ASP.NET 2.0

TweetMyPage V0.2 - Now with "from TweetMyPage" indicator

Laurent Bugnion — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:00:35 GMT

As soon as I had my info page online, I asked Twitter to accept TweetMyPage as a Twitter application, and to mark the messages posted with TweetMyPage with "from TweetMyPage". Note for developers: There is a form to fill on the Twitter API page. It's really fast, and one day later I got the answer that it was accepted.

From now on, messages posted from TweetMyPage are marked as such:

I got a couple of testers so far, and already got a few requests for additional features. I am now evaluating how I can modify the application to integrate these new features, and will update TweetMyPage as soon as I got time (in 2018) (just kidding).

TweetMyPage is in beta for the moment, and if you want to try it, I'll be happy to send you an invite (just leave a comment down here or send me an email. If all goes well, I will make TweetMyPage public next week or so.

MIX08 Keynote (11)

Laurent Bugnion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:56:14 GMT

WeatherBug

New Silverlight application running on Nokia
Cool app, "very easy to develop using Silverlight"

Scott Guthrie

Wrapping up and summarizing.

Time to have lunch!!

MIX08 Keynote (10)

Laurent Bugnion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:50:39 GMT

Cirque du Soleil

Use WPF application to track cast information
Cirque du Soleil recruiting ScottGu for their shows. Good idea. "Come see the Man Who Never Sleeps".

Scott Guthrie

Performance for WPF videos and image handling MUCH better. Pretty cool
Write custom effects in WPF and they are pushed to the hardward for acceleration. (for example ripples, shadows, etc...)
Effects applied to controls during runtime, physics engine calculation, all pushed to hardware for better performance.
All these included in .NET 3.5 SP1 available this summer.
"Let's talk about mobile", yes, let's!
Silverlight available for Windows AND non-Windows mobile phones.

Stimulant

Silverlight application running on mobile phone.
See where your friends are in real time.
Photos and videos.
Tell your friend you're on your way in real time.
Shows current location in real time.
"Rich intuitive user experience for mobile environment".

Scott Guthrie

"Trying to get Silverlight on as many mobile devices as possible"
Microsoft to partner with Nokia for Silverlight

MIX08 Keynote (9)

Laurent Bugnion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:18:57 GMT

Scott Guthrie about Silverlight

Silverlight controls developedby MSFT are shipped as Open Source!
Devigner role officially mentioned in ScottGu's slides! Yes I do exist!
Show off new SL 2 applications

AOL

Builds new AOL email client using Silverlight.
Using IsolatedStorage much faster and more advanced than using the browser cache.

Scott Guthrie

Enable user experience that doesn't exist today.
Deep zoom. Based on research project. Navigates through very large images by downloading only portions of them

Hard Rock and Vertigo

AMAZING application: HardRock.com then look for Memorabilia. Collection of high def pictures (2 BILLIONS pixels), with amazing deep zoom abilities. Wow. Mind blowing.
Wow, first time I am asked to install SL 2 Beta 1 :)

MIX08: Keynote (6)

Laurent Bugnion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:26:14 GMT

Dean Hachamovitch (IE General Manager)

IE8: Select an address, choose "Live map" from a context menu and get a Live Map view of the place.
Web slices: User can subscribe to parts of a web page. Hover on a part of the site, icon shows up, select a "web slice" and subscribe.Displays a new bookmark, live view of the web page "extract".
Beta 1 of IE8 available for developers after the keynote

Scott Guthrie

Quick peep of live Silverlight sites.
1.5 million installations of Silverlight per day, should accelerate with SL2
SL2 Beta 1 available today
Silverlight 2.0 now runs on mobile devices.
Bandwidth can be an issue --> adaptive streaming added to SL2. Switch between bitrates automatically as CPU and bandwidth change. No need to write any code for that, SL takes care of it dynamically.

