Saturday, October 24, 2009

Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2009 -- #716

Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2009 -- #716

Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2009 -- #716

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 02:03 PM PDT

In this Issue: Rishi , Andrea Boschin , Tiago Andrade e Silva , Jeff Wilcox , Vijay Rajagopalan , Gavin Wignall , Damon Payne , Tim Heuer , Hannes Preishuber , Jafar Husain Shoutouts: Watch a webcast by Tim Heuer in the Architect Innovation Cafe – Webcast...( read more )...(read more)

Watch Live: Microsoft's "The New Efficiency" Launch Event in San Diego this Monday

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 03:00 AM PDT

View and download 18 IT professional and developer-focused live sessions from San Diego starting at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time on October 26th. Focusing on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Exchange Server 2010, you can listen to Microsoft experts, download valuable resources, and explore the live launch event virtually.

Using C# dynamic to call static members

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 06:22 PM PDT

By now, you've probably heard that C# 4.0 is adding support for the dynamic keyword, which introduces some aspects of dynamic languages to C#.  I had not had a chance to really try it, but recently I was reading Bertrand Le Roy's post on the topic, and was sort of looking for a good opportunity to use it. Today, I found a scenario which I thought it would work great for, but it turned out not to be supported out of the box! The scenario is to call static class members using dynamic.  That probably sounds crazy, so let's look at an example.  Say you have these two classes: public class Foo1 { public static string TransformString(string s) { return s.ToLower(); } public static string MyConstant { get { return "Constant from...(read more)

New Tutorial: Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Expression Blend

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 06:51 PM PDT

While preparing my demos for the European ReMix Tour (photos), I realized that I was missing an important tutorial in the Through the Eyes of Expression Blend series. One of the great features added in Blend 3 was the ability to Import Adobe Photoshop...( read more )...(read more)

ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective, all of the new functionality released in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Orcas is available in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 including support for Single Project Areas . Additionally, if you look in the Scripts folder of a new ASP.Net MVC application, you will notice that jquery.validate is included as well as a vsdoc file to go with it. I'll post more on how to use jquery.validate in the coming weeks but...(read more)

Dev10 Beta2, Import from web.config file and other changes for DB deployment UI

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 02:09 PM PDT

Dev10 Beta2 DB Deployment property page has some changes from Beta1.  Please provide your valuable feedback for us to make it better for you.  Thanks. 1. Tab page name changed from "Deploy/SQL" To "Deploy SQL" 2. Customer can use "Import from Web.config" button to import all the connection strings defined in root web.config to the database entries list.  For example, if web.config contains the following connection strings: < connectionStrings > < add name = " ApplicationServices " connectionString = " data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true " providerName = " System.Data.SqlClient " /> < add name = " AdventureWorksConnection...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Intellisense Issue in Javascript/HTML.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 01:39 PM PDT

If by any chance you are not seeing intellisense in your JavaScript or HTML after installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 you might be running into a known bug that we can show you how to fix. The bug is related to user settings which we don't remove when Beta 1 is uninstalled. One particular setting under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\HTML Editor\ TargetFriendlyName . For Beta 2, this setting does not match the schema's we know about. As a result, JScript intellisense will fail to load and most items will be missing in markup as well. The minimum fix is to manually repair the TargetFriendlyName setting in the registry (change it to be just "XHTML 1.0 Transitional") but due to the fact that more settings could be affected the recommended...(read more)

10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 04:05 PM PDT

If your schedule is in anyway similar to mine you'll probably be very familiar with this scenario. A new version of a tool that you use day in and day out is announced, packed with exciting new features and enhancements that you know will immediately...( read more )...(read more)
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