Brian Keller [Former Enemy of The Cloud Cover Show] and Cameron Skinner outline the new features that are coming to the Microsoft Platform in terms of Application Lifecycle Management. Historical Debugging with Intellitrace One Feature of Visual Studio 2010 that has been a game changer in my Development Process is Intellitrace. Intellitrace is a History Debugging Platform that allows you to step through the execution chain of your applications to help you debug a problem that you are facing in...
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Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:33 by
SyntaxC4
[Update] This code has been updated to be more Fluent in it’s Construction. I have also released the code on GitHub as an Open Source Project entitled Windows Azure Connection String Resolver. [/Update] In this post we will look at how to write a piece of code that will allow your Application to be Environment aware and change where it receives it’s connection string when hosted on Windows Azure. Are you looking to get started with Windows Azure? If so, you may want to read the post “Get...
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:46 by
SyntaxC4
Tonight I went off to the very first Windows Phone 7 User Group meeting in Toronto, Ontario. There were a number of Rock Star presenters, including Joey DeVilla, Mark Arteaga, Anthony “The Mobile Situation” Bartolo, Mike Temporale; showing off the Features and Experience of the Phone, as well as a number of different apps. While sitting in the Audience I worked away on a presentation that I’m going to be doing on XNA Game Programming on the Windows Phone. Which includes a demo of building a gam...
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Saturday, 6 November 2010 15:53 by
SyntaxC4
Only a few weeks ago I let the cat out of the bag that I was building a Polymorphic Podcast Streaming App for Windows Phone 7. I couldn’t believe how quickly the Application came together, with a POC put together in only 2 hours. This is a fairly simple application built in Silverlight with VS2010 and Expression Blend and a touch of XNA. A good friend of mine Barranger Ridler [@4MKMobile], blogged a great write up on how to use the XNA Framework to Stream Audio on Windows Phone 7 which definite...
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Saturday, 9 October 2010 18:25 by
SyntaxC4
My good friend John MacIntyre [@JohnMacIntyre] was curious about how to add additional mark-up to an MVC Helper Method. This can be achieved by using Extension methods.
There are a few namespaces or classes that you will want to keep in mind when creating new HtmlHelper Methods of your own.
System.Web.Mvc.Html Namespace
System.Web.Mvc.TagBuilder Class
System.Web.Mvc.ModelMetaData Class
System.Web.Mvc.ExpressionHelper Class
System.Linq.Expressions.Expression<TDelegate> Class
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