, which is used to build user interaction for Silverlight elements; and Microsoft Visual Studio, which manages the interaction between designers and developers,
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Last day for the Elves-only 30% OFF on Expression Studio!

I received this message from Elwe the Lizzard Elf - I thought you would find it useful (it’s about a big discount on Expression Studio 3!!!) Ay caramba! “If you are an elf like me who enjoys holidays because of the amazing, sometimes crazy...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-27 more

Sothink Quicker For Silverlight v3 0 Build 90107 PROPER-NGEN

Release Name: Sothink.Quicker.For.Silverlight.v3.0.Build.90107.PROPER-NGEN Size: 16 MegaBytes (6 files) NFO: View Mirror(s): Netload Download: http://netload.in/dateiX4Tw92KpN8.htm
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

SQL SERVER - Quickest Way to - Kill All Threads - Kill All User Session - Kill All Processes

More than a year ago, I wrote how to kill all the processes running in SQL Server. Just a day ago, I found the quickest way to kill the processes of SQL Server. While searching online I found very similar methods to my previous method everywhere. Today in this article, I will write the quickest [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Silverlight calling Workflow Services

One question I was asked during my web cast yesterday about calling WCF services from Silverlight is if the service could be a workflow service.  I said - "Of course" - not knowing that it was a little more complex than that :) That said - here is a sample. SilverLightUsingWorkflow.zip (535.08 KB) Unfortunately I don't have time to go into the details right now - working on another project at the moment. The key to making it work is setting the instanceid context to null on the server
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Install your own Silverlight 1.0 powered Flickr Search Widget in your blog

If you feel a little adventurous to do some little tweaking here and there and upload some files to your host or a place like google pages if you want. if you are willing to do that. you can get this very cute flickr search. it is already fully made up by Makoto3.com. a japanese silverlight developer. he provides you with the files and the full instructions to get your own widgetized flickr search done.   For instructions check this translated to English page: Flickr Search on Silverlig
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

New features in RadComboBox, RadTreeView, RadUpload and RadScheduler

Hi all, In this blog post I will show you some of the new features of RadComboBox, RadTreeView, RadUpload and RadScheduler which will appear in our Q2 2008 release. First I will introduce you with a cool new RadComboBox feature. Did you become a Telerik fan on Facebook yet? If not you can do so by going to http://telerikwatch.com/2008/06/become-official-telerik-fan.html. The reason I am talking about Facebook is that the new filtering functionality of RadCombobox works quite similarly. T
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

YouTube got Microsoft

YouTube is running Microsoft Silverlight in CBS
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009 .  I was able to spend much of the time in a demo
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

A Developer's first look at visual studio 2010

New features of Visual studio 2010 discussed... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Peanut butter jelly time [How to: Create a pleasing visual effect with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

I was recently part of an e-mail thread with Pete Brown discussing the prospects of reproducing Richard Zadorozny's cool "jelly chart" behavior with the official Silverlight/WPF Charting controls from the Silverlight Toolkit . Richard's sample is really...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Silverlight: Enabling Rich Internet Applications for the Open Source World

With the work Microsoft has done on Silverlight, not only do Microsoft developers have the latest tools to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), open source developers can share in these tools as well. Whether you write code in PHP, Python, Ruby or use Eclipse, there are tools available to you that let you develop the hottest RIA using Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Belgium ReMix and Architect Forum: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium.    I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically the this application .    At the Architect...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

How to Install a Skin in DotNetNuke 5 - 2 Free Videos

In this free video tutorial we demonstrate how to install skins and containers in DotNetNuke 5. If you have used an earlier DotNetNuke version, the installation has changed slightly, or if you are a beginner to DotNetNuke this should help you get up to speed quickly. The videos contain: Video 1 - How to Install a Skin in DotNetNuke 5 Video 2 - How to Test a Skin, How to Auto Install a Skin Total Time Length: 18min 14secs Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net article
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Daily news blogs about .NET and related creatures

A friend asked me how I know about so many things that happen in the .NET sphere. the answer is very very simple. All you have to do is follow a few blogs on a daily basis, and youll have access to a whole world of new and existing things you didnt even know existed in .NET. here are the first three blogs I subscribe to on a daily basis. These are link blogs, they only supply links to cool and interesting stuff that happens in .NET land. Dew Drop (Alvin Ashcraft) Interesting finds (Jason
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Superstitious? Microsoft Tempts Fate

Redmond, Washington based Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqGS: MSFT ) has issued the company
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Friday Books - Introducing MS Silverlight 2

Product Description Get a jump on the next release of Silverlight with early insights from a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Silverlight team. This guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2 tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. RIAs are Web applications with the features and functionality of full desktop applications. Processing tasks are performed on the client, but
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Broken Silverlight 4 Beta Apps on this Site?

Just a quick note
Publication date: 2010-03-24 more

Recording of my MVVM talk at NDC2009 is now online

The videos from NDC2009 are now published on the conference agenda site . The site isn
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Coders 4 Charity:Why do I want to give my time?

Coders 4 Charity:Why do I want to give my time? Last year I had a great experience giving my time to charities for three days in Kansas City.  If you have been reading my blog for a while you know that I attended last year's event.  You know that my team created a WSS Site for the Boy Scouts in Blue Springs, Missouri.  This year I am challenging you to come and try to beat us, because yes all of us will be back.  We will be teaming up for the event again.  We could use some competition.
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

CLR Updates in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Kevin Frie, development lead for core parts of the CLR recently posted about what CLR updates that come in 3.5 SP1....   NGen infrastructure rewrite:  the new infrastructure uses less memory, produces less fragmented NGen images with much better locality, and does so in dramatically less time.  What this means to you:  Installing or servicing an NGen image is much faster, and cold startup time of your NGen
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #30

In this tip I will be showing you how to send an email via Silverlight. Obviously sending email directly from the Silverlight client is not possible. However, as with most things, you can leverage a Silverlight-enabled WCF server to do the dirty work...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

Silverlight and Xml Binding

I
Publication date: 2010-04-19 more

Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009

Other Solving 2 pesky Windows behaviors , Patrick Smacchia A Quick Description of MEF , Kathleen Dollard Tuning ConnectionBufferSize , Nicholas Allen Realtime Reading of Windows Internals , Dmitry Vostokov Anemic Domain Model Anti-Pattern , Salvador Gascon Upgrading my Lenovo W500 to a OCZ Vertex 250GB SATA II Solid State Disk (SSD) , Scott Hanselman Great Explanation on Why 32 Bits Instead of 64 , Mauro SantAnna MEF and XAML integration
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #105

From within VS you can specify which Internet browser you want launched when running your Silverlight application. Your default system browser is not affected by this setting. To make this change right click on your startup web page and choose Browse...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Prism, MVVM, Behaviors, Blend

I just confirmed that I will be presenting Silverlight 3 at the Lakeland, FL .NET User Group next Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. As everyone who knows me knows, I just love talking to people about Silverlight so this is just another excuse for me to do so...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Silverlight TV Episode 005

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! Episode 5 is all about using Metadata with MEF. Hamilton Verissimo makes a return visit to show us how metadata can make MEF ever more valuable to build Silverlight applications. ...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-31 more

Soft-deletes are bad, m'kay?

Have you ever ran into database tables with a field which is used to mark if a row has been 'deleted' ? Probably. These fields are used to implement 'soft-deletes'. For the soft-delete impaired, a quick introduction. Soft-deletes are row deletes which are not really happening: instead of removing the row from the database table, a field in the row is set to a value which signals that the row is officially 'deleted'. Every SELECT statement on that table is then filtering on that field's value so
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Robert J. Elisberg: Major League Baseball Strikes Out - On Just One Pitch

Every once in a while, an organization makes a blunder so breathtaking that it's almost operatic. Major League Baseball has made such a blunder - one that combines the initial inexplicable gaff and how they've compounded it. It's turning into a textbook lesson on being tone deaf with your public. Pull up a chair. For several years, MLB.com has had the crown jewel of sports subscription services, Gameday Audio, which broadcasts every major league baseball game. It's a smorgasbord of jo
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Browser Resize

Now that Beta 2 is almost out the door I will start delivering more tutorials related to game development. I apologize for the delay but I have been swamped! For this tutorial, I will be showing you how to capture the size of your browser when it is resized...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Adobe Flash set-top-boxes and TVs headed to a living room near you

The software is due out later this year. It will show information from The New York Times and other sources while you're watching TV, and it can stream high definition video content from the internet. We were excited when we first saw Yahoo! and Intel's TV widgets platform that was introduced at CES earlier this year . It display photos from Flickr and browses MySpace profiles on your TV set without interrupting the shows you're watching, topping off what industry folks are calling the "
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Mac Users Watch Streaming Videos Too

Many content providers don't seem to realize it but Mac users watch streaming videos too. It amazes me with the millions of Mac users worldwide, many don't seem to think these users count in terms of the streaming content that is made available for them. There are so many high profile websites that don't allow any type of streaming experience available for Mac users. At least in many cases it doesn't work properly. Amazingly some of my favorite websites to watch streaming content on don't del
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Adobe Flash Coming To A TV Near You..

Adobe , the maker of Flash has announced that it is working on a new Flash platform that would be made available to set-top boxes and digital TVs. The company has tied-up with Broadcom, Sigma Designs and MediaTek-all of whom are in the business of making system-on chips(SoC) for set top boxes. This strategy signifies Adobe move to extend their boundary beyond just PC and Mobile phones. In fact, almost 98 percent of PC
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Silverlight tracking with Google Analytics

We (at my company) wanted to know the Silverlight distribution rate within our visitors. Since Google Analytics doesn
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Element Binding in Silverlight

Jesse Liberty returns to the podcast to explain some of the new features found in Silverlight 3.  This week, we talk about element-to-element binding. What
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Cappuccino

The guys from 280 North did it again. Earlier, it was the awesome Keynote on the Web
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Maximum TV Launches Silverlight-based Spanish Language TV Site

Maximum TV has just launched a Spanish language TV station on the web using Silverlight, IIS Smooth Streaming, SQL Server, and Windows Server to deliver an amazing ad-supported video experience. We really like the video walls (shown below) that show 12...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-29 more

Interesting Finds: May 23, 2009

Other stuff Using WiX 3.0 to create an MSI-based installer for Visual Studio project templates , Aaron Stebner Thinktecture WS-Federation Metadata Generator , leastprivilege.com Create and Deploy your Windows Azure Service in 5 Steps , Ryan Dunn Do you have Truth Tables in your programming toolbox? , thycotic Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts , Stephen Forte M Language Changes Coming in Next CTP , Shawn Wildermuth Sandboxing in .NET 4.0 , shawnfa Cod
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe

[ In addition to blogging, I
Publication date: 2010-01-02 more

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Interview Questions and Answers - Part 6

3) Questions of SQL SERVER 2008What are the basic functions for master, msdb, model, tempdb and resource databases?The master database holds information for all databases located on the SQL Server instance and is theglue that holds the engine together. Because SQL Server cannot start without a functioning masterdatabase, you must administer this database with care.The [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Silverlight Toolkit Drag Drop (Part 2): Customizing Drag and Drop Behavior

In part 1 you were introduced to the new Silverlight DragDropTarget controls.  In addition to being powerful these controls are very flexible, allowing developers to customize almost every single aspect of their behavior.  In order to understand...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #92

In Tip of the Day #86 I showed you how to load external images not included in the project such as images on the web. In this Tip I will be showing you had to load images from the client
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Refactoring Silverlight ChildWindow for a non-modal use

I
Publication date: 2009-05-11 more

Better Navigation

I was pretty happy with the threading navigation I had introduced   Just to double check, I asked my buddy David Platt, author of the absolutely essential Why Software Sucks, to take a look. He was quite gentle in ripping my guts out. He pointed out that the juxtaposition of the word More with a left pointing arrow is so jarring it just forces you to stop and think (Don't Make Me Think!"). He also noted that putting one link at the top of the article, and the other at the bottom... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Currency amount with or without $ and with commas

Needed to verify a currency amount entered has commas and two decimal spaces to the right. This has a range between 1.99 to the tens of millions. If you want to make the decimal side optional, add a question mark before the final $ in each expression. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Flash spell check developer upset by competition from Adobe Squiggly

Grant Skinner is the developer of Spelling Plus Library , a spell checking engine for Flex, Flash and AIR. He is displeased that Adobe has now released Squiggly on Adobe Labs
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Microsoft Rolls Out New Forefront Betas

Microsoft is releasing new betas of Forefront enterprise security products, according to announcements issued this week.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Windows Vista Ultimate Nvidia Evolution SP2 DVD

June 19th, 2009 Posted in ApplicationsWindows Vista Ultimate Nvidia Evolution SP2 DVD Language: English US Size: 1.55 GB Architecture: 32-Bit Version based: Vista UltimateNvidia evolution has been tweaked for a best performance and stability with particular reg tweak and other important setting . This time i completely left the possibility to personalize it with your favorite apps.(exactly like Ambra) The speech support hasn
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

MVC and ORMs for PHP Developers tonight in Burlington, VT

I finally read the abstract for Matthew Weier OPhinneys PHP U.G. talk, Play-Doh: Modeling Your Domain Objects, tonight and realized he is focusing on the MVC design pattern and ORMs. Im looking at my day /evening which still has two more dog walks (I havent been on my bike in over 2 weeks :-(), client work, 2 articles to write, a screencast to create and a major house cleaning preparation for some weekend guests. Boy would I like to steal 4 hours out of the evening to go to Matthews talk and ex
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Microsoft Scores Bing Deals with Twitter AND Facebook

October 21st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Update: Bing has now made the announcments and Google has announced a deal with Twitter too. Google
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Intel Is Porting Silverlight to Moblin, a Linux OS

Intel has showcased IIS Smooth Streaming running on Windows 7 but also on a Moblin device based on their Atom processor on September 23rd during Intel Development Forum 2009. This indicates an effort to port Silverlight to Linux separate than Moonlight.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Visual Studio Macros for Dummies

If you are doing serious software development you probably have automated builds (via TeamBuild or some other tool) which build all the build configurations you have, run all your unit tests, run code analysis rules, run source analysis rules and more. While writing code you probably want to have all those extra tools and checks turned off because they will drag your productivity down. When you are about to check-in, however, you will need to make sure your solution builds without errors in dif
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsAZjb7FKXA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ErrS68YMM...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

One more platform difference more-or-less tamed [SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better!]

Earlier this week I wrote about the "app building" exercise my team conducted and posted my sample application , a simple organizational hierarchy viewer using many of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit . One of the surprises I had during the process...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

Storing and playing media on Windows Phone 7

In talking with a friend about some Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight stuff recently. He was giving me some great feedback about a few things (all of which I
Publication date: 2010-08-17 more

Visit the McNuggets

McDonald
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Html and Uri String Encoding without System.Web

Ive been revisiting and refactoring some of my old utility libraries recently. One of my classes is WebUtils which is duh - Web specific and really didnt need to be in this general utility library and so I moved it off into my Web support library that contains the brunt of Web specific behavior like custom controls and general ASP.NET helpers. The Westwind.Web project naturally contains a reference to System.Web because its a Web project. After removing the Web functionality from the Westwind.Ut
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

3D Capabilities in Silverlight 3

In this article, Sergey examines the 3D capabilities in Silverlight 3 that were not supported in previous versions of Silverlight. It became possible in Silverlight 3 to create 3D projections of content in an application. Sergey provides a detailed explanation of the various aspects with relevant source code examples along with screen shots including the usage of animation.
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Smart Client Technology, Dependency Injection and More with Brian Noyes

This second dose of Bytes by MSDN and TechZulu brings to you Brian Noyes.  Brian Noyes is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, author, and speaker. Brian speaks at many conferences worldwide, including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, VSLive!, DevTeach, and others. He is the author of Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0, and frequent articles in major magazines. Brian got
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Posts about Ecommerce as of March 16, 2009

Microsoft Small Business Manager eCommerce - Overview - consumerpost.com 03/16/2009 Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Manager is scaled down Great Plains Dexterity based version of Microsoft Great Plains or former Great
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Akamai Unveils the Akamai HD Network

Akamai Technologies announces the Akamai HD Network, its next generation video delivery offering and the first platform to deliver HD video online to viewers using Adobe Flash technology, Microsoft Silverlight, and to the iPhone, at broadcast-level audience scale. The Akamai HD Network is the only solution that supports live and on-demand HD streaming with a highly-personalized and interactive online experience that matches and complements HD television. As a first-of-its-kind streaming pla
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service

October 19th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 10:31 amCategories:Azure, Corporate strategy, Silverlight (wpf/e), Utility/cloud computing, Windows LiveTags:Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Silverlight Streaming, Softies, Team Management, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo FoleyMicrosoft is discontinuing its free Silverlight Streaming service and replacing it with a paid, Azure-hosted service before the end of calendar 2009.Microsoft is confirming the rep
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Free Silverlight Streaming for Video & Other Stuff

Snapshot of what
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Silverlight Firestarter Party in Portland

Erik Mork of the Sparkling Client fame is hosting a gathering for those in Portland who want to see the Silverlight Firestarter in Redmond . Details are below
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Settlement agreements are safe havens?

