Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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Silverlight 3 / Expression Lab Posted
Arturo was kind enough to post a hands-on lab I created for a training event in Dallas.
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Silverlight 3 – How to access peripherals
The previous post on Silverlight 3 for kiosk apps outlined some architecture options how you can build Silverlight applications with access to peripherals. This follow up post goes into more detail on the implementation.
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What’s so old-school about text based programming?
Computerworld posted this piece that Microsoft developers are using text editors for development. What’s so old-school about that? What I mean really? Coding in text editors is not a trend among the grey-hairds like Lewis suggested on an internal thread. Text based tools are all the rave with the next generation of developers. I mean people that look like the Mac guy in the Apple commercials.
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WcfTestClient with Windows Azure
One of my customers is working on an Azure WCF service. When wanted to test the service with WcfTestClient, but we ran into some issues. We started the dev fabric and had the WebRole running on port 81. When we went to the WCF service metadata page at http://mybox:5101/ProdKService.svc, we got the expected web page, which states:
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Mobile Client Software Factory on VS 2008? Sure!
One of my customers was interested in some of the cool features of the Mobile Client Software Factory, but they wanted to develop on Visual Studio 2008. The original version from p&p wasn’t updated to VS 2008, but Glenn Block has a post that describes how to get MSCF to run in VS 2008.
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Tool For Uninstalling VSTO Add-Ins
I've been working with a customer on a very cool OBA - an Office Business Application - based on VSTO, Word 2007 and SharePoint workflows.
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More reasons for Visual Studio 2008
Jon Box (Architect Evangelist extraordinaire) thought my post discussing risk differences between Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 was a "Nice Job", but he actually did have a few comments on the new mobile-related features. He was right on, but he's too busy to post them. Let me do that it for him.
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Popfly blocks with Visual Studio 2008
Finally, the Popfly beta is available to the general public! What's Popfly, you ask? It's the mashup tool for the Silverlight generation and a community site to go with it.
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Visual Studio 2005 or 2008? What's more risk?
Should I stay or should I go … with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 is the question in this particular case. One of my customers is still on Visual Studio 2003 and they are wondering whether to upgrade to VS 2005 or to VS 2008.
Are there reasons for moving to VS 2005 instead of 2008 even though 2008 is so close to release? Minimizing risk is probably the major driver for deciding on VS 2005. After all, it’s been out in the market for almost two years and it’s stable and mature. There’s also the common wisdom that you shouldn’t deploy a Microsoft product that doesn’t have at least one service pack. Mind you that SP1 for Visual Studio didn’t come out until 12 months after the release of the product. Microsoft is no longer in the mode where the Service Pack has to hit 6 months after release because there were quality issues that needed to be fixed.
When it comes to determining to move to the newer Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 there are more points to consider:
1) Stability and maturity of the underlying framework and consequently the applications you’re building on top of the framework.
2) Stability and maturity of new features added with VS 2008
3) Product Support differences.
4) Productivity benefits of VS 2008 compared to VS 2005.