Archives for July 2010
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Microsoft PDC10 Announced–Book hotel early
So it appears we’ll be having a Professional Developer’s Conference after all this year. Today we announced the PDC10.
Unlike previous ones in ‘conference cities’ this one will be held at the source of the information, on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. The price looks to be less than previous as well, so check out the [...]
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Thoughts on WebMatrix
The WebMatrix announcement last week triggered a range of reactions on Twitter. It also brought back some personal memories.
A decade ago (wow), I started a little tool to simplify using and developing asp.net server controls as a side project, and it grew bigger and was eventually released using the name "WebMatrix". It was a fun [...]
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Quick Steps to displaying data using PivotViewer and Silverlight
Last week or so the PivotViewer control was released, which is from the Microsoft LiveLabs team. It’s a Silverlight control that enables you to visualize data information in a DeepZoom type experience. Be sure to check out the PivotViewer learning section for some initial information if you haven’t seen any demonstrations.
I received an email a [...]
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Quick Steps to displaying data using PivotViewer and Silverlight
Last week or so the PivotViewer control was released, which is from the Microsoft LiveLabs team. It’s a Silverlight control that enables you to visualize data information in a DeepZoom type experience. Be sure to check out the PivotViewer learning section for some initial information if you haven’t seen any demonstrations.
I received an email a [...]
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Silverlight Media Framework 2 released–integrate with Live Writer
Yesterday (7-Jul-2010), the Silverlight Media Framework v2 was released on Codeplex (yeah, it’s Open Source). If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a Silverlight framework encapsulating the best practices for media playback for Silverlight applications. It is both a framework and, in v2, they also provided compiled simple player XAPs that you can just [...]
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Silverlight bookshelf from SilverlightShow
SilverlightShow.net is one of those great community sites providing information, tutorials and general developer information around Silverlight. They’ve done a great job providing a spectrum of beginner to advanced topics on Silverlight development.
At MIX10 I was talking with one of the brains behind the site (and Silverlight MVP), Emil Stoychev, one one of the [...]
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Smashing Magazine July 2010 Windows 7 Theme
July 1st is here…time for an updated Windows 7 Smashing Magazine theme pack!
The July themes seem to be focuses on more ’summer’ things. Not as many Independence Day things as I would have suspected, but shows a good international design contribution. So here is your July 2010 Windows 7 Theme Packs for wallpapers – unfiltered [...]
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July 2010 Silverlight MVP Awards
Each quarter, new MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) candidates are awarded. January 2010 is the first awards of the year and so I present the new/moved/re-awarded Silverlight specific MVPs:
Alex Knight (@agkdesign) – started SilverZine and is a XAML designer extraordinaire
Cigdem Patlak (@crocusgirl) – doing some really fun stuff with Silverlight Show and a talented [...]
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Config-free IHttpModule Registration
The ASP.NET pipeline allows HTTP modules to plug in into the request processing lifecycle and do work at various stages. For example, output caching, authentication, authorization etc. are all implemented as HTTP modules.
However one of the problems is that HTTP modules must be registered in configuration. This is a little painful for writing framework components [...]
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Config-free IHttpModule Registration
The ASP.NET pipeline allows HTTP modules to plug in into the request processing lifecycle and do work at various stages. For example, output caching, authentication, authorization etc. are all implemented as HTTP modules.
However one of the problems is that HTTP modules must be registered in configuration. This is a little painful for writing framework components [...]