Wallace B. McClure : .NET

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Wallym — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:00:00 GMT

I wanted to thank everyone that purchased a copy of my MonoTouch ebook. I got an email from my editor at Wrox last week and he saiys that sales are going very well. I think mobile is finally panning out!

My MonoTouch ebook is out - Build iPhone apps with C# and run on the iPhone

Wallym — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:30:00 GMT

My MonoTouch ebook is out.

This Wrox Blox is for .NET developers who want to learn to develop for the iPhone with C# using MonoTouch and MonoDevelop on the Mac. The iPhone is the smartphone leader in mindshare and the amount of money spent on applications. This lead in money spent on applications is expected to grow over the next several years. Objective-C is the native language for iPhone development. .NET developers, who work in the largest general area of development frameworks, have looked at iPhone developers with a great deal of envy. But with the release of MonoTouch, .NET/C# developers can apply their knowledge to iPhone development. This Wrox Blox will provide you with the basics of development on the iPhone with MonoTouch and MonoDevelop.

Table of Contents

iPhone Requirements 2

Development Strategies 3

Web Development with ASP.NET 3

MonoDevelop and MonoTouch 4

Visual Studio .NET ➪MonoDevelop 4

Classes in MonoTouch 4

What Is MonoTouch? 4

Namespaces and Classes 5

Introduction to Development on the Mac with MonoDevelop 6

Interface Builder 8

Outlets 10

Actions 14

Deploying to an iPhone 15

Mapping 17

MKMapView 17

The Application 18

Annotating the Map 20

Debugging 21

Interacting with Other Applications 22

UIPicker 22

NSUrl 24

UIAlertView 26

UITableView 26

DataSource 27

Binding Data to a UITableView 29

Customizing UITableView 30

Accelerometer 33

Settings 34

Things to Watch Out For 37

Resources Used 38

About Wallace B. McClure 39

Usage Rights for Wiley Wrox Blox

ASP.NET Podcast Show #138 - Coding Microsoft Velocity with David Penton - video

Wallym — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:30:00 GMT

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Code Samples: http://www.aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/files/folders/podcastsupportfiles/entry1293.aspx

Show Notes:

----- Code Sample Notes -----

Four (4) assembly references are needed for a cache project:
CacheBaseLibrary.dll
CASBase.dll
ClientLibrary.dll
FabricCommon.dll
Import System.Data.Caching for code using Velocity
You must start with a CacheFactory. No parameters in the construct means to read from a configuration file.
From there, cache is accessed via a CacheName. You can use Cache.DefaultCache for the default (returns null) For CTP2, you cannot easily seek out if a region is created.
Cache.DefaultRegion is null as well.
There is quite a bit of log messages that are exposed by default in Velocity. Especially for a Cache Miss.

ASP.NET Podcast Show #118 - Paul on Peer-To-Peer with Windows Communication Foundation

Wallym — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:24:00 GMT

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Understanding PNRP Clounds
http://blogs.msdn.com/p2p/archive/2007/06/12/understanding-pnrp-clouds.aspx
Peer Name Resolution Protocol
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726971.aspx
Peer-to-Peer Programming with WCF and .NET Framework 3.5
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297274.aspx
INETA Community Champions Information.
Silverlight Challenge.

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.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 talk on August 14

Wallym — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:01:00 GMT

I'll be Huntsville, AL on August 14 talking on .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET Developers. I'm looking forward to this. The site for the user group is: http://vsdotnetug.org/DesktopDefault.aspx

For the past couple of weeks, I have been blogging regular posts on "My life with Visual Studio 2008."

Visual Studio .NET 2008 on Thursday? - Looks like Friday now

Wallym — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:55:00 GMT

According to BetaNews.com, start looking for Visual Studio 2008 on Thursday. The download page at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700830.aspx says the product is here, but alas, I do not see it yet. That's not stopping me from refreshing the page every 5-10 minutes. Enjoy the wait. Intellisense for Javascript makes the wait worth it.

PS. It appears the page has been updated and the references to Beta 2 have been removed.

PSS. A new article on BetaNews.com says that it will be out on Friday.

