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Online Help on .NET

Hi everyone, I'm launching a online help for every one that wants to have a question answered right away. It is a chat room that you can enter and discuss about the .NET Framework. Programmers, Developers, and Architects are welcomed to join it and help our huge community to grow even better. The chat room is called ".NET Online Assistance" and it can be found at http://www.tupter.com . Please let me know what you think about this initiative. Cheers all, Fred MCPD : Enterprise... Did you know th
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook!

Yesterday we announced our news for NAB next week in Las Vegas. Today we wanted to point out some other cool experiences to check out in Las Vegas. First we are showing the industry’s most exciting demo of live 3D HD streaming using IIS Smooth Streaming...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-10 more

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Interview Questions and Answers - Part 6

3) Questions of SQL SERVER 2008What are the basic functions for master, msdb, model, tempdb and resource databases?The master database holds information for all databases located on the SQL Server instance and is theglue that holds the engine together. Because SQL Server cannot start without a functioning masterdatabase, you must administer this database with care.The [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Silverlight TV 10: Silverlight Hyper Video Project with Jesse Liberty

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 10 ! In episode 10 Jesse Liberty makes his first appearance on Silverlight TV and discusses the Silverlight Hyper Video Platform (SLHVP). Jesse is a brilliant person and a great guy to have...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-24 more

Silverlight installation experience guidance posted

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Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Popfly Game Creator Alpha Goes Live!

Today we went live with the Popfly Game Creator Alpha!  What
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #102

When calculating the positions of objects such as Images make certain to use integer values not floating point values. For example, take a look at this code that centers a map around a given position: private void CenterMap( double windowWidth, double...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Introducing Blacklight - our new (Silverlight) CodePlex project

Hey - very exciting news today... I finally have a CodePlex project set up. From the site... 'Blacklight is a UX focused code sharing project. Microsoft has released a bunch of technologies that allow designers and developers to work closely together to make beautiful software. This project is a collection of controls, samples, visual assets and ideas that has been put together by User Experience designers and developers to both show you what the technology is capable of (from a UX point of vi
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Dew Drop - May 21, 2009

  .NET / Visual Studio Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) and   Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent and   Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and   Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) and   F# May 2009 CTP (MS Downloads) Entity Framework 4.0: Scalar and Void Functions (Dan Rigsby) Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet (Dan Fernandez) IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and   IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 (Harry Pierson) General Download of VS2010 / .NET
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Microsoft System Center will manage Linux apps and assets

In case you missed it, this is from 6 weeks ago, on a Port25 post from Sam Ramji: Today, Bob Muglia and Brad Anderson announced that System Center will have the ability to deliver automated management across heterogeneous IT environments, such as UNIX and Linux. What I see as a best practice for commercial and community engagement with open source technology plays a big part in this. Specifically, Microsoft will deliver an agent infrastructure and management packs (MPs) for monitoring Linux and.
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

New Web Services Features in Silverlight 2 RTW

Here is an overview of the new features added since Beta 2. SOAP Headers SOAP headers were a big customer request, so we have added headers support in this release. There are two methods to use headers, depending on the customer scenario. The easier method...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Blogs are the Most Important Innovation of the 21st Century

A case could be made that blogs and blog hosting websites like WordPress and Blogger are, so far,the most important innovation of this century, technological or otherwise. Prior to the advent of blogs, publishing online was a task reserved for the computer savvy. Sure, sites like Geocities and Tripod lowered the barrier, but still required a good deal of work and at leasta passing familiarity with HTML. It wasn't until blogs that the average person - my mom, my grandfather, etc. - could, with a
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

Barry Gervin: Expression Blend for Developers @ TechDays Toronto

As I write this, we
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Silverlight unit testing templates updated

Getting into the habit of unit testing your Silverlight applications is a little easier now. I posted updated templates for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework on the MSDN Code Gallery site. There are project and item templates for Visual C# as well as...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-25 more

Remedie

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Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension

On the Silverlight team, I use this Visual Studio 2010 extension to keep my comments looking pretty....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-27 more

Extensible Test Assertions With MSTest VSTS

If you have used more than one unit test framework (i.e. xUnit.NET, NUnit, MSTest/VSTS, etc.), chances are that youll miss features from one when using another. In particular, MSTest/VSTS is lagging behind the crowd as its stuck in an NUnit circa 2002 (2.0) API for assertions and test attributes. This is what happens when you have a product that has to honor backwards compatibility even at the expense of usability and/or evolution of coding styles and API design. Compare that with xUnit.NET, whi
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight - Tim Heuer

I saw a note on Twitter come through yesterday about building pixel shaders for Silverlight in Visual Studio. The question, from @blamborn was: Does anyone know if there is a Shader Effects BuildTask like the #WPF one here http://bit.ly/gCkNT only for #Silverlight? I replied that you can use the same build task and thought I had written my work around on how to do that, but apparently I never clicked published somewhere along the line. I recall doing some work for this for a presentation a w
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

NWA DNUG: Jay Smith Intro to Agile

Come join the NWA .NET User Group on February 10 at 5:30 PM and learn about Advanced LINQ and Agile Development! (Please be aware that the NWA .NET User Group meetings have moved to the 2nd Tuesday of the month) Lightning Presentation Title: Advanced LINQ Description: Since its arrival, LINQ has proved its power to me over and over.  I find that it speeds up development and leaves behind code that is more maintainable than ever.  The goal of this presentation is to show you how even the mos
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Survey finds disaster recovery is the top issue for organisations

Headlines on PublicTechnology.net/technews - latest incoming news from across the web
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Sneak Peek of the Next MSDN Flash Newsletter

Next week my focus turns to an eight city series of MSDN Unplugged events to help web developers get ready for the upcoming release of Silverlight 2 and prepare for what you will see announced at PDC in late October. The session is titled Get Ready for Cloud-Based Services, IE8 & Silverlight 2. I will discuss briefly readiness and enhancements with Internet Explorer 8. I will introduce Silverlight 2 and WPF 3.5 for developers focused on service enabled rich client development and then lead into.
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Telerik Blogs

Feed Category: Feed Directory / Blogs / Developer Main Telerik Blogs Feed.Telerik: ASP.NET AJAX
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Silverlight Attached Behavior and Commands

Recently, I am doing some research related to Attached Behavior and Command. The attached Behavior and Command features are only available in Silverlight 3 Beta and also Blend 3 Preview. If you want to experience how useful is it, please install those...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Will Silverlight prohibit open source applications?

A little stream-of-consciousness sleuthing into the Microsoft Silverlight Pre-Release Software License Terms, Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has me thinking about an interesting potential future scenario. The Silverlight 2 Beta 2 licensing terms, while in no way guaranteed to be the same terms as the final license, have an interesting side-effect: they appear to prohibit developers from writing open source applications. The relevant portions of the Beta 2 EULA are quoted here (my emphasis):
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Some Great Information Posted on the Silverlight 2 DataGrid

Scott Morrison has a great post on the Silverlight 2 DataGird.  There is everything you ever wanted to know about the Grid...  I bet you didn't know you could do so much..  Accessibility, Performance, Auto-sizing, sorting, re-ordering,...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

All the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit Presentations are online.

Please find all the presentation of the ESRI Developer Summit available for download. Youll find there great resources for the Silverlight and the Flex API including videos. http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/devsummit09/index.html I had a little presentation as well there that you can download. Download my slides. Extending, Customizing, and Implementing the Situational Awareness Bundle In this demo, we will explore the fundamental steps for developing, extending, and customizin
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

3D Capabilities in Silverlight 3

In this article, Sergey examines the 3D capabilities in Silverlight 3 that were not supported in previous versions of Silverlight. It became possible in Silverlight 3 to create 3D projections of content in an application. Sergey provides a detailed explanation of the various aspects with relevant source code examples along with screen shots including the usage of animation.
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Latest Example ReadWriteWeb: A-list bloggers are so confused about RIA technologies

Yesterday I wrote about how several A-list bloggers are confused about various Rich Internet Application technologies and don
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Online Operating System Brings Windows Vista Experience Within The Browser !

Really we don
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Silverlight - Databinding Images to URIs

Mike's already blogged about this one so I'll simply highlight his post. I was building a simple music jukebox app to demo OpenFileDialog and IsolatedStorage. You can select some tracks to play and add them to a queue. The queue is maintained in isolated storage so queued tracks persist through a re-start. The app also uses a bit of WCF to resolve the URIs for the album cover image and the wma file. All was well until I came to databind the images. This had worked when I'd set the image source
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Silverlight 4 Tools, WCF RIA Services and Themes Released

This morning we published the final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio and WCF RIA Services . In April, when Silverlight 4 was released, the tools were still in
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

SharePoint Saturday Kansas City - My Day of Endurance

SharePoint Saturday Kansas City - My Day of Endurance For anyone new I met yesterday I probably don't remember your name I am really sorry.  You see yesterday I was pushing myself to the limit in a couple of weeks and my body was not all too happy.  When I got home I watched an episode of House with my boyfriend and called it a night sometime around 11 pm.  I never go to bed before midnight and I was exhausted and passed right out until 12 pm the next day.  Today I am going to be taking
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Game Contest

Check out  the latest Silverlight game submissions to the Mashooo S Prize. Feel free to comment and rate your favorite games so they could move one step closer to the prize.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Expandable panel inside a GridView

Another way to expand a detail panel inside a gridview... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-18 more

SharePoint Customizations - Answered ASAP

I try to keep a list of everything I can't find on the internet that I find an answer for. If you have any questions I would be glad to answer them if I can. I am only quite frequently as well.   read more By Mitch McMillan Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Watch Indian Union Budget Online

This is the first time in India when people can watch Indian union budget online. Economic Times of India is going to use Microsoft Silverlight Technology to stream live Indian union reported by Vasudev . According to Vasudev The event will be hosted at http://budgetlive.economictimes.com You can also get minute-by-minute update and live news feeds if you are interested in specific parts of the budget. Powered by Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension

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Publication date: 2010-03-22 more

Get Started with Expression 3: Watch Videos and Tutorials

Learn how to get started using Expression Studio 3 by watching these free videos and tutorials that cover Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design, and Expression Encoder.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

What is .NET RIA Services?

Yesterday at Mix we announced .NET RIA Services
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Silverlight 2 Beta2

Silverlight Beta2 is officially out in the wild! All the required download links to get started are here: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 runtime Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight Tools Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview ......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-11 more

ReSharper 4.1 Ready For Download

The folks at JetBrains released a new version of ReSharper today. You can download the new version, ReSharper 4.1, from here. They state that they improved ReSharper to work better with Visual Studio 2008 SP 1, they improved ReSharper's performance, and they added better ASP.NET support. One of... [This is a summary. Visit my web site for full links, content and more.] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 art
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Silverlight vs Google Wave, It

It seems Silverlight and Googe Wave are like apple and orange. How could they be compared. ZOHO CEO Sridhar Vembu did just that with emails and blogging . Vermbu has been taking on Salesforce.com and now obviously Microsoft. Does he have good points this time? I think so and the comparison is reasonable after reading along. As Vermbu wrote,
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Become a Design All-Star - Check out the new .toolbox design program for Silverlight!

What a ride this has been! This is what I and other more than 30 people from different companies have been working on together for the last 6 months: .toolbox. A bit more than a week away from when we went live we already have around 2,500 students from...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

Local Messaging Samples

I posted the Local Messaging samples I showed at Mix 2009 including the Bouncing Balls sample and the Chess Wars application. Click here to run the Bouncing Balls application (you
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Azure Simon

David Kelley announces that Davide Zordan posted a version of Silverlight Simon up in the cloud . Davide had also added multi touch support to the WPF version. You can check out the code on the codeplex project http://Simon.codeplex.com/  
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Tutorials Dive Deep

The next phase of my Silverlight Tutorials will concentrate on more advanced topics. I
Publication date: 2008-08-04 more

Intel announces Moblin 2.1 for phones

Intel has just announced a new version of the Moblin user interface, 2.1. The UI runs on an Atom-based device and it has been redesigned for handhelds. During the presentation, Intel also displayed a Smartphone running the OS as well and proclaimed:
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

MVVM with Prism 101

This is the second post in a series of articles about implementing the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) architectural pattern for Silverlight/WPF. MVVM in itself is not a complex pattern, however having a framework can reduce the work required to accomplish more advanced scenarios. For example, communicating between modules in a loosely coupled way requires some sort of event framework. Prism provides this and I
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

DotNetRocks - Show #441 - Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3.0

Shawn Wildermuth talks about the new features in Silverlight 3.0. Shawn brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. Lots of great tips!
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

The Democrats Lose: Comparing the Convention Web Sites

I've been fighting this sinking feeling that we're headed for another four years (or eight) of a Republican President. Not that I have anything against John McCain except that I'll never vote for him. But I'm a pretty staunch Democrat, and it'd be nice to blame my own party for the world's problems for a change. In the last presidential election, I formulated a theory that the most social media-savvy party would win. John Kerry and the DNC pretty much screwed the pooch every chance they got. B
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

The Morning Brew #300

Another Morning Brew Milestone edition today, marking the 300th daily post of links. I had hoped to include a few little extras in today
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Times Reader finally coming to Mac

My name is David and I'm a news junky. My default browser site is Google news, and I spend way too much time browsing random news stories when I should be working on other things. That said, the New York Times is one of my favorite news resources. One of the cooler innovations of the online New York Times is their Times Reader, an application that displays the last seven days of the New York Times. This is great for commuters who wish to read the news while not being connected to the internet
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Apple is like Microsoft

That was my first thought after seeing the news that Google CEO Dr Eric Schmidt is leaving the Apple board . Steve Jobs: Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Dazzling Silverlight and SharePoint at SSWUG VConference

Here is the slide deck link: http://cid-8e2654c5f01e6069.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Presentations/Dazzling%20SharePoint%20with%20Silverlight.pptx Here are the code samples webservice and all: http://cid-8e2654c5f01e6069.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/CodeSamples?uc=1 If you have questions or comments don
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Imaginalaxy.com - A Photo Sharing Community Of Its Own

What it does There are a plethora of image hosting services, and the startup under review right now is an addition to that family. In this particular case, it aims to provide users with a more realized experience by letting them create an
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Course 2310C: Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Course 2310C: Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 | 5.06 GB Length: 5 Day(s) | Published: April 24, 2008 | Audience(s): Developers | Language: English This five-day instructor-led course will teach introductory-level Web developers the fundamentals of Web application development and best practices for Microsoft Web development technologies, including ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, and Silverlight. This course focuses on using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 d
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

MIX 10: Silverlight 4 Business Applications

Another talk, another blog post.  As you can see, my blog posts are like my babies
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

Flash Platform Steams Ahead, Makes BBC Headlines

Admittedly it is not very often that Flash makes the news pages, but today is different . In what is obviously a key part of their Open Screen initiative, Adobe has just announced it has secured a deal to put Flash directly into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes, essentially enabling any device that contains such a chip (there will be millions if not billions of them shipping over the next few years) to run Flash natively. The article goes on to describe the use cases fo
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

PollingDuplex scaling in Windows Azure

One of the great sessions at this year
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Controls Collection Cannot Be Modified Issue with ASP.NET MVC RC1

In my last post, I announced the happy news that the Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC is available. In this post, I say mea culpa for a known bug within this release. This bug is a consequence of a change we made in our default template. We know have a content placeholder in the section of the Site.master page. ... Did you know that DotNetS
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #39

Effects applied to toolbars are raising in popularity especially the zoom effect. For the purpose of this tip, I have created my own implementation of the zoom effect when applied to a toolbar. To preview the demo visit this link: http://silverlight.services...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

How to Do Everything Microsoft Expression Web 2

How to Do Everything Microsoft Expression Web 2 Product Description Master Microsoft Expression Web 2 Build dynamic, standards-based web sites for personal or professional use with help from this easy-to-follow guide. How to Do Everything: Microsoft Expression Web 2 shows you how to use all of the versatile features this powerful web design tool has to offer. Screenshots along with detailed text demonstrate how to build your site, style it with Cascading Style Sheets, add multimedi
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Adobe Flash and Silverlight Agenda?

Adobe Flash and Silverlight Agenda? Posted on May 7, 2008 Filed Under The Yard | Leave a Comment Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Are You Going to Mix09 in Las Vegas?

by Brian Solis Explore the future of the Web with fellow developers and designers at MIX09 , March 18 - 20, 2009 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. There are two ways to go: One, click here to save $300 if you register by 2/27. The second, you could win a COMPLIMENTARY pass by sending a tweet to @briansolis right now that explains in 140 characters what you hope to accomplish or learn at #Mix09 - make sure to include the hashtag. Update: All passes have been awarded.
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Dependency Properties Background for Custom Controls

In  a previous post I began talking about Custom Controls, and I will continue that discussion over the next few days and weeks even as I start producing videos on the topic. It turns out that the more you look at Custom Controls, the deeper you get into the Silverlight UI architecture, and there is much to see. As an example of this phenomenon, in writing about Custom Controls, you quickly realize that sooner or later you must describe and explain the Dependency Properties System in Silverlight
Publication date: 2008-09-18 more

DeepZoom Composer Stitched Photos

Using the latest version of DeepZoom Composer I stitched these photos… I love DeepZoom Composer!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-03 more

Twitter..... Ah MAN !!!

... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video

We
Publication date: 2009-12-09 more

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Guide updated

Last year I wrote a post on the steps needed to become a MCPD on the .NET framework version 2.0. Now that the new .NET 3.5 certification track is available I think I need to update it with the new information. MCPD Certifications As with the 2.0 track, the 3.5 has the same 3 certification types: MCPD Web Developer MCPD Windows Developer MCPD Enterprise Application Developer The difference with the 2.0 track is that, while the first 2 still require 3 exams, the Enterprise Application... Did you k
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Akamai CTO: Adaptive Streaming from Adobe and Microsoft Will be Big in 2009

Adaptive streaming, the technology which allows high quality streaming video to play properly over Internet connections of ranging connection speeds, has been a part of the big success of Move Networks, a Utah company which provides the online video platform for ABC Television and others.  The quality is stunning.  Here's my interview with Move CEO John Edwards.  Adobe, the preeminent player in online video streaming is making its own move into adaptive streaming, which it calls "dynamic" st
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Microsoft Canada, DemoCamp Edmonton 2, fusedlogic

Edmonton 2 about his position as a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Working with the .net framework and silverlight platform. Northern Alberta Business, Sherwood Park business, Edmonton business, Web 2.0 consulting firm, Canada Web 2.0, fusedlogic.blogspot.com, www.fusedlogic.com, Walter Schwabe, Sherwood Park Chamber of Commerce, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, blue monster, change the world or go home, Microsoft blue monster wine, gapingvoid,
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

4 New Silverlight Showcase Applications

Check out the 4 new applications in the Silverlight Showcase. Play an advanced version of WebDoku, view an Enterprise Training Portal using Deep Zoom and RSS integration, check out the Essilor corporate website, or view online pictures at Antionette Photography...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Non-Linear Navigation in Silverlight 4

In the last Seattle Silverlight User Group meeting I spoke about Non-Linear Navigation in Silverlight.  This blog post is a proof-of-concept for Non-Linear Navigation in Silverlight 4 Navigation Applications.  When I was first exploring this...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-08 more

Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance

Leading up the the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of eager Java developers. Here in San Francisco on Tuesday, the 12th annual JavaOne developers conference opened, still drawing throngs of the Java devoted. It
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Getting Started with Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone 7

I’ve gotten the Windows Phone App fever. The past few days I’ve been creating my first Silverlight applications for Windows Phone and I have to say I’m impressed with the development environment and the emulator. I’ve done a lot...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-01 more

VideoPlaza: right place and time for a video ad overlay service

Swedish video advertisement overlay service VideoPlaza has received
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Webhosting : What is Microsoft Silverlight?

Hostgator and Bluehost are our best webhosts and godaddy.com is the best domain registrar. This web hosting thread started by alisaqi 0n 24 April 2009 What is Microsoft Silverlight? I have a webserver which support .NET 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5, Does it require to install any thing else for support of Microsoft SilverLight as my clients are asking for Silverlight support. Discuss this at WHT or read more about bluehost and hostgator Similar Posts: Tech News : Mic
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

How to tell a Silverlight assembly from a .NET Framework one?

Silverlight 2 application code is compiled to Common IL and packaged into assemblies (.dll) which are in turn deflated into a Zip file (container with .xap extension). The IL is a CPU- and platform- independent instruction set. The Silverlight runtime...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Announcing the re-release of MSDN Code Search Preview

  Find More Code Samples on MSDN using MSDN Code Search Preview
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

NGP Software: Front-End Developer

Location: Washington, DC URL: http://www.ngpsoftware.com Do you have a passion for producing clean, smart, and efficient code and can communicate and play well with others in a fast-paced, politically liberal, software product environment, get in touch! DESCRIPTION The Front-End Web Application Developer position collaborates with our User Experience Designer, Product Managers and Software Engineers to build a dynamic, responsive user interface for our suite of web products. You will be r
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to Dynamic Data Part 2 - Editable Data and INotifyPropertyChanged

In a previous post Colin Eberhardt demonstrated a technique for binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data . With his next blog post Colin extends the previously described method by adding change notification . In my previous blog post I described a method for solving the commonly faced problem of binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data, the form of which is not know at compile time. This blog post extends on the method previously described, adding change notification, allowing
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Expression Studio Resources - now including myself, Adam Kinney

Before MIX09, I was completely prepared for the new features in Silverlight 3 that we demoed for the first time in public. It was my job to know and I was excited to see the features released. What I wasn
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Functional Programming Battles GOTOzilla

Steve Wellens had a recent blog post arguing for the use of a goto in C# (see: Why goto Still Exists in C#). Steve had a series of methods he wants to execute, but he wants to stop if any given method returns false. At the end of the post, Steve decided that the following code with goto was better than setting boolean variables: // DoProcess using goto void DoProcess3() { LOG("DoProcess Started..."); if (Step1() == false) goto EXIT; if (Step2() == false) goto EXIT;
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

056 - Paolo Barone on academia, XNA, Silverlight, Twitter and Windows 7

Podcast feed - subscribe here! In this show, I
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls

My how things have changed in a couple short years. Two years ago, in 2006, there were essentially two viable Ruby implementations: Matz's Ruby 1.8.x codebase, and JRuby. At the time, JRuby was just barely starting to run Rails. I consider that a sort of "singularity" in the lifetime of an implementation, the inflection point at which it becomes more than a toy. (OT: these days, I consider the ability to run Rails faster than Matz's Ruby a better inflection point, but we've had the Rails thing
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

SQLAuthority News Best Practices for Integration Services Configurations

This article explains what SQL Server Integration Services configurations are used for, why you should use Integration Services configurations, and what options you have for leveraging configurations. It will also make some simple recommendations that are based on my experiences of building Integration Services packages in a real-world environment. An understanding of the terms package, [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We a
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

JavaFX Announced...

URL: http://www.javafx.com/ JavaFX was announced at JavaOne this week. What is it? Its a RIA platform for creating compelling in-browser applications. Certainly this looks like its a competitor for Flash and Silverlight. Interestingly, instead of being able to write Java (at least from the quick look I had), it looks like they created a new script language (called JavaFX Script) for it. Seems like a step backwards...but that's just me. What it does have going for it that Silverlight does
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

A bit more(er) than meets the eye [Easily animate and update LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator!]

Yesterday I posted the code for AnimationMediator, a simple Mediator class to make it easy to animate the Transitions of a LayoutTransformer . Today, Silverlight Toolkit teammate Ted Glaza asked why the LayoutTransformerName property was present and I...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Central Coast Code Camp - Sept 27th & 28th

The second Central Coast Code Camp will be held September 27th and 28th, 2008, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. (Home of UFC Champion Chuck "The Ice Man" Liddell) I can't make it so send me a full report ! http://www.centralcoastcodecamp.com... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Internet Download Manager 5.15 Build 6+Crack

Internet Download Manager 5.15 Build 6+Crack Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that featur
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

MIX09: Delivering Ads to a Silverlight Media Player Application

Learn how to add instream and companion ads (in Flash and Silverlight formats) to a Silverlight media player application. See real-world examples of how to use IAB's VAST and VPAID guidelines as well as other methods to display instream video advertisements along with companion display ads. Nicholas Brookins Nicholas Brookins is a Product Architect at Akamai Technologies, the leading managed services provider for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Microsoft .Net RIA Services

Microsoft officials rolled out the delivery timetable for .Net RIA Services via a blog post :
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Web Campaign Targets IE 6 Use

A Norwegian Web portal has begun a campaign to kill the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Silverlight, Educational Charity and Funny Accents

I love office (as a shareholder) and I live in Word, though I'll keep my thoughts about the ribbon to myself. All of that aside, the Australia Office folks used Silverlight to create a fund raising site on the premise of "sit through a short...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Multi-Page Applications in Silverlight

I wanted to build a multi-page (Search - Results) application when I realized that isn't really our model. Fortunately, I wrote to Ashish Shetty , who combines enormous knowledge with enormous kindness, and even though he is in the middle of blogging...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-31 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #67

1. Debugging The following items will help you debug performance in your Silverlight application: EnableRedrawRegions
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Getting More Traffic To Your Site With An SEO Agency

Everyone knows that major principle of running a successful online business is attracting visitors to your website. If people do not visit your website, chances are, you will not have conversions as well. Generating traffic to your site is possible, you could do it yourself, or you could get an SEO Agency to do this. Prior to do that, do research on Outsourcing SEO , some companies offer great service and reasonable SEO pricing . There are many possibilities to do proper SEO on your own.
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

How to Create an Email Opt-In Form with a Third Party Email Service (AWeber) using DataSprings Dynamic Forms

This tutorial demonstrates how to add an opt-in email form to a DotNetNuke page and send those details to a third party email newsletter service such as AWeber. If you have used a service such as AWeber before, you will be aware that when you create a newsletter group they will provide you with some HTML form code to add into your HTML pages. DotNetNuke doesn't allow you to paste HTML code for a form directly into a DotNetNuke page, so you need to use a module such as DataSprings Dynamic Form
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

Using ASP.NET Authentication in a Web Service with Silverlight

A reader recently asked me to expand on the ASP.NET Authentication + Silverlight concept I started.. Specifically they wanted to do know how they can have a web service that returns different results depending on who calls the service (and what role they...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-23 more

Dew Drop - February 28, 2009

  Silverlight / WPF Twilight 1.5: Multiple Views with MVVM (Bryant Likes) Silverlight-based Gaming is about to explode (Adam Kinney) Building a WPF Application: Part 5 (Christopher Bennage) Learn Prism (Blaine Wastell) ElementRecycler for Silverlight and WPF (Chris Cavanagh) Creating Master Pages in Windows Presentation Foundation (Azam) Title less Windows in WPF (Marlon Grech) Silverlight Tip of Day #97
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

ToolBox Panels

Lately I
Publication date: 2008-11-10 more

Updated Code: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates

I have updated the project templates Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates.  The Silverlight template needed an update to the .proj file. Please download the templates from the above post. Sorry for the problem. Close Have a great...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

And you thought the Olympic Silverlight app was Sexy?

And you thought the Olympic Silverlight app was Sexy? Posted by on August 15th, 2008 Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Here
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Using Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

I previously wrote about taking CSS beyond a simple style library by writing HTML thats easy to style. Id like to go into one point in a bit more detail avoiding class explosion by leveraging descendant selectors: You might think that really stylable HTML needs classes all over the place. That's not true, thanks to descendant selectors, which let you target elements inside a parent element. For instance, descendant selectors will let you style all elements which appear inside a
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Windows Vista Cyber Edition 2009 x86 SP2 v2 ENG | 2.83 GB

Windows Vista Cyber Edition 2009 x86 SP2 v2 ENG | 2.83 GB --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows Vista Cyber Edition 2009 x86 SP2 v2 ENG : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Viruses, Malwares and Backdoors. Tested with Kaspersky, NOD32, Avast and AVG 8.0 Author: UNDEADCROWS Platform: Windows Vista Compilation Date: 08.06.2009 Version: Based on V
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Silverlight bookshelf from SilverlightShow

SilverlightShow.net is one of those great community sites providing information, tutorials and general developer information around Silverlight . They
Publication date: 2010-07-07 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 5/7/2008+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. LINQ, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, SQL Server Data Services, Data Synchronization, and SQL Server Compact at Tech*Ed The following two posts of May 8, 2008 list and describe the sessions at Tech*Ed 2008 North America Developers, June 3-6, 2008, in the Orange County Convention Center, North/South Building, Orlando, Florida, that a related to this blog's primary topics: LINQ and Enti
Publication date: 2008-05-09 more

Silverlight DataForm helpers

If you looked at the updated RIA Services Business Application template which had the authentication built-in, you may have seen the login screen with a little icon next to the password field: When you hover over this some helpful information displays...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Austria ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

ReMix in Vienna, Austria was really great.  The attendees were very engaged and the venue was quite nice.  Simon Guest gave the keynote and did a very nice job of bring together SketchFlow , .NET RIA Services and Sql Azure .  I had the opportunity give the Silverlight 3 overview today and again I had fun doing it.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Silverlight DeepZoom as an Ad Unit (MPU)

It turns out that the members of the Storm Ideas Team are big fans of Silverlight DeepZoom so they decided to create a prototype MPU for RoadRecord.co.uk . The MPU itself presents an image of a F1 car which in turn is made up of hundreds of images of cars which have been uploaded to the RoadRecord site. In place of the drivers visor is another image, this time of the RoadRecord logo, which is again made up of images which have been uploaded to the site.
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

My ASP.NET MVC stack and why I chosen it

In my current project I'm starting to develop a new web application using ASP.NET MVC and given all the environmental conditions, choosing the stack, from the tools to the libraries was not an easy task. I had to come to a few compromise to cope with all the different "forces" involved, so I though it would have been a good idea to share my reasoning and the final decision to show an example how an architect that works in "normal" company (as opposed to HeadSpring and such kind of on-the-edge co
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Venezuelan Cedula de Identidad

Regexp to validate Venezuelan Id number Or Cedula de identidad. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Nasa Tv

Nasa Tv , Interested by the NASA
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

How do you know INotifyPropertyChanged is Working

Today I had the great enjoyment to make two presentations to the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference here in Atlantic City. While showing DataBinding, I became interested in demonstrating the effects of INotifyPropertyChanged, The basic mechanism...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Sessions from MIX 10

I had a great time at MIX 10 last week meeting so many people and being part of so  much of the activities. One of the side effects is that it was next to impossible to catch all of the great content while at MIX, so I
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

Whose Microsoft is it anyway?

This is the difficult question that everyone will be tuning into Digital WPC to find out. With Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

View Hard Rock's Dinosaur Memorabilia (Through The Past Darkly)

The Hard Rock Cafe isn't really my idea of a good time, although the one in Vegas has a decent music venue and a nice selection of blackjack tables. But thanks to its new memorabilia site, it's now possible to check out 257 of the items on display at the chain's various locations without actually going there. You can sort the shots by genre, decade, type or location, and each one comes with a little nugget of information. Regardless of whether you're curious about John Lennon's handwritte
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Writing Your Own Silverlight Chart Series (Part 2): Implementing the Series

This is the second part in a series of three that explains how you can add series to Silverlight Charts.   We'll look at how Silverlight Chart's rich hierarchy of interfaces allow developers to create series that can play well with all the built...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Docs for Silverlight 4 RC now available

See the online MSDN docs or get the Silverlight 4 RC Offline MSDN Documentation CHM . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

silverlight 2 & Net.Framework SP1 wont go into my computer

is acts as though it installs the Net.Framework version 1.1 SP1 but it is still there the silverlight critical update kb955011>>>error code 80946007 and I keep getting messages saying that item I want must have been moved and it is happning on alot of stuff--sadly I'm not very savy on here but I need HELP I wish there was a way for one of the MVP or other Advanced tech would take over my computer and get it back down to earth-it was New in Feb Inspiron531s Vista Home Prem I will
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Silverlight 3 Beta Bugs

If you're developing using the Silverlight 3 Beta, you may run into some bugs. Here is a short list of the more aggregious ones ....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

RIM bringing Silverlight and Flash to BlackBerry Devices

The word has been dropped by BGR that RIM may soon be loading Silverlight and Flash on BlackBerry devices. With Flash being one of the most sought after features this can only be taken as extremely good news for BlackBerry owners, as at present there are no workarounds or even third party apps that will allow Flash video content on BlackBerry devices. Sorry, no solid word on any release details yet, but as I
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Demos Featuring RadControls for Silverlight

As you should know by now, Telerik is pushing hard to build one of the highest-performing, most complete set of LOB controls for Silverlight. We've already introduced many of the core controls required by LOB apps- like RadTreeView, RadGauges, RadDragDropFramework, and RadNavigation- and we've got many more planned for our rapidly approaching Q1 release, such as a very powerful DataGrid and Charts for Silverlight. And while it's great to have all of these controls available, you really need to
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

SQL Data Services - SQL Server in the Cloud !

REALLY distributed architectures are playing a bigger and bigger role in application development these days and Azure is an exciting bit of "Cloud" based technology. Check out ..... SQL Data Services Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-03-01 more

YouTube Meets Hulu, Sort Of; Shows Premium Pay Potential

YouTube is going live with a new way to look at "thousands of television shows," a better landing page for movies (expanded from a few dozen to a library of hundreds) and a wider rollout of in-stream ads. (It's supposed to launch at 8 p.m. ET.) What it's not : a massive redesign or the launch of a premium pay area. But Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) CEO Eric Schmidt hinted at the possibilities during the company's earnings call , referring to upcoming plans for micropayments and subscriptions on You
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #43: Making it Snow in Silverlight

I am not a big fan of winter, being that summer is my favorite season. However, this morning I woke up and heard it
Publication date: 2008-09-23 more

Twenty Five Years

25 years ago Microsoft Word was released And 25 years ago, today, I got married. Today I received this card from my wife... with this inside This is the secret to a great marriage and a great company....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Custom Sort Icons with Silverlight 2's DataGrid Control

While looking through the control templates for Silverlight 2's DataGrid, I noticed the DataGridColumnHeader defines a couple of StoryBoards that allow you to control how the headers are displayed as they pass through the three column states: {Sorted Ascending, Sorted Descending, Unsorted}. And without too much work you can override the default display and customize it to your liking. I took a crack at overriding these states to mimic the icons the awesome jquery tablesorter plugin uses - below
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Building Business Applications with Silverlight?

I'd love to hear feedback and thoughts you have about building business focused applications with Silverlight.  What is motivating you to consider Silverlight?  if you have already started to evaluating, what is easy or hard about it? Related...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Include Some Flash Animations Onto Your Website

It should be a piece of cake to increase the number of daily website visitors nowadays given that there are plenty of existing strategies for search engines to function effectively. Rating: 0.0/5 (... Writers Wanted: Join Our Blogging Community Today!
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

OpenId Part Three: Authorization

As promised in part two, Ill close the loop on OpenId by talking briefly about authorization. Weve already seen how to authenticate, so once youve got an authenticated OpenId identifier, the trick is what to do with it. This does not end up being all that exciting; in my case linked back to an identifier column in my user table and to get information about the newly logged in user. Based on characteristics of that user, I could then determine their authorization level or roles. Stick the roles i
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Extensible Templates in Deep Zoom Composer

In the previous post , I started talking about some of the collection-related improvements we made in Deep Zoom Composer. The crux of that post was describing how you can defer to the Silverlight application the task of arranging and positioning your images. Deep Zoom Composer ships with one basic template, based on my earlier Tag Browser, that handles simple arrangement of like-sized images during runtime. Of course, there are many more things that you may want to do beyond just having ite
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Kelley Blue Book Perfect Car Finder

Why tramp around car lots in the heat or rain when you can check out geographic availability, price, and even customer ratings of your favorite vehicles on a single Web site? Kelley Blue Book is using Microsoft Silverlight to give consumers an easy interactive...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

6 New Community Gallery Entries

Check out realistic 3D eyeballs watch your every move, view animation shapes using PlaneRunner , add interactive maps with Map Suite Silverlight Edition . Find inspiration and upload your Silverlight projects to share with the community in the Gallery...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Super Simple MVC Ajax With JQuery Demo

During the recent Insiders summit, Wally cornered me into recording a really short video demonstrating a feature of ASP.NET MVC. I decided to sprinkle a little Ajax in my demo by showing how to use jQuery to call an action that returns a JsonResult. Specifically, I show how to update a couple of regions in the page (two dom elements) with data pulled from the server. I then add a little sparkle to the demo by implementing the ubiquitous yellow fade when adding the content to the DOM. As youre wa
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight Tower Defense

Silverlight Tower Defense , as the name implies, is a tower defense game written in Silverlight. This tower defense game is a bit different from other tower defense games. The goal is to defend your area from the onslaught of 100 different waves of enemies. The difference is the path is a simple fastest straight line path from the beginning to the exit. The exit and entrance is marked by gaps in the borders of the game board. The
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Microsoft to Users: "If you want XP, buy Vista"

The title might seem absurd or down right stupid to you, but it is true nevertheless. A couple of weeks back we reported that June 30th, 2008 would be the last day when Microsoft will ever sell Windows XP. Back than we didn
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

ChangeableObject and ValueConverter: databinding conveniences

A couple more bits of code that others might find useful... Whenever I do databinding-intensive apps (both Silverlight & WPF), I find myself writing a fair amount of boilerplate code. If you want change notifications on your class, you need to inherit...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Win a Silverlight skateboard!

Participate in this contest and win a pass for the Australian REMIX event plus a Silverlight branded skateboard… Courtesy of Shane Morris....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-28 more

Silverlight Fifteen Puzzle

Silverlight Fifteen Puzzle Posted by on June 22nd, 2008 Here
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

Code Snippet Manager in Java and Swing

Simple code snippet manager created using Java and Swing. The idea of the app is to be used on presentations when you need to paste all kind of snippets ( html,xaml, C#, java ). The similar tool is used by Karen Corby in MIX09 presentation about creating silverlight controls. The Swing version of code snippet manager is available at it has the fallowing features: - insert snippet from clipboard - delete selected snippet - insert separator - save all snippets to XML file - load snippets from XML
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Easy cross-site scripting using the easyXSS library

How to use the easyXSS javascript library to transmit messages and method calls between windows in different domains... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

I planted a virtual tree

I planted a virtual tree July 1, 2008 07:58 by OffBeatMammal My tree at Carbon Grove Thanks to the folks on the Internet Explorer team I planted a Virtual tree. I
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

September 9th 2008 say goodbye to your laser mouse.

I have a little problem with buying a new mouse once in a while, my wife has the same problem with shoes. I dont try to understand it, I just let it be. A new mouse is coming out from Microsoft on September 9th that I must have. Like any gadget, this one has something new, better than laser. Microsoft claims that will be able to be used in any surface. What can be better than laser? And whats that great blue glow the radiates? Worth to get a mouse that glows I may add. So I am going to spoil...
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Silverlight TV Episode 2

Thank you to everyone for watching Silverlight TV on Channel 9 ! We have been getting some great feedback on what we should include in future shows. We
Publication date: 2010-01-18 more

Download the Security Development Lifecycle Optimization Model

Self-assess your current state of application security and create a strategy and road map to progressively attain measurable security improvements with the Security Development Lifecycle Optimization Model.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Uploading & Downloading Files using ASP.NET

This article will explain about the steps to upload the file as BLOB into the DB. Also explains about the steps to render the file with the specific content type, so that it gets opened in approrpiate software related to the file type.  read more By Aravind Kumar Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

New Development Snapshot

Yet more changes to support -sharedclassloader and while I was at FOSDEM I tried running SPECjvm2008 so I did the fixes necessary to get that to run. Note that if you want to run SPECjvm2008, you'll have to generate rt.jar (ikvmstub -shared ikvm.openjdk.core && ren IKVM.OpenJDK.Core.jar rt.jar) and create an ikvm.exe.config file to set the boot class path to rt.jar: Changes: Implemented JPEGImageWriter.getDefaultWriteParam(). ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles writ
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Silverlight Twitter Tips Launches

Very proud to announce the launch of #stwip -  si lverlight tw itter t ip s. Find them by following my Tweets or by the meme...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Silverlight Podcast: Accessibility with Silverlight

After a short break, our third Silverlight podcast is now available. This podcast features Sean Hayes of the Microsoft Accessibility Business Unit. It is about accessibility on the web, with Silverlight and the Accessible Media Project. Listen to the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

Check us out at TechEd North America 2009

I hope you enjoy the content we post on this blog. I
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Getting Started with TDD

Recently DannyT wrote on the altdotnet list: On our next project I really want to nail unit testing and possibly even test driven development. My issue however is none of our team has any experience of either so we will be starting totally green. ... My question however is, with a goal of wanting to adopt TDD eventually, are we better off starting this next project by writing some unit tests and getting a feel for it and leaving TDD til next time or would it be more advantageous to go balls
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Nokia improves on Series 40

With the impending release of the iPhone's version 2.0 firmware, Nokia is also improving on its Series 40 line of mobile phones. The sixth edition adds several new and improved features such as support for JSR-179 (Location API for JavaME) and JSR-205 (Wireless Messaging API 2.0), support for Flash Lite 3, and Web browser supporting HTML 4.01, CSS2, Javascript 1.5 and even AJAX. The first phone to use this new release will be the Nokia 7510 Supernova phone. More information on their website.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Community Server 2008.5 Beta is now available

In case you missed Rob's announcement yesterday... http://dev.communityserver.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2008/08/25/community-server-2008-5-fall-release-beta-1-now-available.aspx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Symmetry and Asymmetry using Expression Design

This Principles of Design Series video describes Symmetry and Asymmetry, two styles of composition you can use in your user interface design. Watch this video to learn more about these concepts while exploring Expression Design. There are 13 videos in...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Introduction to Java Structs

Web applications differ from conventional websites in that web applications can create a dynamic response. Many websites deliver only static pages. A web application can interact with databases and business logic engines to customize a response. Struts is a free open-source framework for creating Java web applications. In this article, Amarnath examines the concept of Java Structs in detail with the help of relevant code listings. He initially provides a brief coverage of the MVC architecture an
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Pogue

Im a fan of David Pogue. I like his podcast as he covers some cool gadgets and service in a bit of a no-nonsense way. I saw his site today and saw his pledge followed by my eye glancing at what I consider ads. Evidently David doesnt consider self promotion of goods and sale words like half-price or product placement words advertising. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution By license. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Links on a Rainy Sunday

It may not be raining where you are, but it is in Southern New England. Such a drab day, but it's time for linkage so let's get to it. Newsday's Neil Best goes over his week in blogging . Over to the New York Post's Phil Mushnick who says Bruce Springsteen handled a ticket reselling scheme better than MLB Walking, Talking Conflict of Interest Bud Selig (yeah, it's a stretch, be patient). Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News feels Charles Barkley's apology last Thursday did not carry mu
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Better WPF/Silverlight Development in F#: Attached Dependency Properties

A very common idiom in WPF/Silverlight is the attached property.  Attached properties are properties that only have meaning in certain contexts, usually in relation to another class.  Attached properties are everywhere in WPF/Silverlight. ...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-25 more

WriteableBitmap Sample

Here's the source to the WriteableBitmap sample I showed at Mix. The sample uses WriteableBitmap to take a "snapshot" of the running video to make a thumbnail. Click on the image below to run the sample. When running the sample, click on the running video...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

10 New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Gallery Entries!

The Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Community Gallery grew today to include 10 new submissions: a 1977 Chip8/SChip computer emulator, a 3D earth viewer, a chat client and more! The Silverlight 1.0 Community Gallery grew last week too, so do have a look!...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-24 more

Silverlight in Action Book Update

Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition (title likely to be changed to Silverlight 4 in Action) is almost complete. I've turned in all 25 chapters plus appendix, and had them go through editorial review, tech review, and copy editing. All the images are...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-28 more

Wimbledon Is Here and We

Can
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight

Tomorrow, July 7 th , 10AM PT, 1PM ET
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

Meet Silverlight Authors and Anders Hejlsberg at PDC

  Technorati Tags: PDC , PDC08 , PDC2008 , Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: PDC , PDC08 , PDC2008 , Silverlight There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book launchings, book signings and more. In addition...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-24 more

TechEd North America 2009 May 11-15: Register Today and Save US$200

Save US$200 when you register now! Join 9,000 of your peers to explore current and soon-to-be-released Microsoft technologies and products, including the Azure Services Platform and Visual Studio 2010.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Released

I am glad to announce that my favorite Silverlight Toolkit has a next release out for production use earlier release was in July 2009 and now its the October Release.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials for Silverlight Games

My next set of blogs will be about creating realistic terrain for games that have a birds eye perspective on the world. To start, I will be creating this tutorials: Creating a scrolling map. In this tutorial we will go over the basics needed to create...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Skyfire mobile smartphone browser now available

Skyfire has finally released the complete version of their smartphone mobile browser, promising a "PC-like web experience." The browser is a free download and will display pages almost exactly as they would appear on a PC, similar to the Safari browser for the popular Apple iPhone . Skyfire also notably supports Flash, Java, Silverlight and Ajax . The browser in its current form will run on all phones using Windows Mobile 5 or 6 and Symbian phones with Nokia's S60 platform.
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

What's new in Silverlight 2 Beta 2?

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 includes a number of incremental improvements based on customer feedback. Changes include improvements to controls, templating, Deep Zoom, performance, further compatibility with WPF, and much more. For a full list of changes, see...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Silverlight 4 Beta Announced at PDC09: Great Learning Material Too!

Silverlight 4 Beta was announced during the Wednesday keynote of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference PDC 2009 . The Silverlight product team has worked very hard to add several features, as you can see from the list below. There is a ton...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Building Silverlight code on machines without the SDK (guide & video)

A guide and walkthrough video showing how to setup a source enlistment to build Silverlight apps on machines without Silverlight or the SDK installed....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

For Me, Wine Is

For Me, Wine Is
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Startups welcome here – get a jumpstart with software you need

Are you a startup organization? Perhaps your the next greatest Silverlight control vendor or have a great app? I want to help. If you
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Why don't Beta 2 sites work on RC0 - Question of the Day

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   I've been getting a lot of questions and confusion around why you get the following strange behavior. "I've installed the RC0 developer runtime, and whenever I hit a Beta 2 site, I...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-10 more

Broadband Content Bits: HD iPlayer On Virgin: Shiny Media Video Ads; RAI Adds Live Streaming

Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

Visual Studio Documentary Part 1 & Part 2

I'm the last person to blog about this, but we've launched the Visual Studio documentary on Channel 9. I've embedded the videos below, Part 1 Part 2 We're also doing the full length interviews with all of the participants that will be posted over the next few weeks We're also going to be doing a screening at PDC on Monday from 6:30 - 7:30 PM so mark your calendars.    Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? W
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

James Ward on Flex, AIR and Java

I recently had a conversation with James Ward,Technical Evangalist for Flex at Adobe. We started by discussing what Flex and AIR are, and the differences between them, before moving onto Flex's integration with Java, the competing technologies (JavaFX and SilverLight), the use of Flex in the next generation of Eclipse, and what James would use for development if I took Flex away.
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

JavaScript Image Popup

A simple way to show pop up image on mouse over of a smaller image... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

re: Pie Chart Easy AS

I think you have a memory leak in your silverlight example... I left this page open in my browser overnight and by the next morning, this IE process was consuming almost 450 MB of memory and was unresponsive to the UI input. I am running Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 and IE 8.0.7600.16385.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Building an Invoice Application with ASP.NET and Crystal Reports - Part 1

In this first part of the series, Vince examines the creation of an invoice with the help of Crystal Reports by using the Adventure Works sample database. He provides detailed coverage of each step including the concept of header and detail records and one to many relationships with the help of relevant screen shots and source code. The article also demonstrates the usage of the Crystal Report Viewer and the Object Model to view the report as a PDF using ASP.NET. Did you know that DotNetSlackers
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Changes coming to DotNetNuke

A few notable blog posts over on DotNetNuke.com this past week. 1. Cathal posted about a change for DNN 5 (Cambrian) that will remove the ability for administrators to upload skins to their portals, only host users will be able to do so. This has received...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Microsoft Expression Studio 2.0

Microsoft Expression Studio 2.0 Windows |580 MB Microsoft Expression Studio is a suite of tools for designing and building web and Windows client applications and rich digital media contents. It consists of: * Microsoft Expression Web: Website designer and HTML editor. * Microsoft Expression Blend: Visual user interface builder for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight applications. * Microsoft Expression Design: Raster and vector graphics editor. * Microsoft Expression Media: Digi
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/22/2010

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Common Validation and Length Validation with Regular Expression in ASP.NET

Common Validation and Length Validation with Regular Expression in ASP.NET... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Limited Time Expression Holiday Promotion in the US

For a limited time in the United States (promotion ends January 8th), there is a 30% off discount on all Microsoft Expression version 3 products (Microsoft Expression Studio + Expression Web, both full and upgrade versions) through the Microsoft Online...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-22 more

FREE Designer event in Manchester on 3/12 - Screenedit Sessions

I've teamed up with the chaps from Tricky Business , Splendid and my northern pal Phil Winstanley to organise an evening focused on design and what Microsoft has to offer designers and developers who care about Experience/UX/Silverlight/WPF/Expression...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7th in New York City

Adam Kinney wrote that Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th. Here's what he had to say about it: Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th! Bill...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-29 more

Michelle Obama 2008 Convention Address

Where is Michelle Obama? It's hard to find a high quality combination of both good audio and video of Michelle Obama's DNC speech. In the end, Google video had the best experience with good audio and user control. It was a better experience than watching on the C-Span site, where the video comes from. Ironic. The DNC site had great video but poor audio. The YouTube version, on the Obama '08 page, edited the introduction. Google Video ( C-Span ): August 25, 2008 C-SPAN Michelle Obama Ke
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More!

Today we released MEF Preview 6 on codeplex .  Not only is this the feature complete build for MEF V1.0 (which will ship with .NET Framework 4) but it also has the first drop of MEF for Silverlight!   Nick has the best summary of what is new...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC

Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008 Overview of Silverlight & WPF Designer developer workflow using XAML Expression Studio to craft Silverlight and WPF User Experiences Styling and Skinning Data Binding Using Visual Studio to hook up Silverlight on the front end to services & Windows Live on the back end and in the cloud IE8 and Silverlight Web Analytics and SEO for Silverlight See Michael's Synergist blog for all the details.
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Honoring your user’s culture settings with Silverlight

One thing that I
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Visualizing data (plotting functions of two independent variables)

First off this post doesnt contain that much textual substance, for more read the previous post I made, also the graphing library I am using is F# for Visualization. While it is possible to plot these functions by hand in the very, very (emphasis on very, e.g. a plane) simple cases anything other than that almost certainly requires some form of professional mathematical package, or in this case a plotting library. I have only used F# for Visualization (now uses WPF not DirectX) on my home machin
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

Microsoft Education: Learning Content Development System

Microsoft Education has created a new free tool for teachers and/or instructional designers called the Learning Content Development System (LCDS). The LCDS provides easy to use tools for educators to: "create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactive, quizzes, games, and assessments
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Expression Encoder: Which edition is right for you?

Did you know that the single best way to get video encoded for Silverlight, or indeed your Zune for that matter, is free? Yes that
Publication date: 2009-10-11 more

Looking at Virtual Earth Silverlight Control

Corey Schuman thinks that one of the components that didn
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

PDC 2008 I will see ya there!

I
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight

Back in June I posted a blog entry on how to get started with Silverlight; it seems it is time to update that as the world changes very quickly and we have many new resources. Each of us has our own way of learning, but here is my suggested path through...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-22 more

Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2

Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.  One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects.  Developers...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

Grouping data in Silverlight DataGrid

Tim Heuer explains  how to add grouping to the DataGrid in Silverlight without using the RIA Services ObjectDataSource. Frankly I didn
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Windows Server 2008 Session with Hyper-V - Demo

Matt spoke at a Vista Squad, a UK based user group session, focusing on Vista, .NET, Silverlight, and more. The session was focused on Windows Server 2008. Watch the whole session after the jump. Video
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Search problems with the Silverlight 3 beta documentation

If you have used the Silverlight 3 beta documentation on MSDN, you might have noticed that none of the new topics or APIs appear in search results, regardless of whether you are searching with MSDN or another search engine. This is intentional - none...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

The Signs Of Having An Unhappy Marriage

by Katie Cheung People always want to have perfect marriage. Having a happy marriage isn
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Doubling performance with Silverlight multithreading

Bart Czernicki has a detailed post showing how Silverlight 2.0
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Video: New Xbox 360 ads invade dashboard

Earlier this month Microsoft revealed it was planning to place adverts on the Xbox 360 dashboard , promising they won
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

DotNetNuke News, Codeplex, Bingway Free Trial, Page Rank, DNN Creative Subscriptions

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 15th of January 2009. This podcast covers the following subjects: DotNetNuke moves from Sourceforge to Codeplex Microsoft Oxite DotNetNuke 4.9.1 DotNetNuke 5 BingWay 1 Month Free Trial Offer Upgrading DotNetNuke v4.6.2 to v5 Page Rank and DotNetNuke Issue 40 Rich is leaving! (the UK, not DNN Creative) Exchange Rate: The pound is low Subscriptions equal to 30% off for US Customers Onayktech Soma Elite Module Did you
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

KlearTouch Demonstration

Introducing KlearTouch, a rich photo viewer for Facebook using Microsoft Silverlight. More here: www.facebook.com
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Programming and Computer eBooks at wpspot

Here are many freely available Technical, Programming, and Computer eBooks at wpspot.info . These computer and programming ebooks cover many areas and topics, and their categories are linked here below. The ebooks are located on download sites, such as rapidshare and mediafire. This site also has download links for Video Training  (1511) and Audiobooks  (22). eBook Categories :   IT eBooks  (2022)  - Ajax  (68)  - Algorithms  (29)  - ASP  (23)  - Assembler  (8)  
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

WPF: Now with Less Fuzz

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Publication date: 2010-03-06 more

SQL Server - Error : Fix : SharePoint Stop Working After Changing Server (Computer) Name

If Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and your database (MS SQL Server) are running together on same physical server, changing the name of the server (computer) using operating system may create non-functional SharePoint website.When you change the physical server name the SharePoint is already connected to the SQL instance of old computer name (OldServerName/SQLInstance) and [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We alrea
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Adobe Flash Vs Microsoft Silverlight

by Bonita Li Adobe, which is famous for its image and video editing softwares, is also the company that offers the Flash technology. Flash is utilized in millions of websites and it is the technology that enables videos to be viewed online. According to a report in the New York Times, Adobe is expanding Flash to the television (TV) screen and this piece of news will soon be revealed by Adobe at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of A
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Customizing the User Profile

Is there a way to extend the information captured in the user profile? Right now I am evaluating the express edition. thanks, ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Rewriting URLs on IIS5, IIS6, or IIS7 (mod_rewrite on IIS?)

A couple weeks ago, Bill Staples made a splash when he announced a Rewrite Module for IIS7: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/05/31/urlrewrite-module-for-iis7.aspx Rewriting URLs? This is the magic in your web server that allows your user to type something neat and clean, like http://server/products/WidgetX , but yet on the server side it is served by a page that would normally be availble like so: http://server/ProductQuery.aspx?productName=WidgetX . URL Rewriting has lots of benefits,..
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Some Tips On Using Animations In Your RIA.

Last week at RIAPalooza a number of the presenters mentioned the use of animations in the design and development of RIAs. No one got very specific, but nearly everyone agreed that some amount of animation was helpful in assisting users with cues on how to use the application or letting them know that they have affected something. In general, I would agree. In my opinion, before you go off and idly start animating those widgets or state changes, though, it would pay off to think through the appl
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Market bullying

I wanted to find out what Microsoft Expression Media
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Microsoft Bing Uses Adobe Flash for Video

Though Microsoft would have the world switch to its Silverlight competitor to Adobe's Flash technology for playing video on web pages, the OS giant's own new search competitor to Google sticks with Adobe technology for one of its coolest features. Bing can play a video preview from right within the thumbnails on video search result pages, but to implement this, Microsoft has chosen to use Flash.
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Silverlight 2.0 plugin ID or not ID

My original problem was a call from HTMl via Jscript to the internals of a Silverlight plugin. My code fails I had huge problems to find the issue cause debugging doesnt help and jScript doesnt support intellisense i a complete matter. My checklist 1) Silverlight 1.0 uses a findname construct, Silverlight 2.0 the xaml class must expose a member and it must be registered with RegisterScriptObject HtmlPage.RegisterScriptableObject( "hannespre", Me) 2) The Call by... Did you know
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Emphasis using Expression Design

This is one of the 13 videos in the Principles of Design Series created by Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team. In this video he shows how you can use Emphasis, a basic principle of design, in Expression Design. If you like this video and want...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

WorldWide Telescope Aphelion

WorldWide Telescope
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

HTML 5

Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

SharePoint Magazine chats to Mike Fitzmaurice about Nintex Reporting

As you are well known to the SharePoint Community, why not start by giving us a brief bio and letting us know how you ended up at Nintex? I
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Behind the Curtain

Our team (officially Community Program Managers, but from time to time our conceit is to call ourselves STO Ninjas) has quietly expanded over the past few months, including the additions of two amazing and terrific new voices: Pete Brown and Jon Galloway...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-07 more

SketchFlow Map: A Mini Tutorial, Part I

This is a very brief tutorial on how to use the SketchFlow Map. If you don’t know yet what SketchFlow is: SketchFlow is a fun, informal, flexible, quick and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich, dynamic interactivity with Expression Blend....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

Video: Silverlight Button Control Styling by Steve White

Here’s a nice video from Steve White with some tips on styling buttons in Silverlight with Blend 3… http://electricbeach.org/apps/Silverlight Button Control Styling Tips/Default.html...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Silverlight XAP File Out of Date When Built with Expression Blend

  The latest project I am working on involves some rather tight integration between Silverlight and SharePoint so I
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

A Member of SilverlightShow Wins Microsoft MVP Award

The team of SilverlightShow is proud to announce that our colleague Emil Stoychev is now one of those lucky guys who could name themselves "a Microsoft Silverlight MVP"! Find out more about Emil's work and interests in his MVP profile . Congratulations, Emil! You really deserved this award with your hard work! Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world e
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Back to the Cave

Back to the Cave
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and

I was looking for an example of how Silverlight content is drawn with vectors that I could use in a slide-deck and it occurred to me to look at Bing Maps . I think the Bing Maps beta is pretty stunning and I was searching my blog for where I
Publication date: 2010-01-13 more

Windows Mobile 6.5 at MIX 2009

I thought this video was an interesting indication of how important Flash is for web browsing.  Microsoft Program Managers and Product Managers talk about how cool it is to have Flash in the browser for a full web experience, and full screen mode for better viewing of media. and I quote:
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 5/19/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles.
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Virginia: Video Uploads Become Highly Available for Web 2.0, with Aurigma Video Uploader

ALEXANDRIA, Va.
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Exception Performance Part 2

Last time we saw that CLR exception handling is significantly slower than HotSpot exception handling. This time we'll look at two very variations of the ExceptionPerf1 microbenchmark that significantly affect performance. I've highlighted the changes. Variation 1 public classExceptionPerf2 { public static void main(String[] args) { long start = System.currentTimeMillis(); for (int i = 0; i try { Integer.parseInt("); ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

The Weekly Source Code 39 - Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3

I had the pleasure of interviewing Pete Brown this last week and talking about the Silverlight 3 Commodore 64 Emulator he's been working on . He just launched the CodePlex site a few minutes ago (my time) , but I've had the code for a while to play with...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

SQLAuthority News - MVP Summit 2009 - Journey Begins

I will be blogging actively about my tour SQLAuthority News - Author Visit - MVP Global Summit 2009 - Seattle and Redmond.Today I will be leaving for Mumbai. I will be at Mumbai International Airport between 10 PM to 2 AM. If you are traveling and in Mumbai during this four hours, let us meet [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

MIX09: What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3

Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 3 including a dive into some of the new experience oriented features like pixel shaders, perspective 3D, animation enhancements, bitmap APIs and improvements to the media stack. Also hear about new Silverlight base framework additions including updates to the style model, data binding improvements, improved resource handling and improvements to the web services stack. This session will also introduce the Silverlight 3 out of browser model. Joe
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Dynamic Languages in Silverlight?

Learn how the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK enables developers to use dynamic languages to build Silverlight applications. Get the bits, view samples, walkthroughs, talks, and more....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta released

Microsoft has released an update to XNA Game Studio 3.0 the day they have released the new Zune software and firmware. This release basically provides compatibility for game development on Zune firmware 3.0 devices along with full support to Visual Studio 2008. So whether you are a hobbyists, or an independent game developer, this release will enable you to easily create video games for Windows and the Microsoft Zune digital media player by using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Navigating Microsoft content on Silverlight and Expression Blend

I just returned from a speaking tour traveling to Chicago, New York City, Boston and back to New York City presenting at three .toolbox Blend workshops and three usergroups and attended one conference. The content for the workshops, covering Blend and...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-22 more

links for 2008-07-29

IBM Announces Plans to Acquire ILOG ** TBSM uses ILOG extensively for its GUI. I hope this makes the much needed GUI improvements a reality and I hope we include the capability for end users to build their own data driven GUI widgets now. ** (tags: IBM Tivoli ILOG TBSM m&a) IBM to Buy Ilog for $340 Million Ilog
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 5: "D" is for Delete

In software development, learning the 'easy' stuff is a breeze. Pick up most any book or article, or browse to the online help and blogs. It's the hard stuff that authors and bloggers ignore or gloss over, at least in the first edition. It's not difficult...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Four Twitter Silverlight Blogs

Because I
Publication date: 2008-07-28 more

Watch us on

Join us in
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Silverlight Office(r) 2010 App

With little Chinese naming ingenuity I present to you Office
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #61

If you have a FrameworkElement such as an Image , Button, TextBlock , etc. you can add a tooltip to the element. Tooltips are usually small, boxed text that popup when a user hovers over the control. The purpose of the tooltip is to tell the user what...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

RunAs Radio show: SharePoint 2007 challenges for the IT Pro guy

Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Forum post font size x-small

Hi all, I don't know why, but suddenly the post editor started to show up with x-small font while editing a new post or editing an existing post. Most of times the post appears to users as regular normal font size after posting, but every once in a while the post itself appears as x-small as well. Anyone know why and how to solve this?... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories i
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Olympics Web Video & The Long Tail

Rafat
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

HOW TO: Visualize the Windows OS in your Browser

Windows4all is one of the coolest websites I
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages

I got a lot of great feedback on my post Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

re: Silverlight Validation in Detail

Did you ever write the follow-up to this?  I can't find it.
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Silverlight gets Familiar

Another geek musician, Bob Familiar, has decided to start working with Silverlight to revamp how he displays some of his compositions on his web site. Bob just posted a multi-part series where he sets out to demonstrate some features of: resolution (size...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-28 more

Link Listing - July 9, 2008

ASP.NET Using ScriptManager with other frameworks [Via: Bertrand Le Roy ] Sharepoint Using a WCF Client to talk to SharePoint OOTB Web Services [Via: Sahil Malik ] WPF The decidedly badly named LoadingCircle WPF Control Pt 2 [Via: Chris Skardon ] SQL Server Installing Clustered SQL Servers - Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets [Via: chad ] Database Performance: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later [Via: KenDowns ] SQL SERVER - Find Space Used For Any Particular Table [Via: pinaldave ] Link Collection
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Intersoft Solutions Releases WebUI Studio 2009

JAKARTA
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

Download reference docs for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework

The API reference documentation for the unit test framework is now available. Developers looking to take complete advantage of the more intricate features and presentation framework-specific functionality in the unsupported test framework should take...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-26 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
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

New Silverlight 2 Video

Todd Miranda demonstrates how to dynamically create objects from XAML in Silverlight 2. Watch this and other Silverlight videos on the Learn page....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

Fixed a problem with comments

It appears that MSDN
Publication date: 2010-07-20 more

Microsoft Security Updates October 2009 Online

Microsoft has published all security patches for today
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Free Blend Training With Silverlight Design Days

Adam Kinney, a technical evangelist here at Microsoft, will be hitting the road in a few days to commence the Silverlight Design Days tour. Dates are scheduled in Mountain View, Irvine, Chicago, Austin, New York, and London, with more international dates...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-13 more

Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook

Two SDK libraries have released this week, helping developers integrate Silverlight experiences into their applications. Bing Maps Silverlight Control At TechEd Europe, the Bing Maps team released version 1.0 of the official Bing Maps Silverlight Control...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-11 more

MIX 2010 talk: what

I just realized I never got around to posting this. Here is a link to our presentation at MIX 2010 . Cheers, -Yavor Georgiev Program Manager, WCF...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-05 more

Jesse Liberty on Dependency Properties

Jesse Liberty on Dependency Properties Jesse Liberty has a great post on Dependency Properties in Silverlight as part of a series on creating custom controls. Although the article is intended for Silverlight developers, the concepts also apply in WPF. Technorati Tags: WPF,Silverlight,Dependency Properties
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Expression Blend 3 released!

On July 10th Scott Guthrie and Soma launched Expression Blend 3 and and SketchFlow, and today, the full version of Expression Blend 3 including SketchFlow was released. You can check out the Expression Web site , and don't forget to download the 60 day...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform (Silverlight TV #33)

In this mini episode Jesse Liberty explains Transmedia Storytelling and why he believes that Silverlight may be the ideal platform for creating Transmedia applications on the web, Windows Phone 7 and eventually set-top boxes. Relevant links: John's Blog...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-17 more

Getting Continuous Integration Working With CodePlex: Part I

I figured it may help some people to share my experience with getting my two projects (DotNetNuke ClientAPI and DotNetNuke WebControls) up on CodePlex and allowing them to be do automatic nightly builds. The one thing I want to make clear before I start is that this is just one of many ways to do it. In order to successfully get nightly builds to work you need to put quite a few pieces of a puzzle together. Setting Up Project On CodePlex Source Control Build Script Versioning / Labeling Packagin
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

What is this Live Mesh and why do I care as a developer?

Well, I am not going to try to answer that:).  No seriously, the best way to get this question answered is to watch a MUST SEE video on Channel 9 called Programming the Mesh.  One of the many scenarios I think you
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

New Microsoft Ad: I

Video: The Rookies: Alexa, Age 7 Next up in the Rookies campaign is 7 year old Alexa who shows you how easy is it to create a panoramic photo
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

TechReady Pics And New BackSeat Driving Video Today

URL: TechReady Pics And New BackSeat Driving Video Today Body: Getting ready to head back over to the TechReady event this morning. I will be uploading and posting a new BackSeat Driving episode video once I am there so check back in. Its a new episode on Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint Product Manager Alina Fu. In the meantime I have posted up a few pictures from TechReady (much much more tomorrow) that you can check out here. (be sure to try the new Live Slideshow view that uses
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Silverlight 4 Beta Ships Today!

As our VP ScottGu just announced in the PDC Keynote, Silverlight 4 Beta ships today! Get the bits here. If you're at PDC, I'll be giving the Silverlight 4 Beta Overview session in an hour (CL01, 11:30am Hall F). Here are some other great Silverlight PDC...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

AutoCompleteBox: Now with 100% more WPF

The AutoCompleteBox control I originally developed for the Silverlight Toolkit is now inside of the WPF Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat

Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat Posted by Sam Diaz @ 1:56 pm Categories: General, Legal, Apple, Google, Microsoft, iPhone, eBay, AT&T Tags: Google Inc., Patent, Verizon Communications Inc., Inventor Judah Klausner, Sam Diaz Inventor Judah Klausner has settled with the best of them: AT&T, Apple, Comcast and eBay. Now, he
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Google Chrome gets first update and more confusing

The new web browser that everyone is talking about and not using, Chrome, just got an update to it.  This update is kind of unusual though in the fact that you now have a choice of how beta and unstable you want it to be.  If you are into trying out new things, reporting bugs and getting fresh updates daily or every few days, this is for you.  If you use Chrome on a regular basis though, the update is kind of mandatory as it fixes bugs with areas including Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

New: Security Developer Starter Kit

The Microsoft SDL - Developer Starter Kit offers 14 modules of content, labs, and training to help you establish a standardized approach to rolling out security development policies and industry best practices into your organization.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using ASP.NET 3.5,jQuery,Silverlight,Linq,Unity

Learn how to build a Web 2.0 AJAX portal just like Google IG using jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, Workflow Foundation and Unity
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Welcome to Microsoft VORTEX event attendees! - Central Eastern Europe

Hello Central Eastern Europe! I hope you are already having an amazing time in the Microsoft virtual event REMIX event called VORTEX. If you are still not there visit the VORTEX site and login into the sessions which are being broadcasted live! I have...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #51

With Silverlight 2 RC0 Silverlight Controls can now be enabled/disabled via the property IsEnabled . This property is supported with all XAML controls found in the toolbox except those controls that are non-interactive (I.e. An ellipse, image, line, etc...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-01 more

Looking for a few Silverlight contractors in Austin, TX

Email jobs@headspringsystems.com if you are interested.  Need: desired rate range (low-high) cover letter (with what you know about headspring and why you are interested) resume
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

One of the cool new releases coming out this year is a small download manager - the Microsoft Web Platform Installer - that makes installing and configuring web server and web development stacks really easy.  It is a free tool that you can download from the www.microsoft.com/web site (here is the direct link to the installer choose the 2.0 version).  It works with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The Web Platform Installer provides an easy... Did you
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

My take on simple HTML display in Silverlight [HtmlTextBlock sample updated for Silverlight 2 RTW!]

A couple of readers have asked about an update to my long-running HtmlTextBlock sample for Silverlight 2 RTW . (Background reading: HtmlTextBlock Announcement for the Alpha , Improvements , Beta 1 Update , Data Binding Support , Beta 2 Update ) One person...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-12 more

The largest list of SharePoint Internet Sites

It may not be the only list of Internet sites using SharePoint on the internet, in fact there are now several other sites providing similar lists, and mine is certainly not the prettiest bit it is the largest (933 sites as of today). It is also based on a storage platform that provides a standards based API to access the list data (SharePoint OOTB web services) so anyone can extract the list of sites. SharePoint allows me to restrict access to these open, standards based API's but I choose to
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Silverlight 3 Beta install experience for users

If you are like any other developer, including me, you probably disregard most warnings and are usually the same type that keeps clicking next when installing things without paying attention to detail.  That
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Microsoft releases Silverlight-powered Windows Intune beta

Microsoft recently released a beta of Windows Intune , a Silverlight powered Web console for midsize businesses to manage their PCs. Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7 in order to...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-27 more

Snapshot of the Silverlight 4 Wishlist

It
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

My new favorite utility for .NET

Before I say a word, let me tell you that Dave from Tangible Software has been sending me free copies of InstantVB and Instant C# for years and they posted a testimonial from me on their site. That is my only involvement with them, but there you have...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-17 more

Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited

Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, I
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Managing Silverlight 3 navigation behavior

I
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview

Use Expression Blend 2.5 to create and modify managed Silverlight 2-based applications. Expression Blend for Silverlight 2 includes all of the features in Expression Blend 2 but has not reached the quality level of Expression Blend 2 for WPF or Silverlight 1 development. Find out more about what
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Watch The Euro 2008 Championship Match Online!

