Monday, February 22, 2010

Post 2010 MVP Summit -- Thanks!

Post 2010 MVP Summit -- Thanks!

Post 2010 MVP Summit -- Thanks!

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 11:17 AM PST

I've been home since Saturday, but today (Monday) is my first day back in the 'real world' after spending time breathing the rarified air shared amongst the attendees of the 2010 MVP Summit. Very simply put, the Summit brings together the MVPs and the...( read more )...(read more)

Gesturecons – icons for prototyping Multi-touch applications

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 09:46 AM PST

Gesturecons is a set of wire-framing gestural icons created by Ryan Lee. The icons are available for download made available via a Creative Commons License. These icons will be very useful when creating wireframes or tutorials covering touch gestures...( read more )...(read more)

Postback Text Processing with the AJAX Modal Dialog

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 06:18 AM PST

I've started blogging simple tips when I get a question from a developer that's a bit tricky. This is one of those. Simple to do, but not always simple to find the answer. In this case the developer wanted to use an AJAX Editor Control inside a ModalPopup control. This isn't a problem but, the user needed to clicking the OK button to cause a post-back so that he could execute some server –side logic. The "Ok" Button is an ASP.NET control but adding a Click Event Handler for the button didn't solve the problem because it didn't get executed when the use Clicked on the "Ok" button. Normally the ModalPopupExtender would be used like this. < ajaxToolkit:ModalPopupExtender ID ="ModalPopupExtender1" runat ="server" TargetControlID...(read more)

The State of Data Access in Silverlight

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 03:52 PM PST

I've said much about my opinion of Silverlight data access. Currently this is Web Services, WCF Data Services and WCF RIA Services. Let's talk about Data Services and RIA Services and how they are related: WCF Data Services Data Services are a good story...( read more )...(read more)

Manipulating Action Method Parameters

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:59 PM PST

During the MVP summit, an attendee asked me for some help with a common scenario common among those building content management systems. He wanted his site to use human friendly URLs. http://example.com/pages/ a-page-about-nothing / instead of http://example.com/pages/ 123 / Notice how the first URL is descriptive whereas the second is not. The first URL contains a URL "slug" while the second one contains the ID for the content, typically associated with the ID in the database. This is easy enough to set up with routing, but there's a slight twist. He still wanted the action method which would respond to the first URL to have the integer integer ID as the parameter, not the slug. Let's look at one possible approach to solving this. Here's an...(read more)

gesturecons visual language for multi touch

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:36 PM PST

I work with some amazing people, one of which is Ryan Lee . He is a great user experience designer here at Cynergy , you might have seen his work on the web cam demo on channel 9 . We had been discussing the future of touch interfaces for some time now...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/22/2010

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:00 PM PST

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #12. I've just returned from the MVP summit and some meetings with the product teams, and all I can say is "wow". We have some seriously cool stuff coming, and I can't wait to talk about it. The Windows Client...( read more )...(read more)

MimeCloud: Scalable .NET Digital Asset & Media Management

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:05 PM PST

MimeCloud is a scalable digital asset library & media management toolset.

Founded by Alex Norcliffe and Peter Miller

Written by people who have been architecting large-scale web, image & video environments for many years serving many tens millions of pageviews per month.

Jesse Liberty at the Montreal User Group, take 2

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 03:14 PM PST

With Jesse Liberty down by H1N1 I took care of the Silverlight 4 session back in December. So we invited him again in march – no snow, no flu - just after MIX10! I will share the meeting with him, talking about what happened at MIX10, then Jesse will...( read more )...(read more)
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