MIX10 Keynote: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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Yesterday there was a unique event on Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. Microsoft Netherlands organized, for the first time, an official get-together for a small group of people to come together and watch the MIX10 Keynote and I was fortunate to be one of those people. This article is about the keynote and the event in the Netherlands. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #32(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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Today we want to look at a pitfall when debugging certain data binding code. But first I have some other stuff I wanted to share with you. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #31(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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Today we want to look at an example I ran into where taking the time to think of good names for everything in your code can save the day. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise appl(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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I've also been struggling with something I've seen coming, but underestimated, fear of change. That's what today's post is about, fear of change in a software company. read more...

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Message framework design considerations(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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A while back I posted some thoughts on using a message framework as a way of abstracting part of the distributed computing problem. I stated I would start and write some code and so I have. On the way I had to make some interesting design decisions I wanted to share with you. This article is about these decisions and what where some of the reasons I made these. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #26(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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The other day I ran into a scenario where I would need to databind to some primitive type variables like a bool or a string. As I didn't want to build class after class to solve this, I sought after a more generic solution. This article describes that solution. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #25(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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In the previous episode I discussed how an enum can be used to encapsulate char values in a database, in this case using a Gender enum as an example. As cool as that was it does pose a problem with databinding in Silverlight that I'd like to share with you. Part of that explanation leads us into the realm of reflection (that would make for a cool blog title :) ) and then into some cool trick in binding, all to end with a bit of a dissapointment. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #24(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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Recently I was working out some details to include in our applications framework, when I encountered some old school enum stuff, that I'd like to share with you. It's all about using char implicitly as sort of the underlying type of an enum and why you might want that. read more...

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Pondering on distributed computing in .NET(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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After working on a highly scalable application for almost a year now, using Silverlight, WCF, Entity Framework and Sql Server and after reading and replying to numerous questions on these topics and seeing the struggle developers are having with these new ways of doing things, I started thinking about how this could be made easier. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #22(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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I needed to check the available style keys in our main app.xaml file and see which are no longer needed. As there currently are 66 style keys in that file and it's growing, I didn't feel much for taking each key and searching through our source code to find out. Time to build a small tool. This article describes how I build this tool. read more...

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Why you want code reviews(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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In this article we'll look into some of the reasons that makes developers feel this way and also we look into some of the benefits of having code reviews. As we go through all this, we will also give some attention at how to prevent bad experiences with code reviews. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #21(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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This article describes the process of deciding to go with Silverlight and how we got started on learning this technology. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #19(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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An article on inspiration for developers and also describes an issue with add objects trough Entity Framework in a generic way. read more...

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Developers 42: Pimpin' the blog part #2(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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In this episode of Pimpin' the blog we are going to have a look at how I will sync my data between Blogger.com and my new hosting platform. This involves a not well known feature from .NET in relation to RSS and using Linq2SQL. Eventually we'll end up with a tool that reads by Blogger RSS Feed and stores it in a SQL Server 2005 Database (or any other compatible database for that matter). read more...

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CodeEmbed4Web Beta 1 Patch(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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Announces a patch for CodeEmbed4Web Beta 1, describes what went wrong and how to apply the patch. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #18(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

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Describes an issue that arises from having the december 2008 release of the Silverlight 2 datagrid installed and then upgrading to Silverlight 3, especially when using multiple applications in a single solution. It also provides a single solution and there is a question that needs to be answered as well. read more...

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