Danny Diaz

Wednesday, July 07 2010

With the WCF REST Starter Tool Kit, we had a very cool feature called Paste XML as Type which basically allows you to copy an xml document and paste in the xml as a .Net type / class. In Visual Studio 2008 this feature is available by simply installing the the WCF REST Starter Tool Kit . In Visual Studio 2010 we have to do a bit more work to get this feature. Here are the steps needed to get the Paste XML as Type feature to work with VS 2010. Download and install the WCF REST Starter Tool Kit Go to the installation folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft WCF REST\WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2...

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Thursday, June 10 2010

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability.  Check out episode #31, “PHP On Windows”.  guests Kanwaljeet Singla , Don Raman , and Wade Hilmo from the Microsoft IIS team join Peter to discuss the evolution of PHP on the Windows Platform. The IIS folks tell us about the improvements made to Windows in order to support PHP, including: Fast CGI, WinCache, PHP 5.3, the Web PI, and the SQL Server driver for PHP. (Interview starts at 24:31) Also, Dmitry and Peter rap about Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Expression...

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Monday, June 07 2010

This past weekend we hosted our inaugural Philly Give Camp at the Microsoft Malvern Office. GiveCamp ( http://givecamp.org ), is a weekend-long event where software developers and designers donate their time, effort and expertise to create custom software for non-profit organizations. I have to say that this was one of the most fulfilling things I have done in my life. One of the volunteers said it best, "Philly Give Camp gave me the opportunity to use my professional talents to help my friend and a great organization." I would like to see Philly Give Camp become an annual event and would...

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Thursday, May 06 2010

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode 29 “ Get LIT with Silverlight & WPF 4 ”.  Microsoft’s own Pete Brown joins Peter to discuss the recent releases of Silverlight 4 & WPF 4. Pete talks about how to “light up with COM” and do some crazy stuff on your client. WPF or Silverlight?  Which one should you be looking at when deciding a client platform technology?  Pete helps walk us through those decisions as well as the deltas between the two XAML-based platforms. Also...

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Wednesday, May 05 2010

Before C# 4.0, C# was mainly a strongly typed language. Even with the new dynamic features introduced in version 4.0, it is still considered mainly a strongly type language. With strongly typed languages the compiler typically is able to warn us about possible type mismatch issues but this is not true 100% of the time. There also times where we have to change the type of a value we are working with. This is very common when working with arguments passed by most event handlers. Consider the following function: private void ListBoxOne_MouseLeftButtonUp( object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { /...

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Tuesday, May 04 2010

With so many new and exciting technologies we geeks tend to forget about some basic concepts we learned a while ago.  This is the case at least for me. When I was making the transition from Classic ASP to ASP .Net, I researched every discrepancy I found on the framework or languages. Fast forward 9 years later (wow it has been that long) I could not remember for the life of me, the differences between the const and readonly keywords. I remembered that the difference was that that const is a compile time constant while readonly is a runtime constant. This still was not clearing things for me...

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Tuesday, April 20 2010

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode 28 “ It’s CodePlex dot COM! ”.  Microsoft’s own Sara Ford joins Peter to discuss her work on the CodePlex.com open source software hosting platform. Sara dishes on how the CodePlex.com team evolved the site over time using Agile methodologies, as well as her own journey from Visual Studio tipster to Silicon Valley Technology Evangelist. I guest hosted this episode with Peter. We covered the latest Microsoft interoperability news including: Nick...

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Tuesday, April 20 2010

Last week we released Visual Studio 2010, .Net 4, Silverlight 4 and Office 2010. To celebrate this accomplishment we are once again hitting the road to bring information about these new and exciting releases to your home town. The Mid Atlantic events are listed bellow. For a complete list of events please visit http://www.msdnevents.com/ .   City Date Type Register Washington, DC May 18, 2010 2010 Launch Register Philadelphia, PA May 27, 2010 2010 Launch Register Pittsburgh, PA June 2, 2010 Roadshow Register Baltimore, MD June 4, 2010 Roadshow Register   Learn about the new things you...

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Thursday, April 15 2010

  Friday, April 16, 2010 9:30 AM - 1:30  PM Great Valley Corporate Center 45 Liberty Blvd, Suite 210 Malvern Pennsylvania 19355 United States Event Overview Bing Maps is all about the power of location―from enhancing existing applications with maps and address validation, to creating completely new Web mapping solutions. At this event, experts will provide an overview of Bing Maps as a powerful visualization tool for geographic and location-based information. With highlights of scenarios such as locators, fleet/asset tracking, data visualization portals, and location intelligence, we...

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Thursday, April 15 2010

Scott Wiltamuth, Product Unit Manager will stop by the Microsoft Malvern office to talk about everything Visual Studio related. Scott will talk about the Visual Studio 2010 release as well as future versions. Make sure you bring your questions. This is a great way to get the inside scoop on a product .Net developers spend most hours of the day working with. As a Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Languages, Scott Wiltamuth manages Microsoft’s .NET programming languages: VB, C#, F#, IronPython and IronRuby. In his sixteen year tenure at Microsoft, Scott has worked in a variety of roles...

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