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Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar

In the previous installment of this series on path layout, I explained how to add a rotation offset to an element in the list box while keeping well-fitting highlights. I also promised that I
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Two samples from today's MIX talk

Thanks to the folks who attended my talk at MIX 2010 today. As promised, I'm posting the two samples I showed. I'll post an update when the video from my talk is available, so folks who couldn't attend can see it. Local Search I built a Silverlight application...(read more)
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Confessions of a ListBox groupie [Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly]

A customer recently asked how to implement a simple "grouped ListBox " experience in Silverlight (now available in desktop , mobile , and extra crispy flavor!), so I dashed off this sample to show one way that's pretty easy to work with. Well, actually...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

To continue our series , let
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

Mix2010: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight

I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight .   You can find all the slides (more than I was able to cover in the talk) here .  and the the full play-by-play of the demo (include a link to the completed solution...(read more)
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Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II

Ok, I
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Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

  At MIX10 this week it was announced that you can develop Windows Phone 7 apps using Silverlight! In this episode, Mike Harsh comes back to Silverlight TV to show John how easy it is to develop a real world application for Windows Phone 7 Series...(read more)
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MIX 10: Silverlight 4 Business Applications

Another talk, another blog post.  As you can see, my blog posts are like my babies
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Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications

My MIX 10 talk, an introduction to unit testing on Silverlight and the Windows Phone, is now online for streaming and download. Thank you to everyone who attended. An early preview set of bits are online at http://jeffatmix.com/
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Slides and Demos from my MIX10 Session

The slides and demos from my MIX10 session "Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight" can be found here.  This package includes the following:  
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

Two Silverlight TV Episodes on Silverlight for Windows Phone

I sat down with John Papa to record two Silverlight for Windows Phone videos at MIX.  Check them out: Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight   Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight
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Mix 10 Rollup Post

Piles of interesting stuff going on at Mix 10 this week. Here's a link rollup with all the details and downloads that you might care about. (As well as a few blatant plugs for my own sessions.) First: Watch Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes on demand. See recorded...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client

To continue our series , let
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Mix 2010: Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone Video Now Online

See it here…...( read more )...(read more)
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New Seesmic applications on Silverlight 4 and on Windows Phone

A few months ago, at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, in Ray Ozzie's keynote , Seesmic introduced a preview release of its Twitter application on Windows ( Seesmic for Windows ). Seesmic has a very active community and got a lot of feedback...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services

OData is an emerging set of extensions for the ATOM protocol that makes it easier to share data over the web. To show off OData in RIA Services, let
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Silverlight TV 16: Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty Talk about Silverlight 4 RC at MIX 10

  While at MIX10, John catches up with Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer to discuss their favorite features in Silverlight 4 on this episode of Silverlight TV . Along with calling out and discussing why they're each impressed with their favorite features...(read more)
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Free Webinar on March 18th

The live streaming of the Olympic Winter Games presented challenges of tremendous scale and complexity, ultimately delivering more than 45 million live streams over 710 million page views! Online Olympics viewers enjoyed a vastly improved quality of experience...(read more)
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Great Blog Posts on Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone

Here are two great blog posts on Expression Blend 4: The first is by Kenny Young, Wizard of Layout on the Expression Blend team. Kenny describes dynamic layout, transitions and layout morphing in Expression Blend in great detail. A detailed sample project...(read more)
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Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I

At Mix, in Las Vegas, we just introduced Blend 4. One of the new features that got great excitement is path-based layout. Let me tell you a bit more about it Path-based layout opens many interesting creative possibilities, way beyond just laying out things...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing Data from Entity Framework

To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your application.  The interesting data in your business applications come from a wide variety of data sources.  From a SQL Database, from Oracle...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client

To continue our series , let
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