Friday, February 25, 2011

How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package

How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package

How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:25 PM PST

Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish . This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty extensive so it is easy for us to hook in to it in order to perform operation such as these. One of those extension points, as we've blogged about before, is creating a .wpp.targets file. If you create a file in the same directory of your project with the name {ProjectName}.wpp.targets then that file will automatically be imported and included in the build/publish process. This makes it easy to edit your build/publish process without always having to edit the project file itself. I will use this technique to demonstrate how to compress the CSS &...(read more)

36 Hour Free Offer: jQuery Fundamentals Training

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:19 AM PST

Pluralsight (a great .NET training company) is offering the opportunity to watch their jQuery Fundamentals course for free for the next 36 hours. The course is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin and contains 5 hours of great end to end content.  Pluralsight will be offering this jQuery Fundamentals course for free until Thursday evening (9pm PST). Pluralsight has about 100 other great training courses available similar to this one.  They recently launched a new subscription plan that allows you to watch all of their courses online starting from $29 a month.  They also offer a 10 day free trial option that you can use to try it out.  You can learn more about it here . Free jQuery 1.5 Visual Cheat Sheet While on the...(read more)

ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 07:10 PM PST

Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event .  This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics.  Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic. Below are links to free recordings of the talks that you can watch (and optionally download): Scott Guthrie Keynote The NuGet-y Goodness of Delivering Packages (Phil Haack) Industrial Strenght NuGet (Andy Wahrenberger) Intro to MVC 3 (John Petersen) Advanced MVC 3 (Brad Wilson) Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications (Eric Sowell) Web Matrix...(read more)

Silverlight TV 63: Exploring National Instruments' App Using Data and Business Features

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:47 AM PST

Silverlight TV 63: In this week's episode of SLTV, the Steve Lasker of the Silverlight team joins John on Silverlight TV to discuss data and business features with Silverlight. Steve dives into some of his favorite features and shows off a great demo...( read more )...(read more)

Building with WCF RIA Services?

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:11 AM PST

Are you in the UK and building with Silverlight and WCF RIA Services? Drop me a line! mike dot taulty at microsoft dot com...( read more )...( read more )...(read more)

Validating our ViewModel

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 03:42 AM PST

One of the key features that need to be implemented in a Line of Business application. Although Silverlight supports validation very well it's not that easy compared to enabling Data Binding your ViewModel. When we want our ViewModel to be fully Data...( read more )...(read more)

Who ate all the pies!!

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 02:47 AM PST

My current project has taken me on an interesting journey of late and so I thought that it would be helpful to share with you some of my experiences and of course some code. I have been taking a look into charting on WP7 there is a good round up here...( read more )...(read more)

Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:14 PM PST

SilverlightShow and Gill Cleeren started a series of materials aimed at helping you get prepared for taking Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 . Through this series we tried to structure the resources available on the internet, grouping them by topic covered...( read more )...(read more)

Introducing Phoney's FadingMessage Class

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 07:46 PM PST

URL : http://www.vimeo.com/20362526 I wanted to show how my new FadingMessage class works so I recorded a quick video to show it off. If you want to play with the code, don't forget you can get Phoney from codeplex ( http://phoney.codeplex.com ) or just...( read more )...(read more)

Phoney Windows Phone 7 Project Now Available!

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:49 PM PST

URL : http://phoney.codeplex.com/ I started this project when I found I had a number of small classes that I'd built for my Windows Phone 7 application so I thought it was time to share. here is the information on the new library. It is currently in a...( read more )...(read more)

Tiled Background Control in Silverlight

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:00 PM PST

Need a tiled background control in your Silverlight application? Unfortunately, there is no native tile control in Silverlight. However, you can easily obtain the source code for one if you install the JetPack theme . Sure, there a few steps, but at least...( read more )...(read more)

Recording of Telerik WP7 Webinar 'Using RadControls to Build Windows Phone 7 Applications'

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:48 PM PST

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Telerik Windows Phone Evangelist Evan Hutnick explains how you can start utilizing the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 in your mobile Silverlight applications today. See how the RadAnimation...( read more )...(read more)
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