Today
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

XAML Power Toys v5 Published

It
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

A Beta, finally!!!

As much as everyone, I've been expecting Gallery to go into Beta, if only because it means we are close to a release after all this time. Well, it's time to say we finally have the 4.3.0 Beta package ready to be posted. It will take a little while before it's at www.dotnetnuke.com. So if you are as impatient as our Team, you can cruise to download your copy from: www.dnnmediagallery.com WARNING: Do not use the Beta in Production sites. Upgrade from the Beta is not guaranteed This Beta includes 5
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Simple ViewModel Locator for MVVM: The Patients Have Left the Asylum

I
Publication date: 2010-03-30 more

Matt Hinze receives a Microsoft C# MVP award

Today, Microsoft gave a C# MVP award to Matt Hinze.  Matt has been active on the .Net open source scene, user group, and has been speaking at code camps and tech fests. Headspring is fortunate to now have 4 Microsoft MVPs on staff:  Matt Hinze, Eric Hexter, Jimmy Bogard, and me. Head over to Matts blog and give him a note of congratulations. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categor
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Accelerometer based Remote Control for Container Terminal using the .NET Micro Framework

Another great article on remote control using the .NET Micro Framework and the Tahoe 3D accelerometer I found on Jens blog. "The Center for Software Innovation has evaluated accelerometer technology in remote control (RC) application for crane operated container terminals. Rather than using regular joystick control of the crane, it is controlled by accelerometer. The accelerometer detects all motions in 3D which is turned into crane control commands. Hazardous crane operations are avoided by
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

What Wine Means To You?

Ancient Chinese people have a say,
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

IDisposable and WCF

Recently weve been separating our monolithic application into smaller systems which communicate via services.  Were using WCF for this communication, and one of the things that weve quickly noticed is that WCF is, for whatever reason, not compatible with the usual best practice of wrapping IDisposable objects with a using() {} block.  Personally, I dont think resources should be marked IDisposable if you cant simply use the using() statement.  The issue with the case of WCFs clients is that the
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Sorry boss, I just released the new Silverlight Controls source code to the world.

Last night, I signed on to the CodePlex site and checked in the source code to all the Silverlight controls we’ve been working on night-and-day. Like an open source ninja! On just about any other team at Microsoft, I might have some major explaining...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

IIS Media Services 3.0 and Player SDK released! - Alex Zambelli

Last week was a big one for Smooth Streaming! IIS Media Services 3.0, the IIS7 media extensions pack containing Smooth Streaming, has completed its 6-month beta development cycle and has been released to Web. You can download it here:http://www.iis.net/extensions/LiveSmoothStreaming Chris Knowlton has written an excellent summary of everything that
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

My History of Visual Studio (Part 6)

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio] The years 1998 to 2002 were very busy ones in the Developer Division.  Ive previously written about Dolphin and I tried to give a sense of exactly how much changed during the Dolphin release and the sheer volume of work it required, but I think this period dwarfs that one in a number of ways. Visual C++ 2.0 Dolphin was, by definition, just a C++ product. Putting aside the fact that it was designed to allow extensions for multiple languages, the...
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Silverlight: A Caution

With traditional web applications, page visits are logged and detailed analyses are available with tools like Google Analytics . In addition, search engines scan web pages and other resources to build their search databases. If you have a web application that takes advantage of these traditional features, you need to be careful before you jump into Silverlight for your application. Why you might ask? One of the great features of Silverlight is its ability to encapsulate the application on th
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

[SixPack library] Beta testers wanted!

Hello,First of all sorry for the spam =)I maintain a coding library for .NET/Mono called SixPack. It's a general purpose class library based on good architectural principles, and is currently being used in a number of websites. We think that code quality is pretty good, and we strive to improve every day.Most of the code base comes from my last 7 years of work as a web developer in a web agency, and this means that the test bed of the library has always been windows and .NET. On the other hand..
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

DAISY Translator for Word gets an update: Save as MP3 from Word?

Gray Knowlton heeft een erg interessante blogpost over de Daisy Translator voor Office 2007: In case you missed it yesterday, DAISY Consortium announced the release of the second version of the DAISY Translator for Word . I've said it a few times on my blog , but I did want to say again how much we value our partnership with the DAISY Consortium, and our gratitude towards them for their help on this work. Microsoft Office is the leader in providing accessibility support in bus
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

The truth about Microsoft's project 'Pink'

There's been a whole bunch of stuff posted around the internets the past few days about Microsoft's project 'pink', so I thought i'd post up the facts about the project as I know them... enjoy! Microsoft not planning to do an own branded device? NOT TRUE! P The Who - Project 'Pink' is being developed by Microsoft's 'PMX' team (Premium Mobile eXperiences), which includes the majority of the assets from the $500m of Danger, makers of the sidekick. - The hardware partners on the project are
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

MSN Toolbar

Publication date: 2009-03-07 more

Who's Using Expression? McCann Worldgroup

Using high-definition video in Silverlight, and Microsoft Expression for web design, McCann Worldgroup created "The Server Unleashed" an online ad campaign to promote Windows Server 2008. Who's Using Expression? McCann Worldgroup...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2008 -- #285

Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2008 -- #285 Nikolay Raychev discusses the Hyperlink Control, Rob Bagby talks about Streaming, and Dave Relyea snaps objects to pixels. A couple editorial comments first... The great app that Michael Scherotter did and I blogged about last night actually had two links associated with it, and I only gave one. He has a second one associated with this that I want to point out: Ticking in Silverlight Clock + Source Code, or take the link to his Home page, look a
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Did you know about protocol-relative hyperlinks?

If you use IE8, youve probably puzzled over this dialog dozens of times: Its kind of an odd question: Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely? Yes, of course! I mean, no. Well, whats that only bit mean? Fortunately, that dialog is explained in more detail in a post on Eric Laws IE Internals blog. Its a warning about a webpage which displays mixed content, meaning both HTTP and HTTPS. Eric explains the weird wording a bit, too: the old dialog said This page co
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Tip of the Day #29: Creating a Transparent, Draggable Dialog with Rounded Corners

For this tutorial we will step you through the basics of what you need to do to create a dialog that you can: Drag/drop. Add transparency (opacity) to. Round the corners. To preview and run this application please visit this link: http://silverlight.services...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Inspiration for Next Generation UX

An inspiring concept video of what next-generation UX could be and what digital life might be... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Interesting Finds: September 7, 2009

Other A Feed You Should Read #2 - Chris Alcock
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal (Updated)

negotiated deal by Monday, fell apart today. There were a number of statements, all summarized below. Steve Gillmor also convened a special session of the Gillmor Gang at 7 pm to analyze the news - The transcript is still being created, but the recording is now up and live. Listen to the special Microsoft/Yahoo Gillmor Gang here, with participation from Steve Gillmor, Michael Arrington, Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Dana Gardner, Robert Anderson, and Robert Scoble. Today
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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

SQLAuthority News Authors Birthday Top 7 Commenters Volunteers

Today is July 30 and I am very happy; its my Birthday, celebration time!!! The most common question I receive on my every birthday is -what are my plans for birthday. Let me share my plans here today. Additionally, if you are interested to know when SQL Server was born read my post SQLAuthority News [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: h
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

DevForce Silverlight

DevForce Silverlight enables you to build data-intensive rich internet applications today. Writing ...
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

Pete at Microsoft: WCF RIA Services Team Interview

While on campus in May, I met with the WCF RIA Services team at Microsoft. We discussed both the awesome parts and the difficult parts of the recent product release. Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-18 more

Programming news: Windows 7 Code Pack release, an anti-IE 6 campaign

Get highlights about programming stories, which include an update on the LAMP/WIMP/ASP.NET shootout, the upcoming Embarcadero RAD Studio release, Silverlight 3 broadens its networking options, and more.
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Friday Books - Introducing MS Silverlight 2

Product Description Get a jump on the next release of Silverlight with early insights from a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Silverlight team. This guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2 tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. RIAs are Web applications with the features and functionality of full desktop applications. Processing tasks are performed on the client, but
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

VS Live 2008

VS Live San Francisco and Orlando: Silverlight, SOA and Objects Order out of Chaos workshop CSLA .NET and the ProjectTracker reference app
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL and EF

A few months ago I came across this great interview with Jimmy Nilsson where he is talking abot LINQ and Entity Framework. I love what he says about LINQ - that it's a beatiful thing and it's small & compact. And I'd been very curious to know what Jimmy thought of EF since I missed my chance to meet him and ask directly when I went to Stockholm. The most memorable thing he said is that it is "very big". Indeed it is. And of the things he didn't like about it, the most critical was the lack of va
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Attractive Flash Web Sites

by Bonita Li A lot of businesses use Adobe Flash when they create their company websites but only a few of them know how to use Flash in a proper way. So what are the points that one should pay attention to when creating a website using Flash? In case you are not acquainted with Flash, it is an animation software which is graphic-based and can make websites look fruitful and interactive. Flash is particularly good at developing different types of interactive content, such as product demonstr
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

2 Weeks of Olympic Spectacle are almost here!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Olympics , NBC , China del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Olympics , NBC , China When the Olympics were first awarded to Beijing, I have to admit that I was very skeptical. But I've been fortunate enough to spend a lot...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-06 more

A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers

Since we appear to be in another revolution on user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX), I
Publication date: 2009-10-21 more

A guide to Silverlight 3 new features

Well, by now the interwebs are getting busy with the news about Silverlight 3 details announced at MIX09 . The team has been hard at work (and still aren
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

We've secretly changed this control's DataContext - let's see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios - including DataGrid+ContextMenu]

I was contacted by Simon Weaver via Twitter about a problem where the Bindings for MenuItem s of a ContextMenu on a DataGrid were acting as though they were associated with a different row than they really were. This seemed pretty weird until Yifung Lin...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

Transparent Cookie Encryption Via HTTP Module

A C# HTTP module that encrypts and decrypts cookies transparently to an application... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Release Candidate ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF Now Available

The release candidate build of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available download from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server. Build numbers are as follows: Initial Release: 1.0.0.160 Updated Release: 1.0.0.209 Release Candidate: 1.0.0.255 There are a number of updates and enhancements along with a few breaking changes as well as a few bugs which have been resolved. The updates/enhancements include: Breaking Change: All assemblies and namespac
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

New Channel 9 Video: Emil Stoychev on the CompletIT Silverlight Showcase Site

Creating your whole website using Silverlight isn't usually the approach you'll take--unless you happen to be a company specializing in Silverlight development. At MIX10, I caught up with Emil Stoychev, founder of SilverlightShow. His company, CompletIT...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Silverlight and Making a Statement on Twitter

A little bit of weekend fun with Twitter and your avatar image... using Twibbon to spread the Silverlight "Light up the Web" message... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Drilling deeper into the Charting client-side API

ComponentArt Charting 2008.1 introduces an easy way for end users to customize the look and feel of charts. This is accomplished through a JavaScript client-side API. Charting toolbar demo in ComponentArt
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Silverlight vs. Flash SmackDown

The Silverlight vs. Flash SmackDown was a smashing success!
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

October 12th, 2009Essential Silverlight 3

October 12th, 2009Essential Silverlight 3
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Installing SQL Server 2008 RC0 & Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta on the same machine

I've been having some issues getting my VPC updated to SQL Server 2008 RC0 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta so I can record a couple screencasts on using Virtual Earth with SQL Server 2008.  I swear I read through the readme docs:).  However, I could not get Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to install.  I'm in the process of building a new VPC.  I probably should have done this in the first place since my original VPC had so much beta software installed (including the SQL Server 2008 Feb... Did you know th
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

March's Toolbox Column Now Online

MyToolbox column in theMarch 2009issue of MSDN Magazine is available online. TheMarch issue of MSDN Magazine has a focus on the Web and my reviews in Toolbox follow suit and include: TheAjax Data Controls Project- The Ajax Data Controls (ADC) project is an ASP.NET AJAX extension that marries the ease of the server-centric development model with the performance of the client-centric development model. ADC is a collection of controls that displays data in an Ajax-enabled web page. You can add th
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Google to Serve Video Ads in Microsoft Silverlight

Google to Serve Video Ads in Microsoft Silverlight Google's DoubleClick unit can now serve video ads on platforms forged with Microsoft Silverlight 2. Read more...
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Usefull site

HTML editor http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ - free & do not need to include ddl http://www.fckeditor.net/ - free & dll needed http://freetextbox.com/ - response a bit slow & dll needed Learning Site http://forums.asp.net - from here you can get help in the forum and also tutorial posted asp.net/ajax/silverlight etc http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page - jquery Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Microsoft confirms Silverlight 3 to launch on July 10

Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 designer tools on July 10 company spokespeople confirmed today. Silverlight 3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin. Dramatic video performance and quality improvements are also expected. Microsoft is curr
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Get inside the planes that capture Microsoft Virtual Earth

Microsoft's Mark Brown has put up a cool post on his Microsoft Virtual Earth blog. It's part two of a series that's detailing some of the bits and pieces behind the tool that gives you that oh-so-helpful bird's-eye view of your dry cleaners. In this episode Brown sits down with Keystone Aerial Surveys, a Philadelphia-based company that's got less than 50 employees and 14 airplanes doing all the capture work. Interesting bits: Keystone's flights average about 5 hours a trip. Each trip brin
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

SilverZine.com A Must Read

Scott Barnes advises you to check out  the online site of Alex Knight which is focused purely on helping designers navigate the trouble waters of Silverlight. There is plenty of sites out there dedicated to developers and code related tutorials on how to build Silverlight applications but we wanted to create something specifically directed towards the graphically inclined.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Having a PollingDuplex service and any other WCF service in the same website causes Silverlight calls to be slow

After polling duplex support for WCF was released in Silverlight 2 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd470105(VS.95).aspx ), some customers reported the issue that when a polling duplex service co-exists with normal WCF service on the same IIS...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Where do RIAs fit into your development toolbox?

Over the last few years (and
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Working with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX on Microsoft CDN

The article describes in detail the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX client library which went on Micrsofts CDN recently. An example for creating a web page dispalying data using the CDN files as well as using jQuery library from another source to embellish the page with custom styling is also described.   read more By Jayaram Krishnaswamy Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silv
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Gary Krakow is off his rocker, blames MSFT for iPhone battery woes

Gary Krakow has gone insane. I was going to say hes an idiot, but Ill leave that up to Cali. In his latest article on TheStreet.com, he writes (regarding the iPhone and battery life): In our tests, iPhone batteries really can't handle the extra drain of Microsoft Exchange mail. Blame it mostly on Microsoft. Microsoft's mobile email software is a pig. It always has been a battery hog. Everyone who has ever lived with a Microsoft Mobile phone knows that battery life stinks if you constantly... Did
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

How Corporations Should Handle Mistakes

Every large corporation, sooner or later, is going to do something bone-head stupid.  It is the nature of people to make mistakes now and again, and if you aggregate people into a large organization that affects lots of other people, those mistakes...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

The Meaning Of Wine

Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Silverlight 4 Beta Offline MSDN docs (CHM) is available

You can get the Silverlight 4 Beta Offline MSDN documentation here . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot view content...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

3rd party Silverlight controls

3rd party Silverlight controls Posted by on June 17th, 2008 ComponentOne A full suite of components including custom layout panels, menus, treeview, textboxes, charts and more. DevExpress A free datagrid with grouping, sorting, resizing, template support, multi-row selection and more. Infragistics A large collection of charts and gauges for data visualization. Intersoft Two alternative controls to the standard menu, FishEye and CoverFlow. NETiKA Tech An implementation of
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

More Silverlight Controls

Good news for anyone looking for more Silverlight controls including better chart/graph controls. The Silverlight Toolkit just released on CodePlex and includes numerous new controls with source. You can find a controls sample page here and a charting...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-30 more

XAML Scrubber for VS

Pete took me up on an my challenge to make a VS plugin for XAML Scrubber (the XAML cleanup utility in Kaxaml ), a challenge which apparently I extended in this video with Adam Kinney .  I
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Silverlight.net and WindowsClient.net Update: Your Input Requested

We've been making some small but important changes to the Silverlight.net and WindowsClient.net sites lately. One of the more visible is the use of a larger-sized video player, so you can see more on the screen. At the same time, we took a dependency...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Binding

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

ASP.NET Podcast Show #122 - CodeStock OpenSpaces Discussion regarding ORM

Subscribe to Everything. Subscribe to WMV format. Subscribe to M4V for iPod Users. Subscribe to MP3 (Audio only). Download WMV (Video format). Download M4V for iPod Users. Download MP3 (Audio Only). Show Notes:CodeStock.Alan Stevens.Open Spaces. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA Here
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (3

Having taken a look into the service side of WCF RIA Services in the previous post , it seems natural to have a bit of a look into the client side. If we make a
Publication date: 2010-06-02 more

So what is Silverlight and why should i use it?

According to Microsoft, Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform client technology that helps you design, develop, and deliver media-enabled experiences and rich interactive applications on the Web. Ok that sounds cool, but we allready have Flash/ Flex for stuff like that, so why Silverlight? Below i have collected some features of Silverlight that i think are not (yet) available to Flash/ Flex devs. These features are not based - Existing C# developers who know the Windows Presentation
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

Overcoming Fear of Unit Testing Disease

Writing your first unit tests can be daunting and can cause you to put off the task for years, like some people I know, but it doesn't have to be that way! One thing that has stopped me for a long time was that I always seem to be interacting with data and lately using Entity Framework to do so. Neither of these paths lend themselves well to Unit Testing. But I decided finally to take the plunge just to get started, with something that is more real to me than the classic bank account withdrawal
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

HanselMinutes Interview on RIA Services

I had a great opportunity to chat with the famous Scott Hanselman recently on .NET RIA Services .    We drilled a lot into the background for RIA Services and what the high level patterns we are addressing with RIA Services.  Brad Abrams runs a number of teams at Microsoft, most recently working on "Rich Internet Application Services" (RIA). Scott grills Brad on the rebirth of 3-tier architect, XML, REST and JSON. What's this thing about and is it the best way to write dat
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Sharing Source and Skills - Source download

At the MIX
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Silverlight for Windows 3.0.40818.0

Silver Light adalah salah satu web browser plugin yang bersaing dengan tekhnologi seperti Adobe Flash Player. Meski saat ini belum banyak yang situs yang menggunakan tekhnologi SilverLight, tapi tidak ada salahnya jika dari sekarang kita menginstallnya. Karena dalam waktu dekat ini pasti akan banyak situs yang menggunakan teknologi ini. Silverlight 3.0 build 3.0.40818.0 telah direlease oleh Microsoft beberapa waktu yang lalu dan sudah dapat didownload oleh public. Jika anda ingin me
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Vista Ramp Up Is Happening Now, Study Says

Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a Forrester Research report by Benjamin Gray et al., published last week.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta

Support for the WCF net.tcp protocol is the key feature addition in the core of WCF offering in Silverlight 4 Beta. Read more about the benefits and limitations of the net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 to decide if it is a good fit for your application...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend

Somebody asked the other day how one can cut a shape in Blend. Blend doesn’t currently have a scissor tool, but Blend has a set of geometric operations that can be used for this. Suppose we have a shape like this: And now suppose you want to cut...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Windows System Colour Theme for Silverlight

This is something that I played with on a basic level a while ago but Corrina has just put together a post with a new downloadable theme around high-contrast themes for Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-11-25 more

A Great Time at Developer Academy 4 In Israel

I had a great time today at Developer Academy 4 .  It was in a beautiful part of Tel Aviv.  The weather was great and the food fantastic.  They had well over 1,000 paid attendees, so the house was PACKED.   Dev Academy
Publication date: 2010-03-23 more

Moonlight 1.0 Release

I am excited to announce that Novell today released version 1.0 of Moonlight , and is making it available for download at no cost with support for most major Linux distro
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

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
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

PDC Buzz on Blogsphere

Mike Swanson's recent post is drawing suggestions for topics to be covered at PDC include: Mesh, language features (C#, VB), Parallel Multi Core Programming, future of WPF, Cardspace and Identity Story, and WiX. Ajoy Krishnamoorthy blogs about Brian Randells Pre-Con on VSTS and bloggers David Riddell McGhee, Angus Logan, Jan Erik Ohman and Wictor Wilen are highlighting the importance of PDC for the developer community. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

OK, So Now Where

Like many other developers before me, I
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

YouTube Gets Live Video Via Silverlight

YouTube Gets Live Video Via Silverlight : YouTube Gets Live Video Via Silverlight So live video has finally, finally come to YouTube this morning. CBS has embedded its Silverlight March Madness bracket and live game coverage directly onto a YouTube chann
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Make Silverlight Games with Popfly Game Creator

Just released on the Popfly site is alpha of the new Popfly Game Creator feature, which provides a great way to create and share some interesting games without having to deal with some of the complexities normally associated with game creation, all using Silverlight.
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

MIX09: A Shot of Windows Live Messenger and a Pint of Microsoft Silverlight

Learn how to add instant stickiness and drive new users to a Web site while uncovering the hidden social network within. Hear how Effective UI quickly and easily added these capabilities to its customers' existing Microsoft Silverlight projects using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. Jordan Snyder At EffectiveUI, Jordan builds web applications using Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. She has been using Silverlight since v1.0 and is a member of Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0Beta TAP
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

April 29th - Silverlight Special Interest Group

Ad: : SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies ( more information ). I will be speaking at the Silverlight Special Interest Group. Here are the details -   Event Details |   Map |   Add to Calendar Title: SharePoint and Silverlight, perfect together Abstract: Silverlight is one of the most exciting things to come out of Microsoft lately. In this session, Sa
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Issue 49 - DotNetNuke 5 Skin Packaging, Spam and SQL, OWS

October 2009 Welcome to Volume 5 / Issue 49 of DNN Creative Magazine This issue is the beginning of Volume 5, so it's our 4th birthday! We would like to say a special thank you to all of you who have supported us over the past 4 years, it means a lot to us. In this issue we demonstrate how to package skins for DotNetNuke 5. DotNetNuke 5 has introduced a new method of packaging skins using a .dnn manifest file. This allows you to install your entir
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

A Party Game.

Quick Bit David @Pogue tweeted a link to this NY Times article , reporting that there are [longer] better, faster [stronger] apps available than Shazam (which is about to start charging new customers
Publication date: 2009-11-21 more

Microsoft releases Silverlight 3 (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - Microsoft has released Silverlight 3, a major new release of its multimedia software for Mac OS X and Windows — competition for Adobe’s Flash software. It’s a free download, compatible specifically with Intel-based Macs (an older version is available for PowerPC based systems).
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Linq For Silverlight Developers

      Turing Project Page : [Novice: 7]    FAQ     Table of Contents   What is this and where do I start ?         Special Note: This posting introduces a new element in the series...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

Silverlight 2 beta2 - Samples Updated

Me and Chris updated our samples to support the latest version of Silverlight 2 beta2. I
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

May 9: E-Commerce / E-Business Owners Meetup

May 9: E-Commerce / E-Business Owners Meetup I
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Twitter Purchased by MTV

In shocking news today, Twitter was purchased by Rock Band publisher, MTV. MTV has been slowly getting into technology and video games, and the Twitter acquisition comes as no surprise to most industry insides. Check out the video announcement below. You will need Silverlight installed. All attempts to contact Twitter have failed. Apparently they wanted to release a statement through Twitter last night, however were unable to do so as Twitter kept going down. They finally gave up and sent out
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

It's Official - Microsoft to Power Yahoo! Search

After almost a year of talks, at one point with Microsoft seeking to acquire all of Yahoo!, word came a short time ago that the deal that has been hinted at for the past week, is done. Microsoft's new Bing search engine will be the default provider to Yahoo! Search and Microsoft acquires a 10 years license to Yahoo's search technology. In a story followed closely by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD , Microsoft and Yahoo! just released simultaneous press releases here and here .  The compan
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Silverlight development in sharepoint 2007

Hi All, Excellent resource for developing Silverlight 2.0 in sharepoint 2007, the book covers a lot of important aspects for sharepoint development using silverlight 2.0. http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Microsoft-SharePoint-Development-Silverlight Read More......( read more )
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C#

  This is just going to be a short post, but I bet its something I do a large number of times so I thought Id blog it.  Say you get back from something like a web service an array of... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Ta
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Oh that no-confidence vote on E.F.

Anyone who knows me knows that I just LOVE being in the middle of a controversy. Well, that's a lie. I sure know how to pick'em, though, eh? I have to deal with java and open source people (many whoI am friends with, respect and admire)harassing me because I use Microsoft products. I have to deal with C# developers (many who I am friends with, respect and admire) harassing me because I code with VB mostly. Now I have to deal with Domain Driven Developers (many who I am friends with, respect and.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Silverlight Tools RTW

Sorry for the short post, this is more of a public service announcement. When the Silverlight 2 runtime shipped, we shipped the Visual Studio tools along with it. The tools download was labeled
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Banner Ads

A web banner or banner ads is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. It is intended to attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser. The advertisement is constructed from an image (GIF, JPEG, PNG), JavaScript program or multimedia object employing technologies such as Silverlight, Java, Shockwave or Flash, often employing animation, sound, or video to maximize presence. Images ar
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

FloatableWindow source on CodePlex

I got enough feedback and suggestions that I figured it would be better just to put the code up on CodePlex rather than package zips on my blog :-).  Here it is: FloatableWindow project .  The latest build I have is up there which incorporates some feedback that I
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Olympics Onslaught: TV's Better

Badminton, handball, Silverlight? Take you pick
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Multicasting with Silverlight 3 Local Messaging

[This article and the sample solution included were written with Silverlight 3 Beta.] The very first thing I did to experiment with Silverlight 3
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP: Setting the Map Mode and View

In a previous post , I showed you how to get started and create the simple “Hello World” sample using the Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP .  Notice in that sample, the map by default shows the “Road” map.  The navigation control at the top left of the map lets users manually change the Map to other map styles by clicking on Aerial and toggling Labels .  Also, by default, the user can navigate the map to change the map view with input devices by using the mouse wheel and clicking
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

TabStudio add-in for Visual Studio

I came across this add-in for Visual Studio the other day that is subtle but added some productivity features to Visual Studio for me. It
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Want to see some cool Silverlight sites?

The Microsoft Art & Technology site showcases a load of Silverlight based web sites from Ice Cube through to Presidential Election sites. The site has: Background Hands on Sandbox Gallery of Silverlight sites Case studies Microsoft Art & Technology...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Class to handle HTTPS and non HTTP services

To follow the post from yesterday I created a class to handle better HTTPS and HTTP web services. The problem is not seeing the request in HTTPS, just the connection to the server.   public class SSLSilverlightWebServiceProxy : SSLService.SimpleSilverlightWebServiceSoapClient { public SSLSilverlightWebServiceProxy() { if (Config.Globals.WebService.Address != null) { if (Config.Globals.WebService.Address.Length > 0) ...
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Free is free

Following my review of Chris Andersons book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, I found a few interesting interviews and presentations by Anderson and most interesting, I found that you can get the book for absolutely free. The book is available online from Google Books and Scribd and the audio version is free at Audible.com or as zipped MP3 files from Wired. Heres a 5 minute overview by Chris Anderson: Chris Anderson on Charlie Rose show talking about new book "Free": Andersons... Did
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

SharePoint + XAML = WOW (Next Gen Educational Guidance App)

SharePoint + XAML = WOW (Next Gen Educational Guidance App) by Don Burnett Over at the SharePoint Blog , they are exhibiting a educational application that the UK educational team are working on for excel tracking sheets. With this application, the teacher can see the pupil's data including attendance, average grade and emotional intelligence and can also filter... Continue reading
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Interesting Diagram Generation Controls

Some time from now I was searching for controls that would made the generation of diagrams of several kinds, like for instance:: Network Diagram Worlflow Diagram Database Diagram Hierarchy Diagram
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Making authenticated calls to flickr

There are few things to know , when getting photos from your stream , adding comments and overall doing adding and deletion of your photos. As with flickr you can take a look at this url => http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html  for authentication spec to learn more. But with Athena (formerly known as LINQ.Flickr) it's pretty easy to get things going. Last week, I made an update to the FlickrXplorer (The MVC starter project you don't want to miss :-)) project that now enables... D
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.    While many of the RIA Services examples we have shown thus far do CRUD directly against database tables, I certainly recognize that many scenarios require...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

Laharsub: HTTP REST pub/sub service for AJAX and Silverlight web clients

I would like to invite you to review, download, use, tweak, and provide feedback for an experimental project we launched at Codeplex: Laharsub ( http://laharsub.codeplex.com ). We have been getting comments and observing the dominant use case scenarios...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-14 more

Tim Berners-Lee, Geek of the Week

We interview Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA. , ranked first in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses, and director of the World Wide Web Consortium. What has he achieved? He invented the World Wide Web, Browsers and Web Servers. You could reasonably argue that he invented Wikis and Blogs too. And he's still inventing things.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We alr
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR August CTP

In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released Power Tools as well as several new features. The new features include distinct Build and Deploy phases, Static Code Analysis and improved integration with SQL CLR projects. Database Edition no longer requires a Design Database. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to install an instance of SQL Express or SQL Server prior to using Database Edition. Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Mix09: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 3

Today at Mix09, I finished my talk on building business applications with Silverlight 3. The full video for the talk will be up shortly, but I wanted to go ahead and post the source code for the demo and a full demo walk through. The demo requires (all...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

RIA Services, Silverlight and MVVM

I've finally had a chance to take a look at the July CTP of RIA Services. My opinion is mixed, but its still pretty early. I ran through the simple walkthrough and it was easy to set up but it still felt as if there is too much Visual Studio magic (a complaint I've had for a long time now).
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Rocking Silverlight application

Michael created this very cool clock in Silverlight. You must see this one ! Nice job ! This post originated from and is provided by the MSDN Blogs RSS feed. The original post of the article can be found here.
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

ColorPicker Control for WPF/Silverlight

A while back I was looking around for a color picker control for Live Geometry. The ColorPicker from http://silverlightcontrib.codeplex.com was exactly what I was looking for
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

KoodibooK Book Publishing

Earlier in the year I dropped in to see some former colleagues of mine who are working on a new product/service called KoodibooK at their software company in Bath (UK). KoodibooK is a product that allows you to build up a set of photographs into a book...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

Exceptionally Mysterious

If you are adept in puzzling over the cryptic messages in your stack trace, when a .NET exception is thrown, you may be surprised when they start talking complete nonsense. Is it really possible that two threads could build the stack trace on the same exception object at the same time?... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Silverlight: Enabling Rich Internet Applications for the Open Source World

With the work Microsoft has done on Silverlight, not only do Microsoft developers have the latest tools to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), open source developers can share in these tools as well. Whether you write code in PHP, Python, Ruby or use Eclipse, there are tools available to you that let you develop the hottest RIA using Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

TheRarestWords: Intriguing Semantic SEO Project from Russia

A mysterious yet intriguing project from Russia has come across our inbox. It is a search-engine optimization analysis tool for Websites called TheRarestWords. For any given URL, like Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Validation - Part 2 - Client-Side

Validation - Part 2 - Client-Side In Part 1 we looked at our basic framework for validation - a set of attributes, an interface, and some configuration objects. Now we'll see how these can be used in conjunction with jQuery to provide client-side validation. As we already saw, every validation attribute has a ToJson method which serializes attributes into a dictionary. Our goal is end up with something like: $('#saveUserForm').validate( { rules: { Email:{required:true,pa
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

XHTML Fixes

I have put a small sample project on CodePlex to show just techniques for achieving XHTML compliance in ASP.NET web pages. Currently it is just has samples in the C#, but it will be extended to have samples in both C# and VB.NET.You can download the first sample from:http://xhtmlfix.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29660... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inc
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

NBCOlympics Video Ads Estimated to Pull in Just $5.75 Million

Back in the latter half of June, I asked a fairly simple question concerning NBC
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Re: Firebug 1.2b3 won't install to FF3 under Vista

I also experienced this problem. I could not install Firebug 1.2 on Vista. I disabled all the plugins and it installed. The following plugins were disabled: Adobe Acrobat iTunes Application Detector Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U5 Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin Mozilla Default Plugin Quicktime Plug-in 7.4.5 RealPlayer Version Plugin (huh.. gotta get rid of this crap =) RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) Shockwave Plugin Silverlight Plug-In Not sure which one it's con
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Adding users to a TFS project when youre not on the domain

Visual Studio Team System was obviously designed for user groups who are all members of a Windows Active Directory domain, all working in the same local network. Im able to work remotely (without VPN, even) as long as Im just checking files in and out, but the Visual Studio / TFS UI wont let me grant users permission to contribute to my projects. I messed around with TFS Power Tools, but that didnt work either. I ended up running TFSSecurity.exe /g+ from the command line you can find it in (b
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Introducing Offline and Out of Browser support in Silverlight

Today we are making a radical upgrade to your web experience with Silverlight 3
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Link Listing - July 6, 2008

Sharepoint Having WSPBuilder exclude your dll when creating a .wsp [Via: Sahil Malik ] WPF TemplateBinding: a bridge between styles and templates [Via: Christopher Bennage ] Code Camps Code Camp Hartford - Call for Speakers Open [Via: cbowen ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: July 5, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] Book Review: My Start-Up Life [Via: Jason Haley ] New and Notable 249 [Via: Sam Gentile ] LINKBLOG for July 5, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Dew Drop - July 6, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Styles and Templates

I
Publication date: 2008-07-05 more

Ramp Up with New ASP.NET Track: Move from PHP to ASP.NET

This course is designed to help PHP developers learn the nuances of building Web applications with ASP.NET, without presuming existing knowledge of earlier versions of the technology. Syntax in ASP.NET is compared to its use in PHP, to guide the developer through similar concepts in ASP.NET.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

A slightly less trivial browser history example

One of the ASP.NET features that will be officially mainstreamed in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release is browser history. (Video) (The feature has been available in Futures releases and in the SP1 beta for a while.) In my editing role I keep crossing paths with the browser history feature, and in my limited exposure to it, I kept thinking that the examples I was seeing were sort of trivial.[1] In particular, the examples I was seeing either a) showed history for a single state change or b) in w
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

How to define state machine in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

Windows Workflow Foundation is a powerful framework to develop a workflow component in your application. This framework has two workflow types: Sequential workflow (pre-defined flow) and State Machine (event driven flow). In this post Ill explain and show you how to define a workflow from the later kind. Each state machine consists of two major components: state (unique configuration) and Transitions (between the states, based on events or input). Each state machine should have initialize state.
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Speaking at Code Mash 2009

Very proud to say that I will have two presentations at CodeMash 2009 Skinning Silverlight Controls   In Silverlight (which I will extend, time allowing to Creating Skinnable Custom Controls and dive into Dependency Properties and the Parts and States...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

SOTHINK QUICKER FOR SILVERLIGHT V3.0 BUILD 90107

Sothink Quicker For Silverlight v3.0 Build 90107 | 22Mb Sothink Quicker for Silverlight is a professional Microsoft Silverlight animation creator for delivering the next generation of web experiences. It is easy to create stunning Silverlight animations. Make Silverlight animation the same way with Flash creation!
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant.

I have been incredibly lucky; the editors I
Publication date: 2009-12-25 more

Displaying 2D QR barcodes in Windows Phone applications

Last year, enthused by the Starbucks Mobile Card application for the iPhone, I built an app that displays 2D QR barcodes in Silverlight. Today, in two minutes, I got that running on the Windows Phone. Talk about an awesome development experience. These...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-27 more

Silverlight tutorials you might not have seen

There have been some comments popping up that people want more tutorials and when checking the hit count on some of our pages, I noticed that many have barely seen the light of day. So here are a few step-by-step topics you might want to check out. How...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-01 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #70

Silverlight provides a number of options for data collection, storage and retrieval. In this Tip I will be walking you through various ways of doing this. You will need to add a using statement in your page to reference System.Collections; BitArray. The...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-15 more

Works On My Computer

Starting immediately, I will be adding this logo to all the code I post so that you know where the code has been tested. For Silverlight 2 code I've created since the beginning of the year, you can find the guarantee here . For Silverlight 3 code I've posted (since Mix) you can find the guarantee here .   It is important to know where the code has been tested, and I'm grateful to Darshini Aithal for creating the logo and to Scott Hanselman for the original idea (which in the s
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Developer Series 3 - Startups and Platforms - 16 Sep

A platform-focused session, this next installation of e27
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Windows Live tools for Visual Studio

The Live team just shipped a great suite of controls that enable Live integration into any ASP.NET web site. The suite contains Map, LiveID, Messenger controls and more. Check it out! http://dev.live.com/tools/ Screencast: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Mark+Brown/Virtual-Earth-ASPNET-Control-CTP-Release/Default.aspx#/ReplyTo/417721/default.aspx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categori
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Is Bing Ignoring The NoArchive Tag?

August 4th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment A WebmasterWorld thread has a senior webmaster claiming that in some cases, Microsoft Bing is ignoring the tag. The noarchive tag basically tells the search engine not to display a
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Adobe gives Flash a programming boost

New betas of Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, and Flash's open-source Flex underpinnings give Adobe a better response to Web apps and Microsoft's Silverlight. More...
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Setting Up A Free Microsoft Silverlight Streaming Account

Want to upload videos on the Internet, but don't want to upload to YouTube/Google and give them even more money from your content? Want to upload videos that stream in HD Quality? Want 10GB Free space? It's very easy to do. Lets add a video together! Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Videos with Silverlight look substantially better than v
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Velocity 2008

I got back from Velocity 2008 last night - an
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

URL Rewriting module for IIS 7 is live

The IIS team continues to deliver on the promise of the modular pipeline. One often requested module was URL re-writing, which was released today. -brett Install the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Go Live today! Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Go Live (x86) Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Go Live (x64) New Features Here are the features that are new since CTP release (for a complete list of features refer to this article): ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also pub
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Florida Technical Communities (April 2009 Update)

Florida has a very active developer community. The biggest problem we seem to have is that all of these different groups usually don't know about each and there hasn't been a "centralized clearinghouse" listing all of the technical communities. Joe Healy , one of our Florida Microsoft Developer Evangelists, maintains a list and one-page flyers for each of the main areas in Florida. I think the eventual plan is that Joe will be updating his site to take advantage of the newer version of Live M
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Silverlight in Action: Chapters are Complete!

Today, I completed the last chapter in my book, Silverlight in Action Revised Edition by Manning . I have one chapter still in tech review, but authoring the chapters is now complete. Phew! The book, before any image resizing or print layout, has ended...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-16 more

Microsoft Silverlight Recap at NAB 2010

Today we announced many exciting new developments for the media industry with Silverlight and IIS Media Services , just in time for the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB) happening next week in Las Vegas. We announced plans to work...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-09 more

Silverlight still heading to Windows Mobile 7, WM 6.5 skipped

According to Brian Goldfarb, a marketing director for Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Silverlight Design and Animation: Slides and Links

Andy Beaulieu has posted slides, demos and links from a discussion with his participation at the CNY .NET Developer Group. We had a great turnout and discussed using Expression Blend to Draw, Animate, and Style a Silverlight application.
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Japanese Developer UX Site

Microsoft Japan have developed the Project UX site specifically to aid developers when thinking about UI design. I can
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Essential Silverlight 2.0 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

Coming soon... Product Description After building an application, people often ask why theirs doesn
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Silverlight 4 Documentation on MSDN, and Favorites/bookmarks

The MSDN Online documentation for Silverlight 4 is now live: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838158(VS.95).aspx If you have been looking at the documentation for the last 6 months or so, you may be used to seeing two entries in the MSDN Table...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-17 more

Winchester Launches Innovative Ballistics Calculator

Winchester Launches Innovative Ballistics Calculator Winchester Ballistics Calculator East Alton, IL - -(AmmoLand.com)- The new Winchester
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Rounding Up The Google Wave Week

Last week actually became a Flex 4 week towards the tail end, but read about that in the next post. Google Wave is a phenomenal project and I already told you that . One of our readers has a doubt:
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

SketchFlow: A Bit of History

SketchFlow, the dynamic prototyping toolset for Expression Blend, has now officially graduated! You can get a trial here. As I always love to see how people, ideas or products evolve, I thought you might enjoy a quick look into the past of SketchFlow...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Some thoughts now that Silverlight 2.0 is Released.

By now you
Publication date: 2008-10-18 more

Microsoft Ending Equipt Consumer Service

Microsoft plans to discontinue an all-in-one consumer software offering called Microsoft Equipt after April 30.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

How to Override Cassini's Virtual Path in Visual Studio

On one of the email lists that I'm on, someone had posted a question about running a website using the root path "/" or a different virtual path than the project name that is populated by default. James Crowley pointed out a blog entry from Scott Guthrie where Scott walks through this process in 4 easy steps. To check it out, visit http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/19/tip-trick-how-to-run-a-root-site-with-the-local-web-server-using-vs-2005-sp1.aspx. Did you know that DotNetSlackers
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

What Can YOU Do with 10K of Silverlight or WPF Code?

A lot, it turns out. Some long-time readers may remember my post of a year or two back where I set a fun little challenge to test what could be accomplished with just a single element of XAML . In the preparation for MIX09 , the team created a competition...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-31 more

Silverlight: Reflection Image Button

A simple silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Silverlight Unit Testing, RhinoMocks, Unity and Resharper.

Hi Folks, As most of you who
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

IPTV Firm Inuk Gets Much-Needed Buy-Out From Move Networks

Microsoft-funded, Utah-based online video firm Move Networks is acquiring Welsh IPTV distributor Inuk Networks in what looks like a much-needed move to prop up the business. Abercynon-based Inuk operates a PC IPTV service, Freewire , that delivers free-to-air and premium channels over broadband to about 100,000 students in university halls of residence through agreements with several universities. Inuk had also been trying to market its technology to pay-TV platforms on a wholesale basis
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

IBM Announces Next-Generation Storage Virtualization Software

As part of IBM's 'Project Big Green' offerings, IBM announced new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories i
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

SilverLight tests + PowerShell = Automated tests in MSBuild

In this post I will only discuss the way to configure SilverLight unit tests to run completely automated from MSBuild, so that it can also be used as part of continuous integration setup. SilverLight tests must run within an actual SilverLight plugin rather then .NET Framework. Fortunately, Microsoft provided a test framework and source code for the both SilverLight controls and unit tests. It is great to get support for TDD for such a new technology as SilverLight 2.0 right from the start. H
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta

One of the features you may have missed that was added to the Silverlight 4 beta is the new CompositeTransform class. The new class provides a simpler way to transform an element, by simply offering a single object to instantiate rather than a group of...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

WPF ribbon control roadmap and look into the future

It is not a secret that Microsoft is developing its own WPF ribbon control. By default it will support Office 2007 (Fluent) user interface style and newer, Scenic Ribbon for Windows 7. I
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Prism v2 – Guidance and Patterns for WPF and Silverlight

The big news in the Silverlight developer world today is the release of Prism v2 (also called the Composite Application Guidance ). So what is this? Prism guidance is a set of tools, samples, references and written guidance to help you more easily build...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Communicate highly complex information to a broad audience

One of the common tasks that enterprise architects are dealing with on a daily basis is the need to explain complex IT issues to different audience, including non IT audience and CxO level. I can find many discussions around this requirement but I can hardly find any best practices or advices. In this post I'll try to share my experience and knowledge and I'll be happy to hear other experience as well. The are 5 main principles that I follow when I have to prepare for presentation... Did you kn
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

What I've Been Up To

I've been away from blogging for a loong time so have some catching up to do. I spent most of last year building out the new Dallas Microsoft Technology Center while delivering customer engagements and working on a few side projects. The MTC build out is mostly done (a few items remain but I'm spending little time on it) and has turned out pretty nice. You can see a synth of the reception area here but you really have to come visit and see it for yourself. Recently, the Dallas Morning News wrote
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Digital Rapids Extends Video Solutions with Support for Microsoft Silverlight 3

Digital Rapids announces support for Microsoft Silverlight 3 in Digital Rapids' comprehensive range of studio encoding, transcoding and live streaming systems. Silverlight 3 support further extends the proven abilities of Digital Rapids' award-winning solutions for delivering unparalleled, high-quality, live and on-demand online video experiences. Silverlight 3 is the newest version of Microsoft Corp.'s powerful platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media exper
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Windows Hosting

Servers are complex machines
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Watch NCAA College Basketball On-Demand for Free

Guide for you March Madness fans out there in time for this year's bracket tournament. It's day two of the NCAA college basketball March Madness tournament and many of you I'm sure have been wondering where you can tune in online to watch your bracket picks win or lose. Well, it's simple. CBS Sports has a great high quality video streaming site called March Madness on Demand up and running that leaves you watch not only live games, but lets you watch highlights from recently played games as wel
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Persisting the Configuration

  For this week
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

BLinq - Linq to Bing Search APIs

As part of validating and playing with some of the extensibility features in .NET RIA Services, I needed to write a LINQ provider. This was also a good opportunity to delve into some of the deeper technical aspects of the IQueryable construct, expression trees and related concepts, which I had not gotten into first-hand until now. For my prototyping, I decided to write a LINQ provider for querying Bing to search for pages and images. This post will focus on using the LINQ provider itself, and se
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

SQL SERVER Fix : Error : SQLDUMPER library failed initialization. Your installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with. Please uninstall then re-run setup to correct to correct this problem. in a modal dialog with the title SQL Writer

I often receive emails from reader requesting solution to following error:
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Permanent Link to Geek Dinner in the Chicago Burbs

Geek Dinner in the Chicago Burbs Posted July 8th @ 2:52 pm by Dave Update: an RSVP link has been created, http://www.geekdinners.com/DinnerInstance.aspx?id=11 Shawn Wildermuth is swooping into town next week for one of his Silverlight Tour training events and we thought what better to do than to resurrect the old Geek Dinner. Come join us at The Real Time Sports Bar in Elk Grove Village, IL on Monday, July 14th at 6:30PM for some cocktails, food and geek fun. What: Geek Dinner Where: The
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Top issues for Silverlight

A while back I had sent out an update on Twitter that I was sitting in a meeting reviewing some
Publication date: 2010-06-30 more

MSN Brazil Uses Silverlight to Showcase the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

MSN Brazil is bringing the World Cup to life for a country that celebrates soccer as a major part of its culture. The site, which uses many Silverlight features including Deep Zoom, presents match schedules, team, player and stadium information, and key...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-15 more

Mac users refusing to install Silverlight

The New York Times has run into a hail of criticism from Mac users over its use of Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Changing the watermark text in a DatePicker control

Someone recently asked about how to change the watermark text in a DatePicker control. Here
Publication date: 2010-05-07 more

Silverlight 2 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion

If you’re looking for a great overview of all things Silverlight 2, Laurent Bugnion’s Silverlight 2 Unleashed book is a great introductory book for web developers, designers, and folks new to the Microsoft web/client platform. Amazon delivered...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-07 more

RIM

Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

BouncingPlane Behavior for Silverlight

Time for a brief but fun post... some time back Tim Heuer posted the Silverlight 3 bouncing plane gratuitous demo . Click an element, and the nearest corner would bounce backwards and forwards as it comes back to rest. Tim had the code to setup the storyboards...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Transaction is not allowed error using ADO.Net Entities.

Doing some ADO.Net Entity queries and updates the other day, I kept getting this exception: "New transaction is not allowed because there are other threads running in the session." foreach (Users u in db.Users.Include("Queries")){ // A db.SaveChanges() here will throw the error.} The reason is we have an open Reader in our foreach and we can't nest trasactions like that. The solution is to read everything we need first so we close the reader. The simple solution here is to... Did you know that D
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test

A collection of ExtractionRules, ValidationRules, and Request Plugin that makes ASP.NET and AJAX website testing painless. No need to record tests, write parameterized tests using server-side control names, handle UpdatePanels, simulate clicks on buttons - all from Web Test. Facilitates painless sop... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Convert PowerPoint to Silverlight Application

I was able to pickup this tool from our discussion group which seems to be a good option when you want to convert any PowerPoint to Silverlight application i.e. WPF applications run in browser. Though according to experts it is not 100% full proof because of lack of animation support but it should work for most of the cases i.e. Static Slides. Here is the list of features : PPT Convertor with WPF interface Presentation Gallery Control (fish-eye) to Show and Launch Converted PPT
Publication date: 2009-09-19 more

Microsoft Shows Off The Power Of Facebook

Earlier this week Facebook made the landmark (and long-awaited) announcement that it was going to enable the
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

IIS Smooth Streaming Released for 1080p Video

Today at NAB, Microsoft announced the availability of IIS Smooth Streaming , an HTTP-based web server platform for delivering, monetizing and caching up to true 1080p high-definition media experiences. Visit the IIS Media site to view Smooth Streaming...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

PDC presentation and demo

Here is my presentation at last week
Publication date: 2009-12-19 more

DotNetNuke Tip: Changing Who Administrator Emails are From

This will be a quick DotNetNuke Tip, but a worthwhile one nonetheless! I've seen this question asked tons of times, and even got an email from someone this weekend asking the very same thing. "Where do you change the
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

SQLAuthority News SQL Server 2008 Migration White Papers

Quite often I get project when I am asked to migrate different database to SQL Server. Microsoft has excellent white papers written for this series.Guide to Migrating from MySQL to SQL Server 2008In this migration guide you will learn the differences between the MySQL and SQL Server 2008 database platforms, and the steps necessary to [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inc
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Free WPF Training in Los Angeles on 4/24-25 and Phoenix on 6/26-27

Overview This two day training is designed to teach developers how to create Line of Business (LOB) applications using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).   Day One is an introduction to the WPF graphics subsystem, the tools used to build WPF applications, and the core UI services: styling, data binding, templating, layout and input- The second day begins with interop (Windows Forms and Win32)  and then quickly dives into LOB topics, including building applications using the Mode
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Troubleshooting Windows MSI Installers

Having an installer crap out on you when youre excited to try out a new piece of software is an incredibly frustrating experience. Frustrating both for the user as well as for the product team. Every time I read on Twitter that someone is having trouble installing ASP.NET MVC, a new ulcer throbs in my side. A big part of the frustration is the lack of control and insight into whats going wrong. Jacques (no blog), a developer on the ASP.NET team has put together a troubleshooting guide based on h
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

ActionScript JavaScript Cross Communication

ActionScript communicating to JavaScript, and vice-versa... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Installing SQL Server on 64bit Vista The Native Client Got Restless

Sometimes things go amiss. Sometimes they work out. And sometimes we have no idea why things end up where they do. Today I was installing SQL Server 2005 developer edition on a Vista 64bit PC. Ive done this dozens of times between 32bit and 64 bit OSs, including Vista 64bit so there was nothing new here for me. But that did not stop the wild and wacky stuff form happening to the installation. I ran across this issue where during the installation of SQL Server is failed to install the Database se
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation Demo Posted

I had a great time at the LinkedIn Users Group meeting the only down side is that I missed the really bad pizzas that most Users Groups offer ;-)  Here is the demo (and demo steps) I did  Download. Ill post the recording when it gets uploaded as well. A couple of follow-ups: There was a question about creating your own DomainService for a custom DAL Id recommend checking out my DataSet and WCF examples as well as the full source code for the LinqToSqlDomainService.  Someone... Did yo
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

What is Softwaremaker doing now ?

For years, I have expanded my brains to learn on different skills and topics as I have always believed in the principle of constant learning and experimenting. The day where you stop learning is the day you decay. I love nothing more than to keep my brains (and sometimes limbs) stimulated and to me, sometimes, sleep is a waste of precious time ... So, I have received some emails asking me why the silence on this blog and what is ticking my fancy these days since some people have caught sight.
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

Elevator Pitch: Skyfire has designs on your mobile browsing habits

Elevator Pitch: Skyfire has designs on your mobile browsing habits Since 2006, Skyfire has been trying to do something different with your mobile web experience by simply making it better. The latest version of the free, downloadable browser supports the usual text, video and audio but also lets users download media files, update their social networking profiles and supports Silverlight, Ajax and Flash 10. Skyfire employs 40 staff, has already raised $17.8m in venture funding from Lightspeed
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Streamlined BDD Using SubSpec for xUnit.NET

I admit, up until now Ive largely ignored the BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Context/Specification style of writing unit tests. Its been touted as a more approachable way to learn TDD (Test Driven Development) and as a more natural transition from user stories to the actual code design. I guess my hesitation to give it a second thought was that I felt I didnt need a more approachable form of TDD. Recently, my Subtext partner in crime, Steve Harman, urged me to take another fresh look at BDD C
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

VS2008 SP1 - Thar she blows

VS2008 SP1 RTM is now on MSDN Subscriber downloads. It's an 830MB download, unlike the gigs and gigs of the actual product. But of course, it's still pokey because there's quite a bit of competition on the wire! Two worthy additions:1) Don't forget that the Silverlight .NET 2.0 Beta Tools for VS will be refreshed shortly. Current bits do not work with SP1.2)If you have previous installations of SP1 betas etc, you'll want to run this "preparation tool" to clean up your system prior to installing.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Android - Motorola

It seems like Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

Field Level Access with RIA Services

There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an entity.  For example, HIPPA compliance requires that some data not be exposed to only employees with a need to know.   It is often not sufficient to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

Everyone

Everyone
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Programmers

  This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials on Windows Phone 7 Programming for Silverlight Programmers. Goals: Rapid introduction to Win Phone 7 for experienced Silverlight Programmers Design and implementation of WP7 Silverlight HVP Audience...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Dew Drop - April 8, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing The Agile Startup: Build and Deploy (James Shore) IndyHall 201: The Iterative Process (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman) Back on Repositories and Paging. Introducing Reporting. (Jérémie Chassaing) CRISP Builds and   BOOK: Clean Code - A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship (Brad Appleton) 5 Ways to Get Your Clients to Follow Your Work Process (Celine Roque) Feature Crews: kanban systems for software engineering in the large (Corey Ladas)
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Awesome WPF/Silverlight Guidance

The good news is that WPF and Silverlight are aligning, so
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Top Free and Open Source Apps for Mac Users

A couple of days ago, I met an old friend of mine who just got his hands on a brand new Mac and, after about half an hour of showing the ins and outs of the machine, he asked me why the Mac community has so few free applications. If he had known that I would start writing down every piece of free and/or open source software capable of running on a Mac and keep talking about them for a whole hour, I think he wouldn
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Awesome Resources on WPF and Silverlight with Billy Hollis

This weeks Byte from MSDN and TechZulu is with Billy Hollis.  He brings some great resources on WPF and Silverlight and his list of favorite technical resources, which blogs he reads, and why he's hesitant to tell you about them!   About Billy Billy Hollis authored many of the earliest books on .NET, and has been working with WPF and Silverlight for over three years. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as Tech
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Windows 7 to Get Security Patches on Tuesday

Microsoft has announced last Thursday on The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)  that it
Publication date: 2009-10-12 more

Whatcha Think? New Silverlight Features

Thanks to Joe for calling out the new Silverlight feature request tracker. Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have set up this list up to help us get feedback from the community. We
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Videos - Interim Opinions...

One of the comments left on the survey said (small excerpt follows) It is the opinion of my coworkers and I that video tutorials are all a HUGE waste.  We can't sit at work watching hours of video A perfectly valid, but not universal opinion...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Contributing to the SL HVP

I have received quite a bit of mail about contributing to the Silverlight HyperVideo project . This is great, and of course, since the code is open source, you are free to take what there is at any given moment and use it in any way that is consistent...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-15 more

Silverlight FlickR Example

In this example I will demonstrate a very simple call to the FlickR REST APIs from a Silverlight client. At the end we will end up with an app that looks like this: Part 1. Define some Silverlight UI Part 2. Show the local open file dialog support Part...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-26 more

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating" [Tip: For a truly read-only custom DependencyProperty in Silverlight, use a read-only CLR property instead]

Tip For a truly read-only custom DependencyProperty in Silverlight, use a read-only CLR property instead Explanation My last tip outlined the best way I knew to approximate a WPF-like read-only DependencyProperty on Silverlight. ( Aside : It's also a...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-03 more

Hopping outside the box [How to: Leapfrog Bindings (bridge DataContexts) in Silverlight and WPF]

The data binding infrastructure for Silverlight and WPF is extremely powerful and makes it easy to write powerful, dynamic applications without worrying about synchronizing the UI with every change to the underlying data. By leveraging this power, developers...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-21 more

Pattern for ASP.NET Cache and the new Cache.Insert overload in 3.5 SP1

David Penton, a fellow AspInsider, has published an excellent article on AspAlliance how to take pattern-like approach to ASP.NET cache A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache Management http://aspalliance.com/1705_A_New_Approach_to_HttpRuntimeCache_Management In the article David covers how to approach the two most common issues with ASP.NET Cache, that is how to deal with the first hit in thread-safe, CPU-safe and database friendly manner and the other is how to do repopulation in the background.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Issues with building a project with "Register for COM interop" for a 64-bit assembly

956933 ... Issues with building a project with "Register for COM interop" for a 64-bit assemblyThis RSS feed provided by kbAlerz.com.Visit kbAlertz.com to subscribe. It's 100% free and you'll be able to recieve e-mail or RSS updates for the technologies you pick from the Microsoft Knowledge Base.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft sure stirred up some controversy with this browser comparison chart . Here is a picture, because I suspect they
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Book Content Will Be Online

Ive been asked by a few people where the code content for my book will be. I decided to host it on my site in a separate section. Originally I had planned an entire site for the book, but due to time, I decided to just create a section on my site for now that will cater to the book. So once the book goes live I will host all of the source code for the book on my site (assuming OReilly is cool with that). And I will create a RSS category for the book. I am not a big RSS category fan, in fact I us
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Slideshow using DomainUpDown and TransitionContentControl

I
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

Parallel Computing on Azure

Interesting blog post from May-Jo Foley where she writes about parallel computing projects from Microsoft Research called Dryad and DryadLINQ and how Microsoft envision them to run on Azure. var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Book Plug: Silverlight 2 Unleashed

I was very honored when Laurent Bugnion asked me to write the forward for Silverlight 2 Unleashed .  Laurent has long been a very active member of the Silverlight (and general .NET) community.    He is plugged in and deeply understands...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/7/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
Publication date: 2009-10-12 more

Terrain Tutorial Part 1

For this tutorial we will be generating a 2D terrain map. Preview and Run App: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Scrolling%20Terrain/iframe.html Source Code : Scrolling Terrain The view is a straight down birds eye view. As shown in Figure...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Azure July CTP

Microsoft has released a new Azure SDK CTP.  Basically, workflow is gone. Whats new in the Windows Azure SDK? The Windows Azure SDK supports developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service must include at least one role, of either type, and may include zero or more web roles, and zero or more worker roles. The new PowershellRole sample hosts the Powershell runtime within a Windows Azure role. It demonstrates a simple remote console web... D
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Major League Baseball dumps Microsoft

MLB.com no longer uses Microsoft's Silverlight to stream games to its 500,000 subscribers...
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Netika builds a PowerPoint-alike in Silverlight

The folks at Netika who created a set of UI controls for Silverlight v1.1 have taken those controls and built an app that mimics some PowerPoint 2003 functionality.  More information and source code is available on the Netika blog.  Click the image below to launch the sample
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

SkyDrive adds new features!

  We
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Leo Tolstoy for Developers

All successful software projects resemble one another;each failed project fails in its own way. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

John Papa and I discuss the MIX10K winners on SilverlightTV

If you haven
Publication date: 2010-02-18 more

Anonymous Types - Dynamic Programming With C#

Anonymous Types are a powerful feature in the .NET language, but are limited when you need to pass that information around. In a previous post I discussed a way to use Reflection to work with your Anonymous Types after they had left their initial scope. In this post I discuss extending the Anonymous... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Two new DIWUG sessions!

Two new DIWUG sessions! Two new Dutch Information Worker User Group sessions in November! The first one is November 20th in Vianen about the DataView web part en Silverlight in SharePoint. Two interesting presentations you can't miss! The second session is November 24th at Microsoft Netherlands in Schiphol. This session is added because of the success of the same one in October. Topic again is 'The New World of Work'. How did Microsoft implement this at their new office? Hope to see you t
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

NetSuite tries to lure Sage customers

On-demand ERP vendor NetSuite is offering Sage Software customers at least 50 percent off their NetSuite fees for the first year if they switch away from its rival's products, NetSuite said on Wednesday.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Pages in Silverlight

Pages as a paradigm likely pre-date the web itself although they have been popularized by document-based markup languages deriving from SGML. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with XAML further codifies Pages as a first-class UI element from its heretofore...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 -- #281

Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 -- #281 Jeff Paries explains his Timeline Infographic, Bill Reiss points us at a SL2 Games contest, and Tim Rule has a Windowing Demo. From SilverlightCream.com: Timeline Infographic Deconstructed I'll have to look to see if I tagged Jeff's Timeline Infographic post as 1.0, but it is... and it's very nice... if you haven't played with it, look at it here. In his latest post, he gives a nice run-down on the construction thereof. RIA Run Gallery Bill Reiss po
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/17/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #24. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight , Windows Phone and Visual Studio...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Adobe Championing Flash as File Format for TV

We expect to see flash in one form or another every time we get online. From banner ads challenging you to snatch the flying iPod to watching Susan Boyle sing on YouTube, Flash is the backbone of web video and interactive web 2.0 ing . Now we
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery

One of the features that the Virtual Earth JavaScript Control has is the ability to add custom Tile Layers to overlay your own custom imagery over the map. The Virtual Earth Silverlight control also supports this feature. Before I begin to explain how to add custom Tile Layers to the Map it
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

March 21st Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . If you haven
Publication date: 2010-03-22 more

Taking on dependencies

A recent discussion on how to deal with dependencies when you're an agile team got me thinking... Whether you are doing agile or waterfall (and whether the team you are dependent on is doing agile or waterfall), you should assume that what the other group delivers will be late, broken, and lacking important functionality. Does that sound too pessimistic? Perhaps, but my experience is that the vast majority of teams assume the exact opposite perspective - that the other group will be on time,
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

HP Ships Performance Center 9.5

Hewlett-Packard released HP Performance Center 9.5, the company's integrated application test and analysis suite.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Guardare il guardabile dei Giochi in rete

Via Silicon Alley Insider Easiest steps first: Figure out when the event you want to watch is on (the NY Times has an excellent event tracker for this) and then try to figure out if it
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

.NET Rocks!

I like to take the chance to talk directly to the development community as often as I can. I commonly use outlets such as this blog, but sometimes I get the opportunity to speak out loud instead of through my keyboard via sites like Channel9 or .NET Rocks!. I had the chance to talk to Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin last week on their weekly broadcast of .NET Rocks! an internet audio show for .NET developers. This is a great show that has a wide range of topics from introductory... Did you
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Yosemite Pano Mapping Silverlight DeepZoom..

Yosemite Pano Mapping Silverlight DeepZoom.. Check it out.. This is an interactive image of 20 panoramas for a total 45 gigapixel map of Yosemite.. http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_deepzoom/ClientBin/TestPage.html Thanks to the XREZ Team, for more info check out their site ! Thanks also to Adam Kinney for turning me on to this really cool use... Continue reading
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Accordion, part 2

I
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Introducing TransitionContentControl

This post will show you how to write a very simple contentControl, that allows you to transition your old content with your new content. It is a little prototype I put together after wanting to
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Opening Blend 3 Projects without Actually Having Blend Installed - Expression Blend and Design

Since we released our preview at MIX, there have been a fair number of questions revolving around how a WPF or Silverlight project that uses Blend-specific features will work when opened on a machine that does not have Blend installed. For example, one Blend-specific feature that we have talked about extensively is Behaviors. The Behaviors runtime components are provided to you by Blend, and today, there is no way of being able to author or build a project that uses them without having Blend ins
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Keeping LINQ Code Healthy

In the BI space Ive seen a lot of SQL queries succumb to complexity. A data extraction query adds some joins, then some filters, then some nested SELET statements, and it becomes an unhealthy mess in short order. Its unfortunate, but standard SQL just isnt a language geared for refactoring towards simplification (although UDFs and CTEs in T-SQL have helped). Ive really enjoyed writing LINQ queries this year, and Ive found them easy to keep pretty. For example, suppose you need to parse some valu
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Silverlight 3 online and offline Docs updated

We just refreshed the online docs for Silverlight 3. In addition, the offline CHM has been updated. Most of the updates were just doc bug fixes. Right now writers are mostly focused on documenting Silverilght 4 Beta features (of course SL4 Beta hasn't...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

.toolbox

  Woohoo, the site is live! .toolbox is a free online training program where designers and developers can learn to create Silverlight applications using Expression Studio and to apply basic UX concepts to their solutions. I was lucky enough to get...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-13 more

Link Listing - May 19, 2008

Link Listing - May 19, 2008 ASP.NET Integrated social networking in ASP.NET [Via: 100muses ] Sharepoint When to dispose of objects in SharePoint API [Via: Greg Galipeau ] WPF WPF 3.5 SP1 feature: StringFormat [Via: llester ] Gradual Introduction to WPF Data Binding [Via: Josh Smith ] Code Camps West Michigan Day of .NET [Via: Josh Holmes ] Thank You Infragistics, Red Gate Software & CrystalTech Web Hosting [Via: Karl Shifflett ] NoVa CodeCamp 2008.01 in the books [Via: Jeff Schoolcraft
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Balance using Expression Design

This is the first in a series of 13 Principles of posts created by Arturo Toledo on the Expression team. In this video Arturo demonstrates Balance, a principle of design that will help you achieve harmony in your designs and compositions. Watch it to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

TechSmith Camtasia Studio v6.0.1 Build787 Portable Precrackd

portable and precracked...just open and start using People don
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

How Do I Video Series on Hyper-video released

More: Start of thread on hyper-video (Note: This link jumps to the start of the thread rather than the most recent entry) I'm pleased to say that the third and final part of my series on Hyper-video is now available (just click on the image or click here...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Client Web Development Using Open Source Software

Web development using open source software is often a common debate in the online community. Web development is described as the act of developing and constructing a website on the Internet. Some of these websites can be labeled as an e-commerce business, web design, content development, scripting and much more. Some online professionals think of web development as dealing with the non-design aspects of constructing websites such as coding and mark up. Since web development can be very complex f
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Akamai aims to bring HDTV to the Web

Akamai unveiled a network for high-definition video designed to deliver content via Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight and Apple's iPhone. The goal: Deliver an HDTV experience online. read more
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Silverlight and Media Encoding

While you may not personally work with a lot of media solutions in your Silverlight application, it is nice to know the quality is there when you need it. Silverlight supports the VC-1 codec for media which provides a standards implementation for high...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-30 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness

There will be times when your Silverlight app is run but the end user does not have a network connection. A key attribute of making a functional offline Silverlight app is building in network awareness. In this post, we
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

It's long way to ... Dublin

Coming to Dublin in just a few weeks (May 27) for a full day of public, 9-to-5, LINQ, LINQ-to-SQL from ASP.NET and Silverlight. Read all details here. A pattern-oriented look at LINQ and LINQ-to-SQL from within Web and Silverlight applications We'll start the day with a 10,000 look at LINQ. Hey, I can hear some of you complaining that it is just the "usual" boring stuff about LINQ being so cool etc. Things that you've probably heard a zillion times. Well, sort of. As Don Box told me once, it
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

YouTube got Microsoft

YouTube is running Microsoft Silverlight in CBS
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser Chess Application

The final sample from my Mix 09 talk is an Out Of Browser version of the Silverlight 2 Chess Application . You can find the source for this sample here ....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

NewsGator Launches Social Sites 3.0

Today NewsGator announces the general availability of the newest version of its enterprise social computing platform, Social Sites 3.0; this latest version includes new features for tracking colleagues
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

MTV & Silverlight 3 at NAB 2009

Jit Ghosh wrote about the  very cool Silverlight 3 application that a team from MTV, Vertigo, and Microsoft is building. Viacom/MTV announced a web based Digital Asset Management Workflow application completely built in Silverlight 3 (of course using the beta bits for now) and .Net 3.5.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Your First ASP.NET Custom Control

Creating a simple custom server control, with a few guidelines.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

MetaASO: A Bootstrapped P2P Startup From India

Anyone who has followed my posts on ReadWriteWeb, knows that I am interested in how innovation is going global, particularly innovation from India, and that I think P2P is the next great disruptive technology - the only one that could derail the Google steamroller. So it is no wonder that MetaASO caught my eye -- via Pluggd.in, a site that tracks Indian startups. MetaASO is a self-funded, bootstrapped startup that claims north of $1 million in revenue. In fact, being self-funded, that means th
Publication date: 2008-05-09 more

Magic Software Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"

Magic Software's iBOLT is a code-free business integration suite that allows for customizable and streamlined business processes, integrating them across diverse applications, platforms and databases. iBOLT's out-of-the-box toolset includes more than 50 connectors, adapters, and services that simplify and configure the technologies of integration.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several catego
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #1

A common place to put styles in Silverlight applications is the App.xaml file. Any style declared in App.xaml is automatically picked up by any of your custom controls in your application. However, if you create a Silverlight Class Library you will notice...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Microsoft picks Flash Player for Vista campaign site

As reported by fellow evangelists Ben Forta and Ted Patrick, Microsoft picked the Adobe Flash Player for their new Vista campaign. First of all
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

The Weekly Source Code 49 - SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults

While the boys are only 2 and 4, I'm always keeping an eye out on new ways to teach them programming. Certainly I hope they'll be more well-rounded and I and spend more time outside, but a even a basic background in programming and logic, I think, produces...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-09 more

I will be speaking at the Regional SharePoint Users conference

Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #47

With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there is are a number of new controls that were not available in beta 2 including: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox Password boxes are great in that they hide the characters a user is typing for privacy and security...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-29 more

Designer feedback for Silverlight needed

The user experience team for Silverlight is looking to get some feedback on some of their latest designs for Silverlight application templates and perhaps more. Instead of getting this feedback only internally, I thought it would be good to help them...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-11 more

Boston .NET Users Group Meeting

Last night I had the opportunity to talk to a packed room at the Boston .NET User
Publication date: 2008-06-14 more

Project Turing

  (click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) TURING Entry [100:3] [300:3] [400:3] [ What are these numbers? ] Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi       The Turing Project design calls for a four component system: Data Entry Data Storage Data Service Data Display Eventually Data Entry will be via email or web, Data Storage will probably be SqlServer, Data Service will probably be a WCF ap
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

AJAX client for HTTP polling duplex WCF channel in Microsoft Silverlight 3

If you are interested in coding an AJAX client application that consumes asynchronous data notifications from a WCF backend service using the Microsoft Silverlight 3 HTTP polling duplex channel, check out the AJAX client for HTTP polling duplex sample...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Links (7/16/2009)

SharePoint SharePoint Surveys
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated

If you're doing Silverlight 2 development with the unit test framework, you might want to check out the latest release that includes bug fixes and a few small new features....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-02 more

Introducing Silverlight 2

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of you nice folks who bought my Silverlight 2 book have been asking for updates and fixes to the code. Once we got RC0 out the door, I started updating the code, a process which is now finished...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-10 more

Creating a Simple Report Writer in Silverlight 4

Over the weekend, I was working on the Printing chapter of my Silverlight 4 Book . As part of that chapter, I decided to build a simple report writer. While there's a lot of other useful stuff in the chapter (buy my book! <g>) I felt the report...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-10 more

Lionhead

Lionhead has opened a new place on their website called Tales of Albion. It is three part series Fragments of the Old Kingdom Fall of the Heroes Travel
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications

When the Data Sources Window is used to generate the UI, the generated XAML injects design-time information so that the Binding Builder can be used to create bindings for the UI controls. What if your application was written in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008;...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-15 more

PhotoZoom and SLS updates to Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Emil Protalinski reports that Microsoft has updated Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live (SLS) to support the latest Silverlight 2 beta 2 version. SLS, which is a complementary service to Silverlight that allows developers and designers to host and stream their Microsoft Silverlight applications. The free service, which offers 10GB of hosting, is still in beta form and is not yet feature-complete. This update also effects the PhotoZoom service, which allows you to implement Deep Zoom technolog
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Microsoft Has "Olympic" Showcase for New Silverlight Online Video Platform....Silverlight 2.0 Supports Embeddable Player

With 72 million video streams of NBCOlympics.com viewed through Saturday, developers at Microsoft have reason to celebrate. The new rich media web plug-in, called Silverlight, which has had little implementation by the broadcast industry, has seemed to have worked well. On the day of Olympics began, I interviewed Eric Schmidt, Director of Media and Advertising Evangelism at Microsoft. He is one of the key team members who has worked with the NBC Sports organization in implementing Silver
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Html Host control in Silverlight

If you want to learn  how to build HTML Host control read the article of Muthu V. It is generally a problem in silverlight to use the HTML content. First and foremost problem is the trouble with setting the position of the control based on the silverlight page we are creating. Also it is really clunky to write the code to read and write your div details by accessing the HTML DOM objects.
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/1/2010

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #59

If you try to use the following characters in a string in XAML you will get a slew of errors in your Error List: < > &
Publication date: 2008-10-10 more

IS Consulting Releases MapDotNet UX Beta

IS Consulting Releases MapDotNet UX Beta Posted by on September 10th, 2008 IS Consulting just released the Beta of their MapDotNet UX product and the folks in the GIS world had better take notice. It
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Photosynth of RFID Day 4

After being inspired by my financial services account manager Chris Allison I thought I would have a go at the recently released PhotoSynth As I was working out of the bunker RFID room and various attendee rooms I thought I would try a collage of photographs (I am still collating video in the background by the way - watch this space). After completing the upload and the 19% "synthy" (above) with 19 pictures, which was roughly 3 mins, the output looked something like this: I man
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Intersoft Solutions Announces WebUI Studio 2009 Service Pack 1

JAKARTA September 1, 2009 Intersoft Solutions today announced the first service pack for WebUI Studio 2009, a significant update that includes hundreds of enhancements and improved stability for all products across ASP.NET and Silverlight platform. In addition, the service pack for Silverlight now includes full support for Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, DomainDataSource data binding and much more. Over 150+ Refinements The WebUI Studio 2009 Service Pack 1 release includes multitude of refi
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

AgOpenSource Moves Forward

. Our Goal Is Not To Create Great Programs; It Is To Create Great Programmers   This posting will quickly review the AgOpenSource project, whose Table of Contents is available at www.AgOpenSource.com or from a link on the sidebar of my blog. Overview...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Silverlight TV 20: Community Driven Development with WCF RIA Services

In this episode, John talks with Jeff Handley about how the community's feedback really helped shape some features in WCF RIA Services. Jeff is very active in the community and has a wealth of knowledge about WCF RIA Services. Relevant links: John's Blog...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-09 more

Microsoft gunning for Hulu in the UK with MSN Video Player

Friday, July 31st, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentMicrosoft is launching a free video service in the UK that will be focused on streaming full-length television shows. Dubbed the MSN Video Player, and powered by Flash and Windows Media Video, the service will go into a six-month trial version next week. While it
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Carbon Grove - Your Green Solution

Climate change is a problem that af­fects everyone on our planet. As is often the case with problems of this magnitude, it
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Visual Studio 2010 Parody

Last week my acting career got off the ground (and likely burned and crashed just as quickly). You can check out my Visual Studio meets
Publication date: 2010-04-13 more

RedirectButton - Redirect Users With the Click of a Button

Virtually every ASP.NET developer has, at one point or another, created a page with a Button control that, when clicked, redirects the user to some other page, perhaps sending along a value entered by the user through the querystring. The typical pattern for implementing such behavior is to add a Button to the page and create a Click event handler that executes a Response.Redirect(url). If the redirect incorporates some input from the user, then this pattern is expanded to include the addition o
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Tell us what you think about Expression Blend 3

Tell us what you think about Expression Blend 3 The Expression Team has been running a survey for the last few weeks looking to gather feedback as we start planning for the next version of Expression Blend. We want to make sure you’ve seen the survey...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC).  Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isnt working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh).  It works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 (which is free). Todays RC is the last public release of ASP.NET MVC that well ship prior to the final 1.0 release.  We expect to ship the final ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release next month. In addition to bug fixes,... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #33: How to Scale your entire App and its Elements to your Browsers Size

Let
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Mix Essentials slide deck and demo's

Today I delivered a session on Mix Essentials in Belgium (Louvain-La-Neuve). The talk was about connecting Silverlight with services and data. Everything went great and every single demo worked as expected. This morning however, I do was a little bit scared when I was trying out my demo's. I had one demo with the Flickr REST API and when testing it this morning, it didn't work anymore. Turned out that the most "easy" solution actually solved it: Flickr.com was down for about 10 minutes...
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Silverlight 4 Beta Released!

WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up: - Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime, tutorials, other links) - What's New in Silverilght 4 - Breaking Changes (good to read if you're migrating older apps to Silverlight 4) - Offline Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios

Click here to download sample application  Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Silverlight MVP, and why I love Silverlight

When I first became an MVP in January 2008 there was some questions as to what bucket Silverlight would fit into. After all, it was brand new; the only versions people were using publicly were Silverlight 1 and the Silverlight 1.1 alpha
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

Overview Of Internet Marketing

Overview Of Internet Marketing Posted by Dele Ojewumi on Tuesday, August 05 @ 04:07:14 PHT (2 reads) Copyright
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Windows Live Photos

Windows Live SkyDrive & Photos
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

My Latest Silverlight Articles

Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here. I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week (or so) a new article will be published and I'll update them here so check back. The articles are designed to be focused and concise and get straight to the topic without a lot of fluff. Getting Started with Silverlight Using Microsoft's S
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: The Install

There are three main pillars to the new offline and out-of-browser feature set in Silverlight. These pillars are also tied to user experience; namely Install, Launch and Manage. In additions there are framework-level APIs and behind the scenes support...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Flash Skills Applied to Silverlight session at MIX10

It
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

The Frustration of Wanting Something You Can

To set the stage: I was up in Marin County for the day to meet with a company and give them some advice. Anyhow, on the way to Marin from Oakland, I was listening to KFOG (which I do love) and they played back to back: Golden Paliminos
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

WPF and Silverlight UserControls at Design Time

I have just blogged about UserControls in the Visual Stuido 2010 WPF and Silverlight Designer on the Cider Team blog.  This fast reading post contains a short introduction to UserControls then covers the below sections that even the most seasoned...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-15 more

Blog Post of the Month

Every once in a while I read a blog post that is so good I have to pass it on. Scott Hanselman said it perfectly today ....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-01 more

Netflix Neutrality

A little over a week ago, Netflix was berated by a user who assumed that the company was throttling his streaming video connection.  Slashdot picked up the story shortly afterwards, and an Engadget piece was soon to follow. The ground shook, walls crumbled, worlds were torn asunder, Lance Armstrong fell off his bike.  Not really. Riyad Kalla, of the Break It Down Blog began to notice that the same movie was buffering differently on his PC versus his Xbox 360 when trying to load up
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

FIX: An access violation occurs when you start an application that runs on the CLR

961881 ... FIX: An access violation occurs when you start an application that runs on the CLRThis RSS feed provided by kbAlerz.com.Visit kbAlertz.com to subscribe. It's 100% free and you'll be able to recieve e-mail or RSS updates for the technologies you pick from the Microsoft Knowledge Base.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Interactive Microsoft Partner Website Widget

Microsoft is offering a new set of free interactive web tools
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

TypeMOQ API

I was fiddling around with the typemock API, see what it would belike to use it in a more MOQ like manner: to support this, all the code you need, including the Faker class exists here. youd need to reference the typemock dll and the typemock c# API dll to make it work. Im not sure Im crazy about it, but it is shorter. Im not sure its as readable, though. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

Ajax.NET M! (mobile edition) cancelled

Some months ago I started to implement an Ajax.NET Professional version for .NET Compact and Micro Framework. Some weeks later I decided to build a library with several network related features and Im now moving the Ajax.NET M! to this new project at CodePlex. Michaels Networking Toolkit provides featrues like a DNS resolver, an HTTP server (AJAX support will be added right now) and XBee module support (from Digi International). Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles w
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Silverlight 2 Free Video Player MinoPlayer 1.2

  While not stated as Open Source (yet) like the SL2 OS video player. it is still a already packaged and free to use and adjust Silverlight 2.O (beta 2)  video player you can use in your site for your videos and that like the SL2 OS video player it now support Time Markers. This is called the MinoPlayer and now it is in version 1.2. it comes from a very good Italian Silverlight and WPF developer and it has chosen its video player as the first app to release  code for everyone to use. Unl
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Peanut butter jelly time [How to: Create a pleasing visual effect with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

I was recently part of an e-mail thread with Pete Brown discussing the prospects of reproducing Richard Zadorozny's cool "jelly chart" behavior with the official Silverlight/WPF Charting controls from the Silverlight Toolkit . Richard's sample is really...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

IronRuby ASP.NET MVC With Filters

Last July, I blogged about an IronRuby ASP.NET MVC prototype Levi and I put together with John Lam and Jimmy Schementi of the DLR team. It was really rough around the edges (and still is!) One of the benefits of doing that prototype was that it inspired all the work around action and controller descriptors in ASP.NET MVC (something I need to write more about later) which decoupled us from exposing reflection in our public API and improved the overall design of ASP.NET MVC greatly. This had the n
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Is Tiny Seesmic Going to Take Over the World?

Andy Plesser at Beet.TV got the scoop from video chat platform Seesmic that the company will be powering video comments for Moveable Type and TypePad blogs beginning next month, just like they have for WordPress.com since last month. Founder Loic Le Meur wrote this week that Seesmic will this month become the first Silverlight video service on mobile phones and next month the company will be integrating XMPP real-time messaging into Twhirl, the leading 3rd party Twitter client that they recentl
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Life changer XAML tip for Visual Studio

If you've worked with XAML in Visual Studio 2008 (SP1), either for WPF or Silverlight work, you know how painful it is.Of course, the first thing to do is to get rid of the design view. It's slow as a snail and it's pretty useless anyway.Make yourself a favor, and check "Always open documents in full XAML view" in "Tools | Options | Text Editor | XAML | Miscellaneous".Even if this a great improvement, you'll soon realize that Visual Studio still sucks up a lot of your time and energy when you sw
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

AlertFox Launches Powerful Web Application Monitoring Tool (Freebies Here)

Most web application developers have been there: your monitoring system shows nothing but green lights, yet the app is down or not functioning the way it should. Traditional web monitoring services often don
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services

Someone mailed me to ask whether I had a video on how to put together Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services. I don't at the time of writing and I've also got a cold right now ( thank you, Microsoft Manchester office :-) ) so I thought I'd write something rather than record it. Let's run through a step-by-step thing. Visual Studio 2008 - File->New->Web Site. I'm going for the filesystem and C# as below; Now, to make it easy to work with ADO.NET Data Services, I'm going to add in an
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Programming news: Oracle Application Testing Suite 9.0, JPA 2.0, IronScheme

Read about the Beginner Developer Learning Center, Oracle
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Expression Studio 2 RTM

Last year the Microsoft Expression team shipped a new suite of tools for creative professionals. This first release of Expression Studio marked a significant milestone in the history of development tools at Microsoft, delivering superior designer-developer workflow and providing designers a set of interaction design, graphic design, Web design, digital asset management and video production tools to deliver better user experiences on Windows and the Web. I am pleased to announce, just one year
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Looking for a front-end jedi/ninja/warrior/whatever

Pathfinder is recruiting! Although it's not yet listed on our career portal, we're looking to beef up our Ajax practice with a talented front-end programmer. This person should be a jack of all trades, master of several, and flexible about which warrior metaphor to adopt for professional use. Please give me a shout if the following describes you: You enjoy hand-coding complex DHTML and Ajax applications. JavaScript is your passion ... ... but not your only passion. You also make room i
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Look Ma, I

Last Friday I headed to Microsoft Italy offices in Segrate (with my Vespa and under a pouring rain), for being interviewed by Pietro Brambati, Italian Developer Evangelist, about ASP.NET MVC. You can watch the video (in Italian) on Channel9. I want to thank Pietro and the Italian DPE team for the interview and for the nice tech chat we had during the day. Technorati Tags: aspnetmvc,interview,channel9 ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Auth
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Breaking Apart the Margin Property in Xaml for better Binding

WARNING: This post doesn't have a solution. It's more like one of those old "In Search Of" episodes where you'd see a lot of talking, an interview with a 90 year old guy you can't understand, and some fuzzy photographs, but no closure. When looking at...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-08 more

NY Times Reader on Mac with Silverlight

A while back the team at the New York Times newspaper produced a digital reader for their content, dubbed
Publication date: 2008-05-24 more

Windows4All

Windows4All is a Microsoft Silverlight (web) based online virtual operating system that emulates the feel and appearance of Windows Vista. No installation or account sign-up is required; and applications can be launched right away by simply going to Windows4all.com . If the application does not load, then you do not have Microsoft Silverlight installed.What is Silverlight?Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device browser plug-in that helps companies design, develop and deli
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Twitter A Real Challenge for Blogging

These days Twitter has become a famous site on the web and the vanguard in the new rising field of micro-blogging. In the past few months it could find its place among ordinary web users and is going to be an influential website among web 2.0 sites and services. Ive been a member of one of the first groups of users who joined to this site and have been actively tweeting for over 25 months. This has helped me to see the progress of the site both from the number of users and adjunct services point
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Introducing Gadfly, The Silverlight Twitter Client (with Out of Browser support) - Steve Holstad's "the bright lights"

We recently released Gadfly, our Silverlight Twitter client, to public beta.  This project stems from my old Twitterlight days, and thanks to a few kind souls here at Clarity, the project gained momentum and has become a very well received Silverlight offering.  Gadfly has already become the everyday Twitter client for some, thanks to the feature list below and support for Silverlight Out-of-Browser (OOB), which is part of ...
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Creating IT strategy (with a little help from enterprise architecture)

Creating IT strategy is one of the complicated task that I know. To create a good IT strategy, you have to use many ingredients from different types and sources. Those ingredientsshould be used in unique combination that can be cooked and then be served as a delicious Cake to different customers ( IT workers, IT management, Information workers, enterprise CxOs and sometimes the board). In this post I'll try to describe what, and who I manage to create an IT strategy. Usually I tend to spl
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Microsoft releases biggest patch on record

Monthly update includes 13 security bulletins to address 34 vulnerabilities in OS, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Office and other productsArticle SourceRelated posts:Using InstallAware 7 To Patch Software Products Overview This whitepaper describes how to use InstallAware for patching...4ipnet Releases WHG505 Secure WLAN Controller In Gigabit Ethernet 4ipnet Releases
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (RC)

Not too long ago, at PDC09, we released Silverlight 4 Beta. Silverlight 4 beta added a ton of new capabilities over what we had with Silverlight 3. Today, we announced the Release Candidate for Silverlight 4, bringing Silverlight 4 one step closer to...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15 more

Silverlight Design Day Registration open for NY, Chicago, Austin

The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day events in Chicago, Austin and New York are now available. May 4
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

IPad

This morning one of my colleagues stepped in my office and handed me an elegant curved device from metal and glass. You of course guessed it, it was an iPad, for my curious eyes and hands to play with. First thing I did was to fire up the Notes application...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-06 more

Aggiorno - Improving the web one tag at a time.

That's there motto anyway. It's actually a very interesting product from my friends at ArtinSoft. Add Alternate Text To Image Assign Tab Index Convert Text To XHTML List Convert Text To XHTML Paragraphs Extract And Merge Inline Style Fix Deprecated Elements For XHTML Compliance Replace CENTER Tag By Inline CSS Replace FONT Tag By Inline CSS Update Deprecated Attributes Update Other Deprecated Tags Fix Syntax Errors For XHTML Compliance Fixed Malformed Entities Replace... Did you know that DotNet
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Pixel Lab Silverlight Site Launched

Funny how your own site is always the lowest priority when your job is to create websites for other people. It
Publication date: 2009-05-15 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/8/2010

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Publication date: 2010-03-08 more

Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 5

Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 RSS feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1 I explained what RSS is and how to use it, please read that if you need a refresher on why RSS is awesome and why you should be using it if you take reading news on the internet seriously. The prefix to Trimming in Public is
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Follow Silverlight updates on Twitter

I was just thinking the other day that I have some decent subscriber numbers here, but the same volume isn
Publication date: 2009-03-16 more

Microsoft Search News Out of IE 8 and MIX09

Microsoft has had a couple major events this week and both have implications for search. First up, they release the next version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 8. It was announced at MIX09, which had additional search news covered at the end of this post. With the release of IE8 comes the Live Search accelerators . Once you've installed IE 8 and the accelerator, all you have to do is highlight a word on a page you're viewing, click on the arrow that appears and click on the opti
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

AjaxWorld Talk: Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

It was another fun day AjaxWorld .  I had a good time during my talk Silverlight 2 .    Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cross-device.  Plug-in for building and delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Telerik looks to boost 3D for Silverlight

In a new release of its RadControls component suite, the company introduced a 3D charting engine for Microsoft Silverlight. Visit website for full story...
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

If I was in charge at Microsoft

We
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Dew Drop - April 10, 2009

  .NET / Visual Studio 5 Minute Tutorial on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Dan Morphis) Azure Services Training Kit (MS Downloads) Using Method.Invoke to avoid a lengthy Case Statement in C# (Using Reflection) (Peter Kellner) NHibernate Mapping
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Silverlight Drag, Drop, Import , and Export: By Michael Washington

Note: This article is submitted by Michael for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Articles Competition.Thanks a lot, Michael! Hello All, I would like to remind you that our contest will be closed on 25th July, 2008 so please get writing and submit your great article as soon as possible. You will get a chance to win cool prizes. Your articles will be read by a lot of Silverlight fans and you will be recolonized by our Silverlight community. Plus, we will drive some traffic to your site. This contest is spo
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Lightstreamer & Valemobi to offer Real-time iPhone Applications in Brazil

Milan, 23rd July 2009
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Richer video uploads for SLS (Robust: Pause and Resume)

Over at SLS RemyP announced a new robust uploader If you are using Silverlight 2 Beta 1, next time you go to http://silverlight.live.com to upload a video, you will be able to enjoy the completely overhauled upload stack. The tip of the iceberg is the window that allows you to pause the upload and resume it at a later time. More importantly the uploader supports resumability so if the connection drops for whatever reason, it will keep on trying without loss of data, and without forcing you to
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Mindy

maru cat  and the big box http://video.yahoo.com/network/100284668?v=4956499&l=3774740 cat loses weight http://video.yahoo.com/network/100284668?v=4956499&l=3774740 Random Posts Latest E3 Game Announcements Mindy
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

WPF and Silverlight Designer, Hey I

In the past two weeks, including a lunch meeting with an MVP yesterday, I have ran into developers that don
Publication date: 2010-06-15 more

Data Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm

In this article, the author reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. It focuses on client-side templates and data binding but won't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Some known issues in SL3 Beta

We've run across some issues with our web services features in the Silverlight 3 Beta and I want to share these here to hopefully save folks some time and frustration. Issue: On Windows 7 Beta, you might encounter the following error when generating a...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #13

  As you might have heard by now Microsoft has revamped it
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

Web Cast-off

Due to a family emergency I had to postpone today
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Go Deeper! - The Deep Zoom Day.

Go Deeper! - The Deep Zoom Day. Posted by on June 26th, 2008 Today was a fun road-trip day for me ( I don
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Carbon Grove: An Environmentally Themed Campaign By Internet Explorer

Do your part for environment and a better internet ecosystem! To commemorate Earth Day, April 22nd, Internet Explorer has launched an environmentally themed campaign called Carbon Grove. Windows Internet Explorer has partnered with a carbon reduction reminder service to help increase awareness around one of Earth
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

August 2007 Microsoft Virtual Earth Newsletter

What
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R2 Beta is available now

In this special second 2008 beta release, Intersoft Solutions is proud to announce the availability of WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R2 Beta. This long-awaited beta introduces many new and major enhancements for existing products to strengthen and extend the capability of the powerful existing line-ups. There may be no new family introduced in this release, but we guarantee that this release is just as great as the previous release or even better. These new enhancements will surely makes you put on your
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update]

The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit came out on Monday and the Data Visualization assembly includes some nice updates. I discussed the details of the new release then and promised to revise my samples to run on the new bits. While I anticipated...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Best SF Books of All Time

Someone just asked me my favorite SF books, and while creating such a list is almost absurd, nonetheless, it being the end of the year, here
Publication date: 2009-12-15 more

New Silverlight 2 Beta on the Horizon?

New Silverlight 2 Beta on the Horizon? With the VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta released Scott Guthrie has posted a very detailed article on the new features and changes that this service pack introduces.  Unfortunately, this beta release is incompatible with the current Silverlight tools beta.  However, ScottGu hints that a new version of the Silverlight tools will become available in the next few weeks.
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

TRAINING: Learning about Windows Server 2008

This is a compilation of free training opportunities for Windows Server 2008. They consist of
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Silverlight Pseudo Terminals and Terminal Emulators?

tirania.org: Since I have been thinking about building a Silverlight-based version of the Midnight Commander (OH NOES!) I figured I should share some thoughts that I had on this matter. Advertisement: read more
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Silverlight Breaking Changes Between Beta 2 and Release (Updated Document)

As Silverlight RC0 and release come out, you will likely run into some breaking changes in your Beta 2 or older applications. The MSDN docs and SDK that is about to release has a breaking changes doc that lists most of these changes; however, due to these...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-11 more

Silverlight Count Down Control

Jacek Ciereszko has created a Silverlight control that will count down event
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Flash on TV?

Adobe in Push to Spread Web Video to TV Sets By BRAD STONE Published: April 20, 2009 The New York Times The denizens of Hollywood and Silicon Valley have, by and large, vastly different value systems, role models, even tastes in cars, food and clothing. Adobe Systems Adobe
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

RadFormDecorator Q2 2009 - more decoration options, faster rendering!

RadFormDecorator might be one of the lesser-known controls in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite, yet it is a control that can eliminate much of the hassle and greatly reduce the time needed for completing the look and feel of a Web solution. What the control does is decorate elements that are usually rendered by the browser, such as buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons, fieldsets, etc. It just so happens that this product can be used for free - as it is one of the goodies that Telerik p
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Dont Believe Anything I Say

That is, dont believe anything I say when you ask me about Silverlight vs. some other technology such as well the one people keep asking about is Flash (or Flex). Heres why. 1. Once a person has a stake in a product that person is physically incapable of having an objective opinion. In my experience that is a fact of life no matter how honest, reputable, sincere or incorruptible the person. Set aside cigarette scientists and those who work for (your pick: nuclear power companies,... Did you
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Page Refresh Detection Using HttpModule

How to detect and handle a page refresh using only an HttpModule... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

The ESRI Web ADF 9.3

Remember this post ?  Count that as the most popular post ever on my blog (so much for a positive post being my watermark).  Anyway Doron Yaacoby has followed up almost a year and a half later with another look at where ESRI has taken the Web ADF since then. Almost none of the issues I addressed in my original post were fixed. The API is still overly complex. Resources, functionalities and all these so-called abstractions remain in place, emphasizing the strength of the JavaScript API
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Who's using Silverlight? 2nd Factory

Using Silverlight, Expression Design, Expression Web, DeepZoomPix and Visual Studio, 2nd Factory in Tokyo created an application for Yahoo! Japan to track sites, images and video and photo assets by category. This tool allows Yahoo! Japan to compare content...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

RIA Services templates not showing in Visual Studio 2010?

Last week, the Silverlight 4 beta release included the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 . This single installer would perform the following (assuming you had either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 already installed: Install...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

DeepZooming into (US) Tax Dollars

DeepZooming into (US) Tax Dollars Blog.PostedBy: Larry Larsen | May 8th @ 3:25 PM DeepZoom really shines in showing a large amount of information. To get a sense of this, check out Jess Bachman's Death and Taxes poster. This ginormous infographic shows you where much of the US Federal budget will go in 2009. By using a mouse with a scrollwheel, you can fluidly move in and out of the graphic, digging around through branches and departments of the government. Jess stopped by recently and
Publication date: 2008-05-09 more

Great User Experience Example in a Business Application

DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight.  Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services.  So far the application is in WPF, but they...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-08 more

Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

Here's a link to a silverlight video player with all the basic features like progress/seek slider, full screen toggle, play/pause/resume, etc. The player is meant to be relatively simple while still sporting the basic features you'd expect in a video...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

The Book of WPF

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Leveraging ILMerge to simplify deployment and your users experience

ILMerge is one of those little-known gems that are an absolute must-have once you know how to apply them effectively to scenarios you didn't even think about. Specifically, whenever you work on a multi-project solution that may also use external projects in turn, forcing your users to add (say) five assembly references just to your "entry point" library is clearly a bad experience. One example that comes to mind is Enterprise Library, where you add a minimum of 3 (IIRC) assembly references to us
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Extensibility Series

This is the first in series of posts called the
Publication date: 2009-11-21 more

Countdown to Silverlight 3 Part 7: Navigation

In this 7th part of the Countdown to Silverlight 3 series Andrej Tozon presents another powerful Silverlight 3 feature - Navigation . Here is a list with Andrej's previous posts from the series: Countdown to Silverlight 3 #1: Out of Browser applications Countdown to Silverlight 3 #2: Setting styles Countdown to Silverlight 3 #3: Merged resource dictionaries Countdown to Silverlight 3 #4: Element binding Countdown to Silverlight 3 #5: ChildWindow (Modal, N
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Silverlight to be used for the March Madness

CBS Sports and the NCAA have chosen Silverlight to power the delivery of on-demand high-quality video coverage of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball March Madness Tournament, which begins Thursday, March 19. Microsoft is calling this yet another example of companies realizing that "Silverlight keeps proving time and again that it can not only handle, but excel in supporting these types of high-traffic, online media events." After downloading the Silverlight plug-in, viewers will be abl
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Microsoft AJAX: Persist focus, prevent lost requests, and avoid click happy users

How to extend the behavior of async postbacks for update panels.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

MySpace Mobile to Support Windows Mobile

MySpace today announced support for Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Silverlight with its new MySpace mobile application. To be released in this summer, the application will run on Windows phones and utilize Silverlight. The MySpace application will be available on Windows Mobile 6.1 phones later this summer and then in the fall of 2009 through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, directly through phones, and the Web. LG will preload the MySpace application on their Windows phones, which ar
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Drawing Names (A Christmas Name Drawing Application)

A Christmas Name Drawing Application Using DHTML JavaScript XML C# FORMS VS2008 .NET 3.5 ENCRYPTION... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Battle of the Titans: The Silverlight and Flash SmackDown

See Adobe Flash go head to head with Microsoft Silverlight, maybe walk away with an XBOX 360. Finally, SmackDown has come back to Winnipeg on May 19 th , 2009!  For the first time under one roof, New Media Manitoba, the Adobe User Group, and the Winnipeg .net User Group bring you The Silverlight and Flash SmackDown!   This is, without a doubt the most electrifying topic in web development today!  We are about to shake things up and end the fall season with a bang! Developers and Design
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of August 23, 2009

Where To Find Health Care Savings; And Where You Wont - lawhawk.blogspot.com 08/23/2009 While the GOP can
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Internet TV Pioneer, Narrowstep, Acquired by KIT Digital

KIT Digital, a provider of IP-based video technologies, announced Wednesday that it has acquired the assets (and assumed various current liabilities of) pioneering Internet TV company, Narrowstep. The deal follows the collapse of a previously announced agreement ( see [itvt] Issue 7.87 Part 1 ), under which Onstream Media was to acquire the company. KIT Digital says that the acquisition will expand its client delivery capabilities, particularly in live streaming, long-form delivery and delivery
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

On Email and Organization

Some people are naturally organized
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

List of Silverlight bugs and Workarounds

There are a number of bugs in Silverlight that might give you grief. I've compiled a list of some of these bugs as well as their respective workarounds here: Silverlight Bugs and Workarounds . I published this list on a blog page rather than a blog post...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

NBC, NFL Deal Puts Adobe One More Step Back

Quietly, a sleeping giant has been evolving. That sleeping giant is Silverlight, a Microsoft rich media technology to rival Adobe
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

What Should I Choose? Adobe Flash Or Microsoft Silverlight?

Adobe, which is famous for its image and video editing softwares, is also the company that offers the Flash technology. Flash is utilized in millions of websites and it is the technology that enables videos to be viewed online.
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Expression Encoder 2 publish to Silverlight Streaming plugin

Expression Encoder 2 is out, but you might wonder where is the Publish to Silverlight Streaming feature ?? Remember you had to install a plugin for that purpose. You still need a plugin and the updated version is there: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/a/22a8da23-ffa7-4e5a-8fed-8239d3a7b322/SLSPlugin for Expression Encoder 2.msi Now you can encode your videos with Expression Encoder 2 and publish right to your free 10GB Silverlight Streaming account! Technorati Tags: Expression Encoder
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month

Jeff Wilcox will be presenting a 200-level deep dive talk on Silverlight unit testing at the TechEd North America 2010 conference next month in New Orleans....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

Molding code to your will with Sculpture

CodePlex
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Comments about Adding

A couple of people mentioned they are having problems getting adding to work in my example.    I think there are two issues that are getting people.  See the full series   1. You need to hit submit after you add.. Adding only adds to the local collection, to push it to the database, you need to call submit changes.   If youd like to have Add.. always add it to the database, simply add a call to SubmitChanges(). (line 8).  But notice this does do a network... Did you know that DotNetSlackers al
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

Using WinDbg, SOS, and GCRoot to diagnose a .NET memory leak

In his last post, David Anson explained how it was possible for "hidden" event handlers to introduce memory leaks and showed an easy way to prevent such leaks . Now he is going to show how to diagnose a .NET memory leak with the help of WinDbg, SOS, and GCRoot . What if you don't know the source of the memory leak in the first place? Knowing how something is leaking is the first step to fixing it, and the web has some great resources for learning more about tracking down managed memory lea
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Test Center: Safari 4 preview

You already know Safari. It's the only browser that ships with OS X, in the same manner that Internet Explorer is the de facto browser for Windows. Safari rose to greater recognition as the iPhone's touchy-feely Web 2.0 client. You might be aware that OS X and Windows editions of Safari are released in parity, function identically, and are updated automatically through Apple Software Update in response to security and stability issues.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net arti
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Extension Methods Part 2

More: Extension Methods Part 1 In my previous entry on this topic I demonstrated how you can use Extension methods to add what appear to be new methods to existing classes. In this entry I will demonstrate how Extension methods enhance Linq by adding...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Integrating FCKeditor in ASP.Net

Integrating FCKeditor in ASP.Net... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

The Morning Brew #393

Software Welcome NHibernate 2.1.0 - The NHibernate Team announce the GA release of NHibernate 2.1 GA, along with the news that the NHibernate 2.1.x releases will be the last releases to target .NET 2.0 IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released - Steve Schofield shares the news that the beta release of the IIS7 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 has been released by the IIS team. Available as a standalone install or through the Web Platform Installer this rules based rewriting engine allows you
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released

The final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services is now available for download .  Download and Install If you already have Visual Studio 2010 installed (or the free Visual Web Developer 2010 Express ), then...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Skyfire Releases Version 1.0

Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available

Two weeks ago, I posted the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework online for folks looking for updated bits. Of course, the real gem is the Silverlight 3 version. Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, you should definitely look at moving...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-18 more

Search Your Site Using Google's Custom Search Engine

Remember when people used to debate what search engine was the best among the bunnch? Do you remember back in the day when Yahoo! differentiated itself from other search engines by having actual human beings catalog, summarize, and rate large swaths of the World Wide Web? Today, search is a commodity.It's ubiquitous.Web surfers expect there to bea search box and expect accurate results returned in the blink of an eye. Because of these expectations, it's now more important than ever that your we
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New features & download for RC0

Enhanced interactive results, more log providers, dynamic test methods and attributes, tag expressions: there’s a whole lot of fun new test-dev-geek candy in the latest Silverlight Unit Test Framework download on the MSDN Code Gallery (download...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-01 more

RIA Services Blog Posts

Thanks to Yannick Aristidi we are getting many of the RIA Services posts from my series translated into French!  Partie 1: les bases de la navigation Partie 2: l'acc
Publication date: 2009-10-17 more

SQLAuthority News First Editorial T-SQL Challenges Beginners

I would like to welcome all of you to very first editorial for T-SQL Challenges for Beginners. T-SQL Challenges began with the aim to help community to come out of regular mind set of just reading articles online. There is plenty of reading material available online, but there are very few that can make us [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a l
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

ElementName binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviour

Colin Eberhardt has a blog post concentrated on ElementName binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviour. As a relative newcomer to Silverlight I was happily greeted by the warm feeling of familiarity when I started developing. It is surprisingly easy to make the transition from WPF to Silverlight developer, with most of the core concepts being just the same. However, there are some parts of the WPF framework that you start to miss. One of those is ElementName binding.
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Important change to Sockets in Silverlight 2

An important note for those using Sockets in Silverlight 2. In beta 1, Sockets were limited to site-of-origin (meaning you could only connect back to the same host that served up the Silverlight application). This has changed in beta 2 to allow your Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

POLL: Silverlight developer patterns

My friend Joel Neubeck is doing a survey on his site about what patterns people prefer for Silverlight development. I
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Printer vendor Oki Data

S worth of celebration just for them. Fostering online Lila forohar between Lines of Business and IT, with the best balance of control and self service. D loose to develop the new products, and then turned to. In the software as a service model, now burgeoning across the software industry, customers don
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Sizing in Silverlight

Virtually all measurements (width, height, etc.) are measured in Pixels in Silverlight
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #31

Full screen can be toggled on and off via a user command such as a button click by setting the following property to true or false: Application.Current.Host.Content.IsFullScreen Normally Silverlight applications will only stay in full screen mode until...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-25 more

Refreshing the view of grid control

How to reflect the changes made to the itemsource of grid control in wpf... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Watch the NFL live in HD thanks to Silverlight

NBC has partnered again with NFL to stream the NFL Sunday Night Football games live through Silverlight with IIS Smooth streaming at 720p HD quality. Starting on 10th September, you
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight

A while back immediately after MIX10 I started messing with Microsoft Translator APIs for Silverlight applications. I also got some people asking about Windows Phone 7 stuff and messed around with that a bit. Here
Publication date: 2010-06-02 more

Why Oslo Is a Great Idea?

Shawn Wildermuth will give you evidences with which to show  why Oslo matters to him so much. As many of you know, I used to go by "The ADO Guy". When I started to look into Silverlight and Oslo, I didn't leave my ADO Guy at the door. I always tried to let people know that it was data (not necessarily databases) that inspired my love of development. Oslo is a natural extension of that.
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Unblocking downloaded CHM documentation files on Windows Vista

If you’ve ever downloaded a CHM documentation file and received a "Navigation to the webpage was canceled" message, you need to ‘Unblock’ the CHM file before opening it. This was a security improvement in Windows Vista, and there’s...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards The Cloud

Microsoft is making a significant announcement for developers today, upgrading and adding functionality to Visual Studio 2010 to make the product more cloud-friendly in anticipation of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Silverlight Design Days

Event Schedule Jan 29 – MountainView, CA, US – register Feb 9 – Irvine, CA, US – register break for MIX10 – event site Mar 24 – London, UK – register May 4 – Chicago, IL, US May 7 – Austin, TX, US...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Your First MFC C++ Ribbon Application with Visual Studio 2010

Earlier this month, I put together my first C++ sample in about a hundred years . I did that using win32 and Visual Studio 2010. Why? Well, a surprising number of folks are doing real work on impressive applications in C++, and not just inside Microsoft...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

Web 2.0 Run Amok

In the past few months, Ive dramatically increased the number of channels from and to the community and since they are likely to cause some confusion, this post will briefly review and explain my intentions. First, the list: Tutorials Books Videos Webcasts Presentations Silverlight Blog OReilly Blog My Other Blog Amazon Blog Private Twitter Silverlight MicroBlog Silverlight HyperBlog  +Email +Forum Portal Book Support Email Phone... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles w
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

SlideShare thrives with a 3 million funding round

In terms of documents recreation, the most saturated market in web 2.0 is without a doubt
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Recap of MIX10 Day 1

We kicked off MIX10 this morning to a packed house of designers and developers who are building the world’s most innovative consumer-facing and enterprise Web and desktop applications. Attendees come from around the world and represent top web sites...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #37

Up to now we have been statically declaring our Silverlight application in our web page ASPX file directly like this: < body style =" height : 100% ; margin : 0 ; ">     < form id ="form1" runat ="server"...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010

October 19th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:44 amCategories:.Net Framework, Azure, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Multicore/distributed computing, SharePoint Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Utility/cloud computing, Visual Studio 10 ("Hawaii"), Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 /("Windows 7 Server")Tags:Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

UK Postcode Validation

This regex will validate any UK Postcode, including the Girobank postcode and irrespective of whether it contains a space. It is based on the BS7666 standard detailed in the UK Government Data Standards Catalogue from the Cabinet Office (http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/gdsc/html/frames/Postcode.htm). Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 5/29/2008+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Mike Taulty Demos ADO.NET Data Services' New Batching Feature Mike's ADO.NET Data Services - Batching in Action post of May 29, 2008 demonstrates use of the proxy.ExecuteBatch() method to send a single POST message to the $batch endpoint and issue multiple GETs to retrieve multiple records from different tables. Similarly, he shows you how to use the proxy.SaveChanges(SaveChangesOptions.Batch);
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

A Tale of Software Rewrites

What follows below is an excerpt from Michael Feathers
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Introducing WebsiteSpark

What is WebsiteSpark? If you run or work at a small web design or development firm, WebsiteSpark might be for you! WebsiteSpark is Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Template parts and custom controls (quick tip)

Here
Publication date: 2010-04-02 more

Solve the riddle, and get a free pass to MIX

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 As you may know, MIX is coming up very soon
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

High vs. Low Design

I recently did a phone interview for the User Interface Resource center which is sponsored by the folks at Adobe, Microsoft and Effective UI. The folks at Effective UI were interested in having an informal discussion around the concepts of "high design vs. low design" that is, highly-designed "experiential" applications that push the limits of technology and human interaction (Think slick desktop applications) vs. solutions that don't quite push as hard on (think Craigslist, Flickr, or Twitte
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

A fix for the unofficial WPF Charting assembly

David Anson has made a quick fix for the unofficial build of the Silverlight Charting assembly for WPF . When I updated my ChartBuilder sample/application/learning tool for the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit a few weeks ago, I included an unofficial build of the Silverlight Charting assembly for WPF. Despite my warning that WPF Charting was completely untested, I nevertheless hoped that some of you would give WPF Charting a try - and you didn't let me down. :) Two signifi
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

The Travelling Salesman Web Service

JOpt.AAS reduces the number of vehicles in a fleet at the same volume of jobs/deliveries and optimizes overall route times and distance 2009/02/21 - The Travelling Salesman Problem is probably one of the most studied problems in computational mathematics. Due to its practical relevance for many applications in the field of logistics and field force planning there are many studies dealing with algorithms and approaches to solve the TSP programmatically. Now DNA Evolutions offers a web service pla
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

F# in VS2010

With Visual Studio, we strive to give your organization the tools to tackle a broad range of software problems with the interoperability and efficiency that you need and have come to expect from software based on the .NET Framework.   As part of this, Visual Studio 2010 marks the first release to directly support functional programming through the F# programming language.   F# is a highly productive .NET programming language combining functional programming and object-oriented
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Silverlight Chord Finder

I
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Knowledge@Wharton interview with Kevin Lynch

Kendall Whitehouse has an interview up with Kevin Lynch at Knowledge@Wharton in which he discusses everything from Adobe AIR to the Open Screen Project. It
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Retrieve All Active Sessions Data

Helps to view all the active Session IDs, Session Keys, and Session Values in an ASP.NET application.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Streaming Media Reader

We
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Round-tripping Silverlight 3 projects with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010

Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out, it is a lot of fun to use the fully interactive design surface for Silverlight. However, it comes at a cost: you need to use the conversion wizard to bring your Visual Studio 2008 solutions and projects up to the expected format for the designer tools and new build environment. If you deliver your source ultimately to a Visual Studio 2008-targeted source project, or have issue adopting a beta product until its release, this is a pain. I wrote
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

SQLAuthority News - Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online - BOL - English

SQL Server 2008, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008. The Help viewer used by Books Online requires the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0.Books Online includes the following types of information:Setup and upgrade instructions.Information about new features and backward compatibility.Conceptual [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

The aftermaths of the Microsoft MVP Summit 2009

The MVP Summit 2009 is over, yet the message still echoes in my ears NDA!! ;-) The key word if you followed the summit by using Twitter search at #mvp09 was NDA and none of the MVPs violated it. Microsoft shared their technology and future vision of their products with the MVPs and took feedback on those. Four days pack of knowledge and technology. Disneyland for people like me. I met old and new friends at the summit and twitter without any doubt was the big tool used by all to socialize and...
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

First Look at Microsoft

Bing is here a few days earlier than planned, so we decided to go check it out. While we don
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

Silverlight Debugging Challenge

In about a week, I'll be posting a video on creating a form that responds to keyboard shortcuts (as an intro to a video on user controls). This is also covered in the tutorial User Controls ) As a challenge to those of you who are already comfortable...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-01 more

Ramifications of Google

There
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

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and possibly make some more videos about it. Download Link: bit.ly For: Windows XP, Vista, 7 Please report any broken links via. a PM. We really appreciate it and so do future viewers! Thanks for watching this video and I hope that you start using this great software! Please comment, rate and subscribe! More technology videos coming soon!
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Controlling Projection in Silverlight 3

Gavin Wignall has posted an example in which he uses  the new Projection control to create a 3d effect based on the users mouse position. And as usual you can download the example files here . In Silverlight 3 we have 2 new variables to give us the ability to show perspective. We can use this effect on any item, including Images and Text. These 2 new variables are: RotationY, RotationX.
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Silverlight Makes Version 3 at MIX '09

Silverlight Version 3 takes center-stage at MIX '09, and shapes up to be a great platform for RIA and LOB apps. More coming by way of .NET RIA Services... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Introducing Silverlight 2: Table of Contents and bonus chapters!

  Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of folks have been asking me for a TOC for the Silverlight 2 book, so here it is. The book is divided into 2 parts (Introducing Silverlight 2, and Programming Silverlight 2). Note...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-25 more

Whats New In Silverlight 3 Merged Resources

Silverlight 3 provides the ability to manage your various resources in dedicated files and folders, and then merge them together as needed. This allows for far easier scaling of applications and easier reuse of resources. It is easiest to see this at work by creating a small example. Ill open a new application and name it MergedResources1 and Ill create this one in VB. To keep life simple, Im going to use some of the resources I used in the based-on-styles discussion. Ill create a simple layo
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010

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Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #24

If want to use an object but are not certain what namespace it belongs to you can quickly look it up with the following 2 steps: Right click on the object in question. From the context menu, choose Resolve. From here, you can choose to either add a using...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-26 more

My Last Day at Microsoft

Wow
Publication date: 2010-06-25 more

MySpace Mobile embraces Windows Mobile

MySpace Mobile embraces Windows Mobile MySpace is working on a Windows Mobile app to provide near desktop experience on a phone. The app will be available on Windows Mobile version 6.1 (or 6.5) phone by summer
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Silvester is on my Home Page

Silvester is a tool that I ran across on Emil Stoychevs site. It is a simple UI for showing the latest tweets from a Twitter account in a Silverlight 2 beta 2 widget. You simply copy some HTML to your site, change the Twitter account name, and its off and running.   The explanation of the widget and some examples of how the code works can be found on this post.var dzone_url = 'http://johnpapa.net/all/silvester-is-on-my-home-page/';var dzone_title = 'Silvester is on my Home Page';var dzone_blurb.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Google Chrome Review

I've been playing with Google's brand new browser, Chrome, over the past 24 hours and it's already my favorite browser. I love it. It's everything a browser should be, and nothing that it should not be. Why Chrome? First, let me guess as to WHY Google released a browser. If you go through Google's explanatory comic strip about Chrome, you get the sense that they're doing it just to help the Web be a better place. I'm usually cynical about these kinds of claims, but I think that in this case th
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Stop Using Flash From Now On!

by Nick Martin Adobe Flash is being widely used in this modern world, as it can handle unmatched interactivity, protect source code and also well-suit for animation and media. Moreover, it can add interactive elements or movements to make a vivid website. However, there are various reasons for us not to recommend flash to all of you, when you need to build an entire website or want your main website functionally within Flash. Not Search Engine Friendly: Major search engines, such as Google a
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

April 2009 Area User Group Meetings

Here
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Video of the SLHVP First Release

  Brief Video Illustration   I
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam

This week I decided to experimenting with a few webcam features and put together an application activates a webcam, allows the user to take snapshots, and save the snapshots to PNG files. I like when demos use MVVM out of the box instead of just throwing...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-01 more

Link Listing - June 6, 2008

Link Listing - June 6, 2008 ASP.NET The difference between ID, ClientID and UniqueID [Via: Atanas Korchev ] New AJAX Control Toolkit Tutorials [Via: gduthie ] AjaxDataControls DLL for ASP.NET 3.5 [Via: Jason N. Gaylord ] Sharepoint Visual Studio Extensions for WSS (VSeWSS) v1.2 Released [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ] MOSS + ModelPopupExtender [Via: kemaltolga ] Develop on SharePoint Site Launches at TechEd/Developer [Via: scottlum ] Code Camps [ANN] Chicago Day of .Net Call for Speakers [Via
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

The Weekly Source Code 26 - LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in Javascript

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-sixth ( half a year! ) in a infinite...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Silverlight Design (Nova/DC/MD)

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Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Great timing! PHP toolkit for Astoria, err, ADO.NET Data Service

Yesterday I blogged that my client is writing a PHP app that hits an Astoria service that I built for them. He
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

MobileMe steals Live Mesh thunder

Yesterday I viewed Apple
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Microsoft Analysis Services 2005: Displaying grid using ADOMD.NET and MDX

The article explains how to fetch data from Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 (OLAP) Cube using ADOMD.NET and MDX; and display it in the form of a grid.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Webcast Schedule for September 2008

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTERS OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE September 12, 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Building Workflow Services (Windows Workflow (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)) Joel Reyes Joel Reyes Developers September 26, 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Overview of Developer Identity Framework (Zermatt) Joel Reyes Joel Reyes Developers -Nandita... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles writt
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Using web service faults with the new SL3 client HTTP stack

Carlos, one of our team members, has posted an quick blog post on how to use SOAP faults with the new client HTTP stack , introduced in SL3. This makes configuring faults significantly easier: there is no need to write custom code in your WCF service...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class

If you
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Bing Rises Again, Says ComScore

August 18th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment A few stories ClickZ editors are reading: Bing Rises Again For the second month, Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Getting Started with Programming

Getting started with choosing the right tools for Programming.Ashwin Vasanth One of the first steps people take, once they have chosen a programming language of choice, is choose an IDE or an Integrated Development Environment. People who delve in the .Net world have the advantage of being able to use the same IDE i.e. Microsoft Visual Studio irrespective of the programming language. You must have heard that Visual Studio supports the programming languages of C# (C sharp) and VB (Visual Ba
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Drop-Down Menu Button with Telerik ContextMenu for Silverlight

Sometimes, when a button is clicked we want to display a drop-down menu with options. This is handy interface, usually present in toolbars, but sometimes - as standalone buttons, like the Save As button in the the VS2008 Save As dialog. Sometimes the drop-down buttons consist of two parts action and menu, and are called split buttons. In this post I will demonstrate how to achieve the drop-down menu button part. If you need a split button, just add another button and keep track of what was the
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/3/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #22. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight , Windows Phone and Visual Studio...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-03 more

SQL SERVER - SQL SERVER - Simple Example of Recursive CTE - Part 2 - MAXRECURSION - Prevent CTE Infinite Loop

Yesterday I wrote about SQL SERVER - SQL SERVER - Simple Example of Recursive CTE. I right away received email from regular reader John Mildred that if I can prevent infinite recursion of CTE.Sure! recursion can be limited. Use the option of MAXRECURSION.USE AdventureWorksGOWITH Emp_CTE AS (SELECT EmployeeID, ContactID, LoginID, ManagerID, Title, BirthDateFROM HumanResources.EmployeeWHERE ManagerID [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net A
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

FTab (Floating Tabs)

FTab (Floating Tabs) is a cool cross browser DHTML floating window script with support for tabs.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

To save Vista, Microsoft chooses Adobe Flash Player!

When a company as large as Microsoft continues to select Adobe Flash Player when they are building a competing technology, you have to wonder why they do not eat their own dog food. This Vista campaign is an ideal opportunity for Silverlight 1.0 or 2.0, so why did Microsoft choose Adobe Flash Player? The fact is that Silverlight's installation base is less than 10% of computers and Flash Player's proven reach is just too tempting to use because: Adobe Flash Player just works, 98.5% of the ti
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ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 is here (or there) :-)

See Phil's post: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/07/16/aspnetmvc-codeplex-preview4.aspx And of course ScottGu's post: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/07/14/asp-net-mvc-preview-4-release-part-1.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Silverlight Window Control

Cameron Albert has posted  a draggable Window control that he wrote in Silverlight for Perenthia . A screen shot of the Window being used can be seen at  http://cameronalbert.com/post/2008/11/19/Silverlight-Game-Controls.aspx
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Making XQuery Control Structures Work for You

The XQuery language is the XML analogue of SQL, designed to augment XPath 2.0 by working with sets of values, not just with single scalar values.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released

The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available. Download and Install Today MSDN subscribers, as well as WebsiteSpark / BizSpark / DreamSpark members, can now download the final releases of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 through the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-13 more

New Silverlight Site Redesign

We have been working on a new redesign for the silverlight.net site
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

New Microsoft event coming later this year in Canada!

Hey there is a great new Microsoft Canadian conference coming!! It is called TechDays and will cross Canada between October and January! Good news it will come to Montral and I am glad to be involved Details will be on www.techdays.ca soon. As you see TechDays will hit Montral on November 6/7, Save the date! More info to come later. Technorati Tags: TechDays_ca,Microsoft event ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have ove
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Mix Essentials Event in South Africa in June

I am very excited that Joe Stagner and I will be heading to South Africa the week of June 23rd.   While we are there, we will have a chance to interact with the very passionate .NET community in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.  The South...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Mike Taulty's at it again: ADO.NET Data Services videos

Mike has posted a bunch of ADO.NET Data Services videos up on Channel 9. Even though I haven't had a chance to check them out yet, it's easy to presume that these are going to be as great as all of his other screencasts. http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/UK He says there are more to come. Enjoy. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Rounding Up IE8 Release Week

Has anyone even tried downloading the final release of Internet Explorer 8 ? If yes, for how long and what do you think? I tried using IE8 RC1 when it was released. The latest is a very superior version with many new features, but I somehow can
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

You Say You Want A (Web) Revolution?

You Say You Want A (Web) Revolution? A revolution is all about a mass uprising. To cook up a revolution, you need a few key ingredients: A mass of people with a common cause (it also helps if they're really pissed off with the status quo). An articulation of the cause, ideally presented in a digest or pamphlet form for easy consumption. And of course, a way out. In other words, a real, tangible way out of the existing status quo. The last bullet is key because it's not enough to just pas
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

iPhone OS 3.0 brings the speed for JavaScript

Filed under: Internet , Apple , iPhone , iPod touch Ars is reporting the 3.0 speed improvements to Mobile Safari's JavaScript engine range from 3x to 16x -- a blessed boon to web developers everywhere. No one seems to know if Mobile Safari will be sporting Nitro or SquirrelFish or what, but whatever it is, it'll be faster. If you check out the benchmarks originally posted on Wayne Pan's blog , iPhone OS 3.0 blazes past 2.2 in every category except divisions (the benchmarking tools are a
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 usage in Silverlight

   After all the information
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

DeepZoom fixoutlook

I haven
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

I got a MVP award from Microsoft for my activities on the online community, especially in the Silverlight category....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-02 more

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today.  You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here . Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

NBC

Web video delivery - streaming content, in particular - isn
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

The Case for ViewModel

One of the comments I got on my last post on view/view model hookup options was the following: I've been a mvvm fan but actually when I see all the hoops to jump through I wonder at times how effective this is So I wanted to take a moment to list what...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-01 more

TRAINING: Silverlight Training for Designers DVD

Ah yes.  Another one of my DVD training resources.  This one is a 7.89GB DVD with a single .ZIP file on it.  The file contains the following: Lynda.com Expression Blend v1 Lynda.com Expression Design v1 Windows Presentation Foundation for Designers Core Training Expression Sessions:  WPF for Designers Expression Sessions:  Silverlight for Designers Total Training Videos
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

MLB Switches from Microsoft Silverlight to Adobe Flash

Looks like Major League Baseball will be using the Adobe Flash Player instead of Microsofts Silverlight to stream games to their half-million subscribers this season. Topic Replies: 3
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Silverlight 3.0 RTW

As you might already know Silverlight 3 RTW is out and with it the great power of Silverlight 3 was unleashed. The main features made available are: Tools Expression Blend 3 RC Ability to Import Photoshop and Illustrator SketchFlow State Management Visual Studio 2010 Still in Beta 1 version but with a strong design tools for Silverlight Controls DataForm Simple control that enabled a flexible way to display data of a si
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

What an Architect Should Know About Smooth Streaming

Ever wondered what it takes to deliver a really good streaming video experience over the web? Think it's only possible if you have the infrastructure, resources, and bandwidth of a major CDN (Content delivery network) provider? Microsoft has created a new technology called Smooth Streaming (or Smooth HD) which allows adaptive streaming of Silverlight content over HTTP. What this means is that the video file can leverage edge servers and cache services plus the Smooth streaming client will aut
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Using Eclipse to build Silverlight applications in Java, PHP and Ruby

As hard as it might be to believe, not everybody is using Visual Studio as their development platform. Then what if they want to develop a Silverlight application? Is notepad their only option?
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

Developing an ASP.NET AJAX Server Centric Based Mini Blog System - Part 1

In this first part of the series, Xianzhong Zhu examines the development of a simple popular blog system under the ASP.NET 3.5 environment and using ASP.NET AJAX Server-Centric techniques. After a brief introduction, he provides a detailed overview of the basic system requirements required for building the blog. He then delves deeper into the front-end and back-end pages, architecture and database design of the system and the connection string used for the project. At the end of the article, Xia
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

How to Install a Skin in DotNetNuke 5 - 2 Free Videos

In this free video tutorial we demonstrate how to install skins and containers in DotNetNuke 5. If you have used an earlier DotNetNuke version, the installation has changed slightly, or if you are a beginner to DotNetNuke this should help you get up to speed quickly. The videos contain: Video 1 - How to Install a Skin in DotNetNuke 5 Video 2 - How to Test a Skin, How to Auto Install a Skin Total Time Length: 18min 14secs Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net article
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Silverlight 4: Beta Announced at PDC

Today during his PDC keynote ScottGu announced the beta of Silverlight 4. That includes previews of; Silverlight 4 Runtime Silverlight 4 SDK Silverlight 4 Developer tools for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 WCF RIA Services ( RIA Services just got its own home...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Dew Drop - Weekend Edition - February 21-22, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing What
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Upcoming Silverlight events

I have the pleasure of being invited to participate in two Silverlight events coming up soon (one very soon). These are a part of a
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

What is the point of a survey if....

The key point of my survey was to measure your satisfaction and then to make changes to increase satisfaction. I'm pleased that overall satisfaction seems high, but there is always room for improvement. I will shut down the survey on Sunday and start...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

An Annotated Line of Business Application

The Silverlight HyperVideo Player has met with strong support and interest. This mini-tutorial is the first in a series that will walk through the design and delivery of this project. This series will pretend that the design existed before we began coding...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-02 more

Divelements Releases SandDock for Silverlight and SandRibbon for Silverlight

Divelements Limited announced today the immediate availability of SandDock for Silverlight and SandRibbon for Silverlight. These products are being used by developers to bring line-of-business functionality to their web applications with cross-browser capabilities. SandRibbon is a comprehensive implementation of the Office 2007 Fluent User Interface, delivering features like dynamic resizing, popup resizable galleries, contextual tabs and conforming to all relevant sections of the guidelines pu
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

BlackBerry News From The Wire for the Week of 8/17/09

Feeling overloaded with BlackBerry news and rumors? We know the feeling. We hear new things almost every day, and it can be tough to keep up with it all. that
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads

October 16th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 9:24 amCategories:Adobe, Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Browsers, Complex Attacks, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Firefox, Flash, Google, Google Chrome, Hackers, Malware, Metasploit, Microsoft, Mozilla, Open source, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testingTags:Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Vulnerability, Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Attack Vector, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Plug-inRem
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Windows Client Developer Roundup for May 31, 2010, Holiday Edition

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #26 on Memorial Day 2010, a few hours late. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

The ref and out keyword in C#

Ref and out parameter passing modes are used to allow a method to alter variables passed in by the caller. The difference between ref and out is subtle but important. Each parameter passing mode is designed to apply to a slightly different programming scenario. The important difference between out a... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Yahoo Search Result Parser

This expression can be used to parse Yahoo search results. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Loaded event timing in Silverlight

The FrameworkElement.Loaded event in Silverlight has a timing difference versus the FrameworkElement.Loaded event in WPF. Specifically, in WPF, the Loaded event will occur after the template is applied. In Silverlight, the Loaded event is not guaranteed...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-25 more

p2pnet World Headlines

Porn king calls for PS3 support MCVUK The kingpin of the world
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

MICROSOFT PLANS SURGICAL STRIKE ON THE E-SPACE WITH ITS NEW BROWSER PLUGIN

Microsoft is nonetheless again toying with the thought of broker marketing, by rising the Silverlight (SL), the middle they exploited to disintegrate Netscape in the 1990
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Rhythm using Expression Design

This is the 2nd of 13 in the Expression
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Moo cards

You'll have noticed that some of our biz cards seem to have shrunk. This is the "moo card" phenomenon
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

How to get ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 to run with .NET SP1

As you probably know by now (i.e. from Phill's blog), however both Routing and Abstractions are. MVC Preview 4, however, has its own version of both assemblies. In order to get MVC to use the new RTM bits of both assemblies (and avoid weird side-by-side errors), you just need to add the following binding redirect to the web.config file:
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Microsoft to Support IE6 Until 2014

Despite numerous online campaigns calling for the death of IE6, Microsoft has confirmed their commitment to the browser until 8 April 2014. A post on the IEBlog states that upgrades are the responsibility of the user and the company will continue to support the 8 year-old browser: The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the prod
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Internet Download Manager 5.16 build 3

Internet Download Manager 5.16 build 3 Internet Download Manager 5.16 Build 3 / 5.3 MB Information: Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet D
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

What topics are important to you? Survey Results

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. - Blaise Pascal Again, thank you for taking the time to respond to the survey , it was extremely helpful to me in planning the videos, tutorials and blog posts...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-20 more

Unit Testing/Mocking on .net cf

April 29th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment The .net Compact Framework is full of challenges.  If you
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Silverlight Tip of Day #97

Once you have an image loaded how do you go back and get the original file name for the source file? This can be accomplished through the Uri property of the images Source . However, you must first typecast the images Source to be a BitmapImage . The...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-01 more

ScottGu

Some folks that could not make it to Mix have asked about Scott
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

MSDN Low Bandwidth Bookmarklet

a.bookmarklet { border: 1px black dashed; text-decoration: none; padding: 2px; background: #fff9d8; } Theres a semi-hidden feature in the MSDN Library website: Low Bandwidth view. Well talk about how to use it, why I like it, and some tips for switching it on and off. Well end up with an MSDN Low Band bookmarklet I whipped up to make it even easier. The Low Bandwidth view has been available for a few months, but you wouldnt know about it unless someone told you, since the only way to turn it...
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

The platform giveth power, don't taketh it away [Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them]

Tip Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them Explanation Initializing variables in an object's constructor is considered a Good Thing . Traditionally, initialization is done with a simple assignment...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

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At the beginning of the year, as part of a series of posts about the INavigationContentLoader extensibility point in Silverlight 4, I described a way to use a content loader to do authorization before allowing a user to navigate to a page.  With...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-26 more

Collision testing on a free moving object in Silverlight

In a previous post Gavin Wignall dabbled in making a dragable bouncy ball that simulated a gravity effect when released. Now he has taken that project and cleaned it up a bit to get rid of most of the bugs. In addition to the dragable ball there is also a box (
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Chapter 4 - Understanding Views

This is a rough draft of a chapter from the book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther. Comments are welcome and appreciated. When the book is published, the text from this blog entry will be removed and only the code listings will remain. Order this Book from Amazon The set of views in an ASP.NET MVC application is the public face of the application. ASP.NET MVC views are responsible for rendering the HTML pages that people see when they visit your website. In this chapter, you
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

TrustedApp Sample from PDC 2009

Here is the source to the TrustedApp media player sample I showed at PDC 2009 . This sample requires the Silverlight 4 Beta which you can find here . This "trusted app" sample uses the new file system APIs, notification window APIs, windowing APIs, WebBrowser...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

A Sliver of Silverlight on ActiveTuts

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Publication date: 2010-07-06 more

Microsoft Backs Down from Yahoo

The web is afire with the news that after its latest bid attempt to takeover Yahoo failed, Microsoft decided to back down. My desktop news widget is going wild with this news... updating every 30s or so with more updates from Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Forbes, Information Week, CNet News, etc; hot news indeed. All those big time journals aside it appears that BoomTown's Kara Swisher was the first to break the news. So what happened? Why not read it directly from Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballme
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

SQL SERVER Index Seek vs. Index Scan Diffefence and Usage A Simple Note

In this article we shall examine the two modes of data search and retrieval using indexes- index seeks and index scans, and the differences between the two.Firstly, let us revisit indexes briefly. An index in a SQL Server database is analogous to the index at the start of a book. That is, its function is [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a loo
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

My sessions at TechDays 09

As you can read by now, I'll be hosting 2 sessions at TechDays 09! Here they are: Under the hood in Silverlight's controls skinning framework While Silverlight offers us a lot of controls to build business applications, you might feel the urge to change them even more to suffice the needs of your application. A round button perhaps? Or a non-rectangular textbox? It
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Has Arrived!

Silverlight 2 beta 2 includes many improved and new features: Visual Basic and C# Project templates Intellisense and code generators for XAML Debugging of Silverlight applications Web reference support WCF Templates Team Build and command line build support Integration with Expression Blend Enhanced Setup with upgrade support In particular, it adds several new controls that have been highly sought by developers. Text Input* Controls* Layout* Styles/Templates* Data Binding*
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Chalk Talk Sessions at PDC

Be sure to check out the Chalk Talks in the Web Platform Pavilion at PDC this week. The team is going to have a number of really great sessions in the Big Room at the Web Pavilion (located next to the Surface Lounge). Schedule Title Description Speaker...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-17 more

New Forums on Silverlight.net

As part of the larger changes we're making to Silverlight.net , we just introduced four new forums as well as a slight regrouping of the existing forums. It's always tricky to balance the number of forums. If you have too many, discussions all end up...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

GeoRSS Editor alpha version is up and running

GeoRSS is a great way to share geographic information that updates all the time, sending simple geography (points, lines and polygons to a consumer. GeoRSS is RSS with a collection of points, as flexible as RSS with the advantage of providing location to your information. A great tool that I personally use in a regular basis in my professional and personal life. If I may I would recommend to extend GeoRSS to add attributes for viewers to display. I would like to suggest to add
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Plotting Chart Data

The Microsoft Chart Controls enable developers to specify chart data in a number of ways. Chart data may be specified statically via the Chart Web control's declarative markup. Chart data may also be specified programmatically using a variety of techniques. For starters, you can add the points to plot one at a time via the Points collection's AddXY method. The Chart Controls API offers methods for binding enumerable data to the chart in one line of code. For example, you can pass an enumerable.
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Clever mail-tracking bastards of The Guardian, we salute you

The Royal Mail was about to go on strike in the U.K., so The Guardian dropped a satellite device in the mail to see what happened. This is innovative journalism. SOURCE Related posts: We have an invite to Typekit. Here
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state

A developer asked me this question and while a simple answer, I thought it would be a good quick tip to share for those who may be in similar situations. The scenario is the classic master-details scenario where perhaps you have a grid of data and when...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and SketchFlow

Weren
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

SQL SERVER Forgot the Password of Username SA

I just received a call from an old friend with whom I used to work in Las Vegas. He told me about a password-related issue he faced in his organization. They had changed the password of username SA and now they are not able to recall the new password. I am sure that he is [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Webhosting Deals : High Performance Windows 2008 DotNetPanel Hosting

Hostgator is the best shared web hosting provider and ThePlanet offers the best dedicated servers for cheap. This web hosting offer posted by SoftsysHosting-Rick on 25 July 2009 Experience Fastest Hosting on our latest Windows 2008 / IIS7 / MS SQL 2008 Hosting Plans with DotNetPanel on our ultra fast server cluster with Quad Processors, 4-8GB RAM & 100Mbps connectivity. Supported Technologies: Classic ASP, ASP.NET (1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 SP1), PHP 5.2.x, Silverlight, Per
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Silverlight minor update released today - Tim Heuer

Small public service announcement here for Silverlight developers
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

<3 your web, Vegas style, it

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: Mix09 , Silverlight It
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh

The "Oslo" team heard you! There was some "regression in the quality of the bits" in the Jan CTP from the PDC CTP that affected you guys in our 3-pane mode for grammar editing in Intellipad (aka the bits are worse than they used to be). It was just a sample, but it's so so useful, that language developers are using the hell out of it, which means they're running into "performance and robustness issues" (which means it was slow and crashed) and we've fixed the worst ones in the January 2009 "Oslo
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Nobody likes a show-off [Today's DataVisualizationDemos release includes new demos showing off stacked series behavior]

My DataVisualizationDemos application is a collection of nearly all the Data Visualization samples I've posted to my blog. And just like the Data Visualization assembly ( get Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 here! ), the demo application...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Democratic National Convention: John Chiang & Mike Honda

Video of speech (Microsoft Silverlight required) Tuesday was the second day of the Democratic National Convention, being held in Denver, Colorado. The highlight for the evening for most was Hillary Clinton
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

MIX 09

Two weeks ago we held our MIX conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is my favorite conference of the year
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

jQuery to the Rescue: Changing style and target for all external links on my site

...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Microsoft uses Silverlight to revampt Download Center

Microsoft uses Silverlight to revampt Download Center Promotes own technology on popular website
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Dynamically Setting a Style at Run-Time in ASP.NET

Trolling the ASP.NET forums this week I came across a good question, setting the background on a master page div at run-time? . Even though the person posted he found an acceptable solution before I posted my response, I think the user has a complicated...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Article on PHP vs ASP.net relative speed with interesting results.

I get a kick out of people who think that ASP.net doesn't scale. (Considering that some of the biggest, baddest, websites in the world run it, and can run anything they want). Interesting post of PHP vs ASP.net performance test. Comments are a good read too. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-09 more

Virtualized Ubuntu: Virtual PC or Parallels?

I'm a Windows guy. That's my job, that's what the family runs, so that's what I do. But I'm fascinated by Linux, and I appreciate a lot of the rethinking the Linux crowd has done. One of the more popular distributions of Linux is Ubuntu, and it's supported by several virtualization programs. Two that I have in my hands are Virtual PC and Parallels. Since I'm pretty deep into Windows work, I'd rather virtualize Ubuntu, as opposed to a dual boot, and dedicating hardware is out of the question ri
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Creating Customized UserControls (Deriving from ContentControl) in WPF 4

...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

thoughts on chrome frame

Last week, Google announced Chrome Frame
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

SQL SERVER Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries Depend Upon Expression Location

I was reading the blog of Ward Pond, and I came across another note of Microsoft. I really found it very interesting. The given explanation was very simple; however, I would like to rewrite it again.Let us execute the following script. This script inserts two values
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Software Development Meme

URL: http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_... ['s at school too. It wasn't until I was sixteen that I got serious about how it really worked when I got a summer job learning and programming. That first summer I was introduced to a CP/M variant called TurboDOS (a multi-user CP/M believe it or not) that ran on Wyse green screen terminals. I had to learn what a database was ("Why wouldn't you just have the data in a data block or something? Oh, its going to change over time...I get it.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Silverlight Tour Montreal in November

The Silverlight Tour is coming back to Montreal next week. When: November 02-04 Where: Montreal, Qc Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: he
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Fish Eye Control in Silverlight

Martin Grayson has a fantastic post, along with code, on one of the best Fish Eye controls I've seen implemented.  Fish Eye for the Blend Guy Using this as a basis we have been working on migration to Silverlight,  and finally got the time to get this working. The code is still a bit rough so I can't publish it,  but it does demonstrate that it can be done.   The main changes we needed to make were due to the lack of a Mouse position meaning we needed to pass this into the methods from our
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

RIA plug-in stats: Flash dominates

I
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

The Coding4Fun Show

The very first episode of my new Coding4Fun Show is now up on Channel 9 .  This is a show I plan on doing monthly, interviewing developers creating fun and interesting projects, and showcasing what they
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

First App to Install: SkyFire 1.1, Now Available

  Windows Mobile users have a blessing that goes by the name of SkyFire . With version 1.1 now available, you can enjoy an even more seamless transition to the web. For those of you that don
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Case Study: CSW Solutions Inc.

