Friday, March 19, 2010

SQL Server Hosting Web Service (and toolkit)

SQL Server Hosting Web Service (and toolkit)

SQL Server Hosting Web Service (and toolkit)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 10:57 AM PDT

The purpose of the SQL Server hosting toolkit is to provide hosting companies and developers with a rich set of tools to publish and post database changes to hosted instances of SQL Server.

Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone Developer tools from MIX10

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:15 AM PDT

I'm upgrading my machines to the latest bits and I haven't seen an aggregated list of all the Silverlight, Blend and Windows Phone tools yet, so I thought I'd post mine.  As an extra bonus I'll add the extra links for training and documentation resources...( read more )...(read more)

GlossyTextblock Custom Control - Silverlight 3

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:01 AM PDT

This week I had a short discussion with Daniel Greitens, MVP and founder of the German Expression community site yourexpression.de , about some performance issues concerning the use of effects in Silverlight 3. From a performance perspective he suggested...( read more )...(read more)

2010 03 19 Malaga .net user group: Silverlight Catch Up !

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:16 AM PDT

I have uploaded the presentation and source code samples of the session we had for the Malaga .net user group to my sky drive, you can find it here . About the session it self: is an express introduction to Silverlight and line of business application...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Beta to Silverlight 4 RC?

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:37 AM PDT

Tim's post has the details here . For me, the points to take particular notice of are; Signed XAPs Networking sandbox is now relaxed for TCP/UDP applications when running trusted out of browser. I need to check up on whether any security policy is needed...( read more )...(read more)

Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 11:18 PM PDT

On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here ).  In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we'll ship the final release of it next month...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 07:16 PM PDT

Here's the API listing for the Silverlight 4 release candidate (RC). I included mscorlib.dll this time, as well as a couple DLLs I forgot the last time. For more details about these API listings, see an earlier post ....( read more )...(read more)

Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 11:18 PM PDT

On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here ).  In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we'll ship the final release of it next month) and the VS 2010 RC tools for Silverlight 4.  I also had the chance to talk for the first time about how Silverlight and XNA can now be used to build Windows Phone 7 applications. During my talk I did two quick Windows Phone 7 coding demos using Silverlight – a quick "Hello World" application and a "Twitter" data-snacking application.  Both applications were easy to build and only took a few minutes to create on stage.  Below are the steps you can follow yourself to build them on...(read more)

Silverlight 4 PathListBox for Motion Path Animation

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 08:03 PM PDT

The PathListBox control is a cool new addition to the Blend 4 SDK, and allows the elements inside a ListBox to lay out along any Path control shape. You'll need to install the Blend 4 SDK to get access to the PathListBox control, but note that this is...( read more )...(read more)

MIX 10 Wrapup

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 12:58 PM PDT

MIX 10 is over and lots of blogs are listing all the interesting links and discussions that happened at MIX. I don't want to duplicate that, but instead thought i'd tell what I think are the big stories. The Phone While the Windows Phone 7 Series (hrmph...( read more )...(read more)

Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:17 PM PDT

Thanks to all those who attended the talk "CL10 - Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4" at the Mix 2010 conference or caught it via the recorded session online . I talked about the evolution of Silverlight into a general purpose development...( read more )...(read more)

Writing a Custom Filter or Parameter for DomainDataSource

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:14 PM PDT

This post comes to you from a guest writer, Kyle McClellan . Kyle works with me on the RIA Services team and he's contributed to the DomainDataSource feature (among many other features in the framework). Kyle made the changes that allowed us to remove Read More......(read more)

An even better way to run T4MVC: a VS AddIn

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:43 PM PDT

Last week, I blogged about a nice way of auto-running T4MVC by using the Macro IDE to write an OnBuildBegin event handler .  This was a big improvement over the hacky 'AlwaysKeepTemplateDirty' flag that we've been using since T4MVC's early days. Since then, Wayne Brantley has taken this idea to the next level by turning it into a Visual Studio AddIn.  Check out his post and give it a try! The nice benefits of the AddIn over directly handling VS events in the macro IDE are: Simpler install : you drop a couple files in the AddIn folder and it just works Encapsulation : all the code related to this is in one binary Easy to disable : once the AddIn is installed, you can just go in Tools / AddIn Manager to turn it on or off Note that Wayne...(read more)

The inner workings of Count in RIA Services

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 01:26 PM PDT

One of things that came up repeatedly in our API Reviews for RIA Services was the fact that, we were requesting the total server count of the resulting query by default for paging scenarios. This basically meant that were executing two queries on the Read More......(read more)
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