Comment Feed for Fabulous_Fadz http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Fabulous_Fadz en Sat, 18 May 2013 23:40:01 GMT Sat, 18 May 2013 23:40:01 GMT Rev9 Re: Windows Phone Proposal- The Ultimate in Romance Some people are just creative. There is the guy I read about who made a replica of Wordament. "Will you marry me" was in there. Awesome stuff.

Time to get creative...

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Windows-Phone-Proposal-The-Ultimate-in-Romance#c634691385791437763 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:16:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Windows-Phone-Proposal-The-Ultimate-in-Romance#c634691385791437763 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment I WOULD CHANGE THE CAPITAL LETTERS. OVERALL, I LIKE THE PRODUCT, BUT PLEASE THESE CAPS HAVE TO BE LOWERED, OR CHANGED TO PROPERCASE/SENTENCECASE.

One thing I can't check now because I'm on a computer without VS11 is if the Enhanced Scrollbar from the productivity tools was integrated. That would be a welcome option (seeing as someone commented about the toolbars).

To sum up, great work with the new features. VS keeps getting better and better, BUT THE ONE THING I WOULD CHANGE IS THE CAPS.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-Toolbox-Simplification-of-the-Visual-Studio-11-Development-Environment#c634680883165030736 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:31:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-Toolbox-Simplification-of-the-Visual-Studio-11-Development-Environment#c634680883165030736 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Visual Studio Achievements FAQ @karstenj: I got to see some of them after connecting. The exception is regional manager which hasn't appeared for some reason. The way I use regions, I should be a group CEO but still nothing on that front.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-FAQ#c634647274127192690 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:56:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-FAQ#c634647274127192690 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Visual Studio Achievements FAQ If I do some coding offline and unlock some achievements, do they show up when I connect to the internet. I just unlocked 4 more achievements earlier this morning, but I was, and still am offline on my dev machine. It would be great if I could see them when I connect.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-FAQ#c634630970929857650 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:04:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-FAQ#c634630970929857650 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Visual Studio Achievements Widget They provide a section you can add widgets of all sorts, some specific to community server, and others are generic or external.

The best place for this was the generic widget but I noticed it swallows the Javascript. I've tried all combinations, including putting it inside an iframe, div, paragraph etc. with the same results, anything I place in that can be rendered is rendered, but the javascript disappears.

Will try the forums for assistance. Thanks for your time. Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-Widget#c634629189346692961 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:35:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-Widget#c634629189346692961 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Visual Studio Achievements Widget Will put it back, had removed the script.

Edited to put the link

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/fadzai

Under the header VS Achievements

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-Widget#c634626501066025090 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:55:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-Widget#c634626501066025090 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Visual Studio Achievements Widget OK, now I'm probably doing something very silly or getting an obvious thing wrong. My blog is on community server, and when I adding this script I get nothing. Anyone here use community server who got this to work? 

Only other problem I've had on community server was the follow button for my twitter account. It didn't show up as desired, I just left it there since it works but it's text based and not the button that I wanted.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-Widget#c634625808564176598 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:40:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Visual-Studio-Achievements-Widget#c634625808564176598 Fabulous_Fadz Re: [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! - Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released Awesome, I first read of this here, 

http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/

and was excited that an update mentioned that Microsoft was looking into this. Downloading as I type.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Special-Edition-Achievement-Unlocked-Visual-Studio-Achievement-Beta-Released#c634625023877365548 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:53:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Special-Edition-Achievement-Unlocked-Visual-Studio-Achievement-Beta-Released#c634625023877365548 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Mango Jump Start (06): Windows Phone Multi-tasking & Background Tasks Loving these videos since I discovered them. A fun and entertaining way of answering the questions I have. Shortened my learning curve cause all I need to do is watch the video of the feature I'm interested in and I'm already familiar. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Mango-Jump-Start/Mango-Jump-Start-06-Windows-Phone-Multi-tasking--Background-Tasks#c634535820398649565 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:00:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Mango-Jump-Start/Mango-Jump-Start-06-Windows-Phone-Multi-tasking--Background-Tasks#c634535820398649565 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Fun is... using the same code on three different platforms. XAMLFinance shows us how. @Jamest: Apple will need to support XAML for that to happen. I don't use Mono so don't know what became of the moonlight project, but if it is alive, in theory you could use some of the XAML to build apps for iOS.

In any case, using Mono, you can still use your .NET code for other platforms so there is still some level of re-use. 

What this post highlights is the almost seamless experience of building on the Windows ecosystem. Which is great.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Fun-is-using-the-same-code-on-three-different-platforms-XAMLFinance-shows-us-how#c634535806010999028 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:36:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Fun-is-using-the-same-code-on-three-different-platforms-XAMLFinance-shows-us-how#c634535806010999028 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Fun is... using the same code on three different platforms. XAMLFinance shows us how. This is just so cool. I like the way that I didn't have to learn anything new for developing for windows phone. Same language, same environment, same xaml (pretty much), and I can take my apps desktop experience to another device. I'm completing my first win phone app and love the way I can just re-use code and mark-up between the desktop version of the app. 

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Fun-is-using-the-same-code-on-three-different-platforms-XAMLFinance-shows-us-how#c634534191907572378 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:46:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Fun-is-using-the-same-code-on-three-different-platforms-XAMLFinance-shows-us-how#c634534191907572378 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Check It Out: Mouse Without Borders Blushing Oh so sweet

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Check-It-Out-Mouse-Without-Borders#c634534158779702878 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:51:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Check-It-Out-Mouse-Without-Borders#c634534158779702878 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Behind the Windows 8 Metro UI Finally found this interview. And the answer to my left handed question is very good. At the time of my asking I hadn't seen that you could swipe from the left to bring in previous windows. So all in all. Windows 8 is a big Win.

