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| In Silverlight Application Change your Namespace and Assembly Name The first thing I do when creating a new project in Visual Studio
(regardless of type) is change the project name, assembly name, and
default namespace. I like for the names of all these to be consistent.
However, I have noticed in Silverlight, you must make changes in five
different places for everything to work alright otherwise you will get
errors. I’m no Silverlight expert, but I thought this post would
be useful for people like me who only dabble in it from time to time.
When you create your new Silverlight project, right click on the project
name and bring up its properties. Go ahead and change the default
namespace and assembly name just like you would in any other project. silverlight.sys-con.com |
7/23/10 9:16 PM
Microsoft Money Machine Grinds On Microsoft’s stock price may stink but its P&L numbers are
pretty much sweet perfume. In the June quarter, Microsoft’s fiscal
fourth quarter and the end of its fiscal year it made $4.52 billion, 51
cents a share, up 48% on record revenues of $16.04 billion, up 22%. silverlight.sys-con.com |
7/23/10 5:45 AM
Microsoft Expands Intune Cloud Beta Microsoft is going to charge 11 bucks a month for each desktop PC
attached to Intune, the cloud service that manages SMBs, once it comes
out of beta early next year. And Microsoft will throw in upgrade rights
to Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. Microsoft is moving to beta 2 with the
stuff and expanding the test bed from 1,500 Americans and Canadians to
10,000 North Americans and Western Europeans in the US, Canada, Mexico,
Puerto Rico, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Spain and the UK. Beta 2
is limited to five-25 machines. Resellers will be able to keep tabs on
several customers in a single multi-account screen. silverlight.sys-con.com |
7/17/10 4:00 PM
Microsoft Amassing Slate Army Royally trumped in the tablet business that it couldn’t get off
the ground – while Apple made it look easy – Microsoft is
promising to return in force underneath the slates that 21 companies are
supposed to put out within the year to dip their bread in the bubbling
Apple-made gravy. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday that
companies like Asus, Acer, Dell, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo,
Panasonic and Sony – even HP despite its current infatuation with
Palm’s WebOS – will be coming out with Windows 7-based
tablets. “This year one of the most important things we will do
in the smart device category is really push forward with Windows 7-based
slates and Windows 7 phones,” he said. This is a terribly
important area for us. We are hardcore about this.” silverlight.sys-con.com |
7/17/10 3:30 PM
Windows 8 Slides Apparently Leak Apparently Microsoft had a chin wag with computer makers in April about
what Windows 8 might look like so they can make plans because a set of
the “NDA” “Microsoft Confidential” PowerPoints
used at the meeting seem to have turned up on an Italian web site called
Windowsette over the weekend. They are evidently real. At least they
are widely accepted as genuine and seem to have been in the possession
of an HP engineer named Derek Goode. Not that they’re all that
revealing or even a “plan of record,” but it looks like
Microsoft is expecting to release the next-generation operating system
some time in 2012 and that Internet Explorer 9 will hit beta this
August. silverlight.sys-con.com |
7/4/10 4:45 PM
Office Web Apps Inch Out Ahead of general release June 15 and following release to the corporate
world last month, Microsoft Monday said its browser-based Office Web
Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada and
Ireland, SkyDrive being its free browser-based storage and document
sharing service. The lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
OneNote are accessible through OfficeLive.com and require an Office Live account. silverlight.sys-con.com |
6/9/10 12:00 PM
Office Web Apps Inch Out Ahead of general release June 15 and following release to the corporate
world last month, Microsoft Monday said its browser-based Office Web
Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada and
Ireland, SkyDrive being its free browser-based storage and document
sharing service. The lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
OneNote are accessible through OfficeLive.com and require an Office Live account. silverlight.sys-con.com |
6/9/10 12:00 PM
Ballmer Gets His Two Cents in at D8 On Steve Jobs’ contention that this is now a post-PC world:
“I think that people are going to be using PCs in greater and
greater numbers for years to come.” But PCs will look different.
