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FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome & Firefox running together on Windows 7

Nigel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 GMT

When you buy Windows 7 (pro or ultimate) you get Windows XP "virtualized" for free. What this means that if you are web developer you can finally have IE6, IE7, IE8 all running alongside each other as hardware support virtual applications.

More details at bit.ly/virtualXP

HTML 5, Standards and Developer Features in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

Nigel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:43:00 GMT

Shot in Wellington, New Zealand on Friday the 18th Sep as part of the Microsoft Unplugged series of events http://microsoft.co.nz/unplugged

This session is presented by Giorgio Sardo (Technical Evangelist working with Internet Explorer) http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio/

Come and learn how to build a website that gets the most out of IE8. Discover how to use the new integrated Developer Tools, Microsoft Expression SuperPreview and Fiddler to build and debug cross-browser-compatible layout designs. Learn how to build new Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Providers that extend the reach of your content. Demo, demo, demo.

Rich Client Applications and Windows 7 for Developers

Nigel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:18:00 GMT

Windows 7 contains many new features for developers that allow you to create very rich applications for your users, including the ability to touch-enable your own applications. This session will cover how you can take advantage of new Windows 7 features using .NET 3.5 to build rich client applications and we’ll also take a look at what’s coming in .NET 4.0. Presented by ISV Developer Advisor, Mike Zeff (http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezeff)

This session was delivered as part of the NZ MSDN Unplugged events http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-may09.mspx

UNPLUGGED Silverlight 3 Line of Business with RIA Services May Preview

Nigel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:55:00 GMT

I have previously written about the UNPLUGGED road trip that Mike, Nathan and I have been on.

I also mentioned that I would be making a screen cast and sharing the source code from the Silverlight 3 Line of Business demo that I delivered. The demo that I presented was based on Scott Morrison’s two sessions from Tech.Ed North America.

Watch a video of my session using Smooth Streaming.

The source code for these presentations is available below:

I also updated my presentation to cover the May release of RIA Services from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RiaServices (this site also includes tutorials and white papers).

Blog post http://tr.im/silverlight3LOB

Expression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April - Final Presentations

Nigel — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their developer and designer staff to this event to learn a little bit about Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3.

This is a video summary of the final presentations a video summary of the rest of the event is available at http://tr.im/EFASintro

View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg

Expression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April

Nigel — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their developer and designer staff to this event to learn a little bit about Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3.

This is a video summary of the first 2 1/2 days a video summary of the final presentations is available at http://tr.im/EFASpres.

View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg

NZsynth Building a Clickable Mosaic with DeepZoom and Silverlight 2

Nigel — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:11:00 GMT

It started as a conversation about "crowd sourcing" images that people have already tagged as New Zealand to construct a demo from our shipping Silverlight 2 technology. I spent 3 days building a "demo-ware" prototype and presented it during a keynote slot at WEB09.

Following that we held a Silverlight 3 camp over 3 1/2 days. At the camp Tim (a devloper from Wellington) improved my original prototype to make the image tiles clickable. I then took Tims work and adapted it to make a version two of my original design.

Read more and grab the source code at http://tr.im/nzsynth and http://tr.im/nzsynthV2

Enjoy!

Take your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure, Office 14 and Windows 7

Nigel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:15:00 GMT

This MSDN UNPLUGGED session shares principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, October 2008.

Presented by http://tr.im/MarkCarroll and http://tr.im/MikeZeff

Using computers in the cloud can make a great deal of sense. Instead of provisioning part or all of your infrastructure you can instead exploit Internet-accessible servers and let others worry about keeping systems up to scratch. But why just stop at the cloud? Some applications may have their code and data both operating in the cloud, others may run inside an organisation storing data in the cloud or relying on other cloud infrastructure services. Applications that run on desktops and mobile devices can use services in the cloud to synchronise information across many systems or in other ways. Whatever approach makes sense exploiting and extending the cloud’s capabilities can open up new choices for applications hosting, storage and interoperability.

Silverlight 2 and the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series

Nigel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:40:00 GMT

It is not everyday that the best sailors on the planet set up shop 150 metres from your work and race each other over a two week period but that is exactly what is happening for me right now.