MIX08: Keynote (5)

Laurent Bugnion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:11:54 GMT

Dean Hachamovitch (IE General Manager)

CSS2.1. Demo in Firefox, Safari, looks the same. Opens in IE7 and it doesn't look the same.IE8 supposed to be the answer to that.
First time showing IE8 to the public
Focus on CSS and understanding standards the same way than developers are.
Legacy web. Legacy pages developed for IE look bad in Firefox and in Safari.
IE8 has a "Emulate IE7" button for legacy pages. In the future, IE8 should behave just like Firefox and Safari, at the risk of breaking legacy pages.
Improving performance for rendering web pages and JavaScript.
"We're not done", more to come.
Back button for AJAX. Back button shows back the previous AJAX request.

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MIX08: Keynote (4)

Laurent Bugnion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:11:00 GMT

Ray Ozzie keynote:

"Many amazing technologies available today, but I would like you to bet on us" Oh really?

Scott Guthrie keynote:

Just launched .NET 3,5, VS2008, IIS7, Windows Server 2008
Scott talks about the new features in ASP.NET 3.5, mentions LINQ
IIS7 makes deployment and administration much better

Dean Hachamovitch (IE General Manager)

Introduces IE8
Cool T-shirt

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MIX08: Keynote (3)

Laurent Bugnion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:08:41 GMT

Ray Ozzie keynote:

"Connected entertainment vision"
Office offering: Desktop, Mobile and Web, all connected in a seamless experience.
Office Live: Linking, sharing and tagging of documents for the social mesh.
Connected business. CRM like MSFT Dynamics used by half a millions small firms worldwide.
"Utility computing within the enterprise". Power of choice (again).
XNA, .NET WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET
Expression Studio for designers
Visual Studio for developers
.NET in the middle of it all

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MIX08: Random pieces of news (3)

Laurent Bugnion — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:33:21 GMT

Interesting concept for localizing Silverlight applications using a "resource" JavaScript file. Presented by Brad Abrams.
Amazing set of new controls for Silverlight 2, including a datagrid. Where's the WPF-based one, Microsoft?
Multiline textbox in Silverlight 2.0 (but you're not supposed to talk about it :)
ASP.NET MVC framework for URL mapping. I think that ScottGu blogged about that before, something I definitely want to look into (when I'll have time, ah ah ah)
Tim Sneath on WPF and Silverlight: "WPF is the Ferrari and Silverlight is the Mini Cooper". Yeah maybe, but Ferrari is a cool name and a cool brand, while the WPF name really... we need a new name and a logo!!! Make WPF sexy please!
Attendees of the Together@MIX preconference to get black Zunes.
Some work was done on Bitmap Effects. Curious to know what work exactly!! Do they run in partial trust now?

Porting to VS2008 / New WPF book / Pictures of Sicily

Laurent Bugnion — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:40:22 GMT

Porting to VS2008

I am working on a few ASP.NET projects I do privately, and had a small issue, which I couldn't debug in VS2005. I decided it was time to give a serious try to VS2008, so I converted most of my private ASP.NET projects to VS2008, and everything wen smoothly. I didn't take any risk, and I chose to continue using .NET 2.0 for these projects, so that only the IDE changes, but not the framework. After a very fast and painless conversion, finding the error was a breeze (I was having problems adding a tagprefix to an ASPX page, because somehow the referenced DLL was not recognized by VS2005. In VS2008 however, not only the DLL loaded without any problems, but I even got Intellisense in the ASPX for free! So far, it's been a real pleasure using VS2008, and I can only recommend it to everyone.

Chris Anderson's WPF book

I was in the office for the first time after my vacation (I worked home on Monday, went to Milaqno for a workshop on Tuesday, and Wednesday was Switzerland's National Day!). I found an Amazon.com package waiting for me, and here it was, Chris Anderson's 'Essential WPF' which I ordered before the holidays.

First thing that struck me after I opened it was... Hey, it's in black and white :-) OK, don't want to start a polemic again. I honestly cannot comment on the book's content yet, and it has been warmly recommended to me by Scott Guthrie himself, so it must be a great reference. But I got to say, it's amazing what a little code-coloring and colored illustrations can do for the reader.

Anyway. After that first moment passed :-) I started checking the forewords, and if the book is as good as they promise, it should be a great book. I'll say more about it when I start reading it.

Pictures of Sicily (part two)

I just posted the part two of our July's Sicily trip. I hope you'll have fun reading the blog entry and looking at pictures of Marsala and Segesta. More coming soon.