Monday, June 27, 2011

MarketPlus Evolve: UX Inspiration from a Great Silverlight Application

MarketPlus Evolve: UX Inspiration from a Great Silverlight Application

MarketPlus Evolve: UX Inspiration from a Great Silverlight Application

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 01:29 PM PDT

At Microsoft we often talk about "consumer" applications and "line of business" applications as separate classes of apps. Sometimes, applications that intersect both worlds come along. A few weeks ago, I was turned on by Scott Hanselman, to a soon-to...( read more )...(read more)

MarketPlus Evolve: UX Inspiration from a Great Silverlight Application

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 01:29 PM PDT

At Microsoft we often talk about "consumer" applications and "line of business" applications as separate classes of apps. Sometimes, applications that intersect both worlds come along. A few weeks ago, I was turned on by Scott Hanselman, to a soon-to...( read more )...(read more)

Using Code Signing Certificates to sign downloaded MSIs and build reputation with IE9 SmartScreen

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:39 AM PDT

First, let me start that if you want a lot of people to download something, make sure that the words "HTML5," "Support" and "Update" appear in the title. I'm sure if the folks that are making Diablo 3 called it "Diablo 3 HTML5 Support Update" that a metric buttload more people would download it. That said, a bunch of folks in the Web Platform and Tools team created the Web Standards Update package with HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor . This Web Standards Update is something that anyone in the community could have released, just extending Visual Studio in a standard way. Like many other (most) extensions in Visual Studio Extension Gallery, it was not "signed." It was not a...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 3 Docs In Nine Languages

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:46 AM PDT

In May, we released a tools update for ASP.NET MVC 3 in nine languages other than English . Today I got the good news that ASP.NET MVC 3 documentation is also now available in those nine languages, which arguably is even more helpful to those learning and using ASP.NET MVC. Japanese: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx Korean: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ko-kr/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx Chinese (Simplified): http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx Chinese (Traditional) http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-tw/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx German: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx Spanish: http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx French: http://msdn.microsoft.com...(read more)

Teaching Computer Programming at Home

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:16 AM PDT

This past week I had a great time teaching my 9-year-old son Alex and 9 of his friends computer programming in my home.  I used Kodu Game Lab and Small Basic , two free tools created for kids to learn programming. I wrote a series of blog posts about...( read more )...(read more)

Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 4)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:22 AM PDT

This is the fourth part of my article series to prepare you for Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 exam which will be available starting July 14th. For a short introduction and overview of the exam as well as a list of general learning materials please take...( read more )...(read more)

June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 09:59 PM PDT

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I've done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] ASP.NET Introducing new ASP.NET Universal Providers : Great post from Scott Hanselman on the new System.Web.Providers we are working on.  This release delivers new ASP.NET Membership, Role Management, Session, Profile providers that work with SQL Server, SQL CE and SQL Azure. CSS Sprites and the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Library: Great post from Scott Mitchell that talks about a free library for ASP.NET that you can use to optimize your CSS and images to reduce HTTP requests and...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 21 - Small Demo of Accelerometer Application

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Last two days we learned about Accelerometer class, it's base class and the accelerometer tool that comes with the Phone emulator. Hope those posts gave you some basic idea about it.   Here in this post, we will learn the use of this feature with...( read more )...(read more)
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