| Hanselminutes Podcast 228 - Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:33 PM PDT Scott talks to Jeff Wilcox , a Developer on the Silverlight Team about developing on Windows Phone 7. What kinds of performance can we expect from the phone? Jeff Wilcox shows Scott some tips and tricks on how to get the smoothest animations from your...( read more )...( read more)  |
| Hanselminutes Podcast 228 - Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:33 PM PDT Scott talks to Jeff Wilcox , a Developer on the Silverlight Team about developing on Windows Phone 7. What kinds of performance can we expect from the phone? Jeff Wilcox shows Scott some tips and tricks on how to get the smoothest animations from your Read More......( read more)  |
| Hanselminutes Podcast 227 - Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike Calvo Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:15 PM PDT Scott talks to Mike Calvo, a Microsoft Lead Developer based out of Minnesota (!) about Expression SuperPreview. SuperPreview helps developers and designers with cross-browser CSS and HTML issues. How'd they build it and with what? What's inside? How does the cloud fit in and how do they support Safari? I played with SuperPreview a bit last year, but started looking at it again last month when I noticed that version 4 has introduced support for Safari on Mac via a Cloud-based Remote Service. I fired up Expression SuperPreview 4, and saw this: Then I signed up: Which enabled Mac Safari for this initial beta. I assume they'll add a pile of other browsers. If I don't see immediate browser support for ALynx, the Amiga port of Unix...( read more)  |
| Tip #107 Did you know … How to improve debugging performance for MVC2 application in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:40 AM PDT VS2010 Ultimate included IntelliTrace functionality by default. IntelliTrace captures events (e.g. exceptions), and can affect performance of debugging. The typical performance hit is about 5% in the default mode (collection can be increased to...( read more)  |
| Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010 Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:48 PM PDT This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today's blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio. My friend Scott Cate (who has blogged dozens of great VS tips and tricks here ) recently highlighted these to me as good tips that most developers using Visual Studio don't seem to know about (even though most have been in the product for awhile). Hopefully this post will help you discover them if you aren't already taking advantage of them. They are all easy to learn, and can help save you a bunch of time. Run to Cursor (Ctrl + F10) Often I see people debugging applications by hitting a breakpoint early in their application, and then repeatedly...( read more)  |
| Clay: malleable C# dynamic objects – part 2 Posted: 18 Aug 2010 07:00 AM PDT In the first part of this post , I explained what requirements we have for the view models in Orchard and why we think dynamic is a good fit for such an object model. This time, we're going to look at Louis ' Clay library and how you can use it to create object graphs and consume them. But before we do that, I want to address a couple of questions. 1. If we use dynamic, aren't we losing IntelliSense and compile-time checking and all the good things that come with statically-typed languages? And is C# becoming overloaded with concepts, and trying to be good at everything but becoming good at nothing? Hush, hush, everything is going to be all right. Relax. Now think of all the XML/DOM styles of APIs that you know in .NET (or Java for that matter...( read more)  |
| Clay: malleable C# dynamic objects – part 1: why we need it Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:00 PM PDT When trying to build the right data structure in Orchard to contain a view model to which multiple entities blindly contribute, it became obvious pretty fast that using a dynamic structure of sorts was a must. What we needed was a hierarchical structure: a page can have a list of blog posts and a few widgets, each blog post is the composition of a number of parts such as comments, comments have authors, which can have avatars, ratings, etc. That gets us to the second requirement, which is that multiple entities that don't know about each other must contribute to building that object graph. We don't know the shape of the graph in advance and every node you build is susceptible to being expanded with new nodes. The problem is that C# static types...( read more)  |
| Buttons with Mouse-Over Behaviors – Redux Posted: 16 Aug 2010 07:50 AM PDT I recently posted some CSS and HTML snippets for a buttons collection I was using for a Menu style UI Scott Koon from www.LazyCoder.com posted a comment with a better way (thanks Scott). This way I don't have to set the CSS Class for each button. Just contain them in a div. Here is the [...] Read More......( read more)  |
| Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 - 2 -- #929 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:44 AM PDT In this Issue: Anton Polimenov , Shawn Wildermuth , Gergely Orosz , Chris Koenig , Tim Heuer ( -2- ), Tim Greenfield , Nigel Sampson ( -2- ), Shawn Oster , and John Papa . Shoutouts: Telerik has announced The Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour is...( read more )...( read more)  |
| Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 -- #928 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:23 AM PDT In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius , Rui Marinho , Johnny Tordgeman , and Colin Eberhardt . Shoutout: Arnie Rowland has a very worthy effort going on: Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes ... ... read it and if you need the support, give it a shot. Bart Czernicki...( read more )...( read more)  |
| Debugging Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:11 AM PDT URL : http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpde... Here's a quick post to document something I am seeing with the Windows Phone 7 emulator. When you are running your application and you want to test it tombstoning (e.g. deactivating), you should...( read more )...( read more)  |
