August 2007 - Posts
With some help from Harris Chan and Steve Marx I got MySilverlightTV updated to the latest and greatest bits. It now uses the Silverlight 1.0 RC , .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2 , VS 2008 Beta2 , ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and ASP.NET Futures (July 2007) MySilverlightTV.zip [24MB] -- Without example videos mySilverlightTV(WithVideos) [93MB] - With example videos Read More...
Yes. This being out of the way, let me explain why (just in case you haven't read one of the million reviews that already say so). Some time ago, I wrote a blog post with my good friend Fabien Royer about what we consider to be the seven deadly sins of modern game design . We pointed out that even great games such as Gears of War or Oblivion always had at least one of these flaws. So how does Bioshock measure up against those (arbitrary) criteria? Checkpoints : Bioshock has checkpoints, but they're not your (big) daddy's old checkpoints. They are non-destructive checkpoints. They don't affect your progression , they just respawn you at some specific point. This is absolutely brilliant as it never punishes the player for trying something new...
Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Recreating the Google Analytics Table as an ASP.NET GridView : Matt Berseth has a great post on how you can templatize the <asp:gridview> control to provide really nice UI paging options. ASP.NET Charting with NPlot : Olav Lerflaten has a great article on 4GuysFromRolla.com that describes how to use the free NPlot chart engine for .NET to create professional scientific charts of data using ASP.NET. Export GridView to Excel : Matt Berseth has another excellent post on how you can export data to Excel from within your ASP.NET application. How to use PayPal Payment System...
I can't wait to do my first virtual user's group visit... This should be a blast! I went by there today and they have the place all set up for me... There is going to be a free poster give away (virtual of course) as well as demos of Silverlight (on the mac of course). Please try to come if you can... Here is what this setup looks like.... Event Details: Guest Speaker: Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager, .NET Framework When : Thursday, August 30th, 3 – 4 PM PST Where : Visual Studio Island Auditorium in Second Life How to join the event: If you’re already a member of Second Life, you can teleport directly to the Visual Studio Island via this link; http://slurl.com/secondlife/Microsoft/101/123/30/ If you’re new to Second Life, you’ll be guided...
A brief photo essay of my trip down-under ... with a select few photos from my photo gallery to recount some of the vacation highlights. Read More...
http://halo3.msn.com/videosHD.aspx I've been buried in Silverlight fun... but check this out. Read More...
It's my great pleasure to announce the availability of ASP.NET Ajax in action by Alessandro Gallo, a.k.a. Garbin , David Barkol and Rama Vavilala. It's a great resource to anyone working with ASP.NET Ajax and it's been written by some of the best specialists (check out how many forums posts they have on http://forums.asp.net/ ). It's also been my great honor to write one of the forewords (the other one is by Scott Guthrie, who wrote more than half of the ASP.NET books forewords out there ;). Check it out! ASP.NET Ajax in action Read More...
Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions to query the database with them, as well as update/insert/delete data. Below are the first seven parts in this series: Part 1: Introduction to LINQ to SQL Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes Part 3: Querying our Database Part 4: Updating our Database Part 5: Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control Part 6: Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures Part 7: Updating our Database using Stored Procedures In my last two posts ( Part 6 and Part 7 ) I...
I had a great time today a the Houston TechFest 2007 . My keynote focused on Silverlight, but covered the general .NET developer platform as well.. [ pptx and ppt versions] The talk was very demo focus... By popular audience vote, I did the first set of Silverlight demos on the mac.. here are a few screenshoots Live demo Live demo I followed those up with some more in FireFox... These showed high resolution video (HD) running seamlessly in browser.. Double click on the video and it smoothly goes full screen. The other demo showed 12 videos playing at the same time.. this showed the robustness of the video in Silverlight.. Double clicking on the video expands and rotates the video while it continues to play.. Then I talked about Rich Internet...
I just finished the migration of the ASP.NET Alerts project to CodePlex. You can find an explanation of what that is about in the original post: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2005/12/01/432016.aspx and download the components with their source code from CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/alerts Read More...
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