DotNetShoutout - Stories tagged with MSDN
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Finger Style - Exploring Multi-Touch Support in Silverlight

published 1183 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1184 days, 9 hours ago
Friday, February 26, 2010 12:30:00 AM GMT Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:39:54 PM GMT
Touch isn't just a form of mouse input in Silverlight: Sometimes what's required are controls specialized and optimized for touch. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: Silverlight, multitouch, MSDN, MSDN Magazine
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IIS Smooth Streaming - Enhancing Silverlight Video Experiences with Contextual Data

published 1183 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1184 days, 9 hours ago
Friday, February 26, 2010 12:30:00 AM GMT Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:39:03 PM GMT
Adaptive streaming addresses the problem of smooth content delivery and decoding. We walk you through the basics of IIS Smooth Streaming and demonstrate how you can manipulate audio, video and caption data in your own Silverlight projects. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: Silverlight, MSDN, MSDN Magazine
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The Weekly Source Code 49 - SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults - Scott Hanselman

published 1196 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes ago posted by jantujantu 1198 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes ago
Friday, February 12, 2010 11:52:09 AM GMT Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:30:16 AM GMT
While the boys are only 2 and 4, I'm always keeping an eye out on new ways to teach them programming. Certainly I hope they'll be more well-rounded and I and spend more time outside, but a even a basic background in programming and logic, I think, produces a more empowered individual.Created by Vijaye Raji, Small Basic is a simple (only 15 keywords) but powerful environment for getting started programming. Great for kids and non-technical spouses, but powerful enough even for the professional game deve... (more)
category: Web Dev | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.hanselman.com
tags: Programming, MSDN, Silverlight., Learning .NET
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HerdingCode - Episode 71: James Avery and Rob Conery on NoSQL and a bunch of other stuff

published 1203 days, 22 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by mithumithu 1206 days, 12 hours, 27 minutes ago
Friday, February 05, 2010 9:09:01 AM GMT Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:12:52 PM GMT
James and Rob invade this week’s show to discuss NoSQL, the ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms debate, TekPub and all kinds of other stuff. Object Databases and NoSQL, ORM are so last year James challenges the idea that all data must reside in a relational databases for everything Rob won’t go to the bar in an 18-wheeler. Graph databases, Object Databases, Document Databases Doesn’t an ORM abstract the database away already so what are we saving? James pimps TekPub Rob talks it bit about DDD and how we marry rel... (more)
category: Podcast | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: herdingcode.com
tags: VB, C#, DDD, MSDN, ASP .NET, HerdingCode, MVP
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Cloud Patterns: Designing Services for Windows Azure

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:57:00 PM GMT
To better understand how SOA patterns can be applied to Windows Azure deployments, we walk you through a scenario in which a bank moves its services to the cloud. (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: SOA, MSDN, MSDN Magazine, Azure
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Cloud Storage - Fueling Your Application’s Engine with Windows Azure Storage

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 44 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:55:56 PM GMT
Yes, you can run background processes in the cloud. Kevin Hoffman and Nate Dudek use a shopping cart example to demonstrate how to build an application engine as well as implement asynchronous messaging and processing using Azure Storage. (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, MSDN Magazine, Azure
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Cloud Security - Crypto Services and Data Security in Windows Azure

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 44 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:55:19 PM GMT
Many early adopters cloud platforms have questions about security. We review some of the cryptography services and providers in Windows Azure along with some security implications for applications in the cloud (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, MSDN Magazine, Azure
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Code Cleanup - 9 Useful Tactics for Paying Back Technical Debt

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 45 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:54:21 PM GMT
Now that you’ve identified technical debt in your code base, let’s turn our attention to some specific tactics that will help you pay back that debt. (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, MSDN Magazine
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Cutting Edge - Master-Detail Views with the ASP.NET Ajax Library

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 47 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:52:21 PM GMT
When you think of data-driven Web pages, most of the time what you really have in mind is a master-detail view of some cross-related data. Dino builds an example with ASP.NET AJAX 4 and jQuery. (more)
category: Web Dev | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: ASP.NET AJAX, MSDN, jQuery, MSDN Magazine
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Patterns in Practice - Internal Domain Specific Languages