They’ll evolve. They’ll get smaller, get touch, get
different interfaces, their insides will change. “The real
question is what is a PC? Nothing done on a PC today will get less
relevant tomorrow. I think there will exist a general-purpose device
that does anything you want, because people don’t want multiple
devices, or can’t afford them. I think the PC as we know it will
continue to morph in form factor. So the real question is where do you
push?” Addressing Job’s truck analogy he says,
“Windows machines will not be trucks.” silverlight.sys-con.com |
6/4/10 10:45 PM
The Next Chapter in the Virtualization Story Begins Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of
cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the
fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud
Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010. Malcolm
is keynoting at the event. His theme will be "An Open Cloud
Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm." silverlight.sys-con.com |
5/31/10 11:45 AM
The Next Chapter in the Virtualization Story Begins Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of
cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the
fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud
Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010. Malcolm
is keynoting at the event. His theme will be "An Open Cloud
Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm." silverlight.sys-con.com |
5/31/10 11:45 AM
‘There is No Software Market in China’: Ballmer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer likes India or even Indonesia way better
than China, he told Bloomberg while in Hanoi, because China
doesn’t have a handle on piracy or on IP protection in general,
which makes it a “less interesting market to us,” he said.
“There is no software market to speak of” in China. The
value of the software China pirated hit $7.58 billion last year, double
the 2005 figure, according to IDC and the Business Software Alliance.
Microsoft may only see returns from 5% of the copies of Office and 20%
of Windows that the Chinese use. silverlight.sys-con.com |
5/29/10 6:00 PM
Windows Phone 7 Session Line-Up for Tech-Ed 2010 Tech-Ed 2010 in New Orleans is just around the corner. While there are certainly a lot of really high quality sessions available there, of biggest interest to me are the Windows Phone 7 sessions. The following is a list of the sessions as they appeared on the Tech-Ed site this morning:
I've bolded and italicised the sessions that I think are crucial for new Windows Phone 7 developers. Don't get me wrong - all of these sessions are valuable and the XNA sessions are of particular value to people currently building games using the XNA framework. My point is that for the vast majority of developers flocking to this new platform, these are the sessions that I think will be the most important. Developers need to understand how Silverlight works, how Silverlight functions on WP7 devices (including similarities as well as portions of Silverlight that do NOT exist on mobile devices). Also, knowing how to code applications so that they perform well is absolutely critical for mobile device development. More than any other target platform, knowing how to make the most efficient use of resources and how to build things that respond as fast as possible to user needs and don't suck battery power will make you more effective at building WP7 apps and, ultimately, make you more money selling your app in the Marketplace. We saw a lot of this at MIX, but I'm hoping that at Tech-Ed we'll get a new Beta release of the SDK and tools and get more definition and clarity around the exact set of features and functionality planned for 1.0 as well as the release immediately following that. Developers need to know what they can do now, and what they can start planning for next year. Either way, if you're attending Tech-Ed or not, there will undoubtedly be a flood of valuable information coming out of that conference and I for one can't wait to get even further into WP7 development. silverlight.sys-con.com | 5/28/10 5:08 PM Windows Phone 7 Session Line-Up for Tech-Ed 2010 Tech-Ed 2010 in New Orleans is just around the corner. While there are certainly a lot of really high quality sessions available there, of biggest interest to me are the Windows Phone 7 sessions. The following is a list of the sessions as they appeared on the Tech-Ed site this morning:
