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Silverlight 3 / Expression Lab Posted by ChristophDotNet

Arturo was kind enough to post a hands-on lab I created for a training event in Dallas. It’s an introduction to Silverlight , that showcases some Silverlight 3 features, such as: Perspective 3D Element-to-Element Binding Out-Of-Browser Applications SaveFileDialog...
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Silverlight 3 – How to access peripherals by ChristophDotNet

The previous post on Silverlight 3 for kiosk apps outlined some architecture options how you can build Silverlight applications with access to peripherals. This follow up post goes into more detail on the implementation. I strongly encourage you to consider...
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What’s so old-school about text based programming? by ChristophDotNet

Computerworld posted this piece that Microsoft developers are using text editors for development . What’s so old-school about that? What I mean really? Coding in text editors is not a trend among the grey-hairds like Lewis suggested on an internal thread...
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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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