Are settlement agreements the new save haven for bad medical equipment?
Publication date: 2009-11-08 more

Line Rider rides on Silverlight 2

Line Rider rides on Silverlight 2 author: tim heuer | posted @ Monday, June 30, 2008 9:49 PM | Feedback (2) | reactions One of probably the coolest casual
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

March's Toolbox Column Now Online

MyToolbox column in theMarch 2009issue of MSDN Magazine is available online. TheMarch issue of MSDN Magazine has a focus on the Web and my reviews in Toolbox follow suit and include: TheAjax Data Controls Project- The Ajax Data Controls (ADC) project is an ASP.NET AJAX extension that marries the ease of the server-centric development model with the performance of the client-centric development model. ADC is a collection of controls that displays data in an Ajax-enabled web page. You can add th
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Case Study: Bargainland builds Bidtopia.Com

Case Study: Bargainland builds Bidtopia.Com Posted by on June 20th, 2008 Last year, John and I ran across a new company that had moved to town (thanks Diana for the intro). Several things caught my attention about them. First, they were hard at work with .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 Beta, and second, their business model of "reverse logistics". This has turned out to be a really interesting story to watch unfold as this company explodes at the seams in growth, all the while with a minimal IT staff of
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Olympics 2008 open thread

Watching the opening ceremonies? On TV or online? How
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

EPS WPF/ Silverlight/ Surface/ Azure Case Study by Microsoft

Video description: This is a case study Microsoft did about EPS Software Corp. (my company). It includes the things we do with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), Silverlight, Microsoft Surface, Windows Azure, Services in general, ...
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Field Level Access with RIA Services

There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an entity.  For example, HIPPA compliance requires that some data not be exposed to only employees with a need to know.   It is often not sufficient to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

The Silverlight BlockText Control

Introduction Yes, I was searching for months if there is any possibility to simple justify block text! And I didn
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Dynamically creating and destroying containers

Ben H. asked a question within a comment to a previous blog post. Suppose, there is a button on the main form and when the user clicks on the button, a new container gets instantiated and the new container appears on the top of the main form. However...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

CommunityOne and RedMonk

CommunityOne and RedMonk May 7th, 2008 So far so good. My talk at CommunityOne went off without a hitch and was possibly even well received. After which Andre and I went on to check out the RedMonk track at CommunityOne, which was inciteful as one would expect. We participated in a few discussions around cloud computing, twitter and, of course, RIA. I think from the discussion about RIAs I pretty much decided the only thing that makes an RIA is when an online application does not use page
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation

As those of you who
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Microsoft StreamInsight and BizTalk Server - Preliminary Thoughts

Richard Seroter talks here about feeding BizTalk events into StreamInsight or receiving events out as BizTalk messages. I spent a little time considering the possibility of using StreamInsight in conjunction with BTS messaging infrastructure by building custom BTS adaptersor pipeline components that directly hook into StreamInsight. A preliminary look through the code samples (the best way, currently, of understanding this new engine, given that the CTP documentation is somewhat sparse) suggests
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Flash Gaming Payments Heat Up: Heyzap Launches Microtransaction Platform

Flash Gaming Payments Heat Up: Heyzap Launches Microtransaction PlatformIn: Ecommerce| News Article| Web| Web Development| home| professional media| publishing| social media 26Jun2009 By: techcrunch.comHeyzap, the Y Combinator startup that offers an easily-embedded widget containing thousands of Flash games, is launching a major new product today that introduces the company to an entirely new source of revenue. Dubbed HeyZap Payments, the platform offers developers a way to
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

The Silverlight Tour: Travelling Across Canada This Summer!

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection . If you
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Silverlight Smooth Streaming: UX Simulator

I
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Simple Silverline Video Pla

We need a very very simple Silverlight video player We need to use this player to two application in our website 1 Showing our live MMS stream mms 94 21 6 23 8 81 2 Showing our
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Developer Build of Chrome (1251) fixes Silverlight 2 bugs

Developer Build of Chrome (1251) fixes Silverlight 2 bugs Posted in: Silverlight | Tips & Tricks The most current developer build of the Google Chrome browser has fixes for some of the initial Silverlight problems reported when the beta was made available. The beta did load the Silverlight plug-in, but people experienced several bugs. On the sites I tried Chrome would render the application, but any interaction from keyboard or mouse wouldn
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Weekly Link Post 99

This is is my weekly link post.  It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me
Publication date: 2009-06-22 more

Silverlight 2 Web Development: Problem-Design- Solution

Coming soon... Product Description * As Microsoft's solution for building rich, interactive applications, Silverlight is gaining rapid popularity among ASP.NET developers * This book shows how to enhance Web applications with Silverlight 1.1 via a tutorial that walks readers through each stage of application development * The author team uses the extremely popular TheBeerHouse application to present readers with a problem, a design, and the solution, with the end result being a real-wor
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Strategies for editing DSL scripts in production

Another interesting question from Chris Ortman: So I write my dsl, and tell my customer to here edit this text file? How do I tell them what the possible options are? Intellisense? This is a web app, and my desire to build intellisense into a javascript rich text editor is very low. It might be a good excuse to try out silverlight but even then it seems a large task. Or I put express or #Develop on the server and make that the 'admin' gui? This is actually a question that comes up often
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

NBC and Vista on a Full Online Coverage in Beijing

NBC is going full strength on Beijing Olympics by giving users online coverage to all its sports. However, only Vista users would be able to enjoy this. In an excerpt: NBC announced two significant technology partnerships with Microsoft and Wavexpress today to provide 2008 Olympics coverage over the web. The new initiatives embody a natural evolution for Olympics coverage considering the times
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

VPC for IE testing refreshed with beta 2

Microsoft has updated the VPCs to test your web apps with different versions of Internet Explorer. You can now download these VPC: IE6/XP SP3 IE7/XP SP2 IE7/Vista IE8 beta 2/XP SP3 >> Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image These new VPCs will expire in January, 2009. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

A Silverlight HVP Update

A Silverlight HVP Update I
Publication date: 2009-12-24 more

Dew Drop - August 4, 2008

  .NET / Visual Studio Managing SVN via SlickEdit (Derik Whittaker) Sneak Peeks Into the F# Project System, Part Three (Brian) CSLA .NET 3.5.1 Released (Rocky Lhotka) Implementing IUpdateable (Part 3) (Shawn Wildermuth) Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 6 (Justin Etheredge) Looking Beyond Visual Studio (Grant Palin) My Visual Studio vNext Wish List (Granville Barnett) ASP.NET AJAX Using JSON - Here
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

OneImage

An httpmodule designed to create one image out of many for faster loading and fewier web server http requests. Module creates auto generated css image maps of positions for displaying on a webpage using background positioning. The module also handles creating mouse over image effects.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th

My favorite conference of the year is approaching fast! MIX10 is shaping up to be a fantastic conference yet again. If you have attended MIX in prior years you know how the people and conversations found at MIX are top notch, rewarding and just a lot...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

MSN ClipClub Marries Online Videos with Social Networking Via

MSN ClipClub Marries Online Videos with Social Networking Via
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Building NBCOlympics.com with Silverlight - Video

NBCOlympics.com is one of the most ambitious projects on the web and one of the largest Silverlight applications today. Eric Schmidt takes us on a technical tour of how the site works and how it was built with Silverlight 2 and Windows Media. Watch: Video Source:
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

SQL SERVER Query Optimizer Hint ROBUST PLAN Question to You

While cleaning up my bookmarks this week, I stumbled upon a very small interesting thing. I can proudly call myself a pro at finding stuffs, but after continuously hunting online I could not gather comprehensive information about this topic. I was actually looking for a practical example for Query Optimizer Hint
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Olympics Onslaught: TV's Better

Badminton, handball, Silverlight? Take you pick
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Silverlight and Bing Maps delivers Innovation

Today, the Bing Maps team is making some huge advancements to their site, platform and developer experiences. Back in December, 2009 Bing Maps released a Silverlight 3 version of their consumer site which helps users find locations, view maps and aerial...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-07 more

Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 3rd)

A few interesting post on .NET RIA Services
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Health Monitoring and ASP.NET MVC

Health monitoring has been available in ASP.NET since v 2.0, and the health monitoring features can give you information you cant find anywhere else. I was troubleshooting an MVC application recently and needed information about the application: When was the application starting? When was the application shutting down? Why was the application shutting down? When was view compilation taking place? This is the type of information you can record with health monitoring in both We
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Making use of your JSON data in Silverlight

Wait! Don
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Points For Stories and the Perplexing Nature of Estimating Software

For four years, I've been using the point system for estimating software effort. This post is an attempt to convey all the variables involved in estimating software effort. I'll also touch measuring effectiveness of a software project. First, as a manager, I want to know if my software organization is being effective. Furthermore, I want to be able to measure each team in my organization and do some comparison between them. What is the metric by which I should measure them? ... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Shawn Wildermuth - Choosing a Data Access Layer for Silverlight 3

If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll probably remember my pithy blog post where I stated that "It all depends..." to the question "Which Data Access Should I Use for Silverlight 3?"  The reality is that much like the similar question I am confronted with at user groups for the past decade ("What data access should I use in my .NET app?"). The reasons for picking a strategy are wide and varied so I will not try to analyze all possible outcome...
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Client-side database with Silverlight?

Ive seen some discussion threads about doing things like putting VistaDb (a 100% managed code database) into a Silverlight app. Most of this was wishful thinking, IMHO. If you are going to put a database into a Silverlight app, obviously the data file(s) need to go in IsolatedStorage. So thats one hurdle handling file access. I took a look at SharpHsql, a much simpler managed code database effort that has had its ups and downs since being ported from the JAVA implementation.  I tried ripping...
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Debugging Data Bindings in a WPF or Silverlight Application

The WPF and Silverlight platforms use late bound data binding resolution for bindings in XAML files. This feature allows a DataContext to be set at run-time and the objects within that DataContext to resolve their property bindings then. This late binding...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-01 more

Early look at the Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone

Check out Jeff Wilcox's blog for a great post introducing the Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone. I'm currently using the Panorama control (yes, one of the advantages to working for Microsoft is early access to stuff that is under development...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-18 more

Google to Serve Video Ads in Microsoft Silverlight

Google to Serve Video Ads in Microsoft Silverlight Google's DoubleClick unit can now serve video ads on platforms forged with Microsoft Silverlight 2. Read more...
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Expression for Art’s Sake – Silverlight and Blend in Wellington, New Zealand

What do you get when you invite 14 companies for 3 1/2 days and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Upgrading to CS2008 - What happens to existing gallery images?

As per title, we have around 6,200 images in our galleries and are concerned what's going to happen to them should be we upgrade to CS2008. For reference they are all stored in the file system and we're on CS2007.1... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Silverlight and Baseball

Being a huge Yankees fan and living out of market like I do I recently purchased the MLB.com TV package so I can watch the games on the Internet. They sued to use Real video streaming however I cranked up the video tonight and noticed some changes form last year. After a quick check, yep, its using Silverlight! I'm sure this was announced somewhere along the way and I just purely missed it. But how cool is it that MLB.com is using Silverlight!     Yes, I spray painted some logos in the i
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

.NET Services Whitepapers

Our good friends at Pluralsight wrote some great whitepapers that introduce developers to .NET Services. They are all available on the .NET Services MSDN Dev Center. The best place to start is Aaron's intro, and then based on what you're interested in, there's a paper on each of the .NET Access Control Service, .NET Service Bus, and .NET Workflow Service. Happy reading! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 ar
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Interoperability - Eclipse Tools for Silverlight

You have heard us talk about our commitment to interoperability in the past.     Today, I
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

My new home page, extended [Updated collection of great Silverlight and WPF Charting resources!]

It's been a while since the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit - and even longer since I last posted a collection of Charting links . It's clearly time for an update, so I've added a bunch of new links to the collection below (FYI: previously...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Cool projects that don

A year ago, I wrote a post about three projects that I thought would be useful for .NET developers but didn
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Silverlight 2 in Action

Silverlight 2 in Action Product Description Microsoft describes Silverlight as a
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

TWC9 features Silverlight AR, BugCamSmash and Blend Extensibility

Very cool to see that this week
Publication date: 2009-12-14 more

The proverbial "one line fix" [ComputeFileHashes works around a troublesome Silverlight-on-Mac issue]

When I achieved cross-platform parity by adding MD5 support to the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes , I thought I was done for a while. But then I got an email from a coworker reporting that the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes running...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-01 more

The Tree View Control

The Tree View control is ideal for displaying hierarchical data. While there is a great deal you can do with this control, in its simplest form it is fairly straightforward to work with, once you grok the essential recursiveness it demands (well, requests...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-31 more

Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted

We recently got some great new Mix09 sessions posted. Here are a few that I think are cool as they directly relate to what my team is doing.. if you can make to Vegas, please come by.. if you can
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Great User Experience Example in a Business Application

DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight.  Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services.  So far the application is in WPF, but they...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-08 more

IntelliSense Fosters Inattention

I count on IntelliSense a lot when programming - especially in C# which (arrggh!) is case-sensitive. However, I just had a case where IntelliSense led me to make a mistake that cost me half an hour. I was happily working in LINQ and had the following...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight

Coming from other platforms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash you will be used to defining colors with hexadecimal values.  Silverlight does support the use of hexadecimal values in XAML, in fact it supports 4 different formats (rgb, argb, rrggbb...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Coming Soon: Wire Draw for iPhone | BIT-101 Blog

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am and is filed under iPhone . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Skyfire Now Looking For BlackBerry Alpha Testers

via BoyGeniusReport and CrackBerry BlackBerrys are great for a lot of things but web browsing just isn’t one of them. The default web browser really isn’t all that suitable for anything more than WAP sites and, well, it’s painfully slow. Because of this, a large number of BlackBerry users turn to third-party browsers such as Opera Mini and Bolt to fill the mobile web void that has been forced upon them. While both are good third-party browsers in their own right, they’re nothing like the ama
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #104

With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta 1 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration (or hardware acceleration) is now available. The GPU is a processor attached to your graphics card that is generally used for calculating floating point operations. In...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Silverlight Business Application Development faster with IdeaBlade

Okay, about a month ago I was shown this demonstration by my new favorite friend Ward Bell of IdeaBlade .  Why is he my new favorite friend?  Well besides being a great guy, wait till you see what he has to show you.  I briefly alluded to my excitement via Twitter as a teaser.  I previously mentioned that we saw some sneak peeks of Silverlight 3 added features for line-of-business application development with Brad Abrams.  Today, check out what Ward has to show you:
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

There More Like Guidelines, Not Rules - Some Insight on How I Use Twitter

I
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Add a WMS Layer in Silverlight

ESRI has released the WMS Layer sample code at the code gallery. You can download it here. Another layer suppor for the ArcGIS Silverlight API that people requests often. Whats WMS? From Open GeoSpatial The OpenGIS Web Map Service Interface Standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases. A WMS request defines the geographic layer(s) and area of interest to be processed. The response to the request i
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Streaming Media Reader

We
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Expression Studio 4 Launches Officially

We have demonstrated Expression 4 at Mix 2010. And today, Expression Studio 4, including Expression Blend, Web, Encoder and Design has officially been launched at Internet Week in New York, and will be available shortly. There is a new SKU line-up and...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-07 more

Silverlight: Who cares if Binary Encoding is not interoperable?