ASP.NET Podcast Show #95 - Jim Wooley on LINQ Part I (video and audio)

Wallym — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:56:00 GMT

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Part 1:
In the past, working with data has required learning a number of different API sets for each kind of data you needed to access. Relational data requires ADO. XML uses Xpath, XQuery and the XML Dom. Objects require you to write your own manipulation code. In this video, Jim Wooley (MVP in VB) introduces the Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) project and demonstrates how to leverage it to use a single API to work against objects or relational data. In it, we explore extending an existing web site to add the ability to load a set of web links from a database and display them using ASP.Net with Visual Studio code name "Orcas". He starts with a standard object collection populated by a DataReader and demonstrates how to eliminate the plumbing code using LINQ and LINQ to SQL.

Originally recorded on 3/21. Link to the Beta 1 download page: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx

This video is part 1 of 3 recorded at the Atlanta Visual Basic Study Group (www.avbsg.net). If it stops abruptly, it is because we didn't realize pressing F10 to step through code in a VPC would cause our recording tool to stop. The code samples and slides are available at http://devauthority.com/files/13/jwooley/entry38500.aspx. Jim can be contacted via his web site at http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley or at the site for his upcoming LINQ book at http://LinqInAction.net.

August 14, 2007 - Huntsville - North Alabama talk on .NET Orcas

Wallym — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:22:00 GMT

I'll be at the HUNTUG meeting on August 14th, 2007 to talk about .NET Orcas and some of the things coming down the pipe in the next version of .NET.

Oracle 11.0.5.10 Beta tools for .NET

Wallym — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:04:00 GMT

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/windows/odpnet/index_11gbeta.html

Sweet, looks like a new set of tools for working with Oracle in .NET. Too bad its beta.

Professional Sql Server 2005 CLR Programming - Highly Recommended

Wallym — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:19:00 GMT

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470054034.html

I was walking through Barnes & Noble last week and I came across this book from Wiley. I bought it to see what Derek and Doug had to say. I've read a bunch of pieces of this book and it is very informative. They discuss the technical aspects of development and they cover a lot of the whys of doing things, such as TSql vs CLR, along with performance. If you are working in the Sql Server 2005 area and are looking at Sql Server CLR objects, you need this book. It is highly recommended!

Wally

PS. I write for Wiley, but I spent good money on this book on my own.

Oracle Database .NET Drivers and Server Updated for Vista

Wallym — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:02:00 GMT

It looks like Oracle has released a set of .NET database drivers and server code that runs on Windows Vista. This is really good news for those of us that work in multiple database environments. Here are the links I see right now:

Vista Code: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/htdocs/10203vista.html

ODAC only: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/windows/odpnet/index.html

.NET Framework for the Mac?

Wallym — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:26:00 GMT

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+takes+Silverlight+beyond+Windows/2100-1012_3-6180322.html?tag=nefd.top

It would seem to me that the ability to write C# and VB.NET code that runs in Silverlight and on the Safari Web Browser on the Mac means that we just might see a full .NET Framework for the Mac sometime in the future. Yes, I know about Rotor, but I mean something that is supplied and supported by Microsoft and runs on the Mac. It would pretty much mean that .NET would win the front end client war again. We would have Microsoft's APIs on Windows (obviously) and the Mac. Realistically, there aren't any other front ends out there as the two of them are at least 90% and probably 95% of the front end desktop marketplace. Thoughts?

ASP.NET Podcast Show #89 - JavaScript Intellisense and Debugging in Orcas - Video File

Wallym — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:36:00 GMT

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Show Notes:

Orcas Beta 1.
Javascript Intellisense.
Javascript Debugging.
http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/03/02/jscript-intellisense-in-orcas.aspx
http://forums.asp.net/1112/ShowForum.aspx

Orcas Beta1 - Multitargeting

Wallym — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:51:00 GMT

Original Post: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2007/04/21/777.aspx

I have downloaded and have gotten the Virtual PC Image of Visual Studio / .NET 3.5 up and going. One of the interesting pieces is the ability to compilea project/solution to multiple versions of the .NET Framework. I dug into the property of a project. I went into the build option and I found this drop down below. Pretty cool. I can select .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 (Orcas).

ASP.NET Podcast Show #88 - Page State Persistence - Video

Wallym — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:23:00 GMT

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Book Status.
Page Persistence in a database.
Power Point Files.
Source Code.