I've bolded and italicised the sessions that I think are crucial for new Windows Phone 7 developers. Don't get me wrong - all of these sessions are valuable and the XNA sessions are of particular value to people currently building games using the XNA framework. My point is that for the vast majority of developers flocking to this new platform, these are the sessions that I think will be the most important. Developers need to understand how Silverlight works, how Silverlight functions on WP7 devices (including similarities as well as portions of Silverlight that do NOT exist on mobile devices). Also, knowing how to code applications so that they perform well is absolutely critical for mobile device development. More than any other target platform, knowing how to make the most efficient use of resources and how to build things that respond as fast as possible to user needs and don't suck battery power will make you more effective at building WP7 apps and, ultimately, make you more money selling your app in the Marketplace. We saw a lot of this at MIX, but I'm hoping that at Tech-Ed we'll get a new Beta release of the SDK and tools and get more definition and clarity around the exact set of features and functionality planned for 1.0 as well as the release immediately following that. Developers need to know what they can do now, and what they can start planning for next year. Either way, if you're attending Tech-Ed or not, there will undoubtedly be a flood of valuable information coming out of that conference and I for one can't wait to get even further into WP7 development. silverlight.sys-con.com | 5/28/10 5:08 PM Microsoft to Pay Troll $200m Microsoft Monday agreed to pay VirnetX Holding Corporation $200 million
and take a license to the outfit’s virtual private network
widgetry to resolve a patent dispute that saw VirnetX win a $105.8
million jury verdict in March. The company complained in early 2007
that Windows and Office Communicator products tread on two of its
patents and the judge could have trebled the award. VirnetX, which
wanted to be acquired by Microsoft, then filed a second suit on St
Patrick’s Day charging infringement by Windows 7 and Windows
Server 2008 R2. silverlight.sys-con.com |
5/22/10 2:45 AM
Google Fires First Shot in Brewing Codec War Google fired a shot across Apple’s bow Wednesday and considering
the way things have been going Apple will probably seek to return fire
in the not-too-distant future with an armor-piercing lawsuit. The latest
fray started when Google got up at the Google I/O developers conference
– like it was widely expected to do – and open sourced VP8,
the video codec it got when it acquired On2 Technologies, the video
compression house, in February for about $125 million. VP8 will try to
displace H.264, the proprietary codec that Apple and Microsoft are
invested in. VP8 is now part of a thing called the WebM project, which
also includes the open source Ogg Vorbis audio format, and a container
format based on a subset of the open source Matroska multimedia
container. silverlight.sys-con.com |
5/21/10 7:00 PM
Azaleos Broadens Management Partnership with EMC Azaleos Corporation on Wednesday announced that it has deepened its
existing technical and business partnership with EMC Corporation. As
part of the broader relationship, Azaleos has extended its patented
ViewX monitoring system to provide advanced troubleshooting of EMC
CLARiiON AX and CX networked storage systems in Microsoft SharePoint
Server 2010 environments. This complements ViewX’s existing
capabilities for managing Microsoft Exchange Server and CLARiiON
infrastructures. In related news, Azaleos also announced Monday the
newest version of its remotely managed service for SharePoint Server,
Azaleos Managed SharePoint 2010 Services, and a new managed file
transfer service for Microsoft Exchange file attachments called
AttachIT. silverlight.sys-con.com |
5/12/10 4:30 PM
Azaleos Broadens Management Partnership with EMC Azaleos Corporation on Wednesday announced that it has deepened its
existing technical and business partnership with EMC Corporation. As
part of the broader relationship, Azaleos has extended its patented
ViewX monitoring system to provide advanced troubleshooting of EMC
CLARiiON AX and CX networked storage systems in Microsoft SharePoint
Server 2010 environments. This complements ViewX’s existing
capabilities for managing Microsoft Exchange Server and CLARiiON
infrastructures. In related news, Azaleos also announced Monday the
newest version of its remotely managed service for SharePoint Server,
Azaleos Managed SharePoint 2010 Services, and a new managed file
transfer service for Microsoft Exchange file attachments called
AttachIT. silverlight.sys-con.com |
5/12/10 4:30 PM
The Future of Software Development As software developers, our mission is to deliver positive,
technology-based solutions – software that provides both the means
and the method for working faster, performing better, achieving more.
