<ChristophDotNet

Then on January 9th, 2007 the world changed. Not just the technology world, but the world as we knew it. Yes, Steve Jobs only showed a product, the first iPhone, but what he really showed the world what it's like to be connected and have access to the internet at all times.

Arturo was kind enough to post a hands-on lab I created for a training event in Dallas.

The previous post on Silverlight 3 for kiosk apps outlined some architecture options how you can build Silverlight applications with access to peripherals. This follow up post goes into more detail on the implementation.

Computerworld posted this piece that Microsoft developers are using text editors for development. What’s so old-school about that? What I mean really? Coding in text editors is not a trend among the grey-hairds like Lewis suggested on an internal thread. Text based tools are all the rave with the next generation of developers. I mean people that look like the Mac guy in the Apple commercials.

Several of the customers I work with are looking to build kiosk or point-of-sale applications with Silverlight. The ease of deployment with browser-based Silverlight applications is definitely appealing. Sharing applications or components between customers’ kiosks and web sites is another appealing reasons to go with Silverlight. This post outlines the architecture decisions between Silverlight and WPF and presents architecture options for Silverlight based solutions. A follow up post will discuss the Silverlight implementation details.

One of my customers is working on an Azure WCF service. When wanted to test the service with WcfTestClient, but we ran into some issues. We started the dev fabric and had the WebRole running on port 81. When we went to the WCF service metadata page at http://mybox:5101/ProdKService.svc, we got the expected web page, which states:

Migrating an existing SQL Server database to SQL Azure is a compelling story, but it’s not a trivial task … unless you start with the SQL Azure migration wizard put together by my team mates George and Wade.

The Windows Mobile app store is about to launch. The team launched a number of videos on the Windows Mobile Dev Channel on YouTube to walk you through the submission process for your application, but as I’m working with the team over at TripCase, we had a few more questions that we got answered over the past weeks. I thought they worth sharing: