January 2008 - Posts
Saw that Jesse Liberty ( via WynApse ) has a nice post on creating Silverlight streaming applications in minutes: Three are many details to creating a Silverlight Streaming application, but in this post I'm going to try to boil them down to a recipe for
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Michael Sync wrote a great tutorial on how to consume ADO.Net Data Services (Astoria) from Silverlight . I just demoed Silverlight on top of Astoria at code camp and wanted to add one comment to Michael's post: Create the class like below. (Note: The
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Thanks to everyone who came to my session , hope you enjoyed it. First off, instead of slides I used WPF based on the example by Beatriz Costa: How can I replace PowerPoint with WPF in my presentations? Next I demoed exporting the Xaml created by the
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I'll be speaking on this coming Sunday at the SoCal Code Camp at Cal State Fullerton. My session is at 9:00 AM on Sunday and is titled Bridging the Desktop/Web Divide with WPF and Silverlight . I'm hoping to demo (still working on my code) a simple application
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Ok, I've decided that I'm a Windows Mobile Junkie. Last Friday I received my latest mobile phone, the SMT5800 from Verizon (made by HTC). I really liked my last phone, the Samsung i760 , but it was just a little to big and I'm not a fan of the Windows
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From the Booth Babe's blog : The dates for the following three betas have been extended and you are welcome to spread the word. taking a beta exam is free. If you pass it, you have passed that exam (and earned the related certification, if applicable)--you
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In my last post about setting up Windows Server 2008 I mentioned that one issue I had was that you couldn't bind Hyper-V machines to the 802.11 wireless network connection. Today I spent a little time working on this and figured out a nice solution that
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Since I do all of my development work using virtual machines, I have been very interested in the new Hyper-V feature found in Windows Server 2008. A few of the new features I was interested in were: New and improved architecture: New 64-bit micro-kernelized
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One of the things I've been looking into in my free time is the Microsoft Sync Framework (MSF) (currently in CTP mode). The MSF is: [A] comprehensive synchronization platform enabling collaboration and offline for applications, services and devices with
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Last year I made a new years resolution to start exercising and get back in shape. Knowing myself fairly well I new that I needed to take a phased approach where I would start with working out one day a week and doing one bike ride per week and then each
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