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US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners - Implementing Modern User Experiences with Expression Blend & Silverlight

keydet — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:30:00 GMT

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering "Implementing Modern User Experiences with Expression Blend & Silverlight" held on January 27, 2009 in Reston, Va.

Building off the sample app built during the Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond Developer Dinner, James Chittenden will cover all the basics that every designer and developer of WPF and Silverlight applications needs to know. Building off of preceding developer session, we’ll use Expression Blend to walk through the process of creating and manipulating objects, building timeline-based animations, and converting a typical user interface into one that harnesses the power of Silverlight.

To learn more about US Public Sector Developer Dinner For Partners, visit:

http://tinyurl.com/uspsdevdinner

Follow up resources (links, deck, code) from the dinner are available at:

http://tinyurl.com/sl2uxblenddevdinner

US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners - Silverlight Business Applications

keydet — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:23:00 GMT

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering "Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond" held on January 15, 2009 in Reston, Va.

Business-focused applications, sometimes referred to as Line Of Business (LOB) applications, are almost universally about working with data in some shape or form. At it’s a heart, a business app needs:

A way to move data between tiers
A way to shape data (sort, filter, etc.)
A way to bind & display data
A way to soundly apply business logic

What you will learn:

In this session, we’ll start off by discussing approaches to building this kind of functionality TODAY using Silverlight 2. Next, we will give you a peek into how a future version of Silverlight will make building these applications even easier. You will learn about an exciting new technology that is all about making business applications for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) much easier to build. You will hear how we've made n-tier application development as simple as traditional 2-tier, provided application level solutions to developers, and how we're doing all of this with the same .NET platform and tools on both the client and server.

US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners - .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

keydet — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:15:00 GMT

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 held on August 20, 2008 in Reston, Va.

This presentation is a demo focused walkthrough of the new features and functionality in SP1. You will see demonstrations that will include:

Making data access easier with the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
Exposing your data access layer using ADO.NET Data Services
Building “Data Entry” Web-based applications faster than ever using ASP.NET Dynamic Data.
Making AJAX Applications faster with script combining and easier with built in support for handling browser history (i.e. back/forward buttons).
How to achieve up to 40% faster startup performance for your WPF applications and further improve the startup experience using a splash screen.
Reducing the time it takes to deploy your WPF applications using the New .NET Framework Client Profile.
Build services faster using enhancements in WCF.

US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners - ASP.NET MVC

keydet — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:58:00 GMT

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering ASP.NET MVC held on October 15, 2008 in Reston, Va.

ASP.NET MVC enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, not a replacement, for ASP.NET Web Forms that offers the following benefits:

Clear separation of concerns
Testability - support for Test-Driven Development
Fine-grained control over HTML and JavaScript
Intuitive URLs

What you will learn:

This demonstration focused session covers the fundamentals of the ASP.NET MVC framework. You will learn how ASP.NET MVC differs from the current ASP.NET Web Forms framework. Through a series of demonstrations, you will see:

How ASP.NET MVC provides you with fine-grained control over HTML and JavaScript
Test Driven Development fundamentals
AJAX with ASP.NET MVC fundamentals

Rendering Polygons from SQL Server 2008 on Virtual Earth

keydet — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:08:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert builds off of the concepts shown in his previous screencast and shows you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008.

To learn more about the GeoRSS utility library, visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop/archive/2008/07/01/simple-georss-utility-library-released.aspx

A big thanks to Eugenio Pace for letting me use it as part of my sample!

To download the source code visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/07/19/screencast-rendering-polygons-from-sql-server-2008-on-virtual-earth.aspx

Saving Virtual Earth Polygons to SQL Server 2008

keydet — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert shows you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008.

To download the source code visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/07/18/screencast-saving-virtual-earth-polygons-to-sql-server-2008.aspx

Using Virtual Earth in a WPF Application

keydet — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:52:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert shows you how to use Virtual Earth in a WPF application by using a prototype WPF Virtual Earth control. You'll also see a walkthrough of how the prototype control was built. You can download the prototype and sample application at http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/06/24/wpf-and-virtual-earth-revisited.aspx.

Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part I

keydet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:40:00 GMT

When the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) was first introduced in the .NET Framework 3.0, the only way to host a workflow in a client application was to use the WorkflowRuntime class programmatically, start the runtime, and create/start an instance of a workflow. Furthermore, if you wanted to communicate between the client code and the workflow logic, you needed to ues a ExternalDataExchangeService. This required a fair amount coding effort to get even the simplest of workflows up and running. The .NET Framework 3.5 introduced Workflow Services which are Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services authored as workflows. Workflow Services give you a new way to accomplish this scenario using a much simpler, cleaner, and arguably more elegant approach. In this three part screencast, I show you how to improve on the more manual hosting + ExternalDataExchangeServices approach by hosting a workflow in a client executable using Workflow Service.

Part I - Reviewing the SimpleExpenseReport application from the Create a Sequential Workflow tutorial so we can compare the two approaches. The application explicitly hosts the WorkflowRuntime & uses ExternalDataExchangeService

Part II - Walking through the fundamentals of creating a Workflow Service and hosting the Workflow Service locally

Part III - Walking through my rewrite of the SimpleExpenseReport application using Workflow Services.

Source code for the Workflow Services version of SimpleExpenseReport is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/WCF_WF/SimpleExpenseReportWorkflowServices.zip.

Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part II

keydet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Part II - Walking through the fundamentals of creating a Workflow Service and hosting the Workflow Service locally

Part III - Walking through my rewrite of the SimpleExpenseReport application using Workflow Services.

Source code for the Workflow Services version of SimpleExpenseReport is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/WCF_WF/SimpleExpenseReportWorkflowServices.zip.

Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part III

keydet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Part II - Walking through the fundamentals of creating a Workflow Service and hosting the Workflow Service locally

Part III - Walking through my rewrite of the SimpleExpenseReport application using Workflow Services.

Source code for the Workflow Services version of SimpleExpenseReport is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/WCF_WF/SimpleExpenseReportWorkflowServices.zip.

Exposing/Consuming RSS/ATOM using WCF 3.5 & Silverlight 2

keydet — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:40:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert shows you how easy it is to expose RSS and Atom feeds using the new Web Programming Model (REST) features, classes in the new System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace, and LINQ to SQL in the .NET Framework 3.5. Then, you will see how you can use classes from the System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace to consume RSS and Atom feeds using Silverlight 2.

Source code for this screencast is available here.

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part I

keydet — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:26:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie has a great eight part series titled First Look at Silverlight 2 where he walks you through building a Silverlight 2 sample app from scratch. The walkthrough highlights almost all of the key features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. The walkthrough is so comprehensive that I have been using a slightly modified version of it for my Silverlight 2 presentations. Since I am a big fan of seeing vs. reading, I asked Scott if it would be ok if I turned his written walkthrough into a video walkthrough delivered as a Channel 9 screencast. Scott gave me the thumbs up so I put together what turned out to be a three part screencast. Here are the direct links for each part:

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part I

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part II

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part III

I hope you find it useful! The source code for the app is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Silverlight%202/MyDiggSample_Silverlight2Beta1.zip.

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part II

keydet — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:17:00 GMT

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part I

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part II

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part III

I hope you find it useful! The source code for the app is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Silverlight%202/MyDiggSample_Silverlight2Beta1.zip.

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part III

keydet — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:31:00 GMT

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part I

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part II

Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part III

I hope you find it useful! The source code for the app is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Silverlight%202/MyDiggSample_Silverlight2Beta1.zip.

JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control

keydet — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:02:00 GMT

UPDATE: Folks are experiencing issues sending to the contribution email address. This has been fixed. Details here.

Have you ever wished you could get JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control in Visual Studio 2008? I have, so I came up with a solution and started a codeplex project! This screencast explains the solution.

