Friday, July 22, 2011

Ensuring your Windows Phone Applications Work on Mango

Ensuring your Windows Phone Applications Work on Mango

Ensuring your Windows Phone Applications Work on Mango

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Not only does Mango support Silverlight 4, there are also numerous updates and improvements to Silverlight for Windows Phone. A bunch of work has gone into compatibility between Mango and Windows Phone 7, however you should test your existing applications...( read more )...(read more)

CoffeeScript, Sass and LESS support for Visual Studio and ASP.NET with the Mindscape Web Workbench

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:06 PM PDT

There's some really impressive stuff happening in the .NET Community lately. Folks are reaching outside their standard built-in tools and pulling inspiration from everywhere. It's been said that (some) Microsoft developers don't like to use tools or technologies that aren't built in to Visual Studio. However, myself and others have been pushing the concept of LEGO blocks snapping together. Rather than thinking of Visual Studio as a giant single block, consider it as a small block amongst many others. Feel empowered to choose the technologies that work for you and discarding the ones that don't. I talked about this LEGO analogy in my DevDays keynote in The Netherlands earlier in the year . Snap in tools like the HTML5 Web...(read more)

Future Orchard Part 1: Introducing Tokens

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:30 PM PDT

After a long phase of cleanup on the new Orchard 2.0, we are now busy designing new features. We are focusing on a few foundational pieces, and on enabling e-commerce on top of the platform. In this post, I'm going to expose the basics of the preliminary design for one new foundational piece: Tokens. You could technically confuse Tokens with a fancy String.Format, or with a very lightweight templating solution, but you'd be slightly wrong in both cases. Its usage is what sets it apart from both. You will use tokens whenever you need to build a string by inserting named environmental variables into a string that has placeholders. That is it. No code, no loops, no ifs, just formatted substitution, but really the keyword here is environmental...(read more)

NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:36 AM PDT

I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse , an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've talked about ELMAH , and amazing logger and error handler. Now the triad is complete with MiniProfiler , my Package of the Week #9. Yes, #9. I'm counting "System.Web.Providers" as #8, so phooey. ;) Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan - Upgrade to 1.4, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . NuGet 1.4 is out, so make sure you're set to automatically update! The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is...(read more)
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