The Brain Dump
My brain poured out on paper (or so to speak)
Get you VB on!
The Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools has been officially released. So if you were a...
Author: BenWilli Date: 11/29/2010
Free Petzold!
If you are interested in developing apps for Windows Phone 7 (available outside the US today, and in...
Author: BenWilli Date: 10/28/2010
Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Final
Phone OS RTM’d now the dev kit is final. Go get it and finalize your apps! I know I am. For...
Author: BenWilli Date: 09/16/2010
WP7 notifications
Windows Phone 7 provides a push notification mechanism to allow you to communicate with your...
Author: BenWilli Date: 09/03/2010
And so it began…
Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing and of course don't forget that availability of the...
Author: BenWilli Date: 09/02/2010
Visual Studio Database Guidance released
I’ve been doing a lot of ALM consulting over the years with many different customers and the...
Author: BenWilli Date: 08/23/2010
Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone
At long last some details of what Xbox Live will look like on the Windows Phone 7 – including video...
Author: BenWilli Date: 08/17/2010
Important Updates to Live Services!
from the Live Services blog : Important Updates to Live Services Starting September 8th, 2009 the...
Author: BenWilli Date: 08/21/2009
TwitterDrive rocks!
Once we get the kinks out of TwitterDrive, maybe we should add an RDP player on top of it so you can...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/01/2009
Feeling a bit loopy
A looping construct is one that is often requested in the Live Framework forum discussions regarding...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/30/2009
Building a better library through blog conversations
In my helper library post Jamie Thompson rightly points out that the MeshObject helper doesn’t help...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/23/2009
Release the hounds!
Up on https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/LiveFramework we have released 6 new code samples including...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/20/2009
I’m just async. Yes, I’m only async.
Some people have noticed (especially those who read the release notes) that the new Live Framework...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/20/2009
Live Framework now supports the Windows Live ID Client SDK!
Until now. if you were building a .NET client application for Live Framework you had to ask the use...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/16/2009
Live Framework Update!
As noted on the Live Framework Blog, the Live Framework team has released the April 2009 CTP update...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/12/2009
LINQing to the Live Framework (or “CreateQuery vs Entries”)
There are two possible different ways to query in the Live Framework if you are using the .NET or...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/09/2009
Moving from local LOE to local LOE
How Do I Ensure My Mesh Object Is Available Everywhere I Need It? Let’s say you have a scenario in...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/09/2009
Theme change!
Just changed the them on the blog. Not because I like the new one, but purely because I have some...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/09/2009
Live fx Helper Class
Everyone seems to have their own Live fx helper class. I use one myself to cleanup the sample code...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/09/2009
Local LOE and Fiddler woe
Fiddler and the Live fx Resource Browser are the dynamic duo that debug my Live Framework...
Author: BenWilli Date: 03/06/2009
Cleaning up my mesh
After working with the Live Framework for a while I tended to accumulate a lot of random Mesh...
Author: BenWilli Date: 02/23/2009
Note to self: Plane travel
Never, never, never sit in front of Angus on a plane. Corollary: If I do have to, make sure to...
Author: BenWilli Date: 02/04/2009
Meshing in C++ (CLI)
I recently was asked about accessing the Live Framework from C++. Taking this from the standpoint of...
Author: BenWilli Date: 12/08/2008
.NET Extension methods from C++
Extension methods are a nice little feature now available in C# and VB.NET. They allow you to tack...
Author: BenWilli Date: 12/03/2008
Live Framework Webcast: Getting started with Live Framework
The Live Services team is having a webcast event for Live Framework (Livefx). During the session,...
Author: BenWilli Date: 12/01/2008
Navigating LiveFX with .NET
When first given a new SDK, what I do is immediately try to figure out the object model. This is how...
Author: BenWilli Date: 11/18/2008
But what can I do with it?
If you have expressed confusion about what the Live Framework is about, who can use it, or just...
Author: BenWilli Date: 11/14/2008
Wallpaper your desktop with Mesh
Due to popular demand, yesterday Vikas posted a zip file with a bunch of the various Live Mesh...
Author: BenWilli Date: 11/12/2008
Keeping the crickets at bay
Earlier this year I swore to myself that I was going to make more regular blog entries about the...
Author: BenWilli Date: 11/11/2008
Photosynth released!
Last week the Microsoft Live Labs team released the first version of Photosynth that allows you to...
Author: BenWilli Date: 08/25/2008
Live Mesh is now openly available to anyone in the U.S.!
As announced in the Live Mesh Forum, anyone in the U.S. can now use Live Mesh. Just sign in to...
Author: BenWilli Date: 07/16/2008
Live Mesh update
I love that even though its a Tech Preview, they keep rolling out updates with new features....
Author: BenWilli Date: 07/11/2008
Silverlight Streaming updates
- One common request I have seen over and over both internally and externally is "How do I get...
Author: BenWilli Date: 06/02/2008
Hitch your domain wagon to our IM!
Wilson posted a note with a little more info and screen shots on what the SRV entry really means if...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/30/2008
Make money with Silverlight Streaming? Yes. Download it as a desktop app? No.
The ads pilot is finally available for Silverlight Streaming. You can fill out the form to indicate...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/30/2008
Back from Bangkok
I made it home from the Windows Live training and stayed awake long enough last night to post some...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/30/2008
Hello from Thailand!
I have spent the last few days in Bangkok training a great group of Microsoft folk and partners on...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/25/2008
Silverlight Streaming update!
Silverlight Streaming has had an update pushed out. You can read the details but the summary is a...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/11/2008
Large web site project vs Visual Studio
So I discovered a limit in Visual Studio. It apparently doesn't handle 1.4 GB of data in 40,000...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/09/2008
Silverlight debugging tip
I'm building a Deep Zoom application and have been frustrated when it often has some stupid bug (my...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/09/2008
Response.Write("Hello World!");
Well I've finally given in. After numerous smaller starts and stops, I've finally jumped into the...
Author: BenWilli Date: 04/09/2008