Monday, January 30, 2012

Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications

Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications


Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 07:59 PM PST

Introduction The Microsoft's Live SDK (or commonly referred to as Live Connect), provides a set of controls and APIs that enables applications to integrate single sign-on (SSO) functionality using Windows Live ID. You can also use it to access data...( read more )...(read more)

About Orchard Governance and Microsoft

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 12:29 AM PST

Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation. They may have an open license, they may take patches and contributions, they may have given the copyright to some non-profit foundation, but for all practical purposes, it's still that corporation that controls the project and makes the big decisions. That wasn't what we wanted for Orchard. We wanted to trust the community completely to do what's best for the project. This is why we organized elections for our new Steering Committee and had five members elected. Anyone who had...(read more)

TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:30 PM PST

I'll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month.  I'll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I'm particularly excited about the "A look at ASP.NET MVC 4" talk as it will be the first time I've presented on it (and it is shaping up to a really great release – more blog posts on that soon). For more details on how to attend the event visit the Belgium Techdays and Dutch Techdays websites.  Hope to see some of you at the conferences! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I use Twitter to-do quick posts and share links. My Twitter handle is: @scottgu Read More......(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 - #0033

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:22 PM PST

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 - #0033 [SC1209] In This Issue: Senthil Kumar B , Michael Washington , Michael Crump , Robby Ingebretsen , András Velvárt , Laurent...( read more )...(read more)

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages.

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 07:00 PM PST

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Design Index In this post we'll try to answer a very common question that developers and designers ask us all the time and that in fact we in the Studio try to define always when exploring new features in Windows Phone...( read more )...(read more)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior


WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

The built-in resources in Windows Phone 7 help a lot with  automatically reflecting the selected theme of the phone. (See my earlier blog post: Being theme aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps ). However, sometimes you want to be theme aware...( read more )...(read more)

Friday, January 27, 2012

Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 - #0032

Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 - #0032


Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 - #0032

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:29 PM PST

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Windows Dev News for January 27, 2012 - #0032 [SC1208] In This Issue: Brian Noyes , Tony Champion , goldytech , Roy Dallal , Vikram Pendse , Jose Fajardo , Jeremy Likness...( read more )...(read more)

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Songhay Data Access

Songhay Data Access


Songhay Data Access

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:46 PM PST

Songhay Data Access is a set of static helper classes defining routines around System.Data.Common. Songhay Data Access has been used with SQLite, MySQL and SQL Server but this set of libraries will work with any database that has an ADO.NET providprovider written for it.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Now, more than ever, you need a designer

Now, more than ever, you need a designer


Now, more than ever, you need a designer

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 10:52 PM PST

Before joining Microsoft, I was a consultant, primarily building desktop applications using a variety of MS technologies. During my last couple years there, Silverlight was a large part of that both for full apps and as parts of larger web sites. Prior to that, it was WPF, Windows Forms, VB, HTML and even SharePoint. tl;dr: The point of this long post is not to show you examples of good design or pick apart existing designs. I'm not really qualified to do that. However, I can point out the need for design and give you some small amount of ammunition when presenting this to your own management. Visual and UX Design matters, even for internal apps, often far more than architecture or the other things we focus on. You'll be more efficient...(read more)

Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:40 PM PST

Ironically, my last release of MVVM Light V3 was about fixing bugs in templates and making them better. In the process however, seems that I introduced a regression bug in the WPF4 project templates. Yep shit happens. How do I know if I have the bug?...( read more )...(read more)

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012

SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012


SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 06:45 AM PST

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for January 16 - 22, 2012. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Windows 8 slip until 2013...( read more )...(read more)

Working with Prism 4 Part 3: Composite Command and Pub/Sub Events

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:10 AM PST

Tweet This is part 3 in the series Working with Prism 4. Introduction In the last article, I showed how to structure your Prism application to use the MVVM pattern and use DelegateCommands to communicate between the view and view model. Additionally,...( read more )...(read more)

Monday, January 23, 2012

A mesmerizing burst of circles (Silverlight 5 & XNA)

A mesmerizing burst of circles (Silverlight 5 & XNA)


A mesmerizing burst of circles (Silverlight 5 & XNA)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 09:30 PM PST

Let's give some love to Silverlight and in particular Silverlight 5's 3DApi, which happens to be XNA. I want to draw something cool on this XNA DrawingSurface BUT then also replicate it in DirectX. I've honestly never done a DirectX/C++ … Continue...( read more )...(read more)

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #4 Hub & Spoke Navigation Model

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 08:46 PM PST

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Design Index Introduction Today we begin our preparation to get ourselves ready to define the Information Architecture (IA) for our app. We will discuss Information Architecture more in depth in a future (not too far away post...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 22, 2012 - #0031

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:34 PM PST

...( read more )...(read more)