Nov 7 2008

Building applications for Windows Azure

This article, by  Tanzim Saqib, ”walks through the steps to build an application from scratch on the recently released Windows Azure CTP, Microsoft’s answer to cloud computing“.

Source code available.


Aug 19 2008

.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit update for SP1

The training kit, updated for .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1, is available for download here.

This is the overview:

“The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, demos, and event materials. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET Routing, ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF 3.5 SP1, and the .NET Framework Client Profile.”


May 28 2008

Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) and Silverlight

I’ve found these great Silverlight demos reading a post by G. Andrew Duthie.

The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (MSCUI) Patient Journey Demonstrator is a vehicle for Microsoft thought leadership in state-of-the-art User Experience for Healthcare applications. It provides exemplar implementations of Microsoft Common User Interface guidance on a Microsoft platform.
It is our showcase for new ideas, experimentation and an artefact for learning and thinking about future developments of the MSCUI program.”

Check out the site to download examples and controls created using WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX and .NET WinForms.


Feb 12 2008

Best ITA Apps: SelSystemWeb and Silverlight

Click here to watch an interesting Silverlight application developed by Andrea Boschin.


Jan 5 2008

Travel Map: a Real-life RIA using jMaki and Jersey

In this article, Arun Gupta shows how to build Rich Internet Applications using GlassFish and related technologies: Metro, jMaki and Jersey.


Jan 5 2008

Useful links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7

Scott Guthrie has published a list of updated links about these technologies.

Click here to read the article.


Dec 15 2007

Introducing GlassFish, Metro, JRuby-on-GlassFish and JMaki

Arun Gupta has posted an interesting presentation which introduces GlassFish and related technologies (Metro, JRuby-on-GlassFish and jMaki).

Click here to download the pdf.


Dec 15 2007

Mono 1.2.6 with Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX support

Mono 1.2.6 has been released.

This new version permits to develop Silverlight 1.1 and ASP.NET AJAX applications for the Linux platform.

Click here to download.


Dec 6 2007

JavaPassion: free resources about AJAX, Web-Services, Java and Java EE

Take a look at http://www.javapassion.com, by Sang Shin.


Dec 6 2007

Introducing AJAX with Rails

Take a look to these articles by Brian Leonard: