Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing!

Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing!

Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing!

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:07 PM PDT

Rarely passes a day when I don't get invitation to some product demonstration, technology showcase claiming to be a presentation about UX. In most cases - developers show new UI controls, tech, code and claim to be „talking about UX". I say stop trivializing...( read more )...(read more)

Microsoft Surface: Announcing Online Design and Development Training

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:01 PM PDT

I love the Surface. I want one in my home office. Alas, that isn't going to happen any time soon, but thanks to things like the Surface SDK for Touch for Windows 7, I can play with the cool surface controls all I want. What, you don't know how to develop...( read more )...(read more)

Microsoft Surface: Announcing Online Design and Development Training

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:01 PM PDT

I love the Surface. I want one in my home office. Alas, that isn't going to happen any time soon, but thanks to things like the Surface SDK for Touch for Windows 7, I can play with the cool surface controls all I want. What, you don't know how to develop...( read more )...(read more)

Fundamentals of Garbage Collection

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:40 AM PDT

A primer of key concepts on how memory and garbage collection work in the common language runtime.

New Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 debugging content

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:41 AM PDT

It's been a pretty busy few weeks at work coupled with some vacation so I've been lagging a bit with the blogging, so sorry for bombarding the blog with new posts now:) As you all know, Visual Studio 2010 just released and there is a lot of new content out there and I thought I'd mention a few in the debugging/troubleshooting space. ScottGu wrote a post on the VS 2010 debugger improvements as part of his VS 2010 and .NET 4 post series where he talks about news with Data Tips and Breakpoints. The Visual Studio Profiler Team Blog has a lot of posts worth reading about profiling in VS 2010 , including Silverlight Profiling and guidance for profiling. Steve released a new version of SOSex.dll with features that work for both 2.0 and 4.0 John Robbins...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2010 -- #849

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:01 PM PDT

In this Issue: Mike Snow , Kunal Chowdhury , Giorgetti Alessandro , Alexander Strauss , Corey Schuman , Kirupa , John Papa , Miro Miroslavov , Michael Washington , and Jeremy Likness . Shoutouts: Erik Mork and crew have posted their latest This Week In...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #6 – Toast Notifications

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT

Toast Notifications are a new feature that is supported in Out-of-Browser Silverlight applications. Toast windows are essentially temporary notification windows that appears in the bottom right of your screen.  They are useful for providing users...( read more )...(read more)

Finding the "real" templates and generic.xaml in Silverlight core or library assemblies, by using .NET Reflector

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 12:24 PM PDT

.NET Reflector is a great tool. I would wager that most of our loyal readers (all 6 of them ;-) ) already know all about .NET Reflector. But just in case, here is how to get it: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ In addition to spying on the...( read more )...(read more)
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