Friday, October 15, 2010

My Windows Phone 7 Applications in the Marketplace!

My Windows Phone 7 Applications in the Marketplace!

My Windows Phone 7 Applications in the Marketplace!

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 08:34 AM PDT

OAs some of you know, in learning to build Windows Phone 7 applications, i've come up with several applications for the phone. Some of the apps started as Demo's for conferences (e.g. Winning the Lottery) and others are ones I wanted to write to get familiar...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 15, 2010 -- #968

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 09:58 AM PDT

In this Issue: Martin Krüger , Jeff Blankenburg ( -2- ), Shawn Wildermuth ( -2- ), Dave Relyea , Kirupa Chinnathambi , Peter Kellner , David Anson , Andy Beaulieu , Pete Vickers , and Peter Foot . Above the Fold: Expression Blend: "Creating a Simple Action...( read more )...(read more)

Data Binding in the WPF Designer

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 08:20 AM PDT

Learn how to use Visual Studio to create bindings is WPF applications.

Touched ( Part 1 ) or “Only Fools & Horses Work”

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:06 AM PDT

Multi-touch interfaces are becoming more and more prevalent. This week saw the launch of the Windows Phone 7 where the interface is mostly (or almost entirely in the case of phones without keyboards) touch driven and it's hardly alone amongst the Android...( read more )...(read more)

NuPack Up For Grabs Items

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:24 AM PDT

In my last post, I described how we're trying to improve and streamline contributor guidelines to make it easy for others to contribute to NuPack. Like all product cycles anywhere, we're always running on tight time constraints. This helps us to maintain a tight focus on the product. We don't want to the product to do anything and everything. However, we do want to deliver everything needed (along with double rainbows and unicorns) to meet our vision for this first release. The best to meet those goals is to get more contributions from outside the core team. And the best way to do that is to remove as many roadblocks as possible for those interested in contributing. What's Up For Grabs?! When approaching a new project, it can be really challenging...(read more)

Updating NuPack Contributor Guidelines

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:01 AM PDT

A couple days ago I wrote a blog post entitled, Running Open Source In A Distributed World which outlined some thoughts I had about how managing core contributors to an open source project changes when you move from a centralized version control repository to distributed version control. The post was really a way for me to probe for ideas on how best to handle feature contributions. In the post, I asked this question, Many projects make a distinction between who may contribute a bug fix as opposed to who may contribute a feature. Such projects may require anyone contributing a feature or a non-trivial bug fix to sign a Contributor License Agreement. This agreement becomes the gate to being a contributor, which leaves me with the question, do...(read more)

Running Open Source In A Distributed World

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 09:02 AM PDT

When it comes to running an open source project, the book Producing Open Source Software - How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Karl Fogel (free pdf available ) is my bible (see my review and summary of the book ). The book is based on Karl Fogel's experiences as the leader of the Subversion project and has heavily influenced how I run the projects I'm involved in. Lately though, I've noticed one problem with some of his advice. It's so Subversion-y. Take a look at this snippet on Committers. As the only formally distinct class of people found in all open source projects, committers deserve special attention here. Committers are an unavoidable concession to discrimination in a system which is otherwise as non-discriminatory as possible...(read more)

Light up your NuPacks with startup code and WebActivator

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:52 AM PDT

Wow, it's hard to believe that it's been less than a week since NuPack went public.  We were hoping to get noticed, but the attention we got was way beyond my wildest expectations!  The buzz on Twitter has just been phenomenal, and for the most part the feedback has been very positive.  Thank you all for that, this is very encouraging for our little NuPack team :)   NuPack as a noun for the packages   Before I get into the meat, I'll just say that I want to start using NuPack as a noun that refers to the packages.  So rather than saying "There is a NuPack package for Spark", I'll say "There is a NuPack for Spark".  Or to use NuPack teammate Rob Reynold's catch phrase. " There a NuPack for that! ".  Hmmm...(read more)

Building my new blog with Orchard – Part 3: one way to skin a cat

Posted: 10 Oct 2010 11:24 PM PDT

These last few weeks I've been refraining from starting any deep work on my new Orchard-powered blog because most of what I had in mind involved widgets, which are being built right now. Version 0.8 is just around the corner: the team is just putting the final touches to the new theme engine and to the widget system. In the meantime, there is still some work I could do that I knew would not be throw-away, and that is CSS. My objectives with this new blog is to reflect in design what the content is about and what it is not about. VuLu is about knowledge, science, art and philosophy. It's not about shiny gadgets, technology or engineering. That of course means I want nothing web 2.0 in here. Good thing as I don't have much love for rounded corners...(read more)

Working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit in Visual Studio 2010

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 09:52 PM PDT

When working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit , Visual Studio 2010 contains some interesting improvements compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. When adding a particular version of AjaxControlToolkit controls (or other similar third-party controls) to the toolbox using the Choose Toolbox Items dialog, we now show the version number of the control that is being added. Figure 1 Once various versions of these AjaxControlToolkit (ACT) controls such as ACT 3.0 and ACT 4.0 are added to the toolbox in separate tabs (one tab per version), o nly the latest applicable version of the ACT controls will display as visible in the toolbox. This reduces confusion when different versions of ACT are present. The version number of the control...(read more)

