You’re pretty confident about your web development abilities and feel you can tackle any web related challenge that comes along. But maybe you’ve been spending too much time on the server side. What’s your knowledge of jQuery? Not really strong on that one. OData? What’s that O for? DotNetNuke? Never heard of it. Uh oh…... read more
Microsoft’s Training Courses contain free technical training on emerging Microsoft products and technologies: each course includes a set of videos, hands-on labs, and source code samples to get you up-to-speed quickly. These Training Courses, formerly available in Channel 9, are now online at MSDN. This is the first step to converge all technical resources in... read more
You now own a budget, oversee people, and time is precious. But you have ideas. Ones that could really help your company. Unfortunately the estimate from the IT Department puts your request at slightly before never (or maybe after, hard to tell when they use their grouchy voice). Should you simply ignore your inner voice... read more
Once again your friend from Company X skillfully found a way to introduce into your conversation the topic of his trip to PDC and how much he learned about Azure. You force a smile, and you want to be happy for him, but deep inside you feel your stomach begin to knot and anxiousness suddenly... read more
Who dat? Who dat that’s using your application? It seems like something you might need to know. Of course you could force them to register with your system, scribbling the username and password onto their sticky pad in the desk drawer, but perhaps there’s a better way? Can you say “claims?” Claims are key to... read more
If you’re a chef, you’d better know how to handle a knife. If you’re a carpenter, you’d better know how to handle a hammer. And if you’re a Windows developer, you’d better know how to handle Visual Studio 2010. You could explore it on your own, or wait until a project demands a feature (and... read more
You know PHP cold and exactly how to approach the problem at hand. But your new project is for the Windows platform – are you stuck? Fortunately not. The PHP on Windows Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including demos and hands-on labs to help you understand how to build PHP applications... read more
Published by Damian Schenkelman on July 2nd, 2010 5:36 pm under Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, Patterns & Practices, Prism-v2, Prism-v2.1, Prism-v2.2, Silverlight 4, Training Kit, Visual Studio 2010, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, p&p
Over the last week, Matias and I took some time to work on something a Prism Training Kit. We figured out that was one of the things that would be useful to learn Prism. Therefore, we decided to create a set of Hands on Labs that cover the basic topics addressed by Prism (if you... read more