Friday, April 22, 2011

MVVM Resources

MVVM Resources

MVVM Resources

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 01:28 PM PDT

For the past three days I've been giving a Silverlight training. It's always refreshing to go through the material and brush up on some areas that haven't been touched in a while. Additionally, it's been nice to finally be able to say some of the exciting features that are coming in Silverlight 5. Something that [...]...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Documentation Updated

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 01:05 PM PDT

The Silverlight 4 documentation has been updated--both online MSDN docs and the offline CHM. The CHM is Silverlight only and is great for fast, offline access. Online Silverlight 4 MSDN Docs Offline Silverlight 4 MSDN Documentation There are numerous...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Show: Recording of webinar 'Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?' by Gill Cleeren

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Gill Cleeren presents 'Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?' In this recorded webinar Gill discusses how to build professional LOB applications...( read more )...(read more)

MIX11 videos mass download tool

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT

Check out this free Silverlight tool to filter and mass download your selection of MIX sessions : http://dayngo.com/tools/mix11/Home/Download You'll get a .bat file, then you need to install wget before downloading content, read more here: http://dayngo...( read more )...(read more)
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps

Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps

Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:51 PM PDT

Silverlight TV 69: In this week's episode of SLTV, Jobi Joy, UX Architect with IdentityMine , joins John to discuss some of the lessons his company learned while contributing to the very popular and successful IMDB and Twitter Windows Phone applications...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 5 : Multiple Click Support aka ClickCount

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 11:51 AM PDT

In the last article I spend some time with you in discussing some Text related enhancements for Developers in Silverlight 5. Today I am going to discuss one more feature of Silverlight 5 in this short post. Requirement : We need a mechanism to identify...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 066 for 4/21/2011

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 10:53 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #66. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7 , Windows Phone...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 066 for 4/21/2011

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 10:53 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #66. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7 , Windows Phone...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2011 - 2 -- #1075

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 10:45 PM PDT

In this all submittal Issue: Manas Patnaik , Walter Ferrari , Kevin Hoffman , Joost van Schaik , Alex Golesh ( -2- , -3- , -4- ), Dave Davis , Tony Champion , Kunal Chowdhury ( -2- ), Rudi Grobler , Colin Eberhardt . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Safe...( read more )...(read more)

My “Back from MIX” presentation at the Montreal .NET Community

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:59 PM PDT

On Monday I did a "Back from MIX" presentation (in french) at the Montreal .NET Community with my co-worker Justin . It was great and I did my best to articulate the message from Microsoft at MIX, which is a task much harder than you would think (huge...( read more )...(read more)

Don't shoot the messenger [A WebBrowserExtensions workaround for Windows Phone and a BestFitPanel tweak for infinite layout bounds on Windows Phone/Silverlight/WPF]

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 01:50 PM PDT

One of the neat things about sharing code with the community is hearing how people have learned from it or are using it in their own work. Of course, the more people use something, the more likely they are to identify problems with it - which is great...( read more )...(read more)
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Script# at MIX11

Script# at MIX11

Script# at MIX11

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 06:11 AM PDT

At MIX11 last week, I presented the Script#: Compiling C# to JavaScript using Visual Studio . As full-fledged script-based development becomes widespread with the HTML5 wave, a couple set of interesting questions emerge - what are the development tools you and your team uses to productively author and manage a code base? Shouldn't you write code in a model that is optimized for development and productivity and let a compiler do its magic and produce code that is optimized for deployment and runtime? Script# allows you to write your code in C# and compile it down to deployable JavaScript, it also unlocks the power of C#, Visual Studio and existing .NET tools for scripting scenarios. [ Full post continued here... ] Read More......(read more)

My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:02 PM PDT

This Friday, April 22nd, I'll be holding my 8th Annual "Day of .NET" event in Arizona.  Organized by my friend Scott Cate, this all-day event is free and contains a ton of great content and presentations on recent technologies in the .NET world.  It is hosted in a great facility and is a lot of fun. This year I'll be presenting together with Mark Russinovich, and we'll be covering ASP.NET + Azure + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7.  It will be great! You can learn more about the event, and register to attend for free here . Hope to see you there! Scott Read More......(read more)

Converting SVG to XAML with IE9 and the Microsoft XPS Document Writer

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:56 AM PDT

There is a growing library of content on the internet in SVG, especially with sites like The Noun Project . With a Windows Phone project that I am working on I wanted to use a graphic from the Noun Project. To do this I needed to convert the SVG file...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow for April 1 - 17, 2011

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:36 AM PDT

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 11-17, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight 5 Beta Released! HTML5 & Business Apps: Back To Reality Shawn Wildermuth's Take on the Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 16 (Apr 16, 2011)

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT

Read in this issue:

  • FDIS Approved. What's Next?
  • A Base Class for Intrusively Reference-Counted Objects in C++
  • "Effective C++" in the C++0x (C++11) Age
  • The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: The decltype Type Specifier
  • MFC classes to encapsulate the Scintilla edit control
  • C++0x Memory Model and Exceptional C++0x
  • Push Framework for high performance server development

Visual C++ Most Valuable Professionals (III)

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT

From left to right: Fliess, Bancila, Boucard and Berveridge.This is the third and last part of our Channel 9 interviews to C++ Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), made during a recent Summit at MS headquarters.

Meet Alon Fliess (Israel), Marius Bancila (Romania), Bruno Boucard (France) and Jim Beveridge (USA). They got the MVP distinction at different times (some really recently, some for a few years now) and it happened for very different community acknowledgements. Some write books, some others are passionate about helping others solve coding problems in forums, yet some others run C++ online communities, and so forth.

