Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2009 -- #756

Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2009 -- #756

Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2009 -- #756

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 11:09 AM PST

In this Issue: Corrado Cavalli , Davide Zordan , Braulio Diez , David Anson , Jeff Prosise , Jesse Liberty , Koen Zwikstra , Giorgetti Alessandro , John Bruin , Colin Blair , Radenko Zec , and Gill Cleeren ( 2 ). Shoutouts: Have you seen this for Visual...( read more )...(read more)

Architecting Silverlight 4 with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM - Part 1

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:46 AM PST

URL : http://wildermuth.com/downloads/riaxboxgames.zip Recently I blogged about Brad Abrams' PDC RIA Services Talk and complained about the data source functionality. While the drag-n-drop ability in RIA Services is interesting, I believe that it may...( read more )...(read more)

Contributing to the SL HVP

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 08:32 AM PST

I have received quite a bit of mail about contributing to the Silverlight HyperVideo project . This is great, and of course, since the code is open source, you are free to take what there is at any given moment and use it in any way that is consistent...( read more )...(read more)

Best SF Books of All Time

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 08:23 AM PST

Someone just asked me my favorite SF books, and while creating such a list is almost absurd, nonetheless, it being the end of the year, here's my top 10:...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 elevated permissions

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 02:19 PM PST

Among the new features introduced with Silverlight 3.0, Out-of-Browser is certainly one that has aroused more interest among developers as it opens very interesting usage scenarios that go beyond the traditional Web application, with version 4.0 this...( read more )...(read more)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 12:24 AM PST

[ In addition to blogging, I'm also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Over the last few weeks I've been polling developers to see how many are using the new Search Engine Optimization (SEO) toolkit to increase traffic to their web-sites.  I've been surprised by how many people either have never heard of the tool, or have not yet had a chance to run it against their websites.  This blog post provides a quick summary about why anyone doing web-development should check it out. Why use the free SEO Toolkit? In a nutshell – the free SEO Toolkit Analyzer helps you increase traffic and visitors to your site, and as a result can increase the revenue you directly or indirectly make through...(read more)

How the IIS SEO Toolkit Saved My Butt

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 10:16 PM PST

Ok, it wasn't necessarily my ass that was saved, but it was years worth of images which were important to me! As I wrote yesterday , my blog's hosting server had a hard-drive failure effectively wiping out my virtual machine, taking my blog down with it. Fortunately, I was able to get back up with a static archive of my site provided by Rich Skrenta, but I was missing all my images and other content (code samples). As Jeff mentions, I have learned the hard way that there are almost no organizations spidering and storing images on the web. Keep in mind that the images are not just mere eye candy. In many cases, they serve to illustrate key concepts: " As you can see in the screenshot above, if the screenshot were still to exist, but through the...(read more)

Discover Claims-Based Identity

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:46 PM PST

Identity has never been so easy. Whether you develop ASP.NET Web sites or WCF Web services, this self-paced training course will show you how you can take advantage of Windows Identity Foundation, the newest addition to the .NET Framework family, to handle identity and access for your .NET applications in simple and interoperable fashion. The hands-on labs assume no prior knowledge of the subject, covering the most common task first, while more advanced scenarios allow the developers who chose so to explore the topic in more depth.

Are you passionate about the Web?

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:46 PM PST

Join us for MIX10, a 3 day event full of inspiration, content, and networking. MIX10 is a 72-hour conversation to learn about Microsoft's Web platform and tools such as Windows Mobile, Silverlight, Expression, and ASP.NET. Register by January 15th and save US$600 on your pass and US$196 towards a free night at Mandalay Bay.

MVVM Study Part 5: Convention over Configuration

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 02:33 PM PST

In the last par t I showed a very basic view model. I needed something in order to give those new to the concept of MVVM a concrete example. However, there are several aspects of that example that left me feeling uncomfortable; not to mention the myriad...( read more )...(read more)
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