Peter Gfader 's Blog

A better EBay in Silverlight

Thanks everyone for 2 great user group nights.
Here are my slides and my most important slide, based on Paul Stovell's blog post

3 keyboard productivity tips for VS2010 - "Look Ma no mouse"

I am a big fan of little check-ins as often as possible during the day, instead of 1 big check-in at the end of the day.

Microsoft ASP.NET - Too many options

*Updated* 10 May 2011: From Tarn's feedback: I made it more clear that the target audience "Beginners with ASP.NET" get confused.

TL;DR

I think Microsoft's message for beginners on ASP.NET is wrong, by suggesting we have 3 players for doing web development with MS tooling, as per http://www.asp.net/get-started

Me thinks: There is "Web Pages", "MVC" and "Webforms", and tools: "WebMatrix" and "VS2010".
But should we really suggest all of them?

TFS - Fail a build when the warning count increases

I am a big fan of "measuring", because what you don't measure you can't improve.
Measuring over time allows us to establish a trend and the trend is often more interesting that the hard numbers.

Trends that might be interesting are:

Silverlight - 5 easy steps to obfuscate auto-magically on the build server

Disclaimer
Before you start flaming me, I am aware that all business relevant code and IP stuff must be on the server side. Just funny how much bit**** you see in forums and stackoverflow if you search for "Silverlight obfuscation"

Problem

With tools like Reflector, ILSpy (which is a good Reflector replacement BTW, since Reflector is not free anymore) and Silverlight Spy, it is VERY easy to look into Silverlight XAP files and discover some interesting stuff. We cannot completely hide our source code, but we can at least make it harder to disassemble and see.
If you are a serious Silverlight developer, make sure to get a copy of Silverlight Spy. No, I am not related to them, working for them nor affiliated.