Monday, November 7, 2011

It Came From the Blue Lagoon

It Came From the Blue Lagoon

It Came From the Blue Lagoon

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 08:52 AM PST

As I mentioned in my last post , I have an overnight stopover in Reykjavik Iceland. After checking into my hotel at an ungodly early hour (which ended up being really late for me Seattle time), my first order of business was to head over to the Blue Lagoon . No, not that Blue Lagoon ! This one! Look at that steam coming off the water! The Blue Lagoon is a geothermal spa with a 5000 square meter lagoon. The water comes from a nearby geothermal plant and is renewed every two days. According to Wikipedia , Superheated water is vented from the ground near a lava flow and used to run turbines that generate electricity. After going through the turbines, the steam and hot water passes through a heat exchanger to provide heat for a municipal hot water...(read more)

Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:15 AM PST

This is Part 1 in the series Working with Prism 4. Introduction Prism is a toolkit produced by Microsoft patterns & practices to aid you in building Silverlight and WPF composite applications . More resources... Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinars Recordings...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 06, 2011 -- #1163

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 08:28 PM PST

In this Issue: Jay Kimble , Charles Petzold , Peter Kuhn , Adam Kinney , Ollie Riches , Abhinaba Basu , Mike Taulty , Erik Mork , Kunal Chowdhury , Cheryl Simmons , Beth Massi , Joost van Schaik , Timmy Kokke , David Catuhe , Igor , and Dhananjay Kumar...( read more )...(read more)
Posted by at No comments:

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Back to Basics: Daylight Savings Time bugs strike again with SetLastModified

Back to Basics: Daylight Savings Time bugs strike again with SetLastModified

Back to Basics: Daylight Savings Time bugs strike again with SetLastModified

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 12:14 AM PDT

No matter how well you know a topic, or a codebase, it's never to late (or early) to get nailed by a latest bug a over a half-decade old. DasBlog , the ASP.NET 2 blog engine that powers this blog, is done. It's not dead, but it's done. It's very stable. We had some commits last year, and I committed a bug fix in February, but it's really well understood and very baked. My blog hasn't been down for traffic spike reasons in literally years as DasBlog scales nicely on a single machine. It was 10:51pm PDT (that's Pacific Daylight Time) and I was writing a blog post about the clocks in my house, given that PST (that's Pacific Standard Time) was switching over soon. I wrote it up in Windows Live Writer, posted it to...(read more)

“Back from BUILD” presentation material

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 05:26 PM PDT

   Here are the slides we used for the "Back from BUILD" presentation at DevTeach Ottawa 2011 with Colin Melia ( @colinizer ). We talked about: 1. The Windows 8 experience 2. What's new in Silverlight 5 3. WinRT – the new cross-language Windows...( read more )...(read more)

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 30-October-2011 to 05-November-2011

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Weekly News Digest of Silverlight-Zone.com is up once again. We publish this digest every Sunday. As regular, find herewith the "Top 5 Posts of the Week" and "Daily News Digests" links.   During the week, we submitted 71 article links related to...( read more )...(read more)
Posted by at No comments:

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2011 -- #1162

Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2011 -- #1162

Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2011 -- #1162

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:31 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , WindowsPhoneGeek , Jeremy Likness , Mike Taulty , Erno de Weerd , Jesse Liberty , Derik Whittaker , Sumit Dutta , Asim Sajjad , Dhananjay Kumar , and Avi Pilosof . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Jounce Navigation...( read more )...(read more)
Posted by at No comments:

Friday, November 4, 2011

HTML5 and Silverlight 5 presentation material

HTML5 and Silverlight 5 presentation material

HTML5 and Silverlight 5 presentation material

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:10 PM PDT

      Here are the slides we used for the "Silverlight 5 and HTML 5" presentation at DevTeach Ottawa 2011 with Frédéric Harper ( @fharper ):   Download the demos : ( requires Silverlight 5 RC )   This time, I refrain myself...( read more )...(read more)