I know the title of this post is a little tongue in cheek but actually who cares? Just to put this in context in SL3, Microsoft have added support for binary encoding of soap messages for communication between Silverlight 3 applications and WCF Services. Binary encoding means that the server can process messages faster, meaning higher throughput and the ability to handle more clients than the SL2 text encoding for SOAP. The downside that the binary encoding is a proprietary Microsoft fo
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

How to get ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 to run with .NET SP1

As you probably know by now (i.e. from Phill's blog), however both Routing and Abstractions are. MVC Preview 4, however, has its own version of both assemblies. In order to get MVC to use the new RTM bits of both assemblies (and avoid weird side-by-side errors), you just need to add the following binding redirect to the web.config file:
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards The Cloud

Microsoft is making a significant announcement for developers today, upgrading and adding functionality to Visual Studio 2010 to make the product more cloud-friendly in anticipation of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Democratic Convention Web Site Gets 3.2 Million Visits

Just as the Republican National Convention is about to wrap up tonight, the Democratic National Convention Committee released some interesting numbers about its web presence during the Democratic convention last week. During the convention week, the official Web site received more than 3.2 million visits. Also, visitors to the DNC site watched a total of more than 360,000 hours of online video from the convention. SilverStripe The convention site was built on top of SilverStripe, a New Zealand
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Demand for RIA-jobs on the rise

I
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Want to see some cool Silverlight sites?

The Microsoft Art & Technology site showcases a load of Silverlight based web sites from Ice Cube through to Presidential Election sites. The site has: Background Hands on Sandbox Gallery of Silverlight sites Case studies Microsoft Art & Technology...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Skyfire adds Gmail integration, search history and Facebook thumbnails

Skyfire, the up-and-coming mobile web browser has just released a handful of new features. The Skyfire browser uses a client-server setup to process all web pages on super-powerful computers that you would never be able to afford. That makes for really fast page-load times and even streaming media like Flash or Silverlight content. Yesterday, Skyfire made a bunch of upgrades to these servers, enabling a slew of new features. Skyfire now supports full Gmail integration, the ability to browse yo
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Azure July CTP

Microsoft has released a new Azure SDK CTP.  Basically, workflow is gone. Whats new in the Windows Azure SDK? The Windows Azure SDK supports developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service must include at least one role, of either type, and may include zero or more web roles, and zero or more worker roles. The new PowershellRole sample hosts the Powershell runtime within a Windows Azure role. It demonstrates a simple remote console web... D
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

The big question: which big player has the right mobile web development strategy?

The spectrum of mobile web strategies is coming into focus at the CTIA this week in San Francisco. After listening to some of the big players talk about their strategies, the divisions between the companies are becoming clear and the question is: Which approach will succeed? Yahoo Yahoo showed its cards at the keynote speech Wednesday by Marco Boerries, head of Yahoo Mobile. Yahoo has some major mobile applications. OneSearch handles search. OneConnect ties the phone to social networking acco
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Three Security Fixes Expected on Patch Tuesday

Microsoft plans to issue three fixes in its March security patch rollout, with one deemed "critical" and two labeled "important."... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers Released

My latest co-author effort titled Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers is now out
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

ExtendMedia Powers TV Anywhere Video Service for Bell

ExtendMedia announces that the company's OpenCASE platform is powering Bell TV's first TV Anywhere-style video service. The new broadband service, TMN Online, lets subscribers with The Movie Network watch movies and series on their computers anywhere in Canada. Available through the Bell TV Online portal at bell.ca/tvonline , TMN Online gives subscribers the TV Anywhere offering for free as part of their existing television subscription. The first content provider to make their content ava
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Can I have 2 URLs pointing to the one site (CS2008)

Hi, I have multiple URLs pointing to the same site. I don't want multiple databases, just for people to be able to reach my site by url1.com or url2.com. Is this possible? It was with CS 2007. I don't want to use re-directs as I want someone to be able to post a links such as: http://url1.com/blogs/doverton to show identical content as url2.com/blogs/doverton. The current solution is to use redirects, so when someone enters url2.com/blogs/doverton they end up at url1.com/blogs/doverton... Di
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Read about Silverlight in XPS

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight       Technorati Tags: Silverlight        BuzzNet Tags: Silverlight I've adapted David Anson's XPS Viewer for Silverlight sample to allow you to read the first...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

bing SEO tips

50% OFF on OIO Publisher, Upto 60% OFF on HostGator Hosting, 25% OFF on Thesis Theme! Checkout Now!! Fine, 90% of your organic traffic comes from Google search and not from Microsoft bing , Yahoo or other entities. But it wouldn
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Netflix Adds Enhanced Streaming, But Not 'Smooth Streaming'

The enhancements to Netflix's streaming on Xbox Live will not include the implementation of Microsoft Silverlight's Smooth Streaming technology
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

SharePoint Tasks Popup using JavaScript API

SharePoint Tasks Popup using JavaScript API... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

NewsGator Launches Social Sites 3.0

Today NewsGator announces the general availability of the newest version of its enterprise social computing platform, Social Sites 3.0; this latest version includes new features for tracking colleagues
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

An Adult-Sized Tauntaun Sleeping Bag? Want This For Yourself, You Will!

The perfect Christmas gift for the Jedi in all of us.
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

Let the Games Begin!

Friday night kicked off the opening ceremonies of the XXI Games of the Winter Olympiad in Vancouver, British Columbia. This has ushered in a new era of internet based video experiences using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming that will give viewers...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Moonlight 1.0 Release

I am excited to announce that Novell today released version 1.0 of Moonlight , and is making it available for download at no cost with support for most major Linux distro
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

BlackBerry News From The Wire for the Week of 8/17/09

Feeling overloaded with BlackBerry news and rumors? We know the feeling. We hear new things almost every day, and it can be tough to keep up with it all. that
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads - Advance Performance Optimization

Every batch (T-SQL, SP etc) when ran creates execution plan which is stored in system for re-use. Due to this reason large number of query plans are stored in system. However, there are plenty of plans which are only used once and have never re-used again. One time ran batch plans wastes memory and resources.SQL [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Ta
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

EOAST - Evolution of a software thingy - Part 3

This is the the third instalment of my experiences and ideas around the development of a piece of software to initially satisfy my disappointment around Outlook and also to allow me to play with some new technologies and making them all work together. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here. This latest instalment will focus a little more into the design detail. The "InformationAggregator" (as I have coined this project) is intended to be fairly generic as to the kind of information it collects but
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

The Problem of State

February 18th, 2009   The Problem of State [3:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIn this mini-episode, Erik talks about the problems inherent with having many states existing in one application.  How do we organize and handle our states to keep our application running smoothly? This episode provides some food for thought.Music for the show: Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

MLB.TV Sees New Features, Lower Prices for 2009

MLB.TV Premium will see several new features for 2009, including "DVR" functionality. Fans will also see prices down $10 from last year for the streaming video package. MLB.com has rolled out the latest offerings of their streaming-video package for out-of-market games via MLB.TV and MLB.TV Premium, adding new functionality, and at a lower price than last year. Fans will find the price of both online packages down $10 from 2008, showing that MLB is working to pull in subscribers that are bei
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Blacklight v3 RTW

Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner' - blacklight v3.0 (Mar09) released!
Publication date: 2009-03-07 more

31 Days of Refactoring eBook

This August, Sean Chambers, blogger on Los Techies, wrote an awesome series of posts, called 31 Days of Refactoring, during which he wrote on post per day, describing one refactoring technique. Since during August I was on holiday, and I never had time to read the 31 posts, last week I decided to create an easy to read version of the series, and I assembled an eBook, putting together all the post, doing some minor edits, and applying some formatting. And I sent it over to Sean so that he could
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

FOLLOW UP: RIA Dinner (Reston, VA)

Thanks to everyone who attended the RIA dinner on June 17th.  I promised to publish the deck and code James used as well as some follow up links.  Here they are: Presentation - deck, code Expression on microsoft.com - http://www.microsoft.com/expression/ Expression Community Site - http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx (lots of great resources on the "learn" tab) Expression Design Forum - http://forums.expression.microsoft.com/en-US/design/threads/ Expression... Did you know that Do
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls

It's finally hitting the street - "Advanced ASP.NET Ajax Server Controls" I had the pleasure to be a technical reviewer on this book during the writing process and am really excited about it's release. This book if one of the few that dive deep into the framework, its architecture and extensibility, and address the power-user/developer scenarios and it does it from a controls perspective. It's a big undertaking but Adam and Joel have done a great job. As Nikhil said "If you're building applicati
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Expression Encoder SP1 now available

Apparently
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Staying Alive

To bring you up to date if you are not familiar with Amalga, it is currently one of the Healthcare Solutions from Microsoft, the brains. Below is an excerpt from an archive in the Washington Post about the beginnings before Microsoft, when the project was called Azyxxi.   Dr. Freied thinks hospitals should be designed more like airports and in the video he explains why.   Some of his statistics were interesting, like female doctors have overall better results on keeping patients alive
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

Behind the Scenes of NBCOlympics.com

Behind the Scenes of NBCOlympics.com author: tim heuer | posted @ Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:47 AM | Feedback (0) | reactions How does 2000+ machines sound?  Transforming a Saturday Night Live recording area into a live commentator section full of workstations and bloggers?  Scoble had a chance to sit down with Eric Schmidt from Microsoft to talk about some of the behind-the-scenes information about the NBCOlympics.com Silverlight experience.  Despite the video quality not being great, the
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

How Does Bing Rank Tweets?

October 21st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment As previously reported, Microsoft has made deals with both Facebook and Twitter, which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time search efforts. To me, this says that social media just became an even bigger part of search engine marketing, particularly with Google rumored to be talking to Facebook and Twitter too. Bing has already made a beta version of its Twitter search available to users at bing.com/twitter. The most interest
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

How To: Display Hierarchical Data with Row Details (RadGridView for Silverlight)

The main goal of the Row Details feature is to let you present additional information about a row. This makes row details the perfect candidate for presenting hierarchical data.   My sample uses two kinds of business objects a football club and its players. As you might expect each club has some players. The master grid will show our clubs and when the user wants to see some additional information about a club he will be presented with the row details. Our first goal is to define what wi
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guidance

We
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Online virtual operating system by windows4all.com

Introduction: Have you ever seen operating system in your own web browser, no! then have a look at this one - this is one of the first operating system you have ever seen before - Online virtual operating system - which has been rolled out by windows4all.com , which has been developed using Microsoft Silverlight . When you browse to windows4all.com , it will request us to install Sliverlight on to desktop, if you have already installed the same on to your desktop, then you will be dir
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding

The upcoming version 3 of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Skinning an embeddable Silverlight 2 media player

While Silverlight 2 brings us great capabilities as .NET developers and opens many opportunities for creating rich clients in the browser, it still supports strong media features that have been available since the initial release of Silverlight. The ability...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-05 more

First/Alpha release of my Scrum for Team System Quickboard Project (Think

CodePlex - Scrum for Team System Quickboard In my day life, my team uses the very cool Scrum for Team System (SfTS) TFS template. While it does almost everything we need, the one thing I wanted to see was a very quick dashboard like screen with some general Sprint summary information. The Sprint Burn down, PBI and SBI counts and hours, that would auto update every XX minutes, etc. Something I could keep up and running in the Team room next to our Build Status screen... So I wrot
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

ASP.NET PDF Viewer User Control Without Acrobat Reader Installed on Client or Server

ASP.NET PDF document viewer control that does not require any Acrobat product to be installed... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Mix 09: Microsoft swings for the fences

Justin James offers a roundup of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Windows 7 Glass "Must Have" Nice Theme For Your XP

Windows 7 Glass "5.68 MB" Windows 7 Glass Visual Style for XP What's New? - Redesigned titlebar background - Enhanced window borders and taskbar buttonsWith Silverlight wallpaper and Segoe UI font. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/208915650/7_Glass_www.dl4all.com.rar Thanks to: Dl4all
Publication date: 2009-03-15 more

Tech-Ed Roadshow from Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group - 20th June

What: A half-day event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) What : A full event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) on the latest technologies from Microsoft When : Saturday, 20th June, 9:00am-5:30pm Where : International Convention Centre, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411016 Registration and Fees : This event is free for all. Register here . Details : Image via CrunchBase Tech-Ed On Road brings you the very best in Microsoft Te
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7)

Prior to working at Microsoft, I had some customers who wanted to dual target both WPF and Silverlight . Since then, Windows Phone 7 has been added into the mix. With all these similar technologies, all using xaml, multi-targeting applications can be...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-26 more

Silverlight TV 22: Tim Heuer on Extending the SMF

In this episode of Silverlight TV , Tim Heuer demonstrates how to use the Silverlight Media Framework (SMF) to create a nice media experience akin to what has been demonstrated through the 2010 Winter Olympics and Sunday Night Football players. He also...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-30 more

Fiddler inspector for WCF Silverlight Polling Duplex and WCF RIA

Fiddler is a wild popular tool for web development debugging. It enables user to look at the http traffic and diagnoses issues. Natively it provides Raw, Hex, Xml and some other views that understand specific formats. For the format it doesn
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

The Technology Post for June 11th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #28 Daily Deed Microsoft donating 8 meals to Feeding America for every Internet Explorer 8 download at http://browserforthebetter.com (Posted by Microsoft Press ) Other Link Lists Dew Drop - June 11, 2009 Alvin
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Silverlight 3 Beta is Live!

If You Want To Develop Silverlight 3 Apps Dev Runtime, SDK and Tools Blend 3 Preview Silverlight 3 Toolkit .NET RIA Services If You Want To Run Silverlight 3 Apps Windows Developer Runtime Mac Developer Runtime...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

New Channel 9 Video: Robert Kihm on Aptify RAD

While at MIX10, I caught up with my friend Robert Kihm from Aptify. They have a great business application development platform that makes it easy to create apps that target different UIs and platforms without making code changes. In addition to the robust...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework

I
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

html to lowercase

Returns string with all alphabetic characters converted to lowercase. in php programing you can use preg_replace("/()/e", "'$1'.strtolower('$2').'$3'", $html_body) Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs

Just a quick shout-out to congratulate the latest Silverlight MVPs to the program.  The Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) program is a recognition program that is in place to recognize and reward those individuals who have been identified by individuals (peers, Microsoft staff, etc.) as experts in their technology field and global contributors to the technology.  As of today (01 OCT 2009) we welcome some new folks to the Silverlight group: Rick Barraza ( @rickbarr
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Building Business Applications with Silverlight?

I'd love to hear feedback and thoughts you have about building business focused applications with Silverlight.  What is motivating you to consider Silverlight?  if you have already started to evaluating, what is easy or hard about it? Related...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Dew Drop - June 11, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing Unit Testing Interfaces with xUnit Theories (Ade Miller) The Seven Pillars of an Agile Team: Introduction and   One pillar of an Agile team: product sense (version 1) (Brian Marick) Hope is Not a Risk Management Strategy (Cory Foy
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Silverlight Flickr Badge

Silverlight Flickr Badge author: tim heuer | posted @ Monday, May 19, 2008 12:03 PM | Feedback (0) | blog reactions Taking another cue from some great stuff Joel is doing, I liked his implementation of the
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

Silverlight 2

On Thursday night we published the first public release candidate for Silverlight 2, described in some detail by Scott Guthrie .  This is a developer-only release and you can learn all about what it is and how to get it in a terrific blog post by...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-27 more

Pushing vs. Pulling

Few months ago I heard a lecture about "Velocity", in the begging of the lecture the lecturer asked the audience the next question: "Assume that you have a client which needs to communicate with a server, what is the best communication pattern to work with, pushing or pooling?" 99% of the audience voted for the pushing. It was a tricky question with a tricky answer it depends. I'll explain these two methods for all of those who aren't familiar with them. Pushing in... Did you know that DotNe
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

System locks up in IE Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox

DDS (Ver_09-02-01.01) - NTFSx86 Run by Steven Vakula at 0:30:24.70 on Sat 02/14/2009 Internet Explorer: 8.0.6001.18372 BrowserJavaVersion: 1.6.0_12 Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

4 hours of Microsoft Silverlight 2 Training for free

AppDev is nice enough to give a part of their Silverlight 2 training for free. You can download the first four modules from their new eight-module "Exploring Microsoft Silverlight 2" course featuring expert Dino Esposito!! This is about four hours of video plus sample code.  Topics covered in this free training include: Why Use Silverlight? Using Silverlight from DOM First Look at Silverlight Essential WPF Silverlight App Mechanics Controls and Binding XAP... Did you know that DotNetSlackers als
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience

Today Microsoft and Tesco , one of the world’s largest retailers, announced a collaboration to use Silverlight to deliver the next generation of Home Video entertainment to consumers. Starting this Fall, customers who buy certain home video titles...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

RIApalooza – I’ll be there!

