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Building OpenPOS: Part 11 - ClickOnce

Blog — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:48:29 GMT

“ClickOnce deployment allows you to publish Windows-based applications to a Web server or network file share for simplified installation. Visual Studio provides full support for publishing and updating applications deployed with ClickOnce. ” Read More......(read more)

Woot! Silverlight 4 in Action is Out!

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:06:54 GMT

My new Silverlight book, Silverlight 4 in Action is now out in paper, published by Manning. Several folks received their copies today, including me The eBook was made available last week for people who ordered it from Manning. MEAP (early access) customers Read More......(read more)

REPOST: Create your own IDE in 10 minutes

Blog — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:47:16 GMT

THIS IS A REPOST – This article was written 8 Oct 2009 but was not migrated to my new server… I had a couple of people asking me for this article and decided to repost it! Sorry if you have already ready it Ok, so I might be stretching reality Read More......(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 040 for 9/6/2010

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:18:08 GMT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #40. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms, Read More......(read more)

Who’s the Boss

Blog — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:36:57 GMT

“With great power comes great responsibility” - Uncle Ben (Spider-Man) In the previous article I covered the TimeslotPanel… This panel is VERY flexible and allows us to arrange items based on timeslots. This begs the question… Read More......(read more)

Introducing the Inside Windows Phone Show in Channel 9

Jaime Rodriguez — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:59:47 GMT

Today, we are announcing a new Channel 9 show dedicated to Developing Windows Phone applications.. The Inside Windows Phone show, homed at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Inside+Windows+Phone/ will bring an insiders’ scoop into Windows Phone Read More......(read more)

Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:26:01 GMT

Are looking how to build great user interfaces using the Silverlight 4? Do you need professional UX guidance for that? What about step-by-step instructions with code when you need it? I'm introducing you Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook. This Read More......(read more)

Ness Botanic Gardens at the Shanghai Expo

Microsoft Surface Blog — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:38:31 GMT

Our Microsoft Surface strategic partner nsquared created a very engaging application on Surface for the Shanghai Expo . The three applications built for Ness Botanic Gardens and Liverpool University are designed to enable groups of visitors to Read More......(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 039 for 8/30/2010

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:33:12 GMT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #39. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms, Read More......(read more)

BindingFinder Updates

Rob Relyea - XAMLified — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:52:00 GMT

I posted significant updates to BindingFinder today. The goal of bindingFinder, as I discussed on Twitter , has evolved to provide compile type checking of Bindings in your XAML. In order to do this as well as possible, BindingFinder relies on declarative Read More......(read more)

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

Blog — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:50:41 GMT

No, this is NOT another Justin Bieber song… In the last couple of projects I have consulted on I have seen VARIOUS implementations of dependency properties… The one thing that I did find interesting is the use of metadata. Some use PropertyMetadata Read More......(read more)

TimeslotPanel

Blog — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:41:12 GMT

A while ago I wrote a couple of CodeProject articles on how to recreate a outlook calendar using WPF… Occasionally I still get emails from people asking… how can I make it work in silverligh? how can I show multiple day? etc… Creating Read More......(read more)

My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update

Windows Presentation Foundation User Education — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:33:39 GMT

OK, I know this update is several months old, but I was so excited to see this feature that I wanted to share. If you're like me, you spend a fair amount of time in XAML files. These files, of course, get long and unwieldy. I've long appreciated Read More......(read more)

msnbc.com digital café

Microsoft Surface Blog — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:25:56 GMT

If I say studio tour to anyone who has watched the hit television series 30 Rock , they’ll immediately recall the character Kenneth, the NBC Page. Jack McBrayer’s memorable portrayal of Kenneth is hard to forget. How many of you have been on an actual Read More......(read more)

Extending the SiteMap

Blog — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:15:42 GMT

A couple of days ago I published a VERY simple SiteMap for Orchard . After some great help from Sébastien Ros , I updated the module to be a little more extensible! Any module can now depend on Orchard.SiteMap and push feeds into the sitemap, all Read More......(read more)

10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:45:36 GMT

Another talk I really enjoy doing is the "10 things" talk. I recently gave this talk at DevLink 2010 in Nashville. This covers 10 things that every Silverlight and WPF developer should have in their core skillset. It's a semi-beginner topic Read More......(read more)

Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7)

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:25:28 GMT

Prior to working at Microsoft, I had some customers who wanted to dual target both WPF and Silverlight . Since then, Windows Phone 7 has been added into the mix. With all these similar technologies, all using xaml, multi-targeting applications can be Read More......(read more)

Experiments with WindowChrome

Windows Presentation Foundation User Education — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:25:35 GMT

In July, the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF was released. Hopefully you saw the announcements from the WPF Team and on Pete Brown’s blog , and have already downloaded the Ribbon. A little bonus that you get with the Ribbon is the WPF Shell Integration Library Read More......(read more)

VS LightSwitch - Jay, Beth, Tim

Rob Relyea - XAMLified — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:35:00 GMT

I'm not the expert on VS LightSwitch, but I know several people who are: Jay , Beth , and more... Tim Anderson writes " Ten things you need to know about Microsoft's Visual Studio LightSwitch ". Notice he mentions LightSwitch's use Read More......(read more)

Final Windows Phone Developer Tools Releasing Sept 16

Ricky Tan's blog — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:34:28 GMT

Today, it was announced on the Windows Phone blog that the final version of the Windows Phone developer tools will be released on Sept 16. This release will have some minor breaking changes from the beta tools, so apps will need to be recompiled using Read More......(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 038 for 8/23/2010

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:55:17 GMT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #38. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms, Read More......(read more)

PDC10 is Sold Out! Really?

Mike Swanson's Blog — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:19:00 GMT

As you may have heard, PDC10 is sold out! This year, we decided to hold the event at the Microsoft Conference Center (otherwise known as the MSCC or building 33) on our corporate campus in Redmond, Washington. There are many good reasons behind this decision Read More......(read more)

Live Presentation: Robot Command and Control on Surface

Microsoft Surface Blog — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:24:08 GMT

This just in: Robot Invasion! That might have grabbed more attention as a headline, but trust me, the content is interesting enough. Watch the video below. In a very short time, Mark Micire over at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Robotics Lab will Read More......(read more)

Screen Conductor 101

Blog — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:03:38 GMT

One of my favourite features of Caliburn.Micro is it’s build-in support for the Screen Conductor “pattern” The Screen, ScreenConductor and ScreenCollection patterns enable model-based tracking of the active or current item, enforcing Read More......(read more)

Surface at Gnomedex 10

Microsoft Surface Blog — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:24:46 GMT

Don't forget to check out your blog entries from Gnomedex out on Microsoft Surface . If you made a post in your blog, and you supplied your RSS feed when you registered, you'll see it up on Surface in our Live Streams application. Plus, any tweets Read More......(read more)