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Create a Silverlight Europe weather map
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Entry Date: Sep 2010
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site: Silverlight Show
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keywords:Silverlight; XAML; Silverlight 3.0; Silverlight 4;
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Article Description:
I don’t generally find the fall or winter an appropriate time to track weather conditions, but this is an exception. Microsoft recently released the Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK, which ties Silverlight and Bing Maps closely together, allowing developers to create some very powerful mapping applications. In this article, I’ll walk the reader through the process of creating an Europe weather map application in Silverlight by using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control
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Nice full sample, how to integrate Silverlight Bing Maps SDK into your SL application and a real sample application (weather map).
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Getting Started with Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1.0
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Entry Date: Sep 2010
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site: Chris Pietschmann
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keywords:Silverlight; XAML; Silverlight 3.0; Silverlight 4;
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It’s been 8 months since the CTP release of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control at MIX’08, and finally this week Microsoft released the Final v1.0 release of the control to the web. Now, we can all finally start using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control in Production!
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Very nice intro to Silverlight Bing Maps SDK, really you will learn in some minutes how to start from scratch and use this powerful control.
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Announcing Sketchables – Rapid Mockup Creation with SketchFlow
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Entry Date: Aug 2010
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site: hardcodet
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keywords:Silverlight 4; Expression Blend;
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SketchFlow is a great addition to Blend, but I was missing the ability to create quick mockups of user interfaces. I’m a huge fan of productivity tools such as Balsamiq, and I was sorely missing its ease and speed in SketchFlow.
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Great stuff, addon to add powerful balsamiq features to Sketchflow (quite easy to drop controls and add data).
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Simultaneously calling multiple methods on a WCF service from silverlight
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Entry Date: Aug 2010
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site: imeta
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keywords:Silverlight; Silverlight 3.0;
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A while back I had to debug some performance issues in an existing Silverlight app, as the problem / solution was a bit obscure and finding info about it was quite tricky, I thought I’d share, maybe it can help the next person with this problem.
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Client network stack is a quite powerful feature incorporated in Silverlight 3, apart from the main topic discussed in this article (concurrent calls browser limits issues), it explains as well how to share browser cookies using client network stack.
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Performance Testing Guidance for web applications
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Entry Date: Aug 2010
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site: Codeplex
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keywords:Performance; TFS;
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Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications - PDF Version.
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Small companies cannot afford having an own specialized performance testing team, but knowing the basics can let us make some decent performance testing and ensure some minimum levels of quality.
This guide is quite useful a must read to get the concepts.
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JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer
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Entry Date: Jul 2010
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site: Gala Soft
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keywords:Silverlight; Java Script; Silverlight 4;
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An article was published at JupiterJS.com (titled “JavaScript vs Silverlight”) arguing that JavaScript is better than Silverlight. Unfortunately, there is no way to post comments on that page (weird, really) so I decided I would post my answer here.
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Interesting post comparing Silverlight with Javascript, highlighting weak and stron points, a nice read (also nice to read the article reffered that only covers the javascript part)
Good to read both points of views
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Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010
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Entry Date: Jul 2010
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site: Microsoft Download
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keywords:TFS; Team Explorer;
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Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server
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Looking for an Eclipse TFS free plugin, or for multiplaform Team Explorer / command line. Microsoft just bought Team Prise technology and now you can download this plugin for free.
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Simple Image cropping in Expression Design
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Entry Date: Jul 2010
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site: Developing for .net
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keywords:Silverlight; Silverlight 4; Expression Blend;
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I had a case today where I wanted to crop an image, something I haven’t needed to do in some time. In fact, the last time I had to do it was on my previous computer which had several graphics programs installed. This time, however, the only application I have installed on this machine is Expression Design 2. I remember seeing the feature I was after in some training videos, so I thought I should be able to figure out quickly enough. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as I remembered. On the other hand, I found a pretty quick way to do simple cropping so I thought I’d share that.
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If you have to use Expression Designer (vector graphics oriented tool) sometimes you won't find a direct way to do som simple bitmap operations.
In this post you will find how easy is to crop a bitmap image.
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Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Tim Heuer
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keywords:Silverlight 4;
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Article Description:
One of the features we are introducing in Silverlight 4 is a ‘silent install’ mechanism for out-of-browser applications. Currently every out-of-browser application (trusted or not) starts from an in-browser mechanism. In some instances where you want to deploy the app via managed desktop software or perhaps via CD-ROM, you don’t want to have to tell the user to start on an HTML page first.
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Quite good feature, in some companies they just have thousand of machines and they want to minimize network bandwith, you can make a silent deploy of an OOB silverlight application and make it automatically (deploying from a local storage and in an unattended way).
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SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services - Features & Limitations
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Sharepoint 2010 Macaw
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keywords:Sharepoint; Sharepoint 2010;
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Business Connectivity Services, the sequencer of the Business Data Catalog, is going to play a key rol in SharePoint composites. BCS allows you to connect SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications to external business data. The external data is made available in SharePoint 2010 through ‘external lists’. From an end-user experience the external lists have similar functionality as standard SharePoint lists. There are two types of integrated solutions: You can build no-code solutions using SharePoint Designer or you can build a solution with custom coding using Visual Studio.
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Microsoft agnostic evaluation of Sharepoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services, advantages and drawbacks, quite recommeded reading.
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Creating an OData feed for your Azure databases
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Patrick verbruggen
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keywords:Azure; ODATA;
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Article Description:
Having the ability to create an OData source for any SQL Azure database more or less instantly seems a bit like low-hanging fruit: it would be great if you could just flick a switch in the SQL Azure Portal for a specific database and hey presto: one OData feed!
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Quite interesting, OData support on your Azure databases, something you get for free :-).
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