Posts from 2008
Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 10:11 PM
A small set of links reviewing 2008, and looking forward to 2009, from tech to news to photos, annotated with some personal comments...
Friday, 12/19/2008 @ 1:03 PM
A fluent (jQuery-esque) API for creating Silverlight animations easily in code, built on top of Silverlight.FX, along with some early thoughts on possible integration of animations and view models.
Thursday, 12/18/2008 @ 5:38 PM
A couple of ActionResult implementations to abstract out FormsAuthentication specifics from Login/Logout controller actions... thoughts?
Saturday, 11/22/2008 @ 11:53 AM
A quick walkthrough for implementing in-place editing ux for TextBox controls in Silverlight, using just styles, templates, and visual state manager in a completely declarative manner.
Friday, 11/14/2008 @ 10:02 PM
Live Search finally gets a REST head and JSON-based API ... and testing the C# 4.0 dynamic RestClient against it (and Google Search) to see if it holds up to these services...
Sunday, 11/9/2008 @ 8:15 PM
An in-depth walkthrough of using the effect behaviors and animations in Silverlight.FX - from basic declarative use of out-of-the-box features, to writing your own effect-enabled Silverlight controls to writing your own custom effects.
Wednesday, 11/5/2008 @ 3:02 PM
This followup post on the C# 4.0 dynamic feature demonstrates taking dynamic JSON further to dynamic or proxyless REST service calls turning dynamic method calls into HTTP requests...
Monday, 11/3/2008 @ 7:18 AM
C# 4.0 will introduce dynamic programming and late-bound code in the midst of otherwise statically compiled code... in an extensible way. Heres one scenario enhanced with dynamic capabilities - working with JSON data.
Wednesday, 10/29/2008 @ 2:34 PM
Some large-scale Ajax apps and frameworks - the Live Framework and Office 14, both announced at PDC - built using Script#...
Tuesday, 10/28/2008 @ 10:02 PM
Another PDC announcement - the Live Framework enables sync and sharing across devices and users and brings that new capability to your own applications...
Monday, 10/27/2008 @ 1:27 PM
New opportunities and possibilities with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure - complete with a familiar .NET development platform...
Saturday, 10/18/2008 @ 9:04 AM
A Dilbert comic strip for some weekend humor - Scott Adams on features and complexity...
Thursday, 10/16/2008 @ 12:54 AM
A big update for Silverlight.FX - now in sync with Silverlight 2 and with a bunch of new features. This post discusses one feature area: controls that intrinsically support effects and transitions.
Thursday, 8/28/2008 @ 6:54 PM
Script#-based Ajax development enables you to repurpose existing .NET tools - this posts shows how you can use FxCop to perform static code analysis for script code...
Tuesday, 7/29/2008 @ 8:49 PM
Another installment of Silverlight.FX additions to enable creating declarative views - this time, pre-packaged, declarative effects and transitions...
Tuesday, 7/8/2008 @ 7:47 AM
A quick note about the recently released Advanced ASP.NET Ajax Server Controls book...
Sunday, 7/6/2008 @ 11:37 PM
A theming system for Silverlight 2 apps... this post steps you through creating a set of theme assets, adding customizability of themes (colors and fonts in the sample), and using them in an application, including selecting a theme dynamically... complete with source code.
Wednesday, 7/2/2008 @ 6:34 AM
Thoughts on search for RIAs, along with pointers to my latest slides as well as MIX session on ensuring indexability (esp. for Silverlight and Ajax apps)...
Friday, 6/20/2008 @ 8:34 AM
More fun with the ViewModel or M-V-VM pattern - using the Dynamic Language Runtime in Silverlight to create a better glue between the View and its ViewModel.
Tuesday, 6/17/2008 @ 12:35 PM
This post describes the ViewModel aka M-V-VM pattern, and presents a prototype Silverlight 2 framework for implementing this pattern using Action Behaviors (which provide the equivalent of commands)
Thursday, 6/5/2008 @ 9:00 PM
A bit about code style guidelines, my own preferences and a pointer to StyleCop.
Wednesday, 6/4/2008 @ 10:23 PM
Microsoft Engineering Excellence Award presented to Script#!
Tuesday, 5/6/2008 @ 5:19 PM
An implementation of AutoComplete functionality that you can add to your TextBoxes in XAML... ala Google Suggest and the ASP.NET AutoComplete control extender (built on top of the behavior framework).
Monday, 5/5/2008 @ 7:46 AM
A framework for creating reusable and attachable behaviors in Silverlight, and a sample behavior that demonstrates using and building them... along with all the code.
Tuesday, 4/22/2008 @ 10:34 PM
Live Mesh announced...
Monday, 4/21/2008 @ 2:02 PM
Some words about the latest release of script#, now on CodePlex, and with support for localization, doc-comments and more.
Saturday, 4/12/2008 @ 10:44 PM
This post describes a prototype for an Ajax templating solution, combined with an Ajax-friendly server-side solution that hints at what is coming down the road in ASP.NET Ajax.
Tuesday, 4/8/2008 @ 9:03 AM
My thoughts on questions along the lines of Ajax vs. Silverlight, and independent of the debate, how .NET spans the gamut of application development platforms...
Monday, 1/28/2008 @ 8:28 AM
Facebook's latest offering to application developers - a client-side script API, built on Script#!
Friday, 1/25/2008 @ 5:37 PM
A followup post on my HTML 5 thoughts: specifically how some of the new concepts can be implemented today using microformats.
Wednesday, 1/23/2008 @ 5:53 PM
Just some thoughts, and perhaps some ranting around the HTML 5 spec...
Sunday, 1/13/2008 @ 11:53 PM
A quick update on the release of Facebook.NET 0.3 with support for new and changing Facebook APIs...
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