Thursday, October 29, 2009

OWL and Billboard Launch Landmark Concert Series using Microsoft Silverlight

OWL and Billboard Launch Landmark Concert Series using Microsoft Silverlight

OWL and Billboard Launch Landmark Concert Series using Microsoft Silverlight

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 11:04 AM PDT

Our World Live (OWL), a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering with Billboard.com to bring music fans a new internet concert series . Billboardlive.com utilizes OWL's state-of-the-art technology, powered by Microsoft Silverlight to provide...( read more )...(read more)

eBook 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:45 AM PDT

I found this cool eBook and wanted to share it with you all since jQuery is. more and more, become a common part of the ASP.NET Development experience. The book includes… · 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls eBook (PDF) · Entire Source Code of the eBook · Cross Browser Scripts - tested on IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3, Chrome 2, Safari 4 · Common code that runs on ASP.NET Pages, Master Pages, and in most cases, HTML pages too. You can read the table of contents [ HERE ] YOU can buy the ebook [ HERE ] Read More......(read more)

WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:49 AM PDT

For all of you who have been asking me if there is a 64bit version of Debug Diag (used to debug 64 bit processes), I am happy to say that yes, Debug Diag 1.1 64bit is now released. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=28bd5941-c458-46f1-b24d-f60151d875a3&displaylang=en#filelist And an updated whitepaper talking about how to use it is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4A2FBD0D-0635-440C-A08B-ED81BDBB5960&displaylang=en Neither this version (nor the 32bit one) officially support debugging/analyzing on Vista/2008/Win7 because of some known compatibility issues (being looked at for future versions), however for a lot of tasks it works quite well on those...(read more)

Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 12:12 AM PDT

[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  Today's post covers a small, but nice, change coming with VS 2010 – an "Add Reference" dialog that loads fast. Add Reference Dialog in VS 2008 The slow performance of the "Add Reference" dialog in previous releases of Visual Studio has been a common complaint that many a developer (including yours truly) has ranted about. Previous releases of VS opened the "Add Reference" dialog on the ".NET" tab by default – and when that tab was loaded VS would synchronously scan the global assembly cache...(read more)

Lightweight Linq Parser

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:28 PM PDT

Jason Allor , dev manager for my team, recently posted about a cool lightweight LINQ parser .  The idea was to make it much easier to create a LINQ provider over any arbitrary data source (a web service, custom business objects, etc).  This makes it much easier to get all the sorting, paging, filtering benefits of RIA Services for any arbitrary data store.     Check it out, and be sure to subscribe to Jason's blog as I expect he will have more goodies coming in the future! LinqLite Read More......(read more)

Behind the Scenes at Microsoft

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:43 PM PDT

I'm a little over a week into my new role as the Silverlight Evangelist at Microsoft and so far it has been a blast! I've had a lot of joking questions about how much the implants hurt when they put them in, so I thought I might share with you all a quick...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 28, 2009 -- #719

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:14 PM PDT

In this Issue: Visual Web Developer Team Blog , Laurent Duveau , Gavin Wignall , Victor Gaudioso , and Karl Shifflett . Shoutouts: Karl Shifflett has a post up on New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects My DE Rob Bagby reported...( read more )...(read more)

Updated Code: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:36 PM PDT

I have updated the project templates Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates.  The Silverlight template needed an update to the .proj file. Please download the templates from the above post. Sorry for the problem. Close Have a great...( read more )...(read more)

Eclipse Tools For Silverlight Now Available

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:11 PM PDT

The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL) plug-in is an open source, cross-platform plug-in for the Eclipse development environment that enables Eclipse developers to build Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Microsoft has collaborated...( read more )...(read more)

My new home page, revised [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:15 AM PDT

In the time since sharing my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links , there have been some great new articles I'd like to highlight. And in case you haven't heard, we published the October 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit last week, so...( read more )...(read more)
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