Tuesday, September 27, 2011

pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework

pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework

pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:06 AM PDT

One of the new features in Silverlight 5 RC is the ability to call native code including Win32 APIs through platform invocation, or pInvoke. The technology itself is pretty well-known and it's been in .NET since version 1.0. Here is one of the tutorials...( read more )...(read more)

Asynchronous Operations in Windows 8 with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:00 AM PDT

The Concurrency Runtime team is working on the next generation of the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) that will help you consume asynchronous operations in your apps using a simpler development model than the one Windows 8 has built-in as part of its Windows Runtime.

In that sense, they recently published a blog post explaining the rationale behind their abstraction library, and not less importantly, a set of samples showing these in action.

Book review: XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:32 PM PDT

Don't miss... Webinar recording 'XNA for Windows Phone 7' WP7 series by Andrea Boschin XNA for Silverlight Developers Ebook: ($2.99) All SilverlightShow Ebooks This review is for the book 'XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming – Developing for Windows...( read more )...(read more)

Hanselminutes.com: Rewriting a 5 year old VB.NET WebForms application as an ASP.NET Web Pages application with Razor

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:44 AM PDT

I'm planning on updating the Hanselminutes.com website to look more modern and look more like this newly redesigned blog . Until then, one of the things I wanted to try was to update the application with some simpler code. The Hanselminutes podcast website is running the same VB.NET WebForms application it was on the day I started the show in January of 2006 (almost 300 episodes ago!) Sure, the app runs fine and there's no real reason to update it, but I wanted to see how quickly I could do it and if the code felt cleaner. There's a few requirements I need to make sure I don't miss: I'd like a new URL scheme. Currently showid is the database, not the logical "show id." Rather than http://www.hanselminutes.com/default...(read more)

Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Applications on Windows 8 Developer Preview

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:44 AM PDT

Well, as mentioned in my earlier posts, the ASP.NET MVC 4 has Developer Preview has been released. You might notice quite a bit of this term "Developer Preview" in 2-3 products specifically. One, Windows 8 is now available as simply Windows Developer Preview. Similarly, Visual Studio 11 is Developer Preview and also the Internet Explorer Platform Preview 3 is a Developer Preview, as with the case with Expression etc., Now, to clarify on a few things which I learnt. The Windows 8, hereinafter referred to as Windows 8 Developer Preview comes as a download along with Visual Studio 2011 Express as described here This edition is just for developing Metro Style applications for Windows Developer Preview using JavaScript, Visual C++, C# or VB.NET....(read more)

Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2011 -- #1150

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 09:09 PM PDT

In this Issue: Nguyen Pham , Nigel Sampson , Jesse Liberty , Derik Whittaker , Morten Nielsen , Sumit Dutta , Asim Sajjad , Peter Kuhn , Kunal Chowdhury , Beth Massi , Joost van Shaik , and Andrea Boschin . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Setting SelectedValue...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Connection detection and bandwidth

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 04:37 PM PDT

When you write a data aware application, where data is not locally accessible but is available across a network connection, you have an additional requirement to ensure the network connection is available and also it is able to transport your data in...( read more )...(read more)
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