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Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster in Phoenix 6/19/2012

Dave Campbell — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:13:07 GMT

AZGroups 6/19/2012

Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster!

June is hot in Phoenix... and June 19th is just a week before what was the hottest we've ever had. AZGroups is going to give 6/26/1990 a run for it's money by having Scott Guthrie back in town for an all-day free event!

Scott is being joined this year by Scott Hanselman and Brady Gaster and will present on the following topics: Azure, ASP.NET, SignalR, and Web API.

Seating is great but limited

We're back to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts this year... great facility, and happy to be there, but there's only 800 seats.

This thing 'sells out' folks, so sign yourself up now before you find yourself without a seat when the music stops... and by 'sells out' I mean registers... there's no cost.

I'll see you there, and

Stay in the 'Light!

vNext Phoenix meeting tonight, May 2, 2012

Dave Campbell — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:19:44 GMT

vNext Phoenix

Come out to the first vNext Phoenix meeting tonight at Interface Technical Training.

Joe Guadagno of the Southwest Valley .Net UserGroup will be speaking on VS11:

"If you want to follow along, I will be going over the new features of the IDE, which you can download from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads. I will also be covering some of the new features in .NET 4.5 like data binding for Web Forms."

I'll be bringing some giveaways along and there will be pizza, soft drinks, and networking before Joe's talk.

Come on down at 6PM tonight and join us at ITT on the NW corner of Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix.

See you there!

Saving Telerik PersistenceFramework data to a string

Dave Campbell — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:03:27 GMT

In the project I'm involved with, we've been saving column arrangement and column width data for quite a while. I had a request to give the users a way to select which columns to display and it just seemed natural to include the display order with that data.

Recently I've been tasked with saving the filtering and sorting information as well. We're using the Telerik RadGrid, so I went to their site to find out how to do that.

Saving all sorts of Grid-related data to Isolated Storage was really easy as I'll show first. Saving that data to the database was a bit more involved. I'm not going to really fire off to SQL in this post, but I'm going to go as far as saving the data to a global string variable, and read it back.

Live Silverlight sample on the page, appropriate snippets of code discussed, and a download of the app at the end.

Read On

Moving UIElements around in Metro

Dave Campbell — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:36:35 GMT

I'm playing with some code for the First Apps Contest, and since I had to dig some of this out, I thought maybe others might be interested. Was just thinking that ratting through documentation and trying to make stuff work is very reminiscent of WPF/E back in... holy crap... December 2006... doesn't seem like 5 years ago!

Where to start

I figured the easiest thing to do would be to put a circle on the screen and move it around. This has *got* to be easier than drag/drop, right?

Well yes it is, but as with most things you gotta figure out where to poke it to make it work, and of course I got involved in other stuff so I made it a bit tougher than I needed. I called this "Application3", and it's like the last one except I'm not doing a snap pane on this one.

Read on...

One Month in... and things change...

Dave Campbell — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:16:42 GMT

One month in...

Well, it's been a month on the new site now.

I guess at first I thought everyone would just start following the new feed and the traffic would magically appear at WDN, but I still saw a lot of folks hitting GWB, presumably looking for good Silverlight links.

So I announced my postings at GWB to not leave anyone out of the loop.

And now I find that's annoyed some people... sorry about that!

I can't see cross-posting the posts completely, so you'll just have to go to the new site to see them I guess.

SilverlightCream.com is still up and still growing with every post. The aggregation there can be searched as always and if you have a driving desire to submit there vs submitting to WindowsDevNews, I'm still getting those emails.

When I blog, I am posting links to @SilverlightNews in addition to @WindowsDevNews, at least for now.

I am also still blogging all the links I was blogging before, the difference is now I'm also blogging other stuff as well.

The only real thing *YOU* need to change is the Feed location.

I'm not giving up this blog, I will announce new things as I go, and the history is here to be viewed.

As everyone is aware, some things have changed, and that causes other changes.

Stay in the 'Light!

Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 - 2 - #0017

Dave Campbell — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:28:54 GMT