Bill Lodin

More Silverlight 4 Web seminars

bill — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:54:23 +0000

Four more Silverlight 4 videos up! Here are the links and source code:

UPDATE: Just added the final two videos in the series!

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!

New Windows Phone videos now up on MSDev

bill — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:58:35 +0000

It’s been a busy couple of months, with travel to Holland, the UK, Las Vegas and Seattle. In-between the travel I’ve been posting some new sessions on Windows Phone 7. It was great to see all the news about the Windows Phone development platform at MIX2010, and I hope you enjoy the first five “Windows Phone 7 in 7″ videos I’ve posted over at MSDev.

You can find the series here… Direct links (including the source code for the XNA video):

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.

Revisiting the Windows Azure “How Do I” videos

bill — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:18:13 +0000

About a year ago I started posting “How Do I” videos on topics related to the Windows Azure Platform (of course, back then it was known as the “Azure Services Platform” and there were quite a few differences.) Needless to say, every one of these videos is now out-of-date because of the changes and improvements that Microsoft has made during a year of CTP testing.

I’ll be updating a number of these videos, starting with the following which have recently been posted to the msdev site:

The video on BlobStorage includes a demonstration app – you can download the source code here.

Cheers!

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!

New AppFabric Web Seminars

bill — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:45:39 +0000

This morning we posted four new videos as part of the “Everything You Need to Know About Azure as a Developer” series. These focus on the Windows Azure platform AppFabric:

Source code for the “AppFabric Fundamentals” session can be downloaded here. The source code I used in the Service Bus and ACS sessions is from the AppFabric SDK, which you can get here.

Cheers!

Azure Virtual Lab Changes

bill — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:33:12 +0000

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Storage Client sample in the SDK is no longer a sample – as of the November CTP it has become part of the core Azure runtime classes. This is good news for those of us who like having built-in, easy-to-use, managed wrapper around all the REST-based storage API calls. Unfortunately, the namespace and API changes mean that lots of sample code out there is now broken… But hey, that’s why it’s a CTP, right?

At any rate, the changes mean that the Azure Virtual Lab at msdev.com no longer works as is. I’ll be working on updated content that reflects the latest changes, but in the meantime you should be able to proceed with the help of the following file (luckily, I encapsulated all storage client code into a single class, so this should be a relatively easy fix.)

AzureStorageClient.cs

UPDATED: The Windows Azure Virtual Lab has now been updated to reflect the November API changes – you can check it out here.