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IntelliTrace

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 19. April 2010 17:42 2

Finding how you go to that deep class method that failed…

IntelliTrace cool 2010 feature, if you are debugging the app and it fails on its own, it will show you everything that was called up until that point. Even but button’s you clicked on the website.

Pretty cool. Can’t attach to a process, have to actually run debug.  It’s window on the right or you can open it via, Debug/Windows/IntelliEvents.

It’s shows more usefulness if the app fails a few classes deep.

Note: Only works if you run Debugger

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IntelliTrace Events Only Option Gives You This:
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IntelliTrace Events and Call Information Give You This:
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You can see how I got to the error now, which methods call which other methods.
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Windows 7 Genuine Validation Fails on Genuine Install

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 15. April 2010 09:57 2

 

I was having problems trying to download XPMode because the website tries to validate your Windows 7 operation system.  Even though I activated successfully and I ran the MGA Diagnostic Tool locally and it said Genuine. It still failed the online check.

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I even called Microsoft to see if they could figure it out. No luck. They tried the obvious stuff, re-entering my product key, re-activating.  They couldn’t figure it out. Even gave me a new product key and still no luck.  Then I told them I had to go.

Found the answer on my own..

I was getting Event Errors in my Application Log.

Source: CAPI2
Event ID: 257
The Cryptographic Services service failed to initialize the Catalog Database. The ESENT error was: -1011.

Then I caught online something on bypassing XP Genuine has to do with the Cryptographic services. Putting two and two together, I figured this error was the source of my problem.

After a little digging I found this article which gave me steps to wipe out my System Catalog Database. 

This fixed my error and allowed me to validate my windows online.

  1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Services.
  2. Right-click Cryptographic Services, and then click Stop.
  3. Click Start, and then click Computer.
  4. Navigate to %systemroot%\System32.

    By default, %systemroot% is located at C:\Windows.

  5. Rename the catroot2 folder to catroot2.old.
  6. In the Services snap-in console, right-click Cryptographic Services, and then click Start.

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Operating Systems | Troubleshooting

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Information Architecture for Beginners

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 13. April 2010 14:35 0

 

Great blog post on Information Architecture.

 

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture

Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture.

 

Information architecture encompasses a wide range of problems. But regardless of the specific context or objectives of a given information architecture project, our concern is always with creating structures to facilitate effective communication. This notion is the core of our discipline.

Jessie James Garrett

What does an Information Architect do?  What tools do they use?

Read More..

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Are Easter Eggs in Software a thing of the past?

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 12. April 2010 16:36 0

Was reading a post that Office Easter eggs no longer exist due to the government regulating that every software feature has to be documented.   I was developing a silverlight app and wanted to place in my own Easter egg.

Basically holding down Shift-Ctrl-Windows Key and clicking on the Logo, brings up my face :)

 

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Funny | SilverLight

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Silverlight & WCF Debugging and using Fiddler!

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 12. April 2010 10:59 0

 

Fiddler2 Best program out there I think for debugging WCF errors in silverlight when you get “NotFound” error messages.

 

Example. I had a Silverlight application where I had to enable it work over https and change the host headers. As many of you may know, WCF on .NET 3.5 you can not bind to website with multiple headers. You have to hardcode the WCF Address in the web.config. (I’ve read that .Net 4.0 will allow this but still not for ssl).

All my setting from what I can tell in my web.config and my clientConfig were correct, and the app worked fine in http mode only, however I would get the most generic message ever.

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This is my custom error window I use to have users send the errors to the server.  As you can see the error is “The remote server returned an error: NotFound.”  this is basically the equivalent of the old server error message “An Unexpected Error Occurred”.  Basically who knows. Something’s wrong.  The WCF service is not responding. Could be your firewall, your IIS, your service is erroring out or 100 other things. 

Download and install Fiddler2 and let the magic begin.  I did try WebDevHelper which is like FireBug for FireFox but it works in IE.  It’s pretty good, but like FireBug, doesn’t give you that WCF error.

Loading up Fiddler, I can inspect the traffic and actually see the .Net error. It even highlights it in red for me.  (Had to block out the app names).

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From this I was able to expand the information like below to see the real error message.

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“Cannot be process at the receiver, due to an AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher.  Check that the sender and receiver’s EndPointAddresses agree”

After I realized what the problem was I was able to fix my service by adding the attribute AddressFilterMode:=AddressFilterMode.Any to my WCF class.

<ServiceContract(Namespace:="")> _
<ServiceBehavior(IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults:=True, AddressFilterMode:=AddressFilterMode.Any)> _
<AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode:=AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)> _
Public Class xxxxxxxxxxxService

 

Problem Solved.

 

WCF logging:

You can also log all your WCF Traffic to a Log file on your server.

