Friday, October 23, 2009

Ribbit SPAWN Event – Nov 5, 2009 in San Francisco

Ribbit SPAWN Event – Nov 5, 2009 in San Francisco

Ribbit SPAWN Event – Nov 5, 2009 in San Francisco

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 09:23 AM PDT

Ribbit , a Microsoft Partner and division of British Telecom has been working with my team on some exciting technology integrations and is ready to show them off: Please join us in San Francisco November 5, 2009 for an invitation only deep dive into Ribbit...( read more )...(read more)

UFC 104: Bringing Pay-Per-View to Online Users with Silverlight, Smooth Streaming, and PlayReady

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 08:29 AM PDT

Back in August we told you about how UFC.com used IIS Smooth Streaming for the UFC 102 pre-fight weigh-ins. Building on the success of that, we're excited to announce that this Saturday, October 24 th , UFC 104 will use Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming...( read more )...(read more)

Balder switching to GITHub for SourceControl

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 03:36 AM PDT

The last week or so, we've been hard at work on Balder to reorganize the source repository and move it to GITHub. The reason we want to do this are many, but one of the most important reasons is to enable anyone to be able to contribute to the project...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Toolkit Drag Drop (Part 2): Customizing Drag and Drop Behavior

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 01:11 AM PDT

In part 1 you were introduced to the new Silverlight DragDropTarget controls.  In addition to being powerful these controls are very flexible, allowing developers to customize almost every single aspect of their behavior.  In order to understand...( read more )...(read more)

VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 11:47 PM PDT

This is the tenth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  In today's blog post I'm going to cover a small but really nice improvement to code intellisense with VS 2010 – which is its ability to better filter type and member code completion.  This enables you to more easily find and use APIs when writing code. Code Intellisense with VS 2008 To help illustrate this intellisense improvements coming with VS 2010, let's start by doing a simple scenario in VS 2008 where we want to write some code to enable an editing scenario with a GridView control. We might start off by typing "GridView1.Edit" to bring up intellisense to see what Edit members are available on the control.  Doing this with VS...(read more)

Round-tripping Silverlight 3 projects with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:39 PM PDT

Here's a simple tool that I use to round-trip Silverlight solutions and projects between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta. Use it at your own risk, but enjoy!...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2009 - 2 -- #715

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:08 PM PDT

In this Issue: Stefan Olson , Ning Zhang , Gavin Wignall , Jeremy Likness , Jeremiah Morrill , David Kelley , Sergey Barskiy , Jeff Wilcox , and Rob Bagby ( 2 ). Shoutout: Get the info direct from Tim Heuer : Silverlight Live Streaming service update...( read more )...(read more)

Expectations Are Everything

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 07:53 PM PDT

Quick Bit Anyone who has ever debugged a program knows that you tend to see what you expect. I've learned that lesson a dozen times, in a dozen ways.  A classic example is to ask someone to read the following illustration aloud (don't over-think...( read more )...(read more)

My first channel 9 video!

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:16 PM PDT

Wow, I haven't blogged in a while...but that will end soon. Watch me talk about the QueryExtender control. It's a new control we added in ASP.NET 4.0 to make Linq queries even simpler. The new control works with LinqDataSource and EntityDataSource. We also built all of the new DynamicData filters on top of this new control. Check it out here Read More......(read more)

New with the Silverlight Toolkit: Drag and Drop Support for all your Favorite Controls! (Part 1)

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 06:18 PM PDT

One of the highest voted requests on the Silverlight Toolkit CodePlex page is drag and drop support for the TreeView control.  The good news is the Toolkit team listened and has not only delivered Drag and Drop for the TreeView, but they've added...( read more )...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these issues. There has been some good improvements to Add Reference dialog, first switch to design view etc. Please try using Beta2 and let us know if you find any of the Web Scenarios to be particularly slow. We would like to hear your issues and concerns around performance for Web Scenarios. You can help make the product better by providing us with early feedback. If you encounter a performance issue please...(read more)

Using Visual Studio 2010 for Silverlight development

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 02:28 PM PDT

Previously I made note of things about the release of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 with regard to Silverlight development. I've gotten a few questions about if people should start using it for Silverlight development. Perhaps I can help provide you with...( read more )...(read more)
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