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Working on my PowerShell for Developers presentation I'm doing at our upcoming Devscovery Conference in NYC (April 27-29) it was a no brainer to use Jeffrey Snover's excellent Start-Demo script (much improved by Joel Bennett). If you're a bad typist like...
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Each instance of Windows Azure Service Role runs its own monitor to gather its own instance specific diagnostic data. The problem that immediately presents itself is knowing what exactly is being collected, where the data is being saved, and how to retrieve...
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I'll be presenting on Windows Identity Foundation today on GeekSpeak ( http://blogs.msdn.com/geekspeak/ )! Please tune in and ask questions, but if you miss it, they'll be recording it for posterity....
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In the first part of this series, I demonstrated a very simple project that used MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) along with the Managed Extensibility Framework to produce a simple screen that toggled between a square and a circle. In this next video, I am...
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This is a video tutorial to introduce beginners to how to use both MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) and MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) with Silverlight (should work for versions 3 and 4). Of course, some "veterans" may want to watch as well in case...
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Wintellect is sponsoring DevWeek 2010, Europe's leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects. While we won't be exhibiting this year, Jeffrey Richter and Jeff Prosise will be presenting several sessions...
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A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of presenting a talk entitled, "Silverlight Line of Business Applications" at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup Group . This talk focused on several aspects of building line of business applications, ranging from the...
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We often trip over ourselves trying to minimize code behind and abstract behaviors in the UI from the models, etc. This is important for clean separation, but sometimes behaviors may add too much abstraction. The real fact is many applications require...
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In my last post , I showed you how to dynamically load modules on demand using the latest MEF release in Silverlight 3. This post, I will take you through managing regions with MEF. This will enable us to have a 100% MEF-based solution in Silverlight...
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Idempotency is the mathematical term used to describe a system that produces the same result when a formula or procedure is applied numerous times against the same target. In software systems, this translates to an ability to perform an operation more...
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Recently I've been having lots of conversations about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) , the Composite Application Library (CAL or PRISM) , and how they relate. One point of confusion that many people has comes when they try to force the two...
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The Silverlight team recently posted a blog entry entitled " Vancouver Olympics - How'd we do That? " in which they detailed the massive effort across multiple partners to pull together the on-line solution for streaming HD videos, both live and on demand....
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Silverlight is a client side plug-in based technology that has been in production since late 2007. I've been a web developer for well over a decade now, and recently have focused almost exclusively on Silverlight since version 3.0 was released. It astounds...
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NDepend is a product that analyzes large code bases and provides information about dependencies, complexity of code, best practices, and more. While designed to help manage large code bases, it also works well as a "reality check" as you are developing...
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There has been a lot of buzz around Microsoft's latest mobile phone operating system. I hope to be involved with this product as much as possible and will blog the detals that I can as they are made available. While the buzz has referred to this as "Windows...
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Entity Framework derived types support inheritance and relationships, just as you’d expect from any Object Relational Mapper tool (ORM) Windows Communication Foundation Data Services (Astoria) throws an exception if your derived entities have relationships....
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One of the extensibility points added to the run-time in Silverlight 4 is the new INavigationContentLoader interface, which allows applications that use Silverlight's navigation framework to take control of page loading. In Silverlight 3, navigation URIs...
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One of the most common examples to help learn a language or framework is an RSS Reader. This is an ideal mini-project because it includes networking, parsing XML, and binding to data elements such as lists. I wanted to provide an example that shows some...
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Moq is a library that assists with running unit tests by providing easily mocked objects that implement interfaces and abstract classes. You can learn more about Moq on their website . There is a distribution for Silverlight, and in this post I'll focus...
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This is not a technical post, but one that bumps into business. Yes, occasionally us software developers have to lift our heads up and see that there's more to life than hacking code. This is especially true at small companies, such as Wintellect, were...
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Live Smooth Streaming is a Microsoft technology that allows you to take a live, encoded, incoming video stream and rebroadcast it using Smooth Streaming technology. This technology multicasts the video stream in segments of varying bandwidths. This can...
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I've had a few users ask me about finding memory leaks and understanding what happens with references in Silverlight. One very powerful tool to use when debugging Silverlight applications is the Windows Debugging Tools. You can download the 32-bit (x86)...
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I noticed on the forums there are a lot of users not comfortable with asynchronous programming who struggle a bit in Silverlight with getting their arms around the concept of a dialog box. In other environments, you can simply shoot out a dialog, wait...
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Half the battle when tracking down memory problems in a .NET application is seeing the reference chain so you can see why an object is still in use. You can use SOS and its !gcroot command to track them down, but that can bring new definitions to tedious....
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Hello all, I just wanted to tell everyone that my book, CLR via C# 3rd Edition, went to the printer this week and should be in stores in early February! The book has been updated for Visual Studio 2010, CLR 4.0 and C# 4.0. The source code for the book...
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