  <system.diagnostics>
      <sharedListeners>
          <add name="WcfListener"
                  type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
                    initializeData="C:\logs\wcfLog.svclog"/>
      </sharedListeners>
      <sources>
          <!-- switchValue attribute has no impact on MessageLogging -->
          <source name="System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging">
              <listeners>
                  <add name="WcfListener" />
              </listeners>
          </source>
          <source name="System.ServiceModel"
                        switchValue="Warning, ActivityTracing"
                        propagateActivity="true" >
              <listeners>
                  <add name="WcfListener" />
              </listeners>
          </source>
      </sources>
  </system.diagnostics>

 

<system.serviceModel>
    <diagnostics>
        <messageLogging
             logEntireMessage="true"
             logMalformedMessages="false"
             logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true"
             logMessagesAtTransportLevel="false"
             maxMessagesToLog="3000"
             maxSizeOfMessageToLog="2000"/>
    </diagnostics>
</system.serviceModel>

 

Other useful posts..

Silverlight and WCF – WCF Logs and Debugging

Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe)

Silverlight & WCF - HTTPS

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My Customized version of ClarkLab’s Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 8. April 2010 13:39 0

 

I found this post on Clarklab.net, Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery.  Looked simple to use and I loved that I didn’t need any plug-in files like other “plug-ins”. I guess this really isn’t a plug-in.  Just nice, basic jquery and css.

They give the step by step and why you nee each line of code.

This is their version and their demo is here.

Row colors

 

 

My Need for it and How I Used

I had an application that had two date pickers.  The goal was to make it easy for the user to be able to set the date on the second date picker based on the date from the first date picker. Adding X days to the date in the first date picker.

I’m using Telerik’s AJAX Calendar control for my date picker so some of the Javascript you’ll see is specific to their Client API.

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I followed their steps but altered the CSS and UL list of course.

My CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.menu_head{border:0; margin-top:10px}
.menu_body ul, li{margin:0; padding:0; list-style:none;}
.menu_body {display:none; width:100px; margin-left:-40px; font-size:small;} 
.menu_body li a:hover{font-weight:bold;}

</style>

Added my UL list..

<img src="/Images/BlueArrowRight.png" alt="Copy Date Over" height="24px" width="24px" class="menu_head" />
<ul class="menu_body">
    <li><a href="javascript:CopyDate(0);">Copy Date</a></li>
    <li><a href="javascript:CopyDate(15);">Add 15 days</a></li>
    <li><a href="javascript:CopyDate(30);">Add 30 days</a></li>
    <li><a href="javascript:CopyDate(45);">Add 45 days</a></li>
    <li><a href="javascript:CopyDate(60);">Add 60 days</a></li>
    <li><a href="javascript:CopyDate(90);">Add 90 days</a></li>
    <li><a href="javascript:CopyDate(120);">Add 120 days</a></li>
</ul>

 

Then added my jQuery.. I’m sure there is a better way to close the menu, but I threw it in my CopyDate() method. Again, note that picker.get_textBox() and get_selectedDate() are Telerik Client API methods on their controls.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("ul.menu_body li:even").addClass("alt");

        $('img.menu_head').click(function() {
            $('ul.menu_body').slideToggle('medium');
        });

        function CopyDate(TotalDays) {
            AddDueDate(TotalDays);
            $('ul.menu_body').slideToggle('medium');
        }

        function AddDueDate(TotalDays) {
            if (TotalDays >= 0) {
                var picker = $find("<%= calDateOfLetter.ClientID %>");
                var textBox = picker.get_textBox();
                var destination = $find("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_calDueDate_calDatePicker");
                var destTextbox = destination.get_textBox();

                var CurrentDate = picker.get_selectedDate();
                CurrentDate.setDate(CurrentDate.getDate() + parseInt(TotalDays));
                destination.set_selectedDate(CurrentDate);
                picker.hidePopup();
            }
        }
    });
</script>

 

Finished Version (yes the dates are old, the record I’m testing on happens to be old)

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Clicking on the arrow you get the menu..

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Click on a date and it gets added and the menu closes..

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Works great! I love it, client loves it, end-user loves it.  Thanks Clarklabs!

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Some New VB.NET 10 (VS2010) Features

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 6. April 2010 11:21 0

 

Autoimplemented Properties (yes C# already had this)

Previous VB.Net 9 (Or VS 2008)

    Private _Name As String
    Public Property Name() As String
        Get
            Return _Name
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _Name = value
        End Set
    End Property

    Private _Addresses As List(Of Car)
    Public Property Addresses() As List(Of Car)
        Get
            Return _Addresses
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As List(Of Car))
            _Addresses = value
        End Set
    End Property

New VB.Net 10 (Or VS 2010)

Public Property Name() As String

Public Property AddressList() As List(Of Car) = New List(Of Car)

Or (Setting a Default Value)

Public Property Name() As String = "Fred"

Public Property Addresses() As New List(Of Car)

 

Collection Initializers:

 

Public Property Cars As New List(Of Car) from {
                                                New Car With (.Color = “Red", .Make = "Ford"),
                                                New Car With (.Color = “Blue", .Make = "Mazda")
                                              }
 

 

Implicit Line Continuation:

 

No more need for the underscore _ to continue a VB line. You can see from code sample above and from this. 

    Dim Statement As String = "Hello"
        & "World"
        & " All Considered One Line"

 

Watch Video: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ee681550.aspx

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Want to Learn BI and Cube Creation? (Business Intelligence)

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 5. April 2010 18:41 0

 

I’ve been toying around with the possibly getting more into BI and Cube design, aka Business Intelligence. From Wiki..

Business Intelligence (BI) refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products or departments or associated costs and incomes. [1]

BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of Business Intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.

Business Intelligence often aims to support better business decision-making.[2] Thus a BI system can be called a decision support system (DSS).[3] Though the term business intelligence is often used as a synonym for competitive intelligence, because they both support decision making, BI uses technologies, processes, and applications to analyze mostly internal, structured data and business processes while competitive intelligence, is done by gathering, analyzing and disseminating information with or without support from technology and applications, and focuses on all-source information and data (unstructured or structured), mostly external to, but also internal to a company, to support decision making.

 

I’ve looked into a few books but find I am already swamped with reading up on Team Foundation Server, Silverlight, WCFRIA, Windows Workflow, Azure Cloud Services and a few other technologies.

With that, I find it sometimes easier to listen or watch a video while I work on something else. I came across an interesting site from CIOBriefings. LearnMicrosoftBI.Com.

They have an excellent list of BI videos and searching the “cube”, and they are free if you register.

Note: You MUST Register Free on Site Before you can access these videos.

Title

Description
 

Basics 101 - What is Business Intelligence?

This introductory video discusses what is meant by Business Intelligence (BI) and why businesses pursue BI projects. (12 minutes)
 

Basics 102 - Delivering Business Intelligence

With a properly designed data warehouse, a BI solution can deliver value to almost any user in an organization. This video explores the different users and various tools in a BI solution. (34 minutes)
 

Basics 103 - The Data Warehousing Process

Business Intelligence is a process, and the main component is building a data warehouse. This video discusses the process of building a data warehouse from problem definition through the delivery of the data. (19.5 minutes)
 

Basics 104 - Why BI Projects Fail (and what you can do about it)

Learn about the primary reasons BI projects fail and what you can do to address these problems. This session is based on Craig Utley's experiences with BI projects at approximately forty companies worldwide. (32.5 minutes)
 

Basics 105 - Introduction to Business Intelligence Development Studio

See the primary tool used during the development of a data warehousing solution, Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). BIDS is used to create SSIS packages, SSAS cubes, and SSRS reports. (15.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 101 - Introduction to Analysis Services

This short video introduces Analysis Services to those who aren't familiar with it. It discusses the two primary areas of Analysis Services: building multidimensional cubes and building data mining models. (6.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 102 - Creating Projects and Data Sources

This video covers the creation of both projects and data sources. A discussion of the options and decision points is included. (17 minutes)
 

SSAS 103 - Data Source Views

Data Source Views are an incredibly powerful concept in SSAS projects that represent logical views of one or more data sources and allow developers to manipulate the schema. (21 minutes)
 

SSAS 104 - The Cube Wizard - SSAS 2005

This video discusses the Cube Wizard in Analysis Services 2005 The Cube Wizard creates cubes but can also create dimensions, and populate those dimensions with attributes and hierarchies. (16.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 105 - The Cube Wizard - SSAS 2008

This video shows the significantly enhanced Cube Wizard in SSAS 2008. The wizard has been streamlined and creates much simpler dimensions. (12.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 106 - Basic Deploying, Processing, and Browsing

Following up on the Cube Wizard videos, this shows how to deploy and process the simple cubes just created, and then browse the data to verify the cube structure. (23 minutes)
 

SSAS 107 - Creating Dimensions

This video covers dimension creation using the Dimension Wizard in both SSAS 2005 and 2008. A discussion of database dimensions and cube dimensions follows, as well as an examination of some of the properties of dimensions and attributes. (42.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 108 - Creating Hierarchies

This video follows up the previous video by showing how to create hierarchies in the new dimensions. Hierarchies are created and the All member is changed and removed, among other topics. (25 minutes)
 

SSAS 109 - Attribute Relationships

This video covers attribute relationships: what they are, how they work, and why they are so important. You'll see how to create them and some of the problems you might have. (57.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 110 - Dimension Usage

Learn how a cube supports multiple fact tables through the use of dimensions and measure groups. You'll discover how to tie dimensions to measure groups and how to handle unrelated dimensions. (19 minutes)
 

SSAS 111 - Aggregation Basics in SSAS 2005

This video shows how to create aggregations in SSAS 2005. It covers the aggregation wizard, the "one-third" rule, and aggregation counts. (24 minutes)
 

SSAS 112 - Aggregation Basics in SSAS 2008

This covers why you want to create aggregations and how to use the aggregation wizard. A discussion of the "one-third rule" is included. (25 minutes)
 

PPS 101 - Introduction to PerformancePoint Server

This video discusses PerformancePoint Server and its three modules: Monitoring, Analytics, and Planning. You'll learn what the three modules do and how they fit together to form a comprehensive solution. (21 minutes)
 

MDX 101 - MDX: Basics and Structure

This video is the first in an introductory series about MDX. This video discusses the basics of MDX including usage, tuples, sets, and the basic structure of an MDX query. (27.5 minutes)
 

QuickHit #1 - Ignore Unrelated Dims and Calculated Measures

This video discusses how IgnoreUnrelatedDimensions works with calculated measures. (5 minutes)
 

MDX 102 - Hierarchy Navigation

This video describes how to navigate attribute and user hierarchies. Set and Member Functions are discussed, and all code is shown running in SSMS. (19.5 minutes)
 

QuickHit #2 - Attributes, Keys, and Hierarchies

Adding an attribute to a natural hierarchy sometimes involves setting up a compound key in the KeyColumns property. What if you also want that attribute available without the effects of the compound key? (6.5 minutes)
 

QuickHit #3 - Incremental Fact Processing

How do you perform incremental measure group/partition processing without duplicating data? See how to use the ProcessAdd XMLA command and modify the query to accurately load facts incrementally. (11 minutes)
 

SSAS 113 - Working with Slowly Changing Dimensions

This video describes slowly changing dimensions, both Type I and Type II, and how to work with them in SSAS. (26.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 114 - Calculations

This video covers calculations in an SSAS database including calculated members, named sets, and the SCOPE statement. (35.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 115 - KPIs

This video covers Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Learn how to create KPIs, including the value, goal, status, and trend. (27 minutes)
 

PC 101 - ProClarity Overview

This video is an overview of the ProClarity products. See what products exist, their uses, and their likely futures. (11 minutes)
 

PC 102 - ProClarity Basics

Learn the basics of analysis with ProClarity Desktop Professional, including drilling down/up, expanding/collapsing, and the four basic views. (20.5 minutes)
 

PC 103 - The Setup Panel

This video dives into the Setup Panel in ProClarity Desktop Professional. You'll see how to manipulate the rows, columns, and background, as well as create slicers, sets, and members. (32 minutes)
 

PC 104 - Decomposition Tree

Discover the ProClarity Decomposition Tree. See how to launch it and use it to analyze data. (13.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 116 - Introduction to Actions

This video introduces actions in Analysis Services. It discusses the types of actions and shows examples of a couple of actions in use. (10 minutes)
 

SSAS 117 - Drillthrough Actions

This video covers drillthrough actions in Analysis Services. It shows how to set them up and describes fact dimensions and their use in drillthrough. (19 minutes)
 

SSAS 118 - Standard Actions

This video is about standard actions in Analysis Services. It shows the creation and use of a URL action. (12.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 119 - Reporting Actions

This video covers reporting actions in Analysis Services. It shows how to call a report in SSRS and pass parameters. (16.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 120 - Storage Modes

This video covers storage modes in Analysis Services. You'll learn about MOLAP, ROLAP, and HOLAP and see how to change the settings for dimensions and cube partitions. (16.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 121 - Partitions

Learn what partitions are, how to create partitions using table or query binding, and how to merge partitions. (22 minutes)
 

SSAS 122 - Translations

This video covers translations in Analysis Services. After a quick overview of translations, you will learn how to create them for both the cube and dimensions. You'll see how to change captions as well as dimension data. (14.5 minutes)
 

SSAS 123 - Perspectives

This video covers perspectives in Analysis Services. You'll learn what perspectives are, see how to create them, and then use them in a client tool. The video also compares perspectives to views in a relational database. (10.5 minutes)
 

QuickHit #4 - Cube Sparsity and Query Performance

This video is a QuickHit covering the concept of cube sparsity and how it can affect calculations in a query. You'll see examples of a simple query change and the dramatic impact it can have on performance, and how to monitor the cells being calculated. (

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VisitMix

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 5. April 2010 17:23 1

I haven’t had the privilege yet of going to a MIX conference.  My eyes weep.  However, I applaud them for recording the sessions and putting them online.  Just seeing some of these, makes me want to go to a Mix Conference even more.

So for those of you like me, or for those of you that did go… I want to just bring to attention that the recordings are online at http://videos.visitmix.com/

There’s a lot here. Something for everyone. Mainly geared towards all .NET and Microsoft but there still .NET development with Ruby and Python and business development related videos. You have Silverlight, Web Services, Windows 7 Phone development, RIA, Sketchflow, Design for Developers, User Experience, Software Entrepreneurs, Social Networking Development, Windows Messenger Live Services and more..

Check out the list of these videos.

MIX 10 Conference Videos

Title

Changing our Game – an Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Series
Joe Belfiore

Authoring for Windows Phone, Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 with Expression Blend
Christian Schormann, Peter Blois

Prototyping Rich Microsoft Silverlight Applications with Expression SketchFlow
Chris Bernard

Designing Bing: Heart and Science
Paul Ray

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Overview: What's in Store for Silverlight 4?
Keith Smith

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Applications
Scott Morrison

Developing with WCF RIA Services Quickly and Effectively
Nikhil Kothari

Stepping Outside the Browser with Microsoft Silverlight 4
Ashish Shetty

Overview of the Windows Phone 7 Series Application Platform
Charlie Kindel

Windows Phone UI and Design Language
Chad Roberts, Michael Smuga, Albert Shum

An Introduction to Developing Applications for Microsoft Silverlight
Shawn Oster

Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 1
Mike Harsh

Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 2
Peter Torr

Windows Phone Application Platform Architecture
Istvan Cseri

Development and Debugging Tools for Building XNA Games for Windows Phone
Cullen Waters

Distributing and Monetizing Windows Phone Applications and Games
John Bruno, Todd Biggs

Building Windows Phone Games
Michael Klucher

Building a High Performance 3D Game for Windows Phone
Shawn Hargreaves, Tomas Vykruta

Designing and Developing for the Rich Mobile Web
Joe Marini

The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework
Michael Scherotter, Alfonso Corretti

Microsoft Silverlight "Media" : Moving at 60fps
Eric Schmidt

Introducing the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor
Jason Suess

HTML5: Cross-Browser Best Practices
Tony Ross

In-Depth Look at Internet Explorer 9
Ted Johnson, John Hrvatin

HTML5: High-Performance Best Practices for Web Sites
Jason Weber

Building Innovative Windows Client Software
Tim Huckaby, Scott Hanselman, Scott Stanfield, Tim Sneath, Dave Wolf

Search Engine Optimization for Microsoft Silverlight
Brad Abrams

Building an Accessible Microsoft Silverlight Experience
Mark Rideout

Microsoft Silverlight Optimization and Extensibility with MEF
Glenn Block

Flash Skills Applied to Microsoft Silverlight Design and Development
Adam Kinney

Software and Web Entrepreneurs: Go Big with BizSpark and WebsiteSpark
Alex Souza, Julien Codorniou

Dynamic Layout and Transitions for Microsoft Silverlight 4 with Microsoft Expression Blend
Kenny Young

A Case Study: Rapid WordPress Design and Prototyping with Expression Web 3
Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Practical Strategies for Debugging Cross-Browser Display Issues
Lori Dirks

Accessing Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight
Yavor Georgiev

Unit Testing Silverlight and Windows Phone Applications
Jeff Wilcox

Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone
Seema Ramchandani

The Laws of User Experience
Anthony Franco

Treat Your Content Right
Tiffani Jones Brown

Running with Wireframes: Taking Information Architecture (IA) into Design
Matt Brown

Lifecycle of a Wireframe
Nick Finck

Total Experience Design
Paul Dawson

Touch in Public: Multi-touch Interaction Design for Kiosks and Architectural Experiences
Jason Brush

The Art, Technology and Science of Reading
Kevin Larson

Creating Great Experiences through Collaboration
Noah Gedrich, Eric Perez, Sean Scott

Peanut Butter and Jelly: Putting 'Content Management' Back into Context
Nick Katsivelos

Service Design Goes Social
Shelley Evenson

Great User Experiences: Seamlessly Blending Technology and Design
Ben Jones, Andy Hood

Total Experience: A Design Methodology for Agencies
Conor Brady

The Elephant in the Room
Nishant Kothary

The Democratization of the Design Industry
Mike Samson, Ross Kimbarovsky

The Type We Want
Jonathan Snook

An Hour With Bill Buxton
Bill Buxton

Cloud Computing Economies of Scale
James Hamilton

The Mono Project
Miguel de Icaza

Modern Web Form Design
Luke Wroblewski

Robots at MySpace: Massive Scaling a .NET Website with the Microsoft Robotic Studio
Erik Nelson, Tony Chow, Akash Patel

10 Ways to Attack a Design Problem and Come Out Winning
Robby Ingebretsen

Principles of Microsoft Silverlight Graphics and Animation
Jeff Paries

Building a Next-Generation Web Application with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery
Nate Kohari

Using Storage in the Windows Azure Platform
Chris Auld

Creating Effective Info Viz in Microsoft Silverlight
Matthias Shapiro

Microsoft Surface Goes Social: Research Project at the University of Linz
Mario Meir-Huber

Understanding the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
Laurent Bugnion

Build Your Own MVVM Framework
Rob Eisenberg

Securing Microsoft Silverlight Applications
Shawn Wildermuth

IronRuby for the .NET Developer
Cory Foy

Developing Natural User Interfaces with Microsoft Silverlight and WPF 4 Touch
Joshua Blake

The OpenRasta Framework for Building RESTful Applications
Kyle Baley

Building Great Standards-Based Websites for the Big Wide World with Microsoft ASP.NET 4
Tatham Oddie, Damian Edwards

Syncing Audio, Video and Animations in Microsoft Silverlight Applications
Dan Wahlin

Six Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know
Elijah Manor

Building Facebook Apps with Microsoft .NET and Deploying to Windows Azure
Jim Zimmerman

Design the Ordinary, Like the Fixie
DL Byron, Kevin Tamura

From Comp to Code: A Design Communion
Evan Sharp

Do You Speak My Language? Microsoft Translator and the Power of Collaboration
Neil Roodyn, Vikram Dendi

Building Rich and Interactive User Experiences in SharePoint
Andre Engberts

Building Platforms and Applications for the Real-Time Web
Chris Saad, Brett Slatkin, Ari Steinberg, Ryan Sarver, Lili Cheng, Dare Obasanjo

SVG: The Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web
Patrick Dengler, Doug Schepers

Developing Multiplayer Games with Microsoft Silverlight 4
Mike Downey, Grant Skinner

Smooth Streaming Live in HD: From Camera to Screen
Michael Hanley, Scott Stanfield

Smooth Streaming Live in HD: 2010 Olympic Winter Games
Bob Cowherd, Scott Stanfield

Participating in the Web of Data with Open Standards
Christian Heilmann

Opening Up Opportunity with Twitter
Ryan Sarver

How jQuery Makes Hard Things Simple
John Resig

Adding the "Where" to the "When" of Social Applications
Raffi Krikorian

Building Large-Scale, Data-Centric Applications with Silverlight
Roman Rubin, Ramya Parthasarathy

The Tale of JavaScript. I Mean ECMAScript.
Douglas Crockford

Debugging Microsoft Silverlight Applications
Shawn Wildermuth

Building Finance Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 4
Cai Junyi

Copyright: A Cloudy Subject
Jonathan Zuck

Storm Clouds: What to Consider About Privacy Before Writing a Line of Code
Jonathan Zuck

Building the eBay Simple Lister with Silverlight
Michael Wolf

Designing Rich Experiences for Data-Centric Applications
Yoshihiro Saito, Ken Azuma

Tips and Tricks for Making Web Forms Shine with Microsoft ASP.NET 4
Jon Galloway

What's New in Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2
Phil Haack

The HaaHa Show: Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Security with Haack and Hanselman
Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack

Deep Dive into Orchard Extensibility for CMS Developers
Renaud Paquay

Beyond File | New Company: From Cheesy Sample to Social Platform
Scott Hanselman

Improving Software Quality for the Modern Web
Euan Garden

Pumping "Iron" on the Web: IronRuby and IronPython
Jimmy Schementi

Driving Experiences via Services Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
Ron Jacobs

Designing and Delivering Scalable and Resilient Web Services
Ron Jacobs

OData: There's a Feed for That
Pablo Castro

Implementing OData: How to Create a Feed for That
Mike Flasko

Web Deployment Made Awesome: If You're Using XCopy, You're Doing It Wrong
Scott Hanselman

Accessing Data in a Microsoft .NET-Connected Web Application
Shyam Pather

Advanced Web Debugging with Fiddler
Eric Lawrence

Internet Explorer Developer Tools
Jon Seitel

Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
Erik Meijer

Building Pivot Collections
Troy Schauls, Jeff Weir

Unlocking Audio/Video Content with Speech Recognition
Behrooz Chitsaz

Incarnate: Behind the Scenes
Karsten Januszewski

Quickly Implementing New Cross-Browser Features with Ruby and Python
Hans Hugli

Keynote Day 1

Keynote Day 2

Designing Corporate Web Sites using SharePoint 2010
Paul Stubbs

Designing an Internet-Facing Web Site Using SharePoint 2010
Elisabeth Olson

Using Windows Identity Foundation for Creating Identity-Driven Experiences in Microsoft Silverlight
Caleb Baker

Microsoft Project Code Name "Dallas": Data For Your Apps
Moe Khosravy

Using Ruby on Rails to Build Windows Azure Applications
Sriram Krishnan

Lap around the Windows Azure Platform
Steve Marx

Building Web Applications with Windows Azure Storage
Brad Calder

Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web
Matt Kerner

Building Web Applications with Microsoft SQL Azure
David Robinson

Connecting Your Applications in the Cloud with Windows Azure AppFabric
Clemens Vasters

Building and Deploying Windows Azure-Based Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Jim Nakashima

Building Offline Web Apps Using Microsoft Sync Framework
Mike Clark

Building PHP Applications using the Windows Azure Platform
Craig Kitterman, Sumit Chawla

Improving the Usability and Security of OpenID
Mike Jones

 

 

MX09 Conference

Title

Semantic HTML and Unobtrusive JavaScript
Nate Koechley

Design Fundamentals for Developers
Robby Ingebretsen

Hiking Mt. Avalon
Robby Ingebretsen, Mike Hillberg, Jaime Rodriguez

Ask The Gu

Scaling a Rich Client to Half a Billion Users
Steve Zheng

Software Entrepreneurs: Go Big with BizSpark
Julien Codorniou

Copyright Laws for Web Designers and Developers
Jonathan Zuck

Enhancing Large Windows Media Platforms with Microsoft Silverlight
Matt Smith, Robert Ames

Exposing Web Content to a Global Audience Using Machine Translation
Dr. Neil Roodyn

Sketch Flow: From Concept to Production
Celso Gomes, Christian Schormann

Improving UX through Application Lifecycle Management
Christian Thilmany, Chris Bernard

Microsoft Expression Web: No Platform Left Behind
Tyler Simpson, Steve Guttman

The Future of Microsoft Expression Blend
Douglas Olson, Christian Schormann

C# for Designers
Jennifer Smith, Fred Gerantabee

Ten Ways to Ensure RIA Failure
Anthony Franco

Deep Zoom++ : Build Dynamic Deep Zoom Applications with Open Source
Allan Li, Ken Azuma

Using Total Experience Design to Transform the Digital Building
Daren May, Paul Dawson

A Website Named Desire
Nishant Kothary

Design Prototyping: Bringing Wireframes to Life
Dan Harrelson

Escaping Flatland in Application Design: Rich User Experiences
Peter Eckert, Jeff McLean

Go Beyond Best Practices: Evolving Next Practices to Prosper in the 21st Century
Lou Carbone

Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote (and Other HCI Projects)
Johnny Lee

Interactive Prototyping with DHTML
Bill Scott

Touch and Gesture Computing, What You Haven't Heard
Joseph Fletcher

The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures
Dan Roam

Web Form Design
Luke Wrobleski

Wireframes That Work: Designing (Rich Internet) Applications
Aaron Adams

How Razorfish Lights Up Brand with Microsoft SharePoint
Tony Jones

State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint
Chris Auld

User Experience Design Patterns for Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight …
Corrina Black

Creating a Great Experience on Digg with Windows Internet Explorer 8
Joel K. Neubeck

Windows Internet Explorer 8 in the Real World: How Is Internet Explorer 8 Used
Paul Cutsinger

Measuring Social Media Marketing
Jason Burby, Ryan Turner

Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience
Stephan Hoefnagels

Creating Interactivity with Microsoft Expression Blend
Peter Blois

Integrating Microsoft Expression Blend with Adobe Creative Suite
Joanna Mason

Effective Infographics with Interactivity
Joshua Allen

User Experience Design for Non-Designers
Shawn Konopinsky

Day One Keynote
Bill Buxton, Scott Guthrie

Day Two Keynote
Deborah Adler, Dean Hachamovitch

A Lap around Microsoft .NET Services
Todd Holmquist-Sutherland , John Shewchuk

Simplifying Distributed Access Control with Microsoft .NET Services
Justin Smith

Connecting Applications across Networks with Microsoft .NET Services
Clemens Vasters

Mesh-Enabled Web Applications
Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie

Live Framework and Mesh Services: Live Services for Developers
Ori Amiga

What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services
Nigel Ellis

Overview of Windows Azure
Manuvir Das

Windows Azure Storage
Brad Calder

Building Web Applications with Windows Azure
Steve Marx

RESTful Services for the Programmable Web with Windows Communication Foundation
Ron Jacobs

Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M"
Chris Sells, Douglas Purdy

Principles of Microsoft Silverlight Animation
Jeff Paries

Working across the Client Continuum
Laurent Bugnion

What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3
Joe Stegman

High-Speed RIA Development with the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit
Shawn Oster

Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls
Karen Corby

Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics
Seema Ramchandani

Delivering Ads to a Silverlight Media Player Application
Nicholas Brookins

Creating Media Content for Microsoft Silverlight Using Microsoft Expression Encoder
James Clarke

Using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC to Easily Extend a Web Site into the Mobile Space
Jared Eischen, John Stockton

Running PHP on Microsoft Servers and Services
Michael Joffe, Shaun Hirschman

Using Dynamic Languages to Develop Microsoft Silverlight Applications
John Lam

Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC
Rachel Appel

The Microsoft Web Sandbox: An Open Source Framework for Developing Secure …
Scott Isaacs