There is little doubt that the technologies we create provide users with
the control and functionality needed to be more efficient and
productive. However, what happens when the tools we use to produce these
solutions get out of control? Evolution in the technology ecosystem has
accelerated to the speed of light – blink and you may miss
something important. The software development landscape has mushroomed
with near-exponential growth; new products and innovations are flooding
the market on a daily basis. It begs the question: does this swift
evolutionary pace represent a positive stage in the maturation of
software development or are we moving too quickly for our own good? What
does the future of software hold for us? It is an open question that can
only be answered with time. silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/29/10 6:00 PM
Microsoft Outsources Its IT Management Microsoft is outsourcing management of its internal IT services
worldwide to Infosys under a three-year contract based on so-called
“outcome pricing.” The Indian company expects to use what it
learns to support shared customers. The deal includes Microsoft’s
help desk, desk-side services (subcontracted to Unisys), IT
infrastructure and application services and support for devices and
databases at 450 locations. Infosys is supposed to streamline
implementation processes, simplify support and lower costs. silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/16/10 11:00 PM
Identify Performance Bottlenecks in Your BizTalk Environment - Part 3 In my last two articles I wrote about how to Use BizTalk Performance
Counters and how to Analyze Adapter and Pipeline Performance. In this
final article I focus on Orchestration and calling external services.
Orchestrations can be as simple as reading a file from a file system,
transforming it and writing it out to a different file. They can also be
much more complex such as calling external web services depending on
certain conditions in the incoming messages, taking the response of
these services and calling other services or writing a transformed
version of the response to a file or the database. The following
screenshot shows a rather simple Orchestration taken from one of the
examples that ships with BizTalk. silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/9/10 3:00 AM
Identify Performance Bottlenecks in Your BizTalk Environment - Part 3 In my last two articles I wrote about how to Use BizTalk Performance
Counters and how to Analyze Adapter and Pipeline Performance. In this
final article I focus on Orchestration and calling external services.
Orchestrations can be as simple as reading a file from a file system,
transforming it and writing it out to a different file. They can also be
much more complex such as calling external web services depending on
certain conditions in the incoming messages, taking the response of
these services and calling other services or writing a transformed
version of the response to a file or the database. The following
screenshot shows a rather simple Orchestration taken from one of the
examples that ships with BizTalk. silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/9/10 3:00 AM
Microsoft Opines on Cloud Computing Security Microsoft delivers enterprise and consumer cloud services from a global
infrastructure that must keep customer data secure and maintain privacy
and availability. This session describes how Microsoft has built on the
same security principles used to manage risks to Microsoft software
development and operating environments to create an information security
program for its cloud infrastructure that maintains Microsoft’s
commitment to delivering a trustworthy computing experience. You'll hear
how Microsoft’s information security program operates and meets
complex statutory and regulatory compliance requirements. This includes
a review of its ISO/IEC 27001:2005 based compliance framework and
information security management system. silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/6/10 4:00 PM
Microsoft Opines on Cloud Computing Security Microsoft delivers enterprise and consumer cloud services from a global
infrastructure that must keep customer data secure and maintain privacy
and availability. This session describes how Microsoft has built on the
same security principles used to manage risks to Microsoft software
development and operating environments to create an information security
program for its cloud infrastructure that maintains Microsoft’s
commitment to delivering a trustworthy computing experience. You'll hear
how Microsoft’s information security program operates and meets
complex statutory and regulatory compliance requirements. This includes
a review of its ISO/IEC 27001:2005 based compliance framework and
information security management system. silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/6/10 4:00 PM
Writing 'Hello World' Program for Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is a cool new mobile platform from Microsoft.
Developers can use Silverlight, XNA Framework and of course .NET compact
framework for developing applications for WP7. What do you need To get
started, download and install the following tools on your Windows 7 or
Vista PC. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2338b5d1-79d8-4... Installation includes Visual Studio 2010, Expression Blend, Windows
Phone [...] silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/5/10 6:04 AM
Writing 'Hello World' Program for Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is a cool new mobile platform from Microsoft.