Hear their stories in Channel 9.

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 15 (Apr 9, 2011)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Read in this issue:

  • Build Related Improvement in VS2010 SP1
  • The Asynchronous Agents Library
  • (Stroustrup) Famous applications built in C++
  • The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Automatic Type Deduction
  • _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL - Advanced STL, Part 3
  • Concurrency Runtime (CRT): The Task Scheduler
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Silverlight 5 : Improvements in Text

Silverlight 5 : Improvements in Text

Silverlight 5 : Improvements in Text

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:46 PM PDT

I hope you must have installed Silverlight 5 Beta bits on your machine and wondering what's new you got in those bits.Well, there are lots of new things hidden inside which are worth exploring.I am doing the same with equal passion and enthusiasm. Today...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight UI Developer Job at Check Six Training Systems

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 07:55 AM PDT

Immediate Opening with one of the fasting growing U.S. companies.  What?  You haven't heard of Check Six Training Systems?  Oh, you will!  Even sooner if you are the right fit for our totally unique, rapidly growing company. ...( read more )...(read more)

NESL: Native Extension for Silverlight or No (Except Seven) Limits for Silverlight? Experimenting the Sensor API with a Wiimote

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT

Introduction The first time I heard about the Native Extension for Silverlight, I wondered: well, in what context can I use this? In what kind of scenario? And overall, is it something really usable? In this article I will try to test one of the features...( read more )...(read more)
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Monday, April 18, 2011

SQL Server Blocked Process Report Viewer

SQL Server Blocked Process Report Viewer

SQL Server Blocked Process Report Viewer

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:16 AM PDT

SQL Server's tracing tools generate blocked process reports to give more information about potential concurrency problems on a database server. But they are difficult to read. SQL Server Blocked Process Report Viewer organizes and presents this information in a useful way.

Issues with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 01:33 AM PDT

Today we already discussed about Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta , which was introduced recently. The step-by-step guide focused on how to implement the double click, triple click using the new ClickCount property. In that post we discussed...( read more )...(read more)

Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 07:59 PM PDT

Some time you need to know whether your user clicked a control once or double clicked it. Sometime you need to know how many click a user did in the UI control. In this post, you will learn about it.   Silverlight 5 Beta has been announced with newly...( read more )...(read more)

LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 01:10 AM PDT

This is one that I came across last week when talking to Jeremy Likness from Wintellect at MIX and lines up with some of the previous posts that I've written about touch based applications (the last of which is here and links back to previous entries...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 01:05 AM PDT

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. Back in the old days I think we used to called this Multiple Document Interface or MDI and the need for business applications...( read more )...(read more)

WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Application Tiles and Push Notifications

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT

Don't miss... Free SilverlightShow Webinars WP7 series by Andrea Boschin Kevin's 'WP7 for iPhone Developers' book: Show more books This is the 7th article in a series of articles designed to introduce iOS and Android developers to C#, Silverlight, and...( read more )...(read more)

MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 12:08 AM PDT

I'm fresh (well, sort of ) back from the MIX11 event in the US which saw the release of the beta of Silverlight 5 and I thought I'd provide some links to sessions that I saw in the Silverlight world that you might want to catch up on from MIX. It was...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 - 2 -- #1074

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 08:51 PM PDT

In this 2nd Post-MIX11 Submittal Issue: John Papa , Pete Brown , Tim Heuer , Bart Czernicki , Kunal Chowdhury ( -2- , -3- ), Kevin Dockx , Manas Patnaik , Michael Crump . Above the Fold: Silverlight 5 Beta: "Announcing the Silverlight 5 Beta Release and...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow for April 4 - 10, 2011

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 06:58 PM PDT

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 4 - 10, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for week before last: Silverlight 5 Beta Here, HTML 5, Sterling Feedback and More HTML vs. Silverlight vs. WPF Silverlight 5...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 -- #1073

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:44 PM PDT

In this Issue: Peter Kuhn , Michael Washington , Benjamin Gavin , Joost van Schaik , Kunal Chowdhury ( -2- , -3- ). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to access Control Template parts from Code Behind?" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Bing Maps control with MVVMLight...( read more )...(read more)
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 10-April-2011 to 16-April-2011

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 10-April-2011 to 16-April-2011

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 10-April-2011 to 16-April-2011

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:41 PM PDT

Here comes the Weekly Digest of Silverlight-Zone . This week was a great week. During the week Microsoft released a no. of products during the MIX11 event. Started with Visual Studio Async CTP Service Pack, Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview, Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

tChat - ASP.NET, Ajax & Web Service based Chat Room

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 12:24 PM PDT

Simple chat room application. Technology: ASP .NET, Ajax, Web Services and MS SQL Server Database. Uses ASP .NET authentication mechanism.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

[WP7 App] Bixel: Bixi in Montreal

[WP7 App] Bixel: Bixi in Montreal

[WP7 App] Bixel: Bixi in Montreal

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:09 PM PDT

Hello everyone, I just release my first personal WP7 application and it's called Bixel. Bixel locates the nearest Bixi stations in Montreal. You can add them to your favorites, see the directions and see the number of available docks and bikes. I will...( read more )...(read more)

Compiler Intrinsics Added for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Visual C++ 2010)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:40 PM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 introduces Visual C++ compiler intrinsics for the FMA4 (fused multiply-add), LWP (light-weight process), and XOP (extended SSE) instruction sets.
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