Wednesday, January 13, 2010

SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10

SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10

SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:06 PM PST

The SilverlightShow EcoContest is a cool opportunity for Silverlight designers and developers to show off their creativity and data visualization skills. Here's an excerpt from the site: We are inviting you to create a web application using Microsoft...( read more )...(read more)

What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:39 PM PST

A couple of days ago we posted our 2009 Top 10 for Silverlight. One of the ways we came up with that list was by looking at traffic to this blog and which announcements received the most attention. During the process, we also discovered that many of you...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?”

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:39 AM PST

I was looking for an example of how Silverlight content is drawn with vectors that I could use in a slide-deck and it occurred to me to look at Bing Maps . I think the Bing Maps beta is pretty stunning and I was searching my blog for where I'd made reference...( read more )...(read more)

Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:56 AM PST

Dear readers, if you haven't checked out the SEO Toolkit yet, you owe it to yourself to go there now, download it and start using it. Point it to your sites and it will explore them and give you a full report of all the little problems that are getting in the way of search engines. I'm 99.99% sure you'll discover problems in your site. Lots of them. You'll be surprised. But it doesn't stop there. In may cases, it will show you how to fix the problems you find. It's pure, distilled awesomeness. It is a priceless debugging tool that works at the site level. And the best thing is, it works on any web site, you don't have to be running Windows Server, IIS or ASP.NET. LAMP users everywhere rejoice! http://www.microsoft.com/web/spotlight/seo/ Read...(read more)

The Illusion of Performance

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:52 AM PST

There is a modern UX concept, which I hope you are all using, called perceived performance. While I call this a UX concept, it's not something you will see on wireframes, redlines or a SketchFlow demo.  This is something that typically has to be...( read more )...(read more)

Take your MVC User Controls to the next level

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:46 AM PST

Note: this is based on ASP.NET MVC 2 RC , and will not work on earlier builds.   The quick pitch: make your User Controls as cool as built-in render helpers! The goal of this post is to show you how to change the way MVC user controls are called from something like this: <%= Html.Partial("~/Views/Shared/gravatar.ascx", new { Email = "foo@bar.com", Size = 80 }) %> To something that looks just like a built-in render helper (like Html.TextBox(…)): <%= Html.Gravatar("foo@bar.com", 80) %>   The current model for User Controls in MVC If you have used ASP.NET MVC, you probably know that you can use User Controls (.ascx files) to provide partial rendering. For example, the default MVC app has a Site...(read more)

Join My Team And Help Us Produce Higher Quality Products

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:59 AM PST

The ASP.NET Team is still looking for that QA person out there who shares our passion for technology and improving the means by which software is made. Keep in mind that the QA position on our team is not someone who mindlessly follows a script hoping by sheer random luck to find bugs. Oh no no no my friends. This is considered a software development position in which you will be responsible for improving the processes and tools we have in place for ensuring quality software. You'd be involved in improving the quality of all phases of product development as a valued member of a feature crew. Think broadly about the idea of software quality. Your role is to question whether we're building the right product as much as it is to test the product...(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 47 - ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data: FilterRepeaters and Dynamic Linq Query Generation

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:38 PM PST

First, let me start this post by thanking Tatham Oddie . He helped my buddy John Batdorf and I debug our issue remotely from Australia. He's patient, kind, opinionated and Tatham's got a darn fine blog that you should subscribe to now . I also found great inspiration from Stephen Naughton's excellent blog . He's continually pushing ASP.NET and Dynamic Data to do fun things and I was able to use 95% of his auto-complete code as I found it. And finally Marcin Dobosz's blog is where I started, taking his Dynamic Data sample Filter Repeaters and ending up at the Dynamic Data Futures samples . Technical Disclaimer: This is me just messing about with the .NET 3.5 SP1 Dynamic Data samples as this non-profit wanted .NET 3.5. The...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2010 -- #776

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:06 PM PST

In this all-submittal Issue: Richard Waddell , John McFetridge , and Andrej Tozon . Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty details his configuration for his Silverlight Hypervideo Platform: Severely Decoupled Configuration With a post I am sharing with my "Programming...( read more )...(read more)

Free Blend Training With Silverlight Design Days

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:30 PM PST

Adam Kinney, a technical evangelist here at Microsoft, will be hitting the road in a few days to commence the Silverlight Design Days tour. Dates are scheduled in Mountain View, Irvine, Chicago, Austin, New York, and London, with more international dates...( read more )...(read more)
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