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Silverlight 3 for Kiosk Apps? Of Course! by ChristophDotNet

Several of the customers I work with are looking to build kiosk or point-of-sale applications with Silverlight . The ease of deployment with browser-based Silverlight applications is definitely appealing. Sharing applications or components between customers...
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WcfTestClient with Windows Azure by ChristophDotNet

One of my customers is working on an Azure WCF service. When wanted to test the service with WcfTestClient , but we ran into some issues. We started the dev fabric and had the WebRole running on port 81. When we went to the WCF service metadata page at...
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Need Help Migrating to SQL Azure? by ChristophDotNet

Migrating an existing SQL Server database to SQL Azure is a compelling story, but it’s not a trivial task … unless you start with the SQL Azure migration wizard put together by my team mates George and Wade . They just updated the wizard to support SQL...
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WinMo App Store Questions? I got answers by ChristophDotNet

The Windows Mobile app store is about to launch. The team launched a number of videos on the Windows Mobile Dev Channel on YouTube to walk you through the submission process for your application, but as I’m working with the team over at TripCase , we...
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Win7 Multi-touch. Why wait until WPF4? by ChristophDotNet

WPF 4 is going to fully integrate Win 7’s multi-touch capabilities. with Windows 7 being RTM, you don’t have to wait for WPF 4 to be released for developing multi-touch demos. You can get started today with the native Win7 APIs , or with the WindowsTouch...
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Seadragon Mobile for the iPhone by ChristophDotNet

The iPhone always reminds me of Finding Nemo (iPhones, they think they’re so cute. Oh, look at me, I’m a flicky little iPhone, let me flick for you. ) . Yesterday, Bill Crow from Live Labs just posted about an app that makes the iPhone even cooler – and...
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Resolving Errors - Moving to Silverlight2 RTW by ChristophDotNet

Following Jesse’s and Pete’s excellent posts on porting Silverlight2 apps from Beta 2 to the final release bits I thought I add just a little more information. As I worked with one of my customers that’s featured in the launch press release through their...
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Mobile Client Software Factory on VS 2008? Sure! by ChristophDotNet

One of my customers was interested in some of the cool features of the Mobile Client Software Factory , but they wanted to develop on Visual Studio 2008. The original version from p&p wasn’t updated to VS 2008, but Glenn Block has a post that describes...
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Apple ... Puhleeeeeeeeeze ... by ChristophDotNet

Apple is the new Microsoft? Right ... they sneak Safari and MobileMe onto my system - without me asking. That's the kind of stuff Microsoft got in trouble for back in the mid 90s. Isn't it? Now they are fast approaching being the new Netscape: C'mon,...
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Presentation Canvas - Not Your Average PowerPoint by ChristophDotNet

The linear style forced by PowerPoint and the metaphor of a slide may have reached their limits. At least support for other styles is on its way ... of course also from the Office team. The innovation team in Office Labs to be exact. If you've seen my...
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