I
Publication date: 2008-05-18 more

Browsers and Plugins Collection (September 2009)

Published by anshulvineet Sep21 Browsers and Plugins Collection (September 2009) | 162 MBWhat you need is just an internet connection. Rest is here for browsing the whole world, playing flash games online or watching movies on YouTube.Contents:Adobe Air 1.5.2Avant Browser 11.7 Build 39Firefox 3.5.3Flash Player 10.0.32.18 (IE)Flash Player 10.0.32.18 (Non-IE)Flock 2.5.2Google Chrome 4.0.211.2 BetaGoogle Toolbar 5.0.2009.0324b (Firefox)Google Toolbar 6.1.1518.856 (IE)Google Web Accelerator 0.2
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Behaviors : Writing Your Own Triggers

In my previous posts, I briefly discussed what behaviors are and how to use them. Let
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Mix09 At the movies with

Mix09 is coming next week.  I can
Publication date: 2009-03-15 more

SQL SERVER 2008 SSMS Feature Multi-server Queries

In my recent visit to TechEd India 2009 at Hyderabad, I had taken a technical session on SQL Server Management Studio 2008 New Features, which was attended by a huge number of participants and was very successful. I got loads of requests from my readers for posting the session online. My presentation involved several videos [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Sil
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

SQL SERVER - Find Primary Key Using SQL Server Management Studio

Imran Mohammed is great SQL Expert and always eager to help community members. He enjoys answering question and solving problems of other community fellows. His answers are always detailed and trustworthy. Today we will see interesting question from Prasant and excellent answer from Imran Mohammed.Question from Prasant:Hi,I want to drop the primary key on one [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Sun: JavaFX can take on Flash

This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight.
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Terrain Tutorial Part 3 - Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks

This tutorial will look into using the Opacity property on the tiles to create smooth, natural looking transitions between tiles. For example, blending a dirt tile into a grass tile, a grass tile into a rock tile, etc. Below, on the left, is a screen...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Read PlayBoy Magazines for Free

I bet each and everyone of us would have seen or at-least heard of Playboy magazine ! In case you are one of the fans, you can go through the archives of Playboy magazine for FREE ! No, it is not any pirate sharing it on a torrent site or a warez site. Instead, Playboy archive website have made available the old versions of magazine for free web viewing. You can access all the magazine issues from years 1954 through 2007 in the same format as they appeared in print. The Playboy archi
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Internet Download Manager 5.16 build 3

Internet Download Manager 5.16 build 3 Internet Download Manager 5.16 Build 3 / 5.3 MB Information: Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet D
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Principles as enterprise architecture outcome

Principles are the better half of blueprints. Principles enable enterprise architects to set up the boundaries that application / solution architects should follow to create their own architecture / solution, in order to build better enterprise architecture.  Principles are actually set of rules which set the boundaries that needed to be respect and implement by all relevant roles in the enterprise. Together with blueprints principles enable enterprise architects to shape future architect
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Hang on! I've been mentioned on This Week on C9!

I think I'm almost famous. I'm mentioned 10:47 - 12:25. The mentioning was in response to my Visual Studio vNext wish list. Check out the video.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Windows Mobile Ultrasound

We have heard of Micosofts Silverlight application in the medical field But this new Microsoft funded venture could EASILY revolutionize the medical world. Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand. William D. Richard, Ph.D., Was
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Geek Dinner in the Chicago Burbs

Update: an RSVP link has been created, http://www.geekdinners.com/DinnerInstance.aspx?id=11 Shawn Wildermuth is swooping into town next week for one of his Silverlight Tour training events and we thought what better to do than to resurrect the old Geek Dinner. Come join us at The Real Time Sports Bar in Elk Grove Village, IL on Monday, July 14th at 6:30PM for some cocktails, food and geek fun. What: Geek Dinner Where: The Real Time Sports Bar, Elk Grove Village, IL (map) When: Monday, July
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #44: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services

In Tip of the Day #42 I talked about how to create and use a web service using WCF for your Silverlight application. For this tip I would like to briefly discuss WCF and some highlights on why you should use it over the traditional ASMX based Web Services...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-23 more

Windows Live client now available for Nokia S60 phones

Microsoft has made its Windows Live client available for Nokia S60 smartphone users. Earlier we saw the Redmond giant announcing the same client for the BlackBerry platform, and now they're bringing the same offering to Nokia's smartphone platform, to provide S60 users with quick access to such Microsoft's services as Hotmail, MSN instant messaging, Windows Live Spaces and Live Search. "Official" Espoo and Redmond never been so close, despite the fact Nokia competes with Microsoft in mobile OS
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

New Web Services Features in Silverlight 2 RTW

Here is an overview of the new features added since Beta 2. SOAP Headers SOAP headers were a big customer request, so we have added headers support in this release. There are two methods to use headers, depending on the customer scenario. The easier method...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

JavaFX squares off against AJAX (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant's high points and the low points of their rival. Related posts: Java mobile platform to get widget apps (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Emphasizing the growing importance of mobile device applications,... Sun Executive Reveals More Open-source Plans for JavaFX (PC World) PC Wo
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

How to watch Sunday Night Football Full Screen with two or more Monitors

If you have more than one monitor, keep reading. When you open Sunday Night Football to view using the new Silverlight player, go full screen and then start using your other monitor to work, Silverlight immediately goes back to the smaller size.  Bummer. It
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Microsoft Gets a Piece of Move Networks

Microsoft is extending its strategic relationship with Move Networks by adding an undisclosed amount of funding to the startup
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Ajax quick start FAQ

Ajax quick start FAQ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

David Lowe Educates Us On The Microsoft Web Platform

In this RunAs Radio podcast , Richard and I talk to David Lowe about the Microsoft Web Platform. The Web platform spans from development and designer tools, through the Web server (IIS) and the databases. David starts out digging into running PHP and mySQL on Windows before moving on into the IIS extensions, including: Application Resource Routing, Dynamic IP Restrictions, Live Smooth Streaming, Windows Media Services and Search Engine Optimization. Check out the Web platform here and the II
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

More Silverlight Physics - K. Scott Allen's Swinging Rope

Last year (well, really early this year), Scott created a version of Conway's game of life in Silverlight.  Now he's created a physics simulation of a swinging rope using an algorithm he picked up from Gamasutra.  Note that this sample is written using the Silverlight v1.0 beta, so all of these calculations are performed using the browser's script engine and the perf is definitely respectable.  Click the image below to run the sample, you can use the check box to add a wind simulation.  More info and source are available from Scott's blog post.
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Writing Your Own Silverlight Chart Series (Part 2): Implementing the Series

This is the second part in a series of three that explains how you can add series to Silverlight Charts.   We'll look at how Silverlight Chart's rich hierarchy of interfaces allow developers to create series that can play well with all the built...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

WebKit owns mobile, and iPhone 3G S owns WebKit

======================================================================== Today's Blogs June 18, 2009 ======================================================================== WebKit owns mobile, and iPhone 3G S owns WebKit http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/5310663/475345205/198628/0/ Taming the SOA hype monster http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/5310663/475345205/198629/0/ 7 green technologies poised for success http://ifwnews
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (9ce8ce41-59b5-4f6e-b7e6-b485f01bc218 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)

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Publication date: 2010-08-27 more

Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader

Continuing my series of posts on ways to use INavigationContentLoader (a feature in the Silverlight 4 Beta SDK), in this post, I
Publication date: 2010-01-01 more

Developing with Rx (Part 2): Converting the Event-based Async Pattern to IObservable

In part 1 we talked about how to convert events to IObservables.  However Rx isn't just about querying events, it's also about querying asynchronous operations. There are two common asynchronous patterns in the .NET framework: the event-based asynchronous...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

.NET RIA Services Overview

This article provides a detailed overview of .NET Rich Internet Applications (RIA) services. After a brief introduction, Sergey analyzes the concept with the help of an ADO.NET Entity Framework application along with relevant source code and screen shots. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Link Listing - May 27, 2008

Link Listing - May 27, 2008 Announcements [ANN] Dimecasts.net is Alive and Kicking [Via: Derik Whittaker ] ASP.NET Create MessageBox user control using ASP.NET and CSS [Via: janko ] Sharepoint Enhancing the SPSecurityTrimmedControl - Trimming UI on any critereon [Via: Sahil Malik ] 10 Reasons why you want your SharePoint Server to be Windows Server 2008 - 64 bit [Via: Sahil Malik ] WPF Caliburn Feature Profile [Via: Rob Eisenberg ] Code Camps Austin Code Camp material posted [Via: bogardj
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

A Conference. All At Once.

The box below, once you
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

DevTeach Toronto 2008

DevTeach Toronto is fast approaching, and features a number of world class speakers including Micorosft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Regional Directors: There are a number of reasons why you should attend the event. Here's a few to start: Keynote by Scott Hanselman, Microsoft Scott Hanselman is one of the most prolific, renowned and respected blogger (http://guy.dotnet-expertise.com/ct.ashx?id=d94fb145-722c-4b78-948b-a6fe0a08209b&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hanselman.com) and podcast
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Free eBook - Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET

I wrote a few articles for the Simple Talk Website (run by RedGate Software) over the past year and was honored to be included in the "Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET" eBook they just released.  The book is a free PDF that covers a lot of different topics including: ASP.NET Master Pages Tips and Tricks Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0 Implementing Waiting Pages in ASP.NET Token Replacement in ASP.NET Regular Expression Based Token Replacement in ASP.NET A Complete URL Rewriting Solution for ASP.NET 2.0
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Troubleshooting CHM files on Vista

Recently we got quite a few tickets/forum posts/mails from people complaining about issues they had with the CHM files for RadControls under Vista. There are two types of issues, but the cause is the same. It was that either people couldn't view the CHM files at all (a.k.a. "Navigation Canceled" syndrome) or they could open the CHMs but had a JavaScript error for each page they try to access (a.k.a. "JavaScript permissions error" syndrome). The typical answer was to send them to http://www.te
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Has Arrived!

Silverlight 2 beta 2 includes many improved and new features: Visual Basic and C# Project templates Intellisense and code generators for XAML Debugging of Silverlight applications Web reference support WCF Templates Team Build and command line build support Integration with Expression Blend Enhanced Setup with upgrade support In particular, it adds several new controls that have been highly sought by developers. Text Input* Controls* Layout* Styles/Templates* Data Binding*
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

The Fable of the Perfect ORM

The Fable of the Perfect ORM Data is a funny business. While at the moment I am spending a lot of time teaching Silverlight, my passion still lives in the data. I was brought up on Minisystems (Multi-user CP/M and the like) where you were dealing with something like a database (though we didn't have that as firm a concept as you might think). Later I did quite a lot of desktop database development starting with dBase II (yes, I am that old), Paradox, Clipper, FoxPro and even Access. That nat
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Links of the Week #37 (week 20/2008)

Development 6 useful visual studio tweaks you need to know Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta - A long list of changes and improvements in SP1 of .NET 3.5. It looks like this is bigger that 3.5 altogether! ;) Looking forward to Astoria, Entity Framework and more. Yaml .NET Parser - Yaml is much like JSON and a really nice way to represent data in lists. Redirect LINQ to SQL DataContext Log Messages To Log4Net - I'm going to implement this first thing Monday morning...
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

Silverlight 3 - Create a nice Navigation Flip

Here is a sample we made at RunAtServer  using Silverlight 3 Perspective 3D feature and the new Navigation API to create a nice navigation flip ! Video How does it work ? Short story The app use the new navigation api to navigate while animating a 3d flip transformation. Long story The main xaml has a Frame element in a StackPanel with an associated PlaneProjection : StackPanel x:Name ="mainContentPageContainer" Grid . Row ="2" > Sta
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Bayesian Probability (Quick Bit)

Added a Quick Bit today on Baysian Probability....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Binding Data How Do I Video Posted

I'm pleased to say that we've posted a new How Do I Video on Binding Data to Silverlight 2 Controls. In the very beginning of this video I say it is about "wiring up events" but I'm confused and befuddled -- it is, of course, about...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Crashing WCF 3.5 JSON Services with DateTime.MinValue

Ah, here's another fun one. I've been working on cleaning up some of the DevConnections Demos from last year with jQuery 1.2.6 and the release version of jQuery.ui 1.5 as I had previously been using beta versions and in between versions of jQuery that came with the UI beta. One of my demos has been an interop Stock Portfolio example that shows stock portfolios as well as stock quote lookups. These demos actually worked fine before when I used them for the conference and testing in various scenar
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Silverlight and Microsoft

Silverlight and Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

Bayesian Probability

  Spent the early hours of this morning reading a great blog post by Jeff Atwood which makes reference to a Elizer S. Yudkowsky
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Reading XML Easily in Silverlight using LINQ

(Kirupa Chinnathambi) In my most recent tutorial, I discuss how to load an XML file into your Silverlight application.and thats it. The tutorial leaves you at a bit of a cliffhanger. You have an XML file loaded into memory with no information on how to go further to do something useful. That is where this post comes in. In this post, I will briefly describe how to use LINQ to parse the XML data.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

My History of Visual Studio (Part 7)

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio] [I know I promised to talk about Whidbey in this installment but I realized I needed a bridge to get there or else Id totally skip over Everett so this is that bridge.] In MSN the arrival of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET was like a breath of fresh air.  My team was working on (among other things) a COM based object model for a content management system.  I once estimated that fully half the code was associated with the implementation..
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

LXer: Why Microsoft won't fight moblin

Published at LXer: There have been quite a few Moblin related announcements these last weeks: The release of the final version of Moblin 2.0, the Moblin Garage and the preview release of Moblin 2.1. More interesting is the news released by Microsoft's Silverlight team that they will develop Silverlight 3 for Moblin. Unlike Moonlight that is a Novel sponsored open source rewrite of Silverlight available for all Linux distribution, this looks like a binary only package that will be developed dir
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Using Custom Visual States

Learn how to define your own visual states and call them programmatically or via behaviors....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

RIM whips out new developer tools

Today RIM has went ahead and released new and improved tools for developers building applications for BlackBerry.  The first plugin was launched on Tuesday with a version 1.2 for Microsoft Visual Studio.  Basically the tools enabled developers to build BlackBerry apps within Eclipse and Visual Studio environments. Both plug-ins include BlackBerry smartphone simulators for application testing, together with application profiling for checking on the data traffic and load time implications of web
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Why didn't I think of that in the first place? [Windows Phone 7 Charting example updated to include reusable, platform-consistent Style and Templates]

I've previously blogged about how to get the Data Visualization assembly from the Silverlight Toolkit / WPF Toolkit working on Windows Phone. It's quite simple with my Data Visualization Development Release 4 and the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-05 more

Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09

Lots of wow from this morning with Silverlight 4 (and RIA Services) taking center stage in the keynote, here at PDC09. [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Adobe Flash gets a break in war against Silverlight

Interesting, this is probably why I don
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Video: How to Bind an ASPxTreeList to Data

Check out this 3 minute video on how to bind an ASPxTreeList to data. The ASPxTreeList is a versatile treeview/grid control that allows you to display data in a hierarchy (why is this word so hard to say?) The ASPxTreeList also has the great features that youve come to expect from our ASP.NET components like Ajax/callbacks, templates, and a bunch more which you can try out in the online demos. To learn how easy it is to drop an ASPxTreeList and bind it to your database, check out the following v
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Programmers

  This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials on Windows Phone 7 Programming for Silverlight Programmers. Goals: Rapid introduction to Win Phone 7 for experienced Silverlight Programmers Design and implementation of WP7 Silverlight HVP Audience...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Search Your Site Using Google's Custom Search Engine

Remember when people used to debate what search engine was the best among the bunnch? Do you remember back in the day when Yahoo! differentiated itself from other search engines by having actual human beings catalog, summarize, and rate large swaths of the World Wide Web? Today, search is a commodity.It's ubiquitous.Web surfers expect there to bea search box and expect accurate results returned in the blink of an eye. Because of these expectations, it's now more important than ever that your we
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Silverlight Toolkit and the Windows Phone: WrapPanel, and a few others

Are you looking for WrapPanel for your Windows Phone application? Look no further. The Silverlight Toolkit has several controls that work pretty well on the Windows Phone. I wanted to provide my own informal look at how it
Publication date: 2010-03-21 more

Link Listing - June 30, 2008

Link Listing - June 30, 2008 ASP.NET How to use the IHttpAsyncHandler in ASP.NET [Via: Mads Kristensen ] SQL Server SQL SERVER - Find Current Identity of Table [Via: pinaldave ] Installing Clustered SQL Servers - Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets [Via: Chad Boyd ] Database Performance: The Web Layer [Via: KenDowns ] How to Track Down Deadlocks Using SQL Server 2005 Profiler [Via: Brad McGehee ] Link Collections Weekly Link Post 48 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ] Interesting Finds: June 30, 2008 [Vi
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

