Danny Diaz

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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Monday, April 12 2010

Ready to connect with the local tech community for a good cause? Philly GiveCamp needs your support. For one weekend in June, we’ll take on the technology wish lists of 20 non-profit organizations, and we’re looking for about 100 volunteers, both technical and non-technical, to help us do it. A typical GiveCamp draws 75 to 100 volunteers. Individuals can work with their colleagues in company teams, or they can opt to be matched with fellow volunteers who have complementary skill sets. Everyone is welcome to head home for the evenings – but there are always the diehards who work from Friday kickoff...

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Sunday, April 11 2010

(Note: Links to recorded sessions at the bottom) What a great time Philly Code Camp was. The crew let by community champion Bill Wolff out did it self. Everything about this event was great. Our host DeVry University again welcomed us with open arms. I can’t saying how much their partnership has help our .Net community here in the Philadelphia area. Some of the things that came to mind as I drove back home. Our community is made up of amazing people let by Bill Wolff Great session Food was awesome Partners make this possible Attendees get great content. Here are some fun stats about Philly Code...

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Wednesday, April 07 2010

This will be the last post of my journey to learn the basics of Windows Phone Development. There is a lot more to learn about this wonderful platform and I plan to keep posting on the topic In fact, I am working on a new application that I will soon blog about. The theme behind the sample app is “Three Screens and a Cloud”. I want to show the integration of mobile devices with the entire stack. I believe, that mobile applications are just a small part of the overall application so I want to give an example of that. To wrap up the NerdDinner App, I wanted to add a few things. Add landscape layout...

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