Developers can use Silverlight, XNA Framework and of course .NET compact
framework for developing applications for WP7. What do you need To get
started, download and install the following tools on your Windows 7 or
Vista PC. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2338b5d1-79d8-4... Installation includes Visual Studio 2010, Expression Blend, Windows
Phone [...] silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/5/10 6:04 AM
Adobe Turns Host Adobe has opened the first of three new geographically diverse data
centers for its bought-in Business Catalyst service, a hosted services
platform for professional web designers that’s supposed to save
them the trouble of back-end coding. The place is in North America and
will be joined in a couple of months by facilities in Europe and
Asia-Pac. Adobe expects users to deploy business web sites such as
online stores and lead-generation mini-sites. silverlight.sys-con.com |
4/2/10 11:30 PM
Abiquo’s Diego Parrilla to Present at Cloud Expo East Traditionally, a team’s infrastructure resources have been at the
mercy of the system administrator. Development teams using Agile
Development Methodologies are made rigid by this dated and inefficient
system. “What if” scenarios are generally never attempted
because the upfront cost of IT resources needed to reallocate the
necessary infrastructure is too high. Unfortunately, Agile development
efforts often fail because the development team does not control the
management and deployment of the artifacts they develop. In his session
at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Diego Parrilla, VP Product
Management at Abiquo, will discuss the future of infrastructure
management, which will reduce our dependence on IT for day-to-day
operations, eliminating waste and boosting productivity in the process.
Abiquo makes that future a reality by giving management teams hands-on
control of resource allocation without risking damage to any virtual
machine. Infrastructure changes are made easily and instantly, can be
made by anyone with administrator capabilities, and do not affect other
teams’ resources. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/30/10 9:45 PM
PerspecSys Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo East SYS-CON Events announced today that PerspecSys, a provider of the Cloud
Data Governance Solution, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of
SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com ), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits
Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading
Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New
York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The PerspecSys
mission is to open cloud computing up to every enterprise by giving them
the ability to preserve total control over their most precious of assets
– their data. With the Perspecsys Cloud Data Governance Solution,
enterprises can employ and leverage cloud-computing without having to
turn their private and sensitive data over to a third party. Their data
never leaves their premise! The PerspecSys solution allows organizations
to meet all the regulatory, compliance and legislative requirements
imposed by cloud computing. The PerspecSys solution addresses what is
considered by many to be the adoption challenges of cloud computing,
namely: Data Privacy-Residency-Security. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/30/10 12:15 AM
Silverlight 4 + RIA: Exposing WCF (SOAP\WSDL) Services I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed as a Soap\WSDL
service. This is very useful if you want to enable the exact same
business logic\data access logic is available to clients other than
Silverlight. For example to a WinForms application or WPF or even a
console application. SOAP is a particularly good model for interop with
the Java\JEE world as well. First you need to add a reference to
Microsoft.ServiceModel.DomainSerivves.Hosting.EndPoints assembly from
the RIA Services toolkit. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/29/10 5:31 PM
Silverlight 4 + RIA: Exposing WCF (SOAP\WSDL) Services I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed as a Soap\WSDL
service. This is very useful if you want to enable the exact same
business logic\data access logic is available to clients other than
Silverlight. For example to a WinForms application or WPF or even a
console application. SOAP is a particularly good model for interop with
the Java\JEE world as well. First you need to add a reference to
Microsoft.ServiceModel.DomainSerivves.Hosting.EndPoints assembly from
the RIA Services toolkit. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/29/10 5:31 PM
Cordys Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Expo East SYS-CON Events announced today that Cordys has been named “Gold
Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com ), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits
Convention Center in New York City. Mark De Simone, Chief Business
Development Officer at Cordys, will present a general session entitled
“Continuous Business Transformation: The Cloud Value Chain,”
on April 20 from 5:05 – 5:35 p.m. He will also participate in the
CEO Power Panel – “What's the Main Business Value of the
Cloud?” on April 20 from 7:20 – 7:50 p.m. Catherine Minter,
President of Cordys Americas, will present “Collaboration in the
Cloud with GoogleApps and Cordys” on April 19 from 6:20 –
7:05 p.m.; and Philip Karecki, Solutions Director and Sr. Partner of
CSC, will join Cordys in presenting on “Transforming Financial
Service Firms with the Cloud” on April 20 from 9:10 – 9:55 a.m. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/26/10 8:30 PM
Windows Azure for Noobs Ok, so I admit I’ve been busy on projects and of course I’ve
been focusing a ton on SharePoint 2010. In the meantime, I hadn’t
been paying much attention to what’s been developing with cloud
computing and more specifically in this case Windows Azure. I was, in
fact, a noob. :-) This week I had the opportunity to attend a Windows
Azure Boot Camp, so that now makes me an expert. At least that is what
my boss will claim. :-) So this post today is for those of you who
haven’t been keeping up and want to know about some of the basics.