Jose Rolando Guay Paz from CSW Solutions Inc has built a very cool website using DevExpress ASP.NET controls. Working with a tight six week deadline, Jose was able to leverage an online reservation system using the ASPxScheduler Suite. To also streamline their code productivity, Jose and CSW Solutions leveraged the power of CodeRush and Refactor Pro. In fact, there was enough time to build a second administration website to manage the reservations and customers. Click the image below to read mor
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

IronNails = Silverlight + IronRuby + Patterns

If you already pay attention to the IronRuby dev group and are on the distribution list, apologies for the dupe.  I
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3

Our second Silverlight podcast features an interview with James Clarke of the Expression Encoder team. Learn about how Encoder works, screen capture and its object model. There are two versions: Enhanced AAC file for iPod: click here Standard MP3 file...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Link Listing - February 25, 2009

Link Listing - February 25, 2009 Podcasts Alan Stevens on Community 2.0 [Via: dotnetrocks ] Episode 26: Discovering Azure SQL Services [Via: Deep Fried Bytes ] Derik Whittaker on nHibernate [Via: dotnetrocks ] Uncle Bob Martin: SOLID, this time with feeling. [Via: Scott Hanselman ] Elegant Code: Code Cast 22
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Adobe Bugs Linked to Microsoft ATL Flaw

When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-01 more

Windows Xp Professional Sp3 Integrated October 2009 Corporat

October 13th, 2009 Posted in ApplicationsWindows Xp Professional Sp3 Integrated October 2009 Corporat Info: Windows
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Changing Templates with Silverlight Designer (and seeing the changes immediately)

Lately I
Publication date: 2010-03-24 more

Url pattern matching

match http urls in format http://kamitsinha.com/regex/191929393-latestnews.htm Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

See the Light

Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

Getting Started with Silverlight 3

Get an intro to Silverlight and learn what to install on your computer to get started with Silverlight design and development....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Third Silverlight v1.0 Servicing Release is Live

As Tim blogged about earlier this morning, last weekend we released a new update to SL 1.  This update addresses top customer issues and includes the following list of fixes: Reduced power consumption PCM is used for audio (Fixes this issue) Better support for Mac OS X Leopard fonts Audio/Video sync issues on Mac are addressed More robust support for ASX playlists Improved media stability This update will be pushed out via the auto-updating technology in Silverlight, however, if you
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block

Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block to log events in Application Events Log... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Microsoft Expression offer in UK 40% off

If you are a designer or developer that works with Microsoft technology (ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc) then this is a cracking offer from the guys over in the Microsoft Store
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

re: Drag and Drop with Managed Code

Thought you guys might be interested in this, just open source a "almost" WPF compatible drag drop framework for Silverlight blogs.imeta.co.uk/.../726.aspx
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

The Knowledge Chamber: Silverlight 3.0 for Great Business Apps

It was great fun to be interviewed on The Knowledge Chamber by Robert Hess
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Web Site Clone Silverlight by kaiserem

We need a template clone of the web site [http://www.bierengel.it/] that can be customize in style e photos by us. WebSite must be in silverlight 2.0 and must be provided to be customized by us. Budged
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

.Net RIA Services: Sharing Code between the Client and Server

.Net RIA Services: Sharing Code between the Client and Server This is another post in a series of posts about building applications with Microsoft .Net RIA Services and Silverlight 3 and ASP.Net . Build a Simple Application with .Net RIA Services (Silverlight 3)
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: RichTextArea

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

MIX09 News: Explore All the New Sessions

Explore sessions covering Web standards, workflow, Silverlight, Internet Explorer 8, WPF, Expression, SharePoint, and much more!... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

New Second Life Video & PDF

We have written before about watching YouTube videos in Second Life . But it has still been a hacked together solution limited by the support of only QuickTime in the Second Life Viewer. Linden Lab today announced the LLMedia API. The LLMedia API allows developers to create third party plugins for the Second Life Viewer. There is a new wiki page which covers the Media Rendering Plugin Framework which should allow developers to utilize other media rendering engines to create plug-ins.
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Adding Silverlight Video to Websites with Expression Web 3

Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add and encode Silverlight video for your websites. And you can also add Silverlight content from Expression...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Dont Repeat Yourself

(this is a submission I made to the upcoming 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book) Of all the principles of programming, Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) is perhaps one of the most fundamental. The principle was formulated by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in The Pragmatic Programmer , and underlies many other well-known software development best practices and design patterns. The developer who learns to recognize duplication, and understands how to eliminate it through appropriate
Publication date: 2009-10-12 more

Will Wimbledon Be a Grand Slam Online?

Wimbledon starts today, and you can catch all the action online through the magic of livestreaming. Well, you can catch it if you run a Windows machine and if you want to pay $24.99 (though we have some free passes
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

The Silverlight Song

From the recording studios who brought you No More DLL Hell , Dan Wahlin and Spike Xavier (seriously, you have to meet this guy
Publication date: 2008-04-28 more

Getting started with Silverlight: Part 1 - The tools and Hello World

This is a first part in a series of getting started posts for Silverlight developers. In our series in getting started, we
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

SQLAuthority News - Ahmedabad SQL Server Usergroup Meeting

I will be attending Ahmedabad SQL Server Usergroup Meeting on July 19, 2008. I will be taking session about
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

On the Web, competition is just one click away (JustHost is our new host)

This is a post about customer service, customer frustration and customer / user experience. I've made a move from my old webhost Inside.hr to JustHost.com. Reason? Well, I was frustrated with their
Publication date: 2009-11-03 more

Invalid URI: The Uri scheme is too long

"Invalid URI: The Uri scheme is too long" - now that's a peculiar message. I got it while doing some Xslt transformations. It comes out that XslCompiledTransform can't just read any xml and transform it. There are issues if Uri scheme is too long. What is too long? Can't really tell, since mine wasn't THAT long. The following code did not work for me: XslCompiledTransform xsl = newXslCompiledTransform(); xsl.Load("t.xsl"); XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create("dest.xml"); xsl.Transform(File.ReadA
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release

This week we released an updated Silverlight Toolkit - the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release.   This release has some new components, but we spent a lot of time working to make sure that the Toolkit can be updated in an agile way, but still fits in nicely with other platform and tools releases. Goals for the March 2009 Release 1. Align the Toolkit with the SDK The main thing that we wanted to establish was a smooth flow of components from the Toolkit into the platform, in this ca
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

MSDN Day @ Dhaka

Venue. IDB Auditorium E/8-A Rokeya Sharani, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Agargaon, Dhaka 1207 Saturday June 20th 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Microsoft Community in Bangladesh proudly presents Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. This is a special day dedicated to all Microsoft technology professionals and students in Bangladesh. We will be having the best Microsoft community technologists from Bangladesh - Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) delivering sessions at the event. This technolo
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer

Windows Phone 7 Mini-Tutorial Series. Previous On This Topic John Papa invited me on to Silverlight TV to discuss a key premise of WP7: Silverlight Programmers are instant WP7 programmers. To demonstrate this,  I created two applications side by...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Building A Casual Game in Silverlight

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight If you attended MIX08 you would have had a free sample copy of my Silverlight 2 book in the attendee bag. The book has 3 chapters, one on XAML, one on Silverlight 2 in Visual Studio and one on...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Sunday March 1st, 2009 Ill be in a party with Palermo!

Party with Palermo: Alt.Net/MVP Summit 2009 Edition March 1, 2009 - Seattle, WA - 7:00PM - 10:00PM Jillian's: http://www.jilliansbilliards.com/ 731 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109 Ph: 206-223-0300 Cover charge is 1 business card.  This will get you in the door and register you for the grand prize drawings. Free to attend Free fingerfood Free drink Free swag   Cheers AlPosted from http://weblogs.asp.net/albertpascual... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by to
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

"The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated" on Windows Server 2008 R2

When I was installing a brand new demo environment using Microsoft's latest and greatest platforms (Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008) I ran into an annoying issue related to SharePoint. The slipstreamed installation (including SP2) went fine, but when I tried to create a new Collaboration Portal or Publishing Portal I got the error: "The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated at the web application level before this feature can be activated
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

What would I change about INETA?

While at the MVP Summit, I interviewed for an INETA Board Position. Specifically, the VP of Membership. I have no idea if I'll get it, though I hope I do. If I do get it, there's going to be some ch-ch-ch-changes. If I don't get it, I hope whoever they do pick takes these suggestions to heart. #1 The membership committee needs some SERIOUS house cleaning. As a User Group leader, I can count on one hand (actually one finger, with room to spare) the number of unsolicited emails I have rece
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

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

To continue our series , let
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Easing is

For those who have been wondering
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic

Here's a Visual Basic implementation of HighlightingTextBlock for Silverlight 3....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Digital Video Camera and Editing S/W for a Kid?

My youngest likes to record video, but has been doing so on busted equipment and doesn't have anyone that knows what to do with it once he's got it. His birthday's coming up and I'd like to get him a DV camera and sit down and learn a piece of editing software that folks recommend so I know he'll be able to do cool things with the resulting video. Does anyone have any recommendations? Is the video editing software that comes with XP any good (that's what he runs on his laptop)? How about the one
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Link Listing - September 3, 2008

MSBuild MSBuild your way to ZIP Deliveries
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Moq 3.0 Released

Version 3.0 RTM of the popular Moq .NET mocking library is now available. Moq 3.0 includes Silverlight support, improved event and property mocking, Pex integration, and improved samples. By Al Tenhundfeld
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

SQL Server Citation is blog on SQL Server notes and articles

SQL Server Citation by Hemantgiri S. Goswami is a place where you can find information on sql articles, sql forums, sql event, sql faq, sql script,sql support,sql security,sql replication,sql high availability,sql cluster,sql log shipping,sql db mirroring,sql table sizing,sp2,sp4,sql 2005,sql 2008,sql 2000, slq forums,surat-user-group.org, sql-user-group.com,sql help,sql tip, sql tricks   read more By Hemantgiri S. Goswami Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written b
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Light up your Sharepoint Applications using the Silverlight .NET Blueprint for Sharepoint on CodePlex

Light up your Sharepoint Applications using the Silverlight .NET Blueprint for Sharepoint on CodePlex Posted by on September 9th, 2008 It
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

What is CSLA .NET?

CSLA .NET is a software development framework that helps you build a powerful, maintainable business logic layer for Windows, Web, service-oriented and workflow applications. There are many frameworks in the world. Most of them focus on the common issues of getting data into and out of the database or creating a flexible UI. What is typically missing is a focus on managing or implementing business logic. This puzzles me, because business logic is the centerpiece of a business application.
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

How To Proofread Your Articles/Post With Microsoft Research ESL Assistant

If English is your secondary language, then you will probably make more mistakes than your English speaking counterparts. Microsoft Research ESL Assistant is a free service from Microsoft that helps people solve grammatical errors in their sentences. Most software and browsers have spell checking tools build-in, but they only correct spelling mistakes and are not good at correcting grammar errors that most non-English native speakers make. All you have to do is paste a text, page, or par
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Dave Campbell's Getting Started With Silverlight Article

For the few folks who don't know, Dave Campbell is a very prolific Silverlight blogger and frequent poster to the Silverlight.net forums.  Dave has a collection of two dozen (and growing) Silverlight samples with in-depth walkthoughs and code explaining concepts how to perform basic UI tasks in Silverlight.  Dave has writen the first in what will hopefully be a series of tutorials for developers just getting started with Silverlight.  The first tutorial is a concise article showing how to add a simple bit of Silverlight to a web page.  Subscribe to Dave's blog for (frequent) updates on new articles and tutorials. Update: Tutorials two, three, four, five, six and seven are now available.
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

New Features Hit Windows Live SkyDrive Today

The Windows Live SkyDrive Team just announced several updates to Windows Live SkyDrive which begin happening today. Using Silverlight , you can now arrange your photos within a SkyDrive Folder just the way you want them. All you need to do is choose
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Silverlight 3 vs Flash: Digital Clock Demonstration

Here is a Flash vs Silverlight comparison on the Digital Clock Demonstration. The effect is an all-vector, scalable sliding clock based on the user
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Create a nice Silverlight game, win $5000

Microsoft is organizing a Silverlight contest: create a cool game with Silverlight 2 for the Server Quest Contest 2009 and you could win $5000 cash. >> www.serverquestcontest.com   Video: Server Quest Trailer ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Webhosting Deals : 30% OFF Non Oversold Windows 2008 ASP.NET/PHP/MS SQL/MySQL Hosting - $3.50 / mon

Hostgator is the best shared web hosting provider and ThePlanet offers the best dedicated servers for cheap. This web hosting offer posted by SoftsysHosting-Rick on 03 March 2009 We are proud to announce the latest Windows 2008 / IIS7 / MS SQL 2008 Hosting Plans with DotNetPanel on our ultra fast dedicated server cluster with Quad Processors, 4-8GB RAM & 100Mbps connectivity. Supported Technologies: Classic ASP, ASP.NET (1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 SP1), PHP 5.2.x, Silverlight,
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Testing Around ASP.NET Cache Features

It's still quite painful to try and test code that relies on ASP.NET Caching. Now, I love caching. Ask anybody. But testing around it can pretty much suck. The biggest source of pain for me at the moment is the SqlCacheDependency, which is freaking awesome in terms of functionality but freaking annoying in terms of testing around it. I have integration tests that, for some reason, occasionally fail claiming that "table X is not configured for SQL Cache dependency." This, despite a SQL scr
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Skyfire adds Gmail integration, search history and Facebook thumbnails

Skyfire, the up-and-coming mobile web browser has just released a handful of new features. The Skyfire browser uses a client-server setup to process all web pages on super-powerful computers that you would never be able to afford. That makes for really fast page-load times and even streaming media like Flash or Silverlight content. Yesterday, Skyfire made a bunch of upgrades to these servers, enabling a slew of new features. Skyfire now supports full Gmail integration, the ability to browse yo
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Windows 7 Boot to VHD -Screencast

Hello all!  I have been speaking about different aspects of Windows 7 from time to time, so I decided to share, in the form of this Silverlight streaming video, how one install Windows 7 to boot from a VHD! This gives us a lot of versatility and provides for many compelling scenarios around dual boot, portability, OS versus Data and profile segregation, and much more. It is a very straight forward process so take a look! ;-) As always, thanks for watching! -Woody Technorati Tags
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

IE8 Beta 2 release

I first saw the accelerators (the artists formerly known as activities) during The Code Trip, when Woody created an IE8 activity for Wikipedia. It was a convenient tool to have in your right-click toolbox on IE and I loved it (and still do). Well, now that IE8 Beta 2 is out, I decided (well, my selfishness decided) that I should create an activity accelerator for something that I use often so I introduce you to: IE8 Accelerator for TinyURL. So with a little XML, it was done. Seriously, like
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Today we released a service update for Silverlight 4. This is a minor release that addresses some items found immediately after release that have now completed our test passes with those who reported them. Most of the items found won
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #18

If you have ever used an iPhone you will notice the scrolling is very elastic in nature. If you hit Read the Rest......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

Planning for VS Live in Vegas!

  I am very excited to be giving the opening day keynote at VSLive in Vegas ..  I plan to be talking about the trends towards RIA based applications in the business world and how Visual Studio, Silverlight 3 , and .NET RIA Services brings RIA development into the mainstream!   There are many other great talks during the event.. I hope you can make it!
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Windows 7 logon background changer

Windows 7 Logon Background Changer is a nice WPF open source software that lets you change the wallpaper of your Windows 7 login screen. For developers source code is also available. Download it for free: http://www.julien-manici.com/windows_7_logon_background_changer/   Technorati Tags: Windows 7 ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Most Frequently Asked Question: When Will Silverlight Ship?

My way of acknowledging that you need to know , and we want to tell you as soon as we can .  As an aside, about four months ago I started to buy photos to make my presentations
Publication date: 2008-09-13 more

Using and Developing an AutoSuggest ASP.NET Server Control Library

An article on using an auto-suggest text-box/drop-down list ASP.NET server control library which can be populated inline or using AJAX, and how it was developed.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Tutorial: Simple Parent/Child Navigation in Silverlight

Alex Knight has a great tutorial up on simple Parent/Child navigation in Silverlight. The best part about Silverlight is it provides heaps of great tools to use, so people like me who are completely graphically minded and a little bit developer stupid are still able to create sweet menus and the like. This blog will show a simple way to create a menu that has all the main categories visible and when clicked will show your child links for that category, and when clicked again will make them
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

This Week in jQuery, vol. 3

Another week, another collection of links to some of the most interesting and exciting new jQuery happenings around the web. Plugins Jörn Zaefferer
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight

Coming from other platforms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash you will be used to defining colors with hexadecimal values.  Silverlight does support the use of hexadecimal values in XAML, in fact it supports 4 different formats (rgb, argb, rrggbb...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Link Listing - January 27, 2009

Link Listing - January 27, 2009 ASP.NET RedirectButton - Redirect Users With the Click of a Button [Via: 4 Guys from Rolla ] ASP.NET Content Editor Control For Basic Content Management [Via: cmo999 ] WPF chirp
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

I had a great time at my talk  PDC2009 talk, but i was disappointed that I could not demo in both C# and VB
Publication date: 2009-11-30 more

Refactoring With ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# fixes I often use

One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient code. In this post, I'll show some...This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silve
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

BBGeekcast: August 21, 2009 - Episode 78

After a week of not generating many headlines, RIM is back in a big way. They
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

CSLA .NET 3.6+ in VB - a community effort?

A few weeks ago I posted what was basically a request for input on one aspect of the future of CSLA .NET. I got a lot of really thoughtful and useful feedback and input from that post (and a related thread in the forum). I've also been discussing this with Apress and other colleagues, and I've come to a decision. Starting with version 3.6, CSLA .NET for Windows and CSLA .NET for Silverlight will be maintained in C# only. This will allow me to focus more of my energies on improving the frame
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Add MS AJAX Extensions to a Visual Studio 2005 Setup Project

MS AJAX Extensions is an assembly (DLL) that must be present on the target system in order for your AJAX-enabled ASP.NET application to work... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Editing Model & Default Initializer for Silverlight Controls

Introduction This is part of the series on design time feature implementation in Silverlight Toolkit. This post uses the Chart default initializer to illustrate how to implement default initializer for Silverlight controls, and explain the underlying...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Another DeepEarth Demo

Okay, I posted about the DeepEarth  demo last week and things have moved on already. This is just too cool for school. Awesome work. Get full details on the IDV blog.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Easy string compression and encryption

Class module to easily de-/compress and en-/decrypt big strings... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Jordan Brand Leverages Silverlight to Invigorate and Find Enthusiasts

Jordan Brand , a division of Nike, Inc., is celebrating its 25-year anniversary during NBA All-Star Weekend to take place in Dallas, TX from February 11-14. With the help of Wirestone , Jordan Brand is leveraging innovative Microsoft technology to engage...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-25 more

Loose XAML, XBAPs & Hyperlink Images

As Mark Alaczar points out in his WPF sandbox whitepaper, sandboxed top level navigation requires user initiation. Some definitions to help this make sense: Top level navigation: Navigations that target the hosting web browser. For instance, navigating...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Mix09 - Creating Web Applications on the Internet Explorer 8 Platform

I am very excited to announce that for the second year Terralever has the great honor of presenting a breakout session at Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Important news: FlashDen is changing its name to ActiveDen

For just over three fantastic years FlashDen has been the jewel in Envato
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

RELEASE: NBC Olympics on the Go for Windows Media Center

We are pleased to announce we are launching NBC Olympics On the Go in Windows Media Center, an Internet-delivered catch-up TV service from NBC Universal powered by Wavexpress
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

How to choose a client template engine

Disclaimer: I worked on the Microsoft Ajax 4.0 template engine, so my criteria are of course heavily influenced by our own design. Templates are a data rendering method that server-side developers have enjoyed since the old days of classic ASP and PHP. The idea was quite simple (add code blocks and dynamic expressions directly into HTML markup) but it revolutionized web development, which before that relied on the opposite method (spitting HTML from CGI code). On the client-side, the browser...
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Moq 2.5 shipped: lots of good news!

Today we shipped Moq v2.5. It's been a while since RC1 (a month or so feels so long for an open source agile project!) and we god very good feedback and suggestions for the final release. I'm pretty happy with the current drop and felt it was time for a new stable release. The change log is quite extensive and yet there are quite a few fixes and improvements here and there that are not reflected in it. Over the next few posts I'll be showcasing the various new features. For now, here's the... D
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm

My latest Data Points column is now online and in print in the October 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine. The column
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

BNS to Attend Hosting Day in Thailand

BNS is attending the Microsoft Hosting Day South East Asia and India. This event will be held at theClaming haven of The Metropolitan Hotel in the urban hubbub of Bangkok. This invitations only event provides an excellent opportunity for BNS to share ideas and best practices and learn from key hosters in the South East Asia and Indian continent. Hosting Day South East Asia and India is a must-attend event that offers a unique opportunity to network with key Microsoft Executives, and industry
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010

At this year
Publication date: 2010-03-12 more

The Morning Brew #319

Don
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (2

Following on from the previous post , I thought I
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Navigating to Pages in dynamically-loaded assemblies

In my last post on the new navigation feature in Silverlight, I explored how you can navigate to pages in assemblies/projects referenced by your main application.  Almost immediately, a number of you asked how you can navigate to pages in assemblies...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Loving the South African Developer Community

I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there.    User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg  - thanks for setting...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-02 more

Silverlight Resources

The following is my list of Silverlight Resources including blogs, tutorials and more. If you know of any other good ones please let me know as I will keep this list updated on a regular basis: Install The Latest Tools http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Pete Blois on Expression Blend, Windows Phone, Rooler

A month ago I recorded this video with Expression Blend PM Pete Blois . Pete is a great guy to talk with, especially if you're interested in Expression Blend. We chatted about Silverlight 4, Silverlight for Windows Phone (and the Blend designer for that...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15 more

Yahoo Offers Redesign as Talks with Microsoft Continue

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentYahoo rolled out a customizable home page design Tuesday amid uncertainty about whether Microsoft and Yahoo may announce a search-advertising deal. The new portal is called Yahoo Front Doors and enables users to build a customized home page and add widgets to display special content like the weather. Direct links to popular sites like Facebook, Twitter and eBay can be added to a My Favorites menu on the left side. It
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Why care about Google Chrome?

In the last 24 hours there's been a lot of conversation about Chrome. When Safari was released for Windows, why was so little written about Safari's SharePoint compatibility? I used Opera for years, but why never a post about Opera and SharePoint (summary: it stinks, even drop-down menus fail to render)? What's the big deal about Chrome? Web developers certainly don't need another browser to support, unless this is the one that finally gets it right, and the odds of that are way high against...
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Updated PNG Generator Sample

I fixed a few bugs in the ImageGenerator sample . One was related to non-square images and the other was related to images larger than 64K. If you're using this sample, you'll want to pick up the updated source here . Thanks to planetmarshalluk...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-28 more

Plex Media Server beta adds plugin architecture

Filed under: Video , Internet Tools , Beta Beat As we've noted before Plex (formerly OSXBMC) is the open-source media center application derived from XBMC (as was Boxee ). They've recently announced the release of version 0.78beta adding an interesting new feature: the Plex App Store. The Plex App Store (which actually doesn't seem to be a store per se, at least not yet) is an online repository of plugins for Plex which allow users to add content from a variety of online streamin
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Silverlight: Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn

Due to a design change in the Silverlight 4 installer you may see the following dialog when you attempt to debug: This is due to the fact that the installer causes any older developer runtime to be upgraded when a newer client runtime installer is executed...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

ASP.NET AJAX-based Source Code Browser

This project started out when I began searching for an quick way to put source code on my website to make it easy for guests to browse projects. Time is very valuable so I don't always like downloading a zipped archive and then exploding it to see it - I'd rather have a space online.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Intel and Microsoft Announce Collaboration to Provide Great Experiences for Atom

As a team we are committed to continuing to extend the platform and operating system support of Silverlight to reach the broadest set of customers possible. Today, Intel announced at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) support for Silverlight 3 on their Atom...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Perspective 3D Screen flip with PlaneProjection

Joel Neubeck will show you how to use perspective 3D to take 2D objects and rotate them in 3D space . Almost a year ago I created a Silverlight 2 example that demonstrated how you could use a procedural animation to duplicate one of the transitions used on the iPhone. When a iPhone user goes to make a phone call, if you choose to display the keypad there is a cool 3D flip that occurs. Back in SL2 it was a pretty lengthy animation that never quite duplicated the correct amount of 3d perspectiv
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Silverlight 4 Beta is Now Available

Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

WPF from PowerShell, the making of the WPF WMI Explorer Part3

In PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 27 - Darren Mar-Elia talks about Group Policy , my WPF work was mentioned, and as there is a real WPF from PowerShell explosion, as noted last post : More PoSHy WPF from PowerShell coverage , Some remarks on that part, glad you liked the post, and thanks for the podcast entry but I was targeting "non-devs" ofcourse, and we are not talking SilverLight here but WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) ;-) Some small mistakes but I think we got Hal more upda
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Link Listing - July 17, 2008

AJAX ASP .net AJAX Event handlers - the very very basics [Via: xxxd ] AJAX: Working with Events [Via: bmains ] Sharepoint WCF SharePoint integration MSDN WebCast [Via: gsusx ] WPF Learning WPF with BabySmash - Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox [Via: Scott Hanselman ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: July 16, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #137 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - July 16, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for July 16, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Interestin
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

MIX10

To say that MIX day 1 was a big day for Silverlight is a bit of an understatement. You can watch the details of it yourself up here on the visit mix website; Watch the keynote and if you then want to follow up and grab Silverlight 4 bits then visit; Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Microsoft Throws More Money at Video; Takes Stake in Move Networks

Microsoft is pouring even more resources into its online video efforts. The company forked over an undisclosed sum for a stake in Move Networks, developer of a technology used for online video delivery. The companies will partner up on live coverage of the Democratic National Convention, which they will stream on the DNC web site, according to a CNET report. And while Microsoft's stake in the company is new, the pair have been working together at least since March, when they first forged a par
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Windows 7 to get its first security updates next week

Microsoft has prepared 13 security bulletins for next week's Patch Tuesday. There are eight critical and five important updates, addressing a total of 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, Forefront, Developer Tools, and SQL Server. There are six patches for Windows XP, five for Windows Vista and the upcoming Windows 7 will receive one security update for an Internet Explorer 8 related flaw. Windows 7 to get its first security updates next week - More ne
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Visual Studio Challenge: Learn a new Menu command

Do you know the function of every item in the Visual Studio menu? Probably not. I've decided to start forcing myself to discover and learn about menu commands that I've never used. It didn't take long to find one that was new to me and it led me on an educational path of discovery about searching in Visual Studio. Read more... [A New DevLife Post] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categ
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration

If you
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

jQuery UI Datepicker and z-Index

The jQuery date picker is a nice little date picking solution thats easy to use and work with. Ive used this control in many places and some time ago wrapped it into an ASP.NET server control to make it easier to work with yet. The control works great, but theres one thing that a number of people using the control have run into:  When the date picker is used with other controls that use z-Indexes extensively its quite easy to end up with a date picker that doesnt pop up properly: Ooops... D
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Sparkling Client

I
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Adobe helps search engines to handle Flash

Adobe helps search engines to handle Flash Jack Schofield / Internet / Search 02:11pm A number of web sites are written using Adobe's Flash technology, which search engines have not been able to search. Now some will be able to, according to Adobe. It says: Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. Google has
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Some Notes on DRM in Silverlight 4

Silverlight enables a number of online and offline media playback scenarios which can utilize DRM (both WMDRM and PlayReady), from live streaming and progressive download to offline download, rental, and subscription scenarios. In this post I mostly want...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-16 more

SharePoint Tasks Popup using JavaScript API

SharePoint Tasks Popup using JavaScript API... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Zune HD Unboxing

Zune HD Unboxing. The Zune HD is soon to be officially out on the streets, and we
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

MySQL chief leaving Sun

Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is leaving Sun Microsystems, a Sun spokeswoman confirmed Friday.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Silverlight Live Streaming service update

Yesterday, the Silverlight Live Streaming team (SLS) posted an update on their blog regarding the future of the Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service. SLS was a beta service to users to have a place to host and deliver their Silverlight-based...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-19 more

Introducing the WebsiteSpark Program for Web Developers and Designers

Today marks the officially launch of the WebsiteSpark Program , which provides Web developers and designers access to Microsoft software and solutions, including Silverlight, as well as the training, support and, coming soon, market exposure to help great...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-26 more

Rethinking Introductory Material

Wow it is hard to respond to a community that you can
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

A Week in the Life of a Community PM at Microsoft

I spent this week on campus up in Redmond, Washington. While it is always hard on my wife to be a single mom for a week, the time I spend on campus is vital to my role. It's also time I really enjoy. With Tim Heuer having moved over to the Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-22 more

devLink Conference 2008 in Tennessee

The devLink 2008 conference in Nashville, Tennessee is already here! If you were lucky enough to get registered before it sold out then drop by the Developer Express booth and say Hello. Ill be there to answer your questions and show you some cool demos. There are a bunch of great new tools that weve been working on this year and you can come talk with me about things like: Our ASP.NET tools WPF DataGrid Silverlight controls Our rich WinForms controls My new iPhone 3G ... Did you know that DotNe
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Win your own Olympic medals with Popfly

As the 2008 Olympic Games officially kick off today
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Really? $50 a year for Silverlight ads on my Xbox 360

( photo: original ) After reading Major Nelson
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

High Fiving The Ballmer

Ah! A joyful day it was. Steve Ballmer came to Belgium. I got up around 7 this morning and hopped in my car with my camera and flaptops. Drove aaaaall the way to the other side of the language border in my country and joined the local DPE team in helping to deliver a pretty sweet combo of events, hosted by Microsoft. I invited a bunch of bloggers and put them on the list of the Press so they could attend a press conference with SteveB and ask him some questions in a Q&A. As soon as I arrived, I
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 are now available for downloading . This is still a
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Software Tool Design: Remote User Testing

If you are developing a software product, you'll know that the sooner you can get feedback from the users, the better. But, what sort of feedback, which users, and how? If your users have to test your software within their own development environment and workplace, you are presented with a challenge. Stephen explains a practical solution... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inclu
Publication date: 2008-08-18 more

Silverlight for MySpace on Channel 9

Here is one interview of Laura Foy from Channel 9 with  Michael S. Scherotter about  Silverlight on MySpace .
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Sucky Usability of Country Pickers

Recently, I had to rework a submission form which had a country picker
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Workaround for accessing some ASMX services from Silverlight 4

On this blog we normally talk about building and accessing WCF services, since that is the recommended way to build services for Silverlight. However, we continue to support ASMX services using the familiar
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Three reasons why Adobe Flash is hated

In the Adobe-shaped bubble of MAX 2009 in Los Angeles, Flash is the answer to everything, almost. That impression was reinforced yesterday when Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch spoke of his ambition to make AIR, the Flash-based out of browser runtime, into a universal runtime for SmartPhones, as I reported yesterday on The Register. Many users and developers have a different perspective, and you can easily find examples in the comments on the piece linked above. I was also struck by the
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released!

Download the MSDN offline docs for Silverlight 3 here . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. The plan is to update this CHM at the end of every month, so stop...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Silverlight 4 Beta is out - and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!]

We've just published the November 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit in conjunction with today's unveiling of the Silverlight 4 Beta ! The Silverlight 4 Beta offers a bunch of neat new features which enable even more compelling online (and offline...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

http://www.clearification.com

Check it out! Hilarious new site called Clearification from comedian Demetri Martin. It's in collaboration with Microsoft. The site's first episode is already posted. :-)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

WCCO launches YouReport

WCCO.com just released public
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Brisbane BarCamp 2008 - Afternoon

Session 1 - Care to Care about Speed The header image of The PHP Benchmark This informative information session by Chris Vincent explored the idea that unless you have proof about how fast your code really is, you don
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

10 resources to learn Moq

Last week I described the stack Ill be using to develop my new ASP.NET MVC project, and I said I was going to use RhinoMocks as mocking framework. Well, it later turned out that some tests were using RhinoMocks but most of them were using Moq and Il Maestro decided that the latter would be the mocking framework of choice. I never used it, so I started looking for some documentation online. And here Im listing the best 11 links about Moq. http://code.google.com/p/moq/ obviously, the starting
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

Silverlight Synchronicity

At Mix 07 I watched Scott Guthries keynote introduction of Silverlight,  and it was a watershed moment in my career.  Within 48 hours I had pivoted my consulting business to focus entirely on this new and game-changing  technology; a few months later I ended 15 years as an independent to join Microsoft as Silverlight Geek, a job that has been immensely rewarding. On a personal (and seemingly unrelated) note; while my older daughter was in high school she became fluent in American... Did you kno
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Microsoft Download Center enhanced by Silverlight

Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology. The company is beta-testing a new version of its Microsoft Download Center Web site using the technology, a browser plug-in and development runtime for adding multimedia and high-definition video to Web-based applications. A visit to the Microsoft Download Center on Tuesday opened a page inviting users to test the new site, which Microsoft said is being enhanced by Silverlight.
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Looking at the Past of Community Server

Exploring the past has become one of my main interests recently. In the past 2-3 months Ive been navigating among older sites and blogs to read what I had read some years ago. I may be insane but I open older Persian blogs to remember what was out there 6-7 years ago and what has happened to all those people. I dont know why Im doing this but maybe I love the past better than the present, so enjoy recalling it! I think that grass was greener (!) in the past and it looks to have a sweeter taste f
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

10 Tips to Keep yourself Sane while Working from Home (or alone)

When I interviewed for the position on Scott Hanselman 's team, one of the questions Scott asked me was if I'd be able to handle working from home, with the isolation that usually entails. Telecommuting (I hate that word) isn't for everyone, so the question...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-31 more

Shawn Wildermuth - Choosing a Data Access Layer for Silverlight 3

If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll probably remember my pithy blog post where I stated that "It all depends..." to the question "Which Data Access Should I Use for Silverlight 3?"  The reality is that much like the similar question I am confronted with at user groups for the past decade ("What data access should I use in my .NET app?"). The reasons for picking a strategy are wide and varied so I will not try to analyze all possible outcome...
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Getting the Absolute Position

Learn how to use the TransformToVisual method to figure out the position of anything anywhere in your application....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-30 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Is Here!

Get it from http://silverlight.net/GetStarted , along with the developer tools, documentation and the June update to Blend 2.5. Lots of new goodies
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Create CheckBox Option groups

How to... Create CheckBox Option groups... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

How to get a dynamic Copyright in your DotNetNuke Portal

Here's a quick DotNetNuke Tip. If you want to have your Copyright statement that will appear in the DNN Copyright token (skinobject) of a skin you can do the following. Edit your Portal's settings, in the copyright section remove the copyright statement...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Silverlight TV 19: Hidden Gems from MIX10, UFC's Multi-Touch App

John ran into Silverlight MVP Ward Bell of IdeaBlade while at MIX10 (how could anyone miss him!). Ward was kind enough to sit and talk with John to show off the multi-touch application his company wrote for UFC using Silverlight . It uses multi-touch...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-01 more

URI Validation

function isValidURL($url) { $protocol = "((http|ftp|https):\/\/)?"; $domain = "([[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]])(\.[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alpha:]])+"; $dir = "(/[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]])*"; $page = "(/[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*\.[[:alpha:]]{3,5})?"; $getstring = "(\?([[:alnum:]][-_%[:alnum:]]*=[-_%[:alnum:]]+)(&([[:alnum:]][-_%[:alnum:]]*=[-_%[:alnum:]]+))*)?"; $pattern = "^".$protocol.$domain.$dir.$page.$getstring."$"; return eregi($pattern, $url); } //----------------- Be sure
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Photosynth

Photosynth
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Visual Studio Tooltips unplugged: How to use multiple monitors with Visual Studio efficiently.

It is no urban legend that having more monitors results in greater productivity, and most of all tremendous increase in developer
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009

Other stuff An introduction to JavaCC , Sojan PR Customizing Send To in Vista , Patrick Steele First look at .NET Parallel Extensions , Julia Lerman Code Injection With CCI - Part 1 and Code Injection With CCI - Part 2 , Jason Bock Converting Delegates to Expression Trees , Jb Evain Source Control Only Team Projects , David Starr What structure packing do the Windows SDK header files expect? , Raymond Chen __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Customizing the
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #35

To have your application enter into full screen mode all you have to do is execute the following line of code: Application.Current.Host.Content.IsFullScreen = true; Once in full screen Silverlight will briefly show the following message that will fade...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Get Access to Web-based Microsoft Office Apps Now!

In the coming months, Microsoft will unveil a Google Docs like product that will let users create and edit Office documents in the browser itself without requiring a copy of Microsoft Office software. The product, known as "Office Web Apps", will include online versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Like Google Docs, Office Web Apps will be available for free and you can use it from all popular browsers on Mac or Windows PC even without the Silverlight plug-in.
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Microsoft unveils 'Popfly Game Creator'

Microsoft unveils 'Popfly Game Creator' Michael French - Today Silverlight-powered drag 'n' drop web software allows creation and sharing of casual games
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

QuickGraph for Silverlight (new release)

I just released a new version of QuickGraph for Silverlight on http://quickgraph.codeplex.com . You can grad it to run your favorite graph algorithm in the silverlight browser!
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

First/Alpha release of my Scrum for Team System Quickboard Project (Think

CodePlex - Scrum for Team System Quickboard In my day life, my team uses the very cool Scrum for Team System (SfTS) TFS template. While it does almost everything we need, the one thing I wanted to see was a very quick dashboard like screen with some general Sprint summary information. The Sprint Burn down, PBI and SBI counts and hours, that would auto update every XX minutes, etc. Something I could keep up and running in the Team room next to our Build Status screen... So I wrot
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

New Silverlight 2 Tutorial on Styles, Templates and Visual State Manager

In the newest addition to the Silverlight 2 tutorials , Jesse Liberty shows how to modify the appearance of controls in your Silverlight application....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-11 more

Deep Fried Bytes is MMMMM Good

So the latest thing to enter my regular schedule this month is Deep Fried Bytes , a new podcast hosted by Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff . So far they have published 4 episodes, with the first one being an introduction to what they wanted to do with Deep...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Silverlight and Microsoft

Silverlight and Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

HTML5 could kill Flash/Silverlight fo' realsies

HTML5 could kill Flash/Silverlight fo' realsies : Don
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

The Silverlight-Tour comes to Quebec!

The Silverlight Tour now have some dates in Quebec! My company RunAtServer Consulting will manage this training for this part of Canada. The Silverlight Tour Workshop is a high quality three-day course on Silverlight 2. It divides the content into three distinct areas: Design, Development and the Server-Side. Students should be able to develop Silverlight 2 applications once attending the workshop. The Workshop is structured with a mix of didactic lessons, demonstrations and hands-on labs. Each.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

The one that got away [Simple workarounds for a visual problem when toggling a ContextMenu MenuItem's IsEnabled property directly]

A few days ago, Martin Naughton and Tiago Halm de Carvalho e Branco independently contacted me to report a problem they were having with the new ContextMenu control in the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit . In both cases, they were toggling...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

PDC 09 - Advanced Topics for Building Large-Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight

If you are at PDC this week, please stop by my session . I will be presenting Advanced Topics for Building Large-Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight at PDC 09 this Wednesday at 4:30 pm.  I will be discussing how to use the MVVM pattern...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-17 more

World's first NVIDIA Ion-packing PC plays back 1080p with ease

Here's the Acer AspireRevo, the first of many tiny PCs with NVIDIA's latest Ion graphics chips inside. Ion combines Intel's power-sipping Atom 230 processor with NVIDIA's graphics, resulting in a hot box that can easily play back high-resolution 1080p video clips
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

What if Microsoft bought Ubuntu?

My previous post was from a humorous side by asking the question
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Developer Headlines

Developer Headlines The UK
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Using Interceptors with Ado.Net Data Services and Telerik OpenAccess ORM

ADO.NET Data Services enables an application to intercept request messages so that you can add custom logic to an operation. You can use this custom logic to validate data that goes to the client or returns to be persisted on the server. You can also use it to modify and filter further the scope of a query request, or add in that way a custom authorization policy on a per request basis. Interception is performed by specially attributed methods in the data service. These methods are called by
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 A Beginner's Guide

Coming soon... Product Description Essential Skills Made Easy! This hands-on guide prepares software developers to create next-generation Web and Windows applications using Microsoft Silverlight--the new technology that extends the .NET Framework to the client. The book covers Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.5, and prerequisite technologies. You will learn to use Silverlight to stream multimedia content across the Web, create dynamic, data-driven Silverlight application
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Can the U.S. Government Help Cloud Computing Reach a Tipping Point?

It used to be that large corporations were the biggest boosters of new and cool technologies; more recently the consumer has been driving technology trends. But with the timing of an economic recovery still uncertain and VC dollars hard to come by , it may be the Feds
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available

John Resig tells us he just uploaded the VsDoc file for jQuery 1.3.1 to jquery.com. This enables IntelliSense for the latest available jQuery. Download the file from the jQuery downloads page: http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Download_jQuery More info on what this is: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2008/11/07/visual-studio-patched-for-better-jquery-intellisense.aspx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Type-On Text for SketchFlow with a Behavior

Nick Josevski shows in an article on his blog how to create type-on animations using SketchFlow Animations. He also asks if anybody knows a different, maybe easier solution. Here is a really simple, quick&dirty behavior sample that handles type-on...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

Updating Silverlight.js and Firefox 3

Im hoping this post will help explain a few things with regard to Silverlight detection scripts that some sites may be using. This is related to the silverlight.js Javascript file that was deployed with a lot of Silverlight 1.0 applications/sites and is also available as a part of the Silverlight 2 SDK tools. What the heck is this Silverlight.js you speak of? Simply put, Silverlight.js is a helper file which enables Web sites to create advanced Silverlight installation and instantiation experien
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Evergreen Datacenter, From Concept to Implementation

Most enterprises today are facing the challenges of datacenter space, power, and performance. With increasing demand for 'more' while paying 'less', the IT industry is looking for new technologies, best methods, and practices to find solution to this problem. The Evergreen Datacenter framework is an architectural framework that formulates the best practices and methodologies along with latest technologies that allow enterprises to design an infrastructure with maximum space and power efficiencie
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

The benefits of an open-source SOA

Service-oriented architectures are helping companies do everything from automate business processes to increase agility, but implementing the technology is not necessarily forthright.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

MIX10

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Publication date: 2010-02-01 more

My MSDN Flash editorial on Live Mesh

The MSDN Flash (signup) team in Australia let me write the editorial this month, below is what got sent: Angus Logan here! Finula has asked me to be Guest Editor of this MSDN Flash to share my insights on Live Mesh. I look after technical product management for the Live Platform in Redmond. It
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Telerik TV Launches Episode 3 - SimNet

Episode 3 - SimNet with Torger J. Wuellner Join Carl Franklin in the latest episode of Telerik TV as he hosts Torger J. Wuellner of Triad Interactive. In this episode Torger shows off SimNet, an e-learning platform which offers students the opportunity to learn Microsoft tools in a simulated Microsoft Office and Windows Vista environment. SimNet's portal site is built with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and is packed full of cool features. Watch as Torger demonstrates how he was able to use
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

ComponentOne new Silverlight controls

ComponentOne released Studio Enterprise 2009 and new Silverlight controls have been added. Below is an overview of What
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

my thoughts on google

Google has announced the availability of a plugin that implements 3D technology and makes it available over the web. You can read about the announcement in in the Google Code Blog and in an excellent article by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica . Ryan points out that there are significant differences between what Google has built here and what we
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 links collection

It always started with a tweet from Scott Hanselman yesterday evening: ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet. The ASP.NET MVC interim version has been released as source code + MSI with project template + release notes 7 weeks after the last official release of the P3. Lots of people already wrote about the new features so Id rather read what they already wrote then rewriting it myself. Here is the list of the posts/documents I printed and that Ill be reading today: ASP.NET... Did
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

SharePoint Site Provisioning The Real World

This article will help you to create your own custom site provisioning that integrates your business process and will show you how to add some custom functionalities.   read more By Alon Havivi Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Silverlight: Hardware Integration Possibilities & Problems

One of the interesting capabilities in Silverlight is the ability to communicate cross-domain to socket hosts provided that certain policy requirements are satisfied. Specifically a policy file needs to be served up on port 943 and then a port in the range 4502-4534 can be used. One of the possibilities that this creates is the ability to run daemon
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Cool! I'm on Amazon.com

I have no idea when this went on to Amazon, but it's there now. I STILL don't have a cover which is frustrating. And Amazon seems to have given me some extra time to finish my book! The "about the author" seems funny to me. I guess since, unlike some people, I don't have 80 books under my belt (LINQ to Dummies is #80 for John), or even one, there's not much to lean on here. I think it's going to be a bit longer than 456 pages, but hell, with that big discount, I better find another day job! I...
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

An overview of WPF 4 Beta 1 | The Continuum Show | Channel 9

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad to talk about WPF 4 Beta 1. The topics they cover include graphics and text improvements, Windows 7 integration, how WPF relates to Silverlight and more...
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Updated FlickrViewr for Silverlight 3

Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more! Go here to see the app and get the code....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-17 more

If you don't know about CTRL+I in Visual Studio...

If you don't know about CTRL+I in Visual Studio, go try it, I'll be waiting... So? Ain't that cool? (CTRL+I does incremental search, so it will progressively select the first occurrence of whatever you type. It's a lot less disruptive than CTRL+F as a means to search your files)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Time Flys Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana

We recently released my video on the new Animation Transition Control and in looking it over I noticed that I promised to follow up on the definition of a Date/Time
Publication date: 2009-05-09 more

Upcoming Flash vs Silverlight Comparisons

After implementing more than 60 samples, I start feeling that I am running out of good ideas. Therefore, I have spent some time to research and organize new ideas. Below are some of the comparisons I will make in the coming days. If you have any nice...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

OpenID and ASP.NET MVC interop

Another one of those in-case-you-missed-it posts: Scott Hanselman's done a good review of the possibilities of integrating openID with ASP.NET. I mentioned this before as an interesting area for development. Looks like things are moving along. Excellent!... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

New Developments in Search, Analytics and Social Media

How far we
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Microsoft Rolling Out Bing 2.0 Next Week?

Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice (Part 2)

Welcome back! In Part 1 of this tale, we'd successfully configured a WCF client and an IIS-hosted service to communicate via MSMQ on the same machine. But we're only half done. As you may recall, our goal here is to deploy the client, service and queues all on separate machines. We also want to secure the configuration so that only or client is permitted to send messages to the queue. Before we dive in, a quick disclaimer. As I mentioned in the first article, at the time of writing there is ve
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

And away we go

Here it is, 8-8-08, an auspicious number in Chinese numerology. So get out there and play a lottery ticket as fast as you can. Tonight the place goes nuts at the Bird
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Download Computer eBooks from KnowFree 2.0

KnowFree 2.0 states that Knowledge is Free and offers download links to hundreds of technical, programming, and I.T. eBooks. Topics covered by these freely available ebooks include the following: Ajax, Php, Java, C#, Asp, Networking Training, Cisco Network, Photoshop, Graphics, Desing, Web Construction, Business Ebooks, Sap, Oracle, Mysql, Mssql, .Net, Dot Net, J2Ee, J2Me, Linux, Unix, Windows, Windows Vista, Office, Database, Programming, Software Development, Video Training, Dreamweaver, Flas
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

20 Resources providing Loads of Excellent Tutorials and Cheat Sheets for Flash and Action Script

Adobe Flash goes back several years and have turned into an excellent development platform. It allows developers to push the boundaries for what is possible to achieve with a web page. Flash even have allowed companies to create great online games running in web browsers. Even though they are not so common as earlier some websites rely completely on Flash. In my opinion Flash should be used wisely and only where it adds value. Avoid being tempted to having different kinds of images and text flyi
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/13/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Jason Short reports VistaDB 3.6 Preview Build 87 with Entity Framework Support is available on 7/18/2009 We have not decided if we are going to leave the EF in the 3.6 edition when we release, or if it will continue to be a Preview technology.  It all depends on the feedback we get from the community.  The Entity Framework D
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

[Evil] The Secret of Bill Gates Success

The BBC News has a gushing article and interview with Bill Gates on their site: When these criticisms are put to Mr Gates, he says he finds it
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding

The upcoming version 3 of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Setanta launches on demand platform

Setanta Sports has joined Sky Sports, Eurosport and ESPN in the launch of its own online on-demand platform. Setanta-i went live earlier this month and is based around the Microsoft Silverlight player and Irdeto
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Bloggers held on hooliganism charges in Azerbaijan: rights group (AFP)

AFP - Two bloggers in Azerbaijan have been ordered detained for two months pending trial on hooliganism charges, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said Saturday. See the original post: Bloggers held on hooliganism charges in Azerbaijan: rights group (AFP) a2a_linkname="Bloggers held on hooliganism charges in [...]
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Week in review: Deal or no deal

Merger mania is ramping up, with plenty of deal makers and deal breakers there. Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio closed their long-awaited merger, ending a 17-month saga. The combined company, with more than 18.5 million subscribers, is now called Sirius XM Radio. Sirius XM Radio will offer more than 300 programming channels spanning exclusive shows, such as those of Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey, and a la carte programming. Subscribers will be able to select certain prog
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Article: The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox

...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

Exposing SOAP, OData, and JSON Endpoints for RIA Services (Silverlight TV 26)

In this video, John meets with Deepesh Mohnani from the WCF RIA Services team. Deepesh demonstrates how to expose various endpoints from WCF RIA Services. This is a great explanation and walk through of how to open RIA Services domain services to clients...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-14 more

Travel stories and session recaps from Mozilla Camp Europe Prague, 3-4 October 2009

Late last night I came home from the fantastic event that was Mozilla Camp Europe Prague, 3-4 October 2009 , and I thought I
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Create dynamic web applications like iGoogle or Facebook with open-source widget library. New relase is available.

We are proud to announce Kalitte Dynamic Dashboard & Widget Toolkit for Asp.Net Version 2.2. Official web site includes sample dashboards, source codes and free ready to use widgets. Visit www.dynamicdashboards.net for more information. About Dynamic Dashboard Framework for Asp.Net Dynamic Dashboards Toolkit provides you a browser independent platform for creating ajax drag-drop widgets and digital dashboards in your Asp.Net application. Use Kalitte Dynamic Dashboards to Convert any Asp.
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

UFC 101 Prefight Press Conference Video

The LIVE pre-fight press conference is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:00 am Pacific Time / 1:00 pm Eastern Time on Thursday. You must download Silverlight Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts Related posts: UFC 100 Prefight Press Conference Video UFC 99 Prefight Press Conference
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Launch

Silverlight 3 offline/out-of-browser apps maintain a sticky presence on your desktop upon the initial detach (install) operation. They can be looked up and launched in an experience not unlike the one you see with conventional desktop applications. You...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

SilverlightContrib - Nice Open Source Library

Ever week a new crop of Silverlight/WPF tools crosses my desk. It
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM)

The wizards over in the Microsoft patterns & practices group have been at it again and released .... The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) What
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

DivX Looks Outside The Codec For The Future Of Web Video

DivX Looks Outside The Codec For The Future Of Web Video May 7th, 2008 Davis DivX reported their 1st quarter earnings on Monday and while I
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Silverlight 4 Theme refresh including RIA Services templates

The feedback from the Silverlight 4 application themes released and the latest in process have been overwhelmingly toward the positive. We appreciate the feedback and hopefully you appreciate the transparency in the process. As a developer I want my fellow...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-05 more

So Much Technology

We have, I think, officially passed the point where anyone can keep up with the new technology available for developers, just from Microsoft (let alone all the new options from all the other companies), and PDC is les than a week away. A  totally...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

Bill

Bill Gates is sure taking his sweet time retiring. While he is busy hyping yet another Microsoft research project to the CEO Summit, Google has vaulted several huge steps ahead in the cloud infrastructure battle with Friend Connect. Mike Arrington
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Customising the Window

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

View TV: 900 canali tv in diretta streaming GRATIS e in HD

Oggi vi presentiamo una piattaforma tv eccezzionale che permette di vedere moltissimi canali tv nazionali in diretta sul pc in streaming (compresi adult e pay-tv ) gratuitamente , oltre a numerosi video on-demand senza l
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

VoIP using Microsoft Silverlight

VoIP using Microsoft Silverlight has just been accomplished for the very first time. I'm pretty busy at ITEXPO so I don't have time to test this, but wanted to share an email that Founder & CEO of TringMe, Yusuf Motiwala sent me. Apparently, he had to utilize a workaround to get around the lack of mic support in Silverlight. Email from Yusaf: Just wanted to let you know about a first ever demonstration of VoIP/Telephony over Microsoft Silverlight platform at: http://tringme.com/silverlig
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Silverlight and MS CRM Services

Had enough media players, games, and animated shapes with Silverlight ? How about integrating into some line of business applications? Microsoft produces an application called Microsoft CRM, now in it
Publication date: 2008-08-22 more

Misfit Geek Podcast - Episode #3 Tim Heuer on SIlverlight 3

Episode #3 - Tim Heur, Silverlight Community PM, on Silverlight 3 !  In this episode - The Misfit Geek talks with Tim Heur, SIlverlight PM, on SIlverlight 3, how SIlverlught ROCKs and application scenarios that might be being overlooked  Resources ...... Silverlight.net  - www.silverlight.net Tim's Blog - http://timheuer.com/blog/  I'm still getting the hang of it all and I don't have audio engineers, production staff, or SPONSORS ! If you are interested in advertising, ha
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Symbian-Guru Featured In SkyFire

The SkyFire web browser was updated a few weeks ago with a hot new Facebook and Twitter integration - allowing you to customise the browser
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Silverlight-powered World War II portal commemorates 65th Anniversary of Victory Day

On May 5 th , the Russian ICT Ministry launched a Microsoft Silverlight-powered “Chronicle of Victory” portal at http://pobeda-info.ru , developed to commemorate the 65 th anniversary of World War II Victory Day on May 9 th , 2010 and created...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-14 more

SilverlightContrib releases Silverlight 2 Controls

Last week I had the pleasure of talking with the crew from the Herding Code podcast . Among the questions was one about the open source community and Silverlight . There was mention about MVCContrib and how that community sprouted almost instantly with...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

Silverlight 2.0 Hello World

Silverlight 2.0 Hello World Silverlight's 2.0 deployment model changed significantly from the 1.1 alpha model. In the past you would load a XAML file, and then on demand load any managed libraries referenced from the XAML file before parsing could continue. With Silverlight 2.0 the model has changed. One of the downsides is that now you deploy things as a ZIP file with a manifest file which feels obnoxious. On the upside, the loop "try-to-parse-or-keep-requesting-files-from-the-browser-until-a
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

Catching up after vacation

Returning from vacation is hard - the context switch back to work mode is relatively easy, what I find hard is the early morning starts (5am). There is also the 1000
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

ClearRx Medical Prescriptions and Software Design

I understand that there was some folks at MIX09 who weren
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

ExtendMedia Powers TV Anywhere Video Service for Bell

ExtendMedia announces that the company's OpenCASE platform is powering Bell TV's first TV Anywhere-style video service. The new broadband service, TMN Online, lets subscribers with The Movie Network watch movies and series on their computers anywhere in Canada. Available through the Bell TV Online portal at bell.ca/tvonline , TMN Online gives subscribers the TV Anywhere offering for free as part of their existing television subscription. The first content provider to make their content ava
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

[Cool tool] Silverlight Spy

Silverlight Spy is a free(*) tool that allows you to inspect any online Silverlight app. Just launch it and point to a web page with a Silverlight app, then you can: Explore the XAP package Isolated Storage use Monitor performance Browse the UI visual and logical tree Examine objects Here is a screen shot of the app that shows the UI inspection (Live XAML outline): You can even decompile code inside the dll, for that you need Reflector installed, then go to Tools / O
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Why I Dislike Classic Or Typical WCF Usage

If you
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Finding the "real" templates and generic.xaml in Silverlight core or library assemblies, by using .NET Reflector

.NET Reflector is a great tool. I would wager that most of our loyal readers (all 6 of them ;-) ) already know all about .NET Reflector. But just in case, here is how to get it: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ In addition to spying on the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-28 more

Authenticate .NET web service with custom SOAP Header

How to authenticate .NET web service with custom SOAP Header... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Customize a ListBox Template with Silverlight

In this episode of Silverlight TV, Adam Kinney discusses how you can completely customize how a control looks and behaves . Adam explains how all Silverlight controls are lookless and that they can be customized using various templates depending on what...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-15 more

Let Your Skin Glow

Don't let your complexion suffer as temperatures drop
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation

On July 30th @ 8pm  I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Amazing Surface app

Tim Huckaby and his team at Interknowlogy has created an amazing app for the Microsoft Surface. The man himself: The app that let doctors see a 3D rendering of a heart: Check out a video here:http://silverlight.interknowlogy.com/Videos/VitruView/default.html... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Chroma Key Pixel Shader Sample

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Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

QuarkBase: Find Everything About a Website

Of all the tools and web services I have ever used to find information about a website, none have succeeded in providing the most up-to-date and relevant data except QuarkBase. QuarkBase is a free online tool to find complete information about a website. QuarkBase gets all its data from over 30 data sources and uses many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc. The information is categorized into various t
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

New Deep Zoom Composer Update Available

New Deep Zoom Composer Update Available The Expression team has released an update to Deep Zoom Composer. Among the improvements (see screen shot): Better Exporting Improved Design Experience Better Collection Exports Better Help Experience [found via Shawn Wildermuth] Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Deep Zoom
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

DataForm Templates

URL : http://wildermuth.com/downloads/funwithdataform... It is great to see that Tim Heuer and I are thinking about the same thing. In his recent article on DataForm helpers , he explained how to use the Validation Attributes to hint the DataForm with additional information.  These attributes are used extensively in the validation model in RIA Services but I'll be covering that later. Instead of that, I've been digging into how you can customize the look the DataForm while still
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Remix videos online

Remix was only a few weeks ago now, and for those that missed out on the experience we have uploaded all the sessions and recordings for the event to the Remix site.   Highlights for me: Anything by Bill Buxton! How we built the wall by AllofUs Becoming...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-07 more

Free Silverlight Datagrid from DevExpress

The folks at DevExpress are releasing a FREE DataGrid for Silverlight. Here are come of the features..... Data Grouping against multiple Silverlight Grid columns Data Sorting against multiple Silverlight Grid columns Comprehensive Summary Computation support against multiple Silverlight Grid columns Column Movement Column Resizing Column Auto-Width Row Editing Row Preview (with animation) Template Support (for cell content, cell editing, row preview and headers) Auto Height Suppor
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

SQL SERVER - EXCEPT Clause in SQL Server is Similar to MINUS Clause in Oracle

One of the JR. Developer asked me a day ago, does SQL Server has similar operation like MINUS clause in Oracle.Absolutely, EXCEPT clause in SQL Server is exactly similar to MINUS operation in Oracle. The EXCEPT query and MINUS query returns all rows in the first query that are not returned in the second query. [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Graffiti 404 Manager

If you've been following my blog recently, you know I just switched from a mix of my old school home grown solution and the Microsoft ASP.NET welblogs to GraffitiCMS. One thing I started wondering was .... did I get all my traffic? This was pretty easy, because most of my old content is actually in a myKB.com knowledge base, found at http://ScottCate.myKB.com. I decided to let the old posts live where they are, and just start a new blog here on ScottCate.com. After reading: MadProps.org Custom 4
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Ui Redesign In Ajax

Actually this should have been user experience design category, but the nature of the job is more on solution design, architecture, technology. The application is redesign existing enterprise application UI using AJAX (GWT with DOJO or Flex or any tool which is J2EE suitable) Following is example of the design concept (however it is developed using Microsoft Silverlight)
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Michael Jackson Memorial Live with Silverlight

I just heard that the Michael Jackson Memorial, which happens tomorrow, July 7 th , 10am PST, will be streamed live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

Top 20 Resources to Get Started with Silverlight and Blend

I know I know - I deserve a tomato (or two) in my face for not posting since Kawasaki’s talk in SxSW early this year. Man, blame Twitter! that little thing got me to feel I didn’t need to blog anymore as kind of satisfied my need to reach...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-05 more

Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile

In the .NET 3.5 timeframe and earlier, many client developers referenced System.Web.dll in order to be able to use System.Web.HttpUtility and its helpful encode/decode and parse methods. While those functions were really useful, the full framework is...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-08 more

SQL SERVER 2008 Copy Database With Data Generate T-SQL For Inserting Data From One Table to Another Table

Just about a year ago, I had written on the subject of how to insert data from one table to another table without generating any script or using wizard in my article SQL SERVER Insert Data From One Table to Another Table INSERT INTO SELECT SELECT INTO TABLE. Today, we will go [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Telerik Eats Own Dog Food, Launches Sitefinity.com

Telerik ( news , site ) launched a new site to highlight the power, flexibility and compatibility of its ASP/.NET-based content management system. The best advertising for any product is to see it in use, which is why Telerik
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Tip: New .NET 4 String Function to Check for Empty Strings

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 1

jQuery is a lightweight, cross-browser JavaScript library designed to ease JavaScript's most common tasks, including inspecting and manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM) and making out of band HTTP requests to support AJAX functionality. In plain English, jQuery makes it easy to perform client-side tasks like adding or removing attributes or CSS classes to elements in the DOM, or showing or hiding elements on the page in response to a user action (such as clicking a button). jQuery is use
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

How to calculate the number of days between 2 dates in InfoPath

Recently while helping some people via the Newsgroups I
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Viewbox

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Extras for Internet Explorer

Extras for Internet Explorer On last visit to the add-on's for Internet Explorer before we move on to other subjects. Today, I want to share with you Microsoft's recommended add-on's for you web browser. Silverlight -Microsoft's lastest release to help you experience media. If you want to know more; click here. Surfulator - This add-on allows you to surf the internet and save text, images, and complete webpages. Surfulator can be called an information tool for you web surfers. read moreRobo
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Silverlight 2.0.40115 Beta: The new challenge for Microsoft interactive websites

Silverlight 2.0.40115 Beta is Microsoft's new bet to improve the interactive experience between websites and their visitors. Silverlight 2.0.40115 Beta is in the form of web browsers for added which incorporates and facilitates the integration of video and interactive animations and applications, above all, stunning user interfaces. read more
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Download Windows Vista Ultimate Cyborg Gamerz Edition x86 SP2

OS | Windows Vista Ultimate Cyborg Gamerz Edition x86 SP2 | 1.19 GB Version: Based on Windows Vista Ultimate x86 SP2 Minimum System Requirements:
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Mix 2010: Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone Video Now Online

See it here…...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

Making extension methods amenable to mocking

The question of how to mock extension methods comes up frequently enough that I though I might give my opinion and solution to it (which does NOT include using TypeMock ;)). A first differentiator is whether you control the definition of the extension methods or not. The latter case would be, for example, the built-in Linq extension methods (First, Count, etc. on IEnumerable) and there's no way to mock them unless you use TypeMock. The former would be your own logic that you decide to p
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

SQL SERVER Maximizing View of SQL Server Management Studio Full Screen New Screen

I had a great, unforgettable time at Teched India 2009 in Hyderabad. I had delivered a successful session on SQL Server Management Studio Best Practices, which created a lot of interest in community. I was truly amazed at the tremendous response I got. I received countless different questions on this subject as soon as the [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silv
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Silverlight 2 gets minor update

Yesterday a minor update to the Silverlight 2 runtime was released. You may see terms of
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Microsoft Unit Test Framework now on MSDN Code Gallery

The Silverlight unit test framework
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved

One of the features we are introducing in Silverlight 4 is a
Publication date: 2010-03-26 more

Tip: Zoom your browser when taking Silverlight Screenshots for Print

I'm working rapidly towards finishing up Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition . As part of the work for this, I find myself taking screenshots pretty regularly. For a print publication, you want your screenshots to be the highest resolution possible...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-02 more

VirtualAlbion using Deep Zoom and SeaDragon Ajax

Seadragon.embed("500px", "500px", "http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com/DZ/100/0/Image/Col/zece309bc8c7f465fbca8087784612173/ffbbd46b-305f-4b8e-a745-522d1aa49b2f.xml", 4000, 4000, 256, 1, "jpg"); Lionhead recently published a high resolution map of Albion (the world of Fable II in case youre not into games). The map is pretty nice and very detailed. Its a huge image (45.8MB, 16 megapixels) that they built for people to print and hang on their walls. When I saw that, I immediately thought how great th
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

Blend 3

Today at Mix, Doug Olson and I presented an overview of what the next version of Blend will bring. Blend 3 is going to be a huge and exciting release, and it offers a wide range of powerful tools for both production and design phases of software development...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Is Classic WebForms More Mature Than ASP.NET MVC?

In my last post about ASP.NET MVC, Jeff Gonzalez referred to WebForms as "Classic ASP.NET". I had to take notice since when ASP.NET can out, we spoke about "Classic ASP". This mere reference is interesting. His comment goes on to talk about how ASP.NET MVC isn't mature and not as "rich" as WebForms, but it also mentions the risks around using beta software for enterprise software. My comments around this relate to the risks of using new, unproven, software. SQL Server 2008 is still... Did you
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

Virtual Earth in Silverlight with VIEWS

Virtual Earth in Silverlight with VIEWS Posted by on July 1st, 2008 I recently had the honor of participate in Incubation Week out in Silicon Valley. Leading up to the event we realized that at least two out of our six participants wanted to integrate Virtual Earth and Silverlight. I searched for guidance online but only turned up a few browser interop samples. I didn
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Cappuccino

The guys from 280 North did it again. Earlier, it was the awesome Keynote on the Web
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out

The Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin got the same message from the TomTom story that I did: just get rid of Microsoft's FAT filesystem: The technology at the heart of this settlement is the FAT filesystem. As acknowledged by Microsoft in the press release, this file system is easily replaced with multiple technology alternatives. The Linux Foundation is here to assist interested parties in the technical coordination of removing the FAT filesystem from products that make use of it today. OK. Sou
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Silverlight tracking with Google Analytics

We (at my company) wanted to know the Silverlight distribution rate within our visitors. Since Google Analytics doesn
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Update for DZone Plugin for Windows Live Writer

I fixed a minor issue with the formatting of my DZone plugin for Windows Live Writer and placed the updated code on CodePlex. I added HTML comments around jscript so it would be ignored by browsers that dont support jscript. This is update 1.0.0.3 As a nice side effect, this also makes the code get ignored when grabbing a Excerpt of code using tools like Graffiti CMS. In other words, if you have a tool that grabs non HTML code, normally it will grab jscript which stinks if you dont want to show.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Do one thing, and do it well [Tip: The CLR wrapper for a DependencyProperty should do its job and nothing more]

Tip The CLR wrapper for a DependencyProperty should do its job and nothing more Explanation The CLR wrapper for a Silverlight/WPF DependencyProperty exists purely as a convenience to the developer. The "real" value of a DependencyProperty is stored by...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-24 more

Silverlight Slider and Absolute values

If you use the Slider object in Silverlight (or WPF for that matter) you may have experienced some similar frustration that I have recently. Lets take a look at what the Slider is first. The Slider is a simple control on the surface providing a track and a thumb (if you arent familiar with that term) that enables value changing. Some of the key properties are: Minimum the number that represents the lowest (left or bottom) value Maximum the number that represents the highest (right... Did you kno
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

SQL SERVER - Fix : SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition Install fail due to .NET Framework 3.5 missing

It goes without saying that computer running slow is a common problem we all face, a pestering one indeed! Last week, I had to format my computer as it was running at an annoyingly tortoise pace. After formatting it, I installed Visual Studio 2008. When tested Visual Studio 2008 worked all fine. However, when I [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Tak
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

The Technology Post for May 28th

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #21 Daily Video The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations (Suggested by Wally McClure ) .NET Languages C# and Visual Basic C# - Resizing Images in C# - Tom Hearn NetFX - Pattern Matching in
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Pacnet Launches a CDN

Today Pacific telecom and undersea-cable operator Pacnet announced its new Media Delivery Service, becoming the latest carrier to enter the CDN business.  The new product is available globally from today, and seems to offer both http website acceleration and streaming capabilities (both Flash and Silverlight).  The company, as one might expect, sees its advantages stemming from its ownership of the network, as opposed to pure CDNs.  It
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Flash v Silverlight Gallery

Stumbled across this great site with a tonne of examples built for Flash and Silverlight. It
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

Have I Missed The Bus?

About 5-10 times a week I get a letter that says something like this:
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

SOA security reminder

My friend Gunnar Peterson asked about my opinion on SOA and security concerns. Here's what I wrote him:In a paper I wrote a couple of years ago I examined the relevancy of the fallacies of distributed computing defined by Peter Deutsch almost 20 years ago. Writing about the Network is Secure fallacy I wrote that after all these years you would think that the fact you cannot assume the network is secure would be a no-brainer. Alas it still it happens all the time - and that's for "regular"... Did
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Plex Gets Netflix Support on Mac OS X

I just got wind of the news. It looks like on April 8th a Netflix plugin for Plex was rolled out that allows people to navigate and play content from Netflix
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

A Conference. All At Once.

The box below, once you
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Remembering Bill

Bill Gates has finally retired from Microsoft, the software maker that ignited and remained a torch bearer of the PC era and a wealth machine like nothing else in its time. Bill had already left the executive position at Microsoft immediately after the anti-trust lawsuit and handed over the reigns of the software maker to his long time friend and Harvard fellow Steve Ballmer. But now he is officially retiring from day to day work life at Microsoft, where he currently served as the Chairman of
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

preGavel to Gavel

HD Video has launched at the DNCC... gallery1.demconvention.com You'll need Microsoft Silverlight, and they will walk you through the download if you don't have it.
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Hanselminutes Podcast 109 - ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Scott Hunter

My one-hundred-and-ninth podcast is up . Recorded at the Microsoft MVP Summit, this show is about the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data subsystem that's being added to ASP.NET. I sit down with Scott Hunter , a Program Manager for ASP.NET (everyone in the division...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-30 more

Link Listing - March 8, 2009

Link Listing - March 8, 2009 Podcasts 10-4 Episode 10: Making Web Deployment Easier [Via: gduthie ] Code Cast #24
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

The Bubble Chart in the Silverlight Toolkit

March 9th, 2009   The Bubble Chart in the Silverlight Toolkit [4:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIn this mini-episode, Erik and returning guest Jesse Liberty discuss the Bubble chart from the Silverlight Toolkit. The Bubble chart is unique in that it lets you chart a third dependent variable, and Erik and Jesse reveal how it can be used to great effect.Useful links: The Silverlight Toolkit: http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight Jesse
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

OpenUp and my Open Source submissions

OpenUp and my Open Source submissions Amir Shevat from Microsoft Israel DPE department started cool competition, named OpenUp. I decided to give hand to this initiative and posted sources of some of my applications on CodePlex and submit it to the competition. Currently, my submission includes (except old Vista Battery Saver and Windows Live Writer Plugins): WebCam control for WPF Silverlight controls library Duplicate images finder (yes, yes I posted sources for this application too) Lat
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Live From Redmond

In response to your feedback, a couple minor changes to the schedule
Publication date: 2008-07-05 more

JavaScript >> Get Any CSS Property Value of an Object using $style

This is the first of a series of blog posts providing Javascript and CSS tips and tricks aimed to help you in your day-to-day work with web user interfaces. Anyone who needs to polish a user interface and make it truly cross-browser has hit the wall of browser differences, bugs and inconsistencies. There are plenty of resources on the Internet discussing workarounds to some of those problems - but our team's front-end developer Martin and I believe that in "our" bag of tricks there are some
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Should the Silverlight 2 Firestarter By a Full Day?

