Sunday, October 31, 2010

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 3

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 3

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 3

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 12:22 PM PDT

I'm currently studying for the Beta exam of Silverlight 4. So I thought, why not share what resources I'm using. To start with one should be familiar with Silverlight of course, but refreshing some of the topics that haven't be touched that often is always...( read more )...(read more)

My position on the #Silverlight debate

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:47 AM PDT

Disclaimer: I am a Silverlight MVP and book author, and as such I have an interest (some would say a passion) for Silverlight. Also, I do have a privileged relationship with Microsoft, giving me early access to tech previews and confidential information...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 30, 2010 - 2 -- #982

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:07 PM PDT

In this Issue: Joe McBride , Ben Gracewood , Michael S. Scherotter , Adam Kinney , Todd Brix , Nokola , Avi Pilosof , WCF Data Services Team Blog , Brad Tutterow , and Matthias Shapiro . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Filtering Data using CollectionViewSource...( read more )...(read more)

Adding Windows Phone Capability Detection to your Build Process

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

There is a new Capability Detection tool in the Windows Phone Developer Tools October update that you can run to determine the capabilities of a DLL or Xap files.  Here is a post build step that I added to a WP7 project to list the capabilities that...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 30, 2010 -- #981

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:16 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Crump , XAMLCast , Sigurd Snørteland , Brad Tutterow ( -2- ), Manuel Felício ( -2- ), Mohamed Mosallem , Lee ( -2- ), Walt Ritscher , Chris Koenig , and Jeff Blankenburg . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Architecting Silverlight LOB...( read more )...(read more)

PDC10–thoughts a minute after it finished

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 08:31 AM PDT

PDC10 is over. Now it is a time to think about how it was and summarize the experience. For me it was very special PDC. It was very special because of two things: First – I delivered a session during the PDC Workshop! My session was about XNA Game Development...( read more )...(read more)
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Future of Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 – what now?

Future of Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 – what now?

Future of Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 – what now?

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 06:28 AM PDT

You've all heard the news – Microsoft is „shifting its Silverlight strategy" and going full forward to embrace HTML 5 as its cross-browser cross-platform solution. Coupled with IE9, it makes lot of sense, But what about Silverlight 5 and Silverlight in...( read more )...(read more)

Post-PDC HTML5 v. Silverlight Debate

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:56 PM PDT

I've been an advocate of Silverlight since it was called WPF/E, so I am not quite an unbiased observer. I decided to sit back and watch the twitterverse explode and see what the world thought. The Silverlight guys got angry; the ASP.NET guys got glib;...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2010 -- #80

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:17 PM PDT

In this Issue: Jesse Liberty , Senthil Kumar , Jason , John Papa , Jeff Blankenburg ( -2- , -3- ), Jeremy Likness , Richard Waddell ( -2- ), Karsten Januszewski , Brad Tutterow ( -2- ). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Isolating the C# Code in Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

A Week with WP7 from an Android User's Perspective

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:28 AM PDT

I spent most of the last week with my early demo Windows Phone 7 (e.g. WP7) phone as my primary phone. See I am a Verizon customer currently and therefore I couldn't use Verizon on the demo phone (as it takes SIM cards and Verizon can't spell SIM). So...( read more )...(read more)

Architecting WP7: Not Forgotten!

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Sorry everyone but I am still going to finish the last four parts of the Windows Phone 7 Architecture series, but with travel and conferences I am a little behind. But they *are* coming! I promise. © 2010 Shawn Wildermuth. All Rights Reserved. Add...( read more )...(read more)

<memory> Members (Visual C++ 2010)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:15 PM PDT

A list of all members of the <memory> header.

<memory> (Visual C++ 2010)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:10 PM PDT

Defines a class, an operator, and several templates that help allocate and free objects.
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Friday, October 29, 2010

WCF Web APIs on wcf.codeplex.com

WCF Web APIs on wcf.codeplex.com

WCF Web APIs on wcf.codeplex.com

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 11:15 AM PDT

Today we are announcing the first release of WCF Web APIs on wcf.codeplex.com , just in time for PDC 2010. There has already been some buzz about WCF investments in HTTP and Web technologies , and today is the day. If you haven't had a chance to watch...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 in Action Source Code

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:39 PM PDT

I realized I never posted the location of the source code for Silverlight 4 in Action. You can download the source code directly from Manning . Just click on the download link on that page....( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 in Action Source Code

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:39 PM PDT

I realized I never posted the location of the source code for Silverlight 4 in Action. You can download the source code directly from Manning . Just click on the download link on that page....( read more )...(read more)