Web Pages Beta 2–Request Validation

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 10:09 PM PDT

Today we released all kinds of goodness at Microsoft for ASP.NET developers: - Web Pages Beta 2 – An update to our new support for adding simple Razor syntax pages to to web applications. - MVC 3 Beta – An update to our preview release from a few months ago with several enhancements around razor, helpers, unobtrusive javascript, dependency injection and more. - NuPack – Package manager for finding, adding, upgrading libraries for your .NET projects. This makes it super easy to find libraries for writing your applications and easily installing them into your projects including their dependencies. I want to focus on Web Pages today which I've not written about since we released the first release but I've been involved in from the beginning. If...(read more)

My Team in Developer Guidance at Microsoft

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 01:03 PM PDT

It's hard to believe, but I'm 6 days away from having been at Microsoft a full year. Time flies! I had a great first year at Microsoft, thanks in no small part to the mentoring and guidance from great folks like Scott Hanselman and Cyra Richardson. Check out the first half of this podcast to meet Cyra (and Scott, of course) As is the nature of things at Microsoft, we started off this fiscal year with news of a reorg. I've been told the only constant here is change; turns out that's not some empty cliché. That reorg is now mostly complete, and our team has moved to the Developer Guidance group in Microsoft. In case of tl;dr : Scott moved to the product team. We've moved to a new org. I'm the new team lead. We're awesome...(read more)

Introducing NuPack Package Management for .NET - Another piece of the Web Stack

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:04 AM PDT

Microsoft's been filling out the Web Stack with more and more right-sized LEGO pieces lately, and today ScottGu announced the developer preview of NuPack . It's a piece of the stack that's been notably missing for years and after using it for a while now, I'm not sure how I lived without it. NuPack is a package management system for .NET. The goal of NuPack is to make the process of incorporating third party libraries into your solutions as simple as possible. Package Management itself is not a new concept. From Apt and "deity" before it at the system-level on *nix, to Ruby Gems, Maven, Synaptic, portage, dpkg, rpm and others, it's a well understood space. There are package managers for operating systems that install...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Released

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Wow! It's been a busy two months and change since we released Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 3. Today I'm happy (and frankly, relieved) to announce the Beta release of ASP.NET MVC 3 . Be sure to read Scott Guthrie's announcement as well . Credits: Image from ICanHazCheezburger http://icanhascheezburger.com/tag/onward/ Yes, you heard me right, we're jumping straight to Beta with this release! To try it out… Install it immediately via the Web Platform Installer (Web PI). OR, Download the Installer files and install it manually. As always, be sure to read the release notes (also available as a Word doc if you prefer that sort of thing) for all the juicy details about what's new in ASP.NET MVC 3. A big part of this release focuses on polishing and improving...(read more)

Introducing NuPack Package Manager

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:00 AM PDT

NuPack is a free open source developer focused package manager intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. After several months of work, the Outercurve Foundation (formerly CodePlex Foundation) today announced the acceptance of the NuPack project to the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery. This is another contribution to the foundation by the Web Platform and Tools (WPT) team at Microsoft. Also be sure to read Scott Guthrie's announcement post and Scott Hanselman's NuPack walkthrough. There's also a video interview with me on Web Camps TV where I talk about NuPack. Just to warn you, the rest of this blog post is full of blah blah blah about NuPack so if you're a person of action...(read more)

jQuery Templates on Microsoft Ajax CDN

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:02 PM PDT

The beta version of the jQuery Templates plugin is now hosted on the Microsoft Ajax CDN. You can start using the jQuery Templates plugin in your application by referencing both jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery Templates from the CDN. Here are the two script tags that you will want to use when developing an application: <script type="text/javascript" src=" http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.js "></script> <script type="text/javascript" src=" http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.js "></script> In addition, minified versions of both files are available from the CDN: <script type="text/javascript" src=" http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1...(read more)

Microsoft Templates included in jQuery 1.5!

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 08:12 AM PDT

When I joined the ASP.NET team as the Program Manager for Ajax, the ASP.NET team was working on releasing a new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library. This new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library had several really innovative and unique features such as support for client templates, client data-binding, script dependency management, and globalization. However, we kept hearing the message that our customers wanted to use jQuery when building ASP.NET applications. Therefore, about ten months ago, we decided to pursue a risky strategy . Scott Guthrie sent me to Cambridge to meet with John Resig – the creator of jQuery and leader of the jQuery project – to find out whether Microsoft and jQuery could work together. We wanted to find out whether...(read more)

Light Up Your Silverlight Skills with the Global Silverlight Firestarter!

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 03:59 PM PDT

  After you enjoy PDC10 , continue the experience with the Silverlight Firestarter! What is the Silverlight Firestarter? -           An Event: A one day, global, live streamed and on demand event keynoted...( read more )...(read more)

Architecting WP7 - Part 4 of 10: Client-side Data

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:27 AM PDT

One of the main complaints about Silverlight on the phone (especially to WinMo veterans) is the lack of a local database store. But being able to store data is still really possible, it is just that any data you store locally is not necessarily in a database...( read more )...(read more)
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