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ASP.NET Charts and ASP.NET MVC – Controller vs. View4
by Karsten Januszewski on Mar 05, 2010
Like Hans’ most recent lab note, this one is about charts. However, my investigations center on a different charting platform: the ASP.NET charting controls. These are shipping as part of .NET 4.0 and are available for download today in .NET 3.5 for free. You can also download VS 2008 tooling Read More…
Silverlight Toolkit Charting Controls0
by Hans Hugli on Mar 01, 2010 in Development
Recently, my team needed some basic charting controls for a project we were working on, so I investigated the Silverlight Toolkit charting controls. Read More…
Incarnate for WordPress Plugin Updated4
by Karsten Januszewski on Feb 15, 2010 in Development
We’re excited to announce Incarnate for WordPress version 1.2. Significant work has been done with the plugin to address issues that arose with earlier versions. Because WordPress theming engine’s flexibility, there were number of cases where the plugin didn’t play nicely with WordPress themes. We’ve fixed these issues and the Read More…
Incarnate Updates: BlogEngine.NET Support and Service Improvements0
by Karsten Januszewski on Feb 05, 2010 in Development
We are excited to announce support for Incarnate in the latest BlogEngine.NET release. In addition, we have made some improvements to the Incarnate service itself. Here’s the scoop: BlogEngine.NET Support With the release of BlogEngine.NET 1.6, Incarnate is now supported. We worked with the team behind the Read More…
HTML5 video tag with H.264 codec10
by Hans Hugli on Jan 25, 2010
Our implementation of the HTML5 video tag has been tested on both Windows and Mac, using IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. To use it, just add a reference to dlrmedia.js at the top of your page. Visitors to your site will be able to view your H.264 video using Read More…
Downloading and Parsing IIS Logs from Windows Azure2
by Karsten Januszewski on Jan 22, 2010 in Development
In this post, I delve into how to get IIS logs out of Windows Azure and on to your local machine so you can do analysis. I wrote a program to help this process called AzureLogFetcher. Read More…
Introducing Incarnate18
by Karsten Januszewski on Dec 14, 2009 in News
Our latest lab, Incarnate, finds your avatars around the web, so you don’t have to upload a new one every time you join a service or leave a comment. Read More…
A Word Press Plug In For Incarnate7
by Vicky Tamaru on Dec 14, 2009 in Development
Managing Your Avatars These days, most people keep profiles on a number of popular sites like Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Twitter. Dealing with all these profiles—and especially their accompanying avatars—can be tricky. There are a couple of services that make managing avatars easy. One is Read More…
Adventures With Windows Azure Diagnostics2
by Karsten Januszewski on Dec 04, 2009 in Development
I recently took the Azure plunge, in preparation for an upcoming Mix Online Service we will be announcing soon. Things went relatively smoothly, but I hit few gotchas, especially when trying to get diagnostics and logging working. Below is a chronicle of said gotchas, with tips on how to resolve Read More…
Using the HTML5 Video and Audio Tag with Gestalt1
by Hans Hugli on Dec 02, 2009 in Development
It's true: Gestalt enables you to implement HTML5 video and audio tags. With just a little bit of JavaScript, Gestalt parses out media tags and injects all the HTML you need to embed a video or audio application. The Gestalt media player is also open source and customizable. Check it Read More…
JSON-P: An Elegant Hack (And Another Hack: Creating a JSON-P Service with the WCF REST Starter Kit!)3
by Karsten Januszewski on Nov 16, 2009 in Development
I'm working on some prototyping for an upcoming Mix Online prototype (a bit recursive, no?). My prototype provides a service with a REST interface, which has a few methods that send data via JSON and XML. I'm using the WCF REST Starter Kit (http://www.asp.net/downloads/starter-kits/wcf-rest/) to get a REST service Read More…
Getting Familiar with MVC0
by Hans Hugli on Oct 21, 2009 in Development
The Redesign Guess what? We’re in the early stages of a Mix Online redesign and I’m on point to develop the new site. Members of my team, always helpful, have told me to take a look at the new Oxite MVC (Model/View/Controller) implementation. Oxite is a Read More…
jQuery Love: Microsoft’s CDN Service for Microsoft AJAX Library and jQuery4
by Karsten Januszewski on Oct 02, 2009 in Development
jQuery Love: Microsoft’s CDN Service for Microsoft AJAX Library and jQuery A few weeks back, Microsoft announced a new content delivery network (CDN) that supports hosting for both the Microsoft AJAX libraries and the jQuery library. This is an exciting development and big step toward improving the performance of Read More…
DLR and JavaScript Interoperability with Gestalt0
by Hans Hugli on Aug 27, 2009 in Development
How can I mix the results of a Python script to do or execute a javascript function with Gestalt? When one of our smart readers asked the question above, we knew we had a challenge on our hands. We accepted the challenge, took a look at the problem--and came Read More…
Writing a UserControl in Python0
by Hans Hugli on Jul 31, 2009 in Development
While putting together samples for Gestalt, I found that I could save a vast amount of time creating a control’s UI using XAML (XML Application Markup Language) as opposed to spending time to generate it programmatically. It’s not only time consuming creating it in verbose code, but it forces you Read More…
