Technoeuphoria!

Microsoft doesn't say Hello World...

It says hello universe! Check out the a demo of the WorldWide Telescope at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224 and http://wwtelescope.com/ 

I really can't wait till we can check this out for ourselves, then I could take a closer look at Orion. ^_^

//by the way, the worldwide telescope was built in C# ^_____^

Windows Live Sites Acting Up Always Gets Me Excited

I was just telling Nick this evening that I always get a bit excited when any of the Live sites (Spaces, Events, etc) start acting up because when things go back to normal, they always have some cool addition. Whether it's really exciting is I guess relative. For this round, they've updated Windows Live Spaces friends to enable friend tagging and making notes about your friend.. good stuff, I'm wondering where this is going. :)

MSN Direct

I was just asking my boss today whether he keeps up with the news. I just couldn't find the time! Except probably when I'm in our building elevator where we have a little TV that broadcasts the news. Well, this sure will make it easier! It aside from news, you get other information as well like weather, stock info and some ads too ;) Check the app out today http://phone.msndirect.com/phone/index.html

Microsoft Releases New Version of Its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program: PRNewswire Business News - MSN Money

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that it is releasing a new version of its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program, enabling developers to create mobile versions of its popular Windows Live services that can be built for virtually any mobile phone independent of phone operating system. Microsoft also announced Windows Live @mobile, a new program that allows operators to adopt and deploy Windows Live services. These two initiatives will enable Microsoft's developer community to deliver compelling Windows Live services and provide flexibility to access the Windows Live platform to innovate on top of those services. In addition, mobile operators can connect their customers to Windows Live, one of the largest communications and sharing networks in the world, create additional revenue opportunities and enhance the customer experience.

Microsoft Releases New Version of Its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program: PRNewswire Business News - MSN Money "

How Do I: Create a Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET AJAX Application to Work with Windows Mobile Devices?

How Do I: Create a Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET AJAX Application to Work with Windows Mobile Devices?

This works with VS 2008 too by the way... 

Just walked through with this video on how to make your ASP.NET AJAX pages work with windows mobile.

The video is pretty straight forward to follow but the key things to actually make things work are the following:

1. Recommended way to enable AJAX functionality on IE Mobile is to add a browser definition as detailed here but i couldn't seem to make it work. The work around was to add this piece of code to my page:

2. You should also fix the ScriptManager's Script mode to use Release instead of the default which is auto

3. If you're making use of buttons to trigger a post back within an update panel, to keep it from updating the entire page, you'll need to set the UseSubmitBehavior property to false.

And that's it! at least that's what I remember. Quite easy to get things working, well except for that browser file thing. I'll try to fool around with it over the weekend.

.NET Briefing: Overview of ASP.NET AJAX

Last January 29, 2008, I did a quick overview of ASP.NET AJAX for the .NET Briefing held at the office. For those who were interested in getting the slides, I've posted them here

Silverlight + Entity Framework + Astoria + AJAX == Excellent

Silverlight + Entity Framework + Astoria + AJAX == Excellent

Check out this site done by Shawn Wildermuth. Perfect example of using Silverlight with line of business applications. These are the types of things that we'll be on the look out for once Silverlight 2.0 comes out as well as project Astoria, now known as ADO.NET Data Services.

Silverlight is doing quite well in terms of media delivery. It'll be great to see what people will come up with once Silverlight 2.0 comes out in the realm of line of business applications.

Some resources:

http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb931106.aspx

http://silverlight.net/themes/silverlight/community/gallerydetail.aspx?cat=4