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Alex

Name:	Alex
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Last Seen:	718 days, 8 hours, 18 minutes ago
Member Since:	8 February, 2009

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Code Metrics – Calculating Metrics - Zain Naboulsi

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Alex 746 days, 20 hours, 13 minutes ago

During my many Visual Studio tours to visit customers with my good friend Clint Edmonson, we discovered that a lot of people apparently didn’t know they had access to code metrics. So, that begs the question, what are code metrics and why should you care? According to Wikipedia: “A software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences, there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and th... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: VS, Code Metrics, Visual Studio

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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [WebBrowserExtensions.StringSource attached dependency property makes Silverlight/Windows Phone/WPF's WebBrowser control more XAML- and binding-friendly] - David Anson

published 766 days, 12 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by

Alex 769 days, 23 hours, 4 minutes ago

The WebBrowser control is available in Silverlight 4, Windows Phone 7, and all versions of WPF. It's mostly the same everywhere, though there are some specific differences to keep in mind when using it on Silverlight-based platforms. WebBrowser offers two ways to provide its content: by passing a URI or by passing a string with HTML text: If you have a URI, you can set the Source (dependency) property in code or XAML or you can call the Navigate(Uri) method from code... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: SL, Silverlight, XAML

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Working with User Names and Roles in Silverlight Applications - Dan Wahlin

published 768 days, 23 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by

Alex 770 days, 48 minutes ago

Security is a key component of applications and something that developers often struggle with to get right. How do you authenticate a user? How do you integrate roles and use them to show or hide different parts of a screen? These and other questions commonly come up as I talk with developers working on ASP.NET and Silverlight applications. I was recently presenting a workshop on Silverlight at the DevConnections conference in Orlando and had a question from the audience on how I handle security roles ... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: weblogs.asp.net

tags: SL, Silverlight, Security, ASP.NET

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Announcing the Silverlight 5 Beta Release and the Silverlight.net Redesign - Pete Brown

published 770 days, 1 hour, 32 minutes ago posted by

Alex 770 days, 17 hours, 30 minutes ago

Four months ago, in December 2010, we held the Silverlight Firestarter in Redmond - an entire event dedicated just to Silverlight, with great speakers from inside Microsoft and from the Silverlight community. In that event's keynote, Scott Guthrie showed off some of the plans we have for Silverlight 5 (as well as the secret location of his tattoo). In today's keynote at MIX11, Scott Guthrie expanded on that. I'm proud to announce that today we have shipped Silverlight 5 Beta... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: 10rem.net

tags: SL, Silverlight, SL5, Silverlight 5 Beta, Silverlight 5

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MonoMac 1.0 is out - Miguel de Icaza

published 798 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by

Alex 799 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes ago

Almost a year ago we started building a set of Mono bindings for building native MacOS X applications. Our original goals were modest: bind enough of AppKit that you could build native desktop applications for OSX using C# or your favorite .NET language. We leveraged a lot of the code that we built for MonoTouch our binding to the CocoaTouch APIs. During the year, the project picked up steam, we got plenty of contributions to MonoMac and grew beyond the original conservative goals... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: tirania.org

tags: Mono, Mac, MonoMac, Mac OS X, OSX

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Using CUDA and Thrust with Visual Studio 2010 - Ade Miller

published 809 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes ago posted by

Alex 810 days, 16 hours, 34 minutes ago

I was working on setting up some new CUDA projects as I’m doing some spiking (prototyping for the not so agile crowd) work to figure out how best to use CUDA 4.0. I’ve turned it in to a quick tutorial on how to write a simple application that allows you to use both CUDA and the latest C++0x features in Visual Studio 2010. Because the current CUDA SDK requires projects to compile using the v90 toolset (Visual Studio 2008) the ... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 9 | comment | | source: www.ademiller.com

tags: CUDA, Visual Studio 2010, Thrust

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Native Extensions 2.0 For Microsoft Silverlight Released - Davide Zordan

published 809 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes ago posted by

Alex 810 days, 16 hours, 36 minutes ago

Version 2 of the “Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight” is now available for download here. These libraries contains several COM wrappers and samples for:Touch APIs – Manipulation, Gestures and Inertia processing;Message Interception – Allow applications to intercept Window messages sent to the containing window;Sensor API - Provide full access to the Windows 7 Sensor API;Local Encoding – Allow applications to capture webcam audio/video input into a local H.264/AAC-LC encoded media file. Also all... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.davidezordan.net

tags: Silverlight

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Prism Template Pack 1.4: Now with MEF Support! - David Hill's WebLog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

published 809 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes ago posted by

