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JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer
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Entry Date: Jul 2010
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site: Gala Soft
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keywords:Silverlight; Java Script; Silverlight 4;
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Article Description:
An article was published at JupiterJS.com (titled “JavaScript vs Silverlight”) arguing that JavaScript is better than Silverlight. Unfortunately, there is no way to post comments on that page (weird, really) so I decided I would post my answer here.
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Interesting post comparing Silverlight with Javascript, highlighting weak and stron points, a nice read (also nice to read the article reffered that only covers the javascript part)
Good to read both points of views
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Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010
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Entry Date: Jul 2010
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site: Microsoft Download
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keywords:TFS; Team Explorer;
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Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server
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Looking for an Eclipse TFS free plugin, or for multiplaform Team Explorer / command line. Microsoft just bought Team Prise technology and now you can download this plugin for free.
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Simple Image cropping in Expression Design
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Entry Date: Jul 2010
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site: Developing for .net
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keywords:Silverlight; Silverlight 4; Expression Blend;
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Article Description:
I had a case today where I wanted to crop an image, something I haven’t needed to do in some time. In fact, the last time I had to do it was on my previous computer which had several graphics programs installed. This time, however, the only application I have installed on this machine is Expression Design 2. I remember seeing the feature I was after in some training videos, so I thought I should be able to figure out quickly enough. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as I remembered. On the other hand, I found a pretty quick way to do simple cropping so I thought I’d share that.
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If you have to use Expression Designer (vector graphics oriented tool) sometimes you won't find a direct way to do som simple bitmap operations.
In this post you will find how easy is to crop a bitmap image.
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Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Tim Heuer
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keywords:Silverlight 4;
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One of the features we are introducing in Silverlight 4 is a ‘silent install’ mechanism for out-of-browser applications. Currently every out-of-browser application (trusted or not) starts from an in-browser mechanism. In some instances where you want to deploy the app via managed desktop software or perhaps via CD-ROM, you don’t want to have to tell the user to start on an HTML page first.
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Quite good feature, in some companies they just have thousand of machines and they want to minimize network bandwith, you can make a silent deploy of an OOB silverlight application and make it automatically (deploying from a local storage and in an unattended way).
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SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services - Features & Limitations
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Sharepoint 2010 Macaw
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keywords:Sharepoint; Sharepoint 2010;
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Business Connectivity Services, the sequencer of the Business Data Catalog, is going to play a key rol in SharePoint composites. BCS allows you to connect SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications to external business data. The external data is made available in SharePoint 2010 through ‘external lists’. From an end-user experience the external lists have similar functionality as standard SharePoint lists. There are two types of integrated solutions: You can build no-code solutions using SharePoint Designer or you can build a solution with custom coding using Visual Studio.
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Microsoft agnostic evaluation of Sharepoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services, advantages and drawbacks, quite recommeded reading.
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Creating an OData feed for your Azure databases
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Patrick verbruggen
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keywords:Azure; ODATA;
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Having the ability to create an OData source for any SQL Azure database more or less instantly seems a bit like low-hanging fruit: it would be great if you could just flick a switch in the SQL Azure Portal for a specific database and hey presto: one OData feed!
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Quite interesting, OData support on your Azure databases, something you get for free :-).
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OData and the NetFlix Catalog API
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Blog Spot
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keywords:ASP .net; ODATA;
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Article Description:
The Netflix OData Catalog API was announced during the second keynote of Mix10 earlier this year. This announcement also meant that the live preview of the service was now publicly available. This means that all of the movie information built into the Netflix site (movies, actors, genres, release dates, etc.) is now available through an easy to consume service.
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Nice ASP .net sample application, consuming OData sources.
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Using Silverlight 4 to Browse NetFlix’s OData Catalog
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Christopher Deweese
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keywords:WCF; Silverlight; ADO .net Data Services; Silverlight 3.0; Silverlight 4; ODATA;
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One of the announcements at Mix 10 was the preview of NetFlix’s OData catalog API. The Astoria team has been hard at work getting the new release of what is now called WCF Data Services (Formerly ADO.NET Data Services). In Silverlight 4 the WCF Data Services Client is included as part of the Silverlight runtime which makes it very easy to consume OData Services.
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Nice sample about how to build a consumer of an external OData source (Silverlight client).
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Improve GridView Performance by Delegating Paging to SQL Server
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Nerdy Musings
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keywords:ASP .net;
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The ASP.NET GridView control is an extremely powerful tool that gives you just about everything you need to manage the sorting and paging of a web page grid with minimal coding effort. However, this power comes at a high price in terms of performance and scalability. As the number of rows in your data source increases, performance falls off dramatically and you waste serious server memory resources to render each page of grid rows.
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GridView by default implements paging and sorting, that it's ok if your queries just return a hundred of records... you can have serious performance issues if your query can return a big amout of records (everything is fetched on every post).
You can implement custom paging (object data source + SQL Server 2005 / 2008 new stuff), but is not something straight forward. This article explains you how to implement that step by step, even you can download a full sample project.
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Avoid incorrect Silverlight XAP file caching
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Code Blog
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keywords:Silverlight;
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The code below appends the last-write filedate of the Silverlight Application XAP file to the path in the source parametre of the Silverlight object tag.
This will ensure that poorly constructed caching functionality of webbrowsers and proxy servers doesn’t incorrectly use old builds of the XAP file.
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Having a proxy cache in your client / company can mean... problems when you deploy a new version of your silverlight app (the old version remains in cache, X hours or even days).
The trick to avoid this is going through the object instantiation and add a parameter to the query string... using that way you can fool the server, you have to decide quite well which param to use, e.g. current date time will force users to download the XAP version every time, there's a better solution in this post get the last write file date of the XAP file.
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OData Client goes Open Source
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Entry Date: Jun 2010
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site: Miguel Icaza
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keywords:WCF RIA Services; ODATA;
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Article Description:
Microsoft is trying to succeed where web services failed before with their new Open Data Protocol (oData).
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Great short intro to OData, quite interesting to evaluate strong points (open source consumer library) and weakness... producers have to stick to .net framework 3.5 or above (no implementation even for 2.0 :-(
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