Watching Scott Guthrie's keynote at Mix07 right now. The word is finally out - and wow. Silverlight is not just a Flash alternative - it is a cross platform, cross browser .NET runtime and framework. C#, VB, any .NET language driving display in the browser, running on the client side, on other platforms.

Beta for 1.0 is out today, available on www.silverlight.net.

You can even debug cross platform with the .NET code running in a Mac browser. I think we are not far from stepping through the time space continuum now...

Some articles on employing VSTS/TFS correctly for your team

ClickOnce guidance has moved to CodePlex, here are the URLs

WPF episode on dnrTV available

Slides and demos from the webcast

Creating a pvk file from a certificate issued spc/cer file and pvk file

Slides and demos from TechEd talks last week

Demo code and lab code for WinFX students in DC this week

Some background on the trust model of ClickOnce and how it affects what you can do through a ClickOnce deployment

Mid Atlantic Code Camp 10 June - schedule posted and volunteers needed.

Resolving CAPICOM build errors when publishing a ClickOnce application.

If you haven't stumbled on the top link on the MSDN homepage in the last 24 hours... WinFX Beta 2 is out. Finally some fresh bits that are synced up between WCF, WPF, and WF.

There is also a Go-Live license associated with all the bits, so you can get the jump on the competition by putting apps into production right away with WinFX capabilities. If you haven't started looking at WinFX capabilities yet, now is definitely the time. One good way to do so is to attend our WCF Master Class. You can find more details at http://www.idesign.net/.

You can get all the download bits for WinFX Beta 2 here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/

 

A little ditty to lead you through the process of moving ClickOnce applications into production

Slides and Demos from the Software Developers Conference in Arnhem, Netherlands from last week

Slides and demos from DevTeach

Demos from my Adv Master Class last week

DC Code Camp 10 June - Reston VA

Understanding what the current directory is when your ClickOnce app is running and why

If you are starting to get your hands dirty with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), you can get some great samples to help you get started from our website at http://www.idesign.net/ on the downloads tab.

http://www.idesign.net/idesign/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=11

 

Get your red hot slides and demos for ClickOnce, VS 2005 Settings, DAAB, and Connecting Smart Clients with WCF right here

A more comprehensive Code snippet library is now available for C#!

Slides and demos from SDDev.net talk

A little ditty on deriving from BindingSource to handle errors

Slides, Demos, and lessons learned getting the demos running on the Feb CTP of WinFx

I recorded a DNR and DNRtv last week in New London and they are already up on the site.

You can download/listen to the .NET Rocks! epsidode here: http://www.dotnetrocks.com

And the DNRtv here: http://www.dnrtv.com

In the DNR episode, we talk about data binding, ClickOnce and a few other related topics.

This DNRtv shows how to do some of the data binding stuff in the designer. Keep your eyes out for another episode in a week or so on ClickOnce deployment.

Adding a SQL Express Database to your Visual Studio project sets the Copy To Output Directory property to Copy Always, which will overwrite any changes from a previous debug run. Don't let this bite you. Read the details here.

I went up to New London this week and taped two episodes of DNRtv and one DNR with Carl and Richard. The DNRtv episodes should go up in the next two weeks, one on data binding and one on ClickOnce deployment. The DNR will air on 22 March. Check them out!

I gave a talk on data binding in NYC this Thu night. Had a great time. Lively crowd as always, lots of good questions and interaction.

Here are the slides and demos:

Slides    Demos

For the folks from my Master class in CA this week, here are the live demos. Anyone's welcome to grab them, most have project names that indicate what was being demoed.

Slides and demos from my WPF talk last night

TOC for my data binding book

Slides and demos from my Data Binding talk

My book is finally shipping!

DC VS 2005 Launch Event (the last US one) complete!

Sample Code for Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 posted

A short description of the steps required to set up a ComboBox column in a DataGridView containing lookup values from another table.

Instructions on how to deploy and launch unmanaged applications with ClickOnce.

Demos from my ClickOnce webcast yesterday

How to have Intellisense for WCF config file entries in the November CTP of WinFx

Demos from my MSDN Webcast today

Slides and demos from my talk on Connecting Smart Client Applications with Windows Communication Foundation at Boulder.NET Users Group on Tuesday

Just a little written explanation of a sample I usually give in our master classes that demonstrates the one of the benefits of interface-based programming. It demonstrates using a factory (in this case a generic factory that can load any type and return it through an interface reference) to dynamically load components that are expected to implement an interface contract, so that clients can be coded with no specific type coupling (other than the interface contract) to the components that satisfy the contract.

In class demos from Linsoft class

Slides, demos, and brief overview of sessions today

Slides, demos, key takeaways from my ClickOnce talk yesterday

A quick overview of my session, a fix for a last second demo that went awry, and some good related references.

A nice little post on user permissions elevation in ClickOnce

Describing the learning process of getting to know Indigo / Windows Communications Foundation

Start the download rush

A quick overview of DevConnections and the sessions I'll be presenting.

I'm giving two MSDN Webcasts: Presenting Rich Tabular Data with the DataGridView Control and Deploy Smart Client Applications with ClickOnce

IDesign has a new look and feel

Slides and demos from a data bound Windows Forms 2.0 talk I gave last night in KY

Step by step of enabling and using on-demand updates with ClickOnce