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PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

Brad Abrams — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:30:00 GMT

I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009 . I was able to spend much of the time in a demo… Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk through it on your own machine: What you need to get started: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Silverlight 4 Beta (now includes RIA Services ) Completed Solution (starting step and demo files ) Check out the slides Starting Off I am starting off with the new Business Application Template that gets installed with RIA Services. This new template includes: Pattern for page navigation Log\Logout and new user registration support Localizable User settings Shared Code For this demo, I am going to used a customized version of the template.. After you create the project,...(read more)

RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development

Nikhil Kothari's Weblog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:03:31 GMT

In my post on RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture , a while back (right after MIX09), I mentioned that I like to think of RIA Services as RAD for RIA. At that point we had a very early preview of framework bits with little tools support. A large part of jumpstarting your development actually centers around good tooling. VS2010 brings tooling for RIA Services (now: WCF RIA Services). Scott Hanselman demonstrated some key features used in building a Contacts application (as shown on the right) during the keynote at PDC09 . The latest version of RIA Services is now available for download. It works on .NET 4 and VS2010 as well. You can also check out a video tutorial on using RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010. In this post, I want to highlight...(read more)

HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:06:00 GMT

You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file. Place html_5.xsd in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html Run either x86 or x64 reg file depending on the OS and VS/VWD flavors installed. For example, for VWD Express installed on 64-bit OS run HTML-5-Schema-Reg-x64-VWD.reg and for VS 2008 installed on 32-bit OS run HTML-5-Schema-Reg-x86.reg. Restart VS You can select HTML 5 in the schema dropdown and HTML 5 element...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09

Nikhil Kothari's Weblog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:35:44 GMT

Lots of wow from this morning with Silverlight 4 (and RIA Services) taking center stage in the keynote, here at PDC09. [ Full post continued here... ] Read More......(read more)

Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta!

Brad Abrams — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:57:43 GMT

Today at PDC09 , Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services . As you may know RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build traditional 2 tier apps. I am very excited about this release as it represents a lot of great feedback we have heard from many of you. A few goodies in this release based on your feedback You told us you wanted to get up and running with the UI quicker, so we enabled the “DataSources” window that allows you to drag and drop “tables” exposed by your Domain Service onto the form and get meaningful UI to start with. No more guessing about the Xaml syntax for databinding, or incantation...(read more)

PDC09 - A Call to Dream

Nikhil Kothari's Weblog — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:15:12 GMT

Immediate thoughts after Ray Ozzie's keynote at PDC09 [ Full post continued here... ] Read More......(read more)

November is conference month…

PeteL's Blog : share — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:50:49 GMT

Every November comes around and I’m always reminded how many conference seem to take place about now, it’s kind of crazy – in a good way. I’m on to week three of travel, and haven’t seen my own bed in more nights than I care to count – but ah well! Where I’ve Been Last week was TechEd Europe in Berlin. A great conference with lots of good materials! Coincidentally it took place during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, and the celebrations were pretty spectacular! While I was there, I recorded a couple of TechTalks with my good pal Matt, they’re worth checking out! Windows Internet Explorer Web Slices and Accelerator Analytics Do you have an Accelerator or Web Slice on your website? This talk will cover...(read more)

PDC week! Panel on OSS + ASP.NET

Tales from the Evil Empire — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:13:48 GMT

I’ll be at PDC tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. If you are attending and want to say hi, you’re most likely to find me in the Web Pavilion (in the big room, next to the Surface lounge). Please also join us for a panel discussion on Wednesday about Open Source on ASP.NET. We’ll have the following people on the panel to answer your questions, and ask you a few too: Scott Hanselman Shaun Walker Sara Ford Glenn Block Clemens Vasters Myself The discussion will be between 2PM and 3PM, in the Web Pavilion. Read More......(read more)

Metrics in software and physics

Tales from the Evil Empire — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:32:32 GMT

Every so often, somebody points out how bad of a metric code coverage is . And of course, on its own, it doesn’t tell you much: after all, it’s a single number. How could it possibly reflect all the subtlety (or lack thereof) of your designs and of your testing artillery? Of course, within all the various *DD approaches, some better than others enable you to know whether or not your code conforms to its requirements, but I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the general idea of a software metric and how it relates to the mothers of all metrics: physical ones, cause you know, I used to be a scientist. Proof: the lab coat on the picture. The theory of measurement is at the center of all experimental physics. This comes from the realization...(read more)

http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!

Brad Abrams — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:03:03 GMT

We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services. We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help us get more good stuff up there. http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ Read More......(read more)

November Conferences

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:05:20 GMT

I’m doing keynotes at two big conferences later this month: ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas: November 9th to 12th I’ll be doing a keynote talking about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 at the ASP.NET Connections conference next week. I’ll also be doing an evening Q&A session together with the ASP.NET team. ASP.NET Connections is a great conference that is jointly hosted with the VS, SharePoint, SQL and Windows Connections conferences (enabling you to choose from tons of great sessions). The speakers at the event are also really top-notch. You can learn more about the conference and register online here . PDC in Los Angeles: November 17th to 19th I’m also doing a keynote at the Microsoft PDC conference in two weeks. The PDC is Microsoft...(read more)

JavaScript class browser: once again with jQuery

Tales from the Evil Empire — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:43:26 GMT

I’ve already posted twice about that little class browser application. The first iteration was mostly declarative and can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/09/14/building-a-class-browser-with-microsoft-ajax-4-0-preview-5.aspx The second one was entirely imperative and can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/10/15/entirely-unobtrusive-and-imperative-templates-with-microsoft-ajax-4-preview-6.aspx This new version builds on top of the code for the imperative version and adds the jQuery dependency in an attempt to make the code leaner and simpler. I invite you to refer to the imperative code (included in the archive for this post ) and compare it with the jQuery version, which shows a couple of ways...(read more)

We Need Your Feedback on the Documentation

Brad Abrams — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:49:25 GMT

The doc teams are looking for your feedback on the .NET Framework and Visual Studio docs. Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey . This survey will give us a better understanding of the type of applications you are developing as well as how you use Help and how we can improve it. The survey takes only 10 minutes, and we really appreciate your feedback! Feel free to forward the survey link. Read More......(read more)

Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:49:00 GMT

Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one . Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have already created a WSP, you may be asking yourself, “Can I convert my WSP into a WAP, without starting from scratch?”. This posting explains how to convert an existing Web Site Project to a Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2010. The most striking differences to a Web Site Project are that WAPs have a project file to include and exclude files, and compile to a single assembly. The guidelines below include several of the basic steps detailed in the Walkthrough: Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project in...(read more)

Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:12:09 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers a small, but nice, change coming with VS 2010 – an “Add Reference” dialog that loads fast. Add Reference Dialog in VS 2008 The slow performance of the “Add Reference” dialog in previous releases of Visual Studio has been a common complaint that many a developer (including yours truly) has ranted about. Previous releases of VS opened the “Add Reference” dialog on the “.NET” tab by default – and when that tab was loaded VS would synchronously scan the global assembly cache...(read more)