Friday, January 15, 2010

UX designer needed (full-time at Moody’s Wall Street Analytics)

UX designer needed (full-time at Moody’s Wall Street Analytics)

UX designer needed (full-time at Moody’s Wall Street Analytics)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:09 PM PST

Moody's Wall Street Analytics has asked us to help them find UX Designer for a full-time, salaried position. If San Francisco looks appealing to you, and even more importantly if you are great UX designer, looking for challenges in the financial sector...( read more )...(read more)

IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:34 AM PST

Today the IIS team released a Beta 2 of the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, allowing for rich Silverlight experiences that take advantage of IIS Smooth Streaming capabilities. With this release, the IIS team has added support for Fast Forward...( read more )...(read more)

Podcast: Using the Web Protection Library (WPL) - CTP Version

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:56 AM PST

Anil Revuru (RV), from Microsoft Information Security, provides guidance on the expansion of what used to be the Anti-XSS Library. This enhanced version of the library will introduce mitigation to other attacks, including SQL injection, cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and setting enforcement like SSL & HTTP_ONLY cookies.

Microsoft Expression: Bring Your Designs to Life

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:56 AM PST

Stream or download on-demand webcasts and videos and learn about the new features and enhancements in Microsoft Expression 3. Learn how to add a Microsoft Silverlight video to your pages, customize the player, and encode the video using Microsoft Expression Encoder. Dive into this content today and hear about DeepZoom, Dynamic Web Templates, and SuperPreview. Discover how these professional design tools can give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality - whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content.

Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2010 -- #779

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 09:22 AM PST

In this Issue: Andrej Tozon , Victor Gaudioso , David Kelley , Lee , Adam Kinney , and Karl Shifflett . Adam Kinney announced The second edition of the Flash to Silverlight Guide has been posted! Don't forget today is the last day to get MIX10 for $795...( read more )...(read more)

Use Your Silverlight Skills to Win a Pass to MIX

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:32 AM PST

The Silverlight Show web site is hosting a contest that can help you get a pass to MIX and/or get some travel expenses paid! Several Silverlight community leaders and our own Expression Evangelist, Adam Kinney, are judging the entries. Get your entries...( read more )...(read more)

Help Me Win the Mix 10K Smart Coding Challenge

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 06:37 AM PST

Vote for 'Old School Meets New School' for Mix 10k! I have an submitted an entry to the Mix 10k Smart Coding Challenge called Old School Meets New School . This is a shrunken down port of the fire algorithm I posted a few months back - you can find that...( read more )...(read more)

MSDN Radio (Swedish) - Tess Corner

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:04 AM PST

MSDN Radio is a Swedish MSDN podcast that is Dag König puts together every other week.  The show contains a number of different segments and is usually pretty fun to listen to. Starting this week, and hopefully every other week or so during the spring, I will have a 5-15 min segment on the show called Tess Corner where I'll be talking about current ASP.NET and other .net issues or something special I'm working on.  In the first episode posted here http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/buzzfrog/MSDN-Radio-11-Jan--Tess-Corner/ I talk about debugging .NET apps with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio.NET 2010. Check out the other MSDN episodes on http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/MSDN+Radio/ (also in Swedish) and if you listen to the show and want to...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:14 AM PST

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This is the second in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the upcoming ASP.NET MVC 2 release.  This blog post covers some of the validation improvements coming with ASP.NET MVC 2. ASP.NET MVC 2 Validation Validating user-input and enforcing business rules/logic is a core requirement of most web applications.  ASP.NET MVC 2 includes a bunch of new features that make validating user input and enforcing validation logic on models/viewmodels significantly easier.  These features are designed so that the validation logic is always enforced on the server, and can optionally also be enforced on the client via...(read more)

Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:14 AM PST

The second edition of the Flash to Silverlight Guide has been posted! This edition includes new sections on Graphics and Images and Displaying Objects, as well as a bit of a facelift to the site. Some of the previous feedback included: "I wish I would...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2010 -- #778

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:02 PM PST

In this Issue: Andrew Marshall , Jim Wightman , Matthias Shapiro , Alan Mendelevich , David Anson , Mike Taulty , Fredrik Normén ( 2 ), Jeremiah Morrill , and Benjamin Roux . Shoutouts: John Stockton has an interesting post up on The Illusion of Performance...( read more )...(read more)

2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use?

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:48 PM PST

In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter . I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. I put the poll out again last week, adding only Silverlight to the end as an option. I realize I could have added many other subsystems and choices, but I felt it would have made this new poll too different from the original. There's certainly many ways that it could be improved as a survey, but it's best to think of it more as a "which direction is the wind blowing" question, than a survey per se. I also didn't...(read more)

Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 09:06 AM PST

My favorite conference of the year is approaching fast! MIX10 is shaping up to be a fantastic conference yet again. If you have attended MIX in prior years you know how the people and conversations found at MIX are top notch, rewarding and just a lot...( read more )...(read more)

Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 08:57 AM PST

Coming from other platforms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash you will be used to defining colors with hexadecimal values.  Silverlight does support the use of hexadecimal values in XAML, in fact it supports 4 different formats (rgb, argb, rrggbb...( read more )...(read more)

Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:21 AM PST

I often get questions about debugging native memory leaks. In other words, cases where you have high memory usage in your application but you can see that .net memory usage is not all that high. Recently I was helping out on such a case and this post details both generally how you go about troubleshooting these issues as well as what troubleshooting steps we went through in this particular case. Essentially you would go through these steps to troubleshoot a native memory leak: 1. Find out if your memory usage / leak is mostly .net memory or native memory 2. If it is native memory that is "leaking", use a tool like debug diag 1.1. to track allocations and deallocations 3. Look at the main allocators and the stacks associated with the biggest...(read more)

Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:32 AM PST

The Silverlight 4 documentation is available online from Microsoft . However, it is not the fastest way to find documentation. Instead, you should know that the Silverlight 4 documentation is available online, it is just a little bit hidden. "Also available...( read more )...(read more)

"I feel the need... the need for SPEED!" [Seven simple, performance-boosting tweaks for common Silverlight/WPF Charting scenarios]

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:12 PM PST

No matter how fast things are, they never seem to be fast enough. Even if we had the world's most optimized code in the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization assembly , I bet there would still be a couple of people who wanted better performance. :) Unfortunately...( read more )...(read more)
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