September 2009 - Posts
And we have a new release of Ajax Control Toolkit. I didn’t work on this one but there are some nice things in there nonetheless :) First, new controls! SeaDragon : I’ve blogged before about Seadragon , the JavaScript-only way to do Deep Zoom . It became a lot easier to use a few month ago when the need for tools disappeared and you can just point to any image on the web and immediately get the URL and script tag to put on your page: Now with this release of Ajax Control Toolkit, including and controlling Deep Zoom from an ASP.NET page is also very easy : < ajaxToolkit : Seadragon ID ="Seadragon" CssClass ="seadragon" runat ="server" SourceUrl ="sample.xml"/> James Senior just released a screencast...
Visual Studio 2010 improves .NET framework multi-targeting by applying framework-appropriate filtering to the property grid and Intellisense. For example, if you select a button on a web form of a .NET 2.0 web project, in the Property Grid you will see: If you go to the Project Properties and change the Target Framework version to 4.0: ...the Property Grid display will change to display 4.0-specific properties: While this looks simple and straight-forward, there's actually an illusion at work! Only one framework can be loaded into an AppDomain at a time, and Visual Studio uses .NET 4.0 specific capabilities. So the actual controls displayed on the design surface are always 4.0 controls. Their properties are filtered for display in the Property...
I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki . I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview today and it was a lot of fun. I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day ) Silverlight 3 Control Toolkit Samples Silverlight SEO Silverlight 3 Navigation Application Themes Slidentity The next session I did was on .NET RIA Services.. You can find the demo i did http://bit.ly/4tmJA3 and the full series . Read More...
I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium. I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically the this application . At the Architect Forum I had a chance to talk in more depth about the general application pattern we are thinking about for RIA applications. I shameless stole some slides from Nikhil Kothari for this one. Check out out the slides ( direct link to slides ) Check out the completed demo . Read More...
I had a great time at the the Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group meeting. The turn out was excellent. Thanks especially to Gill Cleeren and Pieter Gheysens for hosting it. Gill asked me to talk about Framework Design Guidelines – I subject near and dear to my heart. I decided to do a bit of a look back over the last 10 years of framework design (we started what would later become the CLR about 10 years ago).. It is really fun to look at what has changed and what has not. Thanks to the great folks at Addison-Wesley i was able to give away a few copies of the book as well. Afterwards, we got to talking about how this stuff is actually the easy part...
For many web applications developed using Visual Studio, developers uses SQL express with mdf database file under app_data folder. If deploying data host requires SQL server, developers have to find ways to deploy the schema and data from mdf file to the host SQL server. Dev10 Beta1 provides an easy solution to publish the mdf file to the SQL Server host along with other application files. Here’s a walkthrough. 1. Create a new web application, create a SQL Server Database under app_data folder. Add some tables to the database, drag a table to the default.aspx designer. Ctrl-F5 to test it making sure it works. 2. Check the web.config file, note it has a connection string such as following: < connectionStrings > <...
I’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web applications and web sites on behalf of others. It enables you to get software, support and business resources from Microsoft at no cost for three years, and enables you to expand your business and build great web solutions using ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint and PHP, and the open source applications built on top of them. What does the program provide? WebSiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for three years at no cost. Once enrolled, you can download and immediately use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of...
I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years. What You Get Software: WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the program). Once enrolled, you can download and use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Blend, Sketchflow, and Web) 2 licenses of Expression Web 3 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of...
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying CSS to Web Forms Debugging ASP.NET Applications You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ZIP file directly from here . We hope you will find them useful. - Mikhail Arkhipov Read More...
Below is a tip/trick I twittered via my Twitter account earlier today. A number of people seemed interested in – so I thought i'd blog it here too. HTML Navigation Bar in VS 2008 By default, when you are in HTML source-editing mode with VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition there is a set of drop-downs that are rendered immediately above the HTML text editor view: This set of drop-downs is called the "Navigation Bar", and in the VS 2008 HTML editor they allow you to navigate between functions and methods defined within the HTML. These include both JavaScript client-side functions defined inline within the .aspx/.html file, and server-side methods defined in-line within the .aspx file when in single-file...
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