April 2008 - Posts

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview
Thanks to everyone who attended!  Sorry about the demo hiccups / going over.  As I mentioned in the beginning, I had a hard time trying to get everything I wanted to cover into 90 minutes.  As you can see, there's quite a bit in the ASP.NET Read More...
Posted 30 April 08 09:04 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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Silverlight 2 WrapPanel and ViewBox
These are two controls I hear people ask for that aren't currently shipping in Silverlight 2 (as of Beta 1).  However, since anyone can build a Silverlight control you have to think someone has built these right?  They have.  Here are the Read More...
Posted 29 April 08 04:50 by marcsc | 1 Comments   
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What is this Live Mesh and why do I care as a developer?
Well, I am not going to try to answer that:).  No seriously, the best way to get this question answered is to watch a MUST SEE video on Channel 9 called Programming the Mesh .  One of the many scenarios I think you'll find interesting is using Read More...
Posted 26 April 08 03:30 by marcsc | 1 Comments   
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WEBCAST: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview
The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target: Enabling High Productivity Data Scenarios - including MVC, Entity Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 03:36 by marcsc | 4 Comments   
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FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on Silverlight 2
Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the download links I promised: Deck: Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 Code: My Digg Sample The sample app is based on Scott Guthrie's First Look at Silverlight 2 blog series.  Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 03:12 by marcsc | 2 Comments   
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SCREENCAST: Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part I
When the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) was first introduced in the .NET Framework 3.0, the only way to host a workflow in a client application was to use the WorkflowRuntime class programmatically, start the runtime, and create/start an instance of Read More...
Posted 18 April 08 12:51 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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NEW RELEASE: Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper
I am happy to announce that we have a new release of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper to bring Intellisense in sync with the new Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1 .  In addition to 6.1 compatibility, we also made the following enhancements: Read More...
Posted 17 April 08 04:09 by marcsc | 4 Comments   
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VE JavaScript Intellisense Helper bug & workaround
A bug has been discovered when using the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper where JavaScript Intellisense fails to surface in a very common scenario.  The scenario is when you have declared a page level map variable.  You will get Read More...
Posted 14 April 08 09:24 by marcsc | 2 Comments   
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SCREENCAST: Exposing/Consuming RSS/ATOM using WCF 3.5 & Silverlight 2
In this screencast, I show you how easy it is to expose RSS and Atom feeds using the new Web Programming Model (REST) features, classes in the new System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace, and LINQ to SQL in the .NET Framework 3.5.  Then, you will Read More...
Posted 11 April 08 09:47 by marcsc | 2 Comments   
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Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1
The control has been releases / is publicly available.  Chris Pendleton has the details in his post titled New Virtual Earth API Release - Virtual Earth 6.1 .  The Virtual Earth Interactive SDK & full Virtual Earth SDK have not been update, Read More...
Posted 11 April 08 05:31 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Geospatially Enabling SharePoint with IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Suite
Thanks to everyone who attended.  Thanks to Scott Caulk from IDV Solutions for being a guest presenter.  You can find Scott's deck here .  Scott also asked I post the following links for those of you who want further information: IDV Solutions Read More...
Posted 09 April 08 09:48 by marcsc | 1 Comments   
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Service Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008
During the recent Public Sector Developer Conference in Washington, DC, I was asked about tools support, beyond the class designer, for modeling WCF services.  My answer was to use the Service Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008 from Read More...
Posted 09 April 08 09:28 by marcsc | 1 Comments   
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Launch Hands On Labs
I have received a few requests looking for the HOLs from the Windows Server 2008 / Visual Studio 2008 / SQL Server 2008 Launch events.  I just found out they are now available at http://heroes.labmanuals.virtualwide.com/ .  Read More...
Posted 09 April 08 05:47 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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Looking for my screencasts?
I've created a new list on my Windows Live Space so you can easily find My Screencasts .  I have a few planned so keep an eye out for new ones soon. Read More...
Posted 09 April 08 05:13 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
WEBCAST: Geospatially Enabling SharePoint with IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Suite
Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 (MOSS) is rapidly approaching the 100 million licenses sold milestone and SharePoint consulting services are white hot.  IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion software extends SharePoint to create a visual composite Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 06:50 by marcsc | 1 Comments   
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SCREENCAST: Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample
Scott Guthrie has a great eight part series titled First Look at Silverlight 2 where he walks you through building a Silverlight 2 sample app from scratch.  The walkthrough highlights almost all of the key features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1.  Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 02:29 by marcsc | 2 Comments   
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FOLLOW UP: Public Sector Developer Conference (Washington, DC)
UPDATE: Added link to LINQ deck Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ session yet, but will update this post when I get it.  However, I did promise Read More...
Posted 03 April 08 04:13 by marcsc | 1 Comments   
WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Silverlight 2 for Business Applications
Sorry for the slow follow up post.  For those of you looking for Pete's deck from the webcast, it's at http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/archive/2008/03/20/Slides-from-Silverlight-for-Business-Applications-Webcast.aspx .  Read More...
Posted 01 April 08 06:43 by marcsc | 1 Comments   
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Improving the performance of drawing large vector datasets on the Virtual Earth map.
One of the topics that comes up often when I give Virtual Earth programming talks is that there is a point where performance degrades when adding shapes (pushpins, polylines, polygons) to the map.  When depends on the complexity of the shapes you Read More...
Posted 01 April 08 06:07 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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Silverlight 2, Accessibility, Section 508, etc.
During my recent Silverlight 2 talks, I have had a handful of questions around building Section 508 compliant applications with Silverlight 2.  I've mentioned that the accessibility features are not in the current beta, but they are coming.  Read More...
Posted 01 April 08 03:48 by marcsc | 2 Comments   
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