- Posted by christhi on October 26, 2008
If you have seen Chuck Todd of MSNBC and his Surface applications for predicting the US Presidential Elections … we can now bring that capability to every desktop! You can download it at download it here and run it to make your own predictions, compare it with the official ones.
- Posted by christhi on October 24, 2008
Want to join me in Vegas and see some of our new UX and ALM capabilities (finally) from process to tools I'll be sharing the stage with Chris Bernard to review how you can improve UX design and development using Application Lifecycle Management techniques.
Improving UX through Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Christian Thilmany — Microsoft Corporation; Chris Bernard — Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Expression Studio is the glue that brings together the designer and developer workflows. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is the glue that brings together everyone else on a project team. What a perfect marriage! In this session, we show how you can leverage Expression and Team System to improve your overall application lifecycle, decrease your time to market, and ultimately raise the quality of your applications.
http://2009.visitmix.com/
- Posted by christhi on October 23, 2008
I just put together this sample on creating a SilverLight 2.0 RSS Reader that leverages databinding and observable collections. I will present this at the Minsurf conference in Minneapolis on October 28th, 2008. You can also find this sample in the MSDN code gallery at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/flyover18 .
In a future post I will provide step by step instructions on how I built this to stay tuned...
- Posted by christhi on October 7, 2008
If you are new to SilverLight and are looking how to build anmiations in SilverLight using code this is a great webcast for those with a Flash background. Most Storyboard tutorials are done using XAML but Rick does a great job of using code in a much more flexible manner that gives you an appreciation of what XAML is doing. You also get a peek at a few animation algorithms such as 'easing equations' for those basic motion scenarios.
http://visitmix.com/blogs/2008Sessions/T30/
- Posted by christhi on October 4, 2008
Improvements to Microsoft's existing Windows Server capabilities in the form of enhancements to both the .NET Framework and extensions to the application server role, codenamed “Dublin” (application server) are coming. Microsoft disclosed a set of new enhancements coming in .NET Framework and Windows Server, including key enhancements to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in the .NET Framework 4.0 release and an enhanced set of application server capabilities in Windows Server codenamed “Dublin.”
§ Windows Communication Foundation 4.0: Microsoft is adding new capabilities to WCF to further simplify the creation of RESTful services, including REST Singleton & Collection Services, ATOM Feed and Publishing Protocol Services, and support for an HTTP Plain XML Service. Additional messaging and correlation enhancements enable customers to work with the most recent transports and protocols. By further extending WCF to enable seamless integration between WF and WCF and enabling a unified XAML model, developers can build an entire application in declarative XAML code from presentation to data to services to workflow.
§ Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0: Applications built using WF will realize significant improvements in performance (on the order of ten-fold performance enhancements) and scalability. There are also new workflow models and pre-built activities (PowerShell, messaging, etc.). An updated visual designer will be easier to use by developers to use and be easier to rehost by ISVs.
§ “Dublin”: This consists of a set of enhancements to Windows Server application server capabilities that – when combined with WCF/WF 4.0 –represent a major step forward for our application server. “Dublin” will offer greater scalability and easier manageability, and will extend Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide a standard host for applications that use workflow or communications. Taken together, these enhancements will extend Microsoft’s application server and simplify the development, deployment, configuration, management, and scalability of composite applications. Microsoft will be providing a first CTP of these technologies at PDC. We will also be releasing some of the REST enhancements separately via Codeplex to allow for early trial and adoption via our WCF REST Starter Kit.