November 2008 - Posts

Accessing .chm files in Vista by Silverlight SDK

The other day I downloaded the Silverlight Toolkit controls and was attempting to view the accompanying help file when I ran into the same problem I had the first time I used the Silverlight .chm file ; the contents of the help file wouldn't display...

New ASP.NET Charting Control: <asp:chart runat="server"/> by ScottGu's Blog

Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support...
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In-Place Editing for Silverlight using Styles and Templates by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

A long while back, I wrote an Ajax InPlaceEdit behavior that you could attach to input controls to enable in-place editing experiences in HTML. I was thinking of doing the same in Silverlight using the behavior framework in Silverlight.FX that I used...
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jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 by ScottGu's Blog

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery .  Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express...

Windows Azure @ PDC Buenos Aires by Matias Woloski's Blog

It’s been two weeks already that we’ve got back from LA after attending PDC. Lots of things announced there. Microsoft Argentina organized the local-mini version of PDC. I will be there showing Windows Azure with Edgardo. The talk will be...
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Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 by ScottGu's Blog

We shipped Silverlight 2 last month.  Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines.  It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via...

Fixing the SDS HOL from Azure Training Kit by Extemporaneous Mumblings

If you downloaded the Azure Services Training Kit (which you should), you would find a compilation error on some of the SQL Data Services HOLs. The error is somewhat self-explanatory:  the solution is missing the AjaxControlToolkit.  The reason...
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Live Framework: New Team Blog, Downloads by Live Services

There has been a lot of excitement and questions about the Live Framework since it was announced at the Professional Developers Conference. To help understand it and share tips, knowledge and code, the Live Framework team has started a new team blog....

Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2 by ScottGu's Blog

Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.  One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects.  Developers...

Azure Services Training Kit – PDC Preview by Extemporaneous Mumblings

The Azure Services Training kit contains the hands on labs used at PDC along with presentations and demos.  We will continue to update this training kit with more demos, samples, and labs as they are built out.  This kit is a great way to try...
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Live Search API v2.0 Beta Released by Live Services

We are pleased to announce that the Live Search team just released the version 2.0 beta of the Live Search API with several new features. According to this Live Search blog post : We now offer access through new interfaces: JSON, and XML over HTTP. Of...

Created a Windows Azure Links page... by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Gus has decided to create a single Windows Azure Links page instead of just doing individual posts with new links and having them all scattered across entries. Hopefully this will make it easier for folks to find more places to get information on Windows...
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Getting Log Files from Windows Azure by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Jim posted a walkthrough on how to get the log files for your Cloud Service when it's running on Windows Azure , you can piece together the info from the SDK docs and looking at the portal, but this walkthrough will streamline the experience for you...

Windows Azure Integration with Windows Live ID, Active Directory and OpenID by Live Services

Hi everyone, George Moore and Neelamadhaba Mahaptro here from the Live Services team. For the past several months the Live Framework and Windows Live ID teams have been working together to enable turnkey integration of Windows Azure with Windows Live...

Azure community links... by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Gus has just posted a few links to sites working to share some Windows Azure content with other developers out there. Check it out here . Read More...
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