Thursday, September 17, 2009

RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX

RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX


RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:05 AM PDT

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 )...(read more)

Busy November, presenting at TechED Europe and Oredev

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 05:13 AM PDT

TechED Europe – Berlin -  9-13th of November This will be the 2nd time I present at TechED. Last time I had an absolute blast and heard some really  good speakers. I am still working with the TechED team on exactly what type of sessions I will get, and exactly what I'll be talking about but I'm sure it won't surprise anybody reading this blog that there will be a lot of debugging involved:)  There will be lot's of windbg and maybe some Visual Studio 2010 stuff, and of course since I'll be presenting in the web track there will be plenty of asp.net stuff.  Having said that, most things I say apply to any .net application. On the speakers list, the people I am looking forward to seeing the most are Mark Russinovich of course...(read more)

RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:05 AM PDT

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 )...(read more)

SSRS report deployment tool (SSRSBuddy)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 07:32 AM PDT

SSRSBuddy enables deployment of multiple reports and report models onto a SSRS2005 instance, using shared datasources

Tell the Debugger to Ignore Silverlight Validation Exceptions

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 06:29 AM PDT

I recently wrote an article that demonstrates how to use the DataForm and validate data entry in Silverlight using the DataAnnotations. One of the pet peeves I have with the validation is that it throws in exception in the setter of your public property...( read more )...(read more)

Fun with C# 4.0’s dynamic

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 12:50 AM PDT

There's been some debate recently on the new "dynamic" keyword in C# 4.0 . As has been the case with many features before it, some love it, some hate it, some say it bloats the language, yadda yadda yadda. People said that about lambdas. Me, I'll just use it where I see a use case, thank you very much. In the case of dynamic, another frequent comment is that a statically-typed language should not try to look like a dynamic language. Well, I just don't believe in that distinction. Being dynamic is a trait that a language can have, and some have it more than others. But as soon as a language has a dictionary type or indexers, and most modern languages do, it starts having dynamicity. What people call a dynamic language is just one where it's the...(read more)

Scale-out of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex WCF service in a web farm scenario

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 06:08 PM PDT

The recent post about performance of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex protocol pointed out scalability challenges associated with deploying a WCF service using the protocol in a web farm scenario. This follow up article introduces one possible solution...( read more )...(read more)

Free e-learning on XAML

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 05:44 PM PDT

Microsoft Learning has just released an online course "Introduction to XAML" which is free . To access the course follow this link: Clinic 6375AE: Introduction to XAML   Overview: This two-hour clinic provides you with an introduction to...( read more )...(read more)

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