Finally getting around to posting my presentation from MXDU 2005 notes on “Flash and .Net integration on the Desktop”. I really enjoyed giving this presentation. Many people came up to me after and mentioned how they didn’t realize it was so easy to accomplish such integration.
This weekend I will be packing up and heading over to MXDU, last year I had to cancel last minute but this year I will be there for sure. I’m giving two sesssions at the conference. The first “Integrating Flash and .Net on the desktop” is a new session that covers embedding Flash in a .Net WinForm application which will allow people to build custom projecters that meet their exact needs. The other is “Creating Components using the V2 component architecture”, a session that I have given before and has always been popular.
The speaker line-up, the venue, the Xbox Gaming Room, all reason someone should attend. I’m looking forward to my first time in Australia. Make sure to say hello if you will be there!
I’m I the process of moving some of our applications to Subversion from CVS, and while doing so I thought I would take the chance to think about standardizing on a directory structure for our applications/source code. Although it seems like a simple task, it has turned out to be a lot more complicated than I initially thought it would. The main application I work on has many parts, and makes use of many technologies (Flash, ASP.Net, WinForm .Net, C++, Flash Remoting, FlashCom, SQL Server).
For today I would like to discuss the important of a “Product” vs software consulting, and how that can lead to different requirements/focus. If you have worked as a consultant developing applications for a specific client, generally the most important item is usually to meet the requirements, and make sure the application works well. Although this on its own is important, when you are developing a “product” there are other factors that suddenly become important. I have found developing products to be truly an enjoyable challenge.
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