February 2009 Entries

DevDays 2009 Photos

So the event is over, It's time to wrap up, take some conclusions, and improve next year's talk. I've prepared a small photo gallery with photos of the event. I'll keep track of anything I can get my hands on and add it to the gallery.   Meanwhile, check the gallery here.    

DevDays 2009 Status Report

My presentation was yesterday. It took place in main room 5 at 2:30 PM. Overall I guess it went okay, taking into consideration that I nearly had no time to sleep in the previous 4 days... Yeah... It sucks... I had to work over the weekend all night long till monday, so I tool thursday to prepare my presentation. I wasn't expecting this but, it comes with the job.   Also due to my current ongoing project at Microfil, I wasn't able to stay in the event both days, so I ended up going back to Oporto in the same day. Today the...

Prism v2 Released

Prism v2.0 was released yesterday. Also known as Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, Prism is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications. It will help you design and build enterprise-level composite WPF client applications—composite applications use loosely coupled, independently evolvable pieces that work together in the overall application. The guidance includes a reference implementation, reusable library code (named the Composite Application Library), documentation, QuickStart tutorials, and hands-on labs. This version of the Composite Application Guidance is designed to help you build WPF and Silverlight applications that have a single code...

Live Framework Tools January CTP released

The Live Framework Tools team just released an update to the Community Technical Preview (CTP). The January CTP update addresses top customer issues and includes a new update notification feature to notify you whenever the tools are updated.   Here's the team's announcement:   New in this release The Live Framework Tools January CTP includes a number of bug fixes.  A few of the most notable fixes are listed below: Debugging or running a Mesh-enabled Web Application which contains no changes from previous versions immediately launches the application instead of re-uploading the files. Mesh-enabled Web Applications created...