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MIX10 Silverlight Customer Showcase Video

Ever wonder how customers large and small are using Silverlight to power their next-generation cutting-edge RIA applications? Check-out this blog post by Joe Cleaver where he summarizes the Customer showcase video at the annual MIX event in Las
Innovation Showcase
 
jbarnes
tags: silverlight mix10
Mar 27 2010 12:07 AM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization

To continue our series,  In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as such we need to know who is accessing what data and control certain data access to only users with privilege.  Luckily this is very easy to do with
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 27 2010 12:06 AM
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MIX10 – IronRuby and IronPython – Part 1 (Intro)

This post is part of the “MIX10 – Pumping Iron on the web” series: Introduction Web-app development with dynamic languages Using scripting in static applications Web-app extensibility with scripts This past week I had the pleasure of attending and
jimmy.thinking
 
tags: mix10 open source dynamic languages talks
Mar 25 2010 09:39 AM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Validating Data

  To continue our series let’s look at data validation our business applications. Updating data is great, but when you enable data update you often need to check the data to ensure it is valid.  RIA Services as clean, prescriptive pattern for
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 24 2010 12:12 AM
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Post MIX10 Decompression

With a big dose of reality, I walked into this place this morning and found out "yeah, I really do write .NET web apps and MS Access for a living" :( ... but it pays the bills and I've gotten *way* used to eating 3 times a day :) MIX10 was great,
WynApse
 
Dave Campbell
tags: silverlight silverlight cream silverlight 4 mix10
Mar 22 2010 07:58 PM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

To continue our series, let’s look at localizing our business applications.  In today’s global village, it is often no longer OK to support only one language.   Many real world business applications need to support multiple
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 22 2010 06:32 PM
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Windows Phone 7 Session Videos and Slides, Organized and Explained

The Videos are Up! It’s only been a couple of days since MIX10 has wrapped up, but as promised, we recorded videos of all the sessions and they’re now available online. It doesn’t matter if you missed a session or missed the entire conference, you can
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: meetups programming mix10 mobile
Mar 22 2010 02:56 AM
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Mix2010: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight

I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight.   You can find all the slides (more than I was able to cover in the talk) here.  and the the full play-by-play of the demo (include a link to the completed
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 18 2010 02:51 AM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

To continue our series, let’s look at SEO and Silverlight.  The vast majority of web traffic is driven by search. Search engines are the first stop for many users on the public internet and is increasingly so in corporate environments as well. 
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 17 2010 10:15 PM
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MIX10 in Photos

Been a great week, with us finally being able to announce more details around our Windows Phone development tools, partners, and application support. If you haven’t had a chance, definitely head over to http://developer.windowsphone.com and check
Ozymandias
 
Ozymandias
tags: uncategorized mix10 windows phone windows phone 7 series
Mar 17 2010 08:43 PM
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MIX10 round-up day 2 – the day after

So…as you may or may not have noticed, I haven’t been posting as aggressively today as I did yesterday…(Well…it wasn’t actually yesterday… I started writing this post when it was yesterday, but got sidetracked and had to continue today, Wednesday). There
DarksideCookie
 
tags: silverlight mix10 windows phone 7 series
Mar 17 2010 08:26 PM
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Why do women's shirts button up the wrong way?

Not something you’d expect to learn at a Microsoft conference right? Well, not every Microsoft conference has Bill Buxton on the agenda. I just managed to watch Bill’s talk from MIX10 yesterday and as usual it was unusual….and educational. I did find out
Geek In Disguise
 
stevecla01
tags: design mix10
Mar 17 2010 04:13 PM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client

To continue our series, let’s look at updating the data.  I have created a Plates.xaml page with very similar structure to the above.    For details on how I created this page, check out my PDC 09 demo walk through.    Now
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 17 2010 05:29 AM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services

OData is an emerging set of extensions for the ATOM protocol that makes it easier to share data over the web. To show off OData in RIA Services, let’s continue our series.       We think it is very interesting to expose
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 16 2010 11:07 PM
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IE9 May Actually Be a Fantastic Browser

Today, as part of MIX 2010, some exciting updates were released on the progress of Internet Explorer 9. The IE team is implementing some incredible features, such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG support, and a new lightning fast JavaScript engine, Chakra! Further,
Nettuts+
 
Jeffrey Way
tags: news ie9 internet explorer mix10
Mar 16 2010 08:57 PM
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IE9 May Actually Be a Fantastic Browser

Today, as part of MIX 2010, some exciting updates were released on the progress of Internet Explorer 9. The IE team is implementing some incredible features, such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG support, and a new lightning fast JavaScript engine, Chakra! Further,
Nettuts+
 
Jeffrey Way
tags: news ie9 internet explorer mix10
Mar 16 2010 08:04 PM
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A book on Microsoft’s Metro design

Long has posted images of every page of the Metro book that was handed out at MIX10 – a beautiful explanation of the inspiration behind the design of Windows Phone 7 Series. Wishing I’d gone to MIX now just for the book. I love stuff like this.
Geek In Disguise
 
stevecla01
tags: windows phone 7 series mix10
Mar 16 2010 06:54 PM
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Dew Dump – March 16, 2010

Sorry for the dump today. Getting ready to head over for MIX10 Day 2.   Architectural constructs (Simon Brown) Structuring the software design process (Simon Brown) jqueryvsmootools.com – great comparison site (Michael Kimsal) Introducing Blend 4 –
Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
 
Alvin Ashcraft
tags: daily links development mix10 odata
Mar 16 2010 04:46 PM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client