ComplexTypes in RIA Services

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:24 PM PDT

Our team has just released WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta and WCF RIA Services Toolkit October 2010 ! You can also access these download links from http://silverlight.net/riaservices . In addition to lots of bug fixes, the release also includes several Read More......(read more)

The Present and Future of WPF

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:28 PM PDT

The last year has been busy for the developer division at Microsoft. We shipped Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 with WPF 4 as well as Silverlight 4 , new versions of Expression Studio and WCF RIA Services. We recently shipped Windows Phone 7 and XNA Game...( read more )...(read more)

The Present and Future of WPF

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:28 PM PDT

The last year has been busy for the developer division at Microsoft. We shipped Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 with WPF 4 as well as Silverlight 4 , new versions of Expression Studio and WCF RIA Services. We recently shipped Windows Phone 7 and XNA Game...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 in Action is doing Really well. Thanks!

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:22 PM PDT

You folks are awesome. This book was a metric boatload of work (but the good kind of work, as opposed to like raking my yard), so it's really gratifying to see it doing so well. There are something like 8 million books on Amazon. To be in the top 2000...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 in Action is doing Really well. Thanks!

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:22 PM PDT

You folks are awesome. This book was a metric boatload of work (but the good kind of work, as opposed to like raking my yard), so it's really gratifying to see it doing so well. There are something like 8 million books on Amazon. To be in the top 2000...( read more )...(read more)
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Improved binding support in EntitySet and EntityCollection

Improved binding support in EntitySet and EntityCollection

Improved binding support in EntitySet and EntityCollection

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:16 PM PDT

For our WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta release we were finally able to improve binding support for EntitySets and EntityCollections . In our V1 release, EntitySet and EntityCollection did not support adding and removing entities through the IEditableCollectionView Read More......(read more)

Kung Fu Silverlight at PDC 2010: Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:14 AM PDT

Today you can watch my PDC 2010 session titled "Kung Fu Silverlight: Tips and Architectural Patterns and Practices". Here is the summary of the session: Learn about the rewards of using RIA Services together with development patterns, such as the Service...( read more )...(read more)

Moving to a new location www.dineshk.net

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:21 AM PDT

After a long break, I plan to restart blogging - but in a more personal location so I can blog about a few more things than would make sense under msdn. http://www.DineshK.net Hope to see you there Dinesh Read More......(read more)

WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta Released

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:12 AM PDT

WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta along with WCF RIA Services October toolkit are now both available and ready to go live. You can download them from http://silverlight.net/riaservices . Check out these blogs for all the details. Deepesh's Blog Tomek's Blog Read More......(read more)

RIA Services T4: Walk-Up Experience

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:44 AM PDT

The RIA Services T4 Code Generation feature was checked in about 3 hours before we published our MSI for today's release . Talk about publishing an experimental feature! So tonight, I decided to take the app that I've been working on for my RIA Services Read More......(read more)

WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 08:26 PM PDT

BAM! This is an exciting day; today we are releasing WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta and WCF RIA Services Toolkit October 2010 . These download links are also available from http://silverlight.net/riaservices . Side-by-side installation with WCF RIA Services Read More......(read more)

RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta Released!!

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 06:18 PM PDT

Moments ago, we released RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta along with WCF RIA Services October toolkit. You can download it from http://silverlight.net/riaservices . Installation instructions:- Uninstall WCF RIA Services Toolkit (if installed) Uninstall WCF Read More......(read more)
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

WPF Ribbon Control

WPF Ribbon Control

WPF Ribbon Control

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:15 AM PDT

Microsoft shipped a WPF Ribbon over the summer and released an update last week. Learn about this control in the MSDN library.

Last Two Stops of the Silverlight Tour 2010!

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:48 AM PDT

The last two stops of the Silverlight Tour are headed to Atlanta and Portland (OR) in the next two months. The Silverlight Tour Workshop is a three-day course on Silverlight 4. It divides the content into three distinct areas: Design, Development and...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 26, 2010 -- #979

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:31 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Dennis Doomen , Mark Monster , Brian Genisio , Jeff Blankenburg , and Colin Melia . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "My Silverlight 4 Reference Architecture: ViewModels, Coroutines and Binding Conventions" Dennis Doomen...( read more )...(read more)
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 2

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 2

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 2

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:48 PM PDT

I'm currently studying for the Beta exam of Silverlight 4. So I thought, why not share what resources I'm using. To start with one should be familiar with Silverlight of course, but refreshing some of the topics that haven't be touched that often is always...( read more )...(read more)

