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Once of the interesting elements of this year’s MIX is the complete domination of Twitter as a medium for distributing updates. If you have been following me on Twitter (I’m @LACanuck), then you will already have heard a lot about the Windows Phone 7
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This session covers three separate scenarios for Silverlight and WCF interactions. The basic functionality of adding a service reference, creating proxy class and calling method hasn’t changed. However, they are trying to address some of the common pain
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The fundamental philosophy used to develop the off-browser functionality for Silverlight applications was to reduce the friction surrounding the moving of the application from in-browser to out-of-browser. Specifically, there is no separate download that
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Because I already had some exposure to Silverlight 3 at the MVP Summit, I thought I’d start off with a session directed at creating user experiences. Not to mention that I was interested in the idea of going beyond the superlative of ‘best’ :) The basic
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Some additional Silverlight 3 improvements that are being announced. Data Binding improvements, specifically element-to-element bindings Validation error templates, although there is no support for the IDataErrorInfo interface improvements on the ability
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More stuff on the Web server side of the equation. There is a new version of the Web Platform Installer. This doesn’t have any impact on me, at least not in the past. But there is now a gallery of community-based applications, such as DotNetNuke, DasBlog
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I’m writing this particular blog post while in the air on the way to Las Vegas. For the next three days, I’m going to be at the MIX ‘09 conference. For regular readers of my blogs, that means you can expect a flurry of posts. I tend to live-blog the sessions
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The premise behind this session is the idea of separation of UI designers and developers. The UI people don't know how to code business rules. But the UI people need to be able to 'try out' the user interface and easily make changes. This is the designer/developer
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Continuing from the previous post Guy commented on how Microsoft is different. Responsive, helpful and a change from what Microsoft's image has been historically. Some questions from the audience On Adobe They are a big competitor in some areas. Specifically
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The keynote is actually an interview between Guy Kawasaki (as interviewer) and Steve (as interviewee). A number of interesting points. Regarding competing with Google Of the four areas in which Microsoft is focused, Google is really only present in one
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