WebMatrix 2 Beta

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:51 PM PDT

Soon after starting work on WebMatrix engineering, I got an opportunity to launch WebMatrix 2 Beta at //build .  For those who are not familiar with WebMatrix it is all in one web development tool which is inspirational as well as functional at the same time.  It is lightweight enough that you get a web development tool, framework, db, web server and more under 50MB and based on our testing it installs in around 2 mins on a 2GB RAM, Windows 7 machine with .NET Framework pre-installed.  Typically such tools cost $50-100 but WebMatrix is yours for free I was involved with WebMatrix 1 project which we launched on Jan 13th 2011 and it has only been few months since release of WebMatrix 1 that we have WebMatrix 2 Beta out. If you have...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2011 -- #1161

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:19 PM PDT

In this Issue: Andrea Boschin , Mark Monster , Antoni Dol , Chaitanya Venneti , Erik Arthur and Jeffrey Ferman , David Kelley , Jose Fajardo ( -2- ), Andy Beaulieu , Rudi Grobler , Chad Campbell , and Andrej Tozon . Above the Fold: VS2011: "Visual Studio...( read more )...(read more)

More web stuff at Microsoft

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:59 PM PDT

It has been pretty busy lately and I never really got an opportunity to come out and post a fresh update on the blog but better late then never. I wanted to share that after working on Visual Studio , Visual Web Developer ,  and ASP.NET for couple of  major releases like VS 2010, VS 11, ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET 4.5,  MVC etc, I am now starting to work on Windows Azure , WebMatrix ,  Web Platform Installer , Microsoft.com/web , Web Hosting Gallery , Web Application Gallery and several related projects.  It is all big happy family so it is going to be fun as everything is web after all.  As you can imagine it is a blast working on this team and I have ever thankful for having such a great and talented team around me....(read more)

DevTeach Ottawa 2011 Silverlight pre-conference material

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:43 PM PDT

     This week in Ottawa, I did a full day workshop on Silverlight, as a pre-conference of the DevTeach Canadian event. I showed how to build from scratch a business application, from the Db to the UI, covering these topics: Entity Framework...( read more )...(read more)
Posted by at No comments:

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Physics Games: Multi-targeting Windows 8 + Windows Phone 7

Physics Games: Multi-targeting Windows 8 + Windows Phone 7

Physics Games: Multi-targeting Windows 8 + Windows Phone 7

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PDT

DISCLAIMER: THIS BLOG POST DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENT UNDER A PRE-BETA VERSION OF WINDOWS 8! THINGS CAN AND WILL CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. With the release of Windows 8 Developer Preview , one seemingly simple goal I had was to port my 2D physics apps that run...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7.5 - Programmatically use the phone camera

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:17 AM PDT

Since the first release, Windows Phone devices have got at least a camera on board but it remained only a beautiful gadget, useful only to take shots of your sons or during your favorite rockstar's concert, because in the OS7.0 there were few api to access...( read more )...(read more)

Making HTML5 Video work with IIS Express

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:56 AM PDT

One of the cool things about HTML5 is the ability to play audio/video files out of the box without the dependency on plugins. Earlier I had written about HTML5 Video and the fallback using Silverlight for non-supported scenarios Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has decent support for HTML5, in terms of intellisense, validation etc., But, one issue that is constantly faced when using the HTML5 Video tag in an ASP.NET Application (Web/MVC) built using Visual Studio is that, the videos doesn't play when running the application from Visual Studio on IE9. Taking a step back, Visual Studio uses ASP.NET Development Server as the default setting when debugging and running applications on the local machine. The ASP.NET Development Server (also called as Cassini...(read more)

Visual Image Processing

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:12 PM PDT

Visual Image processing for 2d or 3d real-time video or still image from camera or web cam or scanner ...
Posted by at No comments:

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta - Walkthrough Part 3: RadChartingKit

Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta - Walkthrough Part 3: RadChartingKit

Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta - Walkthrough Part 3: RadChartingKit