UK Event: Aberdeen Developers’ .NET User Group, 11th November

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:01 AM PDT

Just a quick plug. I'll be speaking at the Aberdeen Developers' User Group on the 11th November. I'll be covering off new things that have happened in the Silverlight world and my colleague Mike will be talking about developing for the new Windows Phone...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 25, 2010 -- #978

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:14 PM PDT

In this Issue: Eric Willeke , Mark Monster ( -2- ), Kunal Chowdhury , Jesse Liberty ( -2- ), Mike Snow , Jeff Blankenburg , and Gabor Dolhai . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Tip of the Day #36 – Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity...( read more )...(read more)

Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:22 PM PDT

Building great applications,  that's the goal we all aim for. Apps that are fluid and beautiful, easy to use, robust, well architected, and above all delight our users. The release of the RTM versions of the Windows Phone Developer Tools on September...( read more )...(read more)

Video Introduction to the STL, Parts 6 and 7

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Part 6 and Part 7 of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library are now available; they cover algorithms and functors. Previous parts: Part 1 (sequence containers) Part 2 (associative containers) Part 3 (smart pointers) Part 4 ...(read more)
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Monday, October 25, 2010

ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts with Razor

ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts with Razor

ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts with Razor

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 03:05 PM PDT

Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Release .  It supports "go live" deployments, and includes a bunch of nice improvements/enhancements.  You can see a summary of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features in my beta announcement post .  Also read my original ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview post to learn about other ASP.NET MVC 3 features that showed up with that initial preview release. This is another in a series of "mini-posts" I'm doing that talk about a few of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta features in more detail: New @model keyword in Razor (Oct 22nd) Layouts (this post) In today's post I'm going to discuss layout pages with Razor, and discuss some of the improvements to them that we introduced with the recent ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta. Razor...(read more)

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 1

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 12:51 PM PDT

I'm currently studying for the Beta exam of Silverlight 4. So I thought, why not share what resources I'm using. To start with one should be familiar with Silverlight of course, but refreshing some of the topics that haven't be touched that often is always...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 at the Sprint Developer Conference

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:57 AM PDT

Tomorrow, October 26, 2010, I will be at the Sprint Developer Conference in Santa Clara, California, where I will be giving a talk about Windows Phone 7 and running a coding session on developing Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7.  We...( read more )...(read more)

Duplex sample updated to Silverlight 4

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:58 AM PDT

I was following this thread on the Silverlight forums and was asked to update the Duplex sample to Silverlight 4. Click here to download the code. More information about Duplex Services are available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645027...( read more )...(read more)

RIA Services Validation: Using ValidationContext (Cross-Entity Validation)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:56 AM PDT

In our last post , we learned how ValidationContext can be used to provide and consume state and services for validation methods to use. Now, let's take a quick look at how validation methods can actually use this information. I'm going to include a bunch Read More......(read more)

Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part - 2)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 12:55 AM PDT

This article is Part 2 of the series "Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch": Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 1) – Working with New Data Entry Screen Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part...( read more )...(read more)

RIA Services Validation: ValidationContext

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 12:49 AM PDT

Throughout this series on RIA Services Validation , I've mentioned and shown ValidationContext several times. In this post, we'll learn about the purpose of ValidationContext, what types of context it can provide, and how it integrates with RIA Services Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2010 -- #977

Posted: 24 Oct 2010 10:25 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Jeff Blankenburg , Richard Waddell , Eric Willeke , Gabor Dolhai , Ariel Ben Horesh ( -2- , -3- ), and Alex Golesh Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight AutoCompleteBox and MVVM" Eric Willeke WP7: "31 Days of Windows...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 047 for 10/25/2010

Posted: 24 Oct 2010 09:10 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #47. 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 )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 047 for 10/25/2010

Posted: 24 Oct 2010 09:10 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #47. 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 )...(read more)

Another Free App brought to you by the WP7 team (Flashlight)

Posted: 24 Oct 2010 03:58 PM PDT

This is another of those posts taken from the wanderings of a mind put in neutral too long... maybe I need to get back to work :) Since my previous phone was a razor, I've not had the opportunity or need to browse 'app stores' to view all the fun things...( read more )...(read more)

The Future of Silverlight

Posted: 24 Oct 2010 02:41 PM PDT

There are a lot of questions being asked about where Silveright is going, and what is it for. Microsoft has been giving pretty straight answers on the future of Silverlight but there has been a lack of quality reporting on those answers. For example, Read More......(read more)
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