Bill Lodin » Visual Studio

What’s New in Silverlight 4

bill — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:33:49 +0000

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!

bill — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:43:29 +0000

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!)

Enjoy!

UPDATE: More videos just posted!

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

bill — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:15:25 +0000

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:

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Just posted the final “WPF 4″ video in the series, “XAML Browser Applications”. Source code here.

Windows Mobile 6.5 Development

bill — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:55:57 +0000

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

bill — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:26 +0000

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:

Cheers!

Web Role as StartUp Project in Visual Studio

bill — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:43:27 +0000

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!