October 2007 - Posts
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...
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...
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...
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...
As Blaine and Glenn mentioned, this week the great folks at Patterns and Practices where able to ship a Reference Implementation that for the web client bundle. I love these releases because the P&P folks think about the problems directly from building out real world applications. They take the products we have such as ASP.NET 2.0 , ASP.NET AJAX and the AJAX Control Toolkit and fill in any missing gaps to build out real world applications... they include all the source code for what they build and have active support channels for you to get your questions answered. Here is a brief summery of what the reference implementation shows (seamlessly stolen from Blaine) Composability : Building a composite web application Modularity : Building complex...
It's a boy! No, no, no not that. If you're a SubSonic fan, you may have seen Rob Conery's blog today with the announcement that he's accepted an offer to join my team. I've been working with Rob on some projects over the past few months and it's been nothing but goodness. I'm super excited about this. ScottGu and I have been talking about ways to continue to build community momentum around our tools and platform, and a project like SubSonic is just a great, great example of that. Given our existing relationship with Rob, plus the new ASP.NET MVC stuff, formalizing something here made a lot of sense. Moreover, this is a very natural addition to the other transparency stuff that I've been driving over the past few years - the open source AJAX...
By default .NET applications (EXEs) that are launched from a remote file system (eg \\server\bin\SomeApp.exe ), will not be considered trusted and typically will fail (unless specifically designed to run with low trust). This is in direct contrast with unmanaged applications which always give full trust to launched programs, regardless of location. From a quick search , I know many of you have run into this issue and have found some work arounds . The .NET runtime team is considering changing this behavior so that managed applications act just like unmanaged one in this respect. We believe that it will not decrease security, but there is risk and effort required for any change and would like feedback on its likely usefulness to customers. A...
I finally got my TechEd video re-posted... For more information on the talk, please see: Silverlight, ASP.NET, Expression and Windows Server 2008 Download the full video Read More...
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 Sending Email in ASP.NET 2.0: Reply-To, Priority, and Read Receipts : Scott Mitchell has a useful article that describes how to use some of the more advanced email features available with .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0. Improving the Presentation of an Extra-Wide GridView : Matt Berseth has a nice article that demonstrates how to add some cool CSS and AJAX effects to an ASP.NET GridView control to improve its readability. Also checkout his follow up article for even more custom styles. Cleanup Inactive Anonymous Users : ASP.NET 2.0 has support for an optional feature called "anonymous...
I love the DNR guys .. They have a great show and I was fortunate enough to be able to talk in person to Carl Franklin at ReMixBoston . While I know the show is not exactly Steely Dan's "Home At Last" , it was a lot of fun. The argentiferous part of the show starts at about 11:00 I talked a bit about the end to end demo I did at ReMixBoston.. We talked some about where Silverlight 1.0 is great (Video), where Silverlight 1.1 will really take off (RIAs) I talked some about where the developer experience is going wrt to web application and Silverlight development is going.. Purely my personal thoughts, but maybe interesting.. We also touched on the developer\designer story we have now and how we can grow into the designer world... I had a chance...
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