To continue our series, let’s see where the fun comes in my look at how easy that is to consume from the client.  First just to help you understand what is happening behind the covers, let’s look at a code-behind solution.  In View\Home.xaml
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 16 2010 12:33 PM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template

To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code.  The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template.  It describes a prescriptive
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 16 2010 08:22 AM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing Data from Entity Framework

To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your application.  The interesting data in your business applications come from a wide variety of data sources.  From a SQL Database, from Oracle
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 16 2010 08:16 AM
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Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW

At Mix10 this morning in Vegas ScottGu announced that Silverlight 4 and RIA Services RC are available for download now!  These bits work great with VS2010 RC.  We have some great videos, and updated samples already posted on
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 16 2010 04:13 AM
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Proof of thought

After my last session, which was about designing applications so that it fits in to Microsoft’s Metro layout, somebody asked why the tiles on the home page of the phone was off center with a gutter at the top and right. The answer was awesome and shows
DarksideCookie
 
tags: mix10 windows phone 7 series
Mar 16 2010 04:12 AM
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Silverlight is THE development platform for Windows Phone 7

How cool is that?  Oh, by the way, gaming is supported through the XNA framework. Even better! Lets get started! Windows Phone developer tools CTP (don’t forget the release notes) Who needs some learning material?  I know I do: Getting started
Elegant Code
 
Brian Lagunas
tags: silverlight mix10
Mar 16 2010 01:24 AM
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More WP7 info

I have just attended the 2nd WP7 session. This was another 100 level, which means that it just just another run through of the vision and platform and stuff. No dev stuff yet. It did produce some new information though. First, the Silverlight environment
DarksideCookie
 
tags: mix10 silverlight windows phone 7 series
Mar 16 2010 01:22 AM
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index

With Silverlight 4 and RIA Services all-but done, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some of the key features of the platform and tools that make Silverlight a fantastic platform for building business applications.    I’ll avoid
Brad Abrams
 
BradA
tags: silverlight riaservices mix10
Mar 16 2010 12:54 AM
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Sitting At MIX10 In Michael Scherotter’s Presentation of the Silverlight 4 Search Analytics Framework

  As usual, Michael’s doing a great job of presenting enthusiastically the new Silverlight Analytics Frameworks.  I’m hugely impressed with how easy it is going to be to add analytics to a... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming.
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Peter
tags: mix10 silverlight
Mar 16 2010 12:34 AM
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Silverlight 4 – News from MIX10

This just in from MIX10; well, I just found out anyways.  Silverlight 4 has released the Silverlight 4 RC (release candidate). Want the new stuff? Well, here is how to get it: Visual Studio 2010 RC or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 RC Silverlight
Elegant Code
 
Brian Lagunas
tags: silverlight mix10 silverlight 4
Mar 16 2010 12:11 AM
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MIX10 is under way

As some of you might now, I have left Wellington and gone to Las Vegas for the MIX10 conference. I just saw an interesting keynote. However, I felt it being somewhat boring. There were no big surprises. A lot of Windows Phone 7 Series talk, which was to
DarksideCookie
 
tags: mix10 windows phone 7 series
Mar 15 2010 09:14 PM
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Hello from MIX10!

Here’s the keynote room, about 15 minutes before the start of Scott Guthrie’s keynote. Watch this blog as well as my Twitter stream – I’m @AccordionGuy and I’m tagging my posts with #CanMIX (for Canadian MIX) – for updates! This article also appears in
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: meetups programming what joey did mix10
Mar 15 2010 09:11 PM
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Questions about Windows Phone? Find me at MIX10!

I’m at MIX10 all this week and would love to chat with any of you who might be attending! I’m happy to answer any questions I can, especially around what we’ve disclosed on Xbox LIVE and the Game Hub on the phone. I should caveat that I can’t go into all
Ozymandias
 
Ozymandias
tags: uncategorized mix10 windows phone windows phone 7 series
Mar 15 2010 08:01 AM
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Reporting from MIX10 Tomorrow!

I’m in Las Vegas to attend the MIX10 conference, Microsoft’s conference for both developers and designers. This year’s MIX conference, which runs from Monday March 15th through Wednesday, March 17th, is a hotly-anticipated one, thanks the fact that
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: hardware and gadgets programming what joey did mix10
Mar 15 2010 05:58 AM
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Back to Daylight Saving Time!

I’m in Las Vegas to catch Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, where a lot of big announcements are being made. The combination of having just come from the Confoo conference in Montreal, flying to Vegas by way of Vancouver, and “springing forward” to daylight
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: meetups what joey did work mix10
Mar 14 2010 11:52 PM
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Addicted to the MIX Buzz

Well it's the Friday before MIX10, and I'm officially of no use to anybody. I'll be driving up to 'Vegas Sunday ... hopefully rolling in mid-late afternoon, checking in at my $31.50/night (including WiFi) Motel, and getting registered then hanging out
WynApse
 
Dave Campbell
tags: silverlight silverlight cream silverlight 4 mix10
Mar 13 2010 04:31 AM
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TWC9: MIX10, Tweets from Your TiVO, Touch UI Gesture Icons and More

Don’t have Silverlight? Get it here or download the video in MP4, WMA, WMV, WMV (High) or Zune format. This Week on Channel 9, or TWC9 for short, is a weekly digest show hosted by Microsoft’s Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller covering the developer
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: programming .net channel 9 mix10
Mar 02 2010 10:50 AM
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Jason Alderman’s Pitch for His MIX10 Presentation

Two days remain for you to cast your vote for sessions at the MIX10 conference, which I wrote about in the previous article. A number of people who submitted proposals for sessions are wooing voters, and one of the best promotions is that of Jason
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: design meetups comics mix10
Jan 14 2010 11:04 AM