Joe Healy and I have been coordinating a Silverlight 2 Firestarter event. I posted the details of this event yesterday on my site. the agenda is a 3 hour morning to lunch presentation/demonstration/discussion on Silverlight 2 with data, REST, services, and so on. We received some feedback that it might be good to have a full day Firestarter event where the morning lays the groundwork for Silverlight 2 (everything you need to know to get started) and the afternoon is the more advanced stuff (my o
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Answering A C# Question

I often receive questions about topics covered in one or another of my books, and I respond, most often, privately. Every once in a while, however, a question comes along that may be of more general interest. This question, though about C#, has a profound...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-09 more

Popfly Game Creator - programming online with Silverlight

This looks great: Popfly Game Creator. Interesting on several counts. First, casual gaming will help get Silverlight runtimes deployed. Second, it
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Effortless ActiveX Twain Scanning with Atalasofts DotTwain SDK

In general, .NET ActiveX Wrappers are painful to build and deploy. This is because there are a large number of steps involved in the building of signed .NET ActiveX Web Applications. In order to reduce the complexity of this problem, weve created a sample solution which works out of the box.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

SQLAuthority News - SharePoint - Steps To Create A Custom WebPart - Deploy It SharePoint Site

SharePoint is one interesting software from Microsoft. My outsourcing location unit is working on one large project of SharePoint. Based on users feedback and overwhelming response to article SQL Server - Error : Fix : SharePoint Stop Working After Changing Server (Computer) Name I am posting one more article which is very important for SharePoint [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Single Project Areas With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1

This post is based on an early preview of ASP.NET MVC 2 and may be obsoleted by a future version of the product. Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 2 introduces the concept of Areas. Areas provide a means of dividing a large web application into multiple projects, each of which can be developed in relative isolation. The goal of this feature is to help manage complexity when developing a large site by factoring the site into multiple projects, which get combined back into the main site before deployment.
Publication date: 2009-08-01 more

SharePoint and Microsoft Learning Gateway Links/Resources

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Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Skyfire busts out Skyfire v1.0

Watching Hulu streaming on an HTC Touch Diamond using Skyfire The fastest growing mobile browser in the world has just busted itself out of beta. Today we see the Skyfire mobile browser going all 1.0 on us, and it
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Client-side HTML controls for Silverlight 2

What if you could use and create ASP.NET-like web controls that are 100% client-side, powered by the Silverlight 2 runtime? What if ViewState was a thing of the past? Would you like to cut your web application’s load on your servers from 50 pageviews...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-06 more

Speaking at London Geek Girl Dinners on October 9th

Thanks to Kathleen Dollard for hooking me up with the London Geek Girls giving me somewhere to go and something to do with myself in the 3 days between SDN in Amsterdam and DevReach in Bulgaria! I'll be heading to London for the interim and speaking at the 3rd Anniversary of the London Geek Girl Dinner. I'm so looking forward to this because I get to talk about being a geekette and don't have to write a lick of code. The geek girl dinner's are non-denominational, so to speak, crossing over many.
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up

Well, PDC09 is over and it was a blast. What a relief it is to finally be able to show the world what the Silverlight team has been working on since Silverlight 3. Based on the feedback at the conference, people are excited to dig into the new bits and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-22 more

Moonlight 2.0 goes beta

The developer of the Moonlight software that enables Silverlight applications to run on Linux computers said on Monday that he is ready to start publicly beta testing an update to the software.
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Firefox 3 Alpha 2 reviewed

Mozilla has released the second alpha of Shiretoko, the development codename of Firefox 3.1. Alpha 2 brings a handful of improvements and new features that help advance the web to a more open, standards based stage, while tweaking the user experience. The main improvement is the support for and tags with native Ogg Theora and Vorbis video and audio codecs, as announced a few weeks ago. The addition of this feature will enable web and content developers to publish th
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Skinning an embeddable Silverlight 2 media player

While Silverlight 2 brings us great capabilities as .NET developers and opens many opportunities for creating rich clients in the browser, it still supports strong media features that have been available since the initial release of Silverlight. The ability...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-05 more

Update on Windows Azure

Windows Azure has continued adding features since the last major update at MIX.  Additional features and SDK updates will continue to roll out in the coming weeks and months. Cool New Feature #1:  Geo-Location support Starting in May, a new option was added to the portal to support geo-locating your code and data.  In order to use this most effectively, the idea of an Affinity Group was created.  This allows you to associate various services under an umbrella label for the... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

5 Reasons Why Silverlight Is My Preferred Web Development Platform

Item Solutions (where i work) has been using Silverlight ever since the first version came out, and by now we have quite a bit of experience and dare i say expertise in it. We generally suggest using Silverlight for every new project that we do, and the only time we don
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

RIM Introduces New BlackBerry Tools for Web Developers

Today RIM announced their new and enhanced tools for developing web apps for BlackBerry smartphones. The BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse, available today at www.blackberry.com/developers/webeclipse , is a new plug-in that allows developers to create web applications and content for BlackBerry smartphones within the familiar Eclipse 3.4 environment. Using this plug-in, developers can debug and profile Internet/intranet web pages displaying HTML and CSS content in addition to m
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

No Zune phone as MSFT goes aggro v iPhone

Posted by Jonny on July 31st, 2009 under Apple, NewsMicrosoft has moved to cease speculation it intends releasing its own Zune phone to compete with the Apple iPhone, and presumably the iPod touch.The company pooh-poohed the notion during its financial results announcement this week, saying its strategy will be to improve Windows Mobile and continue working with its existing hardware partners.CEO Steve Ballmer and entertainment and devices business chief Robbie Bach said Microsoft intends purs
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Microsoft OneApp

Microsoft OneApp is a new application that will allow feature phones ( phones which are not classified as smart phones ) to access web services and applications such as Windows Live Messenger, Twitter, Facebook and the likes. It is being launched by Microsoft Unlimited Potential program for developing countries where not everyone can buy an iPhone or a Blackberry. To start with, it
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Property Auction Website by thecrmsolutions

Hi, We would like someone to develop a property auction website for us. The closest thing that resembles can be seen @ http://www.bid4assets.com/channel/index.cfm?fuseaction=channelamp;channel=22
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #28

With Silverlight 4 came support for Text Trimming. Text Trimming is a feature that applies to TextBlocks and is used to append
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

2008 Beijing Olympics : Wonderful NBC Video

What a Wonderful video on China and Beijing Olympics, that gives a panoramic view of China and its rich culture. I love this video. :Beijing and beyond: A journey through China
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

The Designer/Developer Workflow Crisis (That Everyones Ignoring)

Lets take an honest look at what passes for developer/designer workflow these days: Why are we okay with this? Sure, designers are fond using the programs theyve used for years, and developers are busy debating DI vs. IOC, but were missing a bigger point. Were ignoring how ridiculous the entire workflow has become. I argued with some folks on Twitter about this a while ago, heres the short version: I think it's time for designers and developers to step up on skills and care about integr
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #3: Silverlight Game Support, Limitations and Workarounds

While exploring techniques for game programming with Silverlight I came across some hurdles and discovered some workarounds. I plan to use this blog to track these issues for the purposing of hopefully saving you time from having to do similar research...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Bulk check-in for SharePoint

This has absolutely nothing to do with Silverlight or WPF, but thought people might find it useful anyway. If you've ever tried to check in a large number of files into SharePoint, you'll notice that there isn't a way to check them in bulk -- you have...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-14 more

From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

First the big news: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise patent licensing to both C# and the CLI. The announcement was done by Peter Galli at Microsoft over at Port25 and it states (emphasis is mine): I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs. ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C# programming language, while the ECMA 335 standard
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

Cospa

Cospa is the leading manufacturer of anime and gaming goodies such as cosplay, apparel and merchandise. You may have seen some of their previous stuff like the yummy K-on! Shower Poster . Recently caught up with comrades at Cospa at their offices and thought I'd do the usual and take some snaps. On the way to Cospa at the overpass located next to the South exit Shibuya bus terminal. Offices are located past the Cerulean tower where the Google offices are. The iPhone saves the day agai
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Bing it!

Instead of 'Google it!' now there's new verb Bing it! Its Microsofts new and improved search engine.Though number of results returned is still less compared to that of google, the format and quality of results seems better. I personally like the category filter and price compare. There's lot more to bing, find out here http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html It still has long way to go to catch up with googles indexes, and hopefully will get there. It has been released internally for a long t
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Dew Drop - March 3, 2009

  Silverlight / WPF Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates (Amit Raz) Styling ListBox And Animating ListBoxItem In Silverlight 2 (Faisal Khan) two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez) Silverlight Tip of the Day #97
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Interesting Finds: September 26, 2009

Other Debunking the duct tape programmer , Jeffrey Palermo TDD: It makes you question what you're doing and The Duct Tape Programmer: Some thoughts , Mark Needham Boston ranks as 9th-largest economy in U.S. , Boston Business Journal Tired of entering your login info every time you open a CodePlex hosted Solution in Visual Studio? , Greg Duncan Pondering Axum + F# , Matthew Podwysocki Hanselminutes Podcast 181 - Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and Mon
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Snoop, Now even better, thanks to the Community

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Ultimate Fighting Championships 102 weigh in tomorrow via Silverlight

It’s time! The Ultimate Fighting Championship #102 on August 29 th will use Silverlight to bring the fights to online viewers at http://www.ufc.com . While this in itself is great news, there will be an exciting addition to the coverage –...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-29 more

Script for Bulk Import of Active Directory Subnets

I
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

ASTreeView - A Powerful ASP.Net TreeView Control

A full functinal treeview control including drag and drop, ajax loading, context menu, dropdown treeview.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Closing thoughts on SharePoint Conference

It's tough to get your mind completely around SharePoint 2010 -- an even bigger and more all-encompassing platform than 2007. Over the coming months we'll be advising our SharePoint research subscribers how to develop effective strategies. In the meantime, I can't overstate the enthusiasm for the new platform at this week's SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. But here's a question for you the enterprise customer: is all this enthusiasm always in your best interest? Are we just seeing a r
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

I love my work but it is a good thing I have a family

They went away this week (visiting my in-laws) and I stayed home to catch up on videos, tutorials and etc.  I
Publication date: 2008-07-05 more

Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF

One of the things that seems hard-baked into MEF if you watch the Silverlight 4 and MEF screencasts that I
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Silverlight Guidance: Whitepapers on SEO, Security, Media

Did you know that there are some whitepapers on Silverlight development? Just recently released is one on security in Silverlight development and deployment. You can view some others (some older, but there are still some gems): Security Guidance for Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

.Net RIA Services: Custom Validation

.Net RIA Services: Custom Validation This is another post in a series of posts about building applications with Microsoft .Net RIA Services and Silverlight 3 and ASP.Net . Build a Simple Application with .Net RIA Services (Silverlight 3)
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

my.SXSW Goes Mobile

my.SXSW Goes Mobile  The legendary film, music and interactive festival South by Southwest (SXSW) launched the official mobile social networking and scheduling tool for their 23rd annual event, which begins Friday, March 13th.  Powered by the industry-leading whitelabel conference software application, The Social Collective, the mobile site integrates seamlessly with my.SXSW
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Updating Prism-v2 Reference Implementation from Static to Remote (Dynamic) Module Loading

Today, the Patterns & Practices Sustained Engineering Team, added a new article to the Composite WPF & Silverlight Knowledge Base that explains the required steps to migrate the Prism-v2 Reference Implementation to use Dynamic Module Loading. Although the article explains the specific migration steps for the latest drop
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Digging Into Custom Controls

Last night
Publication date: 2008-09-13 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Camera and Microphone Support

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Obtaining and Caching a Lot of Words

It is surprising how often I wish I had a lot of words handy.  This week it has been because I've wanted to play with the AutoCompleteBox (you just set the list of words as the ItemSource for the control and voila! In previous posts I demonstrated...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-10 more

Interesting Finds: April 22, 2009

Other stuff Challenges of Multi-Tenant, Enterprise ASP.NET Applications , Travis Illig __clrtype__ Metaclasses: IronPython Classes Under the Hood , Harry Pierson TestDriven.Net 2.20: Improved NCover Integration , Jamie Cansdale Pex v0.11.40421.0 : Delegates As Parameters, Exception Tree View, Better Stubs. , Peli Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

IronPython in Action the Preface

IronPython in Action is finally out! IronPython in Action is a book published by Manning Publications and written by Michael Foord (me!) and Christian Muirhead. It is the first book on IronPython, and covers using IronPython 2: For structured application development For scripting and system administration For web development with ASP.NET and Silverlight With WPF, Powershell, WMI and so on Using databases, web services, testing and metaprogramming Extending IronPython with C# / VB
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

superior-windows-xp-64-bit-x64-2009

  64-digit version Windows XP Professional is intended for users whom great volumes of memory and high efficiency of calculations from a floating comma in such areas as designing and the analysis of the mechanical equipment, three-dimensional animation, change and configuration of videodata, and also use of scientific and high-efficiency appendices are required.  Maintenance: I n t e g r a t e d (pre-installed) into this XP64 release: - ALL XP x64 all updatings on 16.02.09 - Direc
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Bing Indexing NoIndex/Nofollow Content

August 8th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Bing
Publication date: 2009-08-09 more

SQL SERVER List Schema Name and Table Name for Database

Just a day ago, I was looking for script which generates all the tables in database along with its schema name. I tried to Search@SQLAuthority.com but got too many results. For the same reason, I am going to write down today
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

NBC Olympics on the Go download service is Vista only

NBC Olympics on the Go download service is Vista only Harnessing technology from Microsoft and Wavexpress, NBC will allow thousands of hours of its 2008 Olympics coverage to be downloaded by Vista users. In addition to streaming coverage with Silverlight from NBCOlympics.com, the 2008 Olympics will embrace the Internet in a big way this year. June 23, 2008 - 02:05PM CT - by David Chartier
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics

With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

ViKi Version 0.0.01

Together with Jesse Liberty you may follow the steps of creating a hyperVideo application in Silverlight 3 . So, believing strongly that the first thing to do is something I
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Twitter Trackbacks for From DB to DataGrid ??? So Many Choices! - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek [silverlight.net] on Topsy.com

Pingback from  Twitter Trackbacks for                 From DB to DataGrid ??? So Many Choices! - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek         [silverlight.net]        on Topsy.com
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Breaking the silence when things has changed ....

And thus the silence is broken. The last year has been very stormy for me. It has been sharp turns and bright changes. I no longer hold a positions as an instructor at the training company Cornerstone but have moved my daily work to Sogeti (a Cap Gemini company) where I now worke as an architect consultant. This is a very positive change and I'm very happy. With this change I'm also moving my blog to another platform (this I built myself when I learned NHibernate 4-5 years or so ago). So anyo
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #92

In Tip of the Day #86 I showed you how to load external images not included in the project such as images on the web. In this Tip I will be showing you had to load images from the client
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Protected: Not Yet Published

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-08 more

New Lean/Kanban Conference pricing.

For those interested in the Lean/Kanban conference, there are now some pricing breaks.  A great low price before March 16th, and some interesting prices for those in Florida close to the conference.  There is also a decent break for those registering before April 16th.  If you are interested, check out the site for more details.  A lot of great Lean/Kanban speakers, including yours truly!  http://www.leankanbanconference.com/http://www.leankanbanconference.com/  Hope... Did you know that DotNetS
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

New Tutorial: DataGrid Binding via Data Entities & WCF

    I'm very pleased to announce the posting of my latest Silverlight 2 Tutorial: ADO.NET Data Entities and WCF Feeding A Silverlight Datagrid, available in both C# and VB in HTML and pdf. This is the first (but not the last) in an occasional series on how Silverlight can be combined with other aspects of .NET 3.5 to create complete applications. This tutorial touches on WCF, Data Entities, LINQ and SqlServer. Complete code is available for download on the html pages as well.... Did you know tha
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Registration Now Open for St. Louis Day of .NET

It
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Dew Drop - February 13, 2009

  Please let me know if you find any issues with today
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Ms Silver Light Developer

Hi, We are looking for a developer for our project who have knowledge of Silverlight customization. Please send your past work relevant to the field. Only genuine and knowledgeable person. Go to Source Post similar project on sosexpert.com
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Microsoft Silverlight for Windows 3.0.40818.0

Microsoft Silverlight formerly WPF E is a cross browser cross platform plug in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications RIAs for the Web It is intended for developers and designers interested in learning more about how to build experiences with Microsoft Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List

Because I was bored and I also wanted a single, consolidated list of all the Mix sessions and links to their videos, I
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes

On Tuesday, June 22nd at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009, Microsoft announced it will bring Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recognized rich media technologies including Silverlight to Xbox LIVE within the next year. By extending...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/12/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-12 more

Mysql Date Validator - Brazilian format

Brazilian format for date validating in MySql UDF. Formato brasileiro para validao de data em MySql UDF. *** Formatos aceitveis: dd/mm/yyyy dd-mm-yyyy dd-mm-yy d-m-yy Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Microsoft invests in online video startup Move Networks

Microsoft just made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in Move Networks, a startup that helps companies offer high-definition video on the web. The investment should promote Move Networks
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Silverlight/WPF: Implementing PropertyChanged with Expression Tree

Source Code: RaisePropertyChangedExample.zip [94.4 KB] Credits: Thanks to Paul Strong and Soe Moe for sharing this code with me. Introduction This article will show to how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface with Expression Tree . I
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Discover More Related Content with Headup

I have reviewed a couple of FireFox addons that allow you to easier discover related content as you browse. Here
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Jungle Love - another one-man-band cover tune

I have been itching to do a kick-ass guitar song all by myself in the studio, so I enlisted the help of my daughter Emmy (12) and her friend Yumi (16) to help with camera work and recording controls. They learned a little about the recording process and had some fun as well. You might remember my first all-me tune, Home at Last by Steely Dan. I received a lot of suggestions for more Steely Dan tunes to do next, and I will get to them someday for sure, but I wanted to do something else fi
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

My Twitter Updates for the Week

Sitting by power outlet on third floor west side by Microsoft Silverlight @ # sxsw # @ markzero I have seen three companies that can/will be huge at # sxsw - my thoughts: http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2009/03/15/2616/ in reply to markzero # # sxsw sitting in VC secrets with Larry Chiang, Kent Howery - Founders Fund, Sharon Wienbar - Scale Ventures, Rob Hayes - First Round Capital # # vcsecrets Woot - it seems a lot earlier than 10:21 AM. . . # # vcsecrets Want to get
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps?

At MIX 10 this year, Tues. 3/16 at 2pm: Learn from Jeff Wilcox how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-08 more

Ways to give feedback on Silverlight

There are a few ways to give feedback on Silverlight . I wanted to share my thoughts on them as some are obvious and some aren
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Getting Started with Silverlight development

Over time a few people have contacted me about the missing WatermarkedTextbox from Scott Guthrie
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Holding a conference? Spice it up with these geeky ideas

The mark of anything well-made is found in the details, and when it comes to geeky conferences for designers and developers, organizers are coming up with geeky new ways to spice up the offline event experience. Badges Gravatar-enabled WordCamp Badges Let me first say that Gravatars , or globally recognized avatars, should be a staple in every social network or web app that lets uses upload avatars, because why upload one everywhere when it can be pulled from a centralized location?
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

iMeta Agility & Silverlight

Just a little plug for a video I made just before Xmas with the guys from iMeta , a UK company that
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

A badge of honor

You simply know you're doing good, important, awesome work when you are able to get this error at runtime: An exception of type 'System.Security.VerificationException' occurred in DamonPayne.IoC.TempProxy but was not handled in user code Additional information: Operation could destabilize the runtime. The Type name "DamonPayne.IoC.TempProxy" is wrong, and doesn't exist, which just adds to the fun. This will factor into the AGT series of articles, but I took a brief break to share this
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video

As of this morning I have uploaded five videos (with C# and VB source code) for Silverlight 3. To have this ready at the moment of release I opted for most to build with pre-beta code. This note will review what to do if you run into trouble making the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/1/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Silverlight XAP Signing Certificate promotion from Thawte

And the offers keep coming in! Another one of our key partners for testing XAP signing for trusted applications was Thawte. Their group helped provide us with valid certificates to verify their process and signing worked as expected (and verified) for...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

The Future of ASP.NET AJAX

Bertrand LeRoy recently published a 13 page document on CodePlex, describing the ASP.NET Team
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Knowledge Base

Books Links Feeds Sites Share and Enjoy:...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-10 more

Online Library of UX Design Patterns - Quince

Quince is an on-line directory of UX design patterns created by Infragistics . If you are looking for design patterns or script resources or some inspiration with examples, then your search is over, you are at right place. A beautifully managed collection of design patterns, and what makes it good is it contains all these with a number of examples. I was thinking for some ajax type thing but i discovered that this online directory has been developed using Silverlight. Qu
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Dew Drop - March 2, 2009

  Silverlight Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action (Davy Brion) Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions (Jesse Liberty) EntitySpaces 2009 Q2 - Can you Query me now? (Mike Griffin)   Web Development MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Microsoft Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX Event

If you are interested to learn more about Silverlight, Expression Studio and ASP.NET, the Microsoft Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX event will be the perfect opportunity. The event will be held on 25th June 2009 (Thursday), 9am
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Introducing LINQ to M

Now , it happens that you go to McDonalds website order an item for you. It could happen that price of the menu changed or new one comes to the menu. Now, generally it can happen that admin can go though wizard and loads of textboxes or dropdowns to make the changes or he/she can just write as if he/she is writing in some text editor and everything else is taken care of on behalf. Textual DSL is a powerful tool that might become the future of how we communicate to computer systems. Well, things
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Get Your Questions Answered on Silverlight TV

The first episode of Silverlight TV is in the books. A special thank you to Keith Smith for coming on and doing a fantastic job and to everyone who watched our show! The planning for many future episodes is under way. One of the plans is to have take...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-17 more

stracture and use of SiteUrls_Override.config problems adding a new node in the navigation bar

hey there, i was trying to add a new navigation node in the navigation bar, when i tried to add it in the SiteUrls.config everything was alright but when i try to put it from the SiteUrls_Override.config, nothing happen i tried to add this to the file:
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

computer slugish

My computer seems to slow down to a crawl over time. I have to always do a clean install, and it runs great. But over time it just starts to get slower and slower on starting up, loading web pages, even as I type It is lagging behind the letters start to appear after I have allready stoped typing. I type with two fingers. I have went to msconfig and stopped alot of stuff from starting up, that helped a little bit. Here is the dds logs. thanks William DDS (Ver_09-02-01.01) - NTFSx86 Run
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition

We spent a lot of time at Corillian (my last job) thinking about Identity, and a few months before I left I started getting into Cardspace and OpenID . This was a little over a year ago. We did a podcast on OpenID as well . At that time, I tried to take...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-30 more

And to think that I found it on Bing

Ever since I started writing books I check Google (and for the past number of years it has been Google) for my name every now and then; both for the ego gratification and to see if there is misinformation or unhappy readers or other stories I should respond...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-30 more

SOLID STATE LOGIC DEBUTS MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT-BASED GRAVITY ASSET BROWSER WEB CLIENT AT IBC 2009

SSL will Demonstrate Gravity in the Microsoft Topaz Lounge AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Tech News, Resources from Blogosphere - 21 April 09(7)

Hard at play in Google Labs with Similar Images and Google News Timeline Live At The Google Labs Press Event: Real Image Analysis, News Timeline, Labs Reloaded KnowEm searches 120 sites for open user names Free mobile TV launches in Washington D.C. with more US cities to come Susan Boyle Videos To Pass 100 Million Views Is it against the law to violate a Web site
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

July 2008 St. Louis DNN Users Group

I just posted the July 2008 St. Louis DotNetNuke Users Group information over on www.dnnug.com Here's a short snippet For the summer we're going back to meeting at the earlier time slot of 6pm! July 21st, 2008 Location: Tricor Braun Time: 6pm Prizes:...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Tip of the Day #24: How to Apply a XAML Template to a Class

Let
Publication date: 2008-08-06 more

Link Listing - July 2, 2008

ASP.NET 6 Steps to N-Tier ASP.NET Dynamic Data [Via: craigshoemaker ] HttpModule For Timing Requests [Via: Haacked ] WPF Are You Using WPF as Well? Let Me Know! [Via: Pete.Brown ] Tabbing within a WPF Property Grid editor [Via: Ivan Towlson ] Code Camps Call For Speakers - The First Hartford CodeCamp (Aug 16th Sat) [Via: c1sbc ] CodeStock After Party! [Via: Michael C. Neel ] Spreading the word: first Hartford Code Camp Call for Speakers [Via: daveburke ] SQL Server SQL SERVER - 2008 - Insert
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

RIA's on Cell Phones and Small Devices

Thought I'd share this link to an article I came across yesterday on AJAX World Magazine where the author Guy Aharonovsky talks about the future of RIA's on cell phones and small devices. In it he covers the strengths and growth opportunities for several technologies: Adobe Flash Lite, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple iPhone, Google Android, Sun JavaFX Mobile and Trolltech QT. Labels: articles posted 7:25:00 PM
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Silverlight 2 has SHIPPED!

It's official - we've shipped Silverlight 2! ScottGu, our VP, has a great release blog post, which is worth a read. You can get all the new SL2 downloads here: Install Silverlight 2 runtime. Install Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Install...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-14 more

Four Transforms

I haven
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Other art greats featured include Gil Kane Neal Adams and Jim Dialog page web

Other art greats featured include Gil Kane Neal Adams and Jim Dialog page web Posted on September 7th, 2008 in Dialog page web by firdaus Its worth mentioning that when I did my testing on Vista it was bit. Biting the hand that feeds IT. For the past few years, Firefox users have had the useful but by no means perfect. Therefore service based Ebony dick suck through technologies such as RSS, Representational State Transfer REST, and Windows Communication Foundation WCF must be available. Joh
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Using the Silverlight HeaderedContentControl

This article examines the Silverlight HeaderedContentControl class, which displays content with a header and content pane. It takes a look at the various ways Silverlight can use this control. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Welcome

Welcome Posted by on June 16th, 2008 Hi Welcome to the Microsoft Worldwide Events weblog. Sign up to receive exciting news about upcoming features and enhancements in msevents.microsoft.com portal. Coming soon: A Silverlight based experience! This post originated from and is provided by the MSDN Blogs RSS feed. The original post of the article can be found here. Posted in MSDN Blogs | Comments Off
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Using the Accent Color

Learn how to design your Windows Phone applications to take advantage of the accent color....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-29 more

Headspring sponsors the Monospace conference

Headspring has come aboard as a Principal Sponsor of the Monospace conference.  With the heavy focus on open source software, and that the conference is in Austin, TX, we couldnt pass it up.  We benefit so much from open source that we want to see the open source community on .Net grow ever stronger. Interesting links: Headspring press release Monospace.us The Monospace blog The Monospace twitter ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top kn
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Disappearance of GIS?

From Wikipedia. Vector1 asks if GIS is going to disappear. Disappear is too strong of a word - I think subsumption is more likely. Internal Combustion Engine Subsumption Look at what happened to engines. A hundred years ago they were the hot new technology - both internal combustion as well as electric. In those days you had to be intimately familiar with the physics of combustion to operate a motor vehicle. Now I rarely open the hood of my car. So in a sense engines have disappeared, but
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Mom, I'm on .NET Rocks!

This Monday I had a conversation with Carl Franklin and Richard Campell on . NET Rocks! about Silverlight, WPF, Live Mesh and different UI platforms. Having a two-way conversation on a postcast is quite different from giving a technical presentation, so I was a bit scared how this was going to turn out. Thanks to Pwop! Productions streamlined production process the episode is now available online . .NET Rocks! (for the two of you who don
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation and Google Analytics

Nigel Sampson has posted about  Google Analytics and the new Silverlight Navigation . The navigation framework in Silverlight 3 is a welcome addition as it reduces a lot of plumbing code required to start building multi-page Silverlight applications. One thing that multi-page Silverlight applications need is analytics.
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

UX Pattern Explorer (

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Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Positions at MakeAffinity

If you would like to join a startup that has built the world
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Silverlight 3's New Style Enhancements

Jeff Prosise writes about the  style-related enhancements coming in Silverlight 3 . If I had a dollar for every time a developer has said to me "You mean a style can only be applied to an object once in Silverlight? How brain dead!" or "Why doesn't Silverlight support BasedOn styles like WPF?", I'd be retired on a tropical island with my own private runway and a fleet of radio-controlled jets.
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

The difference between understanding a concept

Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

A paged searchable ListBox control in Silverlight 2

(Alberto Venditti) I had the need to use a ListBox control in a Silverlight 2 project to display many items (there were about 1500 players' names), and I faced some big performance problems: when binding the ListBox (just setting its ItemSource property), it takes more and more seconds to render the final control with the items loaded. Something not acceptable from a user experience perspective. Okay, everybody could ask "how useful is to show so many elements to the user"? In fact, also in my o
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

SQL Server 2008 Augmented Reality Powered By What?

Serge Jespers demoed a series of augmented reality apps at the DevSummit in Bangalore, including one that got quite a laugh from the audience. SQL Server Usergroup Belgium has posted Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Augmented Reality Experience , and of course it is powered by Flash. Actually, this is not surprising, as Silverlight does not have support for webcams. As for me, well, I like SQL Server, and so I'm glad that we can be of assistance in any way. Really! ;-)
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Patterns & Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Knowledge Base

J.D. and the very smart folks over in the Patterns and Practices group have been at it again and have published another GREAT development resource. Patterns & Practices Application Architecture Knowledge Base Authored by .... - J.D. Meier , Alex Homer...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Microsoft Web Application Toolkits

Web Application Toolkits are designed to enable Web Developers to simply extend their web application capabilities by providing them with a packaged set of running samples, templates and documentation. The goal for the Web Application Toolkits is to provide Web Developers with resources such as project templates, controls, and code samples along with simplified documentation all in a consistent packaged format that is easy to download and run in a very short period of time. One of the key crite
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

Supporting the unsupported [Two fixes for the unofficial WPF Charting assembly!]

In my last post I described a few updates I made to my ChartBuilder sample/application/learning tool for the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit . As usual, I posted the complete source code to ChartBuilder for interested parties to download and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Points For Stories and the Perplexing Nature of Estimating Software

For four years, I've been using the point system for estimating software effort. This post is an attempt to convey all the variables involved in estimating software effort. I'll also touch measuring effectiveness of a software project. First, as a manager, I want to know if my software organization is being effective. Furthermore, I want to be able to measure each team in my organization and do some comparison between them. What is the metric by which I should measure them? ... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

10 Reasons Why Flash Is Better Than Silverlight

Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Bing 2.0 due next Monday, boasting cutting-edge maps via Silverlight

Taking its Bing search engine to the next level, Microsoft is allegedly prepping a host of eye-candy features designed to lure more users away from Google. According to ZDNet
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Making SL2 Video Player an Encoder Template

Now that the Silverlight 2 Video Player is available from Codeplex , I wanted to make it a template for Expression Encoder . I
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Silverlight: Mac NY Times Reader

I see the NY Times reader is now available on the Mac using Silverlight.
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Silver Bullet

Playing catch-up to Apple's QuickTime and Adobe Flash, Microsoft has been pushing Silverlight, its multimedia offering to let users watch video through their web browsers. Massachusetts-based Gotuit Media, a multimedia vendor, is having a go at Microsoft for infringing three patents, in the Northern District of California, which is usually considered defendant friendly. Gotuit's patented technologies afford adding metadata tags to video, enabling search and navigation. Certainly 6,931,451 is
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

What I miss in Silverlight 2.0

No, I do not miss a particular control or class. I am thinking about principle design issues. Search Engines The extension for Silverlight applications is xap.  The content is kind of binary. At the end of the line, no content for search engine spider. Proposed solution: add metacontent, like the original XAML file. Librarys Some of the new controls are not included native in Silverlight base installation. Datagrid or Tabcontrol are in separate dlls (e.g. System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll)...
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Windows Mobile 6.5 phones coming October 6

September 1st, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:01 amCategories:Apple, Channel, Code names, Corporate strategy, Network service providers, OEMs, Resellers, Windows MobileTags:Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Mobile Applications, HandheldsMicrosoft officials had been saying for the past couple of months that the first Windows Mobile 6.5 phones would be available in Octobe
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

SEO Tip - Beware of the Login pages - add them to Robots Exclusion

A lot of sites today have the ability for users to sign in to show them some sort of personalized content, whether its a forum, a news reader, or some e-commerce application. To simplify their users life they usually want to give them the ability to log on from any page of the Site they are currently looking at. Similarly, in an effort to keep a simple navigation for users Web Sites usually generate dynamic links to have a way to go back to the page where they were before visiting the login page
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

Netflix Integration with Windows Media Center - Poor Quality

I finally got a chance to try out the Netflix integration with Windows Media Center last night, and I have to say - the playback quality is horrible . Like, really, truly bad. The test: Pick a movie from my instant queue. From that movie, pick a section as the test. Watch the section of the movie from the Xbox 360. Watch the section of the movie through Windows Media Center (Silverlight based player). On the same PC as the Windows Media Center test, watch the section o
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

Data Framework DLL and Enterprise Web Application Architectural Design Pattern utilizing Reflection, CollectionBase and Abstract Class

Data Framework DLL that hydrates and returns a collection of objects via reflection. Data Framework DLL and Enterprise Web Application Architectural Design Pattern utilizing Reflection, CollectionBase and Abstract Class... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 16, 2009

When Man Went On the Moon - ibabuzz.com 07/16/2009 This morning, 40 years ago, Apollo 11 was cleared for liftoff and would begin a mission that would forever be remembered by people around the world for generations to come: when man went on the moon. Fast forward almost half a century later and America finds itself uninspired in a thwarted space race. Our country has lost its drive for something greater and otherworldly and instead focuses on war and repairing an economy in turmoil.
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7th

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Publication date: 2010-06-05 more

Windows Vortex Vista 3G "Red" 8.2009

Quote: Now !! Windows Vortex Vista Third generation 3G "Red" 8.2009 USB Edition with full components and functions run directly form USB Flash .Boot your computer form the USB Flash and the computer will boot and load Windows Vortex 3G with full functions and components and working as normal without a Hard Disk . How to Use :1- Decompress all files .2- You will get ISO image .3- Write your ISO image to USB Flash by Ultra ISO 9.3.3.2685 .enjoy .. Informations about Windows Vort
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Microsoft Scores Bing Deals with Twitter AND Facebook

October 21st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Update: Bing has now made the announcments and Google has announced a deal with Twitter too. Google
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

does my asp.net site could be useful to someone ?

Hi all, I've just launch a mini site - just an index of asp.net related sites.I'll be very thankful to hear your opinion if it could be useful to someone or I've just lost my time by the way, if you're asp.net related site's owner, you can notify me to include it to the index. Thanks in advanced for all replies! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update

Overview Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available now. For Silverlight developers, the most exciting news about VS2010 is that Silverlight designer will be in feature parity with WPF designer, and VS2010 will support multi-targeting for Silverlight development...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Chrome's jittered JavaScript kills Silverlight?

The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this morning.
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Why Morgan Stanley chose Flash not Silverlight for trading app

Tim Anderson's take on Morgan Stanley's decision to use Flash for their trading application, and what this means for Microsoft and for developers making their own decisions about which display tech to go for.
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Flying To Seattle, Requests, And Sunday Good Reads

URL: Flying To Seattle, Requests, And Sunday Good Reads Body: Happy Sunday to everyone. I am getting set to head out to the airport for my week in Seattle for Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Second Hot Fix Available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Crash

A second hot fix has been made available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate that solves another IntelliSense related crash. Get the hot fix Information here. There are now two hot fixes.  Please ensure that if you are using Visual Studio 2010...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-03 more

Visual Studio SP1 and Silverlight tools

Today Visual Studio 2008 has released SP1 which not only brings some fixes, but also is an added value service pack, bringing some new functionality to WPF as well as enabling a
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary

This series on updating my Mix09 talk to current bits has sort of taken on a life of its own and I am not quite through, but I have had numerous requests for a directory of these posts so folks can quickly find what they are looking for.   Notice...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

ReMIX UK – 18 SEPT

Well, I wish I was going to this event: ReMIX UK ! For one, it would be starting the day of my birthday and would be a great birthday treat! Secondly, I would be able to meet up with my fellow escamoles chaps and maybe take in some local cuisine instead...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 -- #687

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Damian Schenkelman , Allan Muller , Katrien De Graeve , Rob Eisenburg , András Velvárt , Andrew Duthie , Terence Tsang , Imran Shaik , and John Papa . Shoutout: Walt Ritscher is back to his "Reflection on Design" series...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Building a Better Windows Mobile Development Experience

I really want to do Windows Mobile development because I love the potential for mobile application augmenting our daily experiences. Web apps are locked in my browser which is locked in a desktop that just sits there. Location awareness is not really important and there isnt much exciting reality to augment. The problem is that every time I open up a new windows mobile project in visual studio, I realize how much building something is going to suck. Im still amazed that Apple went from no develo
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Creating Extension Methods in VB

    MORE: Extension Methods     I received a question about how to create extension methods in VB . It turns out that the key difference is that the extension must be defined in a Module and not in a class. Thus, building on the code...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

MIX Essentials Mexico and unique cuisine

Well, I have about 3 hours until I leave this little city called Mexico City . Sarcasm of course, did you know there are roughly 25 million people in Mexico City. I didn
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #30

In this tip I will be showing you how to send an email via Silverlight. Obviously sending email directly from the Silverlight client is not possible. However, as with most things, you can leverage a Silverlight-enabled WCF server to do the dirty work...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #95

When it comes to drawing shapes such as rectangles you are probably fully aware you can draw shapes specifying the color and thickness of the lines. This is done via the properties StrokeThickness and Stroke . For example, take a look at the rectangle...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

MVVM

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Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Silverlight Team Twitter List

Last week I wrote about the new Silverlight MVP Twitter list I created to make it easier to follow all of the Silverlight MVPs and the evangelists. You can follow the entire group using this link: www.twitter.com/john_papa/SilverlightMVP   I also...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

New VSM Tutorials by Celso Gomes

See http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ for a bunch of great tutorials with Blend. In particular, Celso just posted a tutorial for VSM. See the Blend 2.5 & Silverlight 2 section…...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-11 more

Microsoft Vine:

Microsoft have launched a new service which aims to keep groups of friends and family updated and located during periods of crisis.  Eighteen months in development, Microsoft Vine is a system that integrates local news with status updates from Facebook, presented in a desktop client, by text message or by email.  The concept is that local emergencies can be quickly spotted and then group-wide alerts sent out, with users
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Nokia E72 - thin QWERTY messenger evolves - All About Symbian

Nokia E72 - thin QWERTY messenger evolves - All About Symbian Today, at the Nokia Connections Event in Singapore, Nokia announced its latest Nseries device - the Nokia E72. The E72 is an updated version of the Nokia E71, which was launched a Acrobat.com takes on Google and Microsoft - PC Advisor Adobe has moved its Acrobat.com web-based productivity and collaboration services out of beta and started offering for-fee subscriptions to provide what the company hopes will be a Microsof
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

PDC2008 Professional Developers Conference

Microsoft has recently announced that the Professional Developers Conference (PDC2008) will be held in Los Angeles, CA from October 27 through October 30 2008. Registration for the conference is now live and you can save $200 with the early bird discount. Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, will be delivering one of the keynote speeches at this year
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Getting Silverlight 2 Beta 2 working on WSS/MOSS SP1

"Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Silverlight, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies." You're starting to Roll your sleeves up and get dirty with Silverlight 2 Beta 2, load up some of the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint Samples, run the installer (it's great that most of these examples have an installer) and Boom! you get the above error!!! Here's a list I've compiled to get Silverlight working - I'm currently running
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources - SmashingApps

Microsoft Silverlight is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework. To see the magic of Silverlight, we must suggest you to check out this show...
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Netflix Watch Instantly coming to Windows 7 Media Center

Filed under: Media PCs In what is sure to be just the start of many announcements surrounding Windows 7 in the next few months leading up to the general release, Microsoft demoed Netflix on Windows7 Media Center at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting. No hard release date yet or big surprises here as Vista owners got this access some time ago and Extenders still don't support Silverlight. The good news though is that the app will be full touch screen capable, so for those with t
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Microsoft hopes users see the (Silver) light

At an event in San Francisco, Microsoft launches the latest version of Silverlight, its would-be rival to Adobe's Flash.
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #23

When it comes to drawing shapes such as rectangles you are probably fully aware you can draw shapes specifying the Read the Rest......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

CRM as a Rapid Development Platform

CRM as a Rapid Development Platform Product Description Leveraging Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 as an application development platform to build real world business solutions that go beyond what you think of as
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the day #25

When you are about to submit a form, click OK on a dialog, etc. it
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

.NET RIA Services roadmap update

Today, we posted on the .NET RIA Services forum an updated roadmap for the timing and thoughts around the product offering. What is .NET RIA Services? Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 updates for web services

We were all jumping for joy when Silverlight 2 beta 1 was released and the ability to connect to services was more readily/easily available to us. For discoverable services that provided a WSDL we were quickly able to implement them using the Add Service...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Mini-Tutorial

What It Is With element binding, it is now possible to bind the value of one object in your UI directly to a second object, without recourse to binding to a data object or handling events. How You Do It The canonical example (for me) is binding a TextBlock...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

The desperate quest for doing it 'right'

This morning I ran into an interesting design decision. The problem at hand isn't that interesting, I've solved it a lot of times before. The interesting thing is that this problem isn't always solved the same way. It goes like this: do you tell an element which is inside a container (which can be inside another container) to exclude (remove) itself from its container or do you tell the container to exclude (remove) the element? This might sound simple enough, but what is the right thing to do h
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

September's Toolbox Column Online

MyToolbox column in theSeptember 2008issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. TheSeptember issue examines: LINQPad- A free stand-alone LINQ editor/tester created by Joseph Albahari, author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. LINQPad is like SQL Query Analyzer, but for LINQ. Blogs of Note -Rob Waling- Rob is an ASP.NET developer, independent contractor, and micro-ISV. Many blogs examine the latest coding tips and tricks, but Rob's blog is unique in that it focuses more on the business and interpersonal
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

PhizzPop Online Challenge 2! Silverlight + Live Services

Hello! We’ve posted a new challenge for you. This time it is for you to create a Silverlight + Live Services experience. Very fun! Here
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Notification Windows

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Recording of my MVVM talk at NDC2009 is now online

The videos from NDC2009 are now published on the conference agenda site . The site isn
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Articles and Lab Experiments vs. Blog Posts

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Publication date: 2010-03-11 more

Eye on Microsoft: Less Money, Mo

Eye on Microsoft: Less Money, Mo
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Practical ASP.NET: Updating Multiple GridView Rows

Putting updateable controls in the ItemTemplate in a GridView gives developers what they want: the ability for users to change more than one row at a time. The cost is writing some extra code.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Sneak Peek at our Silverlight Screencast Site

February 27th, 2009   Development Guides Sneak Peek [2:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis week we give Sparkling Client listeners a sneak peek at our new community screencast site.  It
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Server Quest II

  If you
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

National Film Board of Canada iPhone app

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Has ever a commercial product, not overly special, when you get right down to it, been accorded the same kind of hysterical (and free) mainstream media adulation as the iPhone? The iPod, maybe. One is a digital music player and the other, a cellphone with bells and whistles. And that
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

New features in RadComboBox, RadTreeView, RadUpload and RadScheduler

Hi all, In this blog post I will show you some of the new features of RadComboBox, RadTreeView, RadUpload and RadScheduler which will appear in our Q2 2008 release. First I will introduce you with a cool new RadComboBox feature. Did you become a Telerik fan on Facebook yet? If not you can do so by going to http://telerikwatch.com/2008/06/become-official-telerik-fan.html. The reason I am talking about Facebook is that the new filtering functionality of RadCombobox works quite similarly. T
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Updated Talk: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

For my Mix Essentials talk in South Africa I updated my Mix08 talk Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to have a little more Africa feel... I used some photos from my safari at Mala Mala here this week.    Download the working sample and a set of starter demo files.  Hope you enjoy it!... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories includi
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

NETiKA TECH shows Eurojob Web application at Microsoft Mix Essentials

NETiKA TECH shows Eurojob Web application at Microsoft Mix Essentials May 6th, 2008 Those how attended to this event had the possibility to meet us. We have illustrated the Tim Heuer session (Building RIAs with Silverlight 2) with the presentation of a full RIA application built on top of GOA and Silverlight. Some pictures of the event are available here:
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

jQuery Form Serialization without ASP.NET ViewState

If you're doing AJAX callbacks to the server with POST data from ASP.NET pages you might be inclined to do something like this: var post = $("#form1").serialize(); $.post("MethodCallback.aspx?Callback=ListPanel", post, function(result) { alert(result) }); This works fine, but it will pick up all of your ViewState and EventValidation making the post back to the server a heck of a lot bigger than it should be especially if you have a page where ViewState is heavily... Did you know that DotNetSlack
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9. (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly recommend this article which shows you from the beginning how XML literals, embedded expressions and axis properties work in Visual Basic. I start with the basic syntax and definitions and then walk through the XML to Schema tool (which has... Did y
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is released!

Install the Silvelight Tools Beta 2 and the Silverlight Beta 2 runtime from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=50A9EC01-267B-4521-B7D7-C0DBA8866434&displaylang=en Also make certain to visit: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Links for the month of May

Its being a while since posting links to whats happening around the community, I thought today is a perfect day to do that as I have to catch up myself on the blogs and email, I have been really busy traveling for work. Things not to miss a free event called Community Day 09. MVPs Headline at 3rd Microsoft Community Day!   From Shawn Wildermuth: Silverlight Tour and Silverlight Firestarter both coming to Washington, DC And talking about Shawn, please make sure you read his article..
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Skyfire 1.0 mobile browser now available

Skyfire, the mobile browser that will be competing with Opera and Mozilla
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

My new home page, extended [Updated collection of great Silverlight and WPF Charting resources!] - Delay's Blog

It's been a while since the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit - and even longer since I last posted a collection of Charting links. It's clearly time for an update, so I've added a bunch of new links to the collection below (FYI: previously published links are gray): Overviews (100 level) Silverlight Toolkit Released
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development

In my post on RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture , a while back (right after MIX09), I mentioned that I like to think of RIA Services as RAD for RIA. At that point we had a very early preview of framework bits with little tools support. A large...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

How to handle thickness

Yesterday, we spoke about type converters. We even, built simple generic enum converter. Today, we
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

My History of Visual Studio (Part 7)

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio] [I know I promised to talk about Whidbey in this installment but I realized I needed a bridge to get there or else Id totally skip over Everett so this is that bridge.] In MSN the arrival of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET was like a breath of fresh air.  My team was working on (among other things) a COM based object model for a content management system.  I once estimated that fully half the code was associated with the implementation..
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Java applets in Wikipedia - that do you think?

Wikipedia recently posted a call for strategic proposals, and one subset of them looks quite interesting for me - it is a bunch of proposals to support some kind of the client side scripting. They have a choice between JavaScript, Flash, Java and Silverlight. After all that at the end happened with FOSS Java implementation, Java applets seem an interesting option so let's propose. To be heard by needed people, this proposal have been uploaded to Wikipedia Strategic Projects space so it
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

A screenshot from Office 2010

This is a splash screen from a recent internal build of Office 2010, previously known as Office 14 posted by Zack from iGeneration . Nothing more to know about this build though. There are news that Semblio might or might not be a part of Office 14, which is aimed at students. What is Semblio ? According to Zack: The Semblio application will allow you to create and add rich content and objects, such as human-interaction applets which are all available in the existing Semblio SDK. As eve
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Runescape Strength Guide

Runescape Strength Guide Categories: Runescape Guides | May 21st, 2008 | by runescapecoin | no comments What Does Strength Do? Strength is a very valuable skill used in Melee combat. The higher your Strength, the higher you will hit during combat. It
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

IntelliSense Fosters Inattention

I count on IntelliSense a lot when programming - especially in C# which (arrggh!) is case-sensitive. However, I just had a case where IntelliSense led me to make a mistake that cost me half an hour. I was happily working in LINQ and had the following...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Phone-y charts [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!]

The April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit brought stacked series support to the Data Visualization assembly on the Silverlight 4 platform! You can read an overview here and get a detailed description here . Almost simultaneously, the WPF team released...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Optimization Tips: RadCompression Module

Welcome back to the ongoing Optimization Tips series. It's been a while since the last installment, so it's high-time we took a look at more tips and tricks for optimizing your Telerik-powered web applications. In this the seventh article in this series, we'll take a look at Telerik's brand new RadCompression HttpModule and try to gain a deep understanding of how this tool can help improve application performance. Some of the concepts in this article build on things we've discussed in previous
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Line Rider rides on Silverlight 2

Line Rider rides on Silverlight 2 author: tim heuer | posted @ Monday, June 30, 2008 9:49 PM | Feedback (2) | reactions One of probably the coolest casual
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Microsoft Had a Yahoo Pipes Competitor?

Covering social media almost exclusively as long as I have, it
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

Bing: Microsoft Reveals its New Search Engine [Video]

Following speculation last week that Microsoft was planning to rebrand its search engine, the company has announced that it will be launching Bing on June 3rd. In addition to a new name, Microsoft is re-positioning itself in the search market as not necessarily a better place to go for navigational queries (i.e.
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

SQLAuthority News Summary of TechEd India 2009 A Grand Event

TechEd India 2009 was undeniably a magnificent success! The 3-day grand event was adorned by delegates, sponsors, partners, customers, media as well as celebrities from cross the world. The event was marked by the CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

Joel Spolsky talks about Wasabi: His FogBugz DSL

In Scott Hanselman's April 2009 podcast, Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky, Joel talks about Wasabi, FogCreek's VBScript compiler, and he talks about it really being a subset of VBScript used specifically for bringing FogBugz to Unix and the CLR. In fact, it's a VBScript compiler built specifically to compile a single application, doing things like making the 5% of ADO.NET they use cross-platform. And just in case the point isn't completely obvious, Joel and Scott draw the conclusion
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Microsoft Technical Communities

Microsoft Technical Communities Posted by on June 25th, 2008 The Microsoft community can be a diverse, friendly, and power environment for getting things done. Checking in periodically to see what
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Parts & States Model with VisualStateManager (Part 4 of 4)

Here we are - the final post of our Parts & States Model series for Silverlight 2 controls. Hope you've enjoyed the ride so far! Today, we'll go through some general recommendations on how to use the Parts & States model. We'll also...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Upgrading vs Fresh Install

Hello, we installed CS in 2006 Dec, however we lost the admin password and cant seem to retrieve it with the password recovery. How do we uninstall CS and reinstall the latest edition ? Do i just delete the files and database ? Thanks Ehi... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Gmail Offline Works Well

Gmail Offline Works Well 13 February 2009 This week I enabled Gmail Offline. You have to install Gears, which not seems like Google's answer to Flash, Java, Silverlight, and the other mini-runtimes that need to leverage the client computer. When I have a slow (or no) connection, I can flip Gmail into "Flaky Connection Mode", and I can search my inbox, read, write, and send mail. When I have a connection again, Gmail syncs up just like normal. Very interesting feature. I wonder when I'll
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Google Adsense - I share some info and tips. Helpful Points to Know

Google Adsense - I share some info and tips Go check out the new Flat House Share site if you need or have a room or property! Have you ever wondered what exactly is up with adsense? This informative report can give you an insight into everything you
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

.NET Micro Framework and Robotic Vehicle

Pavel has some great posts on his blog about robotic vehicles using the .NET Micro Framework. "When I was invited to TechEd North America 2008, I didn't want to go with "bare hands". That's how the simple robotic vehicle was build, completely based on .NET Micro Framework. Module in the vehicle is the smallest .NET Micro Framework module on the market, the Digi Connect ME. Remote controller is based on Tahoe development board equipped with accelerometer. For communication are used ZigBee modu
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Prism and .NET RIA Services

   Prism is a real interesting Guidance and was built for Silverlight 2.0, and some of the feedback I
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

New OCSDKWrapper Release (1.0.0.3) on CodePlex

If you're not familiar with the OCSDKWrapper project on CodePlex, it's a wrapper that encapsulates the functionality of the Office Communicator 2007 SDK - allowing you to focus on building your application instead of dealing with the "plumbing" required to get the SDK wired up to Communicator. Today I published Release 1.0.0.3 of the OCSDKWrapper which is now available for download. This release includes some enhancements, some of them breaking changes, including: GetMyContacts method
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Silverlight Screencast Site

When I think back to where Silverlight was just a year ago, it is so exciting to see how far it has come and how much the community has embraced it. Recently I stumbled upon a nice Silverlight podcast called Sparkling client . Sparkling Client is a podcast by Eric Mork about Silverlight and other RIA technologies. This week they talk about a new community screencast site they are working on that will give the community a new place to learn about RIA technology. I was excited to see that
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Silverlight 4 RC & Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP!

Go download the Silverlight 4 RC! Runtime (PC, Mac) Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Expression Blend 4 Beta Silverlight Toolkit WCF RIA Services Just a few of my favorite new SL4 RC features since the Beta: Full screen pinning (watch videos...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications (local event)

Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications (local event) If you are developing rich internet applications, web sites or just want to learn what
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

Stock Market Commentary: Spinning Tops

A late day rally reversed the bulk of Monday's losses which turned what was a looking a decent day for bears into something more neutral. The Nasdaq and Nasdaq 100 maintained their healthy form staying well above their respective 20-day, 50-day and 200-day MAs. The Nasdaq enjoyed a "Golden Cross" between its 50-day and 200-day MAs; a long term bullish signal. This followed a similar cross for the Nasdaq 100 at the end of May. The semiconductor index also has a "Golden Cross" working in i
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

GameFest 2008

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak on Silverlight game programming at GameFest 2008. Working with Tim Heuer and two Silverlight MVP
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Microsoft Not Driving PC Upgrades, Analyst Suggests

Microsoft's disappointing second-quarter earnings showed just how dependent the software giant is on new PC sales.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

RadTips, Episode 4: Client-Side Filtering in the RadGrid

I am pleased to bring you another exciting episode of RadTips. In this episode, I show how to enable filtering when using the new client-side data binding feature of the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX (Q2 2008). But what's cool about this (and past) episodes is that it includes some other fun ASP.NET goodies. For instance, instead of binding to data from SQL Server, I use LINQ to XML to bind to data from an XML file. In this episode I also take advantage of LINQ's Dynamic Query Library to create a
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Fun with Twitter for Mix09

One of the conference organizers for Mix09 gave me some free tickets to give away last week. I figured where better than Twitter for such nonsense, so we've been having some fun over there. (Here's how to use Twitter, if you care about the uselessfulness of Microblogging) *That Twitter Bird is from Kean Hui's collection of 100 Twitter Bird Icons. Twitter is limited, since you've only got 140 characters to be creative. Here's some of the things the "tweeple" have come up with. The "#mix09" c
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Silverlight as a Drop Target

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #14

In this tip I will be showing you how to load a Silverlight control from a DLL that is on Read the Rest......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

SQL SERVER Introduction to Business Intelligence Important Terms and Definitions

What is Business IntelligenceBusiness intelligence (BI) is a broad category of application programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data from various data sources, thus providing enterprise users with reliable and timely information and analysis for improved decision making. To put it simply, BI is an umbrella term that refers to [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have ov
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Register Silverlight Controls with Visual Studio and Blend

Introduction This is part of the series on design time implementation changes in Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release. This post illustrates the integration of Silverlight Toolkit with Visual Studio and Blend 3 after running Silverlight 3 Toolkit March...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed

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Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Introducing Blend 4

It feels like it was only yesterday when we boarded the plane to fly to Las Vegas to Mix 2009, where we announced Blend 3 and SketchFlow. Thank you all so much for the wonderful reception you gave to Blend 3, by the way. I can hardly believe it is time...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15 more

PDC 2008 Here We Come!

PDC 2008 Here We Come! Posted by on August 1st, 2008 Hyper-V will be well represented at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year. Additional sessions where posted today (http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/Sessions.aspx) and they include two Hyper-V sessions. The first is Developing Solutions For Hyper-V Using WMI and the second is Enabling Test Automation Using Hyper-V. I am especially excited as I am currently slated to be giving the Enabling Test Automation sess
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Silverlight Spikes AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Matches Live to Your Computer

Just when we thought spending summer days in the sand were behind us (at least here in Redmond), the AVP recently announced that they will use Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming to bring beach volleyball fans around the world live, SD and HD streaming...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

JSON for the Compact Framework

Just wanted to let everyone know that yesterday I released an early version of JsonCF - a JSON serializer and deserializer that targets the Compact Framework (v2.0). It can also be used to target the normal .NET framework (binaries are included, as well as VS project). Use it at your own risk - it's very early in in development and poorly tested. It's up on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/jsoncf/ I don't think it's absolutely necessary, but I do think .NET developers should... Did you know t
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Link Listing - August 13, 2008

WPF dabbling around the new WPF datagrid (part 1) [Via: jaimer ] Code Camps Southwest Florida Code Camp [Via: Scott Dorman ] Link Collections The Morning Brew #157 [Via: Chris Alcock ] LINKBLOG for August 13, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Dew Drop - August 13, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Podcasts SharePoint Pod Show Episode 2 [Via: Rob Foster ] Podcast #17 [Via: Jeff Atwood ] Screencast - Creating your First WCF Service [Via: Sam Gentile ] Miscellaneous Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Pa
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3

Let me start with a disclaimer that this is not a fully supported feature in Blend 3. This post describes how to share the workspaces manually and by bravely editing the config file. Proceed with care or not at all. Adjusting and customizing workspaces...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Streaming Olympic Broadcast: hype or huzzah!

Streaming Olympic Broadcast: hype or huzzah! Posted by on August 11th, 2008 I think the last time I was really excited about the Olympics was when it here is Los Angeles in 1984. Maybe it was because I got to go the Women
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

iPhone in the Enterprise

The new iPhone has hit the streets, and with its ActiveSync support, that means its hit our enterprise, too. We support Windows Mobile via Activesync and Blackberries via BES, and we enforce password and locking policies on all devices. The deal breaker is whether or not a device can be remotely wiped, which Windows Mobile and Blackberries can. One of our coworkers scored a new iPhone on Release Day, so we had a chance to test it out. After configuring ActiveSync, the iPhone picked u
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

CLR Updates in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Kevin Frie, development lead for core parts of the CLR recently posted about what CLR updates that come in 3.5 SP1....   NGen infrastructure rewrite:  the new infrastructure uses less memory, produces less fragmented NGen images with much better locality, and does so in dramatically less time.  What this means to you:  Installing or servicing an NGen image is much faster, and cold startup time of your NGen
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Web Hosting Multimedia Features Comparison Chart

Rank Web Hosting Company MS Silverlight Flash Streaming Video/Audio Shockwave MIDI MIME 1 Read Reviews Sign Up No No No No No No 2 Read Reviews Sign Up No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 3 Read Reviews Sign Up Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 4 Read Reviews Sign Up No No No No No Yes 5 Read Reviews Sign Up No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 Read Reviews Sign Up No Yes Yes Yes No No 7 Read Reviews Sign Up No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 8 Read Reviews Sign Up No Yes Yes Yes Yes No 9 Read Reviews Sign Up No Ye
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Test Driven Silverlight Body Snatchers

    This posting is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform documentation and a Silverlight Mini-tutorial . The information in this posting, however, should be of interest to anyone writing meaningful Line of Business applications with Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-05 more

The Accolades Keep Building for Ektron

The Accolades Keep Building for Ektron September 10th, 2008 Ektron is getting some love… again. The Web CMS vendor has made it to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies for 2008. This marks Ektron’s second consecutive appearance on Inc.’s annual list – this year, at # 1,607. Go here to see the original: The Accolades Keep Building for Ektron Tags: analytics, archives, canada, cms-consultant, community, ektron, enterprise, enterprise-2-0, enterprise-cms
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Support for Generics in ASP .NET Server Controls

Implementation of framework to support generics in ASP .NET server controls, including strong-typing of ITemplate containers.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

MvcContrib version control has moved to GitHub

MvcContribs version control is now managed on GitHub.com.  Thanks to Jeremy Skinner for doing the work necessary to move the Subversion repository.  Thanks to Eric Hexter for reconfiguring the TeamCity build to work with GitHub and publish artifacts to teamcity.codebetter.com.  Jeremy also has a tutorial for how to work with GitHub. http://MvcContrib.org continues to be the main URL for the project.  It currently directs to CodePlex for all SCM except for version control. What... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Silverlight TV 15: Announcing Silverlight 4 RC at MIX 10

  John and Adam discuss Silverlight 4 RC , following up the MIX10 keynote announcement of Silverlight 4 RC by discussing what is new and what materials have been released on the Channel 9 learning center website. They cover their picks for some of...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Understanding Reverse Proxy Servers and the Mailman

Ok, the goal isnt to learn about the mailman, but hes going to come in handy later. Proxy servers have been around since the early days of computing and they play a large role on the web today: sometimes obvious, sometimes not.  They can be used for good or they can be used for harm, like man-in-the-middle attacks.  Today I want to provide a visual representation of a reverse proxy server used for load balancing.  I also want to address some concepts and potential issues and solutions... Did yo
Publication date: 2009-08-09 more

Cool New Samples in the Community Gallery!

5 new community samples have been added to the Community Gallery . Check out the DotNeNuke Silverlight Chat Module , use the mouse to position control movement , view a Silverlight Workflow Designer , review Silverlight Financial Charts , and checkout...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Building NBCOlympics.com with Silverlight - Video

NBCOlympics.com is one of the most ambitious projects on the web and one of the largest Silverlight applications today. Eric Schmidt takes us on a technical tour of how the site works and how it was built with Silverlight 2 and Windows Media. Watch: Video Source:
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Mac Users Watch Streaming Videos Too

Many content providers don't seem to realize it but Mac users watch streaming videos too. It amazes me with the millions of Mac users worldwide, many don't seem to think these users count in terms of the streaming content that is made available for them. There are so many high profile websites that don't allow any type of streaming experience available for Mac users. At least in many cases it doesn't work properly. Amazingly some of my favorite websites to watch streaming content on don't del
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics

One of the new features to Silverlight 3 is the ability to add multi-touch capabilities to your application.  When I posed the question on Twitter , I got some responses of ideas people would use this for.  Honestly most of them could be accomplished with mouse events today and X/Y calculations.  These would be the touch applications that are pretty singular.  But I did get some multi-touch ideas that I think I
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Turing Project: Level 100, 300 AND 400

TURING Entry [100:2] [300:2] [400:2] [ What are these numbers? ] In previous post I described Project Turing. This is the second entry for that project and will describe how I hope to meet the needs of three audiences: Beginner [Level 100] novice programmers who may or may not have experience with other languages, may not know C# (or advanced C#), .NET or the fundamentals of Silverlight (e.g., what Xaml is) Intermediate [Levels 300] programmers who have looked at but not really
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Speaking at NNUG Kristiansand and Smidig 2009 next week

On Wednesday 21 October I will be visiting the Kristiansand chapter of NNUG to give two Silverlight presentations. The first will be about the MVVM design pattern, and the second on building business focused applications using .NET RIA Services. After the NNUG meeting there will be a geekbeer get-together at Patrick
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

SQL SERVER Introduction to Cloud Computing

Introduction
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Links (7/19/2009)

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Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/8/2010

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

How is the Hong Kong Educational Situation?

by Barry Lee Every year, there are two public exams for secondary school students in Hong Kong, which are the HKALE and HKCEE. They are held in March to May. This system runs for more than thirty years. But, can students really get something form it? Students may learn how to duel with exam. They may learn how to do revision efficiently. They may earn offers for secondary six or university. And, for sure, they earn an impressive experience. The Hong Kong educational system is always
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Skinning Silverlight controls just got easier

This has been one of the features that I
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Performances Benchmarks using NUnit Addin

This tutorials introduces a new NUnit Addin able to record execution time of unit tests and generate XML, CSV, HTML performances reports with charts and history tracking.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here . Presented By: Intel
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

DevTeach Montreal Early Bird Discount ends tomorrow & My EF Workshop

If you are thinking about going to DevTeach in Montreal (Dec 1-5), tomorrow is the last day to get the CN$300 early bird discount for the conference. In addition to some EF talks during the conference, I'll be teaching a full day post con workshop on Dec 5th. I'll be raffling off a full-blown MSDN Universal Subscription to a lucky attendee. That's the $10,000 subscription. The workshop is only $400. More info and register here. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles wr
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

ALT.NET Canada

The first ALT.NET Canadian conference will take place on August 15-17 2008 in Calgary. Check all the details here:http://www.altnetconfcanada.com/home/index.castle... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

The Weekly Source Code 44 - Virtu, an Apple Emulator in C# for Silverlight, WPF and XNA

I really advocate folks reading as much source as they can because you become a better writer by reading as much as writing. That's the whole point of the Weekly Source Code - reading code to be a better developer. Reading code in Open Source projects...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-15 more

Problems with SQL Server Management Studio after installing Vista SP1?

After appying SP1 on one of my development machines, I got a COM Interop error when opening up SQL Server Management Studio. It took a few minutes to find the correct search terms on the web, but I found the simple fix to the problem pretty quickly. Read more here... [A new DevLife post] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: SelectedValue

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Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

What Industry Will Applle Try to Dominate Next? Video.

When it comes to electronic entertainment you pretty much have the four big industries: music, movies, television, and video games. Apple was very successful with iTunes and the iPod making them a dominate player in the music business. iTunes has expanded to movies and television to some degree but for the most part they are not calling the shots in that industry yet. In video games, iPhone has become a surprisingly successful player selling or giving away several thousand titles from their
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Cat out of Bag: Netflix Officially Supported in Win 7 Media Center

Back in May, Netflix officially was added to Windows Media Center-- the Vista version , that is. The new app, which uses Microsoft's Silverlight streaming video technology, should automatically show up in your Vista Media Center menu. But if you're using any version of Windows 7? No dice. Sure, there are several work-arounds developed by the enthusiast community (there have been for years, in fact), such as MyNetflix and vmcNetflix . But even as Microsoft announced this, and a version for the
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger

February 14th marked the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Tiger. In commemoration, Flora and Fauna International (FFI), one of the world
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

New Expression Web Starter Kit

Lori and Patrick in the Expression Community site have just published a new Expression Web Starter Kit . This kit was produced by AQUENT and includes a reference booklet, assets and a collection of videos. Hope you enjoy! Remember you can always download the videos or watch them full screen. Very shortly we will publish another Starter Kit called Getting Started with Silverlight - for Designers.  The UI Design for Developers video series will also be made available in the Expression Communi
Publication date: 2009-03-07 more

Silverlight 2 Tip Declaring Events

Ive seen a lot of demos and example on Silverlight 2 flying around. One are that seems to get a lot of difference of opinion is where to declare events. You can either define the event handler in XAML declaratively, or you can add the handler in the .NET code. Whats the best way? Proponents... [This is a summary. Visit my web site for full links, content and more.] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 article
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Google Chrome updated to run Silverlight

Chrome latest build was released under the Developer chain, an alternative release cycle which let you update to interim builds of Google's Internet Browser, for testing purposes. On this post you will find an early review of the update which truly is an improvement to the beta release, check it out and get yourself switched to the Dev chain.
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Angel Group Financing Guide, Part 2

Comments (0) | Views (35) | Sep 17, 08 Are You Limiting Yourself?Psychologists dub the tendency to presume that others react to the world in the exact same way we do as "projection."... More... Guy Kawa..: Comments (0) | Views (147) | Sep 14, 08 Angel Group Financing Guide, Pa..VentureDeal's Don Jones offers this insider's guide to angels. In the first of four parts, he discusses whether angel financing is right for your company.... More... Don Jones: Comments (1) | Views (401) | Sep 14, 08
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

That's why it's called the default *value* instead of default *values* [Tip: The default value of a DependencyProperty is shared by all instances of the class that registers it]

Tip The default value of a DependencyProperty is shared by all instances of the class that registers it Explanation The last two tips explained how to set the default value of a Silverlight/WPF DependencyProperty . But there's something you need to be...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-30 more

Cox Cable Redirecting (Stealing???) Microsoft Live Searches???

This has been driving my nuts for a few months, and I finally got to the bottom of it. I have Live search as my default in Internet Explorer 8. To be honest, I use both Live and Google on a regular basis, they both do great things for me. Anyway, if I search from the search node [CTRL]+E everything works fine. If I search from the Address bar [CTRL]+D and I have Live search as the default search provider, then Cox hijacks the search, and shows me a Yahoo search, that is branded by Cox. There isn
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

WINDOWS NETBOOKS: THE PATH TO LOW COST COMPUTING

Windows Netbooks: The Path to Low Cost Computing 224 pages | Apress (September 28, 2009) | ISBN: 1430223995 | PDF | 41.5 MB Going from set netbooks in 2006 to 10 meg in 2008, it
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #60

If you have a control written in XAML that is included in your project you can load and create it directly from file by using the method: System.Windows.Markup. XamlReader .Load(). This method can also be used to directly create a Silverlight control...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-11 more

Microsoft Joins Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Have you used the User Defined Table Module?

I must say a few things about the User Defined Table (UDT) module for DotNetNuke, I have seen it, but hardly ever used it. I had a site that was using it that I needed to make some changes to tonight, I've been putting off the changes because I was afraid...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Silverlight 3 - MergedDictionaries

Chris Klug discusses  Merged Dictionaries in Silvleright 3 and how this could help you if your XAML is getting overloaded with all the things you want to drag from application to application. So what do MergedDictionaries offer? Well, they make it possible for you to store resources in external files. These files are then either embedded in the application as Content or as Resources. This means that we can spread out or resources in several files and just reference them in our controls, or
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Uploading videos using the Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder 2.

