G. Andrew Duthie
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Check me out on the web at Community Megaphone or at my blog.
Visual Studio AchievementsG. Andrew Duthie is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic States district, and works with developers in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Washington, DC, helping them become more effective with, and excited about, the Microsoft developer platform and tools.
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.NET Gadgeteer and MIDI: Meet the MeeBlipiatorDemonstration of my latest Gadgeteer project, a simple 8-step one-octave arpeggiator using Pete Brown's MIDI Module to drive a MeeBlip micro synthesizer.
Full source code is available at http://sdrv.ms/MeeBlipiatorSrc (MS-PL)
Detailed blog post at:
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Video: FEZ Spider .NET Gadgeteer Starter Kit UnboxingJust wanted to quickly share a video of me unboxing my latest gear, the FEZ Spider .NET Gadgeteer Starter Kit, from GHI Electronics. I also wrote up an intro to the starter kit and the platform on my devhammer blog, including lots of pictures, which you can view here.
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Video: MADExpo Kinect-enabled Session FinderHere's a video of a fun and cool project I worked on for the Mid Atlantic Developer Expo, namely a Kinect-enabled Session Finder.
The project uses the recently-released Kinect SDK for Windows beta, a custom version of the Session Sorter code from the MADExpo website, hosted in a WebBrowser contr...
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Tweaking T4 Templates to Improve Script PerformanceIn this DevNugget, a follow-up to part 1, Make Script Performance Automatic with Custom Templates in Visual Studio 2010, Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie shows you how you can customize the T4 templates used for creating new Views in an MVC3 application, to move script references to ...
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Make Script Performance Automatic with Custom Templates in Visual Studio 2010 - Part 1In this DevNugget, Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie shows you how you can create your own custom templates for your web application, with script references moved to the bottom of the page. Why the bottom? Because some browsers won't load any additional content while they're busy downloading a ...
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Get to Know Action Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3 Using HandleErrorIn his latest DevNugget, Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie takes you into the exciting world of action filters in ASP.NET MVC 3, and demonstrates how MVC 3 implements the HandleError action filter in the default internet application template, and how you can override this default beha...
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Microsoft WebMatrix Beta 3 - New FeaturesIn this devnugget, Andrew demonstrates some of the new features in WebMatrix Beta 3, including rendering unencoded output with Html.Raw, new Package Management support, new publishing features, and a new options dialog.
You can keep track of what's happening with the DEvHammer on his blog,...
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Intro to Pinned Sites in IE 9 BetaIn this devnugget, Andrew provides a quick overview of the basics of pinned sites in Internet Explorer 9 beta.
You can keep track of what's happening with the DEvHammer on his blog, or on Twitter, and find out about upcoming developer and IT Pro events in your area on his site, Community Megaph...
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Microsoft Web Matrix New Site OptionsContinuing my series on Microsoft WebMatrix, in this devnugget, the second in a series on WebMatrix, I walk you through the various options available for creating and opening sites with WebMatrix.
Here's what I have in mind for future installments:- Creating a site from a Template, and what you end up...
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Installing Microsoft WebMatrix BetaYou may have heard that Microsoft announced a new streamlined web development tool recently called WebMatrix. In this devnugget, the first in a series on WebMatrix, I walk you through locating and installing WebMatrix.
Here's what I have in mind for future installments:- What the various options are f...
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Gadgeteering and the .NET Micro Framework
Apr 27, 2012 at 10:08 AMPete,
Thanks for showing off the Meeblipiator! Nice job on the demos.
For folks who would like to see a full demo of the Meeblipiator, you can check it out here:
Meet the Meeblipiator
Includes a link to the source code, and a blog post talking about the project.
.NET Gadgeteer and MIDI: Meet the MeeBlipiator
Apr 09, 2012 at 9:12 AM@dentaku
Thanks for the pointer on OSC. Had not heard of that, so I'll check it out.
.NET Gadgeteer and MIDI: Meet the MeeBlipiator
Apr 09, 2012 at 6:05 AMFunny you should mention programmers not understanding MIDI, as just about anyone using a modern DAW or synthesizer may be using MIDI and not even realize it, since many newer keyboards connect via USB, but still use MIDI for communication, albeit over USB.
I was talking on Saturday with a neighbor who works for a major musical instrument retailer, and who was once a touring keyboard player, about how robust MIDI has been as a communication protocol. It's nearly 30 years old now, and still going strong.
I'm not a deep expert in MIDI, and truth be told, most of the hard MIDI work in this project is done for me by Pete's MIDI module driver, but I agree with you that touch screens can be a useful addition to enhance musical expression, and I'd like to see what I could do with a Windows Phone app and MIDI...will have to see what's possible there.
One of my other favorite musical toys, though it doesn't talk MIDI, is my Korg Kaossilator. It's primary interface is a touchpad, so it's very expressive. I used it to record a track called Devhammer's Kaos from my Music page. The entire track was played in one take on the Kaossilator.
Going MAD with Kinect. The MADExpo Kinect-enabled Session Finder
Oct 28, 2011 at 10:32 AMBasementHacker, go for it! It's pretty easy to get started, and there's a definite visceral thrill associated with controlling your program with your hands and/or voice.
Unboxing and some Visual Studio fun with the GHI FEZ Spider Gadgeteer Starter kit
Oct 28, 2011 at 10:20 AMI believe that there will be modules coming down the road that will enable the Gadgeteer platform with robotics. Pete Brown's Gadgeteer intro post details what's available now, and I'm sure there's more to come.
BTW - thanks to Greg for featuring my unboxing post. And for folks in the DC Metro area, Pete Brown and I will be doing a session on .NET Gadgeteer and the .NET Micro Framework at CMAP Code Camp on November 12th. Come on out and see what you can do with .NET Gadgeteer, and why this is so cool!
Microsoft WebMatrix Beta 3 - New Features
Nov 15, 2010 at 10:04 AM@SteveRichter:
The new Razor syntax works across both Web Pages and MVC 3 (in fact, Razor is the default view engine in MVC3), so the compatibility is quite strong.
MVC itself does not have a deployment story, per se. Visual Studio 2010, however, does support the WebDeploy protocol, so you can certainly use WebDeploy from VS2010 to deploy an MVC application.
Last, but not least, yes, once ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC 3 are fully released, you should be able to add ASP.NET Web Pages to an MVC project...you may be able to do that today if you have the MVC3 RC installed, but I have not tested that personally.
DataBinding to a Web Service in ASP.NET 2.0
Sep 05, 2009 at 9:14 PMThanks to one of the kind folks on the Channel 9 team, we were able to isolate the issue and correct it. The video should work properly now.
Andrew
DataBinding to a Web Service in ASP.NET 2.0
Sep 05, 2009 at 2:23 PMNot sure why the video is not displaying properly in the embedded version. You can still access the WMV directly by clicking the WMV icon next to "Formats" below the embedded video...that seems to work fine. Sorry for the difficulty, I'll see if I can figure out what's up.
Using jQuery UI in ASP.NET
Jun 09, 2009 at 11:11 AMI'm planning some additional DevNuggets on jQuery and jQueryUI, so perhaps I will do one on drag-drop. Next one is databinding with the accordion, then I want to do a couple on IE 8 Web Slices and Accelerators.
Thanks for watching!
DataBinding to a Web Service in ASP.NET 2.0
Jul 22, 2006 at 9:34 AMI'm not sure that there's a simple way to do that. Your best bet for inserts is to use something like the DetailsView control. You could add a DetailsView control to your page, along with an Add Row button or link, and only show the DetailsView when the Button/Link is displayed.
I'm sure that you could customize the behavior of the GridView to allow inserts directly from the control, I'm just not sure it'd be worth the effort, compared to using the built-in DetailsView control.
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