Month: June 2009

Karen Corby – Lead Program Manager on Silverlight Team – http://scorbs.com/work “One major difference between site with a strong Brand Image … and one with weak Brand Image … is that brand positioning permeates every part of a strong site …” – Forrester, June 9, 2005 Styling “Property Bag” styling Through the <Style> element Works with Controls , UserControls, Shapes, Panels App.xaml now support the MergedResourceDictionaries functionality like in WPF <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> <ResourceDictionary Source=”Assets.xaml”/> </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> Styles now support BasedOn <Style x:Key=”NewStyle” BasedOn=”{StaticResource BaseStyle}”> Skinning Completely replace visuals Through <ControlTemplate> element {TemplaceBinding} extension Works with Custom Controls (not UserControls, Panels, Shapes) Based … Continue reading MIX’09 – Reviewing – Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls

Based on ArCast.TV Session and the Roger Sessions Book named “Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises”   When I started viewing this ArCast was because this is a very interesting topic and because normally what people tend to have as Enterprise Architects are very complex Architectures and problems and so my goal was to find how can we simplify these architectures in order to best achieve our goals. And so the most interesting topics i took from this talk were the following: Enterprise Architects should focus on Simplicity because this is the key characteristic that we should strive for and is … Continue reading Topics about ”Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises”

I was looking at the Windows Azure – SQL Data Services page, and looked at some of the Incubation and Innovation projects that Microsoft is researching in this area, and found this to be very interesting and so here are the projects that I found: Data Mining in the Cloud This is very interesting because with this we have also SQL Server Analysis Services on the Cloud, and since Analysis Services are very important for companies to achieve the analysis of their data in order to perform better and to make better decisions, having those also on the Cloud and … Continue reading Interesting Incubation and Innovation Projects from Microsoft in the Cloud spectrum

Douglas Olson – General Manager Christian Schormann – Director, Program Manager Expression Mission Enable professional designers to create great UX with better productivity at lower costs. Help integrate design and designers into the process of software creation Expression Blend 3 Goals Enable early-stage design & prototyping (SketchFlow) Created to address issues felt at the start of the software design process: Top-down & bottom-ups design lets you experiments with ideas SketchFlow Player lets you try your design at any time Facilitate communication of design ideas Easy to gather, evaluate and use stakeholders feedback Blend Elements SketchFlow Application Flow Important to think … Continue reading MIX’09 – Reviewing – Future of Expression Blend

A lot is being announced this days regarding Microsoft Products and Technologies, and so this is a little summary of all those information’s. Silverlight 3.0 – July 10th 2009 Azure Business Model – In the next few weeks/months Windows 7 – October 22nd 2009 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 – Last Quarter of 2009 Azure RTM – Last Quarter of 2009 Office 2010 – First Half 2010 Exchange Server 2010 – Second Half 2009 Office 2010 System – First Half 2010