Download: Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008

23 09 2008

For mobile developers who are interested to experience the Mobile Silverlight development, you may go to this download site and download the add-on for Visual Studio 2008 for developing applications for Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

This download will install the following:
- Silverlight 2 Beta 2
- Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2
- KB950630 for Visual Studio 2008 RTM or KB955214 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
- Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008

Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 includes:

  • Visual Basic and C# Project templates
  • Intellisense and code generators for XAML
  • Debugging of Silverlight applications
  • Web reference support
  • WCF Templates
  • Team Build and command line build support
  • Integration with Expression Blend
  • Enhanced Setup with upgrade support

You may want to download Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview, to allow you to build Silverlight 2 Beta projects.


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Celcom Developers Challenge 2008

20 09 2008

Interested to participate in the Celcom Developers Challenge 2008? come and attend the program briefing for The League of Extraordinary Developers Challenge 2008 (LED Challenge) which will take place next week, from Monday to Thursday (22nd to 25th September 2008) afternoon. clip_image001

To register for the event, please RSVP your contact details and the date that you choose to attend to this email (developerleague@celcom.com.my). Don’t forget to give put down your contact number so that the event organizer can contact you for further details.


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Issue in hosting WCF service at IIS 7.0

16 09 2008

I encountered an issue in hosting WCF service in IIS 7.0, VIsta. I was getting this error page, saying the MIME type is not specified for the WCF extension, .svc.image

Here is the solution to solve this issue:
1. Go  to command prompt, point to : “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation”
2. enter “ServiceModelReg.exe -i” and run.
[remember choose the command prompt and run as Administrator]

With this, the utility will install necessary modules, handlers….for WCF extensionimage


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ClientProfile – new feature in .NET 3.5 SP1

10 09 2008

.NET Framework Client Profile as a new setup package option for developers building .NET client applications. It is a subset of assemblies already contained within .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, and does not include ASP.NET and those libraries and components used primarily for server scenarios. Which means now you can have a smaller .NET framework for client applications.

Features in Client Profile:
- Smaller framework deployment – ~28 MB client deployment package
- Smaller, faster client deployment boot strapper
- Client Application focused feature set:
    1. Common Language Runtime (CLR)
    2. ClickOnce
    3. Windows Forms
    4. Windows Presentation Foundation
    5. Windows Communication Foundation

To configure .NET Framework Client Profile for deployment is very simple.
1. right click project node and select Properties
2. At the properties page, under Application tab, select the Check Box “Client-only Framework subset”Capture
For details walkthrough, see this .

Deploy .NET Framework Client Profile via ClickOnce, see this.
Deploy .NET Framework Client Profile via Windows Installer, see this.
Visit this for more details.


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Software Testing Conference 2008

2 09 2008

Conducted a workshop with Tang last week in a Software Testing Conference, which organized by Custommedia.

It is a 2 Days conference, Fai had a session yesterday and talked about Test Drive Development. For second day, I had a 3 hours session with topic “Quality Improvement with Visual Studio Team System 2008″

Although it is a workshop, but there is no PC prepared so no hands-on for the attendees. Tang and I tag team to conduct the workshop, by giving presentation on slides, doing classroom discussion and show some cool demo on the VSTS tools.

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Here is the slide I used during the workshop, you may download from here:PowerPoint-256x256


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