Thursday, October 1, 2009

Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs

Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs

Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:37 AM PDT

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...( read more )...(read more)

AR

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:10 AM PDT

At this moment the project contains of two libraries: one is for creating transaction supported objects and the second is for sql server schema updating.

FileUpload in UpdatePanel, ASP.NET, like Gmail

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:31 AM PDT

Earlier, I had written this post on how you can accomplish using FileUpload control in UpdatePanel since by default it wasn't supported. The post seems to have helped many and keeps being the most visited one. However, with the new release of Ajax Control Toolkit (v 3.0.30930) released specifically for .NET 3.5 SP1 (with Visual Studio 2008 SP1), there are couple of new controls. One of them is the AsyncFileUpload control. Thanks to the codeplex community which keeps getting better and better with time, the Ajax Control Toolkit has grown into one of our largest community contributed controls for ASP.NET with about 43 controls that help in accomplishing rich user experiences in ASP.NET Websites. The AsyncFileUpload is one simple way of accomplishing...(read more)

New AJAX Control Toolkit Release

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 08:44 AM PDT

We just released a new version of the AJAX Control Toolkit today. This new version includes significant bug fixes and two new controls. You can download the latest version – the September 30 th release – from the CodePlex website right here: http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=33804 Read the following tutorial to learn how to install the AJAX Control Toolkit: http://www.asp.net/learn/Ajax-Control-Toolkit/tutorial-47-cs.aspx In this blog entry, I provide a brief walkthrough of the two new controls included with this release and list the new bug fixes. Seadragon Control The Seadragon control enables you to pan, zoom, and make an image full screen. The control performs all of these fancy image effects using...(read more)

RELEASED – ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:17 AM PDT

ASP.NET MVC 2 is coming along nicely and there is a new preview for your learning pleasure. It will work side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC 1, and will be included in the .NET 4 Beta 2 release. Some new stuff ….... ModelMetadata and ModelMetadataProvider Classes The ViewDataDictionary class exposes a ModelMetada object that contains the metadata that is extracted from the model by the ModelMetadataProvider class. This allows the templated helpers to consume this metadata and adjust their output accordingly. You can use the default provider or create custom ones. Model Validator Providers The model validation providers class provides an abstraction for obtaining validation logic for the model. You can use the default provider or create custom ones...(read more)

NEW VERSION – Ajax Control Toolkit

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:07 AM PDT

Download [ HERE ] and see Demos [ HERE ] In addition to Bug fixes (courtesy of Obout ) for some of the top-voted issues , we have two new controls ! First, new controls! Seadragon , the JavaScript-only way to do Deep Zoom . Asynchronous AJAX File Upload Control (upload files without a full postback with no plug-in) The Upload control is especially cool as it has client and server-side events that get triggered when the file has been uploaded. On the server-side, you have access to the uploaded file's byte stream, which you can save to disk (or database, or whatever). Great to see our Ajax stack continue to evolve. Technorati Tags: Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Controls Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:00 AM PDT

Today we just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work we did in Preview 1 released two months ago . Download Page Release Notes Roadmap Some of the cool new features we've added to Preview 2 include: Client-Side Validation – ASP.NET MVC 2 includes the jQuery validation library to provide client-side validation based on the model's validation metadata. It is possible to hook in alternative client-side validation libraries by writing an adapter which adapts the client library to the JSON metadata in a manner similar to the xVal validation framework . Areas – Preview 2 includes in-the-box support for single project areas for developers who wish to organize their application...(read more)

Ajax Control Toolkit: new controls, bug fixes

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:28 PM PDT

And we have a new release of Ajax Control Toolkit. I didn't work on this one but there are some nice things in there nonetheless :) First, new controls! SeaDragon : I've blogged before about Seadragon , the JavaScript-only way to do Deep Zoom . It became a lot easier to use a few month ago when the need for tools disappeared and you can just point to any image on the web and immediately get the URL and script tag to put on your page: Now with this release of Ajax Control Toolkit, including and controlling Deep Zoom from an ASP.NET page is also very easy : < ajaxToolkit : Seadragon ID ="Seadragon" CssClass ="seadragon" runat ="server" SourceUrl ="sample.xml"/> James Senior just released a screencast...(read more)

Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT

The design view in Visual Studio can display glyphs and borders for the hidden non - graphic elements (such as div, span, form, and script elements). This feature helps you to see where the elements are and avoid inadvertently deleting the non-graphic...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Property Grid Filtering

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:39 PM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 improves .NET framework multi-targeting by applying framework-appropriate filtering to the property grid and Intellisense. For example, if you select a button on a web form of a .NET 2.0 web project, in the Property Grid you will see: If you go to the Project Properties and change the Target Framework version to 4.0: ...the Property Grid display will change to display 4.0-specific properties: While this looks simple and straight-forward, there's actually an illusion at work! Only one framework can be loaded into an AppDomain at a time, and Visual Studio uses .NET 4.0 specific capabilities. So the actual controls displayed on the design surface are always 4.0 controls. Their properties are filtered for display in the Property...(read more)

Helsinki ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:37 AM PDT

I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki .  I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview today and it was a lot of fun.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day ) Silverlight 3 Control Toolkit Samples Silverlight SEO Silverlight 3 Navigation Application Themes Slidentity The next session I did was on .NET RIA Services..  You can find the demo i did http://bit.ly/4tmJA3 and the full series . Read More......(read more)

Successive Method Calls With MoQ

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:30 PM PDT

One area where using MoQ is confusing is when mocking successive calls to the same method of an object. For example, I was writing some tests for legacy code where I needed to fake out multiple calls to a data reader. You remember data readers, don't you? Here's a snippet of the code I was testing. Ignore the map method and focus on the call to reader.Read . while (reader.Read()) { yield return map(reader); } Notice that there are multiple calls to reader.Read . The first couple times, I wanted Read to return true . The last time, it should return false . And here's the code I hoped to write to fake this using MoQ: reader.Setup(r => r.Read()).Returns( true ); reader.Setup(r => r.Read()).Returns( true ); reader.Setup(r => r.Read()).Returns...(read more)

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

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:07 PM PDT

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 Forum I had a chance to talk in more depth about the general application pattern we are thinking about for RIA applications.  I shameless stole some slides from Nikhil Kothari for this one.     Check out out the slides ( direct link to slides ) Check out the completed demo .    Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit July 2009 Release Update

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:38 PM PDT

I have been very busy and haven't post for a while, so this is a quick late post on Toolkit July 2009 Release. This release is the last Toolkit release for Silverlight 2: when a new version of Silverlight RTMs, we drop support for the previous version...( read more )...(read more)

Starter Kits available for SketchFlow and Behaviors

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:05 PM PDT

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 )...(read more)

Having a PollingDuplex service and any other WCF service in the same website causes Silverlight calls to be slow

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 01:50 PM PDT

After polling duplex support for WCF was released in Silverlight 2 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd470105(VS.95).aspx ), some customers reported the issue that when a polling duplex service co-exists with normal WCF service on the same IIS...( read more )...(read more)

Helsinki ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:37 AM PDT

I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki .  I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview today and it was a lot of fun.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site ...( read more )...(read more)
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