Today we released a minor update to Silverlight 5. The 32 and 64
bit update version number is 5.1.10411.0. (The documentation said
5.2 at first, but this has been fixed.)
This will be rolled out to everyone. We throttle large
updates of products at the start, so for some folks it was not
automatically downloaded this morning.
This is primarily an important security update addressing an TrueT...
We homeschool our two children. Ben, is kindergarten age, Abby
is pre-school age. My wife does, by far, most of the work there,
including trucking them to specialized classes (art, music,
gymnastics, karate, our homeschool group single day school, etc.)
plus all the playdates with the other kids, and special events.
Melissa even teaches several of the classes at the home school
group. I genera...
On April 24th I helped run the patterns & practices
Symposium 2012 Online on Channel 9. All of the videos are currently up and viewable
on-demand.
As part of the event, I gave a talk on the .NET Micro Framework. I had a ton
of fun doing it, and got to show off a lot of great gear. Take a
look and let me know what you think.
I'll have the demos and presentation pptx uploaded shortly.
The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
brief d...
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This connect bug describes an issue with creating certain types
of Silverlight projects in Visual Studio. If you're referencing
Silverlight 4 DLLs from a Silverlight 5 project, you may run into
this
code analysis/FXCop issue yourself if code analysis is part of
your process. The core of the problem is a versioning decision in
Silverlight 5 which results in compile-time violation due to
loadi...
When creating modules for the .NET Gadgeteer or Netduino GO, one of the harder
parts to source is the 10 pin IDC socket. This is the tiny 1.27mm
pin pitch socket you see on the boards.
Manufacturers will get those by the reel in most cases, directly
from China. There are several places the average hobbyist can get
them from:
Digikey Part 609-4054-ND. Quantities as low as
1.
Samtec Part S...
Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore International, and father
of such beloved computers as the PET, VIC-20, C64, C128 and others,
passed away this weekend at the age of 83.
According to many of the books I've read, Jack was often
considered a tough guy to work with, as he drove his employees and
the rest of the industry, relentlessly. Some say he even used
unfair tactics to get what he wan...
I just received a bunch of packages from both Secret Labs and
GHI Electronics. The Secret labs packages contained their brand new
Netduino GO. The GHI package contained the FEZ Cerebus Starter kit
I ordered.
This post looks at the new Netduino GO and briefly compares it
to the .NET Gadgeteer (Cerebus and others). I also build a couple
simple example applications using the Netduino GO kit.
Th...