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:42 PM PDT

This is part 3 from an article on Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta , authored by Michael Crump and Evan Hutnick. Part 1 | Part 2 SilverlightShow will occasionally publish content related to 3rd party Silverlight and Windows Phone products, following interest and...( read more )...(read more)

Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta - A Walkthrough (Part 2 of 3)

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:24 AM PDT

This is part 2 from an article on Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta , authored by Michael Crump and Evan Hutnick. Part 1 | Part 3 SilverlightShow will occasionally publish content related to 3rd party Silverlight and Windows Phone products, following interest and...( read more )...(read more)

Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta - A Walkthrough (Part 1 of 3)

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:30 AM PDT

This is part 1 from an article on Telerik XAML Q3'11 Beta , authored by Michael Crump and Evan Hutnick. Part 2 | Part 3 SilverlightShow will occasionally publish content related to 3rd party Silverlight and Windows Phone products, following interest and...( read more )...(read more)

FlickrWinRT library now uses OAuth

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:30 AM PDT

In the previous post "FlickrNET library for WinRT" I turned the .NET library into a WinRT friendly one. However as pointed out by Tim Heuer I was using the FROB approach to authentication, where as the latest FlickrNET library on … Continue reading...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 -- #1160

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 09:22 PM PDT

In this all-submittal post-"GoLive" 3 week marathon Issue: Vikas , Rene Schulte , Ollie Riches , Alex van Beek , Kevin Dockx , Michael Crump ( -2- ), Michael Washington , Antoni Dol , Colin Eberhardt ( -2- , -3- ), and Lazar Nikolov . Above the Fold:...( read more )...(read more)
Posted by at No comments:

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10)

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10)

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:58 AM PDT

This article is sponsored by Telerik RadControls for Silverlight . Related content from the sponsor: Check out what's new! XAML Controls BETA—Introducing a new and empowered ChartingKit! The LOB Chronicles—don't miss "Episode 10...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow for October 24 - 30, 2011

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:54 AM PDT

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for October 24 - 30, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Photoshop in METRO style Nokia giving away 25,000 Lumia 800 Windows Phones to developers Windows 8 Development...( read more )...(read more)

GoingNative 3: Marian Luparu answers about C++/CX

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:59 PM PDT

Click to watch the episode in Channel 9C++/CX language design team member Marian Luparu sits in the hot seat to answer some questions (a few from the GoingNative community - thank you!), draw on the whiteboard and demo some code.

[Watch the episode in Channel 9]

Monthly Summary - October 2011 - 19 Posts You May Want to Recall

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:30 AM PDT

During October 2011, I have submitted 19 blog posts, among them 5 articles are there. I also received two awards from communities. In this post, I am going to share all the posts submitted here in my blog as separate category. This will help you to find...( read more )...(read more)

NuGet Package of Week #11 - ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing in ASP.NET

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:57 PM PDT

The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how they built their NuGet packages, if there's anything interesting about the way the designed the out of the box experience (and anything they could do to make it better) as well as what the package itself does.  Today, it's imageresizer . Bertrand Le Roy has long been an advocate of doing image resizing correctly on .NET and particularly on ASP.NET. Last week he posted a great post on a new library to choose...(read more)

Beer-Up in Reykjavik, Iceland

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:06 PM PDT

If you're in the Reykjavik area on November 7th, come join me for a beer-up. A Beer-Up is basically a meet-up, but with lots of beer! When: November 7th, 2011 at 8:00 PM Where: The English Pub ( yes, I went all the way to Iceland for an English pub ) Why: To talk about ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, Software Development whatever geeky topics you want. And if we do our jobs right, by the end of the night we'll discuss life, philosophy, and which direction is my hotel? Blue Lagoon in Iceland - Photo from sxc.hu I'll be stopping overnight in Reykjavik on my way to Oredev 2011 . I'm pretty excited as I've always been fascinated by the natural beauty of such a geologically active place. I definitely plan to see the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa (pictured...(read more)
Posted by at No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)