The project is not finished. I need people to volunteer to contribute so we can release full intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control 6.0. Instructions for people who want to contribute are in the screencast. The more people willing to contribute, the faster we make this available for everyone!

If you want to keep up with what's going on with the project, subscribe to my RSS feed from http://devkeydet.com. The codeplex project is http://codeplex.com/vejs.

Adding Closed Captioning to video using Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, WCF and an external data source

keydet — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:30:00 GMT

In my previous Silverlight Closed Captioning screencast here, I showed you how to use Expression Encoder to import Closed Captioning information to produce a solution without writing a line of code. What if you store your Closed Captioning information in an external data source (database, SAMI file, XML file, etc.) and want to keep it there? Do you have to reprocess all of your videos using Expression Encoder? Of course not, but you do have to write some code:). In this screencast, I show you how to use Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to solve this problem.

You can download the sample code via my blog at http://devkeydet.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1F72DA7294089597!452.entry.

Adding Closed Captioning to video using Expression Media Encoder and Silverlight

keydet — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:50:00 GMT

Do you have a need to produce cross browser video with Closed Captioning that targets both Windows and the Mac? If so, then you stumbled upon the right screencast! I'll show you how in a little over 5 minutes using Expression Media Encoder and Microsoft Silverlight.

Using the UpdatePanel and tab controls from the AJAX Control Toolkit to build an "in place"

keydet — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:15:00 GMT

A customer asked me how to implement a specific master details scenario with tabs using ASP.NET AJAX. This screencast shows the scenario/solution.

Download sample from here.

Simplifying XMLHTTP programming with ASP.NET “Atlas” (part II)

keydet — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:32:28 GMT

Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert demonstrates how ASP.NET "Atlas" abstracts the complexities of XMLHTTP programming by allowing you to make web service calls from client script.

The source code for this screencast is available here. Don't forget to check out the Federal D&PE blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/.

Simplifying XMLHTTP programming with ASP.NET “Atlas” (part I)

keydet — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:19:01 GMT

Examining the "Atlas" Control Toolkit

keydet — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:13:29 GMT

Building on concepts from his previous screencasts, Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert demonstrates more AJAX enabling capabilities of ASP.NET "Atlas." You'll how to use a few of the controls from the "Atlas" Control Toolkit to add rich behavior to an ASP.NET 2.0 application.

The source code for this screencast is available here. Don't forget to check out the Federal D&PE blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/.

AJAX Enabling ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts with "Atlas"

keydet — Tue, 30 May 2006 10:58:58 GMT

Building on concepts from his
The source code for this screencast is available here. Don't forget to check out the Federal D&PE blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/.

Attaching Client Functionality to ASP.NET Server Controls using ASP.NET "Atlas"

keydet — Thu, 25 May 2006 16:14:02 GMT

Building on concepts from his
The source code for this screencast is available here. Don't forget to check out the Federal D&PE blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/.

Enabling Partial Page Updates with the ASP.NET “Atlas” UpdatePanel

keydet — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:18:53 GMT

Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert demonstrates the fundamentals of the "server-centric" approach to AJAX enabling ASP.NET pages using "Atlas." You'll see how easy it is to AJAX enable a page without writing a line of client side script while leveraging the ASP.NET server control programming model ASP.NET developers are already familiar with.

The source code for this screencast is available here. Don't forget to check out the Federal D&PE blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/.

Mashup 101: Virtual Earth and ASP.NET Atlas (Part II)

keydet — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:00:23 GMT

In Part II of this two part screencast, Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert demonstrates how ASP.NET Atlas abstracts the complexities of AJAX programming and provides a new set of tools to your developer toolbox to build richer, more engaging web user interfaces. You'll see how much easier it is to build the solution from http://atlas.asp.net/
http://spaces.msn.com/virtualearth/blog/
http://blogs.msdn.com/jhawk/
http://viavirtualearth.com/

The source code for this screencast is available here. Don't forget to check out the Federal D&PE blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/.

-Marc