This article gives a simple introduction to Silverlight Streaming that will allow you to turn your own video content into a Silverlight Streaming application ready for you to place on your website or blog using Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder to publish to your Silverlight Streaming account. This article uses Expression Encoder 2 and the Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder 2. The basic steps are: Encode and Upload to Silverlight Streaming Plac
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

The New World of Work

Insightful interview with Dan Rasmus who shares his perspective on globalization and its impact on business and the workplace. Note: requires Silverlight to be installed. One of the other interesting things that Dan talks about is the different types of generation that are now in the workplace and the expectations of these workers and also how they are accustomed to work and how technology can complement these new styles. Delving into mobile working and the concept of "always on, always connec
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Slides, Demos and Video for my MIX '09 Session - Building Out of Browser Experiences with Microsoft Silverlight 3 MIX09-T45F

The MIX team works fast.  The video recording of my talk is already published.  Slides - Launches slide deck in Slidentity Demos Video
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

.NET 4.0 FAQ Part 1 -- The DLR

In this section we will look in to new features provided by .NET 4.0 framework.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

Lost (and found) Visual Studio Templates in Web Project

So I just lost all of my project templates in Web projects. I've been working on a small utility page on my site that generates help documentation on the fly. I've been working happily along on this site when all of a sudden when I needed to add a config file to control debugging and authentication on this page/app. could not find a part of the path 'C:\programs\vs2008\ Common 7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\Web\CSharp\1033\webConfig.zip\webConfig.vstemplate'. A quick check in the above path oddly show
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Silverlight and Baseball

Being a huge Yankees fan and living out of market like I do I recently purchased the MLB.com TV package so I can watch the games on the Internet. They sued to use Real video streaming however I cranked up the video tonight and noticed some changes form last year. After a quick check, yep, its using Silverlight! I'm sure this was announced somewhere along the way and I just purely missed it. But how cool is it that MLB.com is using Silverlight!     Yes, I spray painted some logos in the i
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

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

If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it in managed Silverlight .NET code

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should do something. Just because you can get Quake to run on your iPhone doesn’t mean that’s the best way to do things. But it’s pretty cool! Now that we’re clear on...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #29

If your application leverages a Silverlight-enabled WCF service you may at times want to toggle the address to be pointing from the WCF service published and running on your server back to localhost in case you want to make modifications that you want...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

Scalability: I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Does

Via Mark Pilgrim I stumbled on an article by Scott Loganbill entitled Googles Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed which contains the following excerpt The best way to explore Protocol Buffers is to compare it to its alternative. What do Protocol Buffers have that XML doesnt? As the Google Protocol Buffer blog post mentions, XML isnt scalable: "As nice as XML is, it isnt going to be efficient enough for [Googles] scale. When all of your machines and network links are... Did you
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #10

In Tip of the Day #9 I showed you how you can obtain your clients IP addresses through either server side script or a simple web service call. In this tip I will show you how to take that IP address to determine the geographical location of the user that...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-03 more

Bing Maps Silverlight: Plot/Edit Pushpin data via a ChildWindow

Recently I posted an example of using the Web.Maps.VE Bing Maps ASP.NET AJAX Server Control with the AjaxControlToolkit ModalPopup Extender over at the Simplovation Blog . Writing that example was rather simple since those two components/libraries are both written on top of ASP.NET AJAX and work extremely well together. This did however get me thinking about how to implement this same type of functionality using the Bing Maps Silveright Control CTP, and now that Silverlight 3 is out and it has
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Dynamic Styling - Detecting ResourceDictionaries at Site of Origin

Here's an XBAP that dynamically grabs the "styles" available to it from site of origin. Note: By "styles," I mean distinct look & feels defined in different ResourceDictionary files, not simply the class. You could also call...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Mindtouch: Deki, OSS and Windows

Our community knows that open source businesses are important to Microsoft. Nothing demonstrates this better than the fact that open source was a key theme in the recent Windows Server 2008 Launch. You can read more about that here. One of the individuals we highlighted was Steve Bjorg, Founder and CTO at Mindtouch. Mindtouch develops an open source collaboration platform. Today, I'm excited to have Robert Mason, Mindtouch Platform Engineer, update us on the progress Mindtouch has made in delive
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

The Everlasting Question - Should I choose VB.NET of C#

I got an email last night from Eduardo. Eduardo "Love's VB.NET", but is concerned about his long term career prospects because he keeps hearing about C#. The Pie Chart from the Telerik Survey suggests that C# has surpassed VB.NET as the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Free Silverlight DataGrid with source code!

Um. Whoa. Okay, DevExpress rocks. I think this will be very well received by the community and you
Publication date: 2008-06-06 more

IE7 outperforms other XP and Leopard browsers in RIA tests

IE7 outperforms other XP and Leopard browsers in RIA tests By Emil Protalinski | Published: June 01, 2008 - 12:34PM CT As a word of caution, I want to mention that users of alternative browsers may not like this story. If a new benchmark tool is to be believed, when it comes to Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Internet Explorer performs better than Firefox and Opera on Windows XP, and Safari performs better than Firefox and Opera on Mac OS X 10.5. Furthermore, Internet Explorer on XP
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Moonshine brings Windows Media to Linux

When I first looked at Moonlight, Novell
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 26: Authentication and Personalization

The data we work with in business application is valuable.  We need to protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and updates what data when and other times we need to actively prevent data from being accessed expected by...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Adding jQuery to your site with Glimmer

Last week I was wanting to do something on my site sort of a
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

3 essentials to quickly learning Blend

Corey Schuman writes about  the 3 most important topics concerning Blend - Understanding the Layout Panels, Animations and States and Templating. To paint the picture, I am introducing Silverlight to creatives, Flash devs, and people in the business.  Each group needs a different story.  At first I went about it the same way: naturally I would load Visual Studio, create a new project, knock out some XAML, and then run the app.  THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.  Instead, I found myself increasingly op
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

What is lacking in your WinForms app?

My name is Peter and I am a member of the Telerik WinForms team. Today I had to help a customer of ours, who was building a nice looking and very professional LOB application. He was looking for a control that would display the status of a process that he could incorporate in his app. The reply was simple, although not so obvious
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Buildy: Create Floor Plan Of Your House & Share

Buildy is a new web based service which lets you easily create and share floor plans of your house/apartment. It comes in handy especially for those who are looking to rent out their premises. They could include their created floor plan in the adverts so that prospective tenants could have a better idea about the rooms. To start, sign up for free and create a project. Then add room drawings to the project using provided designer tool (requires Microsoft Silverlight). Once you feel you
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Silverlight RC0 Offline Documentation Download

You can get the RC0 offline docs here . Using this file you don't have to deal with the delay of online browsing and when you do a search, you are only searching in Silverlight content. One tip: If you are running Vista you might run into an issue...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-04 more

BOOK REVIEW: Murachs ADO.NET 3.5 LINQ and ENTITY FRAMEWORK

Peter reviews Murachs ADO.NET 3.5 LINQ and the Entity Framework, available as two separate books, one for C#, and in a VB.NET version.   read more By Peter Bromberg Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

DOWNLOAD: Silverlight Migration Guide

Upgrading Your Windows Media Player Online Experiences For the past decade Windows Media technologies have been used for delivery of video and audio content over the Internet and within enterprise networks. The Windows Media-based ecosystem core advantages
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Converting from hex string to varbinary and vice versa

Converting hexadecimal values to varbinary and vice versa is now easier using the XQuery functionality available from SQL Server 2005. The code samples below show how to perform the conversion(s): -- Convert hexstring value in a variable to varbinary: declare @hexstring varchar(max); set @hexstring = 'abcedf012439'; select cast('' as xml).value('xs:hexBinary( substring(sql:variable("@hexstring"), sql:column("t.pos")) )', 'varbinary(max)') from (select case substring(@hexstring,... Did you know t
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Using the Entity Framework in a Layered Architecture

My July 2008 Data Points column was just released on the MSDN Magazine web site. This month I demonstrate how to use the Entity Framework in a multi-tiered architecture passing entities through the layers via WCF. The code sample is available from their web site too. The Entity Framework has been a much discussed topic of late. Many articles discuss and show how to build different types of models and facets of the Entity Framework. This article shows one way to integrate the Entity Frameworks mo
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

GMT Watch: World Time Zone Customizable Clocks

GMT Watch is a Microsoft Silverlight based website for customizable clocks. You may set any World Time Zone(WTZ) with current or specific time considering countries operating Daylight Savings Time(DST). All clocks are linked and time changes to one apply immediately to others. To change the time, click on the digital format of the clock and adjust the time accordingly. You to choose the background color of the clock between blue, pink and black. It needs Microsoft Silverlight installe
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

It’s Silverlight week in Seattle

I
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

Microsoft's new version of Silverlight on Moblin [video]

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Microsoft General Manager Ian Ellison-Taylor and Intel General Manager Renee James show attendees Silverlight 3 running on an Atom-based Moblin device. The new software will run on mobile Linux Netbooks, phone as early as 2010. read more
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

The Best RIA Resource Yet

Matthias sent a note about RIA Alltop and I think it
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Oslo + Data Programmability (EF, ADO.NET, etc.) Teams Merge

Ive been waiting for someone from Microsoft to blog about this. Finally, Doug Purdy has done the deed: we made a decision to merge the Data Programmability team (EDM, EF, Astoria, XML, ADO.NET, and tools/designers) and the Oslo team (Quadrant, Repository, M) together. After watching his PDC 2008 presentation on Oslo, I got very excited because I knew that Oslos modeling platform was very much aligned with the importance of modeling highlighted by Entity Data Models being used not only in Entit
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

How to install the KDE desktop environment in CentOS

CentOS by default uses GNOME as its desktop environment.  But for KDE fans, they won
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

MEF, Silverlight and the HVP

This article is part of the Mini-Tutorial Series This article is part of the Silverlight HVP Documentation   Executive Summary This article continues the design and exploration phase of the Silverlight HVP project by beginning to examine the role...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-09 more

Images hosted on Webhost4Life are not displayed inside RSS feeds

A month ago, when I first updated my blog to Subtext 2.0, a reader commented that: Images embedded in RSS are not correctly linked I thought it was due to some problems with the new version of WLW I had just installed. But the link were written with the full absolute url, so that couldnt be the problem. Then I thought that it was due to FeedBurner that decided to do something strange with my urls, but that was not the case either. A few days ago, while I was testing the RSS advertising of... Did
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

TUAW Guide: Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater

Filed under: Multimedia , Software , How-tos , Mac mini , Apple TV The Mac mini has always been the perfect form factor for a media center appliance (often called a Home Theater PC/HTPC). It's extremely small, almost completely silent and it can easily blend into an existing electronics shelf - or be hidden away completely. The lack of a refresh (and rumors that the line was going to be discontinued), coupled with technical specs that didn't justify the price-point, have led many
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Mavens in the Developer Community

Since launching DevMavens this week, I've had a few folks tell me they didn't previously know what a maven was. The site shows some definitions, but the concept that led to my choosing that name is from the excellent book, The Tipping Point: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Mavens are one of the key players that Gladwell describes in this book about the way ideas are spread and certain products catch on. Wikipedia has a summary of some of the book's id
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Preliminary Product Review

NB: This post is not about Silverlight; it is a short digression to share one of the cooler new products I
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Moonlighting silverlight

Moonlighting silverlight Submitted by srlinuxx on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 11:47. software blogs.techrepublic.com: So this past week Miguel di Icaza (the overly caffeinated creator of GNOME) brought to us an open source version of Microsofts
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

Thanks Everyone: The Real Time CrunchUp + The August Capital Summer Party.

Thank you to all of you who came out to support the 2009 Summer CrunchUp! We broke 600 attendees to the Real Time Stream CrunchUp, double our initial expectations, and we hosted lots more of you at the August Capital outing. In typical TechCrunch style, it was a work-hard, play-hard day. Thank you to all our CrunchUp speakers for investing your time with us to talk about new trends, boundaries and your passions. Plus we fit in 22 new product highlights from start-ups and big internet companie
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

My 1st Talk @ 3rd Webmaster Malaysia Gathering

After being quiet for a very
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

TWC9 features Silverlight AR, BugCamSmash and Blend Extensibility

Very cool to see that this week
Publication date: 2009-12-14 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #105

From within VS you can specify which Internet browser you want launched when running your Silverlight application. Your default system browser is not affected by this setting. To make this change right click on your startup web page and choose Browse...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Why does the British Library hate Britain?

The British Library is publishing on the web facsimile copies of rare books, allowing people to see in close up exactly as they look like. This is a good thing, surely? Well, no it
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Happy Pi Day

Our esteemed House of Representatives passed a resolution earlier this week, designating today - March 14th - National Pi Day. This is an American-centric 'holiday,' as we colloquially denote our dates in MM/DD format, hence March 14th is 3.14, the first three digits of Pi. Most other countries start with the least significant date part and work their way to the most significant - DD/MM/YY - which would mean the International Pi Day should fall on the 3rd day of the 14th month (hrm) or the 31s
Publication date: 2009-03-15 more

Career Defining Project, Beta 1, Velocity

Create defining projects (CDP) come along once in a blue moon in finance - primarily because project are confidential, with no public face. If you happen to find a CDP at a financial institution, grab it, and ride the waves, as it could be beneficial for a number of reasons
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

WPF Charting: It's official! [June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!]

The WPF Toolkit team just published the June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit . Those of you who know I'm on the Silverlight Toolkit team are probably wondering why this is relevant - so let's get right to the release notes for the next version of Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Dynamically loading and displaying images in Beta 2.

In Beta 1 you were able to load an image by directly specifying the path: Image image = new Image(); image.SetValue(Image.SourceProperty, "images/myImage.png" ); However, this has been changed for Beta 2 and you will now need to make use of...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Silverlight Media Framework 2 released–integrate with Live Writer

Yesterday (7-Jul-2010), the Silverlight Media Framework v2 was released on Codeplex (yeah, it
Publication date: 2010-07-09 more

SXSW 2009 pictorial

The South by South West Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas is a week of great information, meetings, exhibitions and parties. Here
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

MIX09: Building Amazing Business Centric Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3

Come hear how simple it is to build end-to-end data-intensive Silverlight applications with the new set of features in Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services. Explore Silverlight improvements that help to enable rapid development for business applications and to make your development process more productive. Brad Abrams Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #91

In addition to controls, the Silverlight Toolkit comes with a great set of themes that can easily be applied to your controls. These themes currently include: Bureau Black Bureau Blue Expression Dark Expression Light Rainier Purple Rainier Orange Shiny...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

How you chose and learned Silverlight

A few of us in the Silverlight team have been talking about various things and speculating on how we think the universe works. We
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely

" He Chose Poorly " was the first thing I thought when I saw the font rendering in a metro-themed WPF 4 application I looked at the other day. (Metro is the name of the Zune/Windows Phone 7 user experience style). The application was really sweet, but...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-06 more

Glimpse for Silverlight

Introduction After my previous blog post, “Troubleshoot Silverlight 3 Data Bindings” I got some feedback and while in Phoenix I upgraded the code and have decided to call this Glimpse. This initial release of Glimpse is a proof of concept...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-08 more

Silverlight is FIZZING, Not Fizzling

Any good politician, regardless of leaning, knows that the language you use to frame a topic is key to how it is perceived. By repeatedly using pejorative terms to describe your own position and that of your opponents, you start to move a debate onto...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

YouTube to Get Olympics, But (Probably) Not for You

The Olympics will be officially shown on YouTube in an effort to preempt pirated online footage, the International Olympic Committee said today. But the eleventh-hour announcement only covers 77 territories
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Amazing at how a home page web UI can be allowed to be patented

I read with amazement at how Google is allowed and could be bestowed a patent for their iconic search home page. No, dont get me wrong, this is not about Google and I always give credit where it is due BUT gosh - I am very sure that way before Google, there were a few that came up with this UI design. I believe I saw Yahoo! Search page way before Google. While it may not be the same, I am quite sure the design principles are the same. In my years of IT project developments and deployments,..
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Organizational Chaos Followup

About a month ago I wrote about getting organized .  Since it is Sunday and I
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

Traders prefer blondes (well, .NET actually)

Blogger: Richard Watson Over on the Executive Advisory blog Chris Howard discusses Monday's outage at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The TradElect platform, built on .NET technology was down for seven trading hours. Knowing all I do about the demands of developing and operating trading systems, I
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Checking out the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Mapping control in honor of our next VTdotNET meeting

Next Monday (Sept 15th at 6pm to be exact), VTdotNet is lucky to have Mark Merchant of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Business Unit (who just so happens to reside in Vermont) do a presentation on programming with the Virtual Earth API, services and controls. It was a good opportunity to test out the new ASP.NET control for Virtual Earth which I have embedded into the group's Upcoming Meetings page. I don't know how to embed it into my blog post so here's a screenshot instead. I couldn't figure... Did
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Sunday Night Football: Showtime!

Just a reminder that Thursday night is the kickoff of the NFL Sunday Night Football experience powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming on NBCSports.com and NFL.com. With a 720p HD broadcast feed, four additional feeds with switching, picture-in-picture...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file

Here's the API listing for the Silverlight 4 release candidate (RC). I included mscorlib.dll this time, as well as a couple DLLs I forgot the last time. For more details about these API listings, see an earlier post ....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-19 more

Using ASP.NET 3.5's ListView and DataPager Controls: Inserting Data

The ListView control is similar to the GridView control in many ways: both display a set of records, both support built-in sorting, paging, editing, and deleting functionality with minimal effort. The ListView differs from the GridView in two key ways: Rather than using fields, the ListView is rendered via templates, which offers the page developer much finer control over the emitted markup, andThe ListView supports built-in inserting supportThe first installment in this series explored the Lis
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

ASP.NET have left the track?

I am a fan of ASP.NET. I have teached hundreds of peoples, written some books, have been MVP for that topic. But now I have doubts. Today I try to build a special kind of user navigation experience. I learn ASP.NET have stopped to grow since version 2.0. ASP.NET 2.0 is the most productive web (even UI ) development technology in the market. But today's needs have changed. For my site I need a Menu control which popup horizontal. Menu control is the same since 2.0 and can only vertical. Some tric
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Silverlight in Seventy Seven Slides ( yes, I know ;-) )

Back in the old days, I used to do a lot more in-person talks/sessions for developers and one of the things that myself and colleagues would discuss is whether a topic was well developed enough to warrant a; What Is? session or a; What
Publication date: 2010-01-18 more

EIC podcast: Olympics IT; LinuxWorld; Google

EIC podcast: Olympics IT; LinuxWorld; Google On this week
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available

Three months ago at MIX we announced and first demoed the Silverlight PivotViewer control. The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-30 more

Mental Image

Mental Images, creators of MentalRay, have just released RealityServer2.3, a web-based 3D rendering system based on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).  All this means it
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Diving deep into Amazon Web Services

Amazon's Web Services (AWS) are based on a simple concept: Amazon has built a globe-spanning hardware and software infrastructure that supports the company's Internet business, so why not modularize components of that infrastructure and rent them? It is akin to a large construction company in the business of building interstate highways hiring out its equipment and expertise for jobs such as putting in a side road, paving a supermarket parking lot, repairing a culvert, or just digging a backyard
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Office Web Apps: is Microsoft missing its big opportunity?

I have been found the technical preview of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Introducing Silverlight 2: If you're having problems with the code...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight After the book was published, Microsoft issued an update to Beta 2 with some bug fixes etc. In addition, these came with a number of updated tools and VS plug-ins that revved up the Project version...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-25 more

Silverlight Streaming Beta Outage

My apologies to those unable to access my screencasts on building a Silverlight 2 data form. The Silverlight Streaming service has been flakey for the last few days and, as I write this, it is non-existent. Given that the service is free and still in...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

fast and furios Silverlight Databinding with Gridview and embedded XML Data Resources

I am currently writing a Silverlight 2.0 course. I always try to focus on the problem and reduce the code overhead. For my Module Databinding with Silverlight 2.0 I try to include the data as raw xml. For that purpose I include a northwind.xml file as data source into the project to focus on datagrid details. The most important part is, to set the build action to content, which ends up in including the xml file into the xap package.   Then you can load the xml directly by xdocument.load.... Did
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Why Buy The Milk When You Can Get the Cow for Free?

July 30th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Yahoo Had No Leverage
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Added BMP Decoder

I updated the Image Source samples to include the BMP Decoder (missing from my previous post)....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

The Technology Post for June 11th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #28 Daily Deed Microsoft donating 8 meals to Feeding America for every Internet Explorer 8 download at http://browserforthebetter.com (Posted by Microsoft Press ) Other Link Lists Dew Drop - June 11, 2009 Alvin
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Microsoft Launches SDK for Silverlight Bing Apps

This week Microsoft announced a Bing API application, which is a Silverlight feature that gives users the ability to manipulate Bing results. The software developer kit (SDK), is what Microsoft says the real news is. "This framework is designed to provide support controls for the sample Bing component, but also to provide an additional reusable view control toolkit for implementing and using some of the advanced data metaphors shown in the Bing search component," says Bing API Lead Program
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Sun Strikes Back with JavaFX Script

With the release of JavaFX Script, a simpler scripting language for writing applications that run on Java-equipped PCs and devices, Sun seems to be making a play at being more relevant to those who develop Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).  As of now, Microsoft and Adobe seem to be the dominant players in the RIA sphere. Until now, applet performance issues and browser incompatibilities stymied the use of Java for creating user interfaces.  Into that fray stepped Adobe, with its near-ubiquito
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Introduction to HealthVault Development #10: Adding additional data to healthvault

We have a new user request. One of our users would like to store how hungry he whenever he enters a weight value. We head off to the HealthVault MSDN page , go to the learn page and then the reference page , and then choose HealthRecordItem Type Schema Browser . This page talks to the developer platform to find out what types are currently supported by the platform. Looking through all the data types available on the page, we dont find one related to hunger. So, we can just head home
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

SyndicationFeed and Silverlight 2 Thanks FeedBurner

I was writing a sample application tonight for my book (which is getting very close to being done!!!) that reads a RSS/ATOM feed, loads the results into the SyndicationFeed class and binds them to a Silverlight UI. Pretty straightforward really but still very cool. So I hit the FeedBurner Uri for my sites RSS feed and it loads. Hey wait a second! I am going across domains so I should get a 404 not found error, right? Hold on a second John I am hitting FeedBurner, remember? They have a crossdomai
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Aspose.Network supports .NET Framework 3.5 & .TNEF Format decoding

Whats new in this release?Aspose.Network v4.0 now supports .NET Framework 3.5 with improved working for decoding a .TNEF format attachment. About Aspose.Network for .NETAspose.Network is a suite of .NET components for network programming with support for .NET logging framework, Microsoft Exchange Server and allows parsing an Outlook document with drag & drop feature. It provides SSL support for SMTP, POP3 & IMAP protocols with other mail merge features and sending bulk emails. You can import & e
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available for Pre-Order

Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available for Pre-Order Posted by on September 16th, 2008 I told someone awhile back, "Don
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Silverlight TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation

Just prior to MIX10, Nikhil Kothari appears on the show to demonstrate some of the key advantages around validation when using WCF RIA Services. He demonstrates how to use a Domain Service to expose your domain model and how to create a custom service...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

Silverlight 3 and Flash: XML Image Gallery2

Here is a Flash vs Silverlight comparison on the XML Image Gallery2! It is a revised image Gallery based on the last post of  XML Image Gallery . The following features are added in the new Gallery Loading animation Sliding effect Images used in the application is another Top Model from Tai Wan Let
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Microsoft proclaims: Silverlight sucks, don't waste your time with it

It's always nice to be reminded that Justice Gray doesn't just influence individual developers, but in fact also determines the direction of major corporations.  That's the other big message - aside from the one in the post title - that Microsoft has given the industry, by showing everyone that Office 2010 has been written entirely in Javascript !  That is right, Silverlight now joins the ranks of other hallowed languages/applications like J# and Visual Sourcesafe in the realm of "things that
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

Update 2: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application

Hi folks!  It
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

Huge Microsoft Security Patch Hits Tuesday, Includes Windows 7 Updates

Microsoft will release a huge security patch tomorrow October 13th containing eight critical and five important security bulletins fixing 34 vulnerabilities. Affected software includes Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, Forefront, Develope...
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Using a Profiler to Speed Application Performance

Use a profiler to measure before you optimize. If ever you doubt this advice, then you should read this fascinating account of how an application was given a five-fold speed increase just by finding out exactly where the performance problems were and then tackling them in detail.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

RIA Services and Validation

Earlier today, my SilverlightTV recording on RIA Services and Validation went online. I used validation as a feature area to focus on this first recording on RIA Services, because I think it illustrates both the RIA Services value proposition and key...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-25 more

Tips and Tricks for searching for Silverlight content on MSDN

Because of the nature of Silverlight 2's API library, and its relationship with the APIs in the .NET Framework, finding content in the MSDN library using Search can be frustrating. (Even more frustrating than usual, that is :-P ) Following are some...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

To continue our series , let
Publication date: 2010-03-23 more

MVP Silverlight!

Back in march while at the MVP Summit I was thrilled when Scott Guthrie announced the addition of a Silverlight expertise in the Microsoft MVP program . Earlier this week I received an email saying that I am joining this new small group (6 MVPs for now), so I move from ASP.NET MVP to Silverlight MVP!! This is awesome because Silverlight has become my main focus since MVP Summit 2007 (the technology was called WPF/E then...) I made so many Silverlight presentations here in Montreal a
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Video: How to Bind an ASPxTreeList to Data

Check out this 3 minute video on how to bind an ASPxTreeList to data. The ASPxTreeList is a versatile treeview/grid control that allows you to display data in a hierarchy (why is this word so hard to say?) The ASPxTreeList also has the great features that youve come to expect from our ASP.NET components like Ajax/callbacks, templates, and a bunch more which you can try out in the online demos. To learn how easy it is to drop an ASPxTreeList and bind it to your database, check out the following v
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

paidContent.org - Silverlight's Olympic Return: NBCU Re-Ups With

paidContent.org - Silverlight's Olympic Return: NBCU Re-Ups With
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

500 Screencasts and Counting

Yes, were gonna party like its 1999 because we've just reached a sweet little milestone for The DevExpress Channel. We published the 500th screencast this week with the WPF Grid - Feature Tour screencast. Since launching the DevExpress Channel in July 2008, weve pumped out about 38.4615 videos a month! Sure, Ill grant you that some months had more videos than others but I stand by the milestone. Therefore, in just a little over one year: over 403,000 total views (nearly 1/2 million)...
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Radio-Canada.ca launches M

Caroline Allard has been busy. The blogueuse-vedette known as the M
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

DevTeach Toronto 2008

DevTeach Toronto is fast approaching, and features a number of world class speakers including Micorosft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Regional Directors: There are a number of reasons why you should attend the event. Here's a few to start: Keynote by Scott Hanselman, Microsoft Scott Hanselman is one of the most prolific, renowned and respected blogger (http://guy.dotnet-expertise.com/ct.ashx?id=d94fb145-722c-4b78-948b-a6fe0a08209b&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hanselman.com) and podcast
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

JavaFX squares off against AJAX (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant's high points and the low points of their rival. Related posts: Java mobile platform to get widget apps (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Emphasizing the growing importance of mobile device applications,... Sun Executive Reveals More Open-source Plans for JavaFX (PC World) PC Wo
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Snoop Dogg Performs at

Rapper Snoop Dogg was the headlining performer Tuesday night at the
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

The Expander

More: Expander Control Part I I recently examined the Expander control and in that entry I promised to return and show how templating can add value to the user experience of this Silverlight Toolkit control. You will remember that when we left the expander...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Asynchronous test support - Silverlight unit test framework and the UI thread

A discussion about the asynchronous, on-the-UI thread test features and methods found in the Silverlight unit test framework, along with some history....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

New Channel 9 Video: Richard Costall on Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7

One of the more interesting uses for Silverlight is casual gaming. When you add Windows Phone 7 Series into the mix, it becomes even more exciting. At MIX10, I met up with Microsoft MVP and all around cool guy, Richard Costall . He showed me how, with...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-06 more

August Lounge Update

July was another great month for The Lounge, we picked up some new advertisers in Gurock Software (the makers of SmartInspect) and Lite Accounting. We also added some great new members to The Lounge. I announced Scott joining The Lounge a couple weeks ago, I am thrilled to have in as a member and having him in the Web Publishers Room has vastly increased the advertiser value for that room. Nikhil Kothari has to be one of the longest blogging members of the ASP.NET team and he continu
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Watch Indian Union Budget 2009 Live On Your PC

The Economic Times, the major print new paper and news website of India is going to live web cast Union Budget 2009 on it
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

ASP.NET Podcast Show #121 - Phil Haack with an ASP.NET MVC Demo - Video

Subscribe to Everything. Subscribe to WMV format. Subscribe to M4V for iPod Users. Subscribe to MP3 (Audio only). Download WMV. Download M4V for iPod Users. Download MP3 (Audio Only). Show Notes: Phil Haack comes on the show and gives a simple ASP.NET MVC Demo. Source Code is below and downloadable. Source Code:
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight 3 Beta is Live!

If You Want To Develop Silverlight 3 Apps Dev Runtime, SDK and Tools Blend 3 Preview Silverlight 3 Toolkit .NET RIA Services If You Want To Run Silverlight 3 Apps Windows Developer Runtime Mac Developer Runtime...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

The Poll - What is Your Favorite Database?

What is Your Favorite Database?I have been listening so many different answer to question of favorite database. I would like to know what is favorite database of SQLAuthority.com readers. I encourage all of you to participate in this poll. It is very quick poll and takes a second.A gift of USB drive will be provided [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Freedom isn't free [Tip: When creating a DependencyProperty, follow the handy convention of "wrapper+register+static+virtual"]

Tip When creating a DependencyProperty, follow the handy convention of "wrapper+register+static+virtual" Explanation The fundamental steps for defining a Silverlight/WPF DependencyProperty are fairly rigid and not open to a great deal of flexibility ...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-24 more

Free Silverlight 2 Training CD

Free Silverlight 2 Training CD AppDev is offering a free Silverlight 2 training CD hosted by Dino Esposito. The site also has a download option to get the material right away as opposed to waiting for it to come in the mail. [found via Tim Heuer] Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Dino Esposito,AppDev,Free
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Fun with Silverlight toolkit charts

5 kicks kick it kicked Fun with Silverlight toolkit charts published 1 hour, 8 minutes ago, submitted by rudigrobler 14 hours, 7 minutes ago dotnet.org.za —
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Silverlight Best of MIX in Phoenix

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Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

Connecting Drupal and Silverlight: By Matt Serbinski

Note: This article is submitted by Matt Serbinski for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Articles Competition.Thanks a lot, Matt! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it. Connecting Drupal and Silverlight Contents Introduction Custom Module for Drupal Silverlight application About the Author (Matt Serbinski) Download ~ Source Code: UserLogin.zip (1.97 MB) Introduction Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) that allows users to add modules to their sites for great flex
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

View/ViewModel Association - Convention and Configuration-based Approaches

Some time back, I blogged about different options to hook up a view to its view model when following the ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern. There are multiple approaches in use out there. I raised the possibility of a convention-based approach in addition...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-27 more

This one time, at band camp... [A banded StackPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!]

Recently, I came across this article in the Expression Newsletter showing how to create a three-column ListBox . In it, Victor Gaudioso shows a Blend -only technique for creating a Silverlight/WPF ListBox with three columns. [And I award him extra credit...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-12 more

IE8 Beta2 - The RIA Slice (Silverlight WebSlice)

The Internet Explorer Beta 2 was released yesterday introducing quite some new features about which you already probably read in one of the various like the IE8 Homepage or the announcement on the official IE Blog. However there may be a feature that isn't mentioned too often which is the fact that now with beta2 RIA technologies like Silverlight are also supported in the flyout of a WebSlice. This is something that wasn't available with Beta1. And since it is not as obvious to integrate a Silve
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

The case of null httpcontext.current.session

Because of un-addressable client in SL, we introduced Polling Duplex channel to support callback in WCF Silverlight. It started as a channel in Silverlight2. We added service model support in Silverlight3 and MultipeMode, aka chunking in Silverlight4...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

Microsoft pokes fun at the web, acknowledges what private browsing is for

Filed under: Windows , Microsoft , Browsers Microsoft has put together a series of videos to promote the launch of Internet Explorer 8. The strategy? Poking a bit of fun at the things we spend our time doing on the internet, like looking at videos of hamsters dancing, ordering completely useless things on eBay, and replacing language with acronyms . Toward the end of the video above, several of the comedians tapped by Microsoft for the campaign also imply what everyone knows: the new p
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Link Listing - August 20, 2008

ASP.NET Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery [Via: DotNet Kicks ] Sharepoint Managing Web Parts in WSS and MOSS 2007 without using the Site Actions Menu [Via: Scott Spradlin ] September 1st : SharePoint 2007: Deep Dive for the Developer [Via: Sahil Malik ] WPF Better Data Editing Features in WPF with SP1 [Via: Beth Massi ] Teitlebaum's WPF Graphic Demos, Part 1 [Via: Adam Kinney ] Code Camps CodeStock Video Discussions [Via: Rachel Appel ] Link Collections Interesting
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

New DeepZoom Composer Blog

From Lutz Gerhard:   Hey everyone
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Lookup Data Web Control

This is based on key and value pairs that you can select appropriate key and value pair from data source... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

SplitButtoning hairs [Two fixes for my Silverlight SplitButton/MenuButton implementation - and true WPF support]

One of my ContextMenu test cases for the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit ( click here for the full write-up ) was to implement a quick "split button" control for Silverlight using Button and ContextMenu . In that post, I cautioned that my...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-11 more

SQL SERVER - mssqlsystemresource - Resource Database

Just a day ago I received following email
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Survey

Thank you for an unprecedented response to this week's survey on what topics are most important to you . I will keep the survey open, but I will attempt to compile and report on the results by tomorrow morning. Your feedback is incredibly valuable...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-19 more

Welcome To Office Web Apps

Was feeling a little left behind by not getting access to the Office Web Apps beta program but then I got a mail and I got access. I is happy. Here are some pointers: This is more like an extension to Skydrive than Office Live Workspaces (for now). Office Live Workspaces users will be moved to Office Web Apps in 2010 (acc. to Mary Jo Foley ) Online Word (read-only possible)  & One Note aren
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

March Madness: Live on YouTube via Silverlight

YouTube finally got live video yesterday. CBS has embedded its Silverlight March Madness live coverage directly onto a YouTube channel. You can check out the new, live coverage here - it
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Download Silverlight 3 Beta today!

At MIX09 Silverlight 3 Beta was unveiled, with over 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video performance and quality improvements, and features to improve developer productivity. Find out...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

SQL SERVER - Deprecated DataType vardecimal

I received following email yesterday from Satnam Singh- Computer Programmer from Bangalore.
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop

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Publication date: 2010-01-30 more

Leaning to the Redfly

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Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Code Around C#'s Using Statement to Release Unmanaged Resources

Find out how to avoid the kind of resource consumption that impedes your application's performance or even stops it from working altogether.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series

Over the next few months I
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Trying to get the story straight [A brief summary of Storyboard differences between WPF and Silverlight]

I was investigating a Silverlight Toolkit bug this morning and got into a spirited discussion about Storyboard behavior with Jafar . We disagreed on a couple of points, so I [grudgingly :) ] coded up a quick test application to help sort things out. Unfortunately...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Nevron Chart for .NET Q2 2008 - Released

Nevron Software is pleased to announce the production availability of the new major Q2 2008 release of Nevron Chart for .NET - the professional charting components for .NET (WinForms and ASP.NET). The new Q2 version introduces new and improved Gauges, Styling Support, Automatic 2D/3D Pie Data Label Layout and much more:Styling Support The control features an embedded styling support, allowing you to quickly apply a style sheet in order to change the appearance of the chart contents. In addition.
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Silverlight for the MySpace Developer Platform

Silverlight for the MySpace Developer Platform Now you can build Silverlight applications for the MySpace Developer Platform!  I have been working with MySpace for months on this initiative and now we have some exciting results:MySpace has just announced support for Silverlight on MySpace
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

Ready for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games?

Only one day to the start of the Olympic games 2008 in Beijing. The videos in the official website are delivered by Silverlight and the community expects this to push the plugin into many computers all over the world. All that is pretty cool. As we are part of the community we are also excited about that. Let me tell you a secret: SilverlightShow is preparing a damn good application for the Olympic games where you will be able to deep zoom all Olympic games to this moment, see a lot of info ab
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Democratic National Convention in Silverlight

In a first for a political convention, gavel-to-gavel video coverage of the Democratic National Convention is available worldwide, live or on demand and in high definition. Use the picture-in-picture feature to simultaneously display a speaker
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

3 Steps to MEF (MEF Part 1)

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! This episode kicks off an exploration of MEF with one of the Program Managers working on MEF, Hamilton Verissimo. John interviews Hamilton, of Castle Windsor fame, about his latest work...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-25 more

25 great free resources for making charts

Here you have a new roundup about great tools for making charts and graphs. You can choose between web generators, flash,  javascript libraries, Silverlight or PHP classes. At the end of the post you find also 3 tutorials to make pure css bar graphs and another one for Adobe Illustrator. JS Charts (JavaScript based chart generator) Protovis (visualization toolkit [...]
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Silverlight and SEO

Did you know that silverlight.net has some interesting whitepapers ? I suggest this one if you are interested in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for Silverlight applications : > http://silverlight.net/learn/whitepapers/seo.aspx The article is a bit old but it shows some techniques (not all) on Silverlight SEO and it mention an online tool to get a search engine view of your website (so without Silverlight): > http://seo-browser.com If you are interested on the
Publication date: 2009-03-15 more

Silverlight Developer -Part Time

City: Seattle We are looking for a developer on short term contract basis to work on some very exciting Silverlight development Requirements: read more
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

SQL SERVER Find Gaps in The Sequence

I have previously written two articles on the subject of missing identity and both are very well received by community. I had great fun to write article as many SQL Server expert participated in both the articles. Expert Imran Mohammed had provided excellent script to find missing identity. Please read both the articles for additional [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories in
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Silverlight 2.0.30523.8 Beta

Plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences on the web. [License: Freeware| Requires: Win XP/Vista | Size: 4.66 MB]
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Blinded by the (silver) light

You know, I am a real big fan of Pat Helland. I have never met the man, never corresponded with him, but find some of his content to be out-of-the-ballpark outstanding. I'd love to watch the video on irresistible forces meeting movable objects but I need SilverLight to do it. Now I'm on Linux at the moment and there is no SilverLight plug-in for Linux so that's it. I'm skipping over it. What a pity.
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

ESRI

A couple people asked me at the ESRI UC what I thought about the ESRI MapIt announcement and how it related to MapDotNet and IDV Solutions products.   Both MapDotNet and IDV Solutions have great products and really impressive support teams so don
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Maybe Making the Olympics Suck Online is Good For Business

So. Let
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Announcing the .NET Extension Library

285 days ago I blogged about my dislike for extension methods. Extension methods aren't very discoverable, and they can lead to poor communication (between members of a team, from project to project, and between a developer and the code he or she is trying to read). I still think extension methods have serious shortcoming, but I've soften my view on them quite a bit. I don't know what changed, maybe it was my extended foray into Ruby or spending the last few weeks neck-deep... Did you know that
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

wrox.books24x7.com adds Wrox Blox

Our partner books24x7.com now includes Wrox Blox as part of the Wrox online subscription library at wrox.books24x7.com. So in addition to the more than 200 books available there, you can get Wrox Blox too. So far, they've added 3 Wrox Blox: Scripting SQL Management Objects in Windows Powershell, SOA and ESB Architecture with Biztalk, and Working with Animation in Silverlight 1.0. I know they have many more Blox queued to add shortly, as well as a raft of Visual Studio 2008 books and other rece
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Convert PDF to word processing documents with Aspose.Recognition for .NET

Aspose has launched a new file format component: Aspose.Recognition for .NET Aspose.Recognition for .NET is yet another new file format component which is newly launched by Aspose. Now you can convert PDF files to almost all Word Processing Document formats. About Aspose.Recognition for .NET With Aspose.Recognition you can add intelligent PDF to word processing documents conversion to your 32-bit and 64-bit .NET applications. Aspose.Recognition reads a PDF file, recognizes editable document stru
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

On Meeting the Needs of Every User

I received a public flame recently that I've become complacent in this job and am not doing the hard work of meeting the needs of those who want to go beyond the basics.  While it is tempting to talk about 16 hour days, missed weekends with my...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

Are You a Webkit Developer? RIM

Want to complain about your BlackBerry browser, or do you want to actually do something about it?  Now
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

SyndicationFeed and Silverlight 2

I was writing a sample application tonight for my book (which is getting very close to being done!!!) that reads a RSS/ATOM feed, loads the results into the SyndicationFeed class and binds them to a Silverlight UI. Pretty straightforward really
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Blend, PathListBox, OOB Samples and More from Silverlight Night at Tampa SLUG

This past Tuesday I had dinner with several of the Tampa area Silverlight crew at Champps and then headed over to the Microsoft offices and presented at the Tampa Silverlight User Group ( Tampa SLUG ). It was a nice evening where I got to see many familiar...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-04 more

The Kinney And I

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Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

Web Crawler - BOT Programmer - MYSQL Database Programmer by TROY45

I am looking for expert programmer that has at least 5 years experience in web scraping, data mining, web crawling and MYSQL databases. This is for a large project. I will discuss details exactly only after I see proven experience
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

31 Days of SIlverlight !

Jeff Blankenburg has committed to publishing a Silverlight article EVERY DAY for the Month of July. [ CLICK HERE ] to check it out.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-01 more

Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight

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Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

WebGrid AJAX Data Grid now with Source Code and Unit Test (WebGrid is still free)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Disable Autoplay on Silverlight Video in Expression Encoder 2 SP1

By default any Silverlight video you create in Expression Encoder 2 has AutoPlay set to true. If this cause you troubles, find out  a way to solve the problem in the post of Walt Ritscher. There is a way to configure AutoPlay in Expression Encoder. It
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Posts about Politico as of March 6, 2009

Enrage timer - mmorpg.vg 03/06/2009 About half a assemblage past there was a story most a politico fisticuffs in Final Fantasy XI which lasted 18 hours,
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

NBC's Crippled Online Olympics Coverage Attracts Small Audience

NBC apparently got about 72 million video streams during this Olympics season, and is touting this as a great success. It's true that this is a lot more than any previous Olympics, but I don't think NBC has anything to crow about. Remember, this is the most famous sporting event in the world, and it got non-stop media coverage for close to a month. Yet in a country with 300 million people, they only got a total of 72 million streams? That's less than one stream for every 4 Americans. And as Ben
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Detailed Overview of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Web Service Features

As you have probably read already (in Scott or Tim's posts), Silverlight 2 Beta 2 provides a set of new and improved web service features. This post will go over our Beta 2 scenarions in more detail, and we intend to follow up over the next couple...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-11 more

SURVEY | MIX10 Design Tools and Techniques Workshop

In this small survey you will find the different topics that Archetype, Adam Kinney and I will be covering during the workshop. We have 3 areas we want to cover at the MIX10 Design Tools and Techniques Workshop: 1) Design Concept 2) Interactive Design...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Creating cross platform GUI's with IronRuby

Have you ever been shamboozled by the WinForms designer in Visual Studio?  If you haven't, its likely only because you've never used it.  Over the last several years I've had many wars with the WinForms designer, and unfortunately I've lost every single time.  Not long ago as I was exploring a couple interesting open source ruby projects, I came across one that had me longing for something as simple in the .NET world.  The project was shoes, done by none other then why the lucky stiff.  For t
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

NEWS: NCAA March Madness streaming to you live & on-demand via Silverlight!

Starting March 15th with the NCAA Selection Show
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09

Lots of wow from this morning with Silverlight 4 (and RIA Services) taking center stage in the keynote, here at PDC09. [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Will Nokia Rescue Microsoft

Daniel Eran Dilger Windows enthusiast blogs are atwitter with the news that mobile giant Nokia is considering a partnership with Microsoft to install the Zune Marketplace software on its phones, a move they hope will pull Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Using Hungarian Cube to demonstrate enterprise architecture

  As much as I tried to explain it they didnt manage to get it and they staid in low level detailed technology architecture. On one of the knowledge transfer session that we had I got an idea to use the Hungarian Cube to demonstratethe difference between EA and solution architecture, and . It simply worked! I started the show holding the cube very close to my eyes. What I'm doing right now is technology architecture, I said. I see just one side of the cube, but I can see in detailed what... D
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Speaking at TechEd Europe 2009

I will be speaking at TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin Germany November 9th through the 13th. I will be presenting two sessions.  My first is a 'Deep Dive with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Development Platform' and my second is 'Customizing and Extending the BizTalk WCF Adapters'. If you are going to be there stop by and say hello.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silv
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Puzzling over arrays and enumerators in C#

Here is a little puzzle for C# developers reading my blog. What is the error in the program below? using System.Collections.Generic; class Program { public static void Main() { int[] arr = new int[10]; IEnumerator e = arr.GetEnumerator(); } }If you don
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Oxite: what

As probably you read somewhere else, a few days ago the Channel9 team released the latest version of Oxite. If you remember, when it was first released back in December, there was a lot of negative feedbacks, but now it seems like the latest release contains a lot of refactoring. I think Ill start to play with it. All the team members have a blog (which runs on Oxite, of course) and they posted some blog posts to explain the new changes. Duncan Mackenzie, which is the PM, wrote a post explaining
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

the RealMedia of 2010

@ chrismessina : I
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Silverlight Validation in Detail

  In a previous pos t I mentioned that Silverlight 3 has enhanced support for data entry validation. In this first of two mini-tutorials on the topic,  I will take you through the process of implementing validation in some detail. The key to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-06 more

Free ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Tutorial Now in HTML

Last month I blogged about a free end-to-end ASP.NET MVC tutorial called NerdDinner that I wrote for the Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book from Wrox Press.  The book is now released and shipping on Amazon.  The NerdDinner tutorial walks through how to build a small, but complete, application using ASP.NET MVC, and introduces some of the core concepts behind it.  You can download a PDF version of the tutorial here. NerdDinner Tutorial Now Also Available in HTML A few... Did you know th
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Unit Testing Silverlight Animation

Nigel Sampson has a post in which he is running through the tests for AnimationBase and SizeAnimation . One thing I haven't really included in any of the example Silverlight posts are the unit tests. There's continuous debate among developers concerning the effectiveness of unit tests, in my opinion they're absolutely necessary whenever you're building an application. Test driven development (TDD) on the other hand I still find very hard, it's a different way to approach development that se
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Tip of the Day #22

No game is complete without a great sound track and sound effects! This tutorial will show you how to do both with a very small amount of code. Silverlight currently supports the following formats: Video WMV1-3 (Windows Media Video 7, 8 & 9 respectively...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-26 more

Greenery - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Greenery is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design. This skin comes with 3 variations greenery
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications

Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications Direct Titaniumapp.com Appcelerator Titanium is an open source platform for building rich desktop applications using web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript as well as Flash and Silverlight. Titanium apps can be built using the Appcelerator SDK - an open web platform, or you can use any third-party Ajax library or fr
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

Clashing titans: Microsoft vs. Adobe

Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Silverlight Geek Dinner, Sep 15th - Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue

We
Publication date: 2009-08-29 more

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Overview

Last Friday we announced the public release of the Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow Release Candidate and Silverlight 3 RTW. If you haven
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

How to Install a Module in DotNetNuke 5 - Free Video

In this free tutorial we demonstrate how to install a standard module to DotNetNuke 5. There are many modules available to extend the functionality of your DotNetNuke website, some of the modules require you to purchase them from websites, such as snowcovered.com and there are also many free modules available as well. In this tutorial we demonstrate how to install a module using the Install Extensions method and also how to auto install a module using FTP. The video contains: Video 1 - H
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Lately Ive been designing and implementing the migration of development team from Visual Source Safe, with Excel based bug tracking and no defined development policies to TFS. Ive only been a user of TFS so it was the first time for me to dig into planning and licensing issues, process templates, policies, build and all that stuff. During my searches I collected the link and resources I read, and Im posting them here so other could benefit from this list as well. Testing TFS Since installing...
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Rating Control: Netflix Style

In his recent post blog , Jafar Husain did a nice introduction to the Rating Control which we shipped with the July edition of the Silverlight Toolkit. Jafar and I (the PM) spend quite a bit of time on this control making sure we provide a very powerful...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

Microsoft BizSpark Startup Night - 14 Aug

The next Microsoft BizSpark Startup Night will be held 14 Aug. Look forward to anther evening of networking, discussing Silverlight and XBox 360! Event Details Date: Friday, 14th Aug 2009 Time: 645-9pm Venue: Microsoft Auditorium (Microsoft office, 21st floor) Agenda Business Value and Developer Productivity with Silverlight 3: Tan Choon Ngee / Lee Kai Boo (aZaas) ...
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Accessing the Parent

Learn how to access the root as well as any parent element in-between in WPF and Silverlight....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Silverlight 4 Tools RTW Available

The final version of the Silverlight 4 Tools plug-in for Visual Studio is now available for download. Please proceed to the Read the Rest......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Acer Aspire 1410 review

The Acer Aspire 1410 is a bit larger than your typical netbook thanks to its 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and nearly full sized keyboard. But with a growing number of netbook makers putting out 11.6 inch models, it
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10

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Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Magenic Technology Summit - June 20, 2008

The Magenic Technology Council (MTC) is proud to present the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008.  This two-track, 1 day summit is packed with great sessions and TWO keynotes from Rocky Lhotka (Magenic, creator of CSLA) and Jay Schmelzer (Microsoft, Visual Studio Group PM.) In the Developer track, members of the MTC will present on Writing Better Code, the ASP.NET MVC framework, LINQ indexing techniques, WPF and Silverlight in UX design.  The Server track offers sessi
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Using a Built-In Shortcut to Add Properties to a Class

After declaring your class, suppose you want to add individual element properties to that class. This process has been simplified in Visual Studio when working in C#.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Netflix Makes "The Wizard of Oz" Stream Available for Free Until Sunday 9am ET

  To celebrate the 70th Anniversary of " The Wizard of Oz " - Netflix has released the movie for free using Microsoft's Silverlight technology until Sunday 9am ET --> Start Watching " The Wizard of Oz "
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Silverlight Mac OSX Desktop Application

Silverlight Mac OSX Desktop Application NYTimes has released a Mac OS version of their desktop application Times Reader, so I decided to install it and here
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

A Developer's first look at visual studio 2010

New features of Visual studio 2010 discussed... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Microsoft Kills Encarts, Teams up with MySpace

Microsoft is getting ready to pull the plug on Encarta , the digital encyclopedia that debuted way back in 1993 to compete with Encyclopedia Britannica. In doing so, Microsoft all but concedes that Wikipedia is the reference guide of the present and future. Encarta expanded rapidly throughout the 90
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

xLibrary - Using a custom IHttpHandler to access embedded javascript.

This article covers how to make a custom IHttpHandler to use the X Library from www.cross-browser.com embedded in an assembly.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Scott Guthrie: Silverlight plans go beyond Ajax and Flash

In an interview with Channel 9, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division, talks a little about Silverlight 3, a little about MIX09, and a little about developers and designers in general.
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools.

Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Silverlight 3 Bouncing plane gratuitous demo

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Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Dew Drop - April 29, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing More Articles on Trust (Brad Appleton) Stop Using Process Template X with Process Y (David Starr)
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store

I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my  Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

PDC 2008

The website is live and it's running with Silverlight :-) http://www.microsoftpdc.com/
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Why Objective-J, Cappuccino and SproutCore are completely changing the web app industry

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Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening!

June has been a madhouse month; I
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

Monitoring LiveCycle System-Level Activity on Windows

If you are curious to learn more about LiveCycle activity at the system level (file open/close/read/write, registry access, thread create/delete, network activity etc), there is an excellent tool available (only) on Windows. It is Microsoft's own Process Monitor. 1) Download and run it. 2) Run Windows Task Manager and determine the Process ID of the java.exe process that represents the appserver instance that hosts LiveCycle. You also would want to do the same for LiveCycle processes that run
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Silverlight @ PDC!

Here are some of the Silverlight-focused PDC sessions. Hope to see you there! Session Time Speaker Expression Blend: Tips and Tricks Mon 10/2712:45-1:30pm Pete Blois,Douglas Olson Silverlight, WPF, and the .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code Mon 10...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

Morgan Stanley: why we didn

I attended an online briefing about Morgan Stanley
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Silverlight TV 23: MVP Q&A with WWW (Wildermuth, Wahlin and Ward)

John interviews a panel of 3 well known Silverlight leaders including Shawn Wildermuth, Dan Wahlin, and Ward Bell at the Silverlight 4 launch event. The guest panel answers questions sent in from Twitter about the features in Silverlight 4, thoughts on...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Novell ushers in Moonlight

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT Earlier this month Novell quietly released Moonlight -- a Linux client for Microsoft's Silverlight technology. Silverlight is a .Net-based cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering rich media to the Internet. In a nutshell, it is Microsoft's version of Adobe Flash. Source...
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston

The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day event in Boston is now available. May 14
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 - Special Edition

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Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

Twitter posts for Thursday, August 7, 2008

Below are my Twitter posts for Thursday, August 7, 2008. The Cthulhu trailer is all the more strange if your name also happens to be Russell... http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/cthulhu/ 8:11:54 PM Hi there! I'm Shiva the Destroyer... I'll be your harbinger of doom for this evening. 8:06:41 PM How does "Orange Sherbert" not have a Wikipedia entry?!?! Even if you spell it all fancy-pants 'sherbet' it's not there... It's criminal! 7:02:33 PM Reading this: http://tinyurl.com/6nodlf From t
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Windows Live Tools July 2008 CTP adds Virtual Earth Control

Windows Live Tools July 2008 CTP adds Virtual Earth Control By Emil Protalinski | Published: July 28, 2008 - 06:29PM CT Windows Live Tools is a set of control add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 that make incorporating Windows Live services into websites much easier. Microsoft has finally (the last version went live in February) released the July 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The new version is avail
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Writing about Entity Framework Relationships

I have finally finished what has been, so far, the most difficult chapter of my book. It is a chapter about Relationships and Associations in the Entity Framework. Relationships as a first class citizen in an API is a pretty novel thing for me (and many) and judging from the percentage of questions in the forum about relationships, I think it's one of the most confusing and complicated pieces of the framework. Complexity is not a bad thing,and itcertainly is a fascinating adventure.There are so
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design

In this video, part of the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, demonstrates the basics of designing icons. Icons are a way to abstract a real visual object into a usually smaller representation that preserves the essence of the original object...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

H.264 and AAC support coming to Silverlight

So you want H.264 support in Silverlight ? So do we. In fact we will be showing a preview of H.264 and AAC support in Silverlight at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) this week in Amsterdam. Scott Guthrie comments on this saying:
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Intersoft Sirius 2 showcase is live

In this blissful August 2008, Intersoft Solutions has once again rewritten the history of Web with the launching of Sirius 2 showcase. Sirius is the codename for Silverlight development in Intersoft Solutions. It shows strong innovations and unique concept in order to push the Web beyond. With careful study on User Interface and User Friendliness aspects, we are proud to say that this showcase is the best description for the future of Web UI. The non-blocking concept enables user to use only
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Silverlight 4 and building business applications (PDC09-CL19)

Hi everyone!  Wow
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release.  One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition.  The SP1 release of Visual Web Developer 2008 Express adds support for both class library projects as well as web application projects (previously only web site projects could be used with it).  This new support is useful in itself, as well as in enabling
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Leaving Las Vegas: Mix09 wrap-up

I
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services

I recently published two new interview videos on Channel 9, both with product team folks here at Microsoft. You'll also see that I've redone the video overlays to bring them in line with my site theme. Love it? Hate it? Let me know. Henry Sowizral The...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15 more

Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework bits for Windows Phone and Silverlight 3

Here's the same unit test framework from the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit, built for Windows Phone and SL3 developers only....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

Friday evening Microsoft links, IMGBurn edition

The fourth edition of One Microsoft Way's "Friday links" is here. Links this time around include MSDN and TechNet revamps, IE8 chat transcript, hook up your telescope to WorldWide Telescope, Episode 1 of ShutterSpeed, Stonehenge meets Photosynth, get a WPF job, MSN Toolbar with Silverlight, Office 2007 and 9-year-old kids, and Energize IT 2008. Read More...
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Crappy Image Resizing in WPF? Try RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode

A WPF enthusiast on twitter is building an application. They noticed that the images they were using looked like crap in the toolbar. We checked, and it wasn't an issue of SnapToDevicePixels or UseLayoutRounding. Nope, this was something else. So I asked...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-01 more

Build A Ping Utility

build a simple ping utility in silverlight 2.0 or 3.0 in must do the ping from the browser, NOT connect to some server that does the ping Tags: build , ping , ping utility , utility Related projects Website Re-build Website Design/build Website Build Web Site Build In Web 2.0 Web Database Extract Utility Want To Build A Magento Site Tax And Shipping Web Service Squidoo Lens Design
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

The Olympics - A Microsoft Experience

In an article titled "Olympics Online, With a Hook" in tomorrow's New York Times, John Markoff writes about how Microsoft and NBC are offering the Olympics online - as long as you install Microsoft's Silverlight web browser plug-in to watch it. Too bad NBC decided to go down this path with its Olympic content this year. Of course, as a new iPhone 3G owner, I'd have much preferred that NBC embraced the proprietary Apple media approach! Oh well - I suppose I could try to deal with all of this o
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Microsoft Research ESL Assistant

People who learned English as their second language usually make different mistakes than English natives. This can be attributed to a number of factors with the differences between their native language and English being a major one. Computer programs that correct spelling errors are nowadays provided in most programs. They usually use a dictionary and compare the words written by a user against the words in the dictionary. Only a few programs can check for grammatical errors and those that do a
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

WEB 2.0 Procurement platform by SammyD

We are looking for an experienced .NET developer to build a web SAAS accounting procurement platform. We have a basic design specification and reference sites offering similar features to what we are looking to build
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

The Technology Post for June 1st

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #23 Daily Fact Just realized COBOL is over 50 years old! http://tinyurl.com/7uvd8 (Posted by Jason Gaylord ) Other Link Lists May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Scott Guthrie New
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

Microsoft's 'Signature PCs' show its vision of computing perfection

Microsoft's 'Signature PCs' show its vision of computing perfectionTechFlash (blog)
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Programming Silverlight 2

I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Forum 4.5.3 User Control Panel

In 4.5.3, one of the primary goals was to minimize post backs. This goal was across the entire module, from end users to moderators and module administrators. For moderators and module administrators, finding areas to enhance via Ajax was pretty easy, all we had to do was look at where those users spend a large portion of their time within the module. However, for typical end users the areas a developer can expose an Ajax experience quickly is very limited because... Did you know that DotNetSlac
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Silverlight game mashup with Live Earth

Click on the image to take you to the site: Pity I can
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

PDC2008 Registration Opens with Preliminary Sessions

The wait is over! The public PDC2008 site just went live, and you can now register for the conference (and save $200 if you register early). We
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

PUG

PUG DevCon 2009 What: Pune User Group (PUG)
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

OpenId Part One: A Friend of A Friend

Authenticating someones identity has been a persistent challenge throughout history. How can you trust that someone is who they say they are? Hence the FBI agent flashing her badge, the ancient king brandishing his magical sword, and the long lost relative regaling you with stories of the old times. Authentication is a two way street. It is in your interest to know who youre dealing with to not get taken advantage of. It is in the other partys interest to make sure no one else is using their
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Getting Started with WPF : Button Control Part 2

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Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Exploding with joy: behind the scenes with

Twisted Pixel has already released one above-average Xbox Live title this year, The Maw . In that game you made friends with what amounts to a living mouth and, while the game was rather short, the personality and twisted humor of the game helped it to stand out. This week Microsoft kicked off the Summer of Arcade with
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Silverlight/WPF: Don't name elements unless you have to: why x:Naming everything is bad

XAML, much like HTML, doesn't require naming every element in the markup. This is a *ahem* marked difference from the client app dev technologies we've had in the past, like Windows Forms and various forms of VB. In fact, just about every client-side...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-03 more

Silverlight Benched in a Flash by Major League Customer

Major League Baseball handed Microsoft some very bad news by reverting back to the Adobe Flash player after just one year with Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in.  This season, baseball fans will watch live and on-demand video at MLB.com via the Flash player.  MLB.com offers the Web
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Commitments

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Publication date: 2009-11-08 more

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Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video

Okay, on my Mac it doesn
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Tip: Cascading Styles in Silverlight 3

Like in CSS you can now cascade styles in Silverlight 3 too. You can append and/or override values by basing one style on another. In this way you can built a powerful and reusable set of styles to apply in your Silverlight applications. Syntax Style cascading is accomplished by using the new BasedOn attribute of the Style class. 1: "Headline" TargetType="TextBlock"> 2:
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Tangram game using silverlight 2.0 by programmingbids

This is a quite short and easy project for the first version. Upon successful delivery, a second version with social networking features can be expected! OVERVIEW: The project involves creating a Tangram
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Windows Mobile 7 UI: Still Under Construction

( Follow me on Twitter : UX Evangelist ) According to freelance UI/UX designer Kim Sealls , the Windows Mobile 7 UI is still a work in progress. Her resume lists her as presently working for the Windows Mobile UX team creating, "designs for Windows Mobile 7 controls (UI still in progress)," and creating, "XAML layouts for controls and dialogs (Silverlight created in Expression Blend)." It sounds like things are right on course for the Windows Mobile 7 UI to be as drastic of a change as has be
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Project Silverlight

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Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Turning off Cider

If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 30730.126

Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is a useful package that is designed to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# [...]
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/31/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

SQL SERVER Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler

IntroductionSQL Server Profiler is a powerful tool that is available with SQL Server since a long time; however, it has mostly been underutilized by DBAs. SQL Server Profiler can perform various significant functions such as tracing what is running under the SQL Server Engines hood, and finding out how queries are resolved internally and what [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categ
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Updated Code: XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer

I was working on a post for T4 Preprocessed Text Templates (I
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

All Your Bots Are Belong To Us

On April 21st, Microsoft unveiled RoboChamps (www.robochamps.com), a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers from around the world, that demonstrates the power of the Microsoft platform to enable a broad range of developers to explore new ways to use .NET for robotics programming. RoboChamps is built on top of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio(MSRDS) 2008 CTP, and uses that product
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Skyfire 1.0 web browser brings Hulu, full web experience to Windows Mobile

Filed under: Windows Mobile , Symbian , Browsers , Mobile Skyfire is a web browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 series phones that puts Microsoft's mobile version of Internet Explorer to shame. And I'm not talking about the kind of shame where you're a bit embarrassed to tell your friends about it. I mean the kind of shame that makes you move to a remote island and avoid human contact for the rest of your natural life. The browser has been in beta for about a year and a half ,
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Review of the SharePoint Scalability White Paper

A SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper was recently released "to provide strategic information about designing a high-volume, high-availability enterprise solution that can easily grow." it was announced yesterday in the SharePoint Product Team blog. There is plenty of good content here, lots of good ideas, and many attractive diagrams. As for the tests, these are idyllic goals to shoot for if you want great performance minimize (or eliminate) inserts and deletes, keep..
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

MySpace Mobile Application to Support Microsoft Windows Mobile and Silverlight

A new MySpace mobile application set to debut this summer will support Microsoft Windows Mobile as well as Microsoft Silverlight. Silverlight is technology similar to Adobe's Flash that powers rich media. "We are pleased to bring MySpace users the benefits and flexibility of Microsoft's platforms," said Aber Whitcomb, chief technology officer of MySpace. "Our relationship enables app developers to use Silverlight to create engaging MySpace apps and allows Windows Mobile users to have a more p
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

DiscountASP.net releases new IIS 7.0 Manager modules

DiscountASP.net who has been a very close partner of the IIS Team leading several offerings of our platform - including IIS Manager Remote Delegated Access to the Web Site and many other cool tools - has just built and released yet another cool module that extends the IIS Manager capabilities by having a GAC Viewer for their customers. The GAC Viewer is still in Beta but I think it showcases some of the cool stuff that IIS 7.0 platform brings to the table providing extensibility from end-to-end,
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Silverlight in SharePoint web parts

Are you using SharePoint and want to know how to leverage Silverlight ? Have you seen the Blueprints project on Codeplex ? But what if those particular implementations don
Publication date: 2008-10-08 more

Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language

Michael Smuga, Albert Shum and Chad Roberts have a talk at Mix about Windows Phone UI and Design Language. The talk is in Mandalay Ballroom A from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Like all mix videos, it will also be made available as online video at http://live.visitmix...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15 more

Getting started with the charting controls

Recently I thought I would check out the charting controls in the Silverlight Toolkit. I
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

Debugging, Profiling and Analyzing Parallel Applications

Any time a programming model is introduced, developers need robust tooling support for learning, writing, debugging and optimizing their code to make use of it.  This is particularly true for parallel programming, which adds a set of new variables to the equation.   Visual Studio 2010 has made great strides in the parallel debugging experience.  Many features are also available as add-ins for Visual Studio 2008.  Heres a brief tour of the parallel programming, debugging, and diagnostic... Did yo
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Silverlight Application

Pete Brown turns your attention to  one great Silverlight 2 application for the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign that PETA and AIS just completed. For this application, PETA supplied all the comps in Adobe Illustrator format and AIS converted the assets into Silverlight. Tad Van Fleet took the heart images and others and imported them into Blend 3 using the new Illustrator import function, and created the appropriate Xaml. A team consisting of Jim Jackson, Tad Van Fleet and Tom Snider w
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Assemblies and Namespaces

Part 2, in this part of the exploration we look at assemblies in Silverlight that were introduced with the desktop framework's v3.0 and v3.5. 5. System.Runtime.Serialization.dll is an assembly with 3 namespaces introduced with .NET Framework v3.0 and it is also supported in Silverlight. System.Runtime.Serialization is present in the Silverlight implementation with most of the classes available. The System.Xml namespace in this assembly has support for the Dictionary but not for the MTOM, Binary
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Watch the Newest "How Do I" Videos about Internet Explorer 8

Find videos designed to help Web developers and designers of all skill levels experience the power of the Web using Internet Explorer 8. Check back often, as new videos are added regularly.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

4 must see techniques for sexier web fonts.

For creative graphic designers, fonts on the web have always been (and probably always will) be a bone of contention. Essentially typography on the web has been limited to a small subset of fonts that exist on the three major platforms (Win / Mac / Linux) - and thus creative use of these has come from changing css properties such as letter spacing, or font-weight. If you wanted to use a particular font within a web document, you have two choices. Embed it in an image (assuming its a small part
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Origin Digital Business TV

    origin digital business tv 2009 Silverlight 3 powered next gen media platform Posted in Adobe Video Formats, Art and Animation, Digital Media, HD Video, silverlight 3, Siverlight, Smooth Streaming, Technology Tagged: .NET, C# 3.0, Microsoft, SilverLight, silverlight3, Software Engineering, Video
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Silverlight 3D Overview

Applying simple 3D effects (a.k.a. perspective transforms) to objects in your Silverlight 3 Beta application is easy. Currently there are no meshes to define, no camera, none of that "3D engine" stuff-- just 12 properties of the PlaneProjection that you...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Silverlight Takes First Step Into the Living Room

Microsoft this week announced Silverlight would be integrated with the Xbox
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs

As a welcome to Silverlight 4 Beta to the world and John Papa to the Channel 9, we put together a short video on the top features in Silverlight 4 Beta. The video is a summary of John
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Test Your Skills in Microsoft Domains: Are You Certifiable

All of us have been using Microsoft Windows OS for years. If you are the one who can proudly say you make difference in Microsoft technologies among your friends, here is one test offered by Microsoft which can test your skills and knowledge in that regard. This is just like a game where you will play a set of questions like any other quiz contest. This game is called Are You Certifiable? This is mainly intended to help you self evaluate your Microsoft expertise . Here you can play
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Maj Nelson says chillax, more ads are not incoming

Major Nelson made a post in response to the uproar from the community over the possibility of more advertising on Xbox 360
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Playing with ASP.NET MVC.

I must say, ASP.NET has always been a love/hate relationship with me and it has nothing to do with the technology, more my mind trying to melt to the way ASP.NET works vs JSP/Coldfusion. Hey, I spent 10 years doing the later, groking ASP.NET in terms of concepts has always tripped me up. ASP.NET MVC however for me is very similar to Mach-II in Coldfusion. So much so, I wanted to look for a way to have a Controller sit in one spot, but bring in Views from another (ie not automated, but wanted
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Introducing the AutoCompleteBox

The Silverlight AutoCompleteBox is now available. This guide covers the control’s properties, usage, and demonstrates how to hook it up to a JSON web service. Note: This post contains live Silverlight content that your news reader may not be able...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book from the Slackers

Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples This book written by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo is part of an effort to provide all developers with a core understanding of algorithms that operate on various common, and uncommon...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Dew Drop - August 4, 2008

  .NET / Visual Studio Managing SVN via SlickEdit (Derik Whittaker) Sneak Peeks Into the F# Project System, Part Three (Brian) CSLA .NET 3.5.1 Released (Rocky Lhotka) Implementing IUpdateable (Part 3) (Shawn Wildermuth) Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 6 (Justin Etheredge) Looking Beyond Visual Studio (Grant Palin) My Visual Studio vNext Wish List (Granville Barnett) ASP.NET AJAX Using JSON - Here
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Slides & Videos from Recent Events

I thought I
Publication date: 2010-04-30 more

Fixing Silverlight Videos For Site, Weekly Webcast, Links, And More

URL: Fixing Silverlight Videos For Site, Weekly Webcast, Links, And More
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Silverlight Top 10 of 2009

2009 has come to a close
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Settlement agreements are safe havens?

