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Joe Belfiore to Keynote MIX10, Eleven New Windows Phone Sessions Announced (Microsoft MIX10)

Corporate Vice President of Windows Mobile Program Management at Microsoft, Joe Belfiore, will be speaking at MIX in March.  Belfiore is responsible for the overall design and product definition of the software that powers Windows Phones.  A huge consumer advocate, Belfiore has led the design and development of some of Microsoft’s more consumer-friendly products, including Zune, Windows Media Center, and the user experience for Windows itself.  Along with Belfiore’s keynote, eleven new Windows Phone sessions have just been added to the MIX10 agenda.
via live.visitmix.com

At Hulu, 'free' may soon turn into 'fee' (via latimes.com) and why this might be good for me!

At Hulu, 'free' may soon turn into 'fee'

The video website, launched by studios to distribute TV shows over the Internet without charge, now is considering ways to draw revenue, including charging for some episodes of popular shows.

via latimes.com

Of course this sounds bad to everybody who is using Hulu for free now, but for us non-US-residents, this might mean, that we can join the fun as well when we are ready to pay for Hulu's services, as their ads are not relevant for our market. I would certainly be in - being able to see my favorite series in English and only days after they are broadcast in the US - priceless!

Hands-on Lab: Silverlight 4 Line of Business Application using WCF RIA Services

After building this lab from the ground up and running it successfully in three classes last week, we are now ready to publish it.

In this 108 page hands-on lab you will learn how to use Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and Beta 1 of Microsoft Silverlight 4 to create a data driven line of business style rich internet application that implements many of the new features that Silverlight 4 introduces. We will base our solution on the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) RIA Services.

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The solution will be an order-management system that shows a list of orders in a data grid and details of a selected order in a details pane. The system will validate user entries and have the capabilities of printing order reports and exporting order lists to Microsoft Excel.

Download the hands-on lab manual in PDF and Word format, the database and the final sample solution.

These features are implemented in the lab:

True multi-tier architecture.
  • Entity framework and service layer definition.
  • Data filtering, paging, sorting and grouping.
  • Data modification and validation.
  • Foreign key management.
  • Projections.
  • Programmatic printing from a Silverlight application.
  • COM interop with Microsoft Excel and running full-trust out-of-browser.

    The following are the system requirements needed to complete the hands-on lab. The links point to the download location of the product or a trial version.

    One of the following operating systems:
    Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 - all editions except Starter Edition
  • Windows XP (x64) with Service Pack 2 - all editions except Starter Edition
  • Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 1 - all editions except Starter Edition
  • Windows 7 (x86 and x64) (download trial)
  • Windows Server 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
    • Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Professional
    • SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
    • Silverlight 4 Beta 1 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
    • Silverlight 4 Beta Toolkit November 2009

    Optional Components

    Microsoft Internet Information Services
    • Microsoft Excel

    The hands-on lab manual has detailed instructions on installing all the prerequisites.