Love the Metro UI since first seeing it on Windows Phone 7. The only problem I have with Windows 8 is that for a whole week I didn't get to think of WP7. Now I constantly think of both, and scenarios to get apps that work together utilizing both platforms.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/BUILD-Conference-Highlights/Behind-the-Windows-8-UI#c634528867984887970 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:53:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/BUILD-Conference-Highlights/Behind-the-Windows-8-UI#c634528867984887970 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Lap around the Windows Runtime Joining the side story about WinRT and .NET here. When .NET came out, it covered a lot things that devs had wanted in the 90s. Managed memory, a common type system etc. Anyone from the VB6 and VC++ days would remember that these types didn't talk nice, String in VB, and you don't know what kind of string to use in C++, CString, char*, CHAR* BString etc. 

So many of these things were addressed and a new language came on board. Building web apps wasn't a totally alien experience anymore, objects written in one .NET language could be accessed from another with ease.

.NET however left gaps and I remember reading many suggestions, debates etc. (probably participated in one myself) about all the stuff on platform invoke etc. A common suggestion was that instead of having all this pInvoke stuff, an Object Oriented API would be a welcome addition because you still cannot easily figure out what kind of type to pass when the API wants a pointer. 

So this is pretty much what WinRT is. It covers the gaps that were left by .NET and means that we don't have to write as many, if any, pInvoke statements. That's what I think anyway.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-874T#c634522970906571116 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:04:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-874T#c634522970906571116 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Your devices + OData + Windows Azure == happiness Downloading the video now. Looking forward to this. If there are two things that I'm crazy about these days (for months really), that would be WP7 and oData. To squeeze in a 3rd, Windows 8 is really cool.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/SAC-836T#c634522930378930348 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:57:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/SAC-836T#c634522930378930348 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI

,LarryLarsen wrote

@Fabulous_Fadz: I just used your question about left handed users on Channel 9 Live. If you missed it live, keep an eye out for my interview with Sam Moreau on WinUI. It should be up in a day here.

Thanks,

Larry

Looked for the video but cannot find it. Could you provide a link to it?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634521312077240467 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:00:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634521312077240467 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Keynote #1 Aha, finally found the Keynote video. Need to watch the whole thing and couldn't watch it on the build site. 

Loved Windows Phone and am blown away by what they did with Windows 8. thumbs up

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/KEY-0001#c634517678493722630 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:04:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/KEY-0001#c634517678493722630 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI @LarryLarsen: Thanks. Wasn't watching live, but will be sure to watch the video when it shows up.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634517605833385112 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:03:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634517605833385112 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI My installation is almost complete, and I just thought of something when looking at the video again. For things like the charms, will they appear on the reverse side for left-handed people when they change a setting to say I am left handed. Much like mouse buttons reverse. Not that I'm left handed but I just thought it might be a good idea to have the metro theme optimised for lefties as well.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634516905809180595 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:36:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634516905809180595 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Introducing Page Inspector Way cool!

Brings some much needed improvements to debugging web pages. It was especially difficult to do when looking at code/forms that were written by someone else. Just don't know in which control/webpart etc to find a particular element. I like this.

Haven't hit the download link yet for the bits, but is this only available in VS2011 or can it also be installed as a CTP for use in vs2010 too?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Visual-Studio-vNext-Introducing-Page-Inspector#c634516904180652914 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:33:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Visual-Studio-vNext-Introducing-Page-Inspector#c634516904180652914 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI Up to now, I wondered how the metro UI would fit for large screens and thought that it wouldn't work. But after seeing a video of it in action, I like it. I especially love the fact that you can drop down into the traditional way of doing things and run some non-metro apps. I do a lot of work inside powershell and can't imagine Windows without it anymore. Still have one machine that has to run Windows XP, and that too now has powershell.

Think the charms are great too. Hope there will be pen support, and good support at that because the only way I envision working with a slate/tablet is that it have a stylus so I can take notes. Or just show off.

Downloading the preview bits now. And that's a big deal. I never run beta tools (let alone pre-beta) for anything with the exception of Orcas, and VS2010 which I just couldn't wait for. This here will be interesting.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634516098596769102 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:10:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jensen-Harris-Walks-Us-Through-the-Windows-8-UI#c634516098596769102 Fabulous_Fadz Re: Hawaii interns XAPfest 2011 Loved Headshot. Thought the Ringify app was good too.

I'm actually working on an app for a travel/holiday company with some features strikingly similar to breadcrumbs. In my case though, most of the information is coming from trusted sources and WinPhone app will be for discovery of items, comments etc. 

Thought about the potential misuse and spamming so I have a rudimentary filter at the moment that takes out contact information such as email address and phone numbers when user's submit their feedback.

Pictionary is a good idea, and I like the fact that a high school kid did it. When I was in high school there was no competition for developers, so I was just a geek who did weird stuff with computers when others were playing games. I think it was amazing that she went ahead and did this app even though as she said there was some things she didn't understand when she started working on the app.

Great stuff all round though.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Hawaii-interns-XAPfest-2011#c634515956421682255 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:14:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Hawaii-interns-XAPfest-2011#c634515956421682255 Fabulous_Fadz Re: "Hello, Skype? It's me .Net... Can I record you?" Cool! Let me give this a try.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Hello-Skype-Its-me-Net-Can-I-record-you#c634509986248842664 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:23:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Hello-Skype-Its-me-Net-Can-I-record-you#c634509986248842664 Fabulous_Fadz