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Sidebar Gadgets for Channel 9, Channel 8 and more
Friday, April 04, 2008We recently had Donovan West (LiveGadgets.net) build us a set of sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. These gadgets use the RSS feeds from each site and let you see all of our new content as it gets posted, then (using Silverlight) you can even play our videos right there on your desktop. You can check out the gadgets (for Channel 9, Mix, C8, Edge, and on10.net) by clicking on the appropriate image below: [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Using my Xbox Live data service?
Thursday, April 03, 2008If you've written an app, private or public, using my data feed of Xbox live info I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me know. This isn't a required 'sign-up', but I want to start to keep track so that I could possibly create a page listing all the sites using it, and it may also be useful to be able to contact folks if I need to make a change or take the service down for an hour or so. Just comment on this post, or drop me a line at duncanma@microsoft.com. [read more...]Filed under | 32 comments »Share this -
New Xbox Friends Gadget released and a Silverlight Gamercard Generator
Thursday, April 03, 2008Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
ImageShack Toolbar causes incorrect results from ASP.NET's browser checking code
Wednesday, January 09, 2008We recently updated a few of our web sites with code that would provide a 'nicer' experience for browsers that were not compatible with the ASP.NET ATLAS (AJAX) scripts we were using. For some reason though, a few users who were running a fully compatible browser (Firefox 2.0.0.*), were seeing the no-script experience. We were puzzled, but one of the users figured out that their ImageShack toolbar might be causing the problem. Sure enough, after I installed that same toolbar myself I was able to test and confirm that it truly is causing the confusion. Using a little test page, [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Code Metrics in Visual Studio 2008 and the EvNet project
Monday, January 07, 2008I don't know if this is good or bad, but I thought it was neat that I could right-click the main project (excluding all our client script and HTML) that runs behind on10.net, pick code metrics and see cool #s like "23,442 lines of code" :) Lately though, I've seen us reducing that number while adding features, so this might the highest result I'll ever see for this project :) [read more...]Share this -
The Viewport Meta Tag and the iPhone
Wednesday, January 02, 2008I've been fiddling around with mobile interfaces for both my personal site and for the various sites I work on (http://on10.net, http://channel9.msdn.com, amongst others) and I noticed the use of <meta name="viewport" content... /> on some other mobile sites. A quick search and I found a great discussion of the viewport meta tag on furbo.org (the apple developer site provides the same info in a more reference format). Turns out this simple meta tag helps Mobile Safari determine how best to scale your site for the smaller screen of the iPhone (relative to a desktop that is). I don't have [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Looking for good examples of Mobile Interfaces
Monday, December 31, 2007I'm part of a dev team that builds blog/forum software and I've been thinking about mobile interfaces lately... so I'm trying to find a good example of site like ours that provides a good (enjoyable, useful and usable) mobile interface... one that will work across a variety of browses. It seems 37 Signals is thinking about the same thing these days and they've made a blog post looking for exactly the same thing I am, examples of good mobile interfaces. I'm looking for sites that are some combination of text and video blogging and are usable via a relatively modern [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Trying to open a file into VS 2005/2008 ... never works from Explorer
Thursday, December 20, 2007So I have a file on disk, web.config in this case, and I right click and pick 'open with | Visual Studio 2008' ... and I get this: Windows cannot find 'C:\projects\9\web.config'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. [OK] VS 2008 opens, but no file. If I then pick the file from File | Open it works fine... what the hell? As far as I can remember, this was true with VS 2005 and it has annoyed me every day... [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Xbox.com looks really boring without a flash plug-in :)
Sunday, December 16, 2007Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
I'm planning to get rid of setting our Theme in ASP.NET
Sunday, December 16, 2007The auto inclusion of all our CSS files has finally become too annoying. We'll still use the app_theme directory, as it is a handy way to store our stuff... but I'm really hoping to not set the theme, and to add the appropriate CSS for the situation (mobile vs desktop for example) while also combining our CSS files and 'minifying' them all through a simple 'css.ashx' style handler. This should make it easier to do that combining at run time, while leaving them nice and separate for debug and development purposes. We might still have it set in development [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this
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