A Great Time at Developer Academy 4 In Israel

A Great Time at Developer Academy 4 In Israel
Getting the most speed out of Verizon FIOS
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application
DevAcademy 4 – the event is over…
Dynamic User Specific CSS Selection at Run Time
Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator
Post MIX10 Decompression
Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator
Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application
Silverlight and Blend events tour this week in England and Ireland
VS2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Extension
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010
MIX10 Talk - Slides and Code

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 05:35 AM PDT

I had a great time today at Developer Academy 4 . It was in a beautiful part of Tel Aviv. The weather was great and the food fantastic. They had well over 1,000 paid attendees, so the house was PACKED. Dev Academy's page on Facebook . Including some pictures of me. I was very impressed with the high tech community in Israel. Clearly Israel is a hub of hightech. I did a demo in the keynote where I showed off a few of the cool new features in Silverlight 4. Then I demoed the Silverlight PhotoBooth app to show Webcam support and raw video\image editing capabilities. Then I showed the HtmlPuzzle application to show off out...(read more)

Getting the most speed out of Verizon FIOS

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 12:57 PM PDT

Earlier this year, I upgraded my Verizon 15/5 business-class FIOS to 35/35. While I had awesome downstream results, my upstream always hovered around 6-10. I run my web server out of my house, and also do a lot of VPN work with Microsoft, so upstream...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 05:32 AM PDT

DevAcademy 4 – the event is over…

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 03:41 AM PDT

Today we had great event – DevAcademy 4 – for the developers in Israel. Thanks for all participants, organizers and sponsors! I had a session about Silverlight 4 new features . Thanks for all attendees! It was a pleasure to present for such nice...( read more )...(read more)

Dynamic User Specific CSS Selection at Run Time

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 11:46 AM PDT

I had a cool question while I was at MIX. A developer needed the ability to have his site render pages using a CSS file selected based on some user specific criteria. ASP.NET 4 controls generate CSS friendly output and more and more we web developers are using CSS for layout etc. Using multiple CSS files in our site wide templates we can not only provide different aesthetic experiences but we can chage the style based on the device type (Printer ot Phone) or the special needs of the end user (Color Blind of Vision Impaired). It's really easy. I set the Theme Directory yin the Session Start Event Handler. Though I', simply setting to a static value here, this is were you would make some decisions in code. You could check for a cookie or the device...(read more)

Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 10:12 AM PDT

One of the announcements that happened during the MIX10 conference was the availability of the V2 of the Microsoft Translator API . This is the engine that powers the translation behind http://www.windowslivetranslator.com and some other Bing-related Read More......(read more)

Post MIX10 Decompression

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 10:19 AM PDT

With a big dose of reality, I walked into this place this morning and found out "yeah, I really do write .NET web apps and MS Access for a living" :( ... but it pays the bills and I've gotten *way* used to eating 3 times a day :) MIX10 was great, although...( read more )...(read more)

Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 09:17 AM PDT

If you've been excited about Windows Phone 7 development and the platform being Silverlight for application development, you probably rushed and downloaded all the tools (which are free by the way). You may have even got the samples from the SDK and noticed...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 05:32 AM PDT

To continue our series , let's look at localizing our business applications. In today's global village, it is often no longer OK to support only one language. Many real world business applications need to support multiple languages. To demonstrate the pattern, let's look at localizing the Silverlight Business Application Template. You can download the completed solution . Here it is in English side-by-side with a localized version (notice the Hebrew is rendered Right-To-Left correctly): Let's start by creating a new Silverlight Business Application. Notice there is a server and a client project in the solution. The strings that are needed in both the server and...(read more)

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 05:32 AM PDT

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 05:32 AM PDT

Silverlight and Blend events tour this week in England and Ireland

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 03:17 AM PDT

I jokingly told many of my friends at MIX from the other side of the Atlantic that I would be chasing them home. The truth is, I am heading to England and Ireland this week and will be participating in a few events along with a workshop of my own...( read more )...(read more)

VS2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Extension

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 01:26 AM PDT

Karl has what looks like a fantastic extension to the XAML editor in VS2010 here ....( read more )...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010