Thursday, April 22, 2010

we are growing

we are growing

we are growing

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:35 PM PDT

We are looking for a few great folks to join Cynergy. Are you looking to work on great wpf and silverlight projects like the ebay simple lister shown during both the mix 2010 and the silverligt 4 keynote ? Are you a designer looking to work with a company...( read more )...(read more)

Upgrade to Expression Studio v4 for free – now in writing!

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:11 AM PDT

Remember during the Day 1 Keynote at MIX10 when Scott Guthrie said (around 14 minutes and 14 seconds into the video):   ..we're going to make a free upgrade to Expression Blend 4…   Well, I'm happy to say, that deal is now in writing and Expression...( read more )...(read more)

SQL Server and SQL Azure Performance Testing: Enzo SQL Baseline

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 07:22 PM PDT

Run SQL statements in SQL Azure (or SQL Server) and capture performance metrics of your SQL statements (reads, writes, CPU...) against multiple databases. Run your statements in parallel, view performance results side-by-side and export to Excel for further analysis.

Visuals staring at the mouse cursor

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:28 AM PDT

This is part 1 of the series "Silverlight in Action". Here we're sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site. Let's suppose we want our visual objects to "watch" and "follow with eyes" the mouse cursor while it moves around. The idea is...( read more )...(read more)

Visual Studio RTM, Silverlight 4 RTM and WCF RIA Services download links

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 10:34 PM PDT

Its been a long time since I blogged. Primarily due to Tech Ed India, the ongoing Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS 2010) and the related travels. However, here is a quick post with a few updates. Visual Studio 2010 RTMed in India during Tech Ed. We had the privilege of having Soma our Senior VP launch VS 2010 RTM in Bangalore, India, during Tech Ed India 2010. With that we also had Silverlight 4 getting RTMed during the same week. Earlier I had written posts around using the VS 2010 Beta, RC and the corresponding Silverlight, WCF RIA bits etc., and getting them all to work together. Now that, both VS 2010 and Silverlight have RTMed, I wanted to post a quick update on the necessary downloads. Visual Studio 2010 RTM can be downloaded from MSDN...(read more)

Awkward: The Other Microsoft Interview Story

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:06 PM PDT

Now that my friend Frank La Vigne (@ tableteer on twitter ) is leaving AIS, I can tell the "Awkward Interview Story" I've had to keep secret. This story takes place just a day after my wife and I returned from the hospital from the delivery of our second...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2010 -- #843

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 07:44 PM PDT

In this Issue: Alan Beasley , Roboblob , SilverLaw , Mike Snow , and Chris Koenig . Shoutouts: Ozymandias has a discussion up: The Three Pillars of Xbox Live on Windows Phone John Papa announced that Silverlight 4 is now on WebPI: Get Silverlight 4 –...( read more )...(read more)

New Silverlight Blog

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:18 PM PDT

After a long hiatus from Silverlight (due to my team being moved off Silverlight ☹ ) I am back to blogging for Silverlight! When it comes down to technologies, Silverlight is my greatest passion. I spend a lot of my spare time experimenting with building...( read more )...(read more)

New Silverlight Blog

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:18 PM PDT

After a long hiatus from Silverlight (due to my team being moved off Silverlight ☹ ) I am back to blogging for Silverlight! When it comes down to technologies, Silverlight is my greatest passion. I spend a lot of my spare time experimenting with building a wide variety of applications using Silverlight. Going forward, I will be showcasing these applications as well as regular tips and tutorials on my new blog which can be found at: http://www.silverlightdev.net Using my own site I will be able to...(read more)

Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:59 PM PDT

One of the new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to sign your XAP applications so that your out-of-browser trusted applications look more friendly (trusted) to your users, they come from a verified publisher, and they can take advantage of the...( read more )...(read more)

Avatar Mosaic -Experimenting with the Artefact Animator

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:36 PM PDT

After finding out about the Artefact Animator,  written by Jesse Graupmann, I knew I wanted to try it out. The Artefact Animator library is based on the same concept as Tweener for Flash, which provides an easy way to do procedural animations in...( read more )...(read more)

VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:43 PM PDT

This is the twenty-first in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  Today's blog post covers a few of the nice usability improvements coming with the VS 2010 debugger.  The VS 2010 debugger has a ton of great new capabilities.  Features like Intellitrace (aka historical debugging), the new parallel/multithreaded debugging capabilities , and dump debuging support typically get a ton of (well deserved) buzz and attention when people talk about the debugging improvements with this release.  I'll be doing blog posts in the future that demonstrate how to take advantage of them as well.  With today's post, though, I thought I'd start off by covering a few small, but nice, debugger usability improvements...(read more)

Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:59 PM PDT

One of the new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to sign your XAP applications so that your out-of-browser trusted applications look more friendly (trusted) to your users, they come from a verified publisher, and they can take advantage of the Read More......(read more)

TechEd Berlin 2010

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:44 PM PDT

Thing's were a little quiet after Mix10 on the conference front, no mention of PDC10 or Mix11, So it was great to hear that plans have started to materialise for TechEd Europe 2010, which will be in Berlin on the 8th-12th November 2010. NxtGenUG have...( read more )...(read more)
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