Continuing from my previous post on learning Silverlight (sorry for the VERY long delay i’ve been very busy lately)… 5 – The tools (cont) Okay so downloads required were as follows: Silverlight Runtime .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio Orcas Visual Web Developer 2008 – due to the massive download required i opted for the Express [...]
Continue readingScott Guthrie just announced the next beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5, this is a big release and details some great new features. Check out his blog postd and give it a try. I have been playing with the beta1 and Silverlight and am thoroughly impressed see my findings here and i’ll be [...]
Continue readingAfter my initial enthusiasms about Silverlight along came proper work and other such distractions and I somewhat halted my research. However I’m doing a brief presentation on it at a new tech user group in Southampton (12th July) and so thought best to brush up on the latest – nothing like last minute preparation! I [...]
Continue readingAs mentioned in my last post I want to explain to the un-database-initiated what a database in AIR is and how it differs to other databases you might have heard of or experienced. Database Support In AIR Adobe have recently added support for databases in AIR through support of SQLite. From the SQLite website: SQLite [...]
Continue readingIn a recent conversation with Neil the significance of database access in ActionScript dawned on me. Whilst this feature has undoubtedly been driven by requests from those with previous experience of databases, there must be a huge amount of Flash/Flex devs who’ve never had to worry themselves with the wonderful world of DBMS’s (“Database Management [...]
Continue readingOkay so it’s time to get our hands dirty and actually play with one of the tools: Expression Web! To be honest this was kind of an anti-climax for me. Expression Web is a good HTML editor. That’s about it. I’d go so far as to say a very good HTML editor if you do [...]
Continue readingWe started the day with a few presentations by Jon Harris and Andrew Shorten on what the Expression offering is all about, where it has come from and where things are headed. This was good and it was refreshing to see a Microsoft presentation pressing all the right buttons in terms of user experience and [...]
Continue readingThis week I am on a training course titled “Creating engaging user experiences with Microsoft Expression” “Delivering Rich Online Experiences Using Miscrosoft Expression, ASP.Net, AJAX and WPF” (edit: surprisingly I couldn’t remeber the exact title without the material in front of me, this is now the real course title and a better indication of the [...]
Continue readingI was just having a conversation with Ryan (through the medium of geek – aka twitter and blog comments) and we established a concept of “enterprise widgets”. It’s not really a new concept rather than a different outlook on the “widget” concept. It is also something that Apollo is an ideal platform for developing. In [...]
Continue readingNot sure how widely publicised this is but sounds very promising. Some of the very well known open source remoting projects have banded together to form The Universal Remoting group. From osflash: The Universal Remoting group’s purpose is to coordinate and unite efforts on open-source Remoting projects. The group is a joint effort of the [...]
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