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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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ASP.NET
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Join us live on April 24th for our first ever online live
streamed patterns & practices Symposium! Register at
eventbrite to ensure you can attend and participate (and, of
course, to help us gauge attendance so we can properly scale the
streaming for the best experience).
The April 24th online p&p symposium program 2012 will
include keynote sessions and technical sessions ...
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At the South Florida Code Camp I gave a newer version of the
REST Silverlight talk using the just released MVC 4 Beta and
ASP.NET Web API.
This talk shows how to share code between different versions of
the framework, how to use the ASP.NET Web API from Silverlight, and
how to integrate a Silverlight application into an MVC 4 site.
Powerpoint Slides
Attached to this post
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I log into my local bank's website quite often. I transfer money
between accounts and all the usual things. Today, when I logged in,
I saw that they've decided to dump the security questions they had
us answer earlier this year and replace them with a completely new
and obscure set. If you don't set the security questions,
you can't get to your bank account.
Don't get between me and m...
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Before joining Microsoft, I was a consultant, primarily building
desktop applications using a variety of MS technologies. During my
last couple years there, Silverlight was a large part of that both
for full apps and as parts of larger web sites. Prior to that, it
was WPF, Windows Forms, VB, HTML and even SharePoint.
tl;dr: The point of this long post is not to
show you examples of ...
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This talk was an adaptation of two chapters from Silverlight 5
in Action. I started with a brief explanation of REST, and then
explained the solution we were going to build during the session.
The idea was to show how you can use REST in place of the heavier
Soap approach in many cases, and make your services accessible to
far more clients.
I also showed how to share model objects bet...
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Last night, while working on the REST chapter in Silverlight 5 in Action, I
started playing around with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor. The REST
library I'm using: WCF Web API, which works with MVC 3.
(so yes, that one chapter has REST, WCF Web API, ASP.NET MVC 3,
Razor and NuGet. fun!) While it does work, I didn't want to stick
an .aspx file in the MVC 3 project as it just didn't see...
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The mid-Atlantic community has come together to create an
awesome developer-oriented family event for June 30 and July 1,
2011: the Mid Atlantic Developer Expo.
Yes, I said family-oriented. We'll have a great expo area with
demos of interesting hardware hacking, robotics and other cool
things from both inside and outside the Microsoft development
community, many of which will be g...
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Just about every week, I put together the Windows Client
Developer Roundup. This consists of a bunch of links to posts that
deal with topics of interest to client developers. One of the more
time-consuming tasks in that work is simply copying and pasting the
link information into LiveWriter. When I open the URL in IE, I have
to manually copy the link and then, either copy and paste speci...
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The PDC trivia application (more generically called the Event
Trivia or Conference Trivia app) is a full-screen web-delivered
Silverlight application that displays trivia questions on the big
screen in the time between breakout sessions at a conference. So
far, it has been used at PDC09, MIX10, and PDC10.
The previous versions had only trivia questions,
and a very conference-themed di...
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It's hard to believe, but I'm 6 days away from having been at
Microsoft a full year. Time flies!
I had a great first year at Microsoft, thanks in no small part
to the mentoring and guidance from great folks like Scott Hanselman
and Cyra Richardson. Check out the first half of this podcast to meet Cyra (and
Scott, of course)
As is the nature of things at Microsoft, we started off thi...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #36.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7,
Windows Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio, WCF RIA
Services, sometimes even a little jQuery and HTML5. If you have
something interesting you've done or ...
Published
Monday, August 9, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, Surface, ASP.NET, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, c64 |
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We recently released a new version of the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools. If you
spend most of your day in Visual Studio like most of us do, you'll
really appreciate some of the features this kit offers.
Installation
To install the power tools, visit the Gallery Page and click
download to grab the .vsix installer. Make sure Visual Studio
instances are closed, then open the v...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #34.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7,
Windows Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio, sometimes even a
little jQuery and HTML5. If you have something interesting you've
done or have run across, o...
Published
Monday, July 26, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, ASP.NET, Visual-Studio, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, jQuery |
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #33. A little early
this week
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7,
Windows Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio, sometimes even a
little jQuery and HTML5. If you have something interesting you've
...
Published
Saturday, July 17, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, ASP.NET, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, jQuery |
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7,
Windows Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio, sometimes even a
little jQuery and HTML5. If you have something interesting you've
done or have run across, o...
Published
Monday, July 12, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, ASP.NET, Web-Development, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, jQuery, WCF-RIA-Services |
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #31.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression
Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows Forms, Windows
Phone and Visual Studio. If you have something interesting you've
done or have run across, or you blog regularly on the topics
includ...
Published
Monday, July 5, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, ASP.NET, Visual-Studio, win7, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, jQuery, WCF-RIA-Services |
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The larger group that I'm in, Server and Tools Online in the
developer division, supports a large number of properties. One of
our largest is MSDN. Scratch that. MSDN is enormous.
It provides support for every single developer tool we offer.
You'll find full documentation, samples, aggregated blog posts,
articles, community content, forums, videos and more. I've never
seen another learn...
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While on campus in May, I met with the WCF RIA Services team at
Microsoft. We discussed both the awesome parts and the difficult
parts of the recent product release.
Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier
application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and
Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write
application logic that runs on the ...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #28.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight,
Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows
Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio. If you have something
interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog regularly
on the topics includ...
Published
Monday, June 14, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, Expression-Blend, XNA, ASP.NET, SketchFlow, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, WCF-RIA-Services |
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In a previous post, I demonstrated how to use
RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode in WPF to change the quality of
the resize of an image. Some folks have questioned why that is
necessary when the resizing worked just fine in 3.5sp1
In .NET 4, the default BitmapScalingMode changed from Fant to bilinear for performance
reasons. The Fant scaler is CPU-intensive whereas the now default
Biline...
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Did you know about the feature submission and votings sites we
run in dev div at Microsoft?
Silverlight feature suggestions
WPF feature
suggestions
WCF RIA
Services feature suggestions
ASP.NET feature suggestions
Each of those sites is monitored by community PMs like me, Tim Heuer, Jesse
Liberty, John Galloway and Scott Hanselman as well as product team
members. I've b...
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I was exhausted last night, but couldn't sleep. For some reason,
I kept thinking about how many places the 9 cell grid (or scale 9
grid as it is called in some uses) 3x3 grid pops up in our work. In
its simplest form, the grid is something like this:
With the middle center often being optional. Or, put into C#,
perhaps a structure or class that looks like this:
public clas...
