Last week, I’ve discussed Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue). We’ve seen that when building web applications, you often face the fact that HTTP, the foundation of the web, is a request/re…
Piles of interesting stuff going on at Mix 10 this week. Here's a link rollup with all the details and downloads that you might care about. (As well as a few blatant plugs for my own sessions.) First: Watch Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes on demand. See recorded sessions here. Silverlight 4 Release Candidate – If you want to develop with the SL4 RC, you'll need the latest Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 installed and Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 . All the deep details are on Silverlight.net . You can also get the Expression Blend 4 Beta . It was announced that Blend 4 will be a free upgrade from Blend 3. Silverlight for Windows Phone – Windows Phone 7 Series uses Silverlight and/or XNA for development….(read more)
[ In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Hope you all had a great holiday – welcome to 2010! Last month I did a blog post about some of the presentations I did in Europe and posted the slides+demo files from them. High-quality videos of the talks I did in Sweden were posted two weeks ago on the Channel9 site, so you can also now watch videos of the talks online as well. The videos use a nice format where you can watch me talking as well as the screen at the same time. The code is readable when running in full-screen mode. Below are links to the different talks along with the slides+sample files: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Web Development This…(read more)
This past week I’ve been traveling around Europe giving a bunch of presentations (approximately 5 hours in each country) – Norway on Tuesday, Sweden on Wednesday, Denmark on Thursday, and Belgium on Friday. I’ll then be presenting at the BizSpark Camp in France this coming Tuesday. Things went well with the talks, and I had fun meeting lots of new people (more than 3,000 attended the talks!). Below is a picture of my talk in Belgium – where everyone showed up in a red shirt 
Download Talks My talks were filmed in a few locations – and I’ll update this post with pointers to the videos once they are online to watch. Below are copies of my slides + demos bits: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Web Development: Slides + Demos + Blog Posts ASP.NET MVC…(read more)