Saturday, November 6, 2010

Silverlight Cream Top Posted Authors May to October, 2010

Silverlight Cream Top Posted Authors May to October, 2010

Silverlight Cream Top Posted Authors May to October, 2010

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:11 PM PDT

It's past the first of November, and time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 06, 2010 -- #986

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 11:57 AM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Peter Kuhn , Bill Reiss , Lee , Walt Ritscher , John Papa , Kunal Chowdhury , cherylws , Jeremy Likness , Martin Krüger ( -2- ), Michael Crump , and Brad Tutterow . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "I know what you downloaded...( read more )...(read more)

Using EventTrigger in XAML for MVVM – No Code Behind Code

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 08:38 PM PDT

I have seen people writing Code Behind a lot while they are working in the MVVM framework. A huge lines of code in their xaml.cs file actually creates problem to the designers to change anything present in the XAML. Why is this so? Because, lots of people...( read more )...(read more)

Free fonts for commercial game development

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 07:30 PM PDT

I've literally spent hundreds of hours digging through fonts and their license files trying to find ones that can be used in commercial games. Selecting a font that is appropriate for the style of your game can make a huge difference to the gameplay,...( read more )...(read more)

A couple of more data-related Silverlight Quickstarts for you

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 06:19 PM PDT

In an attempt to close the loop on getting data into Silverlight, we've added a couple of new Quickstarts. The first, Getting Data into Silverlight , provides some guidance about how you should store and access data from your Silverlight applications...( read more )...(read more)

I’m a Windows Phone 7 Game Publisher!

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:51 PM PDT

Windows Phone 7 isn't widely available yet, but you can already buy quite a few apps for it. I'm proud to say that my little game, Classic Hits , has just been published in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Although I don't even own a Windows Phone (fellow...( read more )...(read more)

PDC10: Building a Blog with Microsoft "Unnamed Package of Web Love"

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:35 AM PDT

I had a lovely time in Redmond this last week attending Microsoft's PDC (Professional Developer's Conference) 2010. I did lots of stuff, met lots of people, did hours of "Live TV" on Channel 9 Live and presented a talk on behalf of the Web Platform and Tools team (WPT is IIS, Media Streaming, ASP.NET, everything web, etc) showcasing all the cool stuff we've been doing lately. You can stream the talk with Silverlight Smooth Streaming as well as PIP (Picture in Picture) or you can download the talk in one of four formats. Note that for some weird reason there's 10 minutes of "we haven't started yet" dead video that you'll have to seek past. You should Right-Click Save As the video you want. Low Bandwidth...(read more)

A Sordid Little Tale Of Unexpected Security Exceptions

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 10:37 PM PDT

It was a dark and stormy coding session; the rain fell in torrents as my eyes were locked to two LCD screens in a furious display of coding … …sorry sorry, I just can't continue. It's all a lie. This actually a cautionary tale describing one subtle way that you can run afoul Code Access Security (CAS) when attempting to run an application in partial trust. But who wants to read about that? Right? Right? Well this isn't a sordid tale, but if you bear with me, you may just find it interesting. Either that, or you may just take pity on me that I find this type of thing interesting. I was hacking on NuGet the other day and all I wanted to do was write some code that accessed the version number of the current assembly. This is something we do in...(read more)

Silverlight Questions

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 08:06 PM PDT

Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion/concern about Silverlight that occurred from an interview given at the PDC conference last week.  A few days ago Bob Muglia (President of our Server and Tools Division) posted a blog post on the Silverlight Team blog that helped clarify what he said in the interview that caused the controversy.  You can read his post here . Three of the things that he explicitly said in the interview (and which were reported in the article - but unfortunately lost in the public reaction to it) were: Silverlight is very important and strategic to Microsoft. We're working hard on the next release of Silverlight, and it will continue to be cross-browser and cross-platform, and run on Windows and Mac...(read more)

Web Deploy: How to see the command executed in Visual Studio during publish

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 09:15 PM PDT

I just saw a post on Twitter asking the question Is there any easy way to see the underlying MSBuild command when building in VS2010? Want to see the MSDeploy params. @ wdeploy ? One thing to know is that when you publish from Visual Studio, by default we use the MSDeploy (AKA Web Deployment Tool) Object Model in order to perform the deployment. We do this for performance and other reasons. Because of this there is no real msdeploy.exe command that is being issued. You can however change that behavior. This is controlled by an MSBuild property UseMSDeployExe which is false by default. In this case since Troy wants to see the command we will need to set that property to false. There are 2 ways in which you can do this. You can set it in the project...(read more)

Going to VSLIve ? Catch the Windows Phone 7 Sessions

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 09:48 AM PDT

After seeing Joe Biafore demo all the cool stuff about Windows Phone 7 (Especially for Developers) – I'm hooked. If you'll be in Orland the week of the 14th for VSLive be sure to check out the great Windows Phone 7 Sessions. Easing into Windows Phone 7 Development Designing and Developing for the Rich Mobile Web Digging Deeper into Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 and Azure: Enhancing the User Experience with the Cloud Sensors, Locations, Notifications Oh My: Advance Topic in Windows Phone 7 Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Folks Submit Grid model for HTML/CSS to the W3C.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 08:27 PM PDT

Still using table for layout ? It's not the preferred way. Modern Web Site development defines layout with CSS wherever possible. As we look forward to HTML5 and CSS 3 some of the folks in Dev Div are tooling for the new wave and immersed in the resulting ecosystem. Alex Mogilevsky , Phil Cupp , and Markus Mielke from  Microsoft, via the CSS Working Group have submitted a draft for CSS3 Grid Alignment. The official description says ….. CSS Grid Alignment Level 3 contains features that enable authors to align UI elements horizontally and vertically. By using the features in this module authors can position layout elements such as controls and application content into columns and rows, defining a grid structure with fixed, fractional, or...(read more)

And The Winner Is, NuGet

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:00 PM PDT

The polls have closed and we now have a new name for our project, NuGet (pronounced "New Get" and not "Nugget" and not "Noojay" for you hoity-toity) which had the most votes by a large margin . For those who missed it, the following posts will get you up to speed on the name change: A few days ago I wrote about our need to rename NuPack I followed up with more details about the rename And then I wrote about how the community offered its own choices Over the next couple of days we'll start transitioning the project over to the new name. We'll try to minimize the impact of the change and make sure existing links to the CodePlex project redirect to the new URL. If you have a local clone of the repository with work in progress when we rename the...(read more)

A quick look at what’s new in Orchard 0.8

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:28 PM PDT

We shipped Orchard 0.8 on Monday and it's the last release we will make before 1.0, which is scheduled for January 2011. We think it's a pretty nice release in that it wraps up the UI story for the platform. 1. New theme engine with Razor and Clay ASP.NET MVC, on which Orchard is built, supports alternative view engines. Orchard does too, and 0.8 is the first release where the new Razor view engine is the default. All existing views in Orchard have been moved to Razor. An introduction to Razor syntax can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/02/introducing-razor.aspx We also improved the way view models are built in Orchard: in a CMS, the type system needs to be flexible enough to allow for the dynamic creation of new...(read more)

Turn your Razor helpers into reusable libraries

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 05:55 PM PDT

The first blog post I ever wrote was titled " Turning an ascx user control into a redistributable custom control ".  It was almost exactly five years ago, and it still gets a lot of hits today.  And interestingly, this new blog post is about solving essentially the same problem, but with a much nicer Razor based solution than was available at the time. The general issue we're trying to solve is to encapsulate reusable pieces of UI.  Unfortunately, this has typically meant choosing between two approaches, each having their pros and cons (this mirrors the intro from my old post): Custom code in a library project: this makes it easy to produce a binary that can be used in multiple projects without having to keep source files around...(read more)

ASP.NET Web Projects: web.debug.config & web.release.config

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:25 PM PDT

DIsclaimer: You may experience some in-consistent behavior using this technique. If so please let us know. I have heard a lot of questions and confusion regarding web.debug.config and web.release.config. For example here is just one question on StackOverflow . The question states: Hello, I want to use the web.config transformation that works fine for publish also for debugging. When i publish a web app, visual studio automatically transforms the web.config based on my First let me explain, as I did to that question, the purpose of the files: web.config/web.debug.config/web.release.config. web.config This is the config file which developers should use locally. Ideally you should get this to be standardized. For instance you could use localhost...(read more)

Setting up my new Web Development Machine

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 01:54 AM PDT

For more immediate and tiny updates on web development and photography follow me on Twitter @VishalRJoshi I just recently got a new laptop, it looks awesome, is blazing fast and from now on I will spend at least few hours every evening with it.  I have always wanted to upgrade but Microsoft keeps getting me powerful work laptops I hardly ever came out of the spell.  But recently stars aligned and that provoked me to get a personal laptop: 1. I hate the looks of Lenovo W500 which is what I have at work 2. I have software licenses for photography and other software which feel weird to register from work machine 3. The screen resolution on Lenovo's is not as good as I would like 4. Work laptop makes me work more and play less, I really...(read more)

Orchard Project 0.8 released–it’s time to dig in.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:39 AM PDT

The Orchard Team has been hard at work and has just released 0.8. This is an exciting milestone because it means that both the extensibility and theming infrastructures are now in place. That means we can start building on Orchard and expect minimal changes when Orchard goes v1. From Bradley Millington's announcement …… The Orchard Project team is pleased to announce the availability of the Orchard 0.8 release, which provides essential features that designers need to tailor the look-and-feel of Orchard sites. The release can be downloaded from http://www.orchardproject.net/download The Orchard 0.8 release includes a theme engine based on the new Razor syntax in ASP.NET MVC, which is an extensible object model for defining "shapes", as well as...(read more)

Community Naming

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:42 PM PDT

Just a quick follow-up to my last posts about naming NuPack. Looks like the community is not content to sit back and let the project be labelled with a lame name. I've seen a couple of community inspired names created as new issues in the CodePlex issue tracker. However, NFetch has a huge lead , but the community chosen NRocks is a close second . The name I like the best so far is NuGet. ( vote for it here ) As before, voting still closes on Tuesday 10/26 at 11:59 PM PDT . If you feel strongly enough around a name, rally your friends to vote for one. Tags: package manager , PackageManagerFormerlyKnownAsNuPack Read More......(read more)

PDC 2010 – You can watch it LIVE on line.

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 12:29 PM PDT

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, October 28 th and 29 th .  The in-person event is sold out ; however, you can still participate online via live streaming and real-time Q&A.  This year's announcements will focus on using Microsoft's developer frameworks and tools to connect your desktops and devices to the next-generation of cloud services.  Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia will keynote the event.  The ground-breaking online broadcast will include live streaming of the keynote, as well as concurrent live streaming of sessions. § Live and on-demand streaming will be presented in high-definition (720p) through Silverlight's Smooth Streaming technology...(read more)
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