Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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New Features in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Course Released on Pluralsight.com
I've been hard at work the past few months filming a new course for Pluralsight covering some of the great new features in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms. I'm excited to announce that the new course is titled New Features in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and is now available on Pluralsight.com! If you're an ASP.NET Web Forms developer (and there are many of you out there!) then you should definitely take a look at the new features available in the 4.5 release if you haven't already. In my opinion, this is the most significant release since ASP.NET 2.0. I say that because some of the new features will truly change how you write your ASP.NET applications - especially the data binding features.
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Code and Slides from my Fall 2012 DevConnections Talks
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Call for Speakers – Fall 2012 ClientDev Connections
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New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5–Debugging Bindings in XAML
This is the third post in a series covering new line of business features in Silverlight 5.
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Getting the IE9 Beta to Play Well with Visual Studio 2010
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Silverlight Firestarter Event on December 2nd–Streamed Live!
If you’re interested in getting started with Silverlight development or enhancing your existing skills check out the upcoming Silverlight Firestarter event running December 2, 2010. The event can be attended live in Redmond, WA or viewed online (both for free). Sign-up for the event here. I’m excited about the opportunity to speak at the event along with Scott Guthrie, John Papa, Tim Heuer, Jesse Liberty, Jaime Rodriguez, Yavor Georgiev and others.
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Code and Slides from My LIDNUG Talk on Silverlight and MVVM
I had the opportunity to give an online presentation today (download it here) for the LinkedIn .NET User Group (LIDNUG) about how the MVVM pattern can be integrated into Silverlight applications. Thanks to everyone who attended! MVVM is one of those topics that I really enjoy talking about since we use it everyday at my company with the applications we’re building for customers. It’s one of those patterns that can really promote code re-use, enhance testability and minimize maintenance once you jump into it and take the time to learn how it works. -
Maximizing Productivity with the Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight Designer
Developing Silverlight applications has always been something I've enjoyed. I'm a big fan of the data binding engine that the framework provides and like the flexibility that XAML provides for building user interfaces. With all of the benefits Silverlight provides, the process of developing Silverlight applications hasn't always been as smooth as it could be especially if you relied solely on Visual Studio in the past. Silverlight 2 provided a read-only Visual Studio designer that didn't provide much in the way of functionality while Silverlight 3 only allowed XAML to be edited directly in the editor. Developers using Expression Blend weren't affected by Visual Studio designer limitations much while those without it ended up creating a lot of XAML by hand.
