Monday, August 27, 2007 #

Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2007

Jesse Liberty continues with Day 5; Part 8 of Scott Guthrie's LINQ to SQL; and 'CodeGod' takes a first look at Silverlight 1.1
The Great Asynchronous Learning Experiment - Day 5
Jesse Liberty's Continued exploration of Silverlight
LINQ to SQL (Part 8 - Executing Custom SQL Expressions)
Scott Guthrie continues into Part 8 of LINQ to SQL
Silverlight-integration in ASP.NET-Website
'CodeGod' takes a shot at Silverlight 1.1, the more examples the better.

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Posted On Monday, August 27, 2007 4:52 PM | Feedback (0)

Help And Manual was a big help this weekend

I'm not running Vista yet ... yeah I know... I've got it, I just haven't had the grand desire to go through the pain and suffering of repaving my system yet. I keep hoping the 'computer fairy' will drop off a new PC at the house and I can install it and all the other crappola I have installed on the new one while the current one is still running for all those things I forget :)

So when I started teaching a class for UOP named "Programming Concepts" last week, I had a couple people have trouble right off the bat with the simple little C compiler we use and Vista. Particularly the help files. My thought is "ok, what's going on here, it CAN'T be a big deal to run help files, so maybe there's something in the UI that's keeping it from launching them."

So I posted the .HLP files and umm... those didn't work. Ok so I put the .HLP files on my website, and of course that didn't work either.

That's about when I was clued into the fact that Vista doesn't like .HLP or .CHM files ... wow... there's a lot of apps out there that people are going to have trouble with help then!

I then brought up Help and Manual, and without reading anything (hey, I write software for a living... do I read manuals?), I was able to create a project, extract the individual files from the .HLP files and produce a couple folders of html files on my site with indices to open each that look *just* like the .HLP files!

This is so cool... and not even what I got Help and Manual for to begin with... so it was just a total bonus :)

Thanks a bunch guys!!

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Posted On Monday, August 27, 2007 1:42 PM | Feedback (4)
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