Tuesday, April 27, 2010

UK and Ireland Slides and Links

UK and Ireland Slides and Links

UK and Ireland Slides and Links

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 12:45 PM PDT

I promised to post the slides I used during my SLHVP and Robust (MVVM/TDD) Silverlight Applications presentations. As noted at the time, they don't stand on their own terribly well, and beyond that, they make extensive use of images that are under license...( read more )...(read more)

Custom Build Steps, Tools, and Events

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 11:15 AM PDT

In VS 2008, Visual C++ had a couple of the simple scenarios called Custom Build Step and Custom Build Tool.  This post will discuss a couple of the simple build extension options you have, and how they've changed since VS 2008. Andrew Arnott discusses these scenarios and how they work in VS 2010 here

Debugging a classic ReaderWriterLock deadlock with SOSex.dll

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:07 AM PDT

I was helping out on an issue the other day where the process would stall if they added enough users in their load tests.  Btw, serious kudos to them for making load tests, so much nicer to work with a problem in test rather than when it is getting critical on a production machine. We gathered some memory dumps with debug diag of the asp.net process (w3wp.exe) and found that most of the threads were waiting in this type of callstack:  NOTE:  I have changed a lot of function names and code snippets since it is not relevant for the post. 0:071> !clrstack OS Thread Id: 0x21ac (71) ESP       EIP     1c8ceb88 7c8285ec [HelperMethodFrame_1OBJ: 1c8ceb88] System.Threading.ReaderWriterLock...(read more)

IIS and PAE

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:26 AM PDT

I recently got a question by one of my customers about PAE and IIS that I thought I'd share the answer to. Their environment looked something like this: 32bit OS (Windows 2003) IIS 6 with multiple application pools, where each app pool hosts a number of applications ~20 GB RAM They were having problems with out of memory exceptions and also with paging under high load.  They knew a lot about their application and memory usage in general, so they knew what they were using the memory for and why they got the OOMs , in this case, memory usage was relatively high per application (intentionally), but it remained stable so no leak.  With this in mind, we discussed solutions to the OOMs like splitting up the applications further etc. to avoid...(read more)

Floating Visual Elements

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:23 PM PDT

This is part 2 of the series "Silverlight in Action": Visuals staring at the mouse cursor . Floating Visual Elements. Here we're sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site. As you may already know, every Silverlight application " must...( read more )...(read more)

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook is Out - Interview with Author Gill Cleeren

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:56 PM PDT

As we have recently announced , a hot book on data-driven applications with Silverlight - Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook was expected to hit the market. The book is now out and there is a 20% price discount available exclusively for...( read more )...(read more)

Using the ChangePropertyAction

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 12:25 AM PDT

Learn how to easily change properties at runtime (and look cool) without writing code....( read more )...(read more)

3 Silverlight Free Demos

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 12:46 PM PDT

We recently added a new demo and updated 2 of our more popular Silverlight demos to use Silverlight 4 RTW (from the beta and RC bits). The Silverlight.net samples web site has all of the samples, but here are direct links to each of the demos with a brief...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2010 -- #848

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:44 PM PDT

In this Issue: Viktor Larsson , Mike Snow ( -2- ), Jeff Brand , Marlon Grech ( -2- , -3- ), Jonathan van de Veen , Phil Middlemiss . Shoutout: Justin Angel wants everyone to know he is Joining the Vertigo Team! ... congratulations, Justin! From SilverlightCream...( read more )...(read more)

Xml Document Transform (XDT) Snippets for VS 2010

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:38 PM PDT

During my PDC talk I had shown some of the snippets that can come handy while using Web.Config Transformations…  This post is intended to share the XDT snippets and instructions on how to install them to use them with VS 2010… Download XDT zip file from my SkyDrive Unzip the files and copy the inner XDT folder into %Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Xml\1033\Snippets After this the XDT snippets will be available for you to use within any XML file within VS 2010… To know how to use XDTs for Web.Config file please check out the post about Web.Config Transformations Few interesting points about Transforms & Locators which are worth noting to do pretty powerful stuff with your XML are: Transforms   - Transforms act on a XML...(read more)

Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing with VS 2010

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:53 PM PDT

This is the twenty-second in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. I've already covered some of the code editor improvements in the VS 2010 release.  In particular, I've blogged about the Code Intellisense Improvements , new Code Searching and Navigating Features , HTML, ASP.NET and JavaScript Snippet Support , and improved JavaScript Intellisense .  Today's blog post covers a small, but nice, editor improvement with VS 2010 – the ability to use "Box Selection" when performing multi-line editing.  This can eliminate keystrokes and enables some slick editing scenarios. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Box...(read more)

White Paper: How the Security Development Lifecycle Helped Improve the Security of the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:18 PM PDT

The 2007 Office system was the first Microsoft Office release to include the standardized Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process throughout the product development life cycle. Read this paper to understand how the SDL contributed to improving the security of the 2007 Microsoft Office System.

Silverlight 4 SDK Release Candidate Is Available

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:18 PM PDT

Microsoft has unveiled the Release Candidate of the Silverlight 4 SDK. This latest version delivers hundreds of features and controls that present the leading edge in rapid, powerful application development. Note: this is a developer release only that does not have "go-live" licensing available or an end-user runtime.

Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog?

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:00 PM PDT

After the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010, the Publish Web Dialog was modified to include two information buttons associated with the Service URL and Site/application text boxes. (See Figure 1) Figure 1 – New information ('hint') buttons (see circled...(read more)
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