Month: March 2009

Mix09 – Silverlight Virtual Earth Map Control

Posted on March 21, 2009 by sujatad

The new Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control and the VESMP CTP Interactive SDK were made available at the Mix (beta). The map control is a Silverlight 3.0 plug-in (available as a beta) that streams data directly to a map. Currently available interactive maps on Google or Microsoft Live.com all use AJAX that only allows zoom […]

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Mix09 – Silverlight 3.0

Posted on March 20, 2009 by sujatad

Silverlight 3.0 is slated for release towards the end of this year; however a beta is available for download now that has all the flashy streaming media controls shown in the many demos. NetFlix showed off the adaptive streaming/buffering capabilities of the media control. There are over 100 Silverlight 3.0 controls and a slew of […]

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Mix 09 – IE 8.0 and IIS 7.0

Posted on March 19, 2009 by sujatad

IE 8.0 was officially released and some of the standout features are – Web slices (quickly call up selected content from a web page such as updates from a page), Accelerators (cut and paste text from one application to another easily), InPrivate browsing/filtering (history not stored) and most of all the improved Developer Tools. On […]

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Mix 09 – Azure

Posted on March 18, 2009 by sujatad

The Azure cloud commuting strategy mainly relies on having a number of REST (Representational State Transfer) based WCF services hosted in the cloud serving up various resources. Simply put, a REST based WCF service is a WCF service that supports just the HTTP transport and resources are addressed entirely through Uris and data transfer occurs […]

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Mix 09 – Day 1

Posted on March 14, 2009 by sujatad

Mix09, day1 keynote speaker was Bill Buxton. In his talk, he drew a distinction between Experience Design vs. Interface Design by tracing the history of design over the years. How developers tend to focus on Interface Design when they should begin with Experience Design. He was followed by Scot Guthrie (VP .NET Division) who demonstrated […]

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Microsoft’s Single View

Posted on March 3, 2009 by sujatad

Interesting article by Mary Jo Foley about Microsoft’s map + business data = Microsoft’s single view http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2216

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Packaging product – Infopath and BizTalk Server etc

Posted on March 1, 2009 by sujatad

Working on determining how to package a distributed application that comprises of multiple components – InfoPath forms, WCF services, BizTalk Server applications et al. Thinking of exporting the InfoPath forms (.xsn) to single site definition (.wsp) file and creating msi for BizTalk Server apps, and exes for services and all of these packaged in an […]

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