Check out http://lvps09.com and watch this screencast to learn more . A few things in the end made this application very flexible and extended my experiences with building production code in Silverlight 2. This screencast gets into the nitty gritty details of this project... more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2009/02/03/louis-vuitton-pacific-series-2009-auckland-new-zealand-the-silverlight-story.aspx

Next Generation User Experiences - WPF 3.5 SP1

Nigel — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Windows Presentation Foundation is now becoming mainstream with real world applications being delivered using WPF to create engaging new user experiences as well as accelerate development times. Join John-Daniel Trask in exploring what WPF offers developers and end users as he demonstrates building line of business applications with WPF while highlighting the techniques and pattern you will need to understand to effectively use this fantastic technology.

Finally, John-Daniel will discuss how Silverlight 2 fits into the user experience for modern web applications and what you need to understand to transition between these two platforms.

Read more from JD on his blog http://blog.bluecog.co.nz/

Customising IE8 to Drive Users to Your Website

Nigel — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:43:00 GMT

I think there is a real opportunity to innovate on top of IE8 and provide your innovations packaged up to your customers next year when IE8 is launched.

Please now sit back and join me for the next 45 minutes while I go end-to-end on customising IE8!

Check my blog for code samples - http://tr.im/ie8custom

Developing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences with Expression Studio 2 - TechEd NZ

Nigel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:19:00 GMT

Presented at Tech.Ed New Zealand.

Expression Studio 2 delivers powerful tools to create natural and engaging user experiences. In this session you’ll learn how the Expression tools works together to streamline user experience design. With a focus on designing for Silverlight, I will walk through Expression Encoder, Expression Blend and Expression Web – highlighting the new features. I will finish the session by demonstrating how Expression Blend 2 SP1 can be used with Visual Studio 2008 to assemble user interface components for Silverlight 2 applications.

Jonas Follesø - Silverlight 2 for Developers - Tech.Ed NZ

Nigel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:55:00 GMT

The session was designed to give developers who want to build “real applications” a good starting point. It’s a level 300 talk (advanced), so it skips the basic introduction. That being said you don’t need to be a Silverlight expert to find the session useful. The talk covered things like CRUD applications using WCF, how to implement a Presentation Model/ViewModel, how to use IoC and DI in Silverlight, and how to do unit testing in Silverlight.

The theme of the talk was diving, and for the demos Jonas worked on a dive log application.

Read more at http://jonas.follesoe.no/TechEd2008NdashSilverlight2ForDevelopers.aspx and http://jonas.follesoe.no/PortingTheSilverlightDiveLogApplicationToWPF.aspx

Tech.Ed New Zealand - Web Panel Discussion

Nigel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:43:00 GMT

At Tech.Ed 2008 in New Zealand speakers from the web track Scott Hanselman, Jonas Follesø, Nigel Parker, Harry Pierson, Jorke Ordolphi and Trent Mankelow were asked to discuss Web Futures and take questions from the audience about what is on their mind.

MSNZ Unplugged IE8 With Matt Heller

Nigel — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:57:00 GMT

We delivered a road show across New Zealand over the course of 7 days. Matt delivered 17 sessions, visited Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and spoke to over 750 Web Developers. We recorded the Auckland unplugged session for those who were unable to attend the road show - we hope you find this useful. (length - 51 minutes).

More at http://tr.im/ie8nz

MSNZ Unplugged - Preparing for Cloud Computing & PDC

Nigel — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:00:00 GMT

I have just finished a road trip talking to developers about preparing for cloud computing, Silverlight 2, IE8 and upcoming announcements at PDC.

The session is intended as a high level over-view to set the scene for the next wave of IT trends and development technologies hitting us square between the eyes at PDC in just under two weeks time.

The start of the presentation is inspired by a very popular talk that Miha Kralj gave at Tech.Ed NZ on the future of IT. I contacted Miha to see if he was comfortable representing his material on cloud computing in my unplugged session which he agreed to.

More demos and details at http://bit.ly/discover