TiltContentControl for Windows Phone

Here's a content control that has an implementation of the "tilt" interactive effect on the Windows Phone....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-08 more

SQL SERVER - Download - Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express is a free, integrated environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering, and developing all components of SQL Server. SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express combines a broad group of graphical tools with a number of rich script editors to provide access to SQL Server to developers and administrators of [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design

Learn more about how to choose the right colors for your user interface. In this video from the Principles of Design Series by Arturo Toledo, you will learn a few techniques to pick colors that work well with each other. Choosing the right colors for...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-01 more

Back to Back DevTeach plus ALT.NET Conferences in Vancouver June 8-12, 13 -14

DevTeach is only a few weeks away and as always, I am really looking forward to it. This summer's DevTeach is in beautiful Vancouver, BC. The main conferences is three jam-packed days of 136 sessions from June 9-11, surrounded by a day of three full-day pre-con workshops on the 8th and a day of three more full-day post-con workshops on Friday the 12th. Plus if you want to hang around, there's an ALT.NET conference for two days in the same hotel and it is sponsored by DevTeach! ALT.NET conf info
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today.  You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here . Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery

One of the features that the Virtual Earth JavaScript Control has is the ability to add custom Tile Layers to overlay your own custom imagery over the map. The Virtual Earth Silverlight control also supports this feature. Before I begin to explain how to add custom Tile Layers to the Map it
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Design Internship Program

http://internship.dreamture.net is the new blog of this summer's design intern at the UX department here in telerik, whereDimitar Raykov will regularly upload his ongoing work on the weekly internship assignments. Following a successful attempt to accommodate an intern a couple of years ago, this summer we wanted to expand the effort with a program that gives not just a preview of an actual work environment, but also has a more academic side to it with a chance to experiment within the design p
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

WPF Designer Hotfix posted

The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  This contains a number of important fixes (see below). This hotfix is particularly important for Silverlight Tools users. If you...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

Email From Steve Ballmer To All Microsoft Employees

The following email was sent to all Microsoft employees from CEO Steve Ballmer at 5:17 pm PDT (see Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal): From: Steve Ballmer Date: May 3, 2008 5:17:30 PM PDT To:
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

.NET Fireside Chats - Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina

The .NET Zone just published an interview with Kry and me. Check it out: .NET Fireside Chats - Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina You can learn some interesting stuff about what lead to writing the first edition of the book, what a 'Framework' is and what the hardest framework design problems are. I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts Oh, and they published a sample section of the book for free in PDF format. This is from Chapter 9 and covers LINQ guidelines. Enjo... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart?

The WPF Toolkit and Silverlight Toolkit both include a very versatile chart control. Although support for labels (or annotations) is a frequently requested feature, it is not yet present in the current toolkits. David Anson blogged about a great solution...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Thank you for joining us at the CRE8 conference!

Hello! Thank you everyone for joining us at the CRE8 Conference last week at Orlando. It was an amazing experience being there with you. Thanks to everyone for being there at the keynote (early in the morning after a party! ). Brian and I had a lot of...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

MS has hired me

Sorry about the blog hiatus but I have a decent excuse: Microsoft has hired me on as a Senior Developer on the Silverlight team. Obviously I'm ecstatic. I'm going to be moving to Seattle and I'm hoping to start work on August 4th at which point I will resume posting.
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

CascadeCE!

We have just published the source for my port of Sergio's Silverlight 3 game Cascade to the Silverlight for Windows Embedded platform! Now if I can just find a handheld device that's shipping with SilverlightCE on it... Check out CascadeCE
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Binding with INotifyDataErrorInfo

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Skyfire adds Silverlight support; Olympics fans rejoice!

Super awesome Skyfire browser, which is unfortunately still in the private beta stage, has added Silverlight support. The addition of Silverlight is made seamlessly in the backend, without requiring users to install a new plug-in or even update the browser version. The news is especially interesting in the times of Olympics, as all of the video footage of the summer games from Beijing is available through Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-08-18 more

ESSENTIAL SILVERLIGHT 3

Essential Silverlight 3 Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (October 1, 2009) Language: arts ISBN-10: 0321554167 ISBN-13: 978-0321554161 Microsoft Silverlight is a directive cross-platform, Rich cyberspace Application (RIA) profession that allows you to create more compelling and mutual Web experiences than are doable with ultimate HTML application pages. Silverlight 3 includes momentous improvements over preceding versions, including
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

4 Calendars & Plans for 2010 / 5770

I live, more or less consciously. in the rhythm of four calendars; three of which are very closely aligned: The Gregorian Calendar (Today is 12/20/2009) The Jewish Calendar (Today is 3rd of Tevet, 5770 ) The Microsoft Fiscal Year (Today is about 3.5 months...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-20 more

re: What

This doesn't work when following your video. Something is missing. The UI does not handle the ArgumentException and VS just throws the exception. I've seen several others stating the same problem.
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

What Makes A How-Do-I Video Great ?

I recently received a tweet that asked for more videos by one particular evangelist.    Comparisons Without Offense Even though it was instrumental in causing me to write this post, my first draft did not include the key quotation  that ...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Next, Next, Finish. Repeat.

Software installation might sound like instructions on the back of the shampoo bottle. But it doesn't have to be that way.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Silverlight 4 Released

Here's some links to get you going: - Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime, tutorials, other links) - What's New in Silverlight 4 - Breaking Changes (good to read if you're migrating older apps to Silverlight 4) - Offline Silverlight 4 MSDN Documentation...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-16 more

Expression Encoder 2 publish to Silverlight Streaming plugin

Expression Encoder 2 is out, but you might wonder where is the Publish to Silverlight Streaming feature ?? Remember you had to install a plugin for that purpose. You still need a plugin and the updated version is there: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/a/22a8da23-ffa7-4e5a-8fed-8239d3a7b322/SLSPlugin for Expression Encoder 2.msi Now you can encode your videos with Expression Encoder 2 and publish right to your free 10GB Silverlight Streaming account! Technorati Tags: Expression Encoder
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

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Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Slides and Video Available from User Group Talk on ASP.NET MVC

On Feb 18, 2009, I spoke at the Minnesota VSTS User Group. My PPT is available here, and a video of the 1.5 hour presentation will be available soon. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

SURVEY | MIX10 Design Tools and Techniques Workshop

In this small survey you will find the different topics that Archetype, Adam Kinney and I will be covering during the workshop. We have 3 areas we want to cover at the MIX10 Design Tools and Techniques Workshop: 1) Design Concept 2) Interactive Design...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Session Update Coming and Early Bird Discount Ends Soon

This week's Countdown to PDC reveals a little more than before. Leaking a little bit about the upcoming session update next week. Surface, SharePoint, Live Platform, Identity, Mesh, SQL Server 2008, Exchange, Ad Platform, Office Communication Server, Windows 7, Open XML, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Oslo, Virtualization, XNA and so much more content we can hardly keep our hard hats on! Why havent you registered for the PDC yet?! Plus Mike issues a new Hard Hat Challenge will the... Did you know tha
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Exploding with joy: behind the scenes with

Twisted Pixel has already released one above-average Xbox Live title this year, The Maw . In that game you made friends with what amounts to a living mouth and, while the game was rather short, the personality and twisted humor of the game helped it to stand out. This week Microsoft kicked off the Summer of Arcade with
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Silverlight Design and Animation: Slides and Links

Andy Beaulieu has posted slides, demos and links from a discussion with his participation at the CNY .NET Developer Group. We had a great turnout and discussed using Expression Blend to Draw, Animate, and Style a Silverlight application.
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Techsmith Camtasia Studio V6.0.1 Build787 Portable Precr

TechSmith Camtasia Studio v6.0.1 Build 787 Portable portable and precracked
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Trying out the Code Plugin for WLW

I have been looking for a good way to add code to my blogs and Charles put me onto the Insert Code for Windows Live Writer plugin.  Works a treat.  Click the Read more to see how the code looks. Check out Crafty Codes blog on how to set up the WLW with DNNBlog.More...... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight - Options for Hooking a View to its Model

In the ViewModel, aka the MVVM pattern, a view such as a UserControl is bound to its associated view model. The view model manages state exposed as observable properties, operations exposed as methods and raises notifications via events. An interesting...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-11 more

Ocean for Silverlight

Ever since Silverlight version 1 was announced, I’ve been working with my WPF and .NET back-end libraries to ensure that I could reuse business entity objects between the tiers regardless of the UI technology.  I wrote these demos in NYC while...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/23/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Data Services and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

Silverlight & MEF Talk from the London Silverlight User Group

Just a quick plug for a talk I gave last week at the London Silverlight User Group on the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4. Ian Smith kindly recorded this with great skill and speed and has the video available if you click the picture...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-10 more

The desperate quest for doing it 'right'

This morning I ran into an interesting design decision. The problem at hand isn't that interesting, I've solved it a lot of times before. The interesting thing is that this problem isn't always solved the same way. It goes like this: do you tell an element which is inside a container (which can be inside another container) to exclude (remove) itself from its container or do you tell the container to exclude (remove) the element? This might sound simple enough, but what is the right thing to do h
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Behaviors in Blend 4 (Silverlight TV #30)

Thanks to all of you, last week we flew past 1,000,000 views of Silverlight TV! We
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

Making it Cool - Creating a Mashup in Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke - 3 Videos

In this tutorial we add some cool features to our OWS Knowledge Base Article module, this covers social networking and working with APIs and web services. Including: Send This to a Friend email, AddThis social bookmarks, Facebook Share API, integrating Yahoo! answers API. These are powerful techniques to enhance your OWS Modules. The videos contain: Video 1 - How to Build an 'Email to a Friend' function Video 2 - How to Add Social BookMarks with AddThis and Share on Facebook Vi
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Digg Accelerator for IE8

Digg is an online destination that enables people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. The new Digg Accelerator enables you to quickly Digg, Submit, and find related content from anywhere on the Web.  A great tool! Also, coming soon, is a Silverlight version of the accelerator providing a really rich experience for Digg stories, revealed John C. More Info :  Download
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Turing Project: Level 100, 300 AND 400

TURING Entry [100:2] [300:2] [400:2] [ What are these numbers? ] In previous post I described Project Turing. This is the second entry for that project and will describe how I hope to meet the needs of three audiences: Beginner [Level 100] novice programmers who may or may not have experience with other languages, may not know C# (or advanced C#), .NET or the fundamentals of Silverlight (e.g., what Xaml is) Intermediate [Levels 300] programmers who have looked at but not really
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

PDC presentation and demo

Here is my presentation at last week
Publication date: 2009-12-19 more

Troubleshooting Silverlight 3 Broken Bindings

Introduction I’ve been working with Silverlight 3 for awhile now and one thing I find frustrating is debugging data bindings.  In addition to emitting binding error information to the Output window,  WPF provides developers a rich set...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

What You

My favorite conference is almost upon us. If I
Publication date: 2008-09-23 more

Happy Pi Day

Our esteemed House of Representatives passed a resolution earlier this week, designating today - March 14th - National Pi Day. This is an American-centric 'holiday,' as we colloquially denote our dates in MM/DD format, hence March 14th is 3.14, the first three digits of Pi. Most other countries start with the least significant date part and work their way to the most significant - DD/MM/YY - which would mean the International Pi Day should fall on the 3rd day of the 14th month (hrm) or the 31s
Publication date: 2009-03-15 more

Uploading videos using the Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder 2.

This article gives a simple introduction to Silverlight Streaming that will allow you to turn your own video content into a Silverlight Streaming application ready for you to place on your website or blog using Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder to publish to your Silverlight Streaming account. This article uses Expression Encoder 2 and the Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder 2. The basic steps are: Encode and Upload to Silverlight Streaming Plac
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Rod Drury has a plan to fix Microsoft

Rod, Xero, Drury has an 18 point plan to
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

The problem going from Silverlight 2 beta 1 to Silverlight 2 beta 2

The problem going from Silverlight 2 beta 1 to Silverlight 2 beta 2 by Don Burnett I keep hearing of people doing scary things with Silverlight version 2 betas like deploying beta 1 application, then installing beta 2 and expecting it not to break.. Well most people who do have "broken" applications can rest assured there's probably not all that much to do to make your... Continue reading
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

May 23rd, 2009Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

May 23rd, 2009Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Using a Built-In Shortcut to Add Properties to a Class

After declaring your class, suppose you want to add individual element properties to that class. This process has been simplified in Visual Studio when working in C#.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Data Structures and Algorithms book (free) first preview available!

This is a little project that myself and Luca have been working on in our spare (spare) time in the last month or so. The book is no where near complete but we wanted to get it out there now and progress with it in view of the public eye rather than just sit on it and wait months until it was a lot more thorough. As this is just a preview don't expect it to be all finely polished, we know what we are lacking in terms of explanations. No chapter in the preview is the final version of that respect
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 2/16/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Danny Simmons describes associations between Room and Exit entities in his D3: Modeling Part 1
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX on Microsoft CDN

The article describes in detail the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX client library which went on Micrsofts CDN recently. An example for creating a web page dispalying data using the CDN files as well as using jQuery library from another source to embellish the page with custom styling is also described.   read more By Jayaram Krishnaswamy Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silv
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners

If you
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Faster Ajax websevices through multiple subdomain calls

How to get faster Ajax websevices through multiple subdomain XMLHttpRequest calls... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Almost Home

 Got internet access - on a regular computer - at our hotel in Rome, so I am taking the opportunity for a quick update.  Its hard doing anything more than texting updates to Twitter on my mobile !!  Plus Rogers roaming charges are extreme !!... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

Safe FME With Open Source and ESRI

Michael Weisman wrote up an informative blog post on how you can use FME with open source software and tools .  The killer example here for most folks is the ability to get open source data formats and servers into ArcGIS Desktop. The wide range of formats FME can write to can also allow you to send data into open source platforms from popular non-open source back-ends like SDE or Oracle. FDO can be used to pull data from any format into MapGuide Open Source , and with FME Server you can
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Silverlight 2 Release Guide

As promised, Silverlight 2 is now not merely released, it is really and most sincerely released
Publication date: 2008-10-14 more

.NETOOP high level configuration storage decision.

In designing .NETOOP we have this issue: Since .NETOOP will be an adaptable application designed to meet the needs of many users, some of the things that one might hard code in an application like Web Site Name will need to be set at installation time. For system  configuration settings we have the web.config file. For language and culture variations we have resource files. But this type of site configuration doesnt really  fit nicely into either of these categories. We could use.... Di
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #59

If you try to use the following characters in a string in XAML you will get a slew of errors in your Error List: < > &
Publication date: 2008-10-10 more

Dependency Properties Background for Custom Controls

In  a previous post I began talking about Custom Controls, and I will continue that discussion over the next few days and weeks even as I start producing videos on the topic. It turns out that the more you look at Custom Controls, the deeper you get into the Silverlight UI architecture, and there is much to see. As an example of this phenomenon, in writing about Custom Controls, you quickly realize that sooner or later you must describe and explain the Dependency Properties System in Silverlight
Publication date: 2008-09-18 more

Free Silverlight 2 Training CD

Free Silverlight 2 Training CD AppDev is offering a free Silverlight 2 training CD hosted by Dino Esposito. The site also has a download option to get the material right away as opposed to waiting for it to come in the mail. [found via Tim Heuer] Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Dino Esposito,AppDev,Free
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Why OpenForce Europe?

Over the last several weeks I have had the opportunity to see new products from DotNetNuke Vendors or see the vendors discuss upcoming announcements that are being held until OpenForce Europe and OpenForce Connections. One thing that has caught my eye in these new product announcements is the level of polish and professionalism being shown in the current generation of DotNetNuke products. I personally cant wait to see the DotNetMushroom RAD module which is going to be launched at OpenForce Europ
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

MIX Essentials Mexico and unique cuisine

Well, I have about 3 hours until I leave this little city called Mexico City . Sarcasm of course, did you know there are roughly 25 million people in Mexico City. I didn
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Online Mapping Apps in my every day life

There are two web apps based on mapping APIs - one uses Google and the other uses Virtual Earth - that I use frequently. It's a long way from what you could do with Virtual Earth when I started dabbling when it first came out. Read more. [A New DevLife Post] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

FireFox 3.5 Geolocation - scary accurate

Firefox 3.5 can tell websites where you
Publication date: 2009-06-22 more

Barry Gervin: Expression Blend for Developers @ TechDays Toronto

As I write this, we
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Link Listing - January 27, 2009

Link Listing - January 27, 2009 ASP.NET RedirectButton - Redirect Users With the Click of a Button [Via: 4 Guys from Rolla ] ASP.NET Content Editor Control For Basic Content Management [Via: cmo999 ] WPF chirp
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 A Beginner's Guide

Coming soon... Product Description Essential Skills Made Easy! This hands-on guide prepares software developers to create next-generation Web and Windows applications using Microsoft Silverlight--the new technology that extends the .NET Framework to the client. The book covers Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.5, and prerequisite technologies. You will learn to use Silverlight to stream multimedia content across the Web, create dynamic, data-driven Silverlight application
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Why does the British Library hate Britain?

