Friday, May 6, 2011

Even better customizability in Orchard

Even better customizability in Orchard

Even better customizability in Orchard

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:36 PM PDT

One of our goals in Orchard is to make it possible and simple to change and customize the markup and style for everything that gets rendered by the application and its modules. Of course, this is made a lot trickier by our other big requirement of making everything a composition of atomic parts. Yesterday, we brought on site a web developer who is a fan of Drupal and is occasionally using Joomla! and WordPress, in order to get some good feedback after her using Orchard on a project. And that we got. One of the many interesting things she told us had one essential quality though: it was immediately actionable. Here is the idea. This is the generated markup for an HTML widget in Orchard: < article class ="widget-html-widget widget"...(read more)

What is AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight?

Posted: 06 May 2011 03:19 AM PDT

Many of you don't aware of it in depth, mainly the freshers who just started doing their hands dirty with the light of Silver. In this post I am going to describe you about AppManifest.xaml file and it's uses in depth. Read the complete post to know more...( read more )...(read more)

Weekly Links– 2010_17 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks)

Posted: 06 May 2011 06:40 AM PDT

Software Developer Links of the Week. Ajax Handling in ASP.NET by jQuery Microsoft Patterns & Practices Project Silk Karl Shifflett Introduction of Project Silk Project Silk Mileage Stats Application – 5 Minute Video Asus Eee Pad Transformer starts shipping on April 26; $399 MVVM Light for Silverlight and WPF Amazon rumored to release Samsung-built tablet [...] Read More......(read more)

Customising a Smurf (or creating a custom Silverlight media player)

Posted: 06 May 2011 07:16 AM PDT

If you've been around Silverlight a little then you'll know that there's a framework called the Silverlight Media Framework (or SMF for short which is pronounced Smurf ) and it contains a tonne of pre-written code for playing media including things like...( read more )...(read more)

My Swiss TechDays presentations sample code

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:52 AM PDT

I published the sample code from my presentations about Windows Phone 7 at TechDays Switzerland. I also published the Powerpoint slides on Slideshare ( Windows Phone 7 Overview / Windows Phone 7 Deep Dive ). One of the talks is available as a video on...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 -- #1085

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:00 PM PDT

In this Issue: Pete Brown , Victor Gaudioso , WindowsPhoneGeek , Jesse Liberty , Jeremy Likness , John Papa , David Anson , Mike Taulty ( -2- ), Lazar Nikolov , Alex Knight , Deborah Kurata , and Michael Washington . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating...( read more )...(read more)

EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:50 PM PDT

Earlier this week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update that we shipped last month.  In today's blog post I'm going to go into more detail about two of the cool new features it brings: Built-in support for EF 4.1 (which includes the new EF "code-first" support) Built-in data scaffolding support within Visual Studio (which enables you to rapidly create data-driven sites) These two features provide a really sweet, and extremely powerful, way to work with data and build data-driven web applications. Scenario We'll Build To help illustrate how to use the above features, we'll walkthrough building a simple data-drive site.  It will support listing products: As well as creating/editing new products (and categories): We can now...(read more)

White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide…

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:58 PM PDT

When meeting current and prospective clients the subject of web technology choice often arises. There has been a great deal of confusion and uncertainty out there, even before Microsoft's perceived change of stance with respect to Silverlight emerged...( read more )...(read more)
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