Are settlement agreements the new save haven for bad medical equipment?
Publication date: 2009-11-08 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support

A few folks commented that they
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

re: What

This doesn't work when following your video. Something is missing. The UI does not handle the ArgumentException and VS just throws the exception. I've seen several others stating the same problem.
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Rendering Historic Maps on Bing Maps

One of the Bing Maps APIs feature that has gained a lot of traction is the ability to overlay custom tiles atop the Bing Maps tiles to illustrate tons of data in a raster format. But when you want to render census data, weather illustrations or even historic maps of what an area used to look like, you
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #58

TextBlocks are a great control to use in Silverlight to display read only text. In Tip of the Day #45 I covered the basic usage of TextBlocks including formatting and text runs. For this tip I would like to show you how to make a TextBlock with wrapping...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-10 more

Behind the Scenes at Microsoft

I
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

Behaviors and Commands

In my previous post, I explained the basics of how to write a simple behavior. I concluded by mentioning that a behavior can actually be made to work with triggers. This is possible despite a Behavior having no real mechanism for a trigger to bury itself...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

How to make dalalist items automatically adjustable like div using JQuery and CSS

How to make dalalist items automatically adjustable like div using JQuery and CSS... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

NerdDinner.com and Two Views of ASP.NET MVC Views

Phil and Scott  (and the other Scott) announced the open source Nerddinner.com project and their free ASP.NET MVC eBook today. Actually, the free eBook is a single chapter of 185 pages, which is at least 50 pages longer than any chapter in Tolstoys War and Peace (and over half the size of my entire workflow book). Amazing. In any case, I was looking through the code this evening and a thought struck me. You can divide the nascent world of ASP.NET MVC developers into two camps: The people... D
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

WSE 3 Deployment: MSI and ClickOnce

Overview of deployment techniques using example WSE 3 enabled solutions... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Parts & States Model with VisualStateManager (Part 2 of 4)

This is the second post in a four part series about managing parts & states in Silverlight 2 controls. Today, we'll put into practice the concepts you learned last time and walk through how to reskin a CheckBox. (If you haven't already, please...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-23 more

Testing that an event was raised

This question keeps coming up: How can I test that an event was actually raised from my class under test? actually, there is an easy way to check if an event was raised. you subscribe to the event in your test, and in the event handler you set a boolean flag to true. then you just assert on the flag. here is a quick example: Code: public void Test() { bool wasRaised=false; var button = new Button; button.Click += ()=> wasRaised=true; button.DoSomethingT
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Dealing with those pesky WCF CommunicationException

We have blogged and written about this before, but it keeps coming back as a major pain point when customers get started with WCF in Silverlight. Out of the box, exceptions are not propagated from the WCF service to the Silverlight client. Instead, you...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-16 more

A big step for Stored Procedures in EF4

When you are building or updating a model from a database, included Stored Procedures find their way into the SSDL (Store Schema Description Layer) of the metadata but not into the conceptual model. In order to expose them in your model, you need to create something called a Function Import which imports that stored proc from your SSDL into your model. In EF4, when you run the Function Import Wizard, you will see a new option: Complex. Complex Types have been around since the beginning of Entit
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Check out our new Learn page!

We listened, we heard, we acted. The new Learn page is designed to make it easier to get started, and easier to find what you are looking for. It is also pretty snazzy.  I
Publication date: 2008-07-22 more

On Our Cross Plat Commitment

When I joined Microsoft and started talking about Silverlight, many in the Mac community expressed skepticism about Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-11-12 more

WPF 3.5 SP1: Don't let the SP moniker fool you

Yesterday the WPF team shipped some major horsepower features in the vastly understated preview Service Pack to .NET Framework 3.5. It is an exception to the rule for an SP release to have features, and not just bug fixes. In the mold of Windows XP SP2...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-16 more

Maximum TV Launches Silverlight-based Spanish Language TV Site

Maximum TV has just launched a Spanish language TV station on the web using Silverlight, IIS Smooth Streaming, SQL Server, and Windows Server to deliver an amazing ad-supported video experience. We really like the video walls (shown below) that show 12...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-29 more

ARCast.TV - Improving User Experience in Digital Signage Solutions with Silverlight

Improving User Experience in Digital Signage Solutions In this interview, Tim Meinhardt, Colin Ploscaru, and Juan Calcagno at TTSS discusses with Zhiming Xue why they became interested in adopting new technologies like Silverlight, and what they had to...( read more )
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Quotes about concurrency by AndersH

Yesterday a new 1-hour video interview on C# 4.0 was posted on channel9.At some point the question is posed to Anders:"What are some of the big issues that you are thinking about for the future?"and Anders' reply (ffw to 39:56) identifies concurrency as the #1 thing:"Concurrency is by far... profoundly changing... Moore's law... we've been ignoring concurrency because we could... now we can't... it is a damn hard problem..."My favorite quote comes at 45:13 and includes hand gestures too:"It is f
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Data Binding

We have a couple tutorials and videos about Data-binding, and once you grok the basics, it is reasonably straightforward. Tutorial
Publication date: 2008-10-11 more

Silverlight talk at AjaxWorld

I am pretty exited to be going to AjaxWorld (Oct 20-22) in San Jose.... I will be at least giving a Silverlight talk and maybe something else fun in the Ajax, MVC, ASP.NET space. I love getting out in the broad industry events because I can hear such...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Blend 3 Behaviors: Interactivity Without Code

Blend 3 introduces a powerful design pattern for interactivity: Behaviors. Behaviors allow designers to create production-quality interactivity without writing code. They work in WPF and Silverlight. For those of you who are missing triggers in Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Panoramic Deep Zoom -- Question of the Day -- Repost

If you want to learn how to stitch diverse photos together into a panorama, and then turn it into a Deep Zoom application, it's actually very easy, and I've got the full details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/10/18/panoramic-deep-zoom...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Cool Stuff with Silverlight at the Olympics

Cool Stuff with Silverlight at the Olympics What can you expect from the Silverlight-powered Olympics experience? Well: For the first time in history, you'll be able to watch the majority of Olympic games live on the web. Each event will be caught in HD at multiple camera angles. All streamed events are also stored as
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Creating a Master-Detail UI in Blend

Learn how to extend what you know about sample data to create a master-detail relationship....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-15 more

Test Message -- Please Ignore :)

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Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

One of the most unusual books I

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Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 released

Announcing the release of our latest Silverlight Toolkit: March 2009 edition. I just checked when I blogged last and that was in December 2008, when we released the December edition. Since then I have not posted a single thing
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Basic flow diagram visual editor by vins78

Using Flash, Flex or Silverlight is welcomed. I need an application that is able to build a workflow (places, transitions and arcs). The application is able to save the builded workflow in XML and post it to a given URL
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Using the ChangePropertyAction

Learn how to easily change properties at runtime (and look cool) without writing code....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-27 more

Will the BlackBerry browser get full Flash, Silverlight support?

Research In Motion is planning on integrating full Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support into their BlackBerry web browser, according to a report. BoyGeniusReport notes that the integration is
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

[Caught in the Net] The Hotness

I consider it my secular sacred duty to shine a light on the weirdest, most thought-provoking, most interesting sex-related bits of the cyberinterwebverse that I can find
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

View count not being updated

Hi, got another problem with my upgrade of a site from CS 2007 SP2 to CS 2008 SP1, the view count is no longer being updated. I've looked through everything I can think of, and it still doesn't want to play ball. The Job Reports page doesn't seem to want to work either. I'm stumped, cause it's a really strange issue.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Soft-deletes are bad, m'kay?

Have you ever ran into database tables with a field which is used to mark if a row has been 'deleted' ? Probably. These fields are used to implement 'soft-deletes'. For the soft-delete impaired, a quick introduction. Soft-deletes are row deletes which are not really happening: instead of removing the row from the database table, a field in the row is set to a value which signals that the row is officially 'deleted'. Every SELECT statement on that table is then filtering on that field's value so
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Rich Internet Applications: "This Conversation Is Bullshit"

The liveliest session at RedMonk
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Silverlight multi-file upload controls and patterns

One area where Silverlight can plat an interesting role for your web applications is wherever file uploading to your server needs to be done. This may sound odd to think of it that way, but if you
Publication date: 2008-09-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #34

By default your Silverlight application is aligned to the left of your browser. How cool though would it be if you could keep your Silverlight application centered in the browser? Run this demo here: http://silverlight.live.com/ContentTestPage.aspx?setName...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-01 more

Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones Launching On October 6

Microsoft is working hard to stay relevant in the cell phone market. In the past few months various sources told that Windows Mobile 6.5 phones would be available in October 2009.Today the software maker has got more specific and announced that first phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 will be launched on October 6 worldwide.It is the first time that these phones will be sold under
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

RIA Services and Authentication - Part 2 (Using Roles)

When I posted my RIA Services and Authentication post earlier in the week (which I highly recommend checking out first if you haven't), the first comments/tweets I saw indicated people also want to see roles working in the application. So I decided to...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-30 more

Build Your Photo Album Using Silverlight

by Amanda Wong More and more websites are now offering services for photo albums and image galleries. For some websites like Facebook, photo albums act merely as a sub-page. But for some other websites like those photographers
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Google increasing Flash indexing

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html Google's search engine now crawls more Flash-related content than before, according to their official blog. Useful news for those with content published through Adobe's Flash, if it includes text: Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files? All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be us
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Facebook Hooks Up With Adobe For Richer Social Applications In Flash

Not to be outdone by MySpace announcing a deeper partnership with Microsoft yesterday, bringing Silverlight technology to its development platform and mobile application, Facebook and Adobe are today announcing a partnership and the release of fresh Flash client libraries to make it easier for developers to plug into the Facebook Platform inside their social applications built with Flash. Flash has been supported since the launch of Facebook Platform in 2007 through tags, embedding
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

June 18-2008 can be a great day for the Web

And you can be part of it. The latest and greatest browser ever can make history and you can help! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

An "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release [HeadTraxExtreme sample application updated]

A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme , an...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

An Early Look - VisualStateManager for WPF

John Gossman, one of the awesome Silverlight and WPF architects, just blogged a prototype of VisualStateManager for WPF. VisualStateManager will be added in to a future release of the .NET Framework. For those of you who want an early look, you can now...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

New tutorials page aggregating recent work, 34 for launch

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Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Silverlight 4 Feature Requests

Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have established a more community focused way of tracking Silverlight 4 feature requests. You can find their feature tracker here: Silverlight Feedback Forum . Other than a few items that our outside our control (iPhone, bundling...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Silverlight 3 to launch July 10

May 28th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 1:17 pmCategories:.Net Framework, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Expression Studio, Silverlight (wpf/e)Tags:Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 3, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing, Mary Jo FoleyEarlier this year, Microsoft officials said they planned to deliver the final version of Silverlight 3 before the end of 2009. Looks like they meant months before
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Link Listing - January 26, 2009

Link Listing - January 26, 2009 Sharepoint New Release of the SmartTools for SharePoint Project [Via: Jan Tielens ] Creating SharePoint global calendar [Via: DigiMortal ] Creating downloadable calendar item of SPListItem [Via: DigiMortal ] WPF Building a Composite WPF Application Part 3: Intro to Modules [Via: jab ] Ocean Framework Released - MVVM for WPF Line of Business Update [Via: Karl Shifflett ] WCF Screencast: Building RESTful Services with WCF - Part 2 [Via: Aaron Skonnard ] Link Col
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate

ScottGu has written a long blog post describing the enhancements found in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/01/27/asp-net-mvc-1-0-release-candidate-now-available.aspx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

France and UK designers @ Expression & Silverlight Events

Bon jour! Paris, France. This has been a fun week. I had the opportunity to visit France and the UK. This Wednesday Microsoft participated in the DDB Digital Days 2008 event in Paris. It was a fun event in a very social environment. The presentation has...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-20 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Adding transitions to the Frame control

Continuing with my recent theme of enhancing the built-in support for Navigation in Silverlight 3, I thought I
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model

Wednesday at MIX09 was a great day. I was exhausted, but after the keynote I was so high on excitement it was great. Throughout the day Twitter was buzzing (or is it fizzing?) about all the news around Silverlight 3 . In one conversation around the out...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

MS Silverlight vs. Adobe Flash

Microsoft made another significant stride at the March MIX conference where the company released version 3.0 of its Silverlight web plugin. The latest version is implemented with new multimedia features and now has the ability to run applications offline. The buzz around Silverlight 3.0 has many wondering when Adobe will upgrade Flash and [...]
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Share DataContext among navigation pages in Silverlight 3

I got an email the other day about if there was a way to pass an object between the navigation pages in Silverlight 3 .  The scenario was that the developer wanted to use the same data, but represent it visually in different ways. Silverlight 3 introduces a new navigation framework in the runtime making it easier to navigate to different areas of an application and assist in
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Microsoft and Capgemini Ink ERP Partner Deal

Microsoft and Capgemini announced a partnership deal on Friday that aims to better integrate Microsoft's software with SAP's enterprise resource planning solutions.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

Optimizing LINQ Queries using DataLoadOptions

Optimizing LINQ Queries using DataLoadOptions... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Game Programming with Silverlight

Coming soon...     Product Description This book is a comprehensive guide that will walk readers through every feature needed to create a web based game using Silverlight, a new, free rendering tool that supports a variety of programming languages and fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers. Each chapter in the book builds upon the previous and by the end of the book the user will have completed the creation of a multi-player online adv
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

The Morning Brew #332

Software Pex 0.11 Released: Delegates, Exception Trees, and Stubs - Nikolai Tillmann announces the release of Pex 0.11 which adds the ability to work with delegates as parameters, a new Exception tree view, and stubs for Recursion and events, along with a few fixes os issues with the previous releases. TestDriven.Net 2.20: Improved NCover Integration - Jamie Cansdale announces V2.20 of TestDriven.NET which improves the integration with NCover and TypeMock, along with better support for
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

St. Louis DotNet User Group Meeting

So I went to the St. Louis .Net user group meeting after work this evening, two months in a row now! It was definitely an interesting presentation from Denny Boynton . He was talking about Software + Services, rather than SaaS. It was a good talk, but...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 2

Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 RSS feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1 I explained what RSS is and how to use it, please read that if you need a refresher on why RSS is awesome and why you should be using it if you take reading news on the internet seriously . The prefix to Trimming in Public is
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

RadControls for Silverlight and WPF

My colleague Hristo Deshev just announced the availability of Telerik RadControls for WPFBeta2. This is a very important release not only because it brings so many new features and controls for WPF, but because this is ourfirst release that includesthe Silverlight and WPF controls under a single distributable. For this first release we ported just a fewSilverlight controls for WPF (namely TreeView, PanelBar, Calendar, DatePicker, Slider, ProgressBar and NumericUpDown), but inthe longrun alm
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

html 5 for a better Web - PHP Classes

html 5 for a better Web By Manuel Lemos The html 5 will definitely contribute to a better Web. Despite its specification is still being drafted, several browsers like Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4, Chrome 2 and Opera 10 already implement a significant part of the current html 5 specification. read more
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

T&L Reviewer Carol Holzberg Test Drives Microsoft Expression Studio 2

T&L Reviewer Carol Holzberg Test Drives Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Expression Blend 2 (PC only, 57 MB,): Interactive WYSIWYG design tool with support for Silverlight (Microsoft's new cross-platform, cross-browser interactive presentation technology plug-in that competes with Apple's QuickTime Player and Adobe Flash Player). Work in Design, Code (XAML) or Split View to composite vector and bitmap images, video, audio, rich text, adding animation, graphics, 3D and video to a variety of ve
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Expression Studio 4 Launch on Jun 7th in NYC!

Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th! Bill Buxton will be there as our featured guest speaker and many of your other favorite Blenders will be there, too: Christian Schormann Pete Blois Chris Bernard...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

Interesting Finds: August 4, 2009

Other MonoTouch: Mono on iPhone closed preview , Miguel de Icaza Release: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 , Alessandro Perilli Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine , Scott Hanselman Reporting Code Diff , Patrick Smacchia Code to look at Singleton pattern in a multiple worker thread Application Pool , Wawrzyniec Wawro Web Debugging Client-Side JavaScript Using Firebug's Console , Simon Pickersgill Micro
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Electronic Health Records Not Enough

This article makes a lot of sense and I have said somewhat the same in various posts over the last year, and this is where aggregating data is coming in to play, one place to add, edit and read information.  One other item that I think has potential is the Common User Interface, so why can
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Growl for Windows and a Web Notification API

I have talked before about the desire for a Notification API on the Web. As a Mac user, I would love to see Growl from JavaScript, and there have been libraries written from as far back as protoGrowl. The difference is between a JavaScript API that does notifications on the desktop, versus trying to get little custom notifications inside the browser window itself. I am talking about the former. Brian Dunnington has developed Growl for Windows, and with his latest version, he allows you to ta
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters

Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft's new search engine Bing. The real interesting contrast to us, as independent software developers, is the way developers responded to Silverlight as opposed to the reaction yesterday to Google Wave. Both Silverlight and Wave are aimed at taking the internet experience to the next level. To be perfectly honest, Silve
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

RIM Is The World

Blackberry has been making waves this past week. First Fortune Magazine named RIM, the makers of Blackberry, the fastest growing company in the world . Then came the news that upcoming Blackberry devices, possibly next year, will offer Flash and Silverlight support in their their mobile handsets. It
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Silverlight 4 & MEF

In my head, I see Silverlight 4 applications as either running; In Browser Out of Browser Out of Browser and Trusted Out of Browser and Trusted and in the presence of COM interop ( i.e. on Windows ) and you might write functionality that only works in...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

A sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder

Here's a sneak preview of the upcoming Typemock Racer product, which I'm currently working on. We should be out in private CTP in a couple of weeks I hope. Typemock Racer tries to solve one huge problem for developers working in multi threaded environments: Detecting code that can result in deadlocks or race conditions. It does this by providing a framework API which you can use in your tests (under NUnit for example), that allows you to execrise your code under test until it finds a deadlock or
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

A deadlock was detected while trying to lock variables

The following error is a new thorn in my side. Its showing up in SSIS 2005 packages which are scheduled, but does not happen when I run the packages manually. I changed the message slightly to remove identifying characteristics. Executed as user: \SYSTEM. ...n 9.00.3042.00 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 4:00:00 AM Error: 2008-06-17 04:01:28.67 Code: 0xC001405D Source: Script Task Description: A deadlock was detected while trying to lock varia
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

SharePoint Saturday - Example Code and Slides

URL : http://wildermuth.com/Talks#SharePoint_Satuday_... I had a great time today at SharePoint Saturday in Atlanta. I gave a presentation on using Silverlight in SharePoint WebParts. If you want the code or slides, you can get them here: http://wildermuth.com/Talks#SharePoint_Satuday___Atlanta,_GA
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Akamai Unleashes HD Network

Akamai (AKAM: chart, news) had promised an announcement today regarding a new strategic direction for video delivery.  And what did it turn out to be?  Why the Akamai HD Network of course!  The new platform is billed as
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

SILVERLIGHT 101 FROM LEARNVISUALSTUDIO.NET

Silverlight 101 from LearnVisualStudio.NET 106 Mb This textbook (PDF) and video series demonstrates and explains the concepts behind building rich interactive applications using Silverlight. Covers 1.0 and 1.1 Alpha. Will be released to LearnVisualStudio.NET subscribers. Tags: .NET, ebooks, Programming 02 September 2009 11:10pm - Programming
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #56

In Silverlight you can interact directly with the HTML DOM (Document Object Model). This can be done through the HtmlPage .Document object: HtmlDocument doc = HtmlPage .Document; Make certain to first add a reference to the following namespace: using...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-07 more

Live Mesh Tech Preview

Just a little more than a week ago, I got an invite to join Microsoft's new hype technology Mesh.com. I can't personally get massive advantage out of this platform as it doesn't support Linux as the operating system yet. However, the web interface seems to work perfect in Firefox. It seems like the Mac and Mobile support is also still hanging in the air. I have to be honest that after all the hype I kind-of expected more. Then again, this is Microsoft we're talking about here, hype is their
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Photoshop.com Mobile to be Launched for Windows Mobile and Palm Smartphones

Adobe has always been the numero uno choice in desktop graphics and Flash still continues to rule the roost in animating the web, despite the imminent danger from Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Veteran iPhone/mobile developer concerned about

Ilium Software are one the long time mobile software publishers, and their blog is considered must reading for those that follow the business side of the mobile industry and has consistently good content on lots of mobile topics in general.Their Product Manager Marc has a very good post up on whether cheaper really is better
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Interesting Finds: July 31, 2009

Other Rebasing System.Reactive to the .net CLR , Jb Evain
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design

Learn the simple recipe to design the look of a glassy button. It is a very simple process as you will discover and surprisingly easy to replicate even for the non-designer. Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design Click these links to download...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

Dell Mini 9 Project

I ordered the following Dell Mini 9 from Dell on one of their one day only sales ($50 off) (which seem to occur every few weeks, so it pays to be patient
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

Video Advertising Innovator EyeWonder Supports Launch of Microsoft Silverlight 3

As a driver of in-stream video advertising adoption, EyeWonder works with Silverlight to provide engaging user experiences that allow publishers to monetize their content and create new ad space ATLANTA
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

What I did to get Silverlight Working in SharePoint in Today's Webcast

What I did to get Silverlight Working in SharePoint in Today's Webcast In today's MSDN webcast, Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Silverlight & SharePoint, one of many in the Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers series, you'll see Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 working within SharePoint. One thing you won't see is me configuring the virtual machine (VM) so that I can not only do Silverlight development in the VM but also to have it run within a SharePoint site. I thought i
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Desert Code Camp Is This Saturday (May 31st)

Arizona's Desert Code Camp is this Saturday (May 31st) at the University of Advanced Computing building.  Here's the address: University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road (map) Tempe, Arizona 85283 It looks like there are a lot of great talks scheduled covering everything from iPhone development to game development to line of business applications.  I'll be giving a talk titled Integrating Data Into Silverlight 2 Applications on behalf of Interface Technical Training which i
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

ASP.NET Debugging : Creating interesting Silverlight chart datapoints

Creating interesting Silverlight chart datapoints I was reading this great post by Jeff Wilcox and quickly found out that some of the needed code to get this to work was missing from his post. So I went about recreating the missing parts and getting this to work.  Here is what mind looks like now that it is functional: To get to this work, I followed the same steps that Jeff mentioned so I will not go through them here.  But what I will do is give you the source code that I used.Test.xaml 1:
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Java Developers: Expand Your Skills in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

This learning track provides you with the core information you need to start developing with Microsoft Visual C# 2005 using the Microsoft .NET Framework.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Silverlight 2 Lab: Intensive Skills Training

Coming soon... Product Description Silverlight 2 Lab presents a new approach to learning about Silverlight. Andrew Troelsen, author and .NET trainer, simulates the highly effective teaching and presentation techniques of a corporate training workshop in order to provide a deep treatment of Silverlight 2 in an accessible manner. Each chapter begins with a focused
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Creating Awesome Applications when you're Clueless

On a fairly regular basis, I get email or blog comments where someone will ask me how to create something they have zero experience doing. Invariably, it's a project that is enormously complex. Poking a little fun (good naturedly, I'll add) the requests...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-07 more

Microsoft makes Web development tools available for free

September 24th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:03 amCategories:Corporate strategy, Development tools, Expression Studio, Mix '09, Open source, Silverlight (wpf/e), Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)Tags:Web, Microsoft Corp., Web Development, Tool, Spark Program, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo FoleyMicrosoft has been on a
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009

Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/12/2009 Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/12/2009 Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/11/2009 Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/11/2009 Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Coffee [Lifehacker Top 10] - folktrash.com 07/11/2009 Coffee doesn
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

For DevDays attendees

Thank you for attending my 3 sessions in Amsterdam at DevDays 2008. I had a blast! + Resources for my Silverlight session. + Resources for my 5 Things (VS2008 client session). + Resources for my Parallel Extensions session. Comments about this post welcome at the original blog.
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Silverlight Roles, Profile and Authentication Example Updated for Silverlight Beta2 Now with Visual State Manager (VSM) goodness!

I am very excited about Silverlight Beta2 shipping recently ...  I took a few minutes to update my recent sample " Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight " post to Beta2.  While I was at it, I...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-11 more

MySpace Launches on Windows Mobile

[CTIA 09 Las Vegas] MySpace has a new application for Windows Mobile 6.1 phones and on Silverlight. The application will be presented at CTIA this week, on April 2nd at 1:30pm. The main social features from MySpace will be available from the application:
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Child controls on a UserControl may get clipped in a system with a lower Font Dpi

967578 ... Child controls on a UserControl may get clipped in a system with a lower Font DpiThis RSS feed provided by kbAlerz.com.Visit kbAlertz.com to subscribe. It's 100% free and you'll be able to recieve e-mail or RSS updates for the technologies you pick from the Microsoft Knowledge Base.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Using Popup to create a Dialog class

Presenting a dialog to the user is a common task for many applications. Silverlight 2 does not have a Dialog class, but it is possible to use the Popup class to create a very credible dialog. My Dialog class can
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Beauty with Silverlight

I created something cool that I
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Two things I've learned about house fires

When our neighbors' house burned down last week, our other neighbors arrived about 15 minutes before the firemen did. They knew there were pets inside and wanted to go try to let them out. There was another person with them who had been visiting and happened to be a volunteer fireman. He stopped them from doing this because he knew that the fire inside was just waiting for fresh oxygen and would combust big time as soon as a door or window was opened. It was really hard for my friends not to try
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

How to use Silverlight RC0 -- and some code updates for my Silverlight 2 book.

RC0 Update: So, after a lot of effort, we finally got Silverlight 2 RC0 out the door, and it's a release that we're really proud of. I won't go into a lot of detail as to what's new, Scott's Blog does that quite adequately.  I've...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-01 more

Mapping Objects with AutoMapper

At the end of last year I finished a project that required a fair amount of object-to-object mapping. Unfortunately, Jimmy Bogard didnt release AutoMapper until this year, so I had to write a pile of object-to-object mapping goo on my own. AutoMapper is a convention based mapper. Lets say you have an object implementing an interface like thispublic interface IPatientDetailView { string Name { get; set; } IEnumerable Procedures { get; set; } // ... } but all... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Microsoft's Bing goes live in preview

The buzz last week and building overnight (on Twitter) was that Microsoft's new search product, Bing, was going live early. This morning, users of Live.com as well as MSN search got a little surprise ... two days early. Prior to an upcoming multi media advertising blitz valued at 80-100 million dollars, Bing is now live in most time zones in 'preview mode'. Bing Travel , born out of Microsoft's Farecast acquisition, is also now live as well as other new members of the 'Bing family', not
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Silverlight in the Big Apple

In NYC this weekend and want to hang out and learn some Silverlight? Some community leaders and Microsoft folk are putting on a Silverlight 2 Firestarter event this weekend on 13-SEP. Shawn Wildermuth of the Silverlight Tour will be there for the keynote and giving some sessions as well. It looks like some folks from Infragistics will be there as wellId imagine they might have some cool things to talk about! The event is free for anyone to attend and should be a good time hanging out with fellow
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Dew Drop - August 1, 2008

  .NET / Visual Studio Using Regions in Code Files (Chris Love) VS + ViEmu + (ReSharper Modded with AutoHotkey) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo) Playing with ADO.NET Data Services (Mike Hadlow) How to Program Visual Basic 2008 - A Master Text (Joe Stagner) .NET Rocks! - Issam Elbaytam and Scott Wileke on Active Reports and More (MS Downloads) LINQ to AD - Refresh Release 1.0.1 Available (Bart de Smet) Extension Methods Roundup: Intersect, Union, AsNullable and GroupEvery (Omer van Kloeten) RockScroll F
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Updated Silverlight FlickR demo for Beta2

I had a little time while traveling to South Africa so I thought I'd update my Silverlight FlickR demo to Beta2.    Download the full solution read the full writeup   (note: in the application, you can click on the image to advance to the next one)   Overall, the changes were pretty minor, the most  interesting one was a change in the way Isolated Storage is accessed.   I set up a page level variable called appsettings: IsolatedStorageSettings appSettings... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Surprise! Expression Studio 2 Is Live!

You would be forgiven if you didn't realize Expression Studio 2 is now available.  It went up quietly this week on the newly red-designed Expression website.  While there will be a bigger splash later in the year to announce the launch of this product, the reason why you haven't heard much about it yet is because while the product is now released by Microsoft, the physical media for the product is in the process of being shipped to retailers. While the physical media won't be available likely
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Beta 2 Month

Beta 2 has been announced, and as you know from Tim
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

dotNETwork 4th Gathering: May 31 - SharePoint & Silverlight

dotNETwork 4th gathering will be Saturday May 31st. Agenda: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM SharePoint Development Marwan will give us an overview about SharePoint development. This session will be first session of a SharePoint sessions series. Marwan Tarek MOSS MVP - Team leader ITWorx 01:30 PM
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Using the DragDropService in RadDock

Overview The new docking framework introduces service-based semantic, which allows for granular and pluggable functionality per RadDock. Entire drag-and-drop functionality is handled by the registered DragDropService instance, which simply receives drag requests and instantiates the appropriate operation. The service is responsible for drop target hit-testing, displaying docking guides and docking hints as well as for processing user input while dragging is in progress. On the scree
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

RIM To Add Full Flash And Silverlight Support To The Blackberry Browser

Details over the last month have showed that Research In Motion (RIM), the recently named fastest growing company in the world and the mastermind behind Blackberry, are planning to add full Flash and Silverlight support to the phone company
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

TDD 5-day course\workshop in Norway

If you're in norway, this might be of interest to you. I'll be doing two 5-day courses on TDD and Unit Testing in august and december. here are the dates and links to the full course outlines: Courses are currently limited to 20 attendees and are mainly exercise driven (working in pairs). I'm only planning to do these 1-2 times a year for scheduling reasons. as far as I hear the august course is already half full.  These are hands on, .NET centric classes, with little theory and mostly practice.
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Western European ReMix Tour 2009

I was lucky enough to be asked to go on a brief western European ReMix tour.  Our goal with these events is to bring the best of Mix 09 (and some new stuff) closer to where some of the best developers and designers in the world live.  A few of my co-workers are going to be heading out on the tour as well including: Ux expert Arturo Toledo , Adam Kinney of expression fame and architect extraordinaire Simon Guest .  So you don
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Silverlight version of Photosynth working in Chrome

Silverlight version of Photosynth working in Chrome By George Ou on 2/17/2009 11:31 PM  I was surprised to see that Microsoft Photosynth Silverlight edition was working in Google's Chrome browser today.  It looks like Silverlight is shaping up to be an awesome universal application platform especially when it comes to video playback.
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

XAML Power Toys for Silverlight

If you live in the WPF world, you may know the name of Karl Shifflett . If you
Publication date: 2008-10-06 more

WebKit owns mobile, and iPhone 3G S owns WebKit

======================================================================== Today's Blogs June 18, 2009 ======================================================================== WebKit owns mobile, and iPhone 3G S owns WebKit http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/5310663/475345205/198628/0/ Taming the SOA hype monster http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/5310663/475345205/198629/0/ 7 green technologies poised for success http://ifwnews
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

YouTube, Silverlight, and your WM Device

Folks have been asking for the ability to watch YouTube videos on their devices and over time there have been apps that have worked.  Some were good and others were not so good but it looks like there is finally one that you can use and get some pretty good results.  Yup, YouTube and Microsoft have teamed up with an app for you to enjoy your favorite YouTube videos. (screenshot of Chris during a Mobilitysite YouTube Video.  Playback was on an HTC TouchPro) So, how do you get it?  Eas
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview

Silverlight 3 is here!!! The Silverlight platform has come a long way (in a relatively short period of time) from a scriptable graphics and media runtime into a full-fledged platform for developing Rich Internet Applications, using managed code, the goodness...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

VPC for IE testing refreshed with beta 2

Microsoft has updated the VPCs to test your web apps with different versions of Internet Explorer. You can now download these VPC: IE6/XP SP3 IE7/XP SP2 IE7/Vista IE8 beta 2/XP SP3 >> Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image These new VPCs will expire in January, 2009. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

C#-SQLite now published

Noah Hart has published his port of SQLite to C#. The project is called C#-SQLite. The main SQLite author, D Richard Hipp, originally said that the project should not include SQLite anywhere in its name, but has now relented : I think I would be comfortable with a name like C#-SQLite. The prefix makes it clear that it is a reimplementation, not the original. People notice prefixes much more readily than suffixes. There is also precedent for changing a prefix for a reimplementation. Lucen
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Getting started with Silverlight: Part 7 – Out-of-browser experiences

This is part 7 in a series on getting started with Silverlight . To view the index to the series click here . You can download the completed project files for this sample application in C# or Visual Basic . In our final stage of this getting started series...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

3 New Security Videos Published !

#8 | Changing Membership Settings in the Default Membership Schema #9 | Configuring SQL To Work with Membership Schemas #10 | Understanding ASP.NET Memberships [ Get them here ] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Bunnikins!

When an IT manager is selected as a victim of office politics of a large corporate, it is time for him to engage in intelligence-gathering. Phil Factor exposes a ruthless streak when called to account over an Engineering Workflow system.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

DevTeach is coming to Toronto in just a few more weeks!

I copied this blog post from Julie Lerman's blog. Julie copied it from Guy Barrette's blog. I'm sure someone will copy it from me and add their own little flair. If you live in Toronto and don't attend DevTeach, Guy Barrette is going to make you code in Clipper for the remainder of your career (BTW - that's Clipper development with no Multi Edit and no Norton Guides. Ah, there, now you're shaking). Seriously, DevTeach has a great lineup of speakers from Toronto and across the globe. Where
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Customer Preloader - Silverlight TV 006

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 6 John Stockton (Silverlight MVP) discusses how a custom preloader can spice up your application . He shows how to implement a basic custom preloader (aka splash Screen) and...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-05 more

Q2 Asp.Net skinning

It's that time of the year again and we're getting ready for the next quarterly release here at telerik. This time we have a major visual update coming for the ASP.NET product line. Almost all skins will get a refresh - some a minor QA to bring back to original designs, others a more thorough facelift. Wanted to get back to you even before the beta release next week with a sneak view of what's coming so you can have your say. Here's the major planned changes in skinning: Black skin preserves
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Using JavaScript Effectively in ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 1

The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced many new feature that make JavaScript usage with ASP.NET pages easy. The ClientScriptManager class in the framework has many new useful methods that help developers use these features very effectively. In this first part of the series, Satheesh discusses some of the common scenarios to use the frequently used overload methods of the ClientScriptManager class. He starts with an overview of the ClientScriptManager class and then examines the RegisterClientScriptBl
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #97

I recently stumbled across a cool tool by EnvyGames that allows you to generate sprites from 3D Models and their animation files. This tool, called SpriteWorks , is ideal for creating high quality sprite animations and one that I
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Animate LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator

David Anson shows you how to easily animate LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator . I wanted something that was simple and easy to use - and managed to come up with a pretty reasonable XAML-only solution on my second try. [The first attempt would have been a bit simpler, but didn't work out. :( ] The basic idea is to insert a Mediator between the animation and the LayoutTransformer and let the Mediator make sure the LayoutTransformer is updated when necessary. This task is complicated sl
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Microsoft Zune Adds Wi-Fi Downloads Radio Song Downloads Games

nobosh detailsShare Story TC50: Angel Investors Say Now Is Their Time We're in the middle of a wider economic downturn, there are no IPOs, funding is getting thin, but are the Angels unhappy? It looks like not. The downturn has sorted out the wheat from the chaff, the bar has been raised and they feel well-placed against even some of the biggest VC... TechCrunch - 1h ago Read Story nobosh detailsShare Story isoHunt Seeks Declaratory Judgment In Canada On Legality Of To
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Hatred is a Disease

Ive been doing Open Source stuff for a decade, but I work at Microsoft (They dont call me Misfit for nothing.) There are a few folks in the so called Open Source Community that viscerally HATE Microsoft. Personally I consider this a chosen form of stupidity. I love working at Microsoft and I love many of our products, and I dislike some of the others. I love and use many non-Microsoft products, and hate others. But I do so based on the products attributes. Lest we forget what the origin
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #44: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services

In Tip of the Day #42 I talked about how to create and use a web service using WCF for your Silverlight application. For this tip I would like to briefly discuss WCF and some highlights on why you should use it over the traditional ASMX based Web Services...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-23 more

IE8 beta 2

So far in the last couple hours I have found 3 great benefits of IE8 beta 2.   First IE8 is launching really fast. This is great since I am doing a lot of Silverlight stuff lately
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Silverlight Toolkit: TreeView, TreeViewItem & HierarchalDataTemplate

Hi folks,   I
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight

Brandon Bray gave an interesting presentation at MIX09 on how the CLR (the execution engine that underlies the .NET Framework) was refactored to support for Silverlight; I thought I
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Silverlight MVPs of the Year (2009)

This week at Microsoft we are hosting roughly 1,300 of our top community experts around the world in various technical competencies. For Silverlight , we have about 80% of our group in attendance from all over the world. At the beginning of the year the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-19 more

March Madness: CBSSports.com Draws 4.8 Million Uniques During First Three Days

The second round of the NCAA Div. I Mens' Basketball tournament is on its final games and, aided by increased cross-platform marketing, CBSSports.com has already broken last year's streaming media totals for its March Madness on Demand video player . paidContent has obtained the numbers for the first three days:
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

A bit more than meets the eye [Easily animate LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator!]

I came across a question on the Silverlight Toolkit support forum yesterday asking how to animate the values of a Transform used by the Silverlight Toolkit 's LayoutTransformer . (Background on LayoutTransformer: Motivation and introduction for Beta 1...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Exploding Objects in Silverlight with a Behavior

Peter Blois explains about one of his favorite things to do with behaviors - to make interfaces explode . I've been doing this for years and it never fails to lighten up my day. With behaviors in Blend 3 and perspective transforms in Silverlight 3 I was finally able to make an decently gratifying explode behavior.
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

BusyIndicator: David Poll

BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Interesting Finds: April 4, 2009

Other stuff Refactoring logic from an ASP.NET page , Jonathan Cogley Dice.com Shows 45% Drop In Tech Jobs , Leena Rao Creating a functional programming model for MEF , Glenn Block Highlights From This Year
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight

Today is a wildly exciting day for Silverlight and all football fans! NBC announced that this fall, Silverlight together with IIS Smooth Streaming, will power full HD (720p) experiences for live delivery of all the NFL Sunday Night Football games this...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Dew Drop - March 27, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing The Complexity Pig (Ade Miller) Scrum-It
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

A prototype tool for designers and developers: converting XAML to ISM themes and back again

The Silverlight Toolkit contains implicit style management features that let you create a nice theme
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (18-July-2009)

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler. Highlights of the Week   Nuxeo Galaxy: Extending Enterprise CMS to CEVAs . Nuxeo being quite a busy bee lately, launched their Galaxy Program. No, astronautical adventures are not included. Plone Web CMS Update - What
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

What is the problem of the Hong Kong Educational System?

by Barry Lee Form March to May, secondary 5 and secondary 7 students need to attain HKCEE and HKALE respectively. Students need to pay many efforts in order to get a good grade. However, what can students learn or earn at the end of the exams? Students may get an offer in university or secondary six. However, they may also get great pressure. Besides, they may be disappointed because their, like drawing and music, may be not approved by exams. Anyway, attaining public exam must be an unforge
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Getting started with Silverlight: Part 4 – Binding the data and storing some for later

This is part 4 in a series on getting started with Silverlight . To view the index to the series click here . You can download the completed project files for this sample application in C# or Visual Basic . In the previous step 3 we did a lot of work...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Virus preventing scans, updates

Howdy, I've got some kind of virus that is doing all it can to stay alive. Started about 4 months ago with Norton AV going berzerk giving me false warnings faster than I could click out. It will not let me install AV software, or update windows or Java (usually tells me an error code that I cannot find on the host sites). Every now and then I can get one run from stinger or combofix. Usually it causes a bluescreen. Each time I reboot I get either various "could not write to memory" and blue
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

FIX: A program that is developed by using Visual C++ 2005 may close unexpectedly when an exception occurs on the IA-64 platform

954979 ... FIX: A program that is developed by using Visual C++ 2005 may close unexpectedly when an exception occurs on the IA-64 platformThis RSS feed provided by kbAlerz.com.Visit kbAlertz.com to subscribe. It's 100% free and you'll be able to recieve e-mail or RSS updates for the technologies you pick from the Microsoft Knowledge Base.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories incl
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

SQL SERVER 2008 Customize Toolbar Remove Debug Button from Toolbar

In todays article I have combined two different questions. I was fond of SQL Server Debugger feature in SQL Server 2000. To my utter disappointment, this feature was withdrawn from SQL Server 2005. However, because of loads of requests from developers it was re-introduced in SQL Server 2008.Developers were extremely happy with
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight applications

My whitepaper on Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight is now online: http://silverlight.net/learn/whitepapers/seo.aspx It provides a story for Silverlight 2 application authors and publishers who want their apps and content to show up in search...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Twitter Trackbacks for Works on My Machine - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek [silverlight.net] on Topsy.com

Pingback from  Twitter Trackbacks for                 Works on My Machine - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek         [silverlight.net]        on Topsy.com
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Screencasts zu Silverlight 2

+1 www.silverlightscreencasts.com This post originated from and is provided by the MSDN Blogs RSS feed. The original post of the article can be found here.
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

DevDays Netherlands 2009: 10 Silverlight Tips and tricks

My first-ever session in the Netherlands :) A big room, about 70% fill, that means a lot of interest for Silverlight. It seems that the demo that sparked the most conversation after the session was the
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

Silverlight Version 2 RC0 Released!!

Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2
Publication date: 2008-09-26 more

Microsoft searching for Olympic medals

Microsoft searching for Olympic medals Thu, Aug 7th, 2008 posted by admin 10:08 AM Although it talks about the battle with Google as a marathon rather than a sprint, Microsoft is hoping that the Olympics will help give its Internet properties a tail wind. As Google and Yahoo are also doing, Microsoft is tailoring its search results to feature Olympics content. Its news, video, and celebrity search results will all highlight Olympics content. Still, when it comes to se
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Watch Roland-Garros French Open Tennis in High Definition with Silverlight, IIS Smooth Streaming, France Télévisions and Eurosport

A quick note to let you know about that if you’re in Europe anytime between now and June 6, you can enjoy the 2010 French Open tennis championships live and on-demand on the Web via Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming. In France, check out the...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

Updated PDC Demo Project

I just updated the PDC demo project at http://electricbeach.org/files/SnowboardSketch_Demo_PDC.zip The original post contained some references to the Expression Blend sample behaviors (which you can download at expressionblend.codeplex.com), but it seemed...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

Membership roles in CS2008

Hi, Does anyone know where I can read/update the membership details at the database schema for a user so that I can add/remove him from a certain role? For example, say I want to promote a user to "Trusted User" whenever he has more than 10 posts submited. I know where to find the # of posts, but I can't find the table and attribute for the user/role association. Anyone know where is it?... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features

At the Microsoft Professional Developer (PDC) conference, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta . WHAT?! That
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Migration : Oracle forms/reports to .Net

ATX Technologies has established itself in the international markets with a proven record of technological innovation in the areas of reengineering, software migration and model-driven, architectural-based development, and we are currently working with partners such as Microsoft. Our flagship product is an automated tool called Forms2Net. Forms2Net provides time-effective and riskless way of migrating your Oracle Applications to the .NET environment. In fact Forms2Net is the only Microsoft Certi
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Can presentation layer abstraction ever replace desktop and Web apps?

Can presentation layer abstraction ever replace desktop and Web apps? Date: May 3rd, 2008 Author: Justin James Category: Web Development, Application Development Tags: Java Application, Desktop, Web, Application, HTML, Microsoft Silverlight, HTTP, Applet, ActiveX, Channel Management
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Pixellated

  I had a great time discussing Silverlight with Craig Shoemaker on his PodCast Pixel8.   Craig is a terrific interviewer; well informed, passionate, smart, Microsoft MVP , ASP Insider, developer, podcaster, blogger, co-author of Beginning ASP...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-01 more

Comparison of HTTP polling duplex and net.tcp performance in Silverlight 4 RC

One of the new features added in Silverlight 4 RC that shipped at MIX 2010 is a new mode of the HTTP polling duplex protocol which greatly improves the performance of data push scenarios compared to the previously available versions of HTTP polling duplex...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-28 more

SQL SERVER Query Optimizer Hint ROBUST PLAN Question to You

While cleaning up my bookmarks this week, I stumbled upon a very small interesting thing. I can proudly call myself a pro at finding stuffs, but after continuously hunting online I could not gather comprehensive information about this topic. I was actually looking for a practical example for Query Optimizer Hint
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Speaking in Chicago about Expression Blend for Developers

In conjunction with my trip to Chicago for the Expression Blend Workshop .toolbox event, I have the honor of presenting at the Chicago Silverlight User Group meeting. On May 6th at 6:30pm, we will meet at the Illinois Technology Association and discuss...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Does he sleeps?

I woke up early this morning and who was still up and broadcasting live his podcast recording on UStream?  Hanselman of course. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hanselminuteslive var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

Silverlight Tutorials Now In Japanese

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Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

New Silverlight 1.0 Video

In this video, Michael Palermo will demonstrate a simple, minimalistic way to approach Silverlight. This video will stress just the necessary requirements and steps to get started with Silverlight....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Bing Visual Search Released!

And it uses Silverlight! Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Dew Drop - July 26, 2008

Silverlight / WPF SilverlightFlyoutPanel (Ola Karlsson) Improved XAML
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!]

Friend and fellow Charting fan Bea Stollnitz has just completed a 3-post series describing how to add annotations to pie charts created by the Data Visualization package that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit . Because annotations are...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

How to build a good install UX with Silverlight

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight The Silverlight object model exposes events that can be used to build a very friendly end user experience for installing Silverlight. When it comes to using a Web site that requires a plug-in...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Have A Great Drawing

by Jason ChanSinging and playing sports requires talent, drawing needs it too. You need plenty of practice to draw good pictures. Attending a drawing class helps improve your drawing skills as a teacher will introduce you some basic drawing techniques. The teacher will teach you the right posture of holding a pencil and the way of using color. Though the teacher may assist you in certain extent, drawing is most likely coming from you.Patience is needed to do anything and there is no exception fo
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Silverlight development for PHP with JCX Software

If you
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

SalesCentric Updates CRM Solution

London, United Kingdom, 18th June 2009
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Accessing the DropDownList Control's SelectedIndex or SelectedValue Properties Selects the First ListItem

I was recently helping a colleague squash a bug that had popped up on a page that involved a DropDownList. Specifically, an HttpException was being thrown with the error message Cannot have multiple items selected in a DropDownList. This exception is raised, as the message notes, if a DropDownList contains multiple ListItems whose Selected properties are set to true. The page in question had a DropDownList whose values were populated from a web service on the first page load. Shortly after this
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls

It's finally hitting the street - "Advanced ASP.NET Ajax Server Controls" I had the pleasure to be a technical reviewer on this book during the writing process and am really excited about it's release. This book if one of the few that dive deep into the framework, its architecture and extensibility, and address the power-user/developer scenarios and it does it from a controls perspective. It's a big undertaking but Adam and Joel have done a great job. As Nikhil said "If you're building applicati
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF

Last week was our big PDC conference, and I've been busy catching up back at work this week.  I'm hoping to publish a bunch of new posts soon (including some on the PDC announcements we made).  Until then, here is the latest in my link-listing...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects

One of the really nice features of Visual Studio is the ability to very easily create projects templates from existing projects. This is a great feature to create a base project that contains only the things you need or adds additional things that you use in every project or some specific ones. For me this is especially useful for Web Projects as I have a fairly lengthy lists of support files and dependencies that I suck into new Web projects: stock CSS/image folders, scripts, a couple of assemb
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Without Apps, there

I
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

Flash vs Silverlight: 3D Image Space

3D Space is back again! My first post 3D Text Space received a lot of comments and I decided to apply the logic on images. The effect is much more groovy than the original one! And you may now vote your favorite sample! It included both Flash and Silverlight versions with complete source codes.
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Columns of a different color [Customizing the appearance of Silverlight charts with re-templating and MVVM]

When we created Silverlight Charting (background reading here and here ), we tried to make things as designer-friendly as possible. So friendly, in fact, that it would be possible for someone to take the default look-and-feel of what we'd released and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Do you wanna be the Picasso of programming? First learn the rules, and only after break them

UPDATE: Stackoverflow #41 is out. I bet it's going to be the most listened episode ever.This morning I woke up, and suddenly I was flooded by tweets and posts. All of that were about the latest buzz of the moment: Are Jeff and Joel going crazy or are they just playing going crazy?.I just want to think that, at least Jeff, is just playing the devils advocate, and giving a voice to the silent crowd that thinks that getting things done and ship the product/project is more important than crafting a
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Smooth Morphing with Transition Effects

Learn how to make your state changes come to life by using simple morph-like effects....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-07 more

Let this day not go unremarked

I have sat through too many tragic memorable days not to note this glorious turning point in American history. Having lived through the assassinations of JFK (11/22/1963), Dr. King(4/4/68), RFK (6/6/68), and then 9/11, and of course so much more
Publication date: 2008-11-05 more

Free ASP.NET, Ajax, and IIS Web Camps

My colleague James Senior ( @jsenior ) has organized some new Microsoft's Web Camps . These are free, two-day events that allow you to learn and build on the Microsoft Web Platform. At camp, you will hear from Microsoft experts on the latest components...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-03 more

Ignore: New Technorati claim token

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Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update]

We shipped the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit a little over a week ago and it includes a handful of improvements to the Data Visualization assembly . It also adds support for the new Silverlight 4 Beta ! And while we were busy getting...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Mike Snow and Silverlight

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Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

IE won't run

Here is the thread I first openned. I was instructed to open a new thread here. The URL was http://www.windowsbbs.com/internet-e...tml#post443377 Internet Explorer won't run. I think my browser has been hijacked. When I double click on the desktop icon or when I choose it from the Start menu, the cursor changes to an hourglass for a second or two as if I.E. were about to start, but nothing happens. Luckily all of my other programs seem to work. At first I couldn"t access the internet but I
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Silverlight 2 Web Development: Problem-Design- Solution

Coming soon... Product Description * As Microsoft's solution for building rich, interactive applications, Silverlight is gaining rapid popularity among ASP.NET developers * This book shows how to enhance Web applications with Silverlight 1.1 via a tutorial that walks readers through each stage of application development * The author team uses the extremely popular TheBeerHouse application to present readers with a problem, a design, and the solution, with the end result being a real-wor
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Free Silverlight Controls And Tools For Brighter Websites

The authors of the WebResources Depot site post a large collection of various free Silverlight vomponents. Here's small excerpt from preface article: Silverlight, which is used in more websites everyday, has several beautiful free controls, components & tools that will help you develop websites faster & better. They are not very easy to find as they are hidden inside the blogs of Silverlight developers or .NET products websites & there are still not so many resources where you ca
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Develop Silverlight on Eclipse : Eclipse4SL

Eclipse4SL has been out for a couple of months since the release of Silverlight 2. However, I didn't do any testing on this tool until yesterday. I have a lot of findings and let's see it one by one....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Essential JavaFX (With Source Code)

Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson " Essential JavaFX (With Source Code) " May 2009 | English | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-704279-1 | 361 Pages | PDF | 5.33 MB A complete introduction for beginners to Sun's powerful JavaFX scripting language JavaFX is a scripting language which provides built-in properties for manipulating objects within a 2D coordinate system. A competing technology to Microsoft's Silverlight, JavaFX provides the tools to fill and pen stroke colors, and create special effects, shapes and li
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Adoption of Silverlight serialization and communication technologies in web applications

We have repeated the research of the adoption of communication and serialization technologies in Silverlight applications that was originally done in February 2009. The new report is based on a research done in October 2009 and will give you an idea of...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-17 more

SQL SERVER Download Logical Query Processing Poster

Earlier this year, I had written article on SQL SERVER Logical Query Processing Phases Order of Statement Execution and I had asked one question to readers. I got very good response for this question. Today, I am going to discuss about one of the errata I have made there. I had displayed the [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

Silverlight Cream for July 28,2008 -- #337

Silverlight Cream for July 28,2008 -- #337 Mark Monster on Mocking SL and Networking, Denislav Savkov inheriting from ItemsControl, Alex Golesh on SL Events in JS and vice verse, Edward Silverton with a SL Portfolio site, Dave Relyea on Templating, Page Brooks Controlling his Treadmill, Lee on TabStrip and vertical text, Robby Ingebretsen surveying SL and 3D, Expression Team Blog with Resource links, and Jesse Liberty with four Twitter Blogs. Congratulations To The Winners of Silverlight 2
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

MIXrsquo;09 ndash; the intersection of design amp; technologyhellip; Silverlight Toolkit FTW!

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Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Strategies for editing DSL scripts in production

Another interesting question from Chris Ortman: So I write my dsl, and tell my customer to here edit this text file? How do I tell them what the possible options are? Intellisense? This is a web app, and my desire to build intellisense into a javascript rich text editor is very low. It might be a good excuse to try out silverlight but even then it seems a large task. Or I put express or #Develop on the server and make that the 'admin' gui? This is actually a question that comes up often
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

re: Running Silverlight 2 on Google Chrome using the Chrome Dev Channel

It works!! Thank alot!! [IMG: http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7018859]
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Flash vs Silverlight

SmashingMagazine has posted great article comparing the Flash and Silverlight in few categories: Animation, File Size, Scripting, Video and Audio and much more.
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Looking at Triggers and Actions

Like I
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Themes for Silverlight Applications

(Nikhil Kothari) Silverlight provides the ability to completely customize the look and feel of controls (including the intrinsic ones - often something one desires when working with HTML), while preserving their behavior, through a combination of styles, templates, visual states and transitions. For example, the screen shot below (click to run), shows the stock look replaced with a sketch or napkin look and feel (based on Corrina's (our resident designer) rough skin sample).
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Test Center review: Office killers pack some heat

There are few pieces of software that users touch more often than office productivity suites. The market monster is, of course, Microsoft Office, with the lion's share of all licenses for office productivity tools. But two trends -- open source and cloud computing -- are offering a new generation of Office alternatives that businesses may want to consider.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in sever
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Telerik Q1 2009 Volume Released

Telerik Grows into the Ultimate All-In-One .NET Vendor Newton, MA, March 11, 2009
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx

During a conversation with Jesse Freeman, AKA the Flash Bum, he directed me to one of his tutorials on image composition with Flash. The tutorial, called Create Random Torn Photos with Actionscript 3.0, demonstrates a very cool way to dynamically apply...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-10 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Refactoring Silverlight ChildWindow for a non-modal use

I
Publication date: 2009-05-11 more

Agilitrain: Model Driven Development with Oslo

Holy cow -- another Oslo course, this one from Agilitrain: "Microsoft's Oslo is trying to change the way that software is designed, developed and delivered. They are introducing a platform for building real, scalable and manageable model-driven applications. Being an early adopter of this platform will prepare you for our changing world. "This course will show you how to build models and domain specific languages and use them all at runtime using the Repository to create great applications for y
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day#27

If you try to use the special/reserved characters in a string in XAML you will get a slew of errors in your Error List. Example reserved characters include: < > &
Publication date: 2010-06-02 more

Click To View Entry.

Beautiful Code - Back To Basics - Please read this C code quickly I was just starting to read the very first pages of the great book "Beautiful Code" (by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson) this morning as a refreshment and as an indirect result to Scott Hanselman's list of basic must-read books (although it didn't include this book - BTW, I read parts of it before, and I don't remember why I stopped), I had to write this post. To all of you guys thinking in DDD, TDD, MVC, ASP.NET, shiny AJAX and RIA (Fla
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Some Definitions

I like Tish
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Microsoft Silverlight Support Policy is Available

Many businesses rely on Microsoft Silverlight to run their business and consumer applications. Until recently, Microsoft did not have a clear support policy for Silverlight. Now we have it. Although Silverlight is not a tool, its support policy is similar...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-30 more

What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight?

Help me out with a bit of some research here. In your opinion
Publication date: 2010-03-31 more

Akamai Aims to Bring HDTV to the Web

Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: Akamai ( AKAM ) on Tuesday unveiled a network for high-definition video designed to deliver content via Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight and Apple
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

Here is the full memo Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer sent out to the troops about the big changes in its organization, including the departure of Platform and Services Division President Kevin Johnson, and in which he addresses Apple, Yahoo, Google and more: From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:30 PM To: Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Tuvalu Visualization Project

Photon Inc has published a preliminary look at their
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Using the latest Web Testing Tools along with the latest RadControls

Closely monitoring the customer feedback on our web testing tools , I noticed that various issues have actually been caused by outdated versions of the RadControls used along with the most recent testing tools versions. Please note that we highly recommend using the versions of RadControls and the testing tools from the exact same release . Let me explain why. I completely understand why customers do not always upgrade their applications with the latest RadControls (at least not immediately)
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Hey You Get Off of My Cloud

Sandwiched neatly between the RealTime is God and RealTime Who Needs It crowds is a new group that embraces both positions while moving forward rapidly. These folks include Brett Slatkin of the PubSubHubub effort and Dave Winer of rssCloud.org. Slatkin and fellow conspirator Brad Fitzpatrick demoed the PSHBB architecture at the RealTime Stream Crunchup, and Winer quickly jumped in with his own implementation. While Winer attacked PSHBB as a Google (and TechCrunch) conspiracy, the rhetoric seemed
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Assigning a Custom Label Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource

In my previous post, Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource, I discussed how to put a DropDownList value in a GridView.  As I explained, my motivation was to...This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silve
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Mini-Review of Code Rush

These days I'm very much in the market for anything will cut down on manual typing.  Thus I'm dictating more of what I write (using speech recognition), and today I began to explore CodeRush : a highly extensible Visual Studio plug-in Being very...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Microsoft Mix '09: Fewer sheep to be thrown, more business apps shown

March 16th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:55 amCategories:Azure, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Expression Studio, Google, Internet Explorer, Live Mesh, Mix '09, Red Dog, Utility/cloud computing, Web 2.0, YahooTags:Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mix, Data Management, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo FoleyIf you
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

HTML 5 for a better Web

This is a long article about HTML 5 current and upcoming features, how it will contribute to a better and open Web illustrated with some very impressive videos. It also contains a reflection on whether HTML 5 will kill Flash, Silverlight and Java on the browser.
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Podcast on Templating

I'm pleased to announce that the first of my monthly Sparkling Client podcasts has been posted. This month, we take a Tour of Silverlight Templates. Resources Additional resources to supplement this topic include Tutorial on Templates Styles Video...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-24 more

MSN Games

Microsoft MSN Games
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Euler 7 Trivial with LINQ and Generators

Euler problem 7 requires returning the 10001st prime number .  It notes that the 6th prime number is 13 in the problem description.  Having already done some work with iterators and various number generators , including a Primes generator for previous Euler problems, the base case given in the problem can be reduced to this NUnit test: public void SixthPrimeIs13() { Assert.AreEqual(13, NumberGenerator.Primes().Take(6).Last()); } Replacing the 6 wi
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Silverlight 3 - Create a nice Navigation Flip

Here is a sample we made at RunAtServer  using Silverlight 3 Perspective 3D feature and the new Navigation API to create a nice navigation flip ! Video How does it work ? Short story The app use the new navigation api to navigate while animating a 3d flip transformation. Long story The main xaml has a Frame element in a StackPanel with an associated PlaneProjection : StackPanel x:Name ="mainContentPageContainer" Grid . Row ="2" > Sta
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Microsoft Expression Studio 3.0.1061

Microsoft Expression Studio 3.0.1061 | 254.53 Mb Microsoft Expression Studio opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

A Poll about my TechEd demos: Console App or Unit Tests?

Many of the demos I do with Entity Framework do not involve the UI. In order to run them however, I need to start with some type of exe, so I just build a console app whose main method calls the different methods to demonstrate functionality. Someone suggested that rather than use the console app, I use unit tests to fire off the methods. It's a fun exercise for me, but I'm worried that the extra layer (the unit tests) might throw off anyone in the audience who is not familiar with unit testing
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

Silverlight 3 vs Flash 10: Sliding Image Gallery

Today, I would like to show you a Flash vs Silverlight comparison on the Sliding Image Gallery! The effect is a simple and dynamic Sliding Gallery. It is very easy to customize. We can add as many images and descriptions we like . And the effect is very good for fast photo gallery, scrolling banner, website and so on. Let
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Trusted Applications

Note
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Silverlight TreeView Advanced Scenarios (TreeViewExtended)

Hi Folks, One of the most important tenants of Silverlight Controls development we picked up in Microsoft is WPF Compatibility. That means, that if we end up building FooControl in Silverlight and FooControl exists in WPF we
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform

Today, as part of our ongoing collaboration with Facebook, we released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform ( http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk ). This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-10 more

Demand for RIA-jobs on the rise

I
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Dynamic Controls creation in a C# WPF Application (Part 1)

This article demonstrates how to create animations by using pure XAML with a code behind C# file instead of using tools like Expression Blend. This provides the developer the comforts to animate a particular object in any way he wants. Create a new WPF application. Select language as C# and name the application to whatever you desire. Secondly, give your grid any name like Name=
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Playing with the Popup Control

I've recently taken over the documentation for some of the Silverlight controls, and one of the controls I now own is Popup. One of the first things I do when preparing to document a control is play around with it in code. Using the Popup control...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Getting into the Mix

First, I want to say I think it
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Why Does Microsoft's "NBC Olympics" Website Affect YOUR Website?

  With the Olympics beginning tomorrow, the entire world will see Microsoft's next generation web platform Silverlight.  Microsoft created the "NBC Olympics" Website - and it is indeed gorgeous!   So why does Microsoft's "NBC Olympics" Website affect YOUR website?   Because people bring their "expectations" from one website to another! People will look at YOUR website and wonder why it's not as "good" as the "NBC Olympics" Website   Is it fair for your website to be compared with a website des
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Watch UFC 103 Live Streaming

Sep 19 September 19th, 2009 posted by Philippines Review Add commentsYou can now watch UFC 103 live streaming online in Yahoo Sports using your computer for a different experience. How to watch the event is what you ought to find out about. Here is a quick guide for those who live nowhere near where UFC live fights are happening.This is a new way to watch live fights in the octagon and tomorrow September 19, 2009, you can now watch UFC 1
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/10/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #23. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight , Windows Phone and Visual Studio...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-10 more

Silverlight vs Flash: Waving Text

Silverlight vs Flash: Waving Text Animation Effect, Text Effect No Comments
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Convert PowerPoint to Silverlight with PPT to Silverlight Convertor

Silverlight is now one of the most sought after framework for development of web applications. Silverlight helps you create rich web applications that run on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. If you have a good presentation in PowerPoint, now you can convert it into Silverlight and use it on your web pages. PPT to Silverlight Converter is a free application to convert PowerPoint presentation to Silverlight. Features of this application; PPT Converter with WPF interface Presentation Galler
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers Webcast Series - Demos & Slide Decks now available

Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers Webcast Series - Demos & Slide Decks now available If you've been keeping up with the Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers series, you can now download the slide decks and associated demos Rob and I have been doing the last two weeks. So far we've talked about Web Parts, Data Lists, Silverlight and Event Handlers.
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Does the LINQ to Objects provider have built-in performance optimization?

Lets start with the basics and maybe repeat some information that many of you already know. One of the most important concepts in LINQ performance and optimization is, of course, deferred execution. It simply means that when you declare a variable and assign it a query expression, that expression is not executed immediately. // Query is not executed. var query = from item in storage select item; The variable query now stores the command, and the query execution is deferred until you... Did y
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

SQL SERVER 2008 Design Process Decision Flow

I was recently invited by a company that is primarily using other RDBMS as their primary database for solutions. It was a different experience for me, as I am used to having pretty good SQL Server Smart crowd in my presentations, but this time there were smart people but no SQL Server experts in front [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Silverlight Unit Test Framework will be updated for the Release Candidate tomorrow

Developers rejoice, ScottGu announced the wide availability to developers everywhere of the Silverlight 2 Release Candidate tonight. There were some changes since the Beta 2 release of Silverlight that require updated unit testing bits. I’ll be...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-27 more

How to create a AddIn for Visual Studio 2008

I had to create a Visual Studio AddIn, no as simple task as I thought in the beginning. What do you need. Visual Studio 2008 SDK The Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0 includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to design, build, test and deploy extensions for Visual Studio 2008. You can also use the VS 2008 SDK 1.0 to create custom tools environments based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell. How to find the commands in VS2008 to attached to. This example... Did you
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

BlackBerrys to get Flash & Silverlight support

RIM is planning to bring full Flash and Silverlight support to the BlackBerry web browser. However, it
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

The Top Search Engine Optimization Software for the Expense

I put a lot of my thought into developing strategies for search engine optimization (SEO) for my business
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Nine New Community Gallery Entries

Learn some advanced Silverlight programming techniques with Pencho Popadiyn
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Silverlight, MVVM, Prism and More at VSLive Orlando

Are you planning on attending VSLive Orlando t his week? If so, please stop by the 3 sessions I will be presenting at VSLive Orlando and say hi. I really enjoy speaking at the conferences and getting the chance to have great conversations with all the people. Often it gives me a greater breadth of understanding of what people are trying to accomplish and the struggles they face. For me the conferences have always been about the conversations and the people. If you are going to be at the c
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Silverlight tutorial: Play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight

You can play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight 3 easily. Basically, since Silverlight 3 supports H.264 format you can create your own media player and play high definition video content directly from YouTube in your Silverlight application. Let me show...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Arturo takes you on a .toolbox site tour on Silverlight TV

  On the latest Arturo Toledo episode of SilverlightTV, Arturo Toledo takes you through a tour of the .toolbox site a new site (went public during MIX10) to help designers and developers learn Silverlight and Blend from a UI and design-centric point...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

Search Engine for .Net Developers

I would like to mention a new search engine for dot net developers. This search engine uses Google Custom Search Engine technology to provide dramatically improved search results for software developers using VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET and other .NET technologies. It searches only the best of sites having quality dot net related content.http://tips.developersvoice.com/devsearchTry it yourself it is a great time saver. Dont forget to add this search engine to your favorites.Developers usually waste...
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Channel 9 Interview: Jared Parsons on the P-Invoke Interop Assistant (Beth Massi)

Today I posted an interview screencast on Channel 9. In this interview, Jared Parsons, a Developer on the Visual Basic IDE, shows us the P/Invoke Interop Assistant available on CodePlex. The tool helps with converting unmanaged C code to managed P/Invoke signatures and vice versa. Say goodbye to digging through random header files or MSDN documentation to find the right constants, structures and signatures. The P/Invoke Interop Assistant does a smarter translation for you using... Did you know t
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

SMB Startups Save The World!

Make Babies! SM B Startups Save the Economy! By Harry Brelsford In the Hindu religion, a cow is your mother. That
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

My love/hate relationship with Microsoft

Of course, as everyone who reads this blog, knows that I just love to talk about Microsoft a lot. Microsoft's a really interesting tech company, because they're really so big. It'd be hard to think how this world would be if Microsoft never existed. Would things be the same, better or worse? Microsoft has had a big impact in today's digital technology, some really good, and some plain bad.                                                                          However, I think Microsoft has
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight at Microsoft PDC09 – we will be there!

It
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Windows Phone 7 Demo Apps from MIX10

If you've been searching for the Windows Phone 7 Series demo apps that were shown during the MIX10 keynote. Look no further! The Windows phone team has assembled them all in an article on their blog. Click here to see the great line up of Windows Phone...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-01 more

Zimbra Desktop - No Light, No AIR

With its 1.0 GA announcement this week, Zimbra Desktop is officially launched as an open source, full featured desktop mail client. I
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Olympics Video Player Debuts

The summer games are just a little over a month away, but you can start catching Olympic fever online now, thanks to the new video player on NBCOlympics.com. With more than 2,200 hours of live footage being streamed from the event, the new player offers a host of features that will literally let you catch all the action (though some of it will be delayed). To try it out, visit NBCOlympics.com and click on video. It
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3

Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Load Balancing IIS Web Farm with EC2

Weve been looking to find the best Cloud based host to put our soon to be virally growing web site up on.  Our requirements are it must run IIS7 and use Sql Server 2008 as its...This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

SQLAuthority News Blog Makeover New Banner New Color

Just a month back I had previously changed my personal homepage and had requested for feedback from my readers here SQLAuthority News Authors Website Redesigned http://www.pinaldave.com Feedback Requested. To my astonishment, I received a huge number of emails. But I received only one comment. This time, I would like to request my [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inc
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Windows 7 and Foxit PDF Previewer

Public service announcement if you dont use my Foxit PDF Previewer, please move alongthere is nothing to see here :-). When Windows 7 Beta came out (build 7000), there was indeed a confirmed issue where the Foxit PDF Previewer would not work at all on 64-bit versions. There were no install warnings, it just wouldnt work. It turns out this was a Windows 7 beta bug for 64-bit (some COM registering stuff if you care to know). This was found immediately and was fixed in later Windows 7 builds (I c
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Use Silverlight easily in your WordPress site

Install the Silverlight for WordPress plugin to easily manage Silverlight content within your WordPress-enabled web site. The plugin works with the WordPress web editor as well as tools like Windows Live Writer. More details at Silverlight for WordPress...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

Link Listing - June 25, 2008

Link Listing - June 25, 2008 ASP.NET Using routing with ASP.NET web forms apps [Via: luisabreu ] WPF myHealth [Via: rudi ] "Serialize" a DependencyObject [Via: rudi ] WCF NMemcached: A WCF experiment [Via: Ayende Rahien ] Link Collections LINKBLOG for June 24, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Links (6/24/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ] Interesting Finds: June 25, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #122 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - June 25, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for June 25, 2
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

Susan Boyle on Twitter - I have a rock garden Last week three... (Saturday the 30th 17:01)

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. Author: Richard Diran What is going on this Saturday in twitter most popular comments on Susan Boyle No way susan boyle came in second! Simon has purchased the rights to her story. Saw it on Craig Furgonson Susan Boyle Loses 'Britain's Got Talent,' But Soars With Final ... - MTV.com ( http://cli.gs/Bz40Te ) Why Susan Boyle May Lose to Stavros Flatley - ABC News ( http://cli.gs/67D7WU ) Susan Boyle 90% As
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

RIA Services and Authentication

Authentication is the third in a series of posts covering the key concepts of RIA Services using the Book Club application to digger deeper and go beyond the basics. Links to the first two posts on validation and authorization as well as an overview of...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-28 more

TemplatePanel (aka MasterPage) for Silverlight

In my last post, I introduced the current set of layout panels provided by Silverlight.FX . All of those panels positioned their children by computing the size and position based on desired and available sizes, i.e. by overriding the measurement and arrangement...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

A Flash Developer

In LABS , the blog of the creative agency Big Spaceship , Jamie Kosoy tells all about his experiences building the Victoria
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Silverlight Resources Directory

Having develop Silverlight more than a year, I find that I am lacking of a good management tools to organize all of my Silverlight Resources. For example, suppose I want to add a Gradient Background in one of my control. The xaml coding is somewhat like                                                                        
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?

The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. On one side of the battle lines is the original Web page description technology called HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language. Over the years, its abilities were augmented first with JavaScript, a basic programming language, and later a JavaScript-on-steroids technology calle
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

An Hour Being Flexible

  You never know where you'll end up discussing Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

RIA BOF at GUADEC

RIA BOF at GUADEC Thanks to Behdad and the organizers at GUADEC, I will be having a BOF/discussion session tomorrow at 4:30pm to discuss a new class of applications built on Silverlight or Flash and how they relate to the future of the Linux Desktop. Some of the ideas are clearly derived from Alex and Chris thinking about the desktop; it is heavily influenced by our work on Moonlight; by the recent strides that Adobe has made on creating great looking applications on the web (Buzzword and Phot
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

ITV: Please sort out your Champions League site

The Champions League starts today. And ITV seem to have cocked up their website. If you go to itv.com/sport/football/ and click 'Champions League' at the top, you go to itv.com/sport/football/championsleague/ (first picture - still showing last season's final). ITV.com champions league page Clicking 'Video' on the left hand menu takes you to championsleague.itv.com/ , shown below. The championsleague.itv.com site Under the heading 'watch now', this site says: "itv.com/foot
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Help! The Silverlight Toolkit Ate My PC!