It’s not to teach you the ins and outs of developing with Windows
Azure. Although, getting started isn’t too difficult and the boot
camp site has all the materials you need to get you started quickly. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/26/10 12:00 AM
Windows Azure for Noobs Ok, so I admit I’ve been busy on projects and of course I’ve
been focusing a ton on SharePoint 2010. In the meantime, I hadn’t
been paying much attention to what’s been developing with cloud
computing and more specifically in this case Windows Azure. I was, in
fact, a noob. :-) This week I had the opportunity to attend a Windows
Azure Boot Camp, so that now makes me an expert. At least that is what
my boss will claim. :-) So this post today is for those of you who
haven’t been keeping up and want to know about some of the basics.
It’s not to teach you the ins and outs of developing with Windows
Azure. Although, getting started isn’t too difficult and the boot
camp site has all the materials you need to get you started quickly. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/26/10 12:00 AM
Great Presentation to the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group I continue to be impressed with the quality of .NET Developers in
Israel.. we had a full house last night for a 2+ hour presentation on
building business applications with Silverlight and RIA Services. The
audience was very engaged and had lots of good, relevant questions which
created a really good conversation. Check out the slides and demo. I
started off by demoing the Right-to-Left text support for Hebrew that is
baked in as part of Silverlight 4. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/25/10 4:45 PM
Great Presentation to the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group I continue to be impressed with the quality of .NET Developers in
Israel.. we had a full house last night for a 2+ hour presentation on
building business applications with Silverlight and RIA Services. The
audience was very engaged and had lots of good, relevant questions which
created a really good conversation. Check out the slides and demo. I
started off by demoing the Right-to-Left text support for Hebrew that is
baked in as part of Silverlight 4. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/25/10 4:45 PM
Web 2.0 and the Return of the Relationship Wikis. Blogs. Podcasts. Social networking sites. File sharing.
User-generated content. These are just some of the hallmarks of the
much-talked-about (but little understood) "Web 2.0." As with
any concept that gets a lot of buzz and attention, Web 2.0 is a
catchphrase that marketers, luminaries, and business strategists seem
compelled to drop into almost any discussion. The conventional wisdom is
that if your business hasn't fully embraced Web 2.0 (whatever that
entails), then it is falling woefully behind and missing out on
lucrative opportunities. In response, many companies, including firms
from across the spectrum of the financial services industry, have raced
to set up corporate blogs, invite user-generated content, set up
profiles on MySpace, open storefronts in "virtual world"
Second Life, and take other steps to connect with their markets using
Web 2.0 tools. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/23/10 9:45 PM
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Validating Data To continue our series let’s look at data validation our business
applications. Updating data is great, but when you enable data update
you often need to check the data to ensure it is valid. RIA Services as
clean, prescriptive pattern for handling this. First let’s look
at what you get for free. The value for any field entered has to be
valid for the range of that data type. For example, you never need to
write code to ensure someone didn’t type is
“forty-two” into a textbox bound to an int field. You also
get nice looking and well behaved validation exposure in the UI. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/23/10 5:38 PM
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Validating Data To continue our series let’s look at data validation our business
applications. Updating data is great, but when you enable data update
you often need to check the data to ensure it is valid. RIA Services as
clean, prescriptive pattern for handling this. First let’s look
at what you get for free. The value for any field entered has to be
valid for the range of that data type. For example, you never need to
write code to ensure someone didn’t type is
“forty-two” into a textbox bound to an int field. You also
get nice looking and well behaved validation exposure in the UI. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/23/10 5:38 PM
Terremark VP to Present at Cloud Expo East Go beyond the marketing hype, the brands and the buzzwords, and learn
how differences in architecture, infrastructure, security and design can
have significant impact on your ability to take advantage of the
cost-effectiveness and agility of infrastructure-as-a-service without
compromising availability, performance and compliance. In his general
session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Chris Drumgoole, Senior
Vice President of Client Services at Terremark, will discuss how leading
enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power
