Tuesday, June 15, 2010

A post about editor extension for security and banned APIs

A post about editor extension for security and banned APIs

A post about editor extension for security and banned APIs

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Security is something we take very seriously and we work with a number of teams across the company to keep native apps as secure as possible. An example of this in Visual Studio 2010 was our work on the GS flag . One of our colleagues, Tim Burrell, who...(read more)

MSDN Simulcast Event on June 19: NYC Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Firestarter (Level 200)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT

Be part of a full day of nothing but WCF sessions on Saturday, June 19th. Starting from an introduction so you can hit the ground running, the event continues with best practices, topics involving the most important features of WCF, and ends with cutting-edge material on REST, Microsoft's new service bus, and Windows Azure technology in Microsoft .NET 4.0.

Now Updated for SQL Server 2008 R2 - Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Microsoft SQL Server

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT

Use this guide to address key design decisions and confidently plan a SQL Server 2008 R2 infrastructure.

MSN Brazil Uses Silverlight to Showcase the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:30 AM PDT

MSN Brazil is bringing the World Cup to life for a country that celebrates soccer as a major part of its culture. The site, which uses many Silverlight features including Deep Zoom, presents match schedules, team, player and stadium information, and key...( read more )...(read more)

WPF and Silverlight Designer, Hey I’m Over Here!

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:01 AM PDT

In the past two weeks, including a lunch meeting with an MVP yesterday, I have ran into developers that don't take advantage of the productivity features in the Visual Studio 2010 WPF and Silverlight Designer.  They told me they didn't realize the...( read more )...(read more)

Preview of MSDN Library Changes

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:38 AM PDT

The MSDN team has been working some potential changes to the online MSDN Library designed to help streamline the navigation experience and make it easier to find the .NET Framework information you need. To solicit feedback on the proposed changes while they are still in development, they've posted a preview version of some proposed changes to a new MSDN Library Preview site which you can check out.  They've also created a survey that leads you through the ideas and asks for your opinions on some of the changes.  We'd very much like to have as many people as possible people take the survey and give us feedback. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me at: twitter.com...(read more)

Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated for Silverlight 4

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:56 AM PDT

We have just updated the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework to synchronize with a number of product and technology releases.  An installer is available today to start using.  Here is what's new: New Analytics Service Support EQATEC Analytics...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 15, 2010 -- #882

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:44 AM PDT

In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt Zoltan Arvai , Marcel du Preez , Mark Tucker , John Papa , Phil Middlemiss , Andy Beaulieu , and Chad Campbell . From SilverlightCream.com : Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive Colin Eberhardt sent...( read more )...(read more)

Data Driven Applications with MVVM Part I: The Basics

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:27 PM PDT

What is MVVM and why do you need it? Do you know the feeling, when you start to develop an application, and in the first couple of days you feel good because you made a really good progress? Do you know the feeling, when after a couple of days, you feel...( read more )...(read more)

Red-To-Green scale using an IValueConverter

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Introduction Recently I have been working on a project, where a certain task's completion needs to be visually indicated in some graphic way. I settled on creating a style for the ProgressBar control, with a changing background color depending on the...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:32 AM PDT

Sometimes in Silverlight , you just want to get the largest possible webcam resolution. This snippet shows how to obtain that using LINQ. if (CaptureDeviceConfiguration.AllowedDeviceAccess || CaptureDeviceConfiguration.RequestDeviceAccess()) { var camera...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:32 AM PDT

Sometimes in Silverlight , you just want to get the largest possible webcam resolution. This snippet shows how to obtain that using LINQ. if (CaptureDeviceConfiguration.AllowedDeviceAccess || CaptureDeviceConfiguration.RequestDeviceAccess()) { var camera...( read more )...(read more)

Hanselminutes Podcast 217 - MVC Turbine and IoC made easy with Javier Lozano

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 03:44 AM PDT

My two-hundred-and-seventeenth podcast is up . Scott talks to Javier Lozano about his open source MVC Turbine project and how it makes Dependency Injection and inversion of control extremely easy. These concepts can be tricky to jump into and usually require custom code in your app. MVC Turbine makes it easy to get up and running in minutes with ASP.NET MVC and IoC. (Ya, I know, I'm late to post this.) Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Links from the Show Javier talking about MVC Turbine on Channel 9 Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts , a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show. I want to add a big thanks to Telerik. Without their support, there wouldn't be a Hanselminutes...(read more)

Creating a Master-Detail UI in Blend

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:39 PM PDT

Learn how to extend what you know about sample data to create a master-detail relationship....( read more )...(read more)

WP7 Back Button in Games

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

In order to publish a Windows Phone 7 application on the Marketplace, your app must pass a list of certification requirements. One of the items in the Windows Phone 7 Certification Requirements caught my eye: 5.2.4 Use of Back Button in Games a. Pressing...( read more )...(read more)

How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT

When the Data Sources Window is used to generate the UI, the generated XAML injects design-time information so that the Binding Builder can be used to create bindings for the UI controls. What if your application was written in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008;...( read more )...(read more)

WPF and Silverlight UserControls at Design Time

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 03:51 PM PDT

I have just blogged about UserControls in the Visual Stuido 2010 WPF and Silverlight Designer on the Cider Team blog.  This fast reading post contains a short introduction to UserControls then covers the below sections that even the most seasoned...( read more )...(read more)

Using WPF and Silverlight UserControls

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:01 AM PDT

UserControls promote code reuse, separation of concerns and simplify development by partitioning applications into smaller blocks of code. In this article you'll learn why you would use a UserControl, how to create one from the Toolbox, understand when...( read more )...(read more)

Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 10:13 AM PDT

Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to their behavior in Visual Studio. It is designed to give vendors insight into how Visual Studio behaves when performing common actions related to custom controls, as well as suggestions to optimize the experience for their consumers from within VS—largely concentrating on VS versions 2008 and 2010. This post does not cover runtime or control programming concepts such as usage of any control or design-time specific APIs. For more information on these other concepts, please see the "links and other resources" section at the...(read more)

Survey - ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 11:49 AM PDT

Are you currently doing ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010? If so, we would love to hear your feedback! We have created an online survey that will only take a few minutes to complete. Click here to take survey All feedback will be carefully considered and thoroughly reviewed during our planning for future release such as VS 2010 SP1. The more details you can provide, the better. Thank you for your time, --Mike Snow Visual Studio Web Development Team. Read More......(read more)
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