I’m very excited about the talk I’m giving at Microsoft Cambridge at the Boston Tech Meetup called “Welcome to Windows 8” on Monday, January 16, 2012, where I’ll be talking about installing the pre-beta developer preview. I’ll also be talking about developing Metro style Windows 8 apps and customizing the developer preview. This is a…
Now that BUILD2011 is wrapping up, I’m reviewing the talks and watching some of them online via Channel 9. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend in person. One big question that has been on my mind, and many other people’s minds too, is what was going to happen to Silverlight. I have been largely…
I presented an intro talk on MEF at Code Camp 14 in Waltham last Saturday. This talk goes through a simple example of creating a plug in framework using .NET 4.o and then making some minor changes to move that framework to Silverlight 4. Also in this talk we demonstrated a more sophisticated example created…
Next Saturday, June 5th, all day, the New Hampshire Dot Net User Group is running the second NH Code Camp at New Hampshire Technical Institute (NHTI.) I will be presenting on F# and Silverlight in the morning around 9:45 AM. There is a whole Silverlight Track that John Garland will be delivering throughout the day including Intro to Silverlight…
What a great week for Microsoft developers! Visual Studio 2010 released Monday. Silverlight 4 released yesterday. The Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio are still in RC with the second release candidate made available this week. Plus, the SharePoint team just anounced that SharePoint 2010 RTM today. Another important milestone is that F# is…
I will speaking tomorrow at Code Camp 10 at the Jones Road Microsoft Office in Waltham, MA. The talks will be: Silverlight as a front end to Excel Services on SharePoint Deploying SharePoint Applications I will upload the source and slides after the presentation. Hope to see you there.
I will be speaking at Code Camp at CTDOTNET (Connecticut .Net Developers Group) today on the topic Silverlight as a front end to Excel Services. My slides are available for download here: http://cid-a6e0da836d488ca6.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/SilverlightfrontendtoExcelServices.pptx
Excel Services is a component of MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) that brings the capabilities of Excel to the server side. In the past, customers and programmers that wished to add Excel calculation logic to the server needed to use ActiveX and COM to instantiate Excel’s Application object. This unfortunately was not an ideal model…
