Anith Gopal

This week Microsoft released an update to the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit. This includes updates to labs that we made available at BUILD as well as several new labs. The Training Kit is available in two different offline packages and is also available to browse online at MSDN

I’ve been working on a validation framework for Dynamics CRM 2011.  I’ve published the first cut of the code.  It’s a little rough still, but I’ve been promising the sample to a few customers so I wanted to get the first working version out there.  Right now, it only supports regular expression validation.  However, if you read the home page, you will see how you can get involved in shaping the future of the sample.

I t’s summer time, and you should be thinking: I CAN MAKE AN AWESOME Game company.  Ok, get started with Silverlight: http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/ Freaking Awesome!

Um ein Silverlight-Mitglied reicher geworden ist das "Alles-drin-Framework" Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 , das Entwicklern vorgefertigte, wiederverwendbare Komponenten für die gängigsten Aufgaben in verschiedenen Technologien bereitstellt: Die Bibliotheken decken für Silverlight-Entwickler die Bereiche Caching, Validierung, Logging, Ausnahmebehandlung, Policy-Injektion, Konfiguration und unitäre Mechanismen ab. Mit StockTrader V2 steht zudem eine Referenzimplementierung zum Download bereit, die den Nutzen der Anwendungsblocks in der Praxis demonstriert. Grigori Melnik stellt die Erweiterung des Frameworks, die kostenfrei über NuGet und in Kürze auch über MSDN erhältlich ist, in seinem Blog ausführlich vor und berichtet über weitere Entwicklungen der Enterprise Library, etwa die Visual Studio-Erweiterung EnterpriseLibrary.Config zur Integration der Enterprise Library-Konfigurationskonsole direkt in Visual Studio.

Third drop of the Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack is now available on Codeplex. What’s in the drop?

Just over a year ago, a couple of readers asked me about a WPF/Silverlight Panel that arranged things to make “best use” of available space without requiring the developer to set a bunch of stuff up in advance or know how many child elements there would be. Interestingly, this is not a scenario the default Panel implementations handle particularly well…

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit offers developers additional controls for Windows Phone application development, designed to match the rich user experience of the Windows Phone 7. A new February 2011 update is now available on Codeplex. …( read more )

It’s not too late to register for the Silverlight Firestarter for Windows 7 featuring my Philly-based colleagues Dave Isbitski and Dani Diaz   They’ll be making two stops this week (click the location link to register): Tuesday, Feb. 22 – Microsoft Office, Waltham MA Thursday, Feb. 24 – RIT Inn and Conference Center, W

et un bonus ! L’événement IT de la région Middle East Affrica, Tech Ed Middle East se tiendra du 8 au 11 mars 2011 à Dubai ( plus de détail ici ).

I was at a recent user group meeting in London attended by Silverlight developers and others interested in the platform and a straw poll provided an interesting bit of insight. The poll question was: “Who uses Expression Blend?” The response was a very low number of the attendees. It didn’t come as a huge surprise to me as I had a fair idea that a lot of Silverlight developers stayed away from the dark, grey chrome of Blend with all of its pop out panels; Preferring to spend their time in the blue and white world of Visual Studio ( with all of its pop out panels – believe me, there’s a lot more than there are in Blend ); Now, I’m no designer but I’ve been working with Expression Blend since before it first shipped when it was known as “Sparkle” and I tend to make the wrong assumption that most people are more or less like me and work with both Visual Studio and Blend open on the same project at the same time.

I samarbeid med NNUG og MTUG arrangeres Live med det formål å gi de ulike målgruppene den beste og mest etterspurte agendaen. MSDN Live vil derfor ta for seg Windows Azure, Silverlight 4 og HTML 5, utvikling mot mobile plattformer, best practice og en paneldebatt

Brandon Watson blogged ( link ) this week about the availability of the January Windows Phone Developer Tools update and I would encourage anyone developing for Windows Phone 7 to install the two updates here. Using this update you’ll have access to some assemblies that will ship with the forthcoming Windows Phone operating system update that will provide copy and paste support along with performance improvements and other enhancements. Starting with the Windows Phone Developer Tools January release, the Windows Phone 7 emulator supports copy and paste and you can use the emulator to ensure your applications are able to use this new feature correctly