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SQL Azure
Dec 6th
SQL Azure is a fully relational database in the cloud by Microsoft.
See this link for the main website.
For how to connect to Azure using ADO.Net heres a good link from msdn and another link which l’m currently using to work on plugging the northwind sample database to azure and using a WPF datagrid view to present the data.
Stayton Oregon …
Sep 21st
Drove here on 9/12 to help take wedding pictures of relatives. Took a total of 1270 with my trusty Canon XTi Found out that an external power supply CA-PS700 for the camera is very very useful when you only have just one camera battery. I got the external power suppy unit mainly for doing time lapse videos.
Heres a silverlight encoded video of the main event. Congrats to the Crockett family. Click here for a direct link.
Windows Presentation Foundation…
Aug 21st
Heres the main Microsoft website for WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation which allows developers to build very rich visually – Graphical User Interfaces. You might have discovered that you really need Microsoft Expression Blend to develop the WPF GUI – heres a link to some excellent videos by Martin Grayson which covers learning Blend while actually developing a cool WPF application.
Microsoft Virtual Labs
Aug 17th
Heres a link to excellent free labs in an online virtual environment.
If you are working on the MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 – Developing a WPF Application and need the code, click here to get it.
Another good source for reference code is this link l just found.
Enjoy / Happy Coding.
Silverlight streaming..
Jun 28th
Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications. The service offers web designers and developers a free (*) and convenient solution for hosting and streaming cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences and rich interactive applications that run on Windows™ and Mac
Simply go to this website and create an account - this gives you 10Gb streaming video space, for multiple video files of 10mins duration or 105Mb size – just similar to youtube. Code for pasting videos or a link into your website is automatically generated for you. You can also upload silverlight applications.
This l think is an excellent service from Microsoft, saves me web hosting space and bandwidth at the same time!
Silverlight….
Jan 11th
Microsoft Silverlight allows developers to create rich, cross-platform, interactive Web applications. I went through some sample code from Microsoft’s silverlight.net website and created a base page from which to demo/test the functionality of silverlight capabilities and use these as a base for learning as well as for future projects. Click here to see these awesome demos.