Alex 811 days, 12 hours, 28 minutes ago

Quite a few folks have asked for MEF versions of the Prism templates. I’m happy to announce that the Prism Template Pack has now been updated to include MEF (as well as Unity) templates.You can download the latest version of the template pack (version 1.4) from here. You can read the release notes here. Remember to remove the .zip extension (leaving the .vsix extension!) before double-clicking to install the templates... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 9 | 1 comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Unity, Silverlight, MEF, WPF, Prism

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Using Mole 2010 to analyze collections « Josh Smith on WPF

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Alex 811 days, 12 hours, 32 minutes ago

When debugging an application it is often necessary to review and analyze the data stored by .NET objects in a collection. Using the standard debugging tools in Visual Studio 2010 to inspect large amounts of in-memory data can be a time consuming task, especially if you need to look at values stored by multiple objects in a collection. For example, if you wanted to look at each Person object in a collection, you might use Visual Studio’s Watch window to inspect each Person object one at a time. You woul... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com

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What is XAP file in Silverlight? - Dhananjay Kumar

published 809 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes ago posted by

Alex 811 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes ago

When you start learning Silverlight and create your first Silverlight application, one thing you will notice XAP file along with HTML and ASPX files. First time after running your Silverlight application you can see XAP file in client bin folder. Before running of Silverlight application, you will not find XAP file in client bin folder. Usually below steps followed while running a Silverlight application. Create a Silver... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: debugmode.net

tags: SL, Silverlight, Xap

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Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title - Jeff Wilcox

published 823 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes ago posted by

Alex 823 days, 23 hours, 50 minutes ago

By default, the Title of the Pivot control will clip its content when it gets to the end of the line. For most applications, the Title is not long, but if you’re data binding to a lot of information, there may be a legitimate scenario where you want the title to trim. Imagine where you’ve used data binding and the Title is bound to a field like “SEATAC: Seattle-Tacoma Internatio... (more)

category: UX | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.jeff.wilcox.name

tags: Windows Phone, Control Development

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Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - Jeff Wilcox

published 823 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes ago posted by

Alex 823 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes ago

Today we pushed the button on the February 2011 release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit. We’ve added a few new controls that previously app developers had to pick up separately while working on polishing their apps, including the tilt effect and performance progress bar. VB samples, too! Please download the new Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.jeff.wilcox.name

tags: Silverlight, Silverlight Toolkit, Windows Phone

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Validation Application Block ported to Silverlight - Grigori Melnik

published 823 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes ago posted by

Alex 823 days, 23 hours, 52 minutes ago

Earlier this week, we published a code drop of the Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack. It contains: * port of the Validation Application Block * new pieces of the infrastructure to support XAML-based configuration * async configuration loading Note there is also a conversion tool to facilitate the reuse of your Enterprise Library existing configurations and convert them to XAML. It can be plugged in the config tool via a wizard or you may integrate it in your build process. The conver... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: SL, Silverlight, Validation Application Block

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PDC and Silverlight - The Silverlight Blog

published 935 days, 18 hours ago posted by

Alex 936 days, 17 hours, 3 minutes ago

Last week, we held our PDC conference on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. We also streamed it online using Silverlight (with both live and on-demand sessions). Already, more than 100,000 developers have watched the event, and the feedback on the streaming experience has been phenomenal. If you haven’t had a chance to watch the sessions yet, I encourage you to do so: http://microsoftpdc.com (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: team.silverlight.net

tags: SL, Silverlight, PDC

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How Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools works.. - Don's Mobile Blog

published 935 days, 18 hours ago posted by

Alex 936 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes ago

WorkflowA designer creates a Silverlight-based user interface project in Expression Blend and passes this UI project to a developer. The developer creates a Windows Embedded application from a Expression Blend project. The developer writes and tests the code that implements the functionality of the application with UI resources from the Expression Blend project. If you wish to allow the designer and the developer to work on the application in parallel, they create a Designer/Developer contract that def... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.uxmagic.com

tags: SL, Silverlight, Windows Embedded

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WP7 Code: Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API - Dragos Manolescu

published 967 days, 22 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by

Alex 969 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes ago

In my previous post I showed the most interesting code fragments for a location-aware Windows Phone 7 application. The code generates an event stream corresponding to location readings from the phone’s location subsystem. However, there are many applications that instead of lat/long readings need to compute the traveled distance (for example, when driving, biking, running, or hiking). This post shows how to convert the position readings from the Windows Phone location subsystem into distance measurements... (more)

category: UX | clicked: 8 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, API, GeoLocation, Windows Phone 7 Series

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How To Unit Test Workflows–Mocking Activities - Ron Jacobs

published 970 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes ago posted by

Alex 971 days, 22 hours, 12 minutes ago

Suppose you want to unit test a workflow that has some external dependency like a database, web service, file or some other thing that makes testing inconvenient. The need to eliminate external dependencies when testing has led to a world of mocking frameworks that allow you to automatically generate a mock with pre-defined behavior. I wanted to do the same thing with Activities in workflows and I’ve now added support for this to the latest release of the Workflow Test Helper project using a technique ... (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: WF4, workflow, Mocking, Unit Test

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Five Web Sites Making Great Use of New HTML5 Features - Tripwire Magazine - Alex Iszatt

published 1018 days, 23 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by

Alex 1019 days, 11 hours, 1 minute ago

HTML5 has been the new buzz word in website development for the last few months, already developers are adapting their websites to feature HTML5 and it won’t be long till more people jump on the bandwagon and take advantage. Early adopters have been around for years already, and there are s... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | 1 comment | | source: www.tripwiremagazine.com

tags: html5

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7 Steps to Get You Going on Windows Phone 7 Dev - Joe Healy

published 1020 days, 3 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by

Alex 1020 days, 12 hours, 28 minutes ago

Windows Phone 7 is hot right now, and I'm getting a ton of Qs on how to get started. Many different ways you could approach present themselves, but what's the best? Actually, I don't know but here's DevFish's Top 7 Steps to Windows Phone 7 Development... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.devfish.net

tags: Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 7 Development, Windows Phone 7 Development Tools, Windows Phone 7 Series

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How To Rotate A Regular Silverlight 3 and 4 ChildWindow - Martin Krüger

published 1075 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by

Alex 1076 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes ago

This day I read a question at the Expression Blend and Scetchflow Forum about how to make a ChildWindow rotate. Interesting enough to build a quick and simple solution for that, including a rotation when the ChildWindow opens. So here it is. You can view an example and download the sourcecode of a sample application at the Expression Gallery. The Sourcecode is Silverlight 3, but the implementation for Silverlight 4 is similar. The following step b... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 16 | comment | | source: blogs.windowsclient.net

tags: SL, Silverlight, SL4, Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4, Expression Blend, Scetchflow

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Alex

Code Metrics – Calculating Metrics - Zain Naboulsi

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [WebBrowserExtensions.StringSource attached dependency property makes Silverlight/Windows Phone/WPF's WebBrowser control more XAML- and binding-friendly] - David Anson

Working with User Names and Roles in Silverlight Applications - Dan Wahlin

Announcing the Silverlight 5 Beta Release and the Silverlight.net Redesign - Pete Brown

MonoMac 1.0 is out - Miguel de Icaza

Using CUDA and Thrust with Visual Studio 2010 - Ade Miller

Native Extensions 2.0 For Microsoft Silverlight Released - Davide Zordan

Prism Template Pack 1.4: Now with MEF Support! - David Hill's WebLog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Using Mole 2010 to analyze collections « Josh Smith on WPF

What is XAP file in Silverlight? - Dhananjay Kumar

Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title - Jeff Wilcox

Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - Jeff Wilcox

Validation Application Block ported to Silverlight - Grigori Melnik

PDC and Silverlight - The Silverlight Blog

How Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools works.. - Don's Mobile Blog

WP7 Code: Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API - Dragos Manolescu

How To Unit Test Workflows–Mocking Activities - Ron Jacobs

Five Web Sites Making Great Use of New HTML5 Features - Tripwire Magazine - Alex Iszatt

7 Steps to Get You Going on Windows Phone 7 Dev - Joe Healy

How To Rotate A Regular Silverlight 3 and 4 ChildWindow - Martin Krüger

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