Mark Rideout's Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/feed.xml Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:18:28 GMT en-US hourly 1 Blog going offline https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/blog-going-offline Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:02:14 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/?p=215 Code published on my blog is Ms-PL licensed https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/code-published-on-my-blog-is-ms-pl-licensed Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:09:43 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2011/01/13/code-published-on-my-blog-is-ms-pl-licensed/ Feel free to use based upon the Microsoft Ms-PL license: https://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx#Ms-PL

-mark

]]> Links Fixed Updated https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/links-fixed-updated Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:13:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2010/11/04/links-fixed-updated/ Sorry for the hiccup on some of the links for samples. Those have now been fixed.

-mark

]]> Great accessiblity post https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/great-accessiblity-post Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:46:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2010/03/22/great-accessiblity-post/ Andrew Tokeley has a great post about work he’s been involved in called ButtercupReader - it's a showcase of how Silverlight 2.0 can be used to build an application that blind and partially sighted folks can use to read digital books.

 

Check it out:

https://andrewtokeley.net/archive/2009/03/18/what-do-silverlight-accessibility-and-buttercups-having-in-common.aspx

 

-mark

 

]]> TechEd Session Building a Silverlight Application Project https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/teched-session-building-a-silverlight-application-project Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:54:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2008/06/17/teched-session-building-a-silverlight-application-project/ Finally I'm positing the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 project for my TechEd "Building Rich Internet Applications in Silverlight" talk. Sorry for the week delay I took off after TechEd for my daughter's 2nd birthday party (remember I said that I'm a proud dad?)

 

Here is the link to the project zip:

https://cid-3a5ca8204ec61147.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/TechEd2008-MarkRideout.zip

 

 

Two things to note:

1)     I removed the usage of the special "isolated storage" helper class but left the class in the zip file (not included in the project but it is in the directory). The isolated storage apis are a bit simpler from Beta 1 so the helper class really isn't needed. I'll post some more details about the iso-storage apis here in a bit.

2)     To use the navigation helper for web browser history navigation you must run the page from the ASP.NET project, not from the simple HTML page. The ASP.NET project is under the TechEd08Web project folder

  

-mark]]> TechEd Session Slides https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/teched-session-slides Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:49:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2008/06/04/teched-session-slides/ Below is the link to the slide deck(s) for the two TechEd 2008 sessions. I'll be posting the projects once Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ships this week (since they require Beta2)

 

https://cid-3a5ca8204ec61147.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/TechEd%20Slides.zip

 

-mark]]> Pwnd by the demo gods https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/pwnd-by-the-demo-gods Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:04:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2008/06/04/pwnd-by-the-demo-gods/ Ok – so my TechEd presentation came and went and all I can say is that "I was pwnd by the demo gods!" Yup if something could go wrong it did. Does anyone else need a café express tee shirt "I was pwnd by the demo gods!"? I think I will wear one around for the next month.

 

I'll be doing another presentation of the first part (IMHO the best part) on Thursday 6/5 at 11:00am in the Red TLC- Windows Booth.

 

This time I've paid some extra $$ to the gods and know the low key presentation will work great. Please show up!

 

Thanks,

-mark]]> Ok – what about this Silverlight thing? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/ok-what-about-this-silverlight-thing Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:17:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2008/06/02/ok-what-about-this-silverlight-thing/ As you can see I concluded my "short story" blog post (previous post) saying that I'm at TechEd – and that is correct. I'll be at TechEd 2008 all this (June 2nd through June 6th ) week. I'll be presenting on Tuesday about Silverlight 2 so please come by and listen (3pm to 6pm EST in S210). If you are a Windows Forms (winforms) user and are interested in Silverlight – stop by also. If you have followed what DataGridView stuff – way till you see the Silverlight DataGrid. Hats off to Scott Morrison who has been driving that.

 

Moving from being a Program Manager for Windows Forms to Silverlight has really done one thing: Made me excited again about client technology! It seemed there was a point where Windows Forms was getting outdone by Ajax and html sites. Even though Windows Forms was about "smart clients" and Click Once is a really cool feature for deployment, I felt that application development strategies were slowly giving up on client apps. My involvement (read: job) with Silverlight and Silverlight 2's support for.Net programming are the two things that have me excited again about client development.

 

A few of the most geekest things that I love about Silverlight in probably the correct order:

·         there are no hWnds to worry about.

·         Displaying a rectangle doesn't involve an hWnd or me making GDI calls

·         Animation

·         Easy gradients

·         Rewriting TextBox from scratch

·         Learning way too much about text and glyphs

 

Well, I'm going to run through my slide deck one more time before my talk. I hope to be more active on my blog. I know it won't be a "blog entry a day" but more like "a blog entry every now and then"

 

-mark]]> Shortest story of the past two years https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markrideout/shortest-story-of-the-past-two-years Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:57:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markrideout/2008/06/02/shortest-story-of-the-past-two-years/ Yup I've not updated my blog for almost 2 years. The shortest story for the past two years is that:

  • We started a family (see previous post)
  • I changed jobs – I've been a PM on Silverlight since 2006
  • Shipped Silverlight 1.0
  • Working on Silverlight 2
  • At TechEd 2008

What a Wild time.

-mark

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