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And that’s a rap. The 2010’s Most valuable Professional Summit is now over. It took place in Bellevue & Redmond, Washington, and for those who couldn’t be there for all the good stuff in the agenda, well, eyes wide open for blogs, tweets and streams.
In the meantime, get yourself on the run for that distinguished MVP title and get your ticket to next year’s summit as well as your trophy-kit. The girls will love it… I guess :o)
Next, on April 12th, Microsoft will be pairing with DevConnections for the Visual Studio Launch at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino...
When designing UI’s in WPF and Silverlight, you may wish to make your layout fluid and auto-expandable in order to take the most out changing UI context. For instance, when data quantity and quality changes, available space may also change and objects in the layout need to adapt to these changes. When an auto layout is needed, no width nor height are specified which can be troublesome since the design view tends to collapse available space. For instance, a variable size user control with a data-binded listbox has no child items in design time, so you’ll see nothing but a...
David Hill from the patterns & practices team posted a very interesting article concerning MEF and Prism. It talks about the benefits your applications get from using these extensibility technologies, but also clears some misunderstandings regarding their purpose. I’ve been faced with this question several times and the online community reflects this same common overlap. While MEF is purely an extensibility API, Prism is a development pattern that allows you to organize and manage your WPF/Silverlight project through modularity and thus isolate requirement and functionality concerns in development teams.
They’re both part of .NET Framework 4.0 and a MUST if you...
A lot has happened in PDC 2009. Although I couldn’t make it this year, I’ve been watching it very closely from the keynotes, session contents, technologies, attendees, the space, chill out zone and merchandising. XAML-wise, there were some glorious days.
Some cool WPF 3 and 4 apps were shown in day 2 of this year’s PDC, like Saesmic, a Tweeter and Facebook desktop client for MAC and Windows, Pivot, from Microsoft labs, Fishbowl, another facebook desktop client, and I’ve been inspecting every one of them. Aside from the release of Silverlight 4 Beta, IE 9 video demo, Office 2010 Beta,...
Q: What happens when you cross a Silverlight application with Bing Maps?
A: A full fledged geographical DeepZoom navigation experience.
This is what you get with the new Bing maps Silverlight Control now available from Microsoft.
Vodafone and Microsoft have been working together in order to develop a custom retail application for vodafone customers. It's been implemented in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom, so customers that live in these countries can now experience Surface in local flagship Vodafone stores.
Microsoft recently released an updated version of their Facebook SDK for .NET developers. This is the result of a joint partnership between Clarity Consulting and the Concept Development Team at Microsoft.
According to Microsoft "the goal is to enable .NET developers to quickly and easily leverage the various features of the Facebook Platform." The software giant has provided samples and tools for helping develop Facebook applications in the various .NET platforms including: ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF and WinForms. Microsoft has also release the source code for the API, components, controls, and samples."
The main goals driving the release of version 3.0 are:
• Provide...
Since .NET 4.0 Beta 1 was released a few weeks ago I've been sniffing here and there around the framework for averything new. The WPF 3D team posted a series of new features aroung graphics that I thought of broadcasting:
RenderOptions.ClearTypeHint: If WPF renders text into a potentially transparent surface (e.g. a layered window like a menu or popup) we use grayscale anti-aliasing instead of ClearType because if the transparent surface is blended with another transparent surface, the ClearType will get messed up. Now with ClearTypeHint you can tell us to use ClearType and we’ll trust you that things aren’t...
It's been a while since I posted here, and shameless as it might seem I just moved to my new appartment and it's been a busy month.
Trying to redeem my self, It's time for another great announcement: On Monday, Microsoft released Visual Studio/Team System 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 for those who are MSDN subscribers. Well today it is time for everyone else to have a piece of the cake. Counting from yesterday, the download is publically available to anyone who wants to download it. I have to say that this is indeed a treat. The new features...
If you are currently developing for the web and animations and sleek design is your game don't forget to check out Glimmer, a WPF-based application that harnesses the power of JQuery:
"Glimmer is a WPF-based Windows application that allows you to easily create interactive elements on your web pages by harnessing the power of the jQuery library. Without having to hand-craft your JavaScript code, you can use Glimmer’s wizards to generate jQuery scripts for common interactive scenarios. Glimmer also has an advanced mode, providing a design surface for creating jQuery effects based on your existing HTML and CSS."
Check it out here.
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