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Tic-Tac-Toe: Open Source Silverlight Game

http://ailon.livejournal.com/ — 2009-11-09T01:15:33Z

This is a simple nice looking Silverlight 3 game. C#/XAML source code is available under Ms-PL.

Lester's WPF blog : XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility

ZORIG — 2009-11-09T04:07:50Z

XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility [This is part of a series on New WPF\XAML Features] So by now most of you must have noticed the System.Xaml dll as part of your .NET 4 WPF projects. It’s a well componentized XAML stack that provides a lot of flexibility working with XAML.

Innovation Showcase : Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3

jbarnes — 2009-11-09T01:04:27Z

09 November 2009 Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 Title: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Presenter: Tim Heuer Abstract: Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect’s perspective. We will...

Create YouTube-like adaptable view using CSS and jQuery

https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d — 2009-11-09T08:40:18Z

Besides Turn off the lights feature I explained earlier, YouTube has more great stuff. I believe that you noticed "change view" feature which allows you to switch between normal and wide mode and thus expand/shrink movie area. I like this feature because in different circumstances, I need a different view. But the thing I like the most is that, although layout changes, it is done seamingly and all the information remains easily accessible.

MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework – Creating a Zoo and Animals

http://amazedsaint.blogspot.com/ — 2009-11-09T10:39:26Z

MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework is cool. Firstly, it allows you to decouple your components pretty easily. Secondly, it supports various component discovery scenarios, and enables you to write better frameworks. In this post, I’ll cover few basic aspects of MEF. You may also download the source code related to this article (Download Here), to have a look at the same as you read along. MEF classes reside in the assembly System.ComponentModel.Composition.dll – Creating plug-in frameworks is quite e...

Prism 2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) migrated to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

dschenkelman — 2009-11-09T02:50:17Z

As most of you might know, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released some days ago. Ever since, many people have asked at the Prism codeplex forums if Prism works with this latest version. That’s why with Fer we decided to migrate Prism latest release for Silverlight 3 to VS 2010 Beta 2. Our conclusion after our smoke tests is that it does work .Migration StepsMigrated every solution.Ran the tests and smoke tested each application.Fixed any issues that appeared (mostly related to missing assembly reference...

The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm

MissingLinq — 2009-11-09T04:02:58Z

From blog posts to books, sorting a list of items by user rating is a very common task. In this blog post, we discover how the writings of an obscure 18th-century British minister lets us implement a “smart” ranking algorithm that takes into account the “wisdom of the crowd”, and presents a fairer and more accurate representation of results.

Virtual Input Keyboard & Behaviours for Silverlight

orktane — 2009-11-09T08:33:05Z

You would already know this, but in Silverlight when in full-screen mode keyboard input is by design constrained to a limited set of keys – this often takes an end-user by surprise and leaves them with a perception than it’s an application problem. To overcome this Silverlight limitation I’ve created a Virtual Input Keyboard and accompanying behaviours, that allows you to attach an on-screen keyboard to any receptive UI control.

Getting Closer to Google Closure

MikeMore — 2009-11-10T04:21:46Z

After Google Introduced Closure Library I wanted to get a closer look on it. here's what I've come to.

Innovation Showcase : Windows Marketplace for Mobile - The Race to Market Challenge

jbarnes — 2009-11-09T01:03:13Z

09 November 2009Windows Marketplace for Mobile - The Race to Market Challenge Windows Marketplace for Mobile helps developers transform their ideas into profitable new business opportunities. Using familiar skills and comprehensive support resources, you can create unique mobile applications, easily follow them through the certification process, and sell them to millions of consumers all over the world. Whether you’re a seasoned mobile developer or relatively new to mobility, Windows Marketplace for...

Yield statement in C#:DotNetJaps

http://jalpesh.blogspot.com/ — 2009-11-09T07:42:02Z

Yield statement is one of most interesting statement in the C# 2.0. I have heard about lot of yield statement but today i have learned about yield statement. Yield statement can be used to return multiple object from a method while retaining its state. You can get item in sequence with help of yield.Let take a simple example to see the power or yield statement. Let's create one example which will help you the understand how its works Let create a function will return the square each time this function i...

Windows 7 Multi-touch Panning with ScrollViewer in WPF 3.5

http://rickrat.myopenid.com/ — 2009-11-09T05:46:49Z

How to use Windows 7 Multi-touch panning in a scrollviewer in WPF

StackOverflow - Podcast #73

mithu — 2009-11-09T09:12:56Z

In this episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel and Jeff discuss the meaning of “professionalism” online, the divide between ad-subsidized and pay business models, and the five things everyone should hate about their favorite programming language. A brief mini post-mortem of DevDays. What makes a good conference? What makes a worthwhile event for software developers? Speaking of conferences, Joel and I will both be at the Business of Software conference next week in San Francisco. A discussion of Robert Scoble’s article on the chat room / forum problem. Some of this stuff is counter-intuitive: you don’t actually want to be too welcoming to newbies, and you don’t actually want too much pure discussion. As Robert said, “the more conversations I got involved in the less I found I was learning.” I object a little bit to people proposing social design patterns to me that are historically demonstrated not to work — or, worse, are known to be toxic. Essentially, they offer opinions without any research or even knowledge of prior research in the field. We examine Joel’s latest Inc article, Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?. 37 Signals responded in their blog. Joel and I both tried to explain our careers strategy. I think Joel’s post on careers.stackoverflow.com was clearer than my post on careers.stackoverflow.com, in that I had to post an update to mine because I failed to explain it adequately — at least based on the reader comments. To the extent that careers is focusing people on “how can I be more professional online?” we heartily encourage this side-effect. Why wouldn’t you behave professionally online all the time, anyway? It is possible to have fun while being professional at the same time. We posted the results of our Amazon advertising experiment. It looks like software developers are a worst-case scenario for some types of advertising. Unfortunately.

