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Customer Value For years the Enterprise Library application blocks have helped developers address the typical cross-cutting concerns of enterprise development (such as diagnostic logging, data validation, caching, and exception handing). With over 3.2 million downloads, they take a prominent place in the toolbox of a modern .NET developer. These cross-cutting concerns are just as important [...] Read More...
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I was in Belgium and The Netherlands this last week presenting and talking to folks in the community. After I presented on ASP.NET MVC 3, HTML5 and jQuery, one fellow came up after and said, "Should I use Silverlight or HTML5. I don't understand what Microsoft's strategy is or what to use in my app." Since I work for the Web Platform and Tools team (ASP.NET, IIS, etc) I spend a lot of time working, coding, and thinking about the web. However, I'm not an official strategist, or marketing guy. But I do have an opinion; one that is mine and no one else's. That said, I don't think it's that hard and I'm surprised there's so much confusion about this (both outside and inside Microsoft.) Companies...
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One of the great features of Visual Studio, that’s been around for a while is snippets. Frankly, I should build more of these because I use them *so* often. I find them so useful I thought I’d share them here, either for you to use or to template into ones of your own. Firs t,when building templated controls I write this a lot: [TemplatePart(Name = ElementContent, Type = typeof (FrameworkElement))] And it’s not just that, I then have to create a constant to define “ElementContent” and then usually load that value into a member variable as part of OnApplyTemplate. So I built a snippet that builds this stuff out for me, resulting in this: [TemplatePart(Name = ElementContent, Type = typeof (FrameworkElement))] //private...
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Introducing AgFx One of the things we’ve spent a fair amount of time on is working with various application writers, helping them build great Windows Phone 7 applications. Many of the top applications that you’ll find on Windows Phone 7 devices today spent some time in a debugger on my desktop, or Jeff’s , or another one of the folks around here. In doing this process, we saw a lot of common trouble spots for developers looking to write Windows Phone 7 applications and as I started to think more about the problem. I thought the same thing I always think: “hmmmm, how can I build a framework that will make these things easy for the developer so they can worry about other stuff!” And so it was born, and I’m currently...
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The excellent DevConnections conference will be held in Florida later this month (March 27th to 30th). DevConnections features multiple concurrent tracks – including ASP.NET Connections, Silverlight Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Connections, and SharePoint Connections. I’ll be doing a keynote on the first day, and there will be dozens of fantastic talks that week by some of the best presenters in the .NET community. You can learn more about the conference here . I highly recommend the conference – and hope to meet up with some of you there! Scott P.S. Use the discount code “DevCon1” to save $200 when registering. Read More...
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Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight. Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices. In my keynote this morning we demonstrated a number of them, and highlighted both the developer productivity Silverlight 5 provides and the great new user experiences it enables. You can watch my keynote here . A Silverlight 5 beta will be available in the first half of next year, and the final release will ship in the second half of 2011. Premium Media Experiences We are seeing great adoption of Silverlight for premium media solutions. In the last few months we’ve seen...
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On December 2nd we are holding a free, all-day event focused on Silverlight. You can attend it either in person on the Microsoft campus (where you’ll get to network with a bunch of Silverlight experts, and meet the product team), or watch it streamed live online. The all-day event includes a ton of great content and presentations focused on Silverlight development. It includes a bunch of self-paced labs and walkthrough videos that enable developers that are new to Silverlight to follow along. It also includes great presentations that will teach new tricks to advanced of Silverlight developers. Most of the talks during the day will be focused on business application scenarios. My Future of Silverlight Keynote I’ll...
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Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion/concern about Silverlight that occurred from an interview given at the PDC conference last week. A few days ago Bob Muglia (President of our Server and Tools Division) posted a blog post on the Silverlight Team blog that helped clarify what he said in the interview that caused the controversy. You can read his post here . Three of the things that he explicitly said in the interview (and which were reported in the article - but unfortunately lost in the public reaction to it) were: Silverlight is very important and strategic to Microsoft. We’re working hard on the next release of Silverlight, and it will continue to be cross-browser and cross-platform, and run on Windows and Mac...
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I’m pleased to announce that today we shipped the final release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. You can download them here . What is Included? The Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools package includes everything you need to write awesome applications and games for Windows Phone 7. All of the tools included in it are absolutely free . The following is installed with the download: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone – Free edition of VS 2010 for Phone development. Express Blend 4 for Windows Phone – Free version of Blend for Windows Phone 7 Development. Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 – Rich framework for building great applications for Windows Phone 7. XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone 7 – Rich framework that enables...
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Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. You can download them here . What is included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone – a new free, express edition of Visual Studio 2010 Express Blend for Windows Phone – a new free, edition of Blend focused on Windows Phone 7 development Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone 7 Integrated with the development tools is a phone emulator that enables you to easily develop and test Windows Phone 7 applications on your laptop or desktop machine – without requiring a phone device. It is hardware accelerated, supports multi-touch events on multi...
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