My Rants and Raves
Url: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/04/06/sil...
Adam Kinney (of Silverlight Evangelism fame) was finding some odd behavior with his new (and cool) Silverlight Powered XBox Gamercard. Of interest was the Gamertag link on the Gamercard. When you use it on his site, it works like a dream but once you put the Gamercard on a separate site the link would cause the Silvelright app to just disappear instead of navigating to XBox.com.
Url: http://adamkinney.com/blog/322/default.aspx
Url: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/...
As I've been neck-deep in Silverlight 2 for a couple of months now I noticed that there are some bugs/inconsistencies that aren't necessarily known to everyone. Here's a list of some of the issues (with workarounds if possible):
As promised here are the slides and demo's from my talks at the Atlanta Code Camp yesterday. It was a great time and I got to see a lot of attendees and speakers who I haven't seen in a while.
I am copying a video file across my wireless network (though this particular machine is kinda flaky, so it might not be Vista's fault) but I thought this was funny:
Url: http://www.silverlight-tour.com
If you havent voted, please feel free to vote for what data access strategy here:
Url: http://wildermuth.com/silverlightseeqpod
Quick fix for a problem that was haunting me today:
Url: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2008/0...
Url: http://wildermuth.com/silverlight/
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/backenabledsilv...
I had interesting conversations with a number of people about different data access/ORM strategies at MIX recently and was trying to understand where people are spending their efforts in consuming data. The conversation was essentially a discussion of who is using what to access data in .NET applications. I had assumed that certain solutions were widely used and others were not but I didn't have a good idea of what the market was really like. To help me with this I am asking you (my readers) to share with me where you are investing time in data access by taking the following poll:
Url: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/u...
Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/18/...
Url: http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2008/03/1...
I finally hit 10,000 XBox Live Gamer Points. How's that for a testiment to wasted time? Burnout Paradise finally put me over the top, though I thought it would be Assassin's Creed or the Mass Effect DLC.
There is a lot of chatter on the Silverlight Forums (http://silverlight.net/forums) about the lack of synchronous behavior with some of the .NET BCL that is included. It has made a number of people angry and unhappy. I wanted to venture an opinion about this.
Url: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands