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Editor's note: I wrote this back in August, shortly after the STLDoDN but for some reason my blog decided not to make it public. This past weekend I spoke at the St. Louis Day of .NET , presenting a talk on MVVM. I was honored to actually have my session double-booked speaking on both Friday and...
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Update 3: Things are very interesting. Look for a "what we know" post over the next few days. Update 2: Thanks to MyDigitalLife forum user NaiveUser we have hard evidence that XAML is indeed supported through DirectUI . Also with his process explorer dump it looks like GDI and User are still...
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Hello All, I was recently asked to build up a Silverlight tool to show a file full of addresses on a map. I decided to use the Silverlight bing maps control and I must say I was not disappointed with it's functionality. It ended up being extremely simple. The tools used to create this were VS2010...
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With its noticeable absence from PDC 2008 and 2009, it appeared that Windows Mobile had all but been abandoned. Yes and no. Windows Mobile is no more . Say hello to Windows Phone. The opening keynote for Mix 2010 was all about Windows Phone 7. If it weren’t patently obvious from the various leaks and...
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Hey All, I was working with a client that wanted to have a default button clicked when an enter key is pressed in a textbox (password box to be more specific) within a Silverlight or WPF application. I didn't think much of it. I'll just listen to the event, bind to the button, and click the button...
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Hello all! First off, I want to say this post does not reflect the way I think authentication should be handled. I don't necessarily agree with the route Facebook has decided to go with Connect , but that is a debate I don't really wish to be a part of right now. I would like to concentrate on...
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Whoa...today is a doozy for buzzing, so let's get right to it. I For One Welcome Our New Cloud Overlords The latest Deep Fried Bytes episode (entitled "Windows Azure: the Overlord in the Cloud") includes an interview with Steve Marx, Program Manager for Windows Azure. 7's a Lucky Number...
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Sorry I've lapsed in giving you your daily fix of Azure related news. If you followed me on twitter , you wouldn't have to wait for this stuff. Anyway I've collected a ton of news for you in the interim. Hope you've got a monstrous appetite for this stuff because here it comes! From the...
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I Hope You Like Text Before I forget again, Microsoft announced their new Bizspark program this past week, which gives qualifying software solutions startups free VSTS+MSDN Premium subscriptions, free Azure hosting, and free business use server and desktop licenses of Windows, SQL Server, Biz Talk Server...
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Earlier today, my partner in crime, David Justice, decided to take the Silverlight Toolkit Sample and make it Cloud enabled . Wow, I said...let me deploy it to my Azure Hosting account. 4 Clicks later, and I present to you Silverlining
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I finally got some hands on time with Windows Azure. No I don't mean using the SDK and the Hands-on Labs that you can get from the Azure Developer Center on MSDN. (You have downloaded them already haven't you?) I mean my application is actually running, in the cloud, as I type. For right now...