Analysis of 'Do you think Microsoft.net technology blog are helpful?'.

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Our weekly poll from (21-10-10)-(28-10-10) asked the viewers whether our blog is helping them for their problem in .net technology. Base on the results, there are 3(100%) who think that we are helping them and 0 (0%)who find that we have nothing in the blog which is helping them. Even though we are receiving 100% positive votes, but the amount of the votes is little. In this case, we realize that we should come out with some problem&solution type of content to our blog in order to help out the viewers. In the same time, it will probably increase the viewer's social activities in the blog such as comments by the viewers. Question and ideas are welcomed as we'll be glad if we are able to help you out.

Expand Your Silverlight Toolset

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1. WCF RIA Services

Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern for us to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier. RIA Services is installed as part of the Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2010.

2. Developer Runtimes for Windows and OSX

If you’re debugging or testing on machines without the tools installed, you’ll need to use the windows developer runtime or the Mac OSX developer runtime for Silverlight 4. Developers with the tools installed already have these releases.

3. Microsoft Expression Blend 4

Expression Blend allows designers to graphically create UI's for Silverlight applications.

4. Blend 4 SDK

The Blend 4 SDK is included with the Blend 4 installation, but is available separately for those who wish to create behaviors without using Expression Blend.

5. Silverlight Toolkit

This Toolkit is a Microsoft project containing Silverlight controls, components and utilities that can be downloaded and used in your Silverlight applications. It includes full source code, samples and tests.

Referred from:Microsoft corporation,[online],retrieved:27 october 2010,URL: http://sn.im/1blaur

Optimize Images Using the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Framework

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The HTML markup of a web page includes the page's textual content, semantic and styling information, and, typically, several references to external resources. External resources are content that is part of web page, but are separate from the web page's markup - things like images, style sheets, script files, Flash videos, and so on. When a browser requests a web page it starts by downloading its HTML. Next, it scans the downloaded HTML for external resources and starts downloading those.

A page with many external resources usually takes longer to completely load than a page with fewer external resources because there is an overhead associated with downloading each external resource. For starters, each external resource requires the browser to make an HTTP request to retrieve the resource. What's more, browsers have a limit as to how many HTTP requests they will make in parallel. For these reasons, a common technique for improving a page's load time is to consolidate external resources in a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests that must be made by the browser to load the page in its entirety.

Open-source ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Framework, which is a project developed by Microsoft for improving a web page's load time by consolidating images into a sprite or by using in line, base-64 encoded images. In a nutshell, this framework makes it easy to implement practices that will improve the load time for a web page that displays several images. 


Link to learn more!

Referred from:
Scott Mitchell, 4guysfromrolla.com,
[online], retrieved 22 October 2010.

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Do you like the Microsoft .Net Technology blog?(Analysis)

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The poll for this week (14-10-10)-(21-10-10) questioned the viewers about their opinion about our blog. Base on the results, there are 11 who liked (82%)and 2 (18%)who did not like our blog. The result is acceptable as the percent for those who liked is much more higher than those who disliked. We will still try our best not just maintain but improve our blog by adding more stuff like contents,features to the blog and more to attract more viewers and to get higher rating from the viewers.

SilverLight 4

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New Features for Application Developers

· Great printing support enabling hardcopy reports and documents and also a virtual print view, independent of screen content.

· A full set of forms controls with over 60 customizable. The component is able to be styled. New controls include RichTextbox with hyperlinks, images and editing. Enhancing the controls of DataGrid with sortable/resizeable columns and copy/paste rows.

· Localization enhancements with Bi-Directional text, Right-to-Left support and there are complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and 31 new languages including Vietnamese.

· The .NET Common Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop and Silverlight without any change.

· Exclusive tooling support for Silverlight, new in Visual Studio 2010. Including a total editable design surface, drag & drop data-binding, automatically bound controls, integration with Expression Blend styling resources, Silverlight project support and full IntelliSense.

Developer tools

· It’s fully editable with its design surface for drawing out controls and layouts.

· It’s loaded with property grid and new editors for values

· The Drag and drop support for databinding and automatically creating bound controls such as listbox, datagrid and new datasources.

· Built in project support for Silverlight applications

· Editor with full intellisense for XAML and C# and VB languages.

Empowering richer, more interactive experiences

Silverlight is already in use as a comprehensive platform for building rich experiences both for application and pure media scenarios including HD quality, interactive video through Smooth Streaming. Silverlight 4 has additional capabilities to enable richer creation, and high-performance interactive experiences.

· Fluid interface enhancements advance application usability through animation effects.

· Webcam and microphone to allow capture of audio and video on the client.

· Bring data into your application by copy and paste or drag and drop.

· Long lists can now be scrolled easily by using the mouse wheel.

· Support for Google’s Chrome browser.

· Silverlight 4 applications start quicker and run 200% faster than the old Silverlight 3 application.

· Content protection for H.264 media through Silverlight DRM powered by PlayReady.

References: Microsoft Silverlight,Microsoft cooperation,[online],

retrieved 20-10-10.

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ASP.NET Security Fix Now on Windows Update

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Earlier this week have about the availability of a patch on the Microsoft Download Center to fix the recent ASP.NET Security Vulnerability.

Today can made it possible to update systems through Windows Update (WU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).  This enables administrators to more easily streamline patch installs, and enables to take advantage of the WU/WSUS infrastructure to detect which patches you should install based on what versions of .NET are on system.

Please make sure to install these updates as soon as possible on servers.  This will prevent attackers from using the vulnerability to attack systems.

Need more information link to referred link.

Referred from: 

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft ASP .net website, Microsoft Developer Division,

[Online] , Retrieved 18th october 2010.

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ASP .NET 4 & ASP.NET MVC2

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By using ASP.NET 4, the Web Forms controls now render clean,correct.Built-in URL routing functionality allows you to expose clean, search engine friendly, URLs and increase the traffic to your Website. ViewState within applications is now smaller which means can be controlled more easily and user friendly. Client IDs rendered by server controls can now be controlled. ASP.NET Dynamic Data support has been increased. Some controls, including rich charting and data controls, are now built-into ASP.NET 4 and allows you to build applications even faster and easier. New starter project templates makes you now easier for creating new projects. SEO enhancements make it easier to drive traffic to your public facing sites. The web.config files are now clean and simple. While,ASP.NET MVC 2 is now built-into VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4, and it provides a great way to build a web site and applications using a model-view-controller based pattern. ASP.NET MVC 2 adds features and it allows us to easily enable client and server validation logic, provides new strongly-typed HTML and UI-scaffolding helper methods. It also enables more modular/reusable applications. The new syntax <%: %> in ASP.NET makes it easier to HTML encode output. Visual Studio 2010 also now includes better tooling support for unit testing and TDD.Deploying ASP.NET applications gets a lot easier with this release. You can now publish your Websites and applications to production server from within Visual Studio itself.

References: Scottgu,Visual studio and .NET 4 released,[online],

retrieved 14-10-10.

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