Archive for category Visual Studio
What’s New in Silverlight 4
Posted by bill in Microsoft, Silverlight, Visual Studio on May 3, 2010
Just started a series for MSDev about the new features in Silverlight 4. Two videos were posted this morning – here are the direct links along with links to source code.
Silverlight 4: The RichTextBox Control [code]
Silverlight 4: The Viewbox Control [code]
Look for more videos in the coming weeks!
Learn Windows 7, 7 minutes at a time!
Posted by bill in Microsoft, Visual Studio on February 8, 2010
Nancy and I are working on a series of short videos for msdev – each one focuses on developing for Windows 7 and each one is less than 7 minutes long! I just posted the first six of mine this morning – here’s the list (with links to source code!)
- Windows 7 Taskbar “Thumb Buttons” [code]
- Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Overlays [code]
- Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists [code]
- Windows 7 Taskbar “Hot Colors” [code]
- Windows 7 Touch [code]
- Windows 7 Multitouch [code]
Enjoy!
UPDATE: More videos just posted!
- Programming with Inertia in Windows 7 [code]
- “Manipulation” in WPF and Windows 7 [code]
- Windows 7 Gestures [code]
- Windows 7 and Ink [code]
- Handwriting Recognition in Windows 7 [code]
- Handwritten Math Recognition in Windows 7 [code]
Regarding the last video (math recognition), credit for the “MathML to C#” application belongs to Dmitri Nesteruk. You can find his “mmlsharp” application at Google Code (although I downloaded the source from CodePlex). You can also read his original article about the application.
More WPF 4 Web Seminars
Posted by bill in Microsoft, Visual Studio, WPF on January 18, 2010
Greetings from rainy Southern California! Just posted three new Web seminars on Windows Presentation Foundation. These continue the WPF 4 series I’ve been working on, and two of them have accompanying source code:
- Binding in Windows Presentation Foundation 4 [code]
- Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows 7 [code]
- The Windows Presentation Foundation Designer
Enjoy!
UPDATE: Just posted the final “WPF 4″ video in the series, “XAML Browser Applications”. Source code here.
Windows Mobile 6.5 Development
Posted by bill in Microsoft, Uncategorized, Visual Studio, Windows Azure on January 11, 2010
Just posted a 30-minute session on Windows Mobile 6.5 – if you’re new to Windows Mobile development and you want to get up to speed quickly, this is a good place to start! Here’s the link to the session:
http://www.msdev.com/Directory/Description.aspx?eventId=1665
This is actually the first in an eight-part series on WM6.5 that IT Mentors is doing for msdev. Oh, and you can download the demo that I used here (note that in order for this demo to work you’ll need to grab the managed code wrapper for Windows Mobile Gestures!)
WPF 4 Web Seminars
Posted by bill in Microsoft, Visual Studio, WPF on January 11, 2010
Just posted the first four Web seminars in a new series about Windows Presentation Foundation 4! Each session is short (10-20 minutes) and focuses a feature or two of WPF 4. Here are the links to the individual sessions, each with source code you can download if you’d like:
- New Windows Presentation Foundation Controls [code]
- The Visual State Manager[code]
- Touch comes to Windows Presentation Foundation[code]
- Graphics Enhancements[code]
Cheers!
Web Role as StartUp Project in Visual Studio
Posted by bill in Microsoft, Visual Studio, Windows Azure on November 6, 2009
The other day I posted an entry about configuration files in Windows Azure, and I mentioned a strategy for being able to build a Web application that runs inside or outside of the cloud. I just wanted to follow up by mentioning the easiest way to test this; it’s one of those things that is so obvious you might not even think about it.
In a Windows Azure application, the “startup project” is set to the Cloud Service by default. So when you hit F5, the development fabric spins up, the service is packaged and deployed, a browser window opens to host your start page and the Visual Studio debugger attaches to the dev fabric process. But if you right-click your Web role, select “Set as StartUp Project” and then hit F5, Visual Studio will start a debugging session attached to the ASP.NET Web Development Server – in other words, outside of the development fabric. It’s a great way to test the dual-configuration approach I mentioned in my last post!