The versatility of Windows Presentation Foundation is based on its use of XAML to define UI elements. In Scott Swigart's latest video, he finds the new WPF designer to be fairly limited, so he uses the text editor to define UI elements such as a DockPanel, a menu control, and so on. Scot shows how to use a command structure so that any number of items such as toolbar buttons or menu items, can trigger the same commands.
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Back in the day, ASP.NET AJAX was codenamed Atlas, and Scott Swigart showed us how to deploy the autocomplete control in this video tutorial, Working with the Atlas Framework. Scott pulled the autocomplete data from a web service.
Good times.
For more info on upcoming developments in the Toolkit, check out the AJAX Control Toolkit page on Codeplex.com. It includes a New Controls\Features wishlist.
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January 17, 2007
The Magical Vista-ry Tour
Hello Ohio! The Windows Vista Coach Tour on the road, and Vista Product manager Nick White will be blogging along the way, starting out in Cincinnati and Columbus. The tour will wind down the East coast over the next week providing demos of Vista and Xbox 360, as well as free wi-fi and prizes for the kids. Meanwhile Paul Mooney queued up in NYC for the Big Apple Vista/Office 2007/Exchange 2007 Launch.
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January 09, 2007
Windows Communications Foundation Flexibility
Check out Scott Swigarts' latest video tutorial on the Windows Communications Foundation. WCF is a library that provides a lot of flexibility for creating services. WCF allow you to create HTTP SOAP services, TCP binary services, services running in IIS, as standalone services and more.
Scott generates a simple "Hello World" product service and a Windows application that communicates with it. Then he shows how to modify the service to return more complex data types, such as product info.
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January 08, 2007
If Microsoft Made Cars...
...interactive. Bill Gate's CES keynote featured the Microsoft/FoMoCo collaboration which will pimp out several 2007 Ford models with interactive media capabilities.
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January 02, 2007
2007 Conference Plans
Time to start lining up travel plans for 2007. Registration for TechEd 2007 opens on January 15. TechEd 2007 is scheduled for June 4 through 8 in Orlando, Florida. Want to attend for free? ScriptingAnswers.com is holding a contest, the Automation Challenge 2007. Submit a cmdLet or batch script for a chance to win a free pass or other prizes. The contest runs from now through February 28.
Dr. Dobb's SDWest 2007 is scheduled for March 19 through 23 in Santa Clara, CA. Conference tracks include .NET and Windows Vista, and Santa Clara is sure to be less humid than Orlando.
Also Microsoft's PDC07 has been set for October 2 through 5 in Los Angeles, CA. No registration details yet, but you can keep up to date with the PDC07 feed.
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