Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0)
Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked at a consulting company for a bit over 13 years. Prior to that, I started the IT department at a medical billing company and worked there for 4 years while completing my Computer Science degree. Seeing Scott’s post on past work he did years ago at SparkFun and 800.com got me to thinking about some of the interesting projects I’ve been on. I’ve been a develo...
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Friday, January 22, 2010 |
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.NET, WPF, Silverlight, RIA, Expression-Blend, AIS, Facebook, Retro, ASP.NET, Web-Development, SketchFlow, Windows-Forms, CPP, WindowsClient, geek |
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It seems like Twitter clients get all the attention these days, but not too many folks are doing serious work with Facebook. Sure, Tweetdeck has some basic integration, and Sobees more, but they’re still primarily twitter-centric. What about a full client-side application that improves the Facebook experience? Just over a week ago, we announced the latest version of the Facebook SDK for .NET. ...
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The Facebook Developer Toolkit has hit an important milestone: 2.0 RTW. I’m upgrading the MSDN East Coast News Silverlight application to this version this weekend, so we’ll see how complete it is this time :) In addition, Steve’s Facebook Developer Toolkit Starter Kit has been upgraded to the 2.0 RTW release. Download the starter kit here. The combination of the two above remove a lot of the...
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In Part 1, we created a Facebook application using ASP.NET. Now, in Part 2, we’ll cover how to add Silverlight into the mix. I’ll assume you have the Part 1 solution working. If not, go to that blog post and download the project files linked at the end of the post. Install the Silverlight 2 Developer Tools If you haven’t done so already, install the Silverlight 2 Developer tools from Silverli...
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I’m about to embark on some very different Silverlight application development projects (primary around data-driven UI, and one potential one even about kiosk/digital sign work). Before I do that, I wanted to give you all a brain-dump primer from my last project – MSDN East Coast News. MSDN East Coast News is a Silverlight 2 application which runs inside the Facebook chrome, ergo a two-parter ...
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One one of many pre-sales visits to different clients over the years, I found myself at a local dotcom in DC. It was filled with early-20’s VPs and fresh out of college developers who had a head a little too big for their skills. I love passion, but non-academic experience counts too, especially when you’re leading the work. I asked them how they did development. The first response I got was “...
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My primary Silverlight project for the past couple months has been the Facebook application I’ve been writing for the Microsoft East Coast Developer, Partner and Architect Evangelists: MSDN East Coast News. For those of you curious about building Facebook applications with Silverlight, I have at least two sessions coming up: MSDN geekSpeak on building facebook applications wit...
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Here are some of the talks I’ll be doing in the next month and a half or so. Wednesday October 22 MSDN geekSpeak webcast : Building Facebook applications with Silverlight 2 . We’ll cover some of the challenges and some tips and tidbits for building applications for Facebook platform. Join me, Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie for this event. Saturday October 25 CMAP CodeCamp Fall Edition ...
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I’m putting the finishing touches on our first beta of MSDN East Coast News and decided to provide a customized install experience. The out of the box installation experience looks like this: That works, but really isn’t acceptable for this application. It doesn’t show the user why they would want to install this application. FWIW, I have the same beef with adding applications within face...
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There are a number of other places I hang out where we can have two-way conversations rather than just a publish-subscribe relationship. Follow me on Twitter. Twitter is a fun place to hang out and get the news before folks have time to blog about it. FriendFeed is similar, but I’m only on that rarely – my tweets get automatically posted there. By far, this is the most active group ...
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I just gave a talk at Microsoft TechReady covering how to build Facebook applications that host Silverlight content. One problem I ran into was the changing Facebook API and how the toolkit wasn’t yet synchronized with that. Well, just today, the Facebook Developer Toolkit version 2.0 RC was put up there. I haven’t used it yet, and understand it has some RC-type issues, but I will definitely b...
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I've been doing a bunch lately with aggregating various
technical blogs and surfacing the content through Silverlight and
Facebook.
While doing that, I ran into a number of challenges and figured out
ways that folks can work around them to make their blogs more
visible and more easily used in mashups. I'm not a marketing or
branding expert so I'd be happy to include suggestions from som...
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Sometimes I hear about something for the first time and figure I must live under a rock. I make a point of keeping up on a number of new things, but it's hard to keep track of all the cool services and technologies available to you these days. Tim Heuer just today turned me on to Yahoo Pipes when I asked about proxying some services to provide feed content to a Silverlight FaceBook app I'm dev...
