I’ve finally gotten around uploading the sample code and presentation slides from the MSDN Live presentations I’ve been doing with Microsoft over the last couple of weeks. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to attend MSDN Live / Microsoft days this spring we’ll be recording some of the content in Oslo may 15th. I’ll write a blog post as soon as the content is available online.
In the mean time you can download the slides and Gadget code, and perhaps throw together something your self for the Gadget competition.
Introduction to the .NET Framework
I’ve only uploaded the slides from this presentation. The demos are fairly straight forward, a simple web service and a simple client retrieving data from this service. If you attended this session, and want to learn more, my suggestion is to download the SDK, install VS2005 and play with some of the introduction tutorials. I also have two book recommendations:
These are easy to read, short, fun, and colorful introductions to web and windows development on the .NET platform. It walks you trough a full program, or a full website trough out the book.
The slides from the presentation is available here: Introduksjon til dotNET.ppt
Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets
I’ve uploaded the sample code, VS2005 code snippets and slides from this presentation. The sample code contains the “Bussoracle” for the Live.com platform and the Vista Sidebar. If you only want to run the gadget you can download the Sidebar version or click this link to add it to your Live.com start page.
There are a few things you have to keep in mind when doing gadget development for Live.com:
- For gadget development you need to add live.com and localhost to your trusted sites list.
- If you’re doing gadget development on IE7 Beta2 you need to add the following registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_XMLHTTP_RESPECT_ZONEPOLICY] "Iexplore.exe"=dword:00000001
By default IE7 Beta 2 will ignore your trusted sites for XMLHTTP requests, so in order for you to do local development you need to tell IE to look at your trusted sites before allowing/disallowing an XMLHTTP request.
To use the Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets I showed during the presentation you need to copy the files to your local snippet folders. By default this is located under “Document and Settings\Your User\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Code Snippets\XML”. As I mentioned during the presentation, Visual Studio only supports code snippets for XML, C#, VB.NET and J#. How ever, you can create JavaScript code snippet as XML snippets, and add them to your code inside an XML comment tag, and then cut/paste into your JavaScript file. I’ll show this trick in the recorded version of the session.
For those of you who want to compete in the Gadget competition I’ll write a new post with content rules and details.
The code and slides are available here: Gadgets.zip
Better user experience with Windows Presentation Foundation
For this presentation I’ve only uploaded the slides. The demo is basically a walkthrough of the Fabrikam tutorial that ships with the Expression Interactive Designer. I would strongly suggest walking trough these tutorials your self to get a feel of what Expression Interactive Designer can do.
The presentation is available here: WPF.ppt
I hope you all had a good time at the MSDN Live / Microsoft Days Event. Any feedback is appreciated!