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Thanks to the folks in Expression Media and the Silverlight Streaming it is now amazingly easy to add video (or other Silverlight content to you blog with Windows Live Writer . With nearly an blog host, you can write your blog, "Insert Silverlight Video", have it positioned just where you want it in the entry, transcoded with some stock vide on the front or back, with the competently customized player of your choice, uploaded to your free Silverlight Streaming account where it is severed from free from a world class CDN that scales globally and at Internet scale. Read more about it at Silverlight Streaming Plug-in for Expression Encoder and watch the demos from the man himself . Read More...
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Brian J. Cardiff ( from Clarius Consulting) is one of the developers on the Web Client team. He has asked me to post an article for him, since he does not have a blog (yet). Here it is (with some re-formatting): Developing a ASP .NET Control with client capabilities (using ASP .NET Ajax Extensions support) Since the AjaxControlToolkit appears, creating extenders control like Autocomplete ( AjaxControlToolkit ) or Contextual Autocomplete ( Web Software Factory ) is a task that involves more work in JavaScript and Metadata that classic .NET programming. In this post I will point out some of the key aspects to create, a Control that takes advance of the ASP .NET Ajax Extensions . The post is based on the RealTimeSearchMonitor control located...
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I was messing around with some log files for the podcast and exported a CSV. There's lots of ways for us to get stats, but I was just poking around. Given a CSV format like this: "File","Hits","Bandwidth" "/hanselminutes_0026_lo.wma","78173","163625808" "/hanselminutes_0076_robert_pickering.wma","24626","-1789110063" "/hanselminutes_0077.wma","17204","1959963618" "/hanselminutes_0076_robert_pickering.mp3","15796","-55874279" "/hanselminutes_0078.wma","14832","-1241370004" "/hanselminutes_0075.mp3","13685","-1840937989" "/hanselminutes_0075...
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The guys over at Chart FX have long done some great .NET data visualization controls... recently they turned their attention to Silverlight and have done some pretty cool stuff. They are leveraging ASP.NET to give a very nice end-to-end story that helps customer move forward with the power of Silverlight easily from where they are today.. http://demo.softwarefx.com/Silverlight/Chart/Galleries/ Enjoy! Read More...
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In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , I now present the tenth in an infinite number of a weekly series called "The Weekly Source Code." Here's some source I'm reading this week that I enjoyed. Our theme this week is "Patterns Considered Harmful" with examples of source doing things we're "not supposed to do." ÜberUtils - Strings from Brad Vincent . Don't like System.String? Well, spot-weld a bunch of useful stuff onto it with C# 3.0 Extension Methods. Brad starts to talk about how his utils might be Considered Harmful: "Now I know some people might argue that this is extension method abuse, but look at how much more power my strings have...and anything that helps me code...
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One of the things that is important to think about when you start using Silverlight in your sites/applications is to make sure you handle the "what if the end user doesn't have Silverlight installed yet?" scenario. Ideally you want to make sure that the installation experience for Silverlight is very seamless, and nicely integrated into your overall end user experience. Silverlight "Indirect Install" Experience By default when you use the Silverlight.js library to load a Silverlight control in a page, it will automatically detect whether Silverlight is installed on the visiting client machine, and if not prompt the user to install it via an install image the Silverlight.js library automatically injects into your page. This default installation...
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Earlier this month we discovered that the VPC (Virtual PC) images we distributed as part of the VS 2008 Beta2 release this summer unfortunately have an operating system timeout of November 1st of this year. The standalone VS 2008 setup packages do not have this issue - only the pre-built VPC images do. So if you've installed VS 2008 on your own operating system image you won't have any issues. If you are using the Beta2 VPC images, though, is is really important that you retrieve all of the data that you have saved in them before November 1st (after this the OS won't work). Today we re-released the VS 2008 Beta2 VPC image downloads (without the timeout setting) that you can download and move to using instead here . Sorry for the mix-up, Scott...
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DotNetSlackers has just released Ajax Data Controls (ADC) as open source. The project is hosted at codeplex and there are several live examples which can be seen at the samples link below. The ADC contains an AjaxGridView, AjaxDataList, AjaxRepeater and we are going to add more controls very soon as well. To get a feel for them, check out the samples page. Very cool stuff by “TheSlackers” ! Project home: http://codeplex.com/ajaxdatacontrols Live Samples: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/ajaxdatacontrols Team Blog: http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/sonukapoor/default.aspx Team Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid Forums: http://dotnetslackers.com/community/forums/71.aspx Read More...
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Check out Dave Wards advice on Update Panels and Postabacks at Encosia HERE . http://encosia.com/2007/10/24/are-you-making-these-3-common-aspnet-ajax-mistakes/ Read More...
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For us old timers that miss ASM, now we can code assembly for .NET. Check it out here. http://www.viksoe.dk/code/asmil.htm Read More...
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