Entries tagged with uk - Channel 9

MSDN Flash Podcast 008 – Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm apps

Eric Nelson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:26:00 GMT

This podcast is an interview with Gary Short in which we discuss the DevExpress eXpressApp Framework™ (XAF) for quickly building WebForm and WinForm applications. Along the way we manage to mention testing frameworks, home-grown source control, rabbits feet, British Rail and Microsoft Access (Apologies in advance to the Access User Group) but most of it is about understanding what XAF is and when you would use it.

Show Notes:

XAF
Posts on the Project Management application being built in XAF
eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) – the ORM beneath XAF
UK Access User Group

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Live Framework SDK, Syncing Some Simple Data

Mike Taulty — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:41:00 GMT

Moving on from the introductory video to getting a very simple console application written that synchronises some textual entries through the Live Mesh. We look at writing some basic code to create a MeshObject and then to add and display DataFeed entries to that MeshObject.

Live Framework SDK, Getting Started

Mike Taulty — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:55:00 GMT

A quick walkthrough of getting started with the Live Framework SDK. From downloading the SDK and tools through to firing up Visual Studio, referencing the SDK assemblies and getting a "Hello World" style application written that queries some contact information from the Live Framework.

Cloud services scale life critical system

Paul Foster — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:31:00 GMT

Providing a life critical system with global scale is getting easier with Windows Azure. Microsoft partner, Active Web Solutions (AWS) has been testing new cloud services for use as a scaleable global datacentre for the MOB Guardian system.
But without transactional support a different approach needs to be undertaken.
Technical Director at AWS, Richard Prodger and Microsoft staff Neil Kidd and Simon Davies, discuss the issues and solutions from the recent proof of concept project and the detail behind the PDC 2008 case study.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - More on the asp:MediaPlayer Control

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:13:00 GMT

A screencast demonstrating the use of some of the rich features of the ASP.NET MediaPlayer control such as chaptering, closed caption support and markers.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:MediaPlayer Control

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:12:00 GMT

An introduction to the MediaPlayer ASP.NET server control that allows you to embed a rich Silverlight media player in an aspx page.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Handling Media Events

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:11:00 GMT

The MediaElement exposes a number of useful events so you can react to changes in media state and markers in the video stream. In this screencast we take a look at some of these events and how to handle them.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Embedding Video and Audio

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:10:00 GMT

How to embed video and audio content in your Silverlight 2 application with the MediaElement control.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:Silverlight Control

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:05:00 GMT

A screencast describing the <asp:Silverlight> control, an ASP.NET server control making it really simple to host Silverlight content. This control ships in the Silverlight 2 SDK.

WPF 3.5 Sp1, WebBrowser Control

Mike Taulty — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:09:00 GMT

The WebBrowser control is a new addition for WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 - here we take a quick look at using it to browse a little HTML, load some HTML from a string or a stream and how we can call into browser code from WPF and vice versa.

WPF 3.5 Sp1, Splash Screen

Mike Taulty — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:07:00 GMT

A very quick screencast - looking at how we can put a splash screen on to a WPF 3.5 Sp1 application.

WPF 3.5 Sp1, Effects and Pixel shaders

Mike Taulty — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:05:00 GMT

The bitmap effects from WPF 3.0 and 3.5 have changed in 3.5 Service Pack 1 in that we now get hardware acceleration and also the ability to plug in 3rd-party or custom effects by writing pixel shaders. Here, we take a quick look at using effects and building our own simple shader.

WPF, ClickOnce and the .NET Client Profile

Mike Taulty — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:18:00 GMT

A simple demo of building a "Hello World" application with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and then deploying it via ClickOnce to a clean Windows XP machine using the .NET Client Profile rather than the full .NET Framework.

UK PDC Attendees?

Mike Taulty — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:44:00 GMT

A placeholder for UK developers to comment and indicate that they're going to be out at PDC 2008. Maybe a place to try and organise some meet-ups.

This is perhaps not the best medium for doing this so feel free to suggest others or highlight ones that already exist.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Optimistic Concurrency

Mike Taulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:32:00 GMT

With Data Services, it's most likely that you'd use an optimistic locking strategy for the underlying data and the framework has built-in support which we take a look at here.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Batching

Mike Taulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:17:00 GMT

We can cut down the number of HTTP round-trips that we make from client to service by using the batching feature of Data Services. A service exposes a $batch endpoint that we can send multiple "CRUD" operations to in a single HTTP request.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Service Operations

Mike Taulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:12:00 GMT

Service operations provide a way in which we can add to the core functionality of Data Services in order to expose your own arbitrary functionality by writing server-side functions that can still be invoked (with parameters) via the URI. Here, we take a quick look at how we can do this.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Query Interceptors

Mike Taulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:09:00 GMT

Query interceptors (and change interceptors) allow us to plug code into the dispatch mechanism server side in order to run some of your own code as part of returning a result set or modifying data. Here, we take a quick look.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - Silverlight Client

Mike Taulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:38:00 GMT

Building a basic Silverlight client for an ADO.NET Data Service.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - AJAX Client

Mike Taulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:35:00 GMT

Building a basic AJAX client for an ADO.NET Data Service. For this screencast you want the client library from here.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - .NET Clients

Mike Taulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:31:00 GMT

Looking at how we can built a basic .NET client against an ADO.NET Data Service

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - Querying

Mike Taulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:29:00 GMT

Taking a quick look at how we can build up URI's to query ADO.NET Data Services and what kind of built-in operators the URI format has.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - Surfacing Data

Mike Taulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:26:00 GMT

Here we look at how we can surface our own custom data types and data from the ADO.NET Entity Framework over ADO.NET Data Services to quickly build a data-centric set of RESTful web services.

Silverlight - Insert/Update/Delete with the DataGrid

Mike Taulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT

The DataGrid provides an editable, spreadsheet-like surface for your data - here we take a look at how we can do insert, update and delete with the grid.

Silverlight - Getting Started with the DataGrid

Mike Taulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT

The DataGrid is one of the more complex controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and lends itself towards line-of-business applications. Here we take a look at getting started in using it to display data.