Bruno Terkaly - Developer Evangelist - bterkaly@microsoft.com
Making Microsoft developer efforts more effective.
Highlights & Events: PDC 2009 – November 17 - 19
I will be attending this year’s annual Professional Developer’s Conference November 17 – 19 down in...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/30/2009
Highlights & Events: Silverlight Solves a Lot of Problems
My Take On "Silverlight For the Enterprise"I recently had a meeting with the enterprise architects...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/30/2009
Highlights & Events: Create Interfaces that Customers Care About
In July, I was able to witness the launch of Silverlight 3. Developers want one thing - to create...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/30/2009
Highlights & Events: Silicon Valley Code Camp This Weekend!
Come join me this weekend at the 4th Annual Silicon Valley Code Camp. It will be held Saturday and...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/30/2009
Highlights & Events: Looking for Work? Here’s What to Learn.
What would I be learning if I were a developer today looking for work? Not to pat myself on the...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/30/2009
Highlights & Events: Visual Studio 2010 – More than Skin Deep
I have just spent the last few days playing with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. If you haven't done so,...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/30/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 14 – Using the Symbol Server - Repost
Why do you need a Symbol Server? Microsoft Symbol Server is a Windows technology used to obtain...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 13 – Debugging VBScript – Repost
Code used in demo: 1: dim filesys 2: dim step_number 3: dim trg, src 4: 5: step_number = "04" 6: 7:...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 12 – Debugging Javascript In Web Pages - Repost
The first step is to enable debugging within the browser. Be sure to allow for script debugging. To...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 11 – SQL Server Stored Procedures – Repost
Download the sample project – debugging.zip This section of my blog is to illustrate how visual...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 10 – Debugging Threads – Repost
Download the sample project – debugging.zip This next section is fairly brief and will help you work...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 9 – The Set Next Statement – Repost
Download the sample project – debugging.zip If you are not familiar with the Set Next Statement...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 8 – The Garbage Collector – GC – Repost
Download the sample project – debugging.zip Garbage collection in the Microsoft .NET common language...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 7 – Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID - Repost
Make object ID – allows you to track an object within the visual studio debugging system When...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 6 – Watch and Immediate Windows – Advanced Techniques - Repost
Calling Methods in the Watch Window The watch window is incredibly powerful. You can actually call...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 5 – Using TracePoints - Repost
TracePoints Tracepoints are a new debugger feature in Visual Studio. A tracepoint is a breakpoint...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 4 – Debugging Threads - Repost
Threading Primer Threading is a complex topic. Parallelism is another word used to describe the...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 3 – BreakPoint HitCount - Repost
Lession 3 – Breakpoint Hit Count Download the sample project – debugging.zip This setting determines...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 2 – Breakpoints in SubExpressions – Repost
Lession 2 – SubExpression Breakpoints Download the sample project – debugging.zip It is possible to...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro – Lesson 1- Repost
Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the sense...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/28/2009
Channel 9 Video – Juval Lowy & Bruno Terkaly
Here is the link:...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/24/2009
Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program
Scott Guthrie’s blog discusses it:...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/24/2009
Developing For Office – Options and Trade-Offs
Some of you have been asked to develop applications to develop on and extend Excel, Word, etc. What...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 09/22/2009
Windows 7 for Developers - Links & Resources
PowerShell Cheat Sheet https://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/attachment/1561580.ashx Books...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 08/13/2009
ADO.NET Data Services
What is ADO.NET Data Services? It is a framework that consists of a combination of patterns and...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 08/09/2009
Internet Explorer 8 – Developer Tools - Debugging HTML and CSS (Includes Profiling)
Introduction - Debugging HTML and CSS is notoriously difficult The goal of tooling is to give you...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 08/03/2009
Learning Silverlight – Part 1 – Beginner to Expert
Introduction Some people really believe the future is in the browser, apparently, but nobody can...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 08/01/2009
All in One WPF Demo – Part 2 – Enter VS 2010
Learning XAML: Paving the road to WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and Silverlight Summary This...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/31/2009
How to: Trigger an Animation When Data Changes
Learning XAML: This example shows how to use a DataTrigger, a BeginStoryboard action, and a...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/30/2009
Migrating From Visual Basic 6 and earlier
I started coding with Visual Basic 3 in 1991. I ended up teaching it all over Asia,, Latin America,...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/29/2009
Juval Lowy – Learning WCF – This October in Silicon Valley – Don’t miss it !
A Unique WCF Learning Opportunity I took Juval’s Master Architect class. Juval’s understanding of...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/27/2009
Internet Explorer 8 – Accelerators
Learning about accelerators – An IE8 Feature Internet Explorer & Accelerators Windows Internet...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/27/2009
.NET Framework 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, WCF Enhancements
Microsoft believes that declarative programming is the best route to take for specific types of...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/24/2009
Event Tracing – Painful but worth it
Why bother with something painful? What is event tracing and why is it worth my time to work with...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/23/2009
C# 4.0 – Dynamic Language Runtime
Dynamic languages are a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/23/2009
Visual Studio 2010: Covariance and Contravariance - In search of better examples…
This took me some time to understand even simple examples of covariance and contravariance. If you...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/23/2009
Silverlight Links
Silverlight Community Galleryhttps://silverlight.net/community/communitygallery.aspxSampleBrowser for...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/23/2009
Visual Studio 2010: Delegates, Generic IEnumerable
This is kind of a re-blog. My goal is to have a more specific blog than before. Generic Delegates...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/22/2009
Visual Studio 2010: Lambdas may be theoretically based in Calculus, but they are easy and useful
Many of us just spent a decade or so with languages designed from the ground up as object oriented...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/22/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview
I would also like to talk about the content in this training kit. For example, I’d like to talk...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/21/2009
Fast Forward: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 – Concurrent Programming
This blog entry is all about Visual Studio 2010 and introduces some startup code to play with WPF...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/20/2009
Concurrency – A 5 Minute Tour
This some material just to get started about why concurrency is important. Just a quick slide deck...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/20/2009
WPF & XAML – ListBoxes with a Grouping Capability
This tutorial is about learning: <ItemsControl.GroupStyle> It is now possible to have a...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/16/2009
Silverlight 3 Launch
I am sitting at the Hotel Intercontinental in San Francisco, where I’m witnessing the launch of...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/10/2009
All in One WPF Demo
This is the demo we want to build up. It leverages all the awesome XAML and WPF features in one...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/10/2009
Bruno’s Drinking From A Firehose Series: XAML & Binding – Part 02
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/09/2009
Is Silverlight Ready for the Enterprise?
QUESTION: Describe the data handling capabilities of Silverlight especially in handling complex data...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/08/2009
Thrive Campaign
The Thrive resources are here to help developers at a challenging time. I've gone through the site...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/08/2009
Charles Petzold – Always the Best Examples
Article Quote of Interest Charles Petzold writes brilliant software. He's an icon – well, not...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/08/2009
Silverlight Worldwide Live Broadcast
Tomorrow, July 7th, 10AM PT, 1PM ET –Michael Jackson's memorial is being broadcast in live HD from...
Author: BrunoTerkaly Date: 07/07/2009