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Here comes the Weekly Digest post at Silverlight-Zone.com. During the week (4th September to 10th September) we have submitted many posts on Silverlight (especially Silverlight 5), Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and other related stuffs. Our motto is to deliver the already posted good articles/news to you as a single medium. Your continuous support to this boosts the energy to serve the community better.   In this post, find out the Top 5 posts visited at Silverlight-Zone. Most of the top articles were on Silverlight 5. Vikram Pendse is above the list this time with his awesome article on

Silverlight 5's PInvoke, followed by the big list of Silverlight 5 features by Community Program Manager Pete Brown. If you didn't read that post, you should read it to find out more.   Top 5 Posts of the Week Here comes the Top 5 posts of the week. Most liked articles were from @VikramPendse, @Pete_Brown, @nileshgule, @JeremyLikness and Peter Hanustiak. Read out the complete list... Read the complete post from my Blog: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/kunal2383...(Read whole news on source site)

Here are some architectural information on dealing with disparate entity types with Windows Azure Table Storage. For example you have an objective to store some kind of application entitlement information in Windows Azure table storage and to handle...(read more)

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A compendium of Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database, AppFabric, Windows Azure Platform Appliance and other cloud-computing articles. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Drive,

Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database and Reporting Marketplace DataMarket and OData Windows Azure AppFabric: Apps, Access Control, WIF and Service Bus Windows Azure VM Role, Virtual Network, Connect, RDP and CDN Live Windows Azure Apps, APIs, Tools and Test Harnesses Visual Studio LightSwitch and Entity Framework v4+ Windows Azure Infrastructure and DevOps Windows Azure Platform Appliance (WAPA), Hyper-V...(Read whole news on source site)

    In Sivlerlight, the concept of a Value Converter is present to help a Control "adjust" the Data coming in from the Source before it gets displayed on the UI layer. In LightSwitch, value converters are not present. Until LightSwitch team decides to allow us to specify not only the Data Binding property but also a Converter instance, the below workaround could help. The snapshot below represents a "List and Details Screen" for an Appointment Entity together with the Appointment Items related:   The "List and Details Screen" displays a list of "All Appointments" stored in the Database. Upon selecting a single Appointment, the

Appointment Details + Appointment Items are also shown.   Point A: Represents the "Category" field of the Selected Item on screen.  Point B: Represents a "Data Item" (As LightSwitch calls it) added to the screen. In other words, it is just a Property on the screen. Point C: A data field placed on the screen details section to show the "Category" of the selected Appointment.   Originally, "Category" property in Point C is bound to "Category" field in Point A. This means, whatever is being stored in "Category" field in the Database for a single Appointment, it will automatically show on screen. However, there are some occasions where we want to: Concatenate text...(Read whole news on source site)

In C# , one can sort the List of Objects using Lambdas easily . Until now , i found the LINQ Query to be more easy to sort but after using the Lamba expression , i feel that the lambda expression can also be used effectively to sort in descending order . For example , [...]

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Today I added a reference to jQuery UI via Nuget to the rewrite of the Dimecasts.net website and as soon as I launched the site locally I was presented with the following dialog: Now given the fact that the ONLY change to my code base was adding the scripts to my scripts folder as well as adding the 2 lines to my _Layout.cshtml file which includes the jQuery in the application as below I knew the error had to be w/ the adding of the script tags. In order

to prove my theory I simply removed the script tag which included jquery-ui-1.8.16 and restarted the site.  Sure enough everything worked just fine.  When I took a step back and better studied the error it made sense to me that jquery-ui MUST be after the jQuery script tag. So I moved the script tag to the end of the list as below and restarted the site. Sure enough all is right with the world and I no longer have any runtime JScript engine exceptions.  Now it is time to make use of the JQuery UI stuff....(Read whole news on source site)

In previous tip (How to Change Background Color of Current Week in ASP.NET Calendar ? ) we have seen how we can highlight the all dates of current week by changing the background color. This tip is kind of extension of previous tip. Here we will get to know how we can highlight the the [...]

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source: wmpoweruser.com Research2Guidance have released some numbers suggesting once again that the Windows Phone 7 marketplace deserves attention from developers. They show, compared to the iOS App store, each app will get 80% more downloads on average, ie. a random app on iOs may get 100 downloads per month on iOS and 180 in Marketplace. This of course is due to the hypercompetitive iOS market, with more than 400,000 other apps to compete with. While some have joked Windows Phone 7 has more apps than users, in fact with 30,000 apps and 5 million + users, Windows Phone

7 actually has much less available apps per user, making it a significantly easier environment for a developer to compete in. ......(Read whole news on source site)

The Heartland Developers Conference (HDC) for 2011 just ended today. Like last year, DevExpress was not only a sponsor, I flew in to meet the many developers in and around the Omaha, Nebraska area. The HDC conference is interesting because it brings together different platforms like .NET and Java. And different people like developers and designers. I had a blast meeting many of the attendees and talking about all sorts development topics. When I do visit conferences, I like to interview speakers about their sessions. This is fun for me because I get

to learn more about the session but more importantly, you get to experience a little bit from the conference even if you were not there. So I recorded several video interviews at the show and we'll be publishing these videos in the coming weeks. Keep an eye on The DevExpress Channel. I want to thank the Lincoln .NET Users group who put together a 150 person event for Scott Hanselman. At this user group meeting, I got to meet some more interesting devs like Nate Lowry (video interview coming soon). Till then, enjoy...(Read whole news on source site)

I'm working on the user interface for my MIDI Thru Box, and will need some number of buttons on the front panel. I'm not sure how many yet, but it'll be at least four and maybe as many as eight. The thing is, I didn't want to use up eight IO ports on the Netduino just for handling buttons. A button is essentially a 1 bit value; it's either on or off. For the other installments in this series, see these links. Part 1: Initial Circuit Design and Prototyping (also includes parts list and info about the rack case) Part 2: PCB Layout and Manufacturing Part 3: Manufacturing

WIP Update: Board UV Curing Part 4: Manufacturing WIP Update: Surface Finishing Part 5: Circuit Board Assembly and Final Parts List Part 6: Rear Panel Cutouts and Board Mounting Because they are simple on/off or 0/1 values, you can use a shift register to pack a number of them into a single bit of data (8 bit byte, for example) using SPI. The concept is conceptually the same as using bit masking in desktop applications where you could pack 8 boolean values into a single byte. I knew the electronics involved here wouldn't require blazing any new trails, so I was especially happy to see what