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The Facebook Developer Toolkit has hit an important milestone: 2.0 RTW. I’m upgrading the MSDN East Coast News Silverlight application to this version this weekend, so we’ll see how complete it is this time :) In addition, Steve’s Facebook Developer Toolkit Starter Kit has been upgraded to the 2.0 RTW release. Download the starter kit here. The ...

In Part 1, we created a Facebook application using ASP.NET. Now, in Part 2, we’ll cover how to add Silverlight into the mix. I’ll assume you have the Part 1 solution working. If not, go to that blog post and download the project files linked at the end of the post. Install the Silverlight 2 Developer Tools If you haven’t done so already, install ...

I’m about to embark on some very different Silverlight application development projects (primary around data-driven UI, and one potential one even about kiosk/digital sign work). Before I do that, I wanted to give you all a brain-dump primer from my last project – MSDN East Coast News. MSDN East Coast News is a Silverlight 2 application which ...

One one of many pre-sales visits to different clients over the years, I found myself at a local dotcom in DC. It was filled with early-20’s VPs and fresh out of college developers who had a head a little too big for their skills. I love passion, but non-academic experience counts too, especially when you’re leading the work. I asked them how they ...

My primary Silverlight project for the past couple months has been the Facebook application I’ve been writing for the Microsoft East Coast Developer, Partner and Architect Evangelists: MSDN East Coast News. For those of you curious about building Facebook applications with Silverlight, I have at least two sessions coming up: MSDN ...

Here are some of the talks I’ll be doing in the next month and a half or so. Wednesday October 22 MSDN geekSpeak webcast : Building Facebook applications with Silverlight 2 . We’ll cover some of the challenges and some tips and tidbits for building applications for Facebook platform. Join me, Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie for this ...

I’m putting the finishing touches on our first beta of MSDN East Coast News and decided to provide a customized install experience. The out of the box installation experience looks like this: That works, but really isn’t acceptable for this application. It doesn’t show the user why they would want to install this application. FWIW, I have ...

There are a number of other places I hang out where we can have two-way conversations rather than just a publish-subscribe relationship. Follow me on Twitter. Twitter is a fun place to hang out and get the news before folks have time to blog about it. FriendFeed is similar, but I’m only on that rarely – my tweets get automatically ...

I just gave a talk at Microsoft TechReady covering how to build Facebook applications that host Silverlight content. One problem I ran into was the changing Facebook API and how the toolkit wasn’t yet synchronized with that. Well, just today, the Facebook Developer Toolkit version 2.0 RC was put up there. I haven’t used it yet, and understand it ...

I’ve been doing a bunch lately with aggregating various technical blogs and surfacing the content through Silverlight and Facebook. While doing that, I ran into a number of challenges and figured out ways that folks can work around them to make their blogs more visible and more easily used in mashups. I’m not a marketing or branding expert so I’d ...