Monthly Archives: August 2007

Updated Silverlight Annotation Samples for 1.0 Release Candidate

Silverlight

I have updated two of my demo Silverlight apps which broke with the RC version of Silverlight that came out last week.

The little embedded drawing surface at the top of this blog has been fixed along with my more full blown annoation application.

All of the changes I made were listed in the “What Changed Between Beta and RC” topic in the Help file that comes with the SDK. The one that had me confused for a while was switching the “\” to “/” in the xaml where I had images in subfolders etc. It confused me because I somehow skipped over it in the list and the error that it threw the error “2210: AG_E_INVALID_ARGUMENT” which didn’t tell me too much.

You can read more about updating your Silverlight apps to work with the Release Candidate version here.
 

Mike Gunderloy’s 7 month status report on de-Softing

Community Cheerleading

After many years of being an icon of teaching us all how to use Microsoft development tools, Mike Gunderloy decided he needed to transition himself away from a dependency on Microsoft for personal reasons stated in this blog post, the first of his alter-blog “A Fresh Cup”.

It was a scary proposition, mostly because he has a family of 6 (including himself) to support.

It’s been 7 months and in a recent “status report“, Mike seems to be content with his progress, productive with his learning curve and getting work using his new tools.

I’m not sure if I could go through the refactoring that he has done, going from “expert” to starting over again with a new set of development tools. On the other hand, he brings an enormous amount of IP to his adventure which makes the transition that much more interesting.

I think if I were going to make a big life change like this, it would be more along the lines of doing a dramatic life-style downsizing and returning to my love of potting (as in making clay pots and sculptures) and that just ain’t gonna happen any time soon.

I have an enormous amount of respect for Mike on many levels and his commitment to following (and following through on) what he believes in is pretty impressive.

Dragon Boat Race/Festival/Fundraiser tomorrow (Sunday) in Burlington

Vermont

While today was a perfect summer day and I not only got to go for a great bike ride, but I was introduced to a fantastic swimming hole, tomorrow is a day I’ve been looking forward to for a long time.

I am on a team of 20 women who are paddling a Dragonboat, along with 75 other teams, in the DragonFest.

I have never witnessed this event, but seen articles and videos and promised myself that I would go watch this year, but I was lucky enough to be invited to be on a boat filled with mostly women from my town.

You can learn all about the Dragon Boat Festival on this website.

Jasper article on O’Reilly’s WindowsDevCenter

Data Access

I’ve written an article on the Jasper project that was just published on O’Reilly’s WindowsDevCenter website.

Jasper is a new incubation project within the ADO.NET team at Microsoft, that leverages Entity Framework to allow developers to build websites dynamically. 

If you are just curious to learn more about what the heck Jasper is, why you should care about it or want to get your feet wet with the CTP, hopefully this will give you a good start.

Vermont IT Jobs: .NET Programmer

Jobs

Vermont Energy Investment Corp is looking for an Applications Programmer.

The Applications Programmer creates, modifies and maintains database driven applications for VEIC as a member of a software development team. 

Requirements: Two years experience or demonstrated proficiency writing the Microsoft.NET applications that use relational databases and undergraduate degree in computer science, computer information systems, or database design and development or a similar combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired.  C# and SQL Server experience preferred.

Respond with cover letter and resume to:
resume@veic.org
or mail to: VEIC Recruitment
255 South Champlain Street, Suite 7
Burlington, VT 05401
For more information: www.veic.org

Link to complete job description: http://www.veic.org/AboutUs/Jobs.cfm

Please note that the deadline for resume submission has been extended.