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Archives for February 2011

Chart Zoom and Pan Extension for the Silverlight 4 Toolkit

February 13, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

Geoff Webber-Cross, one of my most excellent Silverlight and SharePoint alumni, has just started a blog and published a neat extension to the Silverlight 4 Toolkit to implement chart zooming and panning.

The Silverlight 4 Toolkit comes with a chart control of its own. There’s a demo that shows how to pan and scroll the chart control, but the axes scroll with your chart, which is usually not what you want.

Geoff’s example shows how to overcome this and also gives you zooming into the bargain.

Filed Under: Silverlight Tagged With: Alumni, Development, Silverlight

Getting Started with Web Development Using Microsoft WebMatrix

February 7, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

Microsoft is really starting to get the hang of this Open Source malarkey, and that giving some things away for free can be tremendously beneficial to winning hearts and minds.

My 11-year-old son has started programming. He gave it a go a little while back, using HTML, Logo and also Scratch from MIT. He wanted something more. I stumbled across Microsoft’s WebMatrix. He’s now building his first web applications.

WebMatrix is a great start for anyone looking to get into Microsoft Web application development.

WebMatrix is Microsoft’s latest free development platform. If you’re a hobbyist or a professional, the WebMatrix can be for you. It’s a platform that you can start creating database-connected web applications from day one. Intuitive and professional, it lets you hone your development skills in technologies that can be applied to enterprise development as well.

WebMatrix also installs Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer, which gives you a choice of additional platforms and tools including WordPress, Dot Net Nuke, Ubraco, Drupal and many others. If the open source packages require MySql and you don’t have this installed already, WebMatrix will download this for you.

Most noteworthy, you can also download express editions of their flagship development tools: Visual Studio 2010 Express and SQL 2008R2 Express and use them seamlessly with WebMatrix.

WebMatrix lets you create sites using its own toolset that sits on top of ASP.NET. It comes with a variety of templates to get you started quickly, all using their Razor (.chtml) templating syntax. Razor provides a much more streamlines syntax than traditional ASP.NET, which new developers will enjoy. The client-side scripts can be HTML, JavaScript, AJAX/jQuery and others.

Out of the box, you get SQL Server Compact – a completely file-based version of SQL Server. WebMatrix has its own database tools to help build your tables.

WebMatrix comes with IIS Developer Express edition. When it’s time to reveal your web application and make it available on the Internet, it will allow walk you through all the steps to publish your site on the web. If it works in IIS Developer Express edition, it will work with IIS on a server.

WebMatrix also has features to help fine tune your search engine ranking by spotting common errors, for instance missing H1 heading tags. Another cool feature is that (optionally!) WebMatrix will take some of the leg work out of shopping for the best hosting deal, by serving you with a choice of hosting providers.

Filed Under: Development Tagged With: Development, Getting Started, Training, Visual Studio 2010 Express, WebMatrix

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Joel is a full-stack cloud architect who codes. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server and Azure specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
He has over 20 years' experience with SharePoint and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
He's also co-founder of Microsoft Gold Partner JFDI Consulting Ltd. Read More…

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