Wednesday, October 14, 2009

PDC 2009 – I can’t wait!

PDC 2009 – I can’t wait!

PDC 2009 – I can’t wait!

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 10:01 AM PDT

Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC.   Just this week I have talked to folks on Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, ASP.NET, .NET RIA Services, MEF that all have very cool new stuff to talk about at the PDC.    We just recently announced the Scott Guthrie will be giving one of the keynotes, so you can be sure that will be fun.. You can bet Scott will be talking about the latest from ASP.NET, Silverlight, the .NET Framework and Visual Studio!    I will also be there to talk about building business application in Silverlight… no rotating images or dancing videos in this talk, it will be all about saving you and your end user's time by taking advantage of the latest...(read more)

Top 5 Silverlight Behaviors

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 01:35 PM PDT

Finding behaviors for Silverlight has become much easier with the Expression Community Gallery.  The goal is to have a central place for all things Expression.  It's still young, but gaining steam.  Being a big fan of behaviors, I have compiled a list of my top 5 favorite Silverlight behaviors.    5. TextboxEditMask link: http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/CMEditMaskBehavior For data input, there [...]...(read more)

Free Webinar: Delivering True HD via HTTP with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 11:07 AM PDT

Listen to media experts Jaime Miles of Level 3 Communications and Chris Knowlton of Microsoft talk about delivering True HD Video (1080p) over the Web on Thursday, October 15 th . Click here to register and learn why Smooth Streaming is the future of...( read more )...(read more)

IIS Media Services 3.0 Released!

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 10:26 AM PDT

IIS Media Services 3.0 has been released and is now available as a free download for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2!  Chris Knowlton has a comprehensive post on the release and all the details, here is a quick summary:   IIS Media Services, an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform, delivers true HD (720p+) streaming and provides real-time logging to measure media investments. By offering a complete media delivery platform together with a traditional Web server, rich dynamic Web sites can now be managed and administered from a single Web platform.  IIS Media Services offers the highest quality streaming media experience available on the Web.    Server Features: With this release, the key elements of the IIS...(read more)

Sharing a tiny career milestone.

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 07:45 AM PDT

Working at Microsoft has been GREAT. I've been here for 8 years. But it's hard too. For a decade before I joined Microsoft, I ran the show. Here, I'm just a peon, and not being on campus often means not being "inside" which creates several barriers to success.  There is the politics, the constant org changes, the haters spanning your blog, the travel. (Not to mention the cut in pay :) Today I had a bit of a cool thing happen. Last night I installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – which I'm VERY excited about. Today I fired it up to start working on some new videos and the top item in the "Latest News" page was an item about my latest video.  Trivial, i know, but my spirits valued thy boost !! Read More......(read more)

2 New Videos Published on www.ASP.net

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 07:31 AM PDT

The first shows how ASP.NET helps you understand and easily defend against Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in your Web Applications. This one has a REAL WORLD example of DOM Injection based hijacking attacks. Note that Script Injection is the OWASP #1 vulnerability. The second video, is a light introduction to programming with LINQ and compares simple data access between ADO.NET and LINQ from a developer experience perspective.   Next I'll be playing with SQL Injection – the OWASP #2 vulnerability.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft ASP.NET Video Security XSS LINQ Data Read More......(read more)

Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 02:29 PM PDT

We've been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader's Choice Awards. There are 22 categories in all and run the gamut from content to technologies. You can enter your votes here . We've been nominated in the following categories...( read more )...(read more)

How to: Compress Files

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Provides an updated code example for compressing and decompressing data.
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