My Rants and Raves
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I've updated several of our sites that contain Silverlight 2 Beta 2 projects/apps. Here they are:
Something I never noticed before is the Document Outline window in Visual Studio (2008?). When editing large XAML files this is particularly useful to help navigate the tree of elements.
UPDATED: Essentially, no one else did write a bunch of upgrading blogs so I've amended this blog post to include more infomation on how to upgrade your projects.
Url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb931106.aspx
Url: http://silverlight.net/getstarted
Url: http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusin...
Url: http://www.rauchy.net/regionerate/
Url: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis/R...
There is a bug in the current ADO.NET Data Services that ships with .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1. The problem involves saving related data. If the child object requires the relationship to the parent object, the update fails.
Now that .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 have been Beta'd, I've been spending a lot of time digging deep into the ADO.NET Data Services in that release. Because of this, i've been very quiet. Look for this blog to get very loud in June after TechEd (no, I won't be there).
Url: http://www.silverlight-tour.com
I've known Julie Lerman (or is it Julia these days ;) for a long time now. She's an excellent resource for everything data related. In particular she's been keeping up with the Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria) updates in .NET 3.5 and VS SP1 Beta that was just released this week. If you are upgrading projects (like I am), she has two excellent blog posts about how to upgrade your projects:
Url: http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/Silverlight/file-up...
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/silverlightcros...
Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/05/03/...
Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/0...
Url: http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/popupfun.zip
I've spent a lot of time the last few weeks looking at some of the new buzz words in software development. Domain specific languages, dynamic languages, TDD, DDD, *DD, etc.. Most of these ideas have definite benefits to the work of software development but I think they miss the mark on what is really hard in software.
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/SeeMyXaml.zip
Url: http://www.geekdinners.com/DinnerInstance.aspx?...