The British Library is publishing on the web facsimile copies of rare books, allowing people to see in close up exactly as they look like. This is a good thing, surely? Well, no it
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Magenic Technology Summit - June 20, 2008

The Magenic Technology Council (MTC) is proud to present the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008.  This two-track, 1 day summit is packed with great sessions and TWO keynotes from Rocky Lhotka (Magenic, creator of CSLA) and Jay Schmelzer (Microsoft, Visual Studio Group PM.) In the Developer track, members of the MTC will present on Writing Better Code, the ASP.NET MVC framework, LINQ indexing techniques, WPF and Silverlight in UX design.  The Server track offers sessi
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit

Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Parts & States Model with VisualStateManager (Part 2 of 4)

This is the second post in a four part series about managing parts & states in Silverlight 2 controls. Today, we'll put into practice the concepts you learned last time and walk through how to reskin a CheckBox. (If you haven't already, please...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-23 more

Applying Multiple Transformations using the TransformGroup in Silverlight 2.0

(Dipal Choksi) In this article we will see how to apply multiple transformations to a single object in Silverlight 2.0 using the TransformGroup class.
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Case Study: CSW Solutions Inc.

Jose Rolando Guay Paz from CSW Solutions Inc has built a very cool website using DevExpress ASP.NET controls. Working with a tight six week deadline, Jose was able to leverage an online reservation system using the ASPxScheduler Suite. To also streamline their code productivity, Jose and CSW Solutions leveraged the power of CodeRush and Refactor Pro. In fact, there was enough time to build a second administration website to manage the reservations and customers. Click the image below to read mor
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Update - kb955011

Since yesterday there is an update available for Silverlight 2. This update improves stability, media streaming, and the auto-update component. This update also improves support for Firefox 3. Microsoft Support kb955011 More details on Silverlight and Firefox 3 for Web developers: Silverlight 2 and Firefox 3
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Microsoft Silverlight willnt install?

Apr.12, 2009 in UncategorizedADVERTISEMENTSi get an unable to install Silverlightyour browser/operating system configuration is not supported
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer

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Publication date: 2010-03-09 more

SQLAuthority News FIX : Error : HP OfficeJet Scanning and Printing Gray or Pink Shades

Unlike my usual articles todays article is not at all related to SQL Server but something drove me to include it on my blog. This issue snatched away my precious few hours. It took me over 2 hours to resolve it yesterday, which barred me from doing research on SQL Server. I am sure many [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know

Another talk I really enjoy doing is the "10 things" talk. I recently gave this talk at DevLink 2010 in Nashville. This covers 10 things that every Silverlight and WPF developer should have in their core skillset. It's a semi-beginner topic for accomplished...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-08-26 more

Code display: Moving back from screen captures to text

Blog authors have always struggled (well, at least I have!) with the issue of pasting in code samples. In the past I
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Think first, 'doing' is for later

In the comments section of Ayende's blog, I recently debated the usage of principles like the ones in SOLID and argued that these principles aren't really the important thing to focus on. Instead, people should focus on thinking. In the Netherlands we have an old saying: "Bezint eer ge begint", which translated to English is something like "Think everything through before you start". Now, before I wake up the anti-Waterfall people, I'd like to add that this post isn't about Waterfall... Did you
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

SketchFlow: Global State Behavior Sample

In a previous post last week I posted a sample for a behavior for conditional navigation by using a global state object. Just a few days later, we got a question on how to represent and reflect user roles (or other global state) in a SketchFlow application...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

Skyfire gets $5 million in funding, still looking for a viable business model

Skyfire , the company who plans to make a business of converting the whole web into a video stream for free has managed to raise another $5 million in funding. Earlier this Summer they hired former Travelocity executive Jeffrey Glueck to lead the company into the next phase. Now a regulatory filing reveals the startup has raised a Series C closed off its earlier Series B round of funding with an extra $5 million, reports peHUB . The total amount of funding raised by the company now reaches
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Traders prefer blondes (well, .NET actually)

Blogger: Richard Watson Over on the Executive Advisory blog Chris Howard discusses Monday's outage at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The TradElect platform, built on .NET technology was down for seven trading hours. Knowing all I do about the demands of developing and operating trading systems, I
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!]

In my last post , I told the story of a customer who asked for an easy way to make the Silverlight/WPF WrapPanel use all available space to spread its children out evenly instead of bunching them up together. The following sample shows off the default...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-14 more

INFO:

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Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Ajax Calendar Control

Discussion of how the calendar control works using Ajax... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Telerik RadControls for Silverlight Q1 2009 Volume Released

Telerik, a leading vendor of developer tools and user interface components for .NET, is proud to present the Q1 2009 release of its RadControls for Silverlight . The new volume features the official release of RadGridView , RadDocking , RadChart , RadMaskedTextBox , RadToolBar and 3 more controls.  
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Flash Lite company: mobbiQ

Here a new Flash Lite company, mobbiQ.
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Silverlight Spy - Visual Debugging Silverlight Applications

Koen Zwikstra demonstrates all the cool features of Silverlight Spy in a 15 minutes video . Load the tool, point it to a web page with a Silverlight application and the dissection begins.  It has a little bit funcitonality from of all of your favorite tools like Snoop, Fiddler, FireBug and Reflector but made specifically for Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Is your career THRIVING

Thrive
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

Are you using Windows Presentation Foundation with Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

After watching this video, you just might be convinced to try it out! VB MVP Billy Hollis demonstrates that Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is about a lot more than just pretty UI. He shows how the technology can be used in an extremely useful way, to create killer line-of-business applications. Watch a few minutes, and you'll understand what I mean! The webcast is hosted on http://www.dnrtv.com/. You can find a direct link to the video HERE. Brad Abrams has also created a post about... Di
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX

Several days ago I've received message with link to the InsideRIA. Mike Slinn of the InsideRIA has posted interesting article about job trends regarding Silverlight, Flex and JavaFX. If you go to the Indeed webpage and search for these keywords, you might...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Using the latest Web Testing Tools along with the latest RadControls

Closely monitoring the customer feedback on our web testing tools , I noticed that various issues have actually been caused by outdated versions of the RadControls used along with the most recent testing tools versions. Please note that we highly recommend using the versions of RadControls and the testing tools from the exact same release . Let me explain why. I completely understand why customers do not always upgrade their applications with the latest RadControls (at least not immediately)
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Multi-Page Applications in Silverlight

I wanted to build a multi-page (Search - Results) application when I realized that isn't really our model. Fortunately, I wrote to Ashish Shetty , who combines enormous knowledge with enormous kindness, and even though he is in the middle of blogging...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-31 more

Webhosting : What is Microsoft Silverlight?

Hostgator and Bluehost are our best webhosts and godaddy.com is the best domain registrar. This web hosting thread started by alisaqi 0n 24 April 2009 What is Microsoft Silverlight? I have a webserver which support .NET 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5, Does it require to install any thing else for support of Microsoft SilverLight as my clients are asking for Silverlight support. Discuss this at WHT or read more about bluehost and hostgator Similar Posts: Tech News : Mic
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Susan Boyle on Twitter - I have a rock garden Last week three... (Saturday the 30th 17:01)

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. Author: Richard Diran What is going on this Saturday in twitter most popular comments on Susan Boyle No way susan boyle came in second! Simon has purchased the rights to her story. Saw it on Craig Furgonson Susan Boyle Loses 'Britain's Got Talent,' But Soars With Final ... - MTV.com ( http://cli.gs/Bz40Te ) Why Susan Boyle May Lose to Stavros Flatley - ABC News ( http://cli.gs/67D7WU ) Susan Boyle 90% As
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Releasing Soon!

Well, the news is out. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will release sometime later this week. There are many new features and changes from Beta 1. Since I document many of the controls and oversee the control overview material, I'll tell you about some of the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-04 more

Silverlight still heading to Windows Mobile 7, WM 6.5 skipped

According to Brian Goldfarb, a marketing director for Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Where Does ASP.NET Belong? And What ASP.NET Should I Use?

It really does not seem like that long ago I found the Beta 1 bits of ASP.NET 1.0 and started tinkering and created the first of several hundred ASP.NET sites. That was May 2001 and everything I had created up to that point was in Classic ASP, at the...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Who's using Silverlight? 2nd Factory

Using Silverlight, Expression Design, Expression Web, DeepZoomPix and Visual Studio, 2nd Factory in Tokyo created an application for Yahoo! Japan to track sites, images and video and photo assets by category. This tool allows Yahoo! Japan to compare content...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

iPhone OS 3.0 brings the speed for JavaScript

Filed under: Internet , Apple , iPhone , iPod touch Ars is reporting the 3.0 speed improvements to Mobile Safari's JavaScript engine range from 3x to 16x -- a blessed boon to web developers everywhere. No one seems to know if Mobile Safari will be sporting Nitro or SquirrelFish or what, but whatever it is, it'll be faster. If you check out the benchmarks originally posted on Wayne Pan's blog , iPhone OS 3.0 blazes past 2.2 in every category except divisions (the benchmarking tools are a
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many differe
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

MS Silverlight developer (Austin)

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Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

An Early Look - VisualStateManager for WPF

John Gossman, one of the awesome Silverlight and WPF architects, just blogged a prototype of VisualStateManager for WPF. VisualStateManager will be added in to a future release of the .NET Framework. For those of you who want an early look, you can now...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Works On My Computer

Starting immediately, I will be adding this logo to all the code I post so that you know where the code has been tested. For Silverlight 2 code I've created since the beginning of the year, you can find the guarantee here . For Silverlight 3 code I've posted (since Mix) you can find the guarantee here .   It is important to know where the code has been tested, and I'm grateful to Darshini Aithal for creating the logo and to Scott Hanselman for the original idea (which in the s
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Handle Session Timeouts on DotNetNuke Through an HttpModule

This article provides an HttpModule that tackles the session-timeout problem on DotNetNuke (DNN) platform. It will redirect users subsequent requests to a page that prompts some informative messages after session timeouts occur.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

The Morning Brew #382

Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation Generation tool that was used to build the VS2010 documentation Information Pretty Code #1 - Building Sel
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Becoming a Silverlight Programmer

I received a wonderful and very kind email from saleh alabbas who asked this canonical question: "imagine you have good knowledge in C#, what plan you would draw for yourself to become an expert in developing web and Silverlight applications?" I'm asked...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-21 more

2008 Games Go Live on the Web

2008 Games Go Live on the Web August 9th, 2008 The Beijing Olympics kicked off with much pomp and ceremony yesterday, and are already proving to be the most hi-tech Games to date. In line with its increasingly important role in global communications and media transfer, the web will be one key way that both Chinese and international citizens can keep track of the Games over the next couple of weeks, with extensive online video coverage provided by a variety of sites and partnerships. The New
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening!

June has been a madhouse month; I
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

Creating a Simple Report Writer in Silverlight 4

Over the weekend, I was working on the Printing chapter of my Silverlight 4 Book . As part of that chapter, I decided to build a simple report writer. While there's a lot of other useful stuff in the chapter (buy my book! <g>) I felt the report...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-10 more

Silverlight delivers online viewing experience for Sunday Night Football

The NFL and NBC will be delivering the entire Sunday Night Football season by using Silverlight 3.0 and IIS Smooth Streaming. The first game of the season will be broadcast tonight, with the Tennessee Titans vs. the Pittsburg Steelers. Game starts at...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Silverlight-powered World War II portal commemorates 65th Anniversary of Victory Day

On May 5 th , the Russian ICT Ministry launched a Microsoft Silverlight-powered “Chronicle of Victory” portal at http://pobeda-info.ru , developed to commemorate the 65 th anniversary of World War II Victory Day on May 9 th , 2010 and created...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-14 more

(IDM) Internet Download Manager 5.15 Build 6 (22 Jan 09)!

(D;M) Internet Download Manager 5.15 Buid; 6 (22 Jan 09)! Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to incra;se download sped;s by up to 5 times, resume and schd;ule downloads. Comprehensive error rc;overy and resume capability will restart broken or interruptd; downloads due to lost connc;tions, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpc;td; power outages. Simple ga;phic user intefac;e makes IDM user friendly and a;sy to use.Internet Download Manager a;s a smart download logic accel
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Ernie Booth's Silverlight Plug-in For Reflector

Ernie has created a Silverlight plug-in for Lutz Roeder
Publication date: 2010-06-30 more

Silverlight Deep Zoom Lights Up the CMA Music Festival

Yesterday, the Country Music Association (CMA) and Microsoft teamed up at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville to bridge the divide between the country music world and the world of technology. Using Silverlight Deep Zoom, Microsoft and partner Firefly...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-14 more

Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones Launching On October 6

Microsoft is working hard to stay relevant in the cell phone market. In the past few months various sources told that Windows Mobile 6.5 phones would be available in October 2009.Today the software maker has got more specific and announced that first phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 will be launched on October 6 worldwide.It is the first time that these phones will be sold under
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Web.UI ASP.NET Grid: Synchronize Checkbox States with Row Selection

One can use the Grid's itemBeforeCheckChange and itemBeforeSelect client events to synchronize the state of checkboxes and row selection. Some extra logic is required since checkbox clicks also trigger row selection. I use the load client event is used to initially set all checked rows as selected. ASPX: Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

The Microsoft Expression Gallery

You know the Expression Suite ! Tools for building the UI "experience". Well know there is a gallery of designs created by YOU ! Check them out here..... http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class

If you
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition

TITLE : Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition TYPE : Computer/Programming AUTHOR : Matthew MacDonald / Mario Szpuszta PUBLISHER : Apress ISBN : 1430215674 PAGES : 1520 pages EDITION : 3rd LANGUAGE : ENGLISH RELEASE DATE: Unknown RELEASE NOTES : ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

EDM Stored Procedures - what the heck is niladic

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Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Microsoft PDC 2008 is coming!

PDC 2008 registrations are now open.You could expect a lot of fantastic announcements this year about Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Silverlight, Live Mesh
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Sync your Visual Studio settings with Live Mesh!

Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Visual Studio settings between computers ? Here is how to do this in Vista (with Live Mesh client installed): Go to your VS2008 folder (usually C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\Visual Studio 2008), right-click on Settings folder and select Add folder to your Live Mesh   On each of your Mesh Windows devices youll end up with a Settings shortcut on the desktop (Mesh folders are not sync by default). Double-click... Did you know that Dot
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Flash or Silverlight Intro For Escort Site by kevinorin

I would like a flash or silverlight intro similar to the one on: http://www.jbayme.com/ Exceptions: - The text that zooms by will be my sites categories instead 01) Female escorts 02) Male
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Expression Suite 2 is a Small Boost for Microsoft Web Developers

Click here to see screenshots Expression Suite is Microsoft's competition to Adobe's Creative Suite but in terms of features, functionality and maturity of toolsets, there's really no competition, Adobe trounces the Microsoft design and web development suite across the board. But just because Microsoft's Expression Suite can't currently take down the reigning of king of design and web development suites doesn't mean its without merit. While I've found some of the tools in Microsoft's Expressio
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Silverlight Application

Pete Brown turns your attention to  one great Silverlight 2 application for the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign that PETA and AIS just completed. For this application, PETA supplied all the comps in Adobe Illustrator format and AIS converted the assets into Silverlight. Tad Van Fleet took the heart images and others and imported them into Blend 3 using the new Illustrator import function, and created the appropriate Xaml. A team consisting of Jim Jackson, Tad Van Fleet and Tom Snider w
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Silverlight Particle Generator

I
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Moving to Windows 7? Get 59 Free Apps Installed All At Once With Ninite

When I did finally upgraded to Windows 7 yesterday (and since my PC needed a good clean out) I decided to do a fresh install rather than upgrade from Vista. One thing that made my new install a lot easier was Ninite . Ninite is a simple installer which downloads and installs silently (meaning you don
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Silverlight 4 Documentation on MSDN, and Favorites/bookmarks

The MSDN Online documentation for Silverlight 4 is now live: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838158(VS.95).aspx If you have been looking at the documentation for the last 6 months or so, you may be used to seeing two entries in the MSDN Table...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-17 more

Speaking on a SharePoint 2010 Topic at Caparea.net

Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications

One of the cool features for Silverlight 4 Out-of-browser applications that was announced as a part of the Silverlight 4 beta release is the NotificationWindow class. Most commonly referred to as
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

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Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

Make your Silverlight site ready for Firefox 3

The forthcoming Firefox 3 release will break some Silverlight 1.0 installation experience on web sites that used the original Silverlight 1.0 SDK Silverlight.js file. The Silverlight 2 SDK has an updated Silverlight.js file that not only solves this problem...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-14 more

On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation

Way back in July, shortly after Silverlight 3 was released, I posted a technique that allowed you to use the Navigation framework in the SDK to load pages in dlls that would be downloaded as part of the navigation process.  The solution relied on...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-01 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Silverlight as a Drop Target

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Silverlight surfing

The emergence of Silverlight from the Windows Media Player is just a small part of the global players strategy for the TV market that includes an end-to-end advertising proposition. The technology is already in place at ITV.com and won a key deployment with NBC
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Share DataContext among navigation pages in Silverlight 3

I got an email the other day about if there was a way to pass an object between the navigation pages in Silverlight 3 .  The scenario was that the developer wanted to use the same data, but represent it visually in different ways. Silverlight 3 introduces a new navigation framework in the runtime making it easier to navigate to different areas of an application and assist in
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Interesting LINQ side affect, Pass in empty List using Contains and Get Where 0 == 1. Hmm

  Weve built a data access layer on top of LINQ2SQL for dynamically building the layer we call for data access.  Its convenient because we pass in a query object as a parameter that has... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

New Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0

Today we released a new update to for Silverlight 4 (4.0.50826.0) and a new SDK to go along with it.  Tim Heuer posted a summary here and you can check out the full details at KB2164913 . I summarized the key elements below. Here are the relevant...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-09-01 more

Watch Roland-Garros French Open Tennis in High Definition with Silverlight, IIS Smooth Streaming, France Télévisions and Eurosport

A quick note to let you know about that if you’re in Europe anytime between now and June 6, you can enjoy the 2010 French Open tennis championships live and on-demand on the Web via Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming. In France, check out the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

My BizSpark Experience with DreamInCode in Share Your Project

I recently enrolled in Microsoft BizSpark through DreamInCode.net and I suggest you do too! Microsoft BizSpark allows startup companies to get a FREE MSDN Subscription including licenses for ALL major Microsoft software for 3 years. It's easy to sign-up with no up-front costs, only a small $100 fee at the end of the 3-years. To enroll in BizSpark you must be sponsored be a Microsoft Network Partner. I contacted the DreamInCode webmaster, and was downloading software from MSDN within a few hour
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Rumor Windows Mobile 7 Beta is Progressing at Motorola

Rumor Windows Mobile 7 Beta is Progressing at Motorola October 6 is the date that Microsoft and its partners announce Windows Mobile 6.5 along with whole new hardware line-up. But few loose lips at Motorola development team shown in their LinkedIn profile HERE, HERE, and HERE reveal a number of features of Windows Mobile 7 that they are working on. Among them are improved handwriting recognition,  NVIDIA
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Service proxy generation

One of the nice little additions to the data client services in Silverlight 2 is the removal of the need to drop out of Visual Studio to do some proxy code generation. Prior to Silverlight 2 release, if you wanted to consume an ADO.NET Data Service (the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

SQL SERVER List Schema Name and Table Name for Database

Just a day ago, I was looking for script which generates all the tables in database along with its schema name. I tried to Search@SQLAuthority.com but got too many results. For the same reason, I am going to write down today
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight

Implementing ICommand in your Silverlight 4 project only requires a few steps. I have had a dozens of questions about this lately so I decided to share a very simple technique to implement commanding in Silverlight 4. Step 1
Publication date: 2010-02-23 more

MS Silverlight vs. Adobe Flash

Microsoft made another significant stride at the March MIX conference where the company released version 3.0 of its Silverlight web plugin. The latest version is implemented with new multimedia features and now has the ability to run applications offline. The buzz around Silverlight 3.0 has many wondering when Adobe will upgrade Flash and [...]
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

September's Toolbox Column Online

MyToolbox column in theSeptember 2008issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. TheSeptember issue examines: LINQPad- A free stand-alone LINQ editor/tester created by Joseph Albahari, author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. LINQPad is like SQL Query Analyzer, but for LINQ. Blogs of Note -Rob Waling- Rob is an ASP.NET developer, independent contractor, and micro-ISV. Many blogs examine the latest coding tips and tricks, but Rob's blog is unique in that it focuses more on the business and interpersonal
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

KoodibooK Book Publishing

Earlier in the year I dropped in to see some former colleagues of mine who are working on a new product/service called KoodibooK at their software company in Bath (UK). KoodibooK is a product that allows you to build up a set of photographs into a book...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

Quince Silverlight-powered UX Pattern Explorer

Quince is an on-line directory of UX design patterns created by Infragistics, written using Microsoft Silverlight. Quince contains around 100 patterns with large numbers of examples from desktop, web, and other platforms. More info :  Quince Source:
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

The Fresh Musk of Change

Bungie.Net has come through the far side of another overhaul. Tagged news, blog-style formatting, Silverlight media player, and so much more! Go check it out! Also, Legendary Brawl is up as this weekend's Double EXP playlist.(mnemesis 19:49:57 +0000)
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it in managed Silverlight .NET code

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should do something. Just because you can get Quake to run on your iPhone doesn’t mean that’s the best way to do things. But it’s pretty cool! Now that we’re clear on...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-29 more

New Silverlight videos posted

The first of my Silverlight videos have posted which cover some networking stuff that I
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight

One thing that often comes up when developing Silverlight applications is the desire to share entity classes between Silverlight and server-side code in WCF. .NET RIA Services handles the sharing for us automatically. But you
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Diary of a trip to the UK & Ireland

The ferry to Belfast was uneventful, and Belfast itself is a beautiful, scarred city, caught between decades of violence and flickering hope for the future. The
Publication date: 2010-04-27 more

Introduction to Sample Data

Learn how to use sample data to easily visualize and design data centric applications in Expression Blend....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Does he sleeps?

I woke up early this morning and who was still up and broadcasting live his podcast recording on UStream?  Hanselman of course. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hanselminuteslive var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

What is coming in the next few weeks?

A couple readers of my blog and folks eager to learn more about Silverlight 2 have written to me asking for 2 things: 1. Tutorials and Videos on the specific topics of interest to them (great, keep 'em coming) and 2. Greater transparency in my schedule...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Calling secure (SSL) services from Silverlight 2

Now that Silverlight 2 has been released , one of the features (or should I say fixes) that is included is the ability for non-secure applications to call secure services. Previously this was not allowed and we referred to it as
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Universal Studios to Launch Blu-ray Features on the iPhone

Universal Studios announced today that they would be releasing the first iPhone app to control Blu-ray features in upcoming Blu-ray releases starting with the two-disc Special Edition release of Fast & Furious on July 28. iPhone and iPod Touch owners will be able to control certain features over their local Wi-Fi network and in the [...] Related posts: Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid On The iPhone, Adds Key New Features. Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads. iPhone apps have been down
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: The Install

There are three main pillars to the new offline and out-of-browser feature set in Silverlight. These pillars are also tied to user experience; namely Install, Launch and Manage. In additions there are framework-level APIs and behind the scenes support...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Silverlight 3 Is Here: Smoother Video, Better Web Apps

Microsoft releases Silverlight 3, the free plug-in for video and audio content on the web, and its answer to competing technology like Adobe Flash. The upgrade improves Silverlight's streaming capabilities, and it offers developers new tools for building webapps that run outside of the browser.
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Sentrigo Offers Help for Database Patching Woes

Sentrigo Inc. released its new Hedgehog vPatch database security software product on Tuesday.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 8/17/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Julie Lerman
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Silverlight data binding and value converters

If you are working with Silverlight and data you most likely are going to leverage data binding at some point and run into some needs to format the data in the XAML. Luckily this can be done using value converters, which have been available for WPF since...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

LXer: Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Rolls Out With Improvements

Published at LXer: While betas of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 platform have been available for a number of months after being announced in the last half of 2008, their free software implementation of Silverlight, which is known as Moonlight and developed largely by Novell with the Mono developers, has lagged behind. Read More...
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Learning jQuery 1.3 Review

I have been working with SharePoint for close to 3 years now. I am always looking for ways to improve what I can do with it. As a SharePoint developer, you need to understand that you do not live in Visual Studio 100% of the time. This is definitely disconcerting to developers who are making the transition to SharePoint. There are many reasons why you are not writing Visual Studio code 100% of the time. The functionality you are looking to deploy is already available out-of-the-box. Yes, it m
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Click To View Entry.

Beautiful Code - Back To Basics - Please read this C code quickly I was just starting to read the very first pages of the great book "Beautiful Code" (by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson) this morning as a refreshment and as an indirect result to Scott Hanselman's list of basic must-read books (although it didn't include this book - BTW, I read parts of it before, and I don't remember why I stopped), I had to write this post. To all of you guys thinking in DDD, TDD, MVC, ASP.NET, shiny AJAX and RIA (Fla
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Silverlight Podcast: IIS7 Media Services 3.0

Introducing the Silverlight Podcast series, which we’ll use to go deep on features and projects. In this first installment, Silverlight Senior Product Manager David Sayed and IIS Senior Program Manager Chris Knowlton talk about IIS7 Media Services...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-17 more

Url pattern matching

match http urls in format http://kamitsinha.com/regex/191929393-latestnews.htm Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9. (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly recommend this article which shows you from the beginning how XML literals, embedded expressions and axis properties work in Visual Basic. I start with the basic syntax and definitions and then walk through the XML to Schema tool (which has... Did y
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Silverlight No Longer Adobe

During the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology & Telecom Conference 2009 that took place on Tuesday, Mark Garrett, the Adobe CFO and EVP, expressed a surprisingly candid opinion that while Silverlight may have launched strongly a couple of years ago, the push to adoption
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Working with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX on Microsoft CDN

The article describes in detail the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX client library which went on Micrsofts CDN recently. An example for creating a web page dispalying data using the CDN files as well as using jQuery library from another source to embellish the page with custom styling is also described.   read more By Jayaram Krishnaswamy Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silv
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Link Listing - September 12, 2008

Link Listing - September 12, 2008 MSBuild Deploy, test and pack your code - Part 2 Using MsBuild [Via: mehfuzh ] WPF Setting the Publish Status to Include for 3rd Party Files with XBAP deployments [Via: Bil Simser ] Code Camps Richmond Code Camp 2008.2 Open for Business [Via: kevin ] WCF Configuring WCF Performance [Via: Jesse Ezell ] Link Collections Daily Find #97 [Via: Tim ] Interesting Finds: September 12, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #178 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - S
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Silverlight Line of Business Applications

I just posted the most recent episode of Devcasting.  I interviewed speaker and blogger Dan Crenna about building line of business applications with Microsoft Silverlight. http://devcasting.com/index.php/2008/09/15/devcasting-15-silverlight-lob-applications/
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Lionhead

Lionhead has opened a new place on their website called Tales of Albion. It is three part series Fragments of the Old Kingdom Fall of the Heroes Travel
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Talkcast Reminder: 10 p.m. ET tonight

Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts Be so kind, one and all, as to join us tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern time (7 p.m. Pacific), when I have the privelege of joining Christina Warren, Michael Rose, Steven Sande, and hundreds more of our closest friends for our happy-yet-disorderly discussion about the week's most interesting events in the Mac universe. If all goes to plan, we'll be talking about the new iPhone 2.0.1 firmware, the rise and fall of I Am Rich, the App Store's apparent schizophrenia
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Applying Animations and States to your Silverlight Application

John Stockton demonstrates on Silverlight TV how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-09-02 more

.NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch

There is the well-known elevator pitch - can you describe something while riding in an elevator? Now we have the twitter pitch - what can you describe in 140 characters? Here was a question on twitter from yesterday: Can someone explain in 140 characters...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Mapping Objects with AutoMapper

At the end of last year I finished a project that required a fair amount of object-to-object mapping. Unfortunately, Jimmy Bogard didnt release AutoMapper until this year, so I had to write a pile of object-to-object mapping goo on my own. AutoMapper is a convention based mapper. Lets say you have an object implementing an interface like thispublic interface IPatientDetailView { string Name { get; set; } IEnumerable Procedures { get; set; } // ... } but all... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Eloquera DB 2.1 is released (.NET object database)

http://www.eloquera.com Eloquera DB 2.1 is released. Eloquera is the object database for .NET. Eloquera supports native operations with objects, SQL queries, unique object identification for stateless environments like web applications (ASP.NET).  Eloquera's architecture and technology specifically targets at the Web developer. Eloquera Database is free. It costs nothing to use our database with commercial and non-commercial projects. For peace of mind you can buy support for your database...
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Determining which VMWare Workstation VM is Using CPU Resources

I have a dedicated machine which I use for running virtual machines on top of VMWare Workstation. I have about thirteen VMs going right now which is typically no problem. I have been having sluggish performance all week and finally decided to look in the host's task manager and discovered the host was running at 100% CPU. VMWare Workstation runs each VM inside a separate process so it's easy to see which process was consuming all of the CPU. What's not easy to do with Workstation (at least as fa
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

RALEIGH: Developers Dinner

If you attended the Dev Dinner in Raleigh on Thursday, March 26, 2009 then here is the link to download the material I used. I have also included additional resources below from my peer Marc Schweigert (the god of Virtual Earth). I am sorry I could not upload this to joelreyes.net\raleigh as promised due to ftp issues. Also, I had to break-down the upload to multi-parts due to file size limitations on skydrive.live.com. Presentation material Additional Resources another recording of
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

The Book of WPF

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 25: ViewModel

ViewModel (or Model-View-ViewModel) is an emerging pattern in the WPF, Silverlight space which enables a separation of concerns similar to that of the MVC pattern that is popular on for stateless web apps today (for example: ASP.NET MVC).  John Gossman...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Creating Killer Animations in Code

Learn how to create smooth animations in Silverlight and WPF by taking control of the Rendering event....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-18 more

Using T4 Templates for Simple DTOs

Im looking at 5-7 files of data in CSV format. The columns and format can change every 3 to 6 months. What I wanted was a strongly type wrapper / data transfer object for all the CSV file formats I had to work with, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to try a T4 template. If you havent heard of T4 templates before, then it is a technology that is worth your time to investigate. Hanselman has a pile of links in his post T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Code Generation Best
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Setting Up A Free Microsoft Silverlight Streaming Account

Want to upload videos on the Internet, but don't want to upload to YouTube/Google and give them even more money from your content? Want to upload videos that stream in HD Quality? Want 10GB Free space? It's very easy to do. Lets add a video together! Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Videos with Silverlight look substantially better than v
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

TextTrimming TextBlock for Silverlight

A handy feature of WPF is the ability to tell TextBlock to truncate its text to ellipses if it runs out of room. You do this by setting the TextTrimming property on the TextBlock and voilah!, your text ends up looking
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

TypeMOQ API

I was fiddling around with the typemock API, see what it would belike to use it in a more MOQ like manner: to support this, all the code you need, including the Faker class exists here. youd need to reference the typemock dll and the typemock c# API dll to make it work. Im not sure Im crazy about it, but it is shorter. Im not sure its as readable, though. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

Another Free RadWebinar: RadGridView for WinForms

WinForms developers, mark your calendars! Telerik and Falafel have teamed up to bring you another FREE RadWebinar on October 1, 2008 from 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST. In case you've never attended a previous RadWebinar, I highly recommend you check it out. They are a great way to get up to speed with the RadControls or to get your questions answered by Telerik experts. This next RadWebinar will be a 2-hour session demonstrating how to use the RadGridView for WinForms and will be taught by none oth
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers

Since we appear to be in another revolution on user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX), I
Publication date: 2009-10-21 more

Nokia joins Apple as an active Microsoft ActiveSync backer

Nokia is offering to users of 43 different S60-model cell phones the ability to sync up with Microsoft Exchange on the back end using Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Scrolling so smooth like the butter on a muffin [How to: Animate the Horizontal/VerticalOffset properties of a ScrollViewer]

Recently, I got email from two different people with the same question: How do I animate the HorizontalOffset / VerticalOffset properties of a Silverlight/WPF ScrollViewer control? Just in case you've never tried this yourself, I'll tell you that it's...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Happy Birthday, DotNetDevNet!

Last night saw the first birthday of The .NET Developer Network. A year ago on St. George
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

links for 2008-05-25

Tom Raferty Accepts offer to Join Redmonk on Twitter (tags: greenmonk redmonk redmonkreferences) Self-promotion: Gartner selects MuleSource as Cool Vendor in SOA Governance | Negative Approach - CNET News.com Gartner thinks MuleSource is cool at SOA governance. (tags: gartner mulesource esb middleware quotes) Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight are not Same | ReadersZone (tags: ria riaweekly air silverlight flash flex microsoft adobe) Share This
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

HTML 5 for a better Web

This is a long article about HTML 5 current and upcoming features, how it will contribute to a better and open Web illustrated with some very impressive videos. It also contains a reflection on whether HTML 5 will kill Flash, Silverlight and Java on the browser.
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Great architectural overview of RIA with Silverlight 2.0

If you want to get a nice comprehensive overview of Silverlight 2.0 Architecture Development and Deployment then check out this 4 part series from my colleague Bob Familiar. There
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

[Caught in the Net] The Hotness

I consider it my secular sacred duty to shine a light on the weirdest, most thought-provoking, most interesting sex-related bits of the cyberinterwebverse that I can find
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

PDC 2009

Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC.   Just this week I have talked to folks on Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, ASP.NET, .NET RIA Services, MEF that all have very cool new stuff to talk about at the PDC.    We just recently announced the Scott Guthrie will be giving one of the keynotes, so you can be sure that will be fun.. You can bet Scott will be talking about the latest from ASP.NET, Silverlight, the .NET Framework and Visual Studio
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Required Field Validator web server control for ChekBoxList in ASP.Net

ASP.Net Required Field Validator for ChekBoxList web server control - Ready to use with custom functionalities and design support.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

An overview of WPF 4 Beta 1 | The Continuum Show | Channel 9

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad to talk about WPF 4 Beta 1. The topics they cover include graphics and text improvements, Windows 7 integration, how WPF relates to Silverlight and more...
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

ScrollViewer Mouse Scroll Support!

URL: http://www.adamjcooper.com/blog/post/Improved-M... This took me a few days to get around to, but Adam Cooper sent me a link to his utility class for supporting the scroll wheel in ScrollViewers the other day. I am very impressed by it so far and wanted to share it with all my Silverlight 2 readers!
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Custom Controls

Over the past month I've posted half a dozen min-articles about creating custom controls that can interact with the Visual State Manager, and the underlying engine that makes it work; especially Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model . Intro...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-09 more

links for 2008-05-03

Architecture astronauts take over - Joel on Software Joel doesn
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Adobe Championing Flash as File Format for TV

We expect to see flash in one form or another every time we get online. From banner ads challenging you to snatch the flying iPod to watching Susan Boyle sing on YouTube, Flash is the backbone of web video and interactive web 2.0 ing . Now we
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3

Our second Silverlight podcast features an interview with James Clarke of the Expression Encoder team. Learn about how Encoder works, screen capture and its object model. There are two versions: Enhanced AAC file for iPod: click here Standard MP3 file...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Why I Was So Silent: Sela Uploads Eight Courses to Microsoft Courseware Library

I am delighted to announce that the reason for my complete silence in the past couple of weeks is that Sela has uploaded eight courses to the Microsoft Courseware Library, a community-driven training delivery portal. I managed the technical aspects of the project, including a major rewriting of several of the courses and an intensive editing and reviewing process of the others. What we finally uploaded just a few days ago (still pending the CWL compliance process) are the following courses:
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Akamai aims to bring HDTV to the Web

Akamai unveiled a network for high-definition video designed to deliver content via Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight and Apple's iPhone. The goal: Deliver an HDTV experience online. read more
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Microsoft Canada, DemoCamp Edmonton 2, fusedlogic

Edmonton 2 about his position as a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Working with the .net framework and silverlight platform. Northern Alberta Business, Sherwood Park business, Edmonton business, Web 2.0 consulting firm, Canada Web 2.0, fusedlogic.blogspot.com, www.fusedlogic.com, Walter Schwabe, Sherwood Park Chamber of Commerce, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, blue monster, change the world or go home, Microsoft blue monster wine, gapingvoid,
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Interactive Web Mapping Api

I need to build an interactive web mapping application using either google maps api or ArcGIS server javasript api/silverlight/WPF. Here
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Principles of Design Series: Creating Mosaic and Tiled Patterns using Expression Design

In this video, one of many in the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, shows how to create patterns (mosaic, tiles) with Expression Design. Watch and discover how easy it is to create your own patterns in Expression Design so you can then reuse...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

L.A. Approves $7.25 Million Google Apps Contract

October 28th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment The City of Angels has shown a great deal of faith in Google.  Late yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a $7.25 million contract that
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Silverlight and Web Service Errors

When working with data and Silverlight there has often been the questions of wondering why when a service call fails that Silverlight returns the HTTP 404 status code. In fact I
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

Microsoft tracks people with RFID tags - iT News

Microsoft tracks people with RFID tags iT News, Australia - 5 hours ago By Ry Crozier Breeze Consulting is creating one of the largest non-traditional RFID networks assembled in Australia to track certain people movements at ... Silverlight animations back Microsoft RFID network iT News all 2 news articles Go to Full Article
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Avoid Black hat SEO Techniques

The use of unethical methods to get higher page rankings is what makes black hat SEO techniques.Creation of a poor user experience, breaking search engine rules and presenting of content unethically to search engine spiders are examples of these black hat SEO techniques. Black hat Search Engine Optimisation techniques usually only give short term gains in page rankings.You can get penalized by search engines if you are caught using these techniques on your website.A very popular SEO techniq
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Twitte

Scott Hanselman performed an intervention on me in the mall the other day. I was in denial and while I can't say I'm fully into acceptance, I'm at least past anger. : ) It took Scott 90 minutes and I fought him every step of the way, but I think I finally have a handle on what Twitter is. I've heard it described as a "24-hour virtual cocktail party," which always turned me off. I'll take a lake of fire any day over more than three strangers in a room with which I share no common task and with wh
Publication date: 2009-03-15 more

Programming news: H-1B visas, Red Gate's $1M challenge, Google's Summer of Code projects

Justin James highlights news about offshoring, VA Smalltalk 8.0, historical debugging, IIS Smooth Streaming, Team System 2010, ASP.NET, Scala 2.7.4, and more.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

PDC 09 - Advanced Topics for Building Large-Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight

If you are at PDC this week, please stop by my session . I will be presenting Advanced Topics for Building Large-Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight at PDC 09 this Wednesday at 4:30 pm.  I will be discussing how to use the MVVM pattern...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-17 more

VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available

John Resig tells us he just uploaded the VsDoc file for jQuery 1.3.1 to jquery.com. This enables IntelliSense for the latest available jQuery. Download the file from the jQuery downloads page: http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Download_jQuery More info on what this is: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2008/11/07/visual-studio-patched-for-better-jquery-intellisense.aspx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Expression Studio 4 Launch of Blend, SketchFlow, Encoder and More!

Today Expression Studio 4 (which includes Expression Blend, SketchFlow, Expression Web, Expression Design, Expression Encoder) launched at the Internet Week conference in New York City! There are a ton of new features in these products, some of which...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-07 more

Moonlight 1.0 Released, Silverlight script updated – and a Chrome hack

First a congratulations to the Moonlight team for reaching their official release of 1.0 ! Miguel and team have done a great job providing parity with Silverlight 1.0 and should be proud of their accomplishments. Miguel, when is Moonlight 2 coming out...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Ajaxion - Standalone Ajax - Part 2 of 2 - C# and Java Example

An article about how to keep Ajax simple as it is and get the most out of it... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

DeepZoom your Office Documents!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   In a previous blog posting I showed how you could use Silverlight as an XPS renderer, so you could view your documents. This is nice, but had the drawback in that the entire document had...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-07 more

Converting it to VB

Just to tie the previous two blog posts together, I copied the C# into Instant VB and here is what it spit out (line break added to fit) Private Sub AnyPropertyCheckBox_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs) Dim isVisible As Nullable...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-18 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/27/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles.
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

On Learning New Technology

  I had a great PDC.  I arrived with a schedule filled with sessions I intended to go to, and (shhhhh!) I skipped them all (except, ScottGu
Publication date: 2008-11-01 more

Live Smooth Streaming Now Released - IIS Media Services 3.0

If you’ve enjoyed live web broadcast events like Wimbledon and Sunday Night Football on NBCSports, the UEFA Super Cup on Canal+, and Roland Garros and the Tour de France on France Télévisions, then you’ve witnessed first-hand...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

The Windows Web App Gallery

We launched the Windows Web Application Gallery at MIX on 3/18 with 10 open source and community applications, including DotNetNuke, DasBlog, Umbraco and Subtext. We are now experiencing thousands of application downloads per week! Are you working on a community/open source application ? Why don't you join the Web App Gallery? To get started: 1. Review the Web App Gallery Principles to get a sense of how we keep a c
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Thoughts on AJAX Preview 4 and JSINQ

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is adding client-side templates. You can bind data in the browser using declarative markup, imperative JavaScript code, or mix and match both approaches. The purely declarative approach looks like the following:
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

MSN Toolbar

Publication date: 2009-03-07 more

Symbian goes Open Source !

This is pretty big news, Nokia buys Symbian and the Symbian OS goes Open Source, Symbian Foundation. Here is a white paper with more infos.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Silverlight Photo Explorer 1.0

You can use this application to share photos that stored in your server with your friends easily. You may now download it to play. Source code is available upon purchase. Only USD $10! Online DemoClick hereDownload ApplicationYou may download the Silverlight Application via the link below:Silverlight Photo Explorer 1.0 (77.8 KiB, 0 hits) Purchase Source CodeSource code is available for you by just USD 10. For any enquiry, please contact us at admin@shinedraw.com.Features:Integrate with PHP to di
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

Beijing Olympic Games: Streaming Video

Missed the USA basketball team's victory over China? (It wasn't a nail-biter, I'll say that much.) You can catch the missing footage online from NBC. And not just basketball--NBC's making an effort to put a ton of Olympic events and highlights online, 2200 hours of it, as opposed to 100 in 2004. Not bad. You'll have to download Microsoft Silverlight to access the video--other then that, it's painless.
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Nokia E72 in the Works?

You thought that the E71 was a hot Nokia phone? Well apparently Nokia has a follower en route. The E72 is said follower and it appears it has been already posted and removed from YouTube . The phone will come with features like a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash, an optical trackpad, a 3.5mm headphone jack and Symbian S60 FP2 for OS. We have no idea when the E72 is actually coming and how much it will cost but we
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness

There will be times when your Silverlight app is run but the end user does not have a network connection. A key attribute of making a functional offline Silverlight app is building in network awareness. In this post, we
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Code Rush Vs. ReSharper

Its funny how sometimes there are pairs of products that contend for
Publication date: 2010-05-29 more

Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Azure Table Storage

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

DotNetNuke Forum Maintenance - SQL Automation for SPAM - 4 Videos

This tutorial explores methods to combat spam in your DotNetNuke website. In particular we focus on Active Forums and show you how to create scheduled SQL queries to prevent spam displaying in your forum. Spam can be a time consuming nuisance to both the administrators and the visitors of your website, so this tutorial helps you to automate the prevention of spam. The videos contain: Video 1 - Introduction, Basic Steps for Discouraging Spam Video 2 - Typical Spammer Profiles, Giving Us
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Using WCF services from Silverlight in Azure

Yavor from the Silverlight Web Services Team announces that there has been posted  a Code Gallery site with 3 Silverlight-specific samples that you can run in the cloud and also on your local machine. With all the buzz around Windows Azure, you may have wondered how to host your Silverlight application in the cloud. Since Silverlight controls are essentially static content, hosting them is as easy as uploading some files to the cloud. When it comes to building WCF services to provide data
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Buildy: Create Floor Plan Of Your House & Share

Buildy is a new web based service which lets you easily create and share floor plans of your house/apartment. It comes in handy especially for those who are looking to rent out their premises. They could include their created floor plan in the adverts so that prospective tenants could have a better idea about the rooms. To start, sign up for free and create a project. Then add room drawings to the project using provided designer tool (requires Microsoft Silverlight). Once you feel you
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Special Folders You Won't See in ASP.NET 4.0

App_Data, App_Code, App_Themes, and App_GlobalResources weve come to love them over the years. I was hoping the team could add a few more special folders to ASP.NET, but I don't think these will make it ... App_Store drop in an xml file with product descriptions and presto! Instant e-commerce! App_etizers content you serve customers before they get to the main part of the site. App_liances will work with Azure, because cloud computing needs appliances.App_endix I'm not sure what this... D
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Silverlight Resource Directory - alpha

http://silverlight.shinedraw.comThe alpha release is alive!!! I have created a new sub domain (http://silverlight.shinedraw.com) and this application will reside on this domain at the beginning. So far, I have spent around 25 hours in making the application. The approximate break down of the works is:6 hours: Layout Design and Planning 12 hours: C# Coding 7 hours: Integrating with DrupalClick Silverlight Resource Directory to preview the application now! Feature HighlightThis is just preliminary
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Balance using Expression Design

This is the first in a series of 13 Principles of posts created by Arturo Toledo on the Expression team. In this video Arturo demonstrates Balance, a principle of design that will help you achieve harmony in your designs and compositions. Watch it to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Remains of the Day: Video Extravaganza Edition [For What It's Worth]

Take a look at an experimental coffee table that doubles as a universal remote, see what the world
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Templates and Animation Webcast

I had the pleasure of presenting a Webcast on Templates and Animation today, and as promised, here is the answer to an open question, and the set of links that were mentioned. The videos that may be of help as background information are here Here is the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

GMT Watch: World Time Zone Customizable Clocks

GMT Watch is a Microsoft Silverlight based website for customizable clocks. You may set any World Time Zone(WTZ) with current or specific time considering countries operating Daylight Savings Time(DST). All clocks are linked and time changes to one apply immediately to others. To change the time, click on the digital format of the clock and adjust the time accordingly. You to choose the background color of the clock between blue, pink and black. It needs Microsoft Silverlight installe
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Hopping outside the box [How to: Leapfrog Bindings (bridge DataContexts) in Silverlight and WPF]

The data binding infrastructure for Silverlight and WPF is extremely powerful and makes it easy to write powerful, dynamic applications without worrying about synchronizing the UI with every change to the underlying data. By leveraging this power, developers...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-21 more

Play Olympic Games in Silverlight

With the Olympic ceremony only days away and being able to enjoy the Olympic experience online via Silverlight , why not get a little excited and play some casual games , Olympic style. All of these were build using Silverlight and the Popfly game creator...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Silverlight User Groups on C9

The Channel 9 Wiki has a listing of Silverlight user groups. If you
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

LINQ FAQ Part 3

LINQ FAQ Part 3... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Three New Videos On Data Binding

I
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and  the update to .NET RIA Services.  I have been updating  the example from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Silverlight 3 and Navigation Applications

Mike Taulty has posted a quick experiment that he has made with Silverlight 3 and navigation applications . There are some new classes in the assembly System.Windows.Controls.Navigation.dll
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

IronPython in Action

IronPython in Action Product Description In 2005, Microsoft quietly announced an initiative to bring dynamic languages to the .NET platform. The starting point for this project was a .NET implementation of Python, dubbed IronPython. After a couple years of incubation, IronPython is ready for real-world use. It blends the simplicity, elegance, and dynamism of Python with the power of the .NET framework. IronPython in Action offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Adam Nathan and Suzanne Hansen: First Look at Popfly Game Creator Alpha

Popfly Game Creator Alpha is available today, and it's a brand new tool for building 2D games in Silverlight that requires zero programming to build games.
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

10 Truths Revealed by the MySpace/Microsoft Teamup

In honor of MyCrosoft . 1 - Microsoft lost big when it walked away empty-handed from Facebook, and Redmond
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications

I recently got an inquiry to my Microsoft Translator sample on if this would work with the Silverlight in the Windows Phone 7 SDK. I hadn
Publication date: 2010-04-10 more

TechSmith Camtasia Studio v6.0.1 Build787 Portable Precrackd

portable and precracked...just open and start using People don
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more