March 2008 - Posts
Technorati Tags: event , community , scotland , microsoft event , community , scotland , microsoft
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As requested, it's probably easiest to create and maintain an index post and link to that from all the posts so here goes: Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 1) Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 2 - Components) Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 3 -
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Links to the other posts in this series NB I introduced an error in Pt 3 which I have since corrected (near the bottom beneath the aspx listing) So we were left with two outstanding questions after Pt 4: Can I expose my own events on my component? What
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Links to the other posts in this series So just before we get ahead of ourselves and build or fresh new VEMapControl into a server control, a couple of things (well three actually): How do I access my component after it's been created? Can I expose my
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Or "Hotels At Which I'd Really Like to Stay"? You decide . Anyway, having been here I'd really like to stay here [Edit: I need to point out that the top photo is actually a tourist information office IIRC so don't turn up there expecting to
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Links to the other posts in this series Let's take a quick look at the control I created for the launch event. By adding an instance of my VEMapControl to my page thus: < cc1:VEMapControl ID ="VEMapControl2" runat ="server" ImageUrl ='~/Photos/Image1.png'
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Links to the other posts in this series In Part 1 I looked at what an ASP.NET AJAX control is and the basic building blocks of such controls, the Sys.Component , Sys.UI.Behavior and Sys.UI.Control types. Let's look at what these types offer us: Sys.Component
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And I'm not happy about it. ASP.NET 3.5 is offered to new customers but not existing customers. When I asked when it would be available I was told "Unfortunately we do not have an estimated time for current accounts to be able to upgrade to ASP.NET 3.5."
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Links to the other posts in this series Following on from my post about my DevWeek session , I thought I'd try and do a bit of an intro to ASP.NET AJAX controls. I expect most people reading this are familiar with ASP.NET AJAX and maybe have some experience
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Following on from the live demo , here's the demo source I used for my launch session. Download the slides and / or demos here . A few things to note and a few "getting it up and running tips". Download the zip file (you may need to "unblock"
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Thank you to everyone who came along to my session at the launch in Birmingham yesterday - it was certainly pretty packed! I promised a lot of people a copy of the demos and they'll be here soon. In the meantime, I've uploaded a "live" version
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Mike's posted about his talk at QCon earlier this week which is a great intro to Silverlight 2 with links to his slides and demos. Technorati Tags: silverlight , expression
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I'm feeling a little under the weather today (have been all week - probably something I picked up on my travels) but noticed that Gary has posted a quick what's new in Expression Web 2 Beta . Embarrassingly I didn't know it was out there (I should have
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Thanks to everyone who came along yesterday. I was concerned that I may end up talking to an empty room as I was up against Jeff Prosise's Silverlight 2 session. In the end I needn't have worried as there was a good crowd of people there eager to hear
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I get asked about this a lot and, to date, my answers have been very vague as I simply didn't know what the deal was (no longer being heavily involved with SharePoint I hadn't tried it myself). Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to see an announcement
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Daniel left a comment on my post about mouse wheel support saying he'd managed to get it working in managed code so I decided to take another look. It turns out that the object to which you attach your handler is critical and differs between IE and Firefox:
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I've updated my Deep Zoom demo to add mouse wheel support for zooming. There is no way to capture mouse wheel events in managed code in Silverlight 2 so I tried a couple of approaches. Firstly I tried to attach a managed event handler to the DOMMouseScroll
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With inspiration and a bit of help from MikeT , Daniel and Yasser (and John in his comments) I had a crack at a simple Silverlight 2 demo with Deep Zoom. You'll find links to all the tools etc in the linked posts but essentially I took some images and
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You can download the new ASP.NET MVC Preview here . The updated Silverlight ASP.NET controls get installed along with the Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 1 (or Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 which includes the SDK). For these downloads go here
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My Silverlight 2 (plug-in and tools) installation was trouble free (I did worry the install had hung at the end but it just takes a while to complete the final stage) but BradleyB has posted a great article with Installation Tips for Silverlight Tools
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I mentioned in a previous post that there was much improved accessibility in Silverlight 2. There's a video interview with Mark Rideout on the Mix08 site with more details. When I talk to customers about Silverlight I often get asked about accessibility
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You can watch the Steve Ballmer keynote live starting about now at http://www.visitmix.com And 25 sessions are already available at http://sessions.visitmix.com - here are a few I'll be downloading for the flight home (below are WMV download links, if
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Again, really a set of shorthand notes but hopefully a few nuggets in here that you might find useful... User Controls Fixed look with some logic Split large pages into smaller chunks Re-use Root XAML element is UserControl and partial class derives from
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First thing to say - great install experience. I uninstalled Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 Alpha and Silverlight 1.1 and visited the Hard Rock Memorabila site. Below is what I was presented with - a "preview" of the application with an "Install Silverlight"
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Sorry - this is very scrappy as I had the most horrendous headache and it's really difficult to type, watch, listen at the same time while being jostled by the person next to you because the room is so full... :-) New in Silverlight 2 Text, Text Input
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Important point - not everything in WPF is in Silverlight 2 (obviously) but what is there is API compatible so, for example, you can take Silverlight XAML and re-use that in WPF. LOB Applications - Cirque du Soleil casting application. A handful of people
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Controls Variety of controls such as Button, CheckBox etc as well as higher level controls such as slider. Also shipping the source code for these controls with an open source licence so you can take them, inspect the code, modify it, sell it etc Also
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Big news More than 1.5M downloads of Silverlight per day Silverlight 2 Beta 1 available from today Silverlight for Mobile Silverlight 2 supports adaptive streaming for media - inspection of target machine capabilities and network characteristics to switch
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Scott talked a bit about some of the new things we'll see at Mix08 MVC Dynamic Data framework ASP.NET AJAX Enhancements Internet Explorer 8 Demo of IE8 ( Dean Hachamovitch ) - thinking back to IE7 there was a big focus on security but there's more that
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In the overflow room at least like the good Microsoft employee that I am. Ray Ozzie has kicked things off talking about Software + Services and 2 key themes: Advertising - the economic engine of the web The web transforming of existing Microsoft offerings
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The Grand Canyon is simply amazing (if a little chilly at this time of year). If you ever get the chance, go see it. It was fun driving out there after we landed on Friday but it's a long old way (about 600 miles round trip) so the first leg of the journey
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