Web Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio: Now and in the Future
Jeff King

<3 the New Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit for Social Websites
Steve Gordon, Keiji Kanazawa

Protecting Online Identities
Jorgen Thelin

Standards for Aggregating Activity Feeds and Social Aggregation Services
Luke Shepard, John McCrea, Marc Canter, Kevin Marks, Monica Keller, Dare Obasanjo

Adding Microsoft Silverlight to Your Company's Skill Set
Noah Gedrich, Ken Martin

Advance Your Design with UX Design Patterns
Ambrose Little

Microsoft Xbox "Lips" and "Fable II": Multi Channel Experiences
Charles Duncan

Cloud Computing: What's in It for Me?
John Keagy

Customized Live Search for Web and Client Applications
Alessandro Catorcini

Introducing the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP
Chris Pendleton

Building a Rich Social Network Application
Gilbok Lee, Miho Heo

Modeling RESTful Data Services: Present and Future
Pablo Castro

Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7
Yochay Kiriaty

See through the Clouds: Introduction to the Azure Services Platform
James Conard

What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4
Mark Wilson-Thomas, Kevin Gjerstad

Building Amazing Business Centric Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3
Brad Abrams

.NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and …
Nikhil Kothari

Consuming Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 3
Eugene Osovetsky

Microsoft Silverlight Media End-to-End
Alex Zambelli

Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC): Ninja on Fire Black Belt Tips
Phil Haack

Building Out of Browser Experiences with Microsoft Silverlight 3
Mike Harsh

Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 : What's Next?
Stephen Walther

Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 Data Access: Patterns for Success with Web Forms
David Ebbo

Microsoft ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level
Stephen Walther

File|New -> Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET Model …
Scott Hanselman

ASP.NET MVC: America's Next Top Model View Controller Framework
Phil Haack

The Microsoft Web Platform: Starring Internet Information Services (IIS) and Your …
Crystal Hoyer, Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec

A Lap around Windows Internet Explorer 8
Giorgio Sardo

Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites
John Hrvatin

Securing Web Applications
Eric Lawrence

Creating a "Next Generation" E-Commerce Experience
Scott Cairney, Jean-Yves Martineau

Delivering Media with Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) Media Services and …
John Bishop, John Bocharov

Developing and Deploying Applications on Internet Information Services (IIS)
Thomas Deml

Build Applications on the Microsoft Platform Using Eclipse, Java, Ruby and PHP!
Vijay Rajagopalan

Building Scalable and Available Web Applications with Microsoft Project Code Name …
Murali Krishnaprasad

Miss March and Other Distractions
Scott Stanfield

Windows Mobile 6.5 Overview
Loke Uei Tan

There's a Little Scripter in All of Us: Building a Web App for the Masses
Rob Conery

Building Data-Driven Scalable AJAX Web Pages
Jon Flanders

Caching REST with Windows Communication Foundation
Jon Flanders

Building Accessible RIAs in Microsoft Silverlight
Reed Shaffner, Chris Auld

Building Microsoft Silverlight Applications with Eclipse
Shawn Wildermuth

Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application for Microsoft Silverlight
Seema Ramchandani

When Errors Happen: Debugging Microsoft Silverlight
John Papa

Microsoft Silverlight Is Ready for Business
Ward Bell

Optimizing Performance for Microsoft Expression Encoder
James Clarke

Going Inside Microsoft Silverlight: Exploring the Core CLR
Brandon Bray

Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic 9
Alex Turner

What's New for Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Windows Presentation …
Mark Wilson-Thomas

Protecting Against Internet Service Abuse
John Scarrow

Five Killer Scenarios for the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit
Chris Parker

Lighting Up Web and Client Applications with Microsoft Live Services
Gregory Renard

Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit
Tim Aidlin

Offline Network Detection in Microsoft Silverlight 3
Peter Smith

How'd they do it? Real App. Real Code. Two Weeks. Nothing but .NET
Scott Hanselman

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
Pablo Castro

Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services
Jim Nakashima

Introducing the Microsoft Web Platform
Lauren Cooney

Automated User Interface (UI) Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010
Brian Keller

A Shot of Windows Live Messenger and a Pint of Microsoft Silverlight
Jordan Snyder

Improving Mobile Experiences with the Microsoft Mobile Device Browser File
Chris Woods

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Web Developers
Thomas Deml

Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Sharing Skills and …
Jeff Wilcox

“Hey honey, you want to watch a movie tonight?”

“No thanks, I’m already watching Design Fundamentals for Developers, it’s a 3 hours kick ass video”

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Testing LiveWriter and xPollinate and Twitter Posting

Author: Fred Mastro | Posted: 31. March 2010 15:15 0

I use LiveWriter to make my post and I’m tesitng it out with a new plugin called xPollinate.

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