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:50:35 PM GMT
Jeremy Miller explains how internal Domain Specific Languages can help you craft code that is easier to read and write. His bag of tricks to improve your programming includes extension methods, fluent interfaces, object extensions and use of the semantic model. (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, DSL, MSDN Magazine, Patterns and Practices, Patterns & Practices
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Extreme ASP.NET - Text Template Transformation Toolkit and ASP.NET MVC

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:49:29 PM GMT
The Visual Studio T4 code generation engine lets you parse an input file and transform it into an output file. We give you a basic introduction to T4 templates and show you how ASP.NET MVC uses this technology. (more)
category: Web Dev | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: ASP.NET MVC, T4, ASPNETMVC, MSDN, MSDN Magazine
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Polygot - ACID Transactions with STM.NET

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:48:16 PM GMT
STM.NET allows developers to mark their code with ACID-style transactional semantics, and leaves the grunt work of managing locks to the underlying environment. (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, Transactions, MSDN Magazine
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ExtremeUI - Line Charts with Data Templates

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:47:04 PM GMT
Charles Petzold continues his investigation into robust XAML coding made possible by Windows Presentation Foundation, this time tackling the complicated process of creating line charts. (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: WPF, MSDN, MSDN Magazine
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Foundations - Discover a New WCF with Discovery

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 54 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:46:00 PM GMT
Juval Lowy explains how the industry-standard discovery solution enables clients to discover available addresses for WCF calls at runtime, and he provides tools and helper classes to simplify the process. (more)
category: Web Dev | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, WCF, MSDN Magazine
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Web Application Request-Response Testing with JavaScript

posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1231 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes ago
Friday, January 08, 2010 12:45:03 PM GMT
Write a simple browser-based request-response test automation using JavaScript that’s platform independent and useful when you are working in a highly dynamic environment. (more)
category: How To | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: Test, MSDN, MSDN Magazine
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HanselMinutes - Show #193 - Axum - A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson

published 1229 days, 19 hours, 32 minutes ago posted by mithumithu 1231 days, 21 hours, 5 minutes ago
Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:07:57 PM GMT Friday, January 08, 2010 10:34:47 AM GMT
Scott talks to Niklas Gustafsson about Axum (formerly Maestro), an incubation project at MSDN DevLabs. Axum is a new language based on the Actor model that targets the CLR. It focuses on making concurrency fundamental with principles of isolation, agents, and message-passing. (more)
category: Podcast | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.hanselminutes.com
tags: Axum, CLR, MSDN, MSDN DevLabs, HanselMinutes
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Reading the ProviderUserKey when using the SqlMembershipProvider

published 1247 days, 10 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by http://rtpharry.myopenid.com/http://rtpharry.myopenid.com/ 1249 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 8:42:22 PM GMT Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:03:34 AM GMT
The ProviderUserKey gives access to a unique identifier for each of the members in your membership data store. If you're doing a large amount of lookup's or want to cross link to another table you will find this technique will give you better performance than using the UserName property. (more)
category: Web Dev | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: runtingsproper.blogspot.com
tags: .NET, MSDN, article, Membership, ASP.NET
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Usability in Practice: More Than Skin Deep

published 1263 days, 7 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1265 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes ago
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:36:28 AM GMT Saturday, December 05, 2009 9:33:13 PM GMT
While style and slick visuals are important in Web site design, they shouldn’t detract from a site’s usability and functionality. Here are some hands-on tips for look and feel, readability, discovery of affordances, and more, with plenty of examples of good and bad design. (more)
category: UX | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, usability, MSDN Magazine
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Concurrent Affairs: Data-Parallel Patterns and PLINQ

published 1263 days, 7 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1265 days, 10 hours, 7 minutes ago
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:36:28 AM GMT Saturday, December 05, 2009 9:32:09 PM GMT
Multicore processors are now ubiquitous on mainstream desktop computers, but applications that use their full potential are still difficult to write. Version 4 of the .NET Framework will deliver several tools that programmers can employ to make this task easier. This article explores the use of one of those tools: Parallel LINQ (PLINQ). (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: MSDN, Plinq, MSDN Magazine
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Going Places: Enhancing Windows Touch Applications for Mobile Users

published 1263 days, 7 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1265 days, 10 hours, 8 minutes ago
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:36:28 AM GMT Saturday, December 05, 2009 9:31:10 PM GMT
This article describes how to use the Windows Touch API and related APIs to enhance mobile application. The discussion focuses on general usability, object selection and implementing a natural user interface. (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: Windows Mobile, MSDN, MSDN Magazine