Markus Egger: Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp.(www.eps-software.com) as well as the Publisher of CODE Magazine (www.codemag.com) and the co-host of CodeCast (www.codemag.com/codecast). EPS is a custom software, mentoring, training, and consulting firm located in Houston, Texas (USA) and Austria, with customers all over North America and Europe. Markus has also worked as a contractor for the Microsoft Visual Studio team.
Markus is an international speaker (INETA speaker) having presented sessions at numerous conferences such as MS TechEd and DevConnections, including a number of conferences in North America, Europe, and South America. Markus has written numerous articles for publications including CODE Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro Magazine, Microsoft Office & Database Journal, and more. Markus has written a book about Advanced Object Oriented Programming.
Markus is a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and he also received the Microsoft MVP Award (consecutively, 1996 to present, making him one of the longest-running MVPs) for his contributions to the developer community. Markus has also been named a "Tablet PC Influential Developer", (a.k.a. "Tablet PC Guru"). Applications written by Markus have been nominated for the Microsoft Excellence Awards three times.
Markus is also the founder of Tower48 Inc., a digital software escrow company (www.tower48.com). Markus is the CSA of the Xiine digital reading platform (www.xiine.com), and he started the Developer & Designer User Group (D2SIG - www.d2sig.org) in Houston, TX.
Silverlight
25 Aug 2010
Code Sample Will Auto-Update Silverlight Out-of-Browser App
Markus Egger writes
"...I was surprised to learn that an app taken out of the browser does not automatically update itself when a newer version is available on the server...it turns out you can simply add a few lines of code to the app’s constructor to enable updating. Add the following code to your App class’ constructor..."
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Editors Picks
24 Aug 2010
EyeOpener! Expression Web 4 is a Gem
Markus Egger writes
"...The basic idea is that you open a URL in SuperPreview and pick the browsers you would like to see...There are side-by-side comparisons of various renderings. You can even overlay 2 renderings to see the exact differences between the different browsers...I find it much easier to verify my sites work with multiple browsers and versions using SuperPreview than going to each browser manually. Many I simply..."
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Editors Picks
07 Jul 2010
Real-World Printing in Silverlight 4 is not so Easy
Markus Egger writes
"...In my scenario, I had to support Letter, Legal, and A4 paper formats...all things considered, printing works reasonably well in Silverlight 4. However, you have to handle a lot of things yourself... Creating a bullet-proof pagination algorithm that can handle all kinds of content is difficult... it would be nice if Microsoft made this a bit easier in future versions of Silverlight..."
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