and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture and
present a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/22/10 11:15 PM
XML Maven Goes to Google to Fight the iPhone XML co-creator Tim Bray has fled Sun and Oracle – where he says he
could have stayed – for Google Android and the title developer
advocate to stick it to iPhone, which he labels a closed “sterile
Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The
people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and
fear his anger. I hate it….Apple apparently thinks you can have
the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what
programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what
developers can say to each other. I think they’re wrong and see
this job as a chance to help prove it.” He’s staying in
Canada. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/19/10 9:15 PM
Windows Phone 7 Series – Initial Developer Impressions Windows Phone 7 Series (hereafter I'll just call it WP7) debuted a while
ago at a press event but it's true coming out party was this past week
at MIX 2010. This conference is a designer-developer hybrid conference
and, of all the Microsoft development conferences I've ever attended,
this has consistently been the most informative and exciting of the
bunch. In case you've been hiding under a rock this past week, Microsoft
has been showing off WP7 and the development experience for it. I'm
going to oversimplify here, but this is the basic idea: You can choose
to either develop for the platform in Silverlight or you can use the XNA
toolkit normally used for building XBox and PC games in C#. WP7 has all
the trimmings including push notifications, rich GUI (hardware
accelerated), rich audio, the full power of Silverlight's media control,
and it even has Xbox live integration allowing you to unlock
achievements by playing games on the phone. Development tool is standard
Visual Studio and for the Silverlight model you can use Expression Blend
4 to build you GUI (and there are some fantastic new improvements in
Blend 4). silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/18/10 2:08 PM
Windows Phone 7 Series – Initial Developer Impressions Windows Phone 7 Series (hereafter I'll just call it WP7) debuted a while
ago at a press event but it's true coming out party was this past week
at MIX 2010. This conference is a designer-developer hybrid conference
and, of all the Microsoft development conferences I've ever attended,
this has consistently been the most informative and exciting of the
bunch. In case you've been hiding under a rock this past week, Microsoft
has been showing off WP7 and the development experience for it. I'm
going to oversimplify here, but this is the basic idea: You can choose
to either develop for the platform in Silverlight or you can use the XNA
toolkit normally used for building XBox and PC games in C#. WP7 has all
the trimmings including push notifications, rich GUI (hardware
accelerated), rich audio, the full power of Silverlight's media control,
and it even has Xbox live integration allowing you to unlock
achievements by playing games on the phone. Development tool is standard
Visual Studio and for the Silverlight model you can use Expression Blend
4 to build you GUI (and there are some fantastic new improvements in
Blend 4). silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/18/10 2:08 PM
Microsoft Azure and Open Data Protocol - OData In an increasingly interconnected world interoperability finds the
highest resonance. The Open Data Protcol (OData) provides developers
from many progrmming background such as C#, Java, Javascript, PHP etc.
an open protocol to produce and consume data. Windows Azure Platfrom
not only stands to gain from conforming to this protocol but also
answers Google's GData with a rich data ecosystem. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/18/10 10:45 AM
Microsoft Azure and Open Data Protocol - OData In an increasingly interconnected world interoperability finds the
highest resonance. The Open Data Protcol (OData) provides developers
from many progrmming background such as C#, Java, Javascript, PHP etc.
an open protocol to produce and consume data. Windows Azure Platfrom
not only stands to gain from conforming to this protocol but also
answers Google's GData with a rich data ecosystem. silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/18/10 10:45 AM
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight.
You can find all the slides (more than I was able to cover in the talk)
here. and the the full play-by-play of the demo (include a link to the
completed solution). I started off talking why SEO matters. You can
view the site live by using Bing for “my foodie Explorer Cooking
Class with Joe..” or the other guys search engine equally well. ;-) silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/17/10 8:02 PM
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight.
You can find all the slides (more than I was able to cover in the talk)
here. and the the full play-by-play of the demo (include a link to the
completed solution). I started off talking why SEO matters. You can
view the site live by using Bing for “my foodie Explorer Cooking
Class with Joe..” or the other guys search engine equally well. ;-) silverlight.sys-con.com |
3/17/10 8:02 PM
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