Archive for November, 2007

ONE-Day Web Development

Posted on the November 21st, 2007 under Development Life by Marco Trova

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Xedotnet è giunto ad un appuntamento importante, l’organizzazione di un proprio meeting: ONE-Day Web Development.

“Dopo svariati anni trascorsi in una prolungata gioventù, la rete Internet e con essa il Web si avviano verso una feconda maturità nella quale spiccano applicazioni che si avvalgono di look & feel accattivante, di servizi distribuiti e di tecnologie che sempre più portano a convergere i due paradigmi applicativi – quello web e quello desktop – fino ad oggi rimasti ben distinti. Nell’ambito di questo rinnovato fervore si colloca il primo evento di XeDotNet, usergroup dedicato alle tecnologie del framework .NET, denominato “OneDay”. Durante questa densa giornata alcuni dei nostri speaker vi condurranno nell’esplorazione di quanto la moderna rete trasporta sull’http. ASP.NET, Silverlight, AJAX e i servizi LiveID saranno i nostri alleati in questa scoperta che sarà condotta come consueto per il nostro gruppo con innumerevoli esempi pratici e pronti per essere applicati il giorno seguente” – Andrea Boschin

Andrea Boschin ha ufficializzato l’agenda proprio oggi. Complimenti ragazzi!

Silverlight, WF, WCF: tenersi aggiornati con i webcasts

Posted on the November 19th, 2007 under .NET,Tools by Marco Trova

sync guru web site!
Here you will find a lot of information about synchronization and replication technologies.
http://www.syncguru.com/

sync newsgroup
http://forums.microsoft.com/sync/showforum.aspx?forumid=1913&siteid=75

Microsoft Sync Framework, Part 2: Sync Metadata
http://blogs.msdn.com/andreimaksimenka/archive/2007/11/05/microsoft-sync-framework-part-1-introduction.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/andreimaksimenka/archive/2007/11/09/microsoft-sync-framework-part-2-sync-metadata.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/andreimaksimenka/archive/2007/11/18/microsoft-sync-framework-part-3-sync-knowledge.aspx

Introducing the Microsoft Sync Framework: Next Generation Synchronization Framework
http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=990712102

Occasionally Connected Systems Offline Data Synchronization and Caching with SQL Server Everywhere Edition
http://windowsclient.net/wf/blogs//Stevelas/Presentations/OCSSyncOverview.ppt

Presentations & Demos from Tech Ed Barcelona 07 about:
- Implementing Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition
- Optimizing Online, Enabling Offline with SQL Server Compact and Sync Services for ADO.NET
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition in Action
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevelasker/archive/2007/11/07/presentations-demos-from-tech-ed-barcelona-07.aspx

Windows Media and Silverlight
http://blogs.msdn.com/harrymower/archive/2007/11/11/windows-media-and-silverlight.aspx
Introducing the .NET Framework 3.5 by David Chappell
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/3/2/f32ff4c6-174f-4a2f-a58f-ed28437d7b1e/Introducing_NET_Framework_35_v1.doc
This paper drills into each of the new features added in the .NET Framework in versions 3.0 and 3.5. It discusses ASP.NET AJAX, LINQ, WCF, WF, WPF and CardSpace.

Introducing Windows Communication Foundation by David Chappell
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/3/2/f32ff4c6-174f-4a2f-a58f-ed28437d7b1e/Introducing_WCF_in_NET_Framework_35_v1.doc
This paper provides a high level overview of the Windows Communication Foundation technology. It describes the problem in communications that WCF addresses. It goes on to describe the implementation of a WCF service and a WCF client and also introduces other aspects of WCF such as security, transactions, rest, syndication and extensibility.

Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation by David Chappell
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/3/2/f32ff4c6-174f-4a2f-a58f-ed28437d7b1e/Introducing_WF_in_NET_Framework_35_v1.doc
This paper provides a high level overview of the Windows Workflow Foundation technology. It describes the problems in building applications that WF solves. If gives an overview of the components of Windows Workflow Foundation including sequential workflows, state machine workflows, creating and modifying workflows, creating activities, using rules, hosting the workflow runtime, tracking and modifying running workflows. It also provides a good comparison between this new technology and other existing process related Microsoft technologies.

Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/3/2/f32ff4c6-174f-4a2f-a58f-ed28437d7b1e/WCF_Diversity_Paper_v1.doc
This paper discusses the merits of considering SOAP and REST and alternative communication protocols between client and server. It describes how WCF supports these and many other communication styles with a single API through the simple ABC’s (Address, Binding and Contract) of communications.

Offline Data Synchronization Services in Visual Studio 2008
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=347021

Adding Closed Captioning to video using Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, WCF and an external data source
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=352814
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=330598

Server Communications with Silverlight and AJAX – Fritz Onion – 4 part
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348147
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348149
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348152
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348156

Introduction to Silverlight – Seema Ramchandani
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348117
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348126
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348133
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348141

Exploring the Possibilities of Silverlight – Adam Kinney – 2 Part
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348060
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348075

Silverlight 1.1 – Jeff Prosise
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=346823
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=346826
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=346830

Silverlight: Implementing User Controls in 1.1
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=335728
in Silverlight 1.0: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/08/19/implement-user-control-in-silverlight-user-controls.aspx

Creating a Workflow Service in Approximately 60 Seconds
Got VS 2008 Beta 2? In this screencast, we walk through the new project templates to rapidly create a WCF service that is implemented in WF using the Send and Receive activities in .NET 3.5. This is one of the biggest asks we have had from customers, and in this short 3 minutes of your life, you will see how to create them, and see how the tools can make your life easier.
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=330489

WF and WCF integration in .NET 3.5
The technical evangelist for Windows Workflow Foundation, Matt Winkler, took some time to interview the team that worked to create the Workflow Services functionality inside of .NET 3.5. Workflow Service allow a developer to implement a WCF service as a WF workflow, and to expose a WF workflow via a WCF service.
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=335756

Cheating at Creating a Media Player for Silverlight
Want to create a media experience for Silverlight but don’t want to write all the logic code? This podcast walks you through steps to use output templates from Expression Media Encoder and alter the XAML to your liking and needs.
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=338690

Introduction to Workflow Services (building WCF Services with WF)

One of my favorite features in .NET 3.5 is the integration work that has been done between WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) and WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). Check out a c9 video with that team here. This short screencasts walks through how to consume a WCF service from a workflow, as well as implementing a service as a workflow.
This is a recording of the “first demo” I do in any of my presentations introducing this topic, and as such, it involves starting with a blank solution and building all the pieces we need.
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=338720

Interacting with Web Services and Building Mashup Style Applications in Silverlight 1.1 – 4 part
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348095
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348098
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348106
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=348111

geekSpeak – SQL Server Reporting Service with Ted Malone
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=347159

geekSpeak – Workflow with Mark Dunn
http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=346834