Silverlight 3 and F# Support in Visual Studio 2010

bartczernicki — 2009-11-09T03:31:53Z

Learn about F# support with Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010. F# Async workflows are used to show a powerful example of declarative multithreading that can be used as a substitute to PLINQ in Silverlight.

Innovation Showcase : NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight

jbarnes — 2009-11-09T01:01:33Z

09 November 2009 NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight NBC and Microsoft are getting the band back together for a full Silverlight experience around the 2010 Winter Olympics. You'll have DVR control of the video, including rewind, sharing, and saving clips. There will be a Facebook Connect feature to allow you to socialize the insanity (or coolness, depending on your POV) of skiing with a rifle. Check-out the Channel9 article at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Channel-9-Goes...

SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP Released

sqlarticles — 2009-11-10T04:20:47Z

SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP is released for Microsoft Technet Subscribers from 09th November 2009, the same will be available to public on 11th November 2009.

Data Compression – SQL Server 2008 – Part 2

sqlarticles — 2009-11-10T04:19:32Z

In Part1 article I’ve described the need for compression in SQL Server and also gave a brief on Compression enhancement overview. As a next step, in this article I’m going to describe the existing compression techniques, overview of basic compression techniques and goal of compression. Now the questions hits your mind is, why do we need to know the basic techniques? First we need to understand the basic compression techniques available and how it works, this will be the base to understand the compression technique used in SQL Server.

StackOverflow - Podcast #72

mithu — 2009-11-09T09:10:24Z

Joel and Jeff sit down with Jon Skeet, software engineer at Google London, and the first Stack Overflow user to achieve 100,000 reputation. A brief audio snippet of Jon’s presentation at London DevDays, featuring Tony the Pony and his sidekick. A discussion of the Google London offices, which aren’t quite up to Joel’s high standards, but are quite fun in their own right. And, they do offer free unlimited Curly Wurlies! The London office mostly does mobile development, which in Google world is Android. Joel explains his analogy of software development as a - biology-based process, instead of a physics-based process. In Coders at Work, Peter Norvig — chief research guy at Google — explains that his definition of correctness in software now mostly involves statistics intervals, not absolute boolean “this is right”, “this is wrong” tests. A brief discussion of Joel’s painful 14 line AppleScript odyssey. There is a wall — literally — of hundreds of mobile phones at Google London that they use to test against. We wonder how Google’s Android will avoid devolving into the same miasma of dozens or hundreds of different versions of hardware, all of which behave differently and require special software support or workarounds. Is Apple becoming to mobile apps what Microsoft was, and is, to desktop PC apps? Will success in future mobile devices require an iPhone emulation layer? Although Apple unquestionably deserves their success with the iPhone, Joel and I are deeply concerned that too much Apple dominance in this area is bad for developers, as Apple serves developers poorly. Jon spends a lot of time dealing with date and time issues, and shares one particularly horrifying timezone example. Apparently, time is often ambiguous and subject to change by human processes that aren’t … entirely rational.

Web Asset Enhancements in Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

jantu — 2009-11-09T07:33:05Z

In the recent release, there has been few enhancements in the Web Asset Management. One of the new thing that we introduced which was actually requested by the community is Shared Web Asset. In this post, I will show you, how to use it in your ASP.NET MVC...

Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer

http://sterioma.pip.verisignlabs.com/ — 2009-11-09T02:21:37Z

A detailed review of this classical book, by Stefano Ricciardi.

Back to Basics – How to Invoke Web Methods from a Remote Machine - Gil Fink on .Net

gilf — 2009-11-08T10:21:06Z

I’ve been asked today how to enable invocation of WebMethods of an asmx web service from a remote machine for testing. The post holds the answer.

DotNetRocks - Show #496 - Dean Guo Takes Us Into Project Trident

jantu — 2009-11-09T07:24:59Z

The boys talk to Dean Gou about Project Trident, a scientific workflow workbench. With Project Trident, you can author workflows visually by using a catalog of existing activities and complete workflows. The workflow workbench provides a tiered library that hides the complexity of different workflow activities and services for ease of use.

Innovation Showcase : ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System

bobfamiliar — 2009-11-08T04:30:47Z

In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell, VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft Regional Director and co-author of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashedbook, discusses five key issues that typically exist in the application lifecycle management (ALM) process – requirements tracking, code review, unit testing, automated testing (aka black box testing), and continuous i...

Advanced url rewriting for the rest of us - how to create a custom transform in UrlRewriter.net

http://rtpharry.myopenid.com/ — 2009-11-08T05:11:18Z

At first glance url rewriting can be a daunting task, but today we will see that it doesn't have to be. Every developer desires clean urls for their apps but because its not built into the language in a straight forward way its usually left on the "nice to haves" list. I am going to take you on a tour of the UrlRewriter.net library from the theory to implementing it in your website.

Understanding ASP.Net : A Complete Overview | SolidDotNet.com

http://neerajmathur.myopenid.com/ — 2009-11-08T05:01:22Z

Understanding ASP.Net : A Complete Overview with presentations... Introduction to Visual Studio Application and Page Frameworks GUI Controls Validation Server Controls Working with Master Pages Themes & Skins Collections & Lists Data Binding Data Management with ADO.Net Working with XML Site Navigation Security State Management Caching Debugging & Error Handling File I/O & Streams Configurations