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It was the year 2006. The year Google acquired YouTube for a mere $1.65B, Pavarotti opened the Winter Olympics and Germany hosted the World Cup. After successfully branching out in...
Arturo was kind enough to post a hands-on lab I created for a training event in Dallas. Its an introduction to Silverlight, that showcases some Silverlight 3 features, such as: Perspective 3D ...
The previous post on Silverlight 3 for kiosk apps outlined some architecture options how you can build Silverlight applications with access to peripherals. This follow up post goes into more detail on...
Computerworld posted this piece that Microsoft developers are using text editors for development. Whats so old-school about that? What I mean really? Coding in text editors is not a trend among the gr...
Several of the customers I work with are looking to build kiosk or point-of-sale applications with Silverlight. The ease of deployment with browser-based Silverlight applications is definitely appeali...
One of my customers is working on an Azure WCF service. When wanted to test the service with WcfTestClient, but we ran into some issues. We started the dev fabric and had the WebRole running on port 8...
Migrating an existing SQL Server database to SQL Azure is a compelling story, but its not a trivial task unless you start with the SQL Azure migration wizard put together by my team mates George and ...
The Windows Mobile app store is about to launch. The team launched a number of videos on the Windows Mobile Dev Channel on YouTube to walk you through the submission process for your application, but ...
WPF 4 is going to fully integrate Win 7s multi-touch capabilities. with Windows 7 being RTM, you dont have to wait for WPF 4 to be released for developing multi-touch demos. You can get started today ...
The iPhone always reminds me of Finding Nemo (iPhones, they think theyre so cute. Oh, look at me, Im a flicky little iPhone, let me flick for you. ). Yesterday, Bill Crow from Live Labs just posted ab...
Following Jesses and Petes excellent posts on porting Silverlight2 apps from Beta 2 to the final release bits I thought I add just a little more information. As I worked with one of my customers tha...
One of my customers was interested in some of the cool features of the Mobile Client Software Factory, but they wanted to develop on Visual Studio 2008. The original version from p&p wasnt updated...
The linear style forced by PowerPoint and the metaphor of a slide may have reached their limits. At least support for other styles is on its way ... of course also from the Office team. The innovation...
As promised at my TechEd 2008 chalk talk Innovation 101: Tips & Tricks for Architects & Developers to Drive Innovation, here's a slightly evolved version of my interactive deck. I had thought ...
I'm trying to do my apps in any type of XAML these days since I finally think I "got it". I wish I could claim that I will break free from the limitations of HTML and my new found liberty wi...
Silverlight 2.0 introduces a new application model. Assets for Silverlight applications, i.e. code and resources are packaged up in a .xap file. When you install the latest version of the The Silverli...
I've been working with a customer on a very cool OBA - an Office Business Application - based on VSTO, Word 2007 and SharePoint workflows.
During the course of that we built a lot of demos and sometim...
Jon Box (Architect Evangelist extraordinaire) thought my post discussing risk differences between Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 was a "Nice Job", but he actually did have a few comments ...
Finally, the Popfly beta is available to the general public! What's Popfly, you ask? It's the mashup tool for the Silverlight generation and a community site to go with it.
Mashups, that's that AJAX ...
There's been a lot of Zune / Microsoft bashing because of the DRM feature. Now yesterday, I needed to move songs that I bought on Zune marketplace from my old PC to my new PC. (There were some songs o...
Should I stay or should I go with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 is the question in this particular case. One of my customers is still on Visual Studio 2003 and they are wondering whether to upgrade to V...
Michael has a good post that complements my previous post on the inner workings of Silverlight update. His post describes the tool to configure update settings for either always auto-u...
Silverlight is designed to make the update experience as seamless as possible, but its designers also considered security awareness as well as enabling user or enterprise managed overrides.
Sil...
I was giving my talk on ContractFirst Web services design and WSCF at the MTC in Austin a couple of weeks ago. When I asked the audience what SOA means to them, Scott Bellware's response was: Schittko...
".NET ends DLL Hell" that was the message back in the days when the .NET Framework was still in beta. With .NET, each assembly is easily versioned, global assembly registrations are versions specif...
I'm glad to see that Scott Bellware liked my IBF presentation this week. I hear that his TDD workshop was awesome as well. If nothing else, he managed to draw more people than I - or IBF - did. In som...
Version 1.5 of the Information Bridge Framework (IBF) was released last weekend and is available for download from MSDN.I gave it a whirl to get ready for my seminar in Austin on Wednesday and found t...
Version 1.5 of the Information Bridge Framework (IBF) was released last weekend and is available for download from MSDN.I gave it a whirl to get ready for my seminar in Austin on Wednesday and found t...
We discovered a problem with Mdi-style Windows.Forms applications with the .NET Framework 1.1 with and without SP 1. The problem causes incorrect handling of keyboard input by MdiClient windows...
Julie Lerman pointed me to this great idea to collect donations for the tsunami relief:Many .NET celebrities are auctioning off an hour oftheir precious consulting time and donate their fee to charity...
A while ago, Paul Wilsonand Kirk Allen Evansreported that the XmlSerializer is leaking assemblies when the serializer object was instantiated with any of the constructors but the most basic one. The s...
Hopefully many of you have seenChristian Weyer'scontract-first toolfor web serviceson which I was able to help out a tiny bit.My suggestion toaddChristian's tool to Visual Studio 2005 to bring wider a...
Hopefully many of you have seenChristian Weyer'scontract-first toolfor web serviceson which I was able to help out a tiny bit.My suggestion toaddChristian's tool to Visual Studio 2005 to bring wider a...
WSE 2.0 SP2 adds some support for adding WSE to C++ projects, which had been missing since the initial release last May. At last, the WSE Configuration Editor, the one that comes up when you right-cli...
The new year is starting out really busy and I've already got a few user group talksscheduled:2/10/2005, Houston .NET User Group: The XML Data Type and XQuery in SQL Server 20053/16/2005, Austin SQL S...
About the presentation:Web services are making their ways into the enterprise. Yet, Web service technology is continuing its evolution into a mature, full-fledged platform for feature-rich and secure ...
Hervey announced the PreRelease of WSE 2.0 SP2 and I am very pleased to find that the WSE team already addressed the issue in the C++ compiler I reported a little while ago. They also got th...
Hervey announced the PreReleaseof WSE 2.0 SP2 andI am very pleased to find that the WSE team already addressed the issue in the C++ compiler I reported a little while ago. They also got the WSE settin...
I finally returned to that box with BTS 2004 and Whidbey Beta 1 I mentioned earlier.I wanted todo some work on another project-one that didn'tinteract withRPCencoded webservices. This time I ran into ...
I got brave/curious/stupid/desperate after getting BizTalk to call an RPC/encoded Web service again and installed the .NET runtime distributed with the October CTP to see if that would be an option to...
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