The current Silverlight application that I’m building has a Login view. One of the things that bugged me when I started using the application is that you would have to click the Login button after typing your password. I wanted to duplicate the default button behavior of HTML forms where when you...
About six months ago I decided to take a break from blogging without feeling bad about it. It was a nice break, but really my lack of blogging was mostly due to the type of work I was doing. I was working on an interesting project for a large media and entertainment company that combined Microsoft Excel...
Two collegues of mine at Avanade , Hong Tan and Greg Ferguson, did a demo of WPF for the students at UCI . For the demo they took the Kevin Button and modified it with pictures of Hong. They also created a javascript only version of the button to see how it compared to the WPF version. I took it a step...
One of my side projects at work has been a social website for the SoCal solution developers. I decided the site would be a great chance to learn more about WPF/E as well as ASP.NET AJAX so I've been making heavy use of both on the site. One of the last version 1.0 features that I wanted to finish...
I've always thought that Flash was cool. When I was in college I purchased a copy of Macromedia studio at the academic price and tried to create some Flash animations for a website. However, I'm not a designer and the learning curve was too much for me at the time, so Flash didn't stick with...
I now have another blog in addition to my main blog . My new blog is hosted by Avanade and I'll be cross-posting to both when it makes sense. There are a bunch of other Avanauts blogging on the new site , take a look and you will find some valuable stuff there...
In my life as a developer I have somehow never been on a project where I was creating a windows forms application (or a VB6 UI for that matter) AFAIR. Somehow I was always doing either ASP, ASP.NET, or some backend application with no real UI. My current project is different in that it is a smart client...
Well I'm back from vacationing in New York and Connecticut for a week (which was great) and I just found out that I passed the 553 and 554 exams which I took while they were in beta. Passing these two exams not only gives you a MCPD:EA cert, it also gives you three others! Add that to my other recent...
From a new avablogger comes a first look at the Avanade Enterprise Library Integration Pack : I've been working on a small side project to integrate Enterprise Library with Visual Studio. The end result of the project, tentatively named Enterprise Library Integration Pack , provides the functionality...
From Andy May : OK, so again it's nothing to do with Sharepoint but I've got to give a shout to Flagr which just has to be my favourite Googlemap mashup to date. Very easy to use and very cool. That is a very cool site. I played with it a little yesterday. This site would be especially nice for consultants...