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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...

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...

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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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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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...

Tool For Uninstalling VSTO Add-Ins by ChristophDotNet

I've been working with a customer on a very cool OBA - an Office Business Application - based on VSTO , Word 2007 and SharePoint workflows. During the course of that we built a lot of demos and sometimes we had to uninstall the demos. Phil Hoff from the...
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More reasons for Visual Studio 2008 by ChristophDotNet

Jon Box (Architect Evangelist extraordinaire) thought my post discussing risk differences between Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 was a "Nice Job", but he actually did have a few comments on the new mobile-related features. He was right on,...
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Popfly blocks with Visual Studio 2008 by ChristophDotNet

Finally, the Popfly beta is available to the general public! What's Popfly, you ask? It's the mashup tool for the Silverlight generation and a community site to go with it. Mashups, that's that AJAX stuff, right? Not anymore! Why should mashups have to...

Visual Studio 2005 or 2008? What's more risk? by ChristophDotNet

Should I stay or should I go … with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 is the question in this particular case. One of my customers is still on Visual Studio 2003 and they are wondering whether to upgrade to VS 2005 or to VS 2008. Are there reasons for moving...
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