Dear Jesse, "I loaded the Silverlight Toolkit from December 1988 on my CPM machine and it broke my Apple IIe in my vacation home in Maine. What should I do?"
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Improving ChartBuilder's cultural sensitivity [ChartBuilder app/source updated!]

Kind readers Eugenio and Thimp independently reported that the initial version of ChartBuilder did not work well on machines with certain culture settings. Specifically, ChartBuilder was inadvertently using the CurrentCulture for formatting numbers in...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-07 more

ALT.NET Seattle Day One

Day one of the ALT.NET Seattle conference is over and Im looking forward to tomorrows sessions. As an Open Spaces event, the first order of business was for us, the attendees, to set the session agenda for the rest of the conference. In the above photo, you can see Scott Hanselman proposing a topic in one of my favorite conference photos taken by Brad Wilson. This process took about two hours after which many of us headed out to Red Robin for a nerd dinner. This is my second ALT.NET Open Spaces.
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Flash and Silverlight Content becoming Searchable - Kinda...

This is good news...seems that content that is contained with Flash files and whatever teeny tiny amount of content is contained in Silverlight files...is becoming searchable...an odd twist, as of 3 July it's reported that MSFT Live Search isn't indexing Flash content...
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Silverlight Toolkit themes make it easy to create apps with a designer look

Cheryl Simmons recommends you to use the themes that ship as part of the Silverlight Toolkit . I
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Silverlight vs Flash: Passing Query String / Parameters

It's very common that you have to pass some predefined parameters to Flash / Silverlight in different pages of the website. How can we achieve that? Here is a simple example....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-23 more

Hanselminutes Podcast 121 - LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2

My one-hundred-and-twentyfirst podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. We chat about...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Building extensible Silverlight applications with MEF

At PDC09, Glenn Block delivered a great presentation on building extensible RIAs using the Managed Extensibility Framework ( FT24 from the PDC09 sessions ). Glenn is one of the PMs and face-man for MEF. He
Publication date: 2009-11-30 more

CSLA.NET Comes to Silverlight

I have heard many customers ask about building business applications on Silverlight... the union of a great .NET programming model web-style deployment\update and rich user experience makes Silverlight an attractive option.  Rockford Lhotka recently...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-29 more

Lucene.net: the main concepts

In the previous post you learnt how to get a copy of Lucene.net and where to go in order to look for more information. As you noticed the documentation is far from being complete and easy to read. So in the post Ill write about the main concepts behind Lucene.net and which are the main steps in the development of a solution based on Lucene.net. Some of the main concepts Before looking at the development phases, its important to have a look at the main actors of Lucene.net. Directoy The direc
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

A Smarter (or Pure Evil) ToString with Extension Methods

Three years ago I postulated about a ToString implementation for C# that seemed useful to me and a few days later I threw it out on the blog . We used in at my old company for a number of things. Just now I realized that it'd be even more useful ...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-30 more

Adobe offers up more Flash technology to open source (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Adobe Systems will offer more of its Flash rich media application platform up to open source Tuesday, a move viewed by analysts as reactive to the fierce competition Adobe faces in the rich Internet application space from the Microsoft Silverlight platform.No tag for this post.
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development

Quick, what
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Updated jQuery and WCF 3.5 JSON Samples posted

Since I last posted my DevConnection samples, there have been a number of changes with jQuery and jQuery Ui. During the conference and for some of my own applications I'd been using intermediate builds of jQuery in order to be able to use the latest versions of jQuery.ui beta which at the time didn't work with the last public release (mainly because of the intearation of the Dimensions Plug-in into the jQuery core). I've updated all the jQuery samples as well as the WCF 3.5 JSON samples from tho
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Zen Presentation

Another in a series of ruminations about how to Present Silverlight. One of the brighter Silverlight coders and MVPs asked me tonight what is all this about your changing how you present at conferences and web casts.  In answering him, I realized that my thinking continues to evolve, and that it might make a somewhat interesting post, so here it is[1] What I have in mind begins with refocusing on Silverlight capabilities and the application of those capabilities rather than the syntactic... Did
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Nvidia Ion in Netbooks is what I'm excited about

Long time no post guys but just thought I'd stop by and tell you what I'm excited about in the world of netbooks at the moment and what is set to be the next quantum leap for netbooks since Intel introduced the now ubiquitous Atom processor. The Nvidia Ion. This Intel/Nvidia collaboration chip has been banded around for a while now at CES and other events but we are now at a stage where we are approaching potential netbook product releases with this chip featured centre stage. So just wha
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Netflix instant watch on iPhone soon?

The word on the street is that Netflix is going to let iPhone users stream movies via WIFI. While the idea would be well received by customers, we wonder how the implementation would work. The iPhone doesn't support Flash (or Silverlight), so it's probably not going to be a web portal. Netflix can also develop its own application and take care of everything itself (rights management, streaming, decoding): that might be the most likely option. What
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Celebrating Your Woman

Celebrating Your Woman
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  In this part, I wanted to consider the scenario that I hope is a common one.  The developer writes their Silverlight app using the RIA Services pattern and the application becomes wildly successful.  So successful in fact there is a demand to put a services head on top of the same application logic to facilitate writing a bunch of other clients.  This is the sort of pattern we see happening with
Publication date: 2009-08-01 more

Creating a Custom Out-of-Browser Window in Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4 extends the out-of-browser feature to include support for window customization through the Window class . What this means is that you can turn this: into this: Okay, so that's not necessarily much of an improvement, but you get the idea...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-24 more

Skyfire browser in Alpha for BlackBerry

Skyfire has been a piece of software that Windows Mobile and Symbian users have been blessed with for a while now. Skyfire is a browser that essentially gives you the same web experience as the one you would get on the computer. Skyfire will play in browser videos and supports full Flash and Windows Media videos, including Flash 10 and Silverlight 2.0. However, until now BlackBerry users have not been able to get this browser for their phones. Skyfire has started a private alpha process for the
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Silverlight Enables Choice Today for Third-Party Codecs

From time to time we get asked about Silverlight support for various codecs. The codecs change (today we’re getting some questions regarding WebM/VP8) but our answer is consistent regardless of the individual codec: We are strongly committed to...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

New Silverlight Top Sites

New Silverlight Top Sites Posted by on August 1st, 2008 A lot of live websites have moved to Silverlight 2 beta 2, and there are some great new sites that have shown up over the last few weeks since the new version has been released. Ryanair Destinations: I love Ryanair for many reasons, but mostly because they allow me to go to a wide variety of interesting destinations for a very low price. I have spent a lot of time using their Destinations map page to find out where places like Lamezi
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Silverlight Modal Dialog With Custom User Controls

The Silverlight code sample below shows one way to launch custom user controls in a ModalDialog without the standard windows border or X to close the window. It also automatically centers the ModalDialog.   read more By Robbe Morris Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Mousewheel Support in Controls

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone

Michael Klucher just posted about XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Windows Phone. It has its first outing at GDC in San Francisco this week. For more on Windows Phone 7, here are a number of people from the Windows Phone 7 Series Dev Team on Twitter: (@ckindel...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-09 more

Fast and Easy Navigation in WPF or Silverlight Applications in Visual Studio 2010

In Visual Studio 2010, the Navigate To command is CTRL+,  (comma). If you have any text selected in any editor and press  CTRL+,  that text is automatically added to the Search Terms field and the Navigate To dialog immediately presents...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-30 more

Programming for Absolute Beginners

You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Interesting Finds: July 29, 2009

Other Why Is Network Solutions Covering Up Breach News? , Michael Hickins UnTeams and Real Teams , Esther Derby Putting Search into Context , Microsoft Research Monads and my many language road to more functional programming , chrisdonnan.com Team Office Hours , Kris Gray Babel 2.0.0.0 Has Been Released , Alberto Ferrazzoli Developer evangelism handbook released , Chris Heilmann Incremental Delivery and Continuous Design , Jeremy D Miller Pro
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Visit the McNuggets

McDonald
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

SQL SERVER 2008 SSMS Feature Multi-server Queries

In my recent visit to TechEd India 2009 at Hyderabad, I had taken a technical session on SQL Server Management Studio 2008 New Features, which was attended by a huge number of participants and was very successful. I got loads of requests from my readers for posting the session online. My presentation involved several videos [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Sil
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Silverlight HVP Design

  Design Update   This blog post extends the  previous post in which I discussed the IMarkerEventHandler interface and how it might be implemented. We are actively looking at using an IoC (Inversion of Control) container such as Ninject...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-30 more

Announcing Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta

Today we released the beta tools for Windows Phone 7. This is a strong, solid beta, just about feature complete. Heck, I'd almost consider it more of an RC when it comes to quality. If you've been waiting for a solid build before diving into wp7dev, this...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-12 more

Generating Word Reports / Documents

Generate Word documents by appling XSLT on XML data.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever!

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In this episode, Adam Kinney makes his theatrical return to Silverlight TV and claims to have filmed the best Expression Blend 3 video ever! (or at least on Silverlight TV). Adam walks...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Link Listing - July 10, 2008

ASP.NET Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls [Via: Rick Strahl ] WPF Learning WPF with BabySmash - MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer [Via: Scott Hanselman ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #133 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - July 10, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Daily Find #87 [Via: Tim ] Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 - early edtion [Via: Jason Haley ] LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Links (7/10/2008) [Via: A
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Expression Encoder SP1 now available

Apparently
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Looking at Your Computer Desktop through 3D Glasses

Ah, those crazy Linux-using, Deviant Art artists. Someone has created an anaglyph theme for the GNOME (Linux) desktop. Don some red and blue-tinted glasses, and watch your desktop pop out of your screen. After all, it
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

If the Olympics are going mobile, then why not your Church Website?

On August 8th, the eyes of the entire world turn towards Beijing. Some on their TVs, others on their PC newly equipped with the Silverlight plugin. Then there will be those stuck in a line at the store or waiting at a restaurants who will be keeping up with the 2008 Summer Olympics via their mobile phone. And though some may complain their pastor
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Multi-Connected Consumer Web Parts

Allow consumer web parts to have multiple providers in ASP.NET, WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Spekt IDE a new alternative for Flex Builder

Spekt IDE will be a great alternative for Flex Builder which also combine the features like drag-n-drop code control into the code. Other stuff like Flashdevelop is great but the propouse of Spekt aims to be better. The price is very cheap $29.00. Althought , I believe that if the creator(Eric Suen) could open-source the program and get people helps. The only limitation I
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Your Suggestions Wanted: Silverlight, WPF, WCF RIA Services, ASP.NET Planning

Did you know about the feature submission and votings sites we run in dev div at Microsoft? Silverlight feature suggestions WPF feature suggestions WCF RIA Services feature suggestions ASP.NET feature suggestions Each of those sites is monitored by community...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-15 more

New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Eight-Part Video Series

In this eight-part video series, Dan Wahlin focuses on building Silverlight 2 Beta 1 applications. Learn how to use Layout Management, Style Elements, the List Box, User Controls, Templates and more!...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Posts about Mobile Internet as of September 24, 2009

SmartDevices SmartV 5 Mobile Internet Device - techgadgetsnews.com 09/24/2009 Latest MID from SmartDevice called the SmartV 5. The SmartV 5 MID gives you the possibility to choose from 3 different operating systems. Guess who´s back? Yup, SmartDevices and they are not alone, they have appeared with their latest MID called the SmartV 5. The SmartV 5 MID features a 5-inch touchscreen display with 800 x [...] AOL Shutting Down Mobile Ad Networks - accuracast.com 09/24/2009 If t
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Nokia Acquires Symbian, Opens It Up

Nokia has announced a cash offer to acquire all the shares of Symbian Limited it does not already own (52%) at a price of 3.647 euros per share, which means that Nokia will spend approximately 264 million euros on the acquisition. Nokia has always been the biggest supporter of the Symbian platform, and all of their smartphones use some flavor of the Symbian OS, but it
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design

In this Principles of Design Series video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team, shows how to design a full colored icon (a pencil). In fast-forward style you will see the artist take a simple shaped pencil icon turning it into a full colored...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Rich is the New Synergy

Rich is the New Synergy by Andrew Jaquith August 4, 2008 As a language dork, I have certain itches that needs scratching. I
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Customizing Silverlight 3 DataGrid Headers

We
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Silverlight Helper (With out of browser capability)

Originally, I just want to make a simple application to test over the out of browser feature. However, I came up something more interesting and useful. It
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Detaching from Barnacleware

HP plugs 8 ActiveX control flaws; cybercriminal round-up; security for small biz.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #68

The Professional Developer Conference of 2008 has concluded. If you were not one of the fortunate people to attend don
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Expression Encoder 2 SP1 Announced

The Expression Encoder team has announced the plans for SP1 of their product (announced, not released). You can read all the details on their team blog for more information, but two things caught my attention that are probably of most interest: H.264...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-24 more

My Secure Development Interview from TechEd 2008

While at TechEd 2008 I got to spend some time in the "Fish Bowl" with Georgeo Pulikkathara . Georgeo interviewed me on Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) and my upcoming Developer Security Activities. Please [ click HERE ] to...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Silverlight Particle Generator

I
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

iGaming news: LineRider and X-Plane

Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App StoreA couple of new games from the wider world have hit the App Store, and fans of both should be excited: LineRider brings an online sensation to the touchable side, and X-Plane brings flight simulation street cred to iPhone and iPod touch users. LineRider (store link) started out as a simple, no-frills sledding Flash game from a Czech student and has exploded into an online phenom -- the current version runs in MS Silverlight, and it has spawned over 11,000
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Entity Framework tonight at Vermont.NET

I'll be doing a presentation on EF tonight at my very own user group. I've decided to begin with a quick EF overview (all slides, no code) before I dig into the real presentation where I will show a slew of tips & tricks for EF. I always look forward to talking about Entity Framework. Plus I actually have some copies of my book in hand that I'll be able to give away. Thanks this month to Pragmatic Technologies in Burlington (who has job openings) for sponsoring the meeting, to GE HEalthcare... D
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

An unexceptional layout improvement [Two LayoutTransformControl fixes for Silverlight 2!]

I'd almost finished patting myself on the back for managing to implement WPF's LayoutTransform on Silverlight using just the RenderTransform available on that platform. (Background reading for LayoutTransformControl: Motivation and introduction for Beta...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode_ForRealz [How to: Reliably detect Silverlight design mode in Blend and Visual Studio]

Catching up on Dave Campbell's fantastic WynApse feed earlier today, I came across this post by Bryant Likes about detecting design mode in Silverlight . One of the things mentioned in that post was the challenge of finding a design mode check that works...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-01 more

URL Rewriting using ASP.NET for SEO

An article describing how to implement URL rewriting in ASP.NET using three different methods... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Vanderbilt University Sepsis Detection Technology Update

After deployed the very first alert initiated  an attending physician to begin antibiotic therapy for a patient.  They average 3-4 alerts daily in a 25 bed ICU unit.  Work has just started on adapting the language and knowledge to chronic heart failure.  I originally posted this story back in March of 2008 with the start of the project. The hospital felt they were only getting to about half the the patients in time to avoid organ and other damage.   As is mentioned in the video,
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Microsoft NET Social Networking in Silverlight Project

by on June 8, 2009 We have project which is a social networking for farmers and food buyers in USA, we want some sort of design like basic amp;quot;orkutamp;quot; website that we have 2 years ago. Excerpt from:Microsoft NET Social Networking in Silverlight Project Share and Enjoy:Tagged as: asp-net, coding, computer, getafreelancer, quantcast, social, social media, software-coding, start-here
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

OQO Model 2+ just might not make it out?

I
Publication date: 2009-04-26 more

Sample Data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer

Objective Requirements Retail release of Visual Studio 2010 and the latest Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio 2010 . Table of Contents Background Faux Types and Real Types Images in Sample Data Files Adding New Sample Data File Consuming Sample Data...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-01 more

.NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere!

While the feedback on .NET RIA Services has been great, many people have commented on the way we store metadata as custom attributes on
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Silverlight 3 has Released!

WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up: - Scott Guthrie's Silverilght 3 kick off announcement - What's New in Silverilght 3 - Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime, tutorials, other links) - Breaking Changes (good to read if you're migrating...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

SMS Messaging Using the .NET Compact Framework

SMS messaging may have it's drawbacks, but it's benefits make it a viable solution for many of today's enteprise applications. This article uses a sample hospital application to show you how to integrate SMS messaging using the .NET Compact Framework.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

SQL SERVER - Find Primary Key Using SQL Server Management Studio

Imran Mohammed is great SQL Expert and always eager to help community members. He enjoys answering question and solving problems of other community fellows. His answers are always detailed and trustworthy. Today we will see interesting question from Prasant and excellent answer from Imran Mohammed.Question from Prasant:Hi,I want to drop the primary key on one [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Windows Live Mesh Video Player Available

Brian Gorbett recently posted about his new Mesh-enabled application that he's now made available
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners

If you
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Video Wiki

This page will serve as the Overview of the VideoWiki Application to be developed as part of the AgOpenSource project. This particular application is on temporary hold pending its move to Moderated Open Source as of July 30. Definition VideoWikipedia...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

IIS Smooth Streaming with the Apple iPhone

At PDC09 two weeks ago, Scott Guthrie announced that the next release of IIS Media Services will deliver adaptive streaming video to the Apple iPhone. If you haven’t seen the demo, you can check the preview out by going to www.iis.net/iphone on...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Hospital Implements High-Tech Emergency Response System

The project I develop is in the news today: From Information Week: GPS-enabled cell phones and other mobile location-tracking technologies used for Enhanced 911 capabilities are helping emergency response workers find people in trouble. The deployment of a geographic information system and mobile applications in southern California is enabling emergency response personnel to more quickly and efficiently deploy rescue teams based on near real-time data about traffic conditions, the location... Di
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

UK and Ireland Slides and Links

I promised to post the slides I used during my SLHVP and Robust (MVVM/TDD) Silverlight Applications presentations. As noted at the time, they don
Publication date: 2010-04-28 more

Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to!

One of the new features I mentioned in my What
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

Slidentity Updated for Silverlight 3 RTW

Big thanks to Mark Reynolds of Techsys Business Solutions who did most of the heavy lifting for this port.  I made one additional change to get the slide thumbnails working since the usage pattern for WritableBitmap changed since the beta.  The new code is here and you can click the image below to launch the app.
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Are you using Expression Encoder 2 with Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Now you can! Expression Encoder just released an update last month allowing VB developers to use the Expression Encoder 2 SDK. Here's the announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/archive/2008/07/26/8773569.aspx Expression Encoder is a tool for video encoding, and is a member of the Expression product suite. It allows you to import and encode video files, produce live webcasts, enhance media with watermarks and advertising, and publish with Microsoft Silverlight. You can learn more..
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

WPF Designer Hotfix posted

The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  This contains a number of important fixes (see below). This hotfix is particularly important for Silverlight Tools users. If you...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

Accessing Remote ASP.NET Web Services using JSONP

This article digs into the details of accessing an ASP.NET ASMX web service from a remote AJAX client. It explains the configuration needed in the server side and describes a sample JQuery client that is able to JSONP enabled services.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Fronteers 2009 and other conferences

After the success that was Fronteers 2008,Fronteers lost no time in starting up preparations for the next edition of our conference.I also want to inform you of the rest of my conference schedule this year.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Image Slide Show using Perspective 3D

today I will bring you a 3D Image Slideshow using the perspective 3d technology in both Flash and Silverlight. Implementing this effect in the past is not that easy. However, thanks for the advancement of the technology, you may now create it on the fly...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

L.A. Approves $7.25 Million Google Apps Contract

October 28th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment The City of Angels has shown a great deal of faith in Google.  Late yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a $7.25 million contract that
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Subtext 2.0 is approaching fast

As you might have noticed, a few weeks ago Subtext entered the QA phase of the development process, and the new version, v2.0, is going to be released in a short time. In the next days Im going to write a few posts about the features I implemented for this new release, with the description of the features, and a little bit of internals how they were implemented. Check my blog during the weekend, or subscribe to the feed to get the new posts with the new features of Subtext delivered automaticall
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

PC versus Mac

Here at Pageflakes, it
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

SurfRay - SharePoint and Website Search

Welcome to SurfRay's new blog! We are excited to provide you with up-to-date information about SurfRay products, share tips and tips from the support team, and even some techniques to get the most out of your existing SharePoint deployment. If there is content that you would like to see discussed please let us know. Since 2000, SurfRay has been one of the leading developers and distributors of search technology. We deliver search engines which enable finding information in structured, se  
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

First Silverlight v1.0 Service Release is Live

In the midst of all the work our team has been cranking on for Silverlight v1.1 (controls, databinding, layout, templates, styling and a package based app model, phew!), we've also been working with customers to address the top set of issues folks have hit with Silverlight v1.0.  Today we're happy to be releasing an update to address many of these issues.  The first Silverlight v1.0 service release is now live and includes the following improvements and fixes:
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Sticky Seesmic Desktop Plugin

I
Publication date: 2010-06-03 more

Cruise Ships Set For Security In 2010 Games

Cruise Ships Set For Security In 2010 Games Canadian police have struck a C$76 million ($61 million) deal with two units of cruise line operator Carnival Corp to house security personnel during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Online Office gives Microsoft Open Web religion

Microsoft promotes its own Silverlight for building fancy Web applications. But to ensure wide availability, the online version of Office 14 will rely on JavaScript.
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

March Madness Brings The Big Dance to Plex Media Center [Downloads]

Track your bracket and catch up on the latest nail-biting, sextuple-overtime NCAA games in HD with March Madness, a plug-in for the Plex OS X port of the XBMC project. Plex has a lot going for it lately, including a status of being just under the radar enough to keep Hulu working just fine . To get started with the March Madness plug-in, make sure you">keep Hulu working just fine. To get started with the March Madness plug-in, make sure you've got the latest beta version of Plex, head to
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Have you ever needed to quickly spawn a web server against a local folder to preview a web application? If not, what would you say you do here? This is actually quite common for me since I receive a lot of zip files containing web applications which reproduce a bug. After I unzip the repro, I need a way to quickly point a web server at the folder and run the web site. A while back I wrote about a useful registry hack to do just this. It adds a right click menu to start a web server (Cassini) p
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Thoughts on Ruby's "HTML Reunification"

I was off-the-grid when Sam Ruby of IBM, co-chair of W3C HTML Working Group wrote an essay on HTML 5 which sparked many comments, followups. Some of it went off into details, but here are some of the higher-level ideas I pulled out of it. Sam starts by describing how the current HTML5 proposals fall into two camps: new features for browsers, and then how existing features should actually behave. The difficulties lie in that latter half -- even small details like whether quoteblocks shoul
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

5 New Silverlight MVPs Awarded

Today 5 new Silverlight MVPs were inducted into the program! I
Publication date: 2010-04-01 more

MIX09: The Future of Microsoft Expression Blend

Hear about the future plans for Expression Blend. See how Expression Blend improves the productivity of visual designers, providing better access to data and enhanced tools for interactivity. Learn how designers can be deeply engaged and remain in control of the creative decisions while enjoying improved collaboration with developers throughout the project lifecycle. Douglas Olson Douglas K. Olson is General Manager of the Expression Blend and Design products at Microsoft. With over 16 yea
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Convergence: Silverlight 3 To Support h.264 Video

Holy mother of all video codecs, Batman! Microsoft announces Silverlight 3 will support h.264. It
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

DbNetSuiteVS 1.0 released

DbNetLink is pleased to announce the release of DbNetSuiteVS 1.0 the easiest way to create database enabled ASP.NET web applications. DbNetSuiteVS includes the following features: Ease of use. Can be implemented with just a few lines of code. Full support for Visual Studio. Comprehensive server-side and client-side API that allows you to implement the touches that real-word applications require. Simple single DLL deployment. Royalty free developer licensing. Powerful Designer application that...
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Patterns and practices in the Composite Application Library

1. Introduction In previous articles I showed how the most famous composite design patterns ( Model
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

WPF Datagrid

Microsoft has released a WPF Datagrid. What's interesting is that both binaries and source code are available on Codeplex. Jaime Rodriguez has 3 blog posts on the topic:http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/jaimer/archive/2008/08/13/dabbling-around-the-new-wpf-datagrid-part-1.aspx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2009 -- #712

In this Issue: Mark Miller , Kirupa , Sergey Barskiy , Timmy Kokke , Laurent Bugnion , Jeff Prosise
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (Silverlight TV #25)

In this video, Adam Kinney explains what the PathListBox is and why it is so compelling. Then, he demonstrates several ways of using it in creative examples. The PathListBox is one of the newest features available in Expression Blend and Silverlight 4...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/23/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Data Services and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

New Ballistics App

Winchester has developed a new external ballistics web app .  You can find it here . First impression is that it
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Mozilla 'Plugin Check' keeps Firefox add-ons secure

October 9th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 9:06 amCategories:Adobe, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Firefox, Flash, Google Chrome, Mozilla, Open source, Patch WatchTags:Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Plug-in, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan NaraineMozilla has expanded its Plugin Check service to provide an easy way for Firefox users to pinpoint browser add-ons that might be vulnerable to hacker attacks.The new service, available here, effectively scans the brows
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight

One thing that often comes up when developing Silverlight applications is the desire to share entity classes between Silverlight and server-side code in WCF. .NET RIA Services handles the sharing for us automatically. But you
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Blend for Windows Phone: Update Available

We have just published refreshed bits of the Blend Add-In for Windows Phone and the Blend SDK for WIndows Phone. You can now use these bits with the Blend 4 RC build, and of course you need the latest version of the phone development tools too. Download...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-30 more

Link Listing - May 2, 2008

Link Listing - May 2, 2008 ASP.NET ASP.NET Ajax: Query Strings & Manual JSON Serialization [Via: Dave Bouwman ] Code Camps NoVa CodeCamp Reston: Developing DNN Modules 101 [Via: antonio@inspectorit.com ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: May 2, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] Miscellaneous DNN Module Packaging Wizard + Subversion [Via: Dave Bouwman ] Mocks - It's A Question Of When [Via: scott ] MSBuild Studio [Via: Steve ] Silverlight IDV Silverlight Virtual Earth Map Viewer [Via: idvux ]
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

What is coming soon?

You have noticed, I
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

In DAM, Flashy does not always mean Flex

I mentioned in an earlier post (about the recent Henry Stewart DAM Symposium ) that one of the big trends right now in the DAM world is a shift toward client apps built on Adobe Flex technology. Sometimes it's hard to tell the Flex from the non-Flex players, however, because the grey-on-grey look and feel can also be achieved with ordinary HTML and CSS, and some vendors have actually used those technologies to achieve a distinctly Flex-like appearance for their new UIs. A good case in
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Multicast Comes to Silverlight!

Today is a big day for Enterprise media departments who want to migrate to Silverlight. At the Streaming Media East show in New York City this morning, Qumu, Inc., known as an innovator in rich media streaming video solutions for the enterprise, announced...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-11 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #69

By popular request I am posting the Silverlight Developer Reference image for Silverlight 2. This image is large (6750x4200) and will make a great poster for printing for your reference. To download, right click on the image and choose
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Read about Silverlight in XPS

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight       Technorati Tags: Silverlight        BuzzNet Tags: Silverlight I've adapted David Anson's XPS Viewer for Silverlight sample to allow you to read the first...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

The Manhattan Project

Google Wave may be a big deal for Google, but it
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

Flash Comes to the Living Room

Adobe today announced that it has partnered with a number of prominent content creators and hardware manufacturers to bring its Flash platform to the living room. As a part of this initiative, Adobe will release a new version of Flash that will be optimized to run on set-top boxes, Internet-enabled TVs, and Blu-ray players. Among Adobe
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Flash spell check developer upset by competition from Adobe Squiggly

Grant Skinner is the developer of Spelling Plus Library , a spell checking engine for Flex, Flash and AIR. He is displeased that Adobe has now released Squiggly on Adobe Labs
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Qik iPhone Video Sharing App Now Allows For Video Uploads Over 3G on iPhone [Iphone 3gs]

Related tweets from Twitter: truongvinht : testing new apps from cydia 2009-08-22T11:24:26Z - Reply - View Tweet TomKiss : Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. Wow. Hang on, why use exchange? http://tr.im/wSMd 2009-08-22T11:24:13Z - Reply - View Tweet ittyurl : New at IttyUrl: http://ittyurl.net/Oqtz.ashx brad abrams : business apps example for silverlight 3 rtm and .net ria services july updat ... 2009-08-22T11:24:08Z - Reply - View Tweet JosephPKelly : Is it only a matter o
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Catching a Visual State Completion in Silverlight

Just a quickie from the Silverlight front today. Visual States and the VSM are awesome tools to handling most of your application's animations. One annoyance though, Visual States do not have a .Completed event! Luckily for us, Visual States are composed of Story Boards. Story Boards DO have .Completed events To get it to work, it's really simple. First, create your event handling method: vb.net Line number On/Off | Show/Hide | Select all Private Sub SomeStoryBoar
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

re: Most Frequently Asked Question: When Will Silverlight Ship?

good thanks yuo :)
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Silverlight and Data

Tim and I and many others have been discussing, off and on, the frequent requests for videos/tutorials/demos, etc. that show how to move data into and out of databases and display them in Silverlight. On the one hand, my response is that the very question...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-19 more

Microsoft invests in video-streaming firm Move

Microsoft invests in video-streaming firm Move Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008 Deal could help Silverlight compete with Flash
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Silverlight has the worlds complete attention.

Here
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Dew Drop - Weekend Edition - April 11-12, 2009

  Silverlight / WPF MouseWheel Behavior for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari) XPath (barely) in Silverlight 2 (Chris Cavanagh) Silverlight/WPF: Implementing PropertyChanged with Expression Tree (Michael Sync) Silverlight 3
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

MINI brings roadside assistance into the 21st century with mobile app

Drive a MINI? Have an iPhone or Blackberry? Well then, you are in luck my friend. MINI has recently released a free app, MINI Roadside Assistance , to better assist its customers in times of need. Should your street legal go-kart break down, be involved in an accident, blow a tire, or suffer some other incident while you are out motoring, MINI Roadside Assistance will use your device
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Behaviors in Blend 4 (Silverlight TV #30)

Thanks to all of you, last week we flew past 1,000,000 views of Silverlight TV! We
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

LINQ im Einsatz, LINQ in Action in German

Today, I received a copy of LINQ im Einsatz. This is the German translation of LINQ in Action. It's now available from Amazon.de and from Hanser. Bonus: The German version is bigger than the English one. It contains chapter 14, which covers LINQ to DataSet and is provided in English only as a PDF download from Manning's website. Maybe we'll see translations in other languages next. French would be a good idea, for example ;-) Viel Spa beim Lesen! Cross-posted from http://linqinaction.net... Did
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

You've got to know where you've been to know where you're going [Some background on Charting's ordered multiple dictionary implementation]

As I've said before, one of our key goals for the March 09 release of Silverlight/WPF Charting was to improve the performance of key customer scenarios . I didn't go into a lot of details with the release notes, but one of the ways we accomplished this...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Lazy Days - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Lazy Days is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design.This skin comes in 3 variations: index
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Windows Vista Kagome Titanium SP2 Edition July.2009 For Designer

Windows Vista Kagome Titanium SP2 Edition July.2009 For Designer | 4.3 Gb MAC OSx -Se7en Style with Office 2010 & Photoshop CS4 . After RED Vista For Gamer.Keosoft & AMC will Release Titanium Vista For Designer Vista Kagome Titanium
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Preliminary Sessions Announced

We
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

New PluginCheck Page Needs Your Help

Following up on the Flash Detection on the What
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

What Does JavaFX Mean For You?

We Recommend These ResourcesCode Signing for Microsoft Authenticode TechnologyCode Signing for Adobe AIR TechnologyVeriSign Authenticated Content SigningHow Java Developers Can Write Great SQL Securing Applications for the Mobile InternetThere's a lot of hype, talk and tutorials going on around JavaFX. What I'd like to do in this article is to take a step back and discuss what JavaFX means for you (and me), the ordinary Java developer. With technologies like JavaFX, it's easy to get caught up in
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

You haven't been to Tech-Ed until you fill out the User Education survey!

It's a little known fact that you have not really "done" Tech-Ed until you fill out the "Visual Studio and .NET Framework Library Content Survey". I'll be here at Tech-Ed all week attending sessions and spending some time hanging out between the Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-07 more

Beta 2 Event Bubbling

There are many great changes in Beta 2, and some are designed to make Silverlight more like WPF. One side effect of this is that event bubbling has changed just a bit and that bit breaks some of the examples I love to use. In Beta 1, the distinction was...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-04 more

Introduction to Sample Data

Learn how to use sample data to easily visualize and design data centric applications in Expression Blend....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Download IIS Media Services 2.0 - 32-bit

IIS Media Services is a set of media-related extensions for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 that provides an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. IIS Media Services 2.0 contains three extensions: Smooth Streaming
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Microsoft to Yahoo: Forget it, then

Microsoft is walking away. The right thing to do in my opinion. Could Microsoft have bought Yahoo? Clearly, it could have done - for more money: In our conversations this week, we conveyed our willingness to raise our offer to $33.00 per share, reflecting again our belief in this collective opportunity. This increase would have added approximately another $5 billion of value to your shareholders, compared to the current value of our initial offer. It also would have reflected a premium of ove
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Displaying Detail Records for User-Selected Master Records :: Saving the User's Search Preferences

Last week's article, Using a Dynamic IN Clause, showed how to display detail records for a set of user-selected master records. This entailed creating a User Defined Function (UDF) in the database that would translate a comma-delimited string into tabular data that could then be parsed by SQL's IN keyword. Following that, the user interface was created using a CheckBoxList to enumerate the master records and a GridView to display the details records for the checked master records. The demo avail
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Getting started with C# for Unity3D

Unity3D offers a choice between 3 different programming languages: JavaScript, C# and Boo . Each of them has its pros and cons, but for me C# almost immediately came out as a clear winner. That is because it is fully object oriented and it's syntax is similar to Java and Actionscript 3 , both of which I am experienced with. However, before I started to play with Unity3D, I never wrote a single line in C#, so I had to learn it from scratch. As you probably know C# was originally develope
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Mix09 - What excitement!

I have to say that without a doubt Mix09 was an amazing experience. Unfortunately I did not get to hit all of the session I would have liked to, but nonetheless I had some of the most inspiring conversations around Silverlight.   Its hard to explain the vibe any other way than excited. This years sessions will certainly inspire a whole bunch of designers and developer to run out and start building truly innovative solutions in Silverlight. I just can
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Announcing REMIX09 Australia call for Speakers

Following the sellout success of last years REMIX, I
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

RIAPalooza Two. Designers and Developers Together For a One Day Conference in Chicago.

Last Year I attended RIAPalooza , a conference focused on the design and development of Rich Internet Applications. It was a fantastic event, with a lot of great presentations covering AJAX, Flex, and Silverlight. I wrote a recap about the event, here . The event is happening again this year, on May 8th. It looks to be another awesome lineup of sessions. One change from last year
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

Link Listing - February 26, 2009

Link Listing - February 26, 2009 Podcasts Recording of Sebastien Lambla @ E-VAN 25 February 2009 [Via: Jan Van Ryswyck ] DNN Change your default favicon in DotNetNuke [Via: Brian Scarbeau ] WCF A Gotcha Writing Messages [Via: Tomas Restrepo ] Code Camps 4th Orlando Code Camp coming up [Via: Brian Scarbeau ] SQL Server SSIS Insert Statement Using an OLE DB Destination [Via: Jessica M. Moss ] ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC: Ignore requests to favicon.ico [Via: DigiMortal ] Book Reviews Book
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Watch official Windows 7 launch live streaming event now!

If you are curious about today
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Microsoft Experimental Search

Microsoft plans Google-killing search site - Experimental searh offering out this summer By Nancy Gohring, ComputerWorlduk (Feb 25) Microsoft is still trying to make its mark in search. It has the Live Search database - now for an interface. This article previews a new site called Viveri where developers will test out new ideas. "The site will serve Live Search results and is being built using Silverlight, Microsoft's technology for designing online user interfaces. " The first aim is to d
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Introduction to Behaviors

Get an introduction to behaviors and how they can be used to easily add interactivity to your applications....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

KB971092 Fails to install

This morning, a Visual Studio security patch was waiting for me, thanks to Windows Update. I launched the installation and everything worked fine, no errors.  Wait!  Windows Update prompts me again to install it.  Strange but lets do it.  No errors.  What? Windows Update prompting me again?  Lets reboot, install again and, oh well, same prompt. Lets now look at the updates details.   Wow!  A 365.2MB patch!  Theres a link to get more info, click! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Showing "tooltips" for list items in RadComboBox

There are two ways of doing this: The first approach is to assign directly the text to be displayed to every ComboBoxItem. This is done through the API or through the design time. You must assign the required text to every item's ToolTipText. The second approach is to handle the ToolTipTextNeeded event where custom logic can be applied: private voidTestComboBox1_Load(objectsender, EventArgs e) { ComboPopupForm parent = this.radComboBox1.ComboBoxElement.ListBoxElement.Element
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Carousel Video Posted

I'm very pleased to be able to announce that the videos Creating a Carousel Part 1 and Creating a Carousel Part 2 are now available.  These videos cover the material that is also discussed in my two part blog entry (beginning here) including such advanced topics as The Silverlight Layout System Overriding MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride Matrix Transforms Adding Attached Dependency Properties Programmatic Animation This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution By license.
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 Released - Free Download

Microsoft has released their newest version of Silverlight plugin for internet browsers, version 3.0 with slogan
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Microsoft Web Platform Installer now includes Silverlight Tools!

Now supporting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Web PI makes it easy to install and stay up-to-date with the Microsoft Web Platform. This updated release lets you install Visual Web Developer with the Silverlight Tools and much more! Install today...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #63

Recently when deploying a Silverlight application with a web service I forgot to include a client access policy and cross domain file. As a result I got the following exception when attempting to browse to my application: The exception did not make the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

52 New Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Screencasts

Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond present 52 screencasts to help you understand Silverlight 2. Visit the new screencast page to learn about DataBinding, controls, media events, templating and more!...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Ajax: The State of the Art with Dion and Ben

This morning, I added Dion and Ben's talk titled Ajax: The State of the Art. Below are my notes from the event. Ajax started out as a bunch of hacks. It showed that we could take our web interfaces and do a lot more with them. A hack isn't necessarily a bad thing. Often, they turn into something much more elegant over time. The new browsers have many amazing capabilities that we haven't taken advantage of yet. We've seen discussions on Ajax go from how to do XHR to frameworks and how rich and
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

"We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight"

derStandard: "...last September Microsoft signed an agreement which results in Microsoft endorsing Moonlight - our own free implementation of Silverlight. So they are providing us with specifications, they are providing us with tech contacts, so whenever any specification is not clear, we have access to their engineers."
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Moving to Windows 7? Get 59 Free Apps Installed All At Once With Ninite

When I did finally upgraded to Windows 7 yesterday (and since my PC needed a good clean out) I decided to do a fresh install rather than upgrade from Vista. One thing that made my new install a lot easier was Ninite . Ninite is a simple installer which downloads and installs silently (meaning you don
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted

We recently got some great new Mix09 sessions posted. Here are a few that I think are cool as they directly relate to what my team is doing.. if you can make to Vegas, please come by.. if you can
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Helping designers learning from Flash to Silverlight

and much more! >> http://www.projectrosetta.com/ Project Rosetta is a site dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know. Each article on the site will focus on one technology, and through multiple lessons, demonstrate how existing knowledge and skills can be transferred to another technology. Articles will include assets and source code and show a direct comparison between accomplishing the same... Did yo
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-07

@jaredbangs looks like you
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

WROX BEGINNING PHP5, APACHE, AND MYSQL WEB DEVELOPMENT (BOOK + SOURCE CODE)

Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development Publisher: Wrox (2005) | ISBN: 0764579665 | 819 pages | PDF | 5.08 Mb By Elizabeth Naramore Jason Gerner Yann Le Scouarnec Jeremy Stolz Michael K. Glass This update to a Wrox bestseller dives in and guides the reader through the entire process of creating dynamic data-driven sites using the open source "AMP" model: Apache Web server the MySQL database system and the PHP scripting language. The team of expert authors covers PHP scripting databas
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Silverlight Session on MEF at Silverlight User Group, 3rd February, Microsoft London

Just a quick advert for something that I thought I
Publication date: 2010-02-01 more

Custom MembershipProvider and RoleProvider Implementations that use Web Services

Custom MembershipProvider and RoleProvider implementations that use web services in order to separate the application and database servers.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

NBC 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games Widgets

By now most of you have already enjoyed of the Olympics Games at home and already know that you only need to install Silverlight in order to do the same at NBCOLYMPICS.COM. but how about some widgets with that?. there are and there are plenty of them and they here live and ready to grab since it is such a special occasion. You can get the code directly from the widget itself  or install it almost everywhere thanks to its High Spread Sharing module just like this: I.-Look below the widget an
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #66

Microsoft Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements. This tool is especially great for creating vector based graphics for your elements. If you do not have Expression Designer, check...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

Silverlight Toolkit in the wild

The awesome online Sunday Night Football experience features the Accordion control from the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

SQL SERVER Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008

Change data capture (CDC) is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 designed to capture insert, update, merge, and delete activities applied to SQL Server tables and to avail those changes in an easy-to-understand format.Conventionally, detecting changes in a source database to transfer these changes to a data warehouse required any of the following:Special [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in sev
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Prism Training Class July 7-9

.NET Guru, David Platt (of Rolling Thunder) and author of Introducing Microsoft.NET, Programming CAB and SCSF, and Why Software Sucks is giving an online training for Prism 2.0! It's a three day course to be held May 18-20, and looks like it covers everything from the goals and basic architecture of Prism, to modularity, UI composition, pub-sub eventing, and services - everything you need to get up and running with Prism. Check out the course details here, and the detailed course syllabus here.
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Friction-free audiences

Sometimes, application development is its own reward. But application distribution is harder, because you have to support people trying to use your application. Last week MLB.tv started testing a new streaming video architecture for live baseball games. Comments in the forums are rather remarkable. I snipped out some while reading to give you a flavor. (Background: MLB.TV has provided online viewing for years, and each season they try to improve the service. While their Gameday apps an
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Some Silverlight events coming up

Im pretty excited about the upcoming Fall travels I have. Fresh on the heels of a 3-day session with the entire Silverlight team this past week, Im rejuvenated and ready to rock. Ive also got some travels coming up and hope to see some of you at them as well Troubleshooting Data Services in Silverlight (09 SEP) Tomorrow Ill be presenting a webcast with the goal of trying to help surface some of the more common gotchas in dealing with accessing data in Silverlight. Some of it may not be new to so
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Microsoft faces lawsuit over Silverlight

Microsoft's latest legal headache is a suit from a little-known company called Gotuit Media, which charges elements of Silverlight infringe on the video metadata company's patented technology. ________________ Source: Beyond Binary
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Azure Services Training Kit - February Update - Released

The February Update of the Azure Services Training Kit has released and is ready for download. Below is a brief overview (taken from the download site) of what's included in the latest release. OverviewThe Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. The February release includes the following updates: 19 demo scripts that walkthrough seve
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Tips and Tricks for working with the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010

This article is a collection of tips and tricks that we have gathered over the time we've spent building and using the Visual Studio 2010 WPF and Silverlight Designer, which you might not find elsewhere. We think they make working in the designer more...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-01 more

One more platform difference more-or-less tamed [SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better!]

Earlier this week I wrote about the "app building" exercise my team conducted and posted my sample application , a simple organizational hierarchy viewer using many of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit . One of the surprises I had during the process...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

Improved Collection Support in Deep Zoom Composer

A couple of days ago, we released another version of Deep Zoom Composer. One of the major changes we made revolved around dealing with large collections of images, and this was something that Deep Zoom Composer never handled particularly well in the past...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

11 Storyboard Animation Easing Demonstration

In Silverlight 3, there are a lot of fantastic new features. One of it is the use of Easing Function in your Storyboard Animations....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Back again

For the past month its been pretty quiet in my blog since I have been a little bit busy with the best thing that has happened in my life, my first baby Sofia was borne and today we are celebrating her first month. Days have been incredibly full of love, fun and joy (but certainly not of sleep). Now nights are much better, sleeping for a few hours now and back at work with lots of enthusiasm for the upcoming work in IIS and the incredibly exiting times at the team. So now by blog should show a bi
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Tip: Anonymous Event Handlers in VB.NET

Back in 2009, I blogged about using Lambda expressions for async web service calls in C#, using an anonymous method . A comment on that blog tonight requested information on how to do that in VB.NET. It has been about a million years since I wrote VB...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-16 more

Stream Video And Location Together With GPS-Enabled Mobile Video

Stream Video And Location Together With GPS-Enabled Mobile Video by Sunshine on 10 Sep 2008, 09:20 AM with 2 comment(s) Want to show off your route along with your position on a Virtual Earth map? Take people on a tour with you without them physically there? All possible if you have a Windows Live Mobile phone with GPS. Chris Pendleton, VE Evangelist, reports: Inca Mobile is rolling out some interesting technology to simultaneously stream video from a mobile phone while leveraging the onb
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Welcome Two New Elegant Coders

I am happy to introduce 2 new Elegant Coders! We are excited to have their contributions to the site and look forward to their wisdom. Kirstin Juhl @kirstinj We are excited to have Kirstin drop wisdom like she has been doing on her current blog: I [heart] Code . From her own bio: I am a former engineer who writes code. I did Toyota Operating System, Kanban, and Lean in my factories a decade ago, and am fascinated by its use in software development today. You can take the girl out of
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application with this handy source code]

As computing devices have become more powerful, the trend has been toward more "fluid" user interfaces - interaction models that flow smoothly from one state to another. This differs from earlier approaches where resources were more limited and interactions...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

The WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 shares several new design time (d:) properties and design time MarkupExtensions with Expression Blend 3 that provide necessary information for the WPF and Silverlight Designer to deliver a great...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

ScottGu Mix Keynote coding demo posted

A ton of folks have asked us about getting the source code to Scott
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

RunAtServer website new version

As you may know I am the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting, a company based in Montreal, we are specialized in web development with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. We have launched our new website! www.runatserver.com 9 month after the launch of the first version, we grown very fast (we hired several consultants and we became Microsoft Certified Partner and Microsoft Silverlight Partner!). Our website needed to reflect those changes with a fresh new design and sec
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Pick Your Sessions, Build Your Agenda and Win a Trip

Countdown to PDC2008: In this weeks edition of the PDC Countdown (only 65 days to go), Mike and Jennifer host the event marketing manager of the conference who talks about all of the great opportunities to win, win, win! Trips to LA, tickets to the Dodgers or Lakers, a movie premiere, or a trip down the red carpet at the Emmys could be yours. Or you could design the PDC t-shirt that will be handed out to thousands of attendees!! Wow, you could go down in PDC history if youre... Did you know
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Silverlight, Deep Zoom & LOLCats.

Silverlight, Deep Zoom & LOLCats. Posted by on August 9th, 2008 I can haz ur LOLCats in DeepZoom Thx bai. Well, for those of you whom aren
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

See Carl and I Talk about Behaviors on DNR-TV!

URL : http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?ShowID=144 Recently while in Vancouver for DevTeach, I sat down with Carl Franklin and recorded a couple of DNR-TV episodes.  The first one is on Behaviors (and how to write them). If you're interested in Silverlight, Blend or Behaviors...head over the DNR-TV site and take a look. http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?ShowID=144
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Interesting Finds: August 3, 2009

Other What
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Coffee Drinkers Have Slightly Lower Death Rates

Since most of us Geeks are caffeine addicts...... "Coffee consumption has been linked to various beneficial and detrimental health effects, but data on its relation with death were lacking," says Esther Lopez-Garcia, PhD, the study's lead author. "Coffee consumption was not associated with a higher risk of mortality in middle-aged men and women. The possibility of a modest benefit of coffee consumption on heart disease, cancer, and other causes of death needs to be further investigated." [ Read
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Workshops, Conferences and More

If you follow me on Twitter , you will have (hopefully) seen the announcement that our latest workshop has opened up for registration: Real World Accessibility for Ajax and Web Apps in Ottawa . This full-day workshop has received rave reviews from audiences in Wellington, New Zealand, Perth and Sydney, Australia, and places closer to home
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Two steps forward, one step back: NBC's online Olympic coverage

Ever since NBC announced their very ambitious plans for online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I have been very excited to see how well they execute it. Promising 3,500 hours of online video, with 2,200 hours of live streams, full event replays, and highlights, for free, how could they go wrong? It has recently come to light that the online coverage may not be as complete as we were hoping. NBC will not be offering live online feeds of any events that will be broadcast on TV. The one
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

Firefox 3

Today is D-Day ("Download Day") for the much-anticipated version 3 of Mozilla's popular web browsing client, Firefox. In an effort to create more buzz around the launch, Mozilla has requested that users help them attempt a new Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period by downloading the new Firefox release today. Over 1.7 million people from around the world pledged to download the new client today. As an aside, I think its pretty cool that they are trying to get in the Gui
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

The Silverlight Toolkit grows up a little with an install experience

The Silverlight Toolkit's March 2009 release is out, now with an installation experience that adds controls to the Visual Studio and Expression Blend toolbox, and improves the design experience....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

TechEd Ask The Experts: Website Graffiti? Silverlight 2.0 Annotation at the Vista booth

I'll be doing a fun Ask the Experts session at the Windows Vista booth Windows Vista at TechEd Developer 2008
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

TechDays Toronto 2009 Begins!

Here are a couple of shots from the Toronto edition of TechDays , taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre right now. The Room I
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

RIM to bring full Flash and Silverlight to Blackberry phones

  RIM produces one of the world
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

WMS 3D with Silverlight and WPF

Fig 1 - Silverlight view of DRCOG WMS Layers Fig 2 - WPF 3D view of DRCOG WMS Layers Silverlight 2.0 MapControl CTP makes it easy to create a WMS viewer. However, Silverlight exposes only a 2D subset of the full WPF xaml specification. In my experiments so far with LiDAR I can see the various TINS, contours, and point clouds as a 2D view, but what I would really like to do is view data in 3D. Recalling some work I did a few years ago using WPF GeometryModel3D elements I decided to look
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Big update for the Project Rosetta site today

We just shipped a major update to the Project Rosetta site, including a new a series of Flash to Silverlight tutorials, an updated API Guide with a quick reference list and a full list of recommended tools, code samples and frameworks to download. Getting...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Silverlight Blog

Blog about silverlight issues and discoveries   read more By Peter Bromberg Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

VS2008 SP1 and NetFX3.5 SP1 Released (Adam Braden)

Today we shipped Service Pack 1 (SP1) for both Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5.  This is the first time weve release both a VS SP and a .NetFramework SP at the same time!  Additionally, we released ENU, JPN and 8 additional languages that ship with SQL 2008 at the same time!  See the announcement on Somas blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/08/11/service-pack-1-for-vs-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-released.aspx Here are the links for information and where to get... Did you kno
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser

The Silverlight Controls Browser sample app can now be taken out-of-browser. Here's info on that, plus how to get it done in your own apps....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

OMG, where do I start?

A lot of email comes my way beginning with the sentiment:
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Bitter Sweet - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Bitter Sweet is a free, tableless, fixed width, XHTML compliant website design. This skin comes with 2 layouts in 2 versions: Index 2 pane skin with text header Index 2 pane skin with logo Admin 1 pane skin with text header Admin 1 pane skin with logo It also comes with 3 containers: h1 content pane h2 right pane transparent, no title container Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in severa
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Dependency Properties - Precedence

Today we wrap up dependency properties by talking about one of the most important, though typically invisible aspects: DP precedence order. This is critical because dependency properties, by their nature, are designed to have their final value set from...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-03 more

PDC09: Pre-Conference Workshop on Silverlight 3

It
Publication date: 2009-11-13 more

Where is C# in the Programming Language Lifecycle?

Seven years ago, Robin Sharp divided the lifecycle of a programming language into 7 phases: Conception Adoption Acceptance Maturation Inefficiency Deprecation Decay I think Robin is correct. Once a language becomes mainstream and reaches the acceptance phase, its only a matter of time till it becomes inefficient. This is because language designers face a dilemma: Keep the language stable by not adding more features or Add new features to the language so it evo
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Tonight: First looks at SharePoint 2010

First Looks at Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Presented by Savash Alic , Principal Specialist SharePoint TSP, Microsoft Canada Join us for a special live meeting on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 where Microsoft Canadas Savash Alic will present...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator

If you
Publication date: 2010-03-22 more

PDC 2009 Out Of Browser Session

I just got back from PDC 2009 where I had a great time presenting a session on the new Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser Features. The talk is available on-demand here and you can find the slide deck here . The session covered the following new Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Upgrade to Expression Studio v4 for free

Remember during the Day 1 Keynote at MIX10 when Scott Guthrie said (around 14 minutes and 14 seconds into the video):   ..we
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Charlotte Enterprise Developers Guild: Spring Code Camp 2008

Bill and the gang down in Charlotte have opened up registration for their spring Code Camp on Sat May 17th. A number of people from the Raleigh area are thinking of carpooling down, and a number of us are speaking at the event. I will be presenting a session on Silverlight 2 control customization. Code Camps are a great way to get training on a variety of topics, as well as to meet peers in the community and benefit from the energy and excitement that goes hand in hand with these events.
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

No Olympics ceremony for you

It's been 24 hours since the Olympics opening ceremony. NBC started the broadcast early and I missed the fancy drums. So I went online to watch the part I missed. You know, go to Youtube and watch a crappy FLV version of the opening ceremony, broken up into easily sharable, easily linkable three minute segments. Nope! Near as I can tell, there's no legitimate way to share a video experience of the Olympics online. Google's got Youtube locked down quite tightly, even if you fiddle your cookies.
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Symbian goes Open Source !

This is pretty big news, Nokia buys Symbian and the Symbian OS goes Open Source, Symbian Foundation. Here is a white paper with more infos.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: CompositeTransform

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Accessibility and RadEditor

The followingblog post was written together with Rumen Jekov, whois the most experienced support officer at Telerik and has been supporting RadEditor for a number of years now. If you are a RadEditor user, and you contact us, chances are you will be receiving an answer from him. The blog post discusses the accessibility features of RadEditor. While accessibility options were not considered important couple of years ago, things have changed - and will be changing even more in the future. For e
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

WCAG 2.0 Release Candidate Part 1 of 5: Intro

If you
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4

When shipping a product, there are always a handful of painful issues that we unfortunately cannot fix due to schedule pressure. One thing we can do is blog about these issues early and provide workarounds, so customers don
Publication date: 2010-04-05 more

HeadTraxExtreme Sample Application Updated

David Anson has posted about  an "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release . A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme, an organizational hierarchy viewer loosely based on an internal tool . That blog post has been fairly popular, and I wanted to update the sample code for the recent
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Silverlight Localization Gotcha

Wasted a bit of time figuring this out, so i
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

My First Flash Ecard

Few days ago, I found an interesting Flash Ecard made by me 8 years ago. At that time, I was still using Flash 4 and the Ecard is completely horrible. Well, through it's ugly, you will never get improved if you didn't try your first step. Same as before...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-28 more

Code Samples from the LINQ and .NET 3.5 Webinar

Thanks to everyone who attended the Maximizing Productivity with LINQ Webinar today and to ROI for putting it on.  We had a great turnout and covered a bunch of technologies in an hour.  I didn
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Thank goodness for reference implementations [Low-overhead .NET MD5 implementation (source code and tests) works great on Silverlight!]

In yesterday's post announcing ComputeFileHashes's new support for MD5 on Silverlight , I promised to share some details about my experience getting an MD5 HashAlgorithm implementation for Silverlight. Recall that an MD5 class is available in the desktop...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

A few announcements for those in the UK

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I
Publication date: 2010-03-08 more

Safari 4 Intros Nitro JavaScript Engine, Adds Dev Tools

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built-in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #32: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page.

UserControls are a great way to separate objects into smaller, more manageable chunks of logic. These controls can reused by different applications and are independent from other controls. Each UserControl can contain any amount of content and logic and...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Microsoft uses Olympics to push Silverlight

Microsoft uses Olympics to push Silverlight August 11, 2008 Olympics fever has taken over the world, and Microsoft has come up with a clever idea to boost the use of Silverlight: partner with NBC to show clips of Olympic competitions with the Silverlight player. In the US, the official online destination for video from the Beijing games is NBCOlympics.com. Many viewers will want to bypass athlete profiles and other lightweight content and get straight to the business of watching video from the
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Get Ready To Watch Flash On Your TV

Adobe Flash is unquestionably the most popular video format on the Internet. If Adobe has its way, it will also be the dominant video format on televisions too. Right now Flash powers everything from... (Click on the title for the full story...)
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

The proverbial "one line fix" [ComputeFileHashes works around a troublesome Silverlight-on-Mac issue]

When I achieved cross-platform parity by adding MD5 support to the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes , I thought I was done for a while. But then I got an email from a coworker reporting that the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes running...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-01 more

Popfly Game Creator

Microsoft have announced the Popfly Game Creator. Popfly was launched last year as as an easy way to create widgets and mashups using Silverlight. With Popfly Game Creator, it is adding a simple Web-based authoring environment for creating casual arcade-style games. Mark Harrison
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Using the ClientAPI to retrieve safe JS strings for Localization in Gallery

Today Core Team member Vincen Masanas gave a presentation about Localization in DotNetNuke. And it reminded me about the use of a ClientAPI featurethat has received little publicity. Dotnetnuke is very lucky to have Jon Henning as part of the Core Team and the Client API is mainly a result of his work on the area. While my Gallery team mate Matthias Schlomann was doing work to make Gallery an XHTML compliant module, he also did extensive work to complete localization. One particular scenario whe
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Microsoft Photosynth, not ready for Mac

I
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

Some great content has been published since I posted my previous collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links . What's more, the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit and the February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit have both been released...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

www.asp.net costs millions to run?

For those who missed it, Joe Stagner commented that www.asp.net costs millions of dollars to run. Since Joe was a little vague about exactly what that meant, I'm going to assume that he's talking about straight-up yearly hosting costs (because it was in the context of hosting, and if that was a monthly cost it would be 12-times more incredible than the already incredible yearly cost). I find this either highly doubtful, or really worrisome. So let's look at what $83 000 a month of hosting... Di
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Silverlight Firestarter Party in Portland

Erik Mork of the Sparkling Client fame is hosting a gathering for those in Portland who want to see the Silverlight Firestarter in Redmond . Details are below
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Custom Controls

Over the past month I've posted half a dozen min-articles about creating custom controls that can interact with the Visual State Manager, and the underlying engine that makes it work; especially Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model . Intro...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-09 more

Silverlight Resource Directory - alpha

http://silverlight.shinedraw.comThe alpha release is alive!!! I have created a new sub domain (http://silverlight.shinedraw.com) and this application will reside on this domain at the beginning. So far, I have spent around 25 hours in making the application. The approximate break down of the works is:6 hours: Layout Design and Planning 12 hours: C# Coding 7 hours: Integrating with DrupalClick Silverlight Resource Directory to preview the application now! Feature HighlightThis is just preliminary
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility

The Closed Captioning For Silverlight Media page at T2Sami.com says in its commentary: A number of very sophisticated Silverlight Video players are under development: some open source, some proprietary
Publication date: 2009-10-27 more

Slides and demos from Silverlight 3 session at NxtGen Fest 09

Mike Taulty shares his demos and slides from his talk on "Essentials Silverlight 3" at NxtGen Fest.
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

JavaScript implementation of "M"

Matthew Wilson is pushing "M" into the land of browser client-side scripting with his partial (but growing!) JavaScript implementation, as seen in his web 3-pane "M" grammar mode ala Intellipad. It's work like this that could make "M" a cross-platform solution for languages as well as data types and values. Good job, Matt!... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverligh
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 11 ! In episode 11 Glenn Block makes a return appearance on Silverlight TV and discusses the one of my favorite features of MEF: partitioning. Glenn explains how partitioning makes it easy...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

IIS SMOOTH STREAMING: NOW PLAYING ON AN INTERNET NEAR YOU

  Whether you
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Working on a Silverlight Multi-Player Library

Cameron Albert has been porting out the multi-player aspects of Perenthia into a separate library . As soon as he gets it cleaned up a little he will put it up on CodePlex and provide a tutorial and sample application showing how to implement and use the component. The library will be focused on providing an easy way to get setup and implement a multi-player structure. You will still need our own game engine and associated components.
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Programming news: H-1B visas, Red Gate's $1M challenge, Google's Summer of Code projects

Justin James highlights news about offshoring, VA Smalltalk 8.0, historical debugging, IIS Smooth Streaming, Team System 2010, ASP.NET, Scala 2.7.4, and more.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

The MIX10 Trivia Application - Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET

Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-13 more

Books On My Reading List

Posted by Davy Brion on February 1st, 2009 What does any self-respecting European development geek do when the British Pound
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3

First build of Silverlight.FX on top of Silverlight 3 with updates/enhancements ready - new features include ApplicationContext class, new Float/Spin3D effects, and Back/Forward integration. [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

In Response To DNR 476

Dot Net Rocks is certainly one of the most influential and valuable podcasts for .NET developers and their recent show (#476) was a compelling discussion about whether software development has become too complex. Recorded at DevLink in Nashville, the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Tweets on 2009-06-08

@ kayray I played Spore for hours, but it wasn
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 15: ASP.NET MVC

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services.  I have been updating  the example from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Concurrent Basic on Channel 9 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Concurrency is an important topic on everyone's mind, when considering future trends for computing and programming languages. Concurrent Basic is a variant of the Visual Basic language, with new constructs baked in to help handle concurrency and parallelism, in a very natural way. Watch this high-energy video with language guru Erik Meijer, VB spec lead Lucian Wischik, and MS researcher Claudio Russo, to learn more about what Concurrent Basic is all about! Expert to Expert: Inside Concurrent Bas
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Install Prism on Linux for easy to use web apps

If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

CBS Tests Multiple Online Video Platforms

Hot off of generating record traffic from its March Madness on Demand site using Microsoft's Silverlight video platform, CBS Sports is turning to Adobe's Flash Player to deliver video from its coverage of the Masters golf tournament in August, Ga. next week
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Silverlight Code Snippets for DependencyProperties and other Handy Stuff

Download The Snippets Now (provided for the reading averse) I was teaching someone about DependencyProperty the other day when I realized two things: first, DependencyProperty is a bad name. Does anyone know what they depend on (DependencyObject doesn...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject

I was thinking about an aspect of the new MVVM support that Expression Blend 4 has and how ( I think
Publication date: 2010-03-28 more

SQL SERVER - Fix : Error : 40 - could not open a connection to SQL server - Fix Connection Problems of SQL Server

Everyday I get lots of question regarding error :An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server when connecting to SQL server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under default settings SQL server does not allow remote connection. ( provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - could not open [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Sil
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

How MSFT/YHOO Could Affect Newspaper Consortium

July 31st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment How might the Microsoft/Yahoo search ad pact affect Yahoo
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

My new home page [A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!]

It's been nearly two weeks since the Silverlight Toolkit's November release . I've been trying to keep up with what's been written about Charting and want to summarize some of the most helpful posts I've seen so far. Overviews ( 100 level ) Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

html to uppercase

Returns string with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase. in php programing you can use preg_replace("/()/e", "'$1'.strtoupper('$2').'$3'", $html_body) Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Silverlight Drag and Drop API

Introduction Drag and drop is a common UX paradigm and a top requested feature. In Silverlight 4 Beta, we introduced a basic set of API to enable the most common scenario of dragging pictures files and dropping them to Silverlight applications, and we...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-28 more

EF Business Classes in ASP.NET Apps - Don't pass that query around!

Here's a little sidebar from my book that I think is pretty important. Return Results, not Queries from the Business classes While you can get away with binding a query when working directly in the code behind of an ASP.NET page, remember that the querys job is to be executed and return results. Query execution requires an ObjectContext. If you returned the query itself from a business class, it will be detached from the context as soon as the business object is disposed (the business object,...
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Silverlight 2 Release Guide

As promised, Silverlight 2 is now not merely released, it is really and most sincerely released
Publication date: 2008-10-14 more

Nine Silverlight 2 Features Not to Be Missed

(Steve Apiki) Everybody likes buttons?everybody needs buttons?so it's not surprising that the premier of buttons and other visual controls in Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 was the subject of headlines. Not everybody's Silverlight application will need to manipulate the DOM, or use local storage, or fetch data from a web service. But if you're building such an application, you may be more excited about these and other critical, but less visible, technologies in Beta 1. In this article we'll ge
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

Tweet! ( 2008-05-06 )

Tweet! ( 2008-05-06 ) May 6th, 2008 Back from Dojo. Arms & Abs killing me # Gonna watch Hitman and get 8 hours of sleep. I deserve it. # Ubuntu Server went into Hyper-V fine. SSH goodness. # @Digitalsulis Enjoy it! Cute avatar pic by the way # Big code day today. Time to get going # MS should offer Yahoo! $32 < a share. Its clear that the Yahoo management will try and poison any deal. http://snurl.com/27dls # It is SO frustrating Mosso has an overbearing "morality" clause ont heir host
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Online operating system within Web browser: Windows4all

We have already seen Ghost virtual online operating system , Windows4all is similar online OS powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology. Within web browser, you can access and get feel of an operating system. It has Windows Vista like feel complete with Orb start button and fully loaded sidebar gadgets on the desktop. You can access number of basic applications within this virtual online operating system including: - Internet Explorer to surf web or google around for any information.
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Interesting Finds: August 2, 2009

Other STM (Software Transactional Memory) , Salvador Gascon
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Telerik Announces Support for Mono

Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and components for the Microsoft .NET platform announced that RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX fully supports the Mono runtime environment, an open source .NET framework sponsored by Novell, tailored for development of Linux applications.  The Telerik AJAX UI components is the first major commercial user interface (UI) suite to go cross-platform and allows developers to build rich .NET applications in a Linux environment.
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

How to Program Visual Basic 2008 - a master text.

Deitel books are great learning tools and often used as course text or soup to nuts learning guides. Also the physical quality of the book (printing, paper choice, color, etc) make it a collectors item if your a book lover) I had the pleasure of being...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Popfly Game Creator Alpha: First look, by Adam Nathan and Suzanne Hansen

Popfly Game Creator Alpha is now available, and it
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (06 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (06 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger

How to create a Double Click Trigger in Silverlight 3 to compose rich interactive experiences.
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Asian Americans Going for the Gold & thoughts on the Opening Ceremonies

I was in San Francisco yesterday and saw the front cover of the printed edition of AsianWeek, and was happy to see a nice profile of all the Asian Americans performing in the latest issue, titled,
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

First Book on SketchFlow: A Chapter Available for Download

Sara Summers and Chris Bernard are writing a book on SketchFlow. Yay, thank you! You can get a free chapter including tutorial projects at http://www.dynamic-prototyping.com/....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

Press Release - Infragistics Ships User Interface Components for Microsoft Silverlight 3

PRINCETON, N.J. and ELSTREE, United Kingdom, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Infragistics, a world leader in user interface (UI) development tools and experts in the User Experience (UX) market, today shipped the NetAdvantage Silverlight control toolset to develop UIs in Line of Business applications that is part of NetAdvantage for .NET 2009 Volume 1 and NetAdvantage for Web Client 2009 Volume 1. Built on Microsoft Silverlight 3, Infragistics provides developers with advanced, unique controls to quick
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Infragistics Gives Us Quince - The User Experience Patterns Explorer

Infragistics has made the Quince UX patterns explorer available for free to the development community. Quince is an online repository of the world's most useful and usable UX patterns focused on creating superior user experiences where you can go to enhance...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

The Silverlight Toolkit

It
Publication date: 2009-11-05 more

"Un-Official" List of Microsoft Twitter Feeds

  While you can follow Microsoft's main Twitter feed at @Microsoft -- there's also many specific Microsoft Team's on Twitter too! (Thanks Sarah & Olen )  Products and Services:   @Bing
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Microsoft Bing: WTF Kind of Launch Was That?!

Microsoft has spent a reported $100 million to launch their new
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Convet an excel graph to a dynamic graph in Silverlight (tutorial)

See how to convert an excel graph with Paste2Xaml to a Silverlight application. To show the power of Silverlight we add a starup animation and a dynamicaly showing graph data on moving the mouse over graph's bars. The tutorial can be also used for WPF applications.
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Visualizing Data

Ever wonder what goes into building an effective visualization? Look no further. We decided to roll up our sleeves and explore the topic. We
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

PollingDuplex multiple mode timeouts demystified

The new MultipleMessagesPerPoll mode added to PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4 , comes with some new timeouts , so I thought it would be useful to post a detailed description of how those work. Unfortunately this is not currently covered by our documentation...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-20 more

IKVM 0.42 Release Candidate 1

A new release candidate is available. Changes since previous release candidate: Changed version to 0.42.0.1. Fixed a regression introduced in 0.40 that caused a System.NotSupportedException to be thrown by ikvmc when compiling multiple targets where one target (indirectly) implements a non-public interface from another target. Thanks to Erik Vullings for reporting this. Binaries available here: ikvmbin-0.42.0.1.zip Sources:..
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Announcing: Silverlight Reporting on CodePlex

Last month, I wrote a post with some ideas on how to create a report writer in Silverlight 4. At the time, I mentioned that I would upload the source to CodePlex and create a project out of it. So, here it is . Silverlight Reporting! The initial source...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-11 more

Tip of the Day #28: How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor

In Tip of the Day #27 we talked about how to change the mouse cursor. But what if you want to have a cursor icon that is not supported by Silverlight? This tutorial will show you how to do it. For a complete demo of this tip visit: http://silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-19 more

Online Mapping Apps in my every day life

There are two web apps based on mapping APIs - one uses Google and the other uses Virtual Earth - that I use frequently. It's a long way from what you could do with Virtual Earth when I started dabbling when it first came out. Read more. [A New DevLife Post] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Poll: What is your favorite web gaming technology?

Poll: What is your favorite web gaming technology? Flash 1 votes Java 1 votes Shockwave 0 votes Silverlight 0 votes I can't decide. 0 votes I don't know what any of these are. 0 votes What's Silverlight? 0 votes Other 0 votes Here is a poll about what your favorite web gaming technology is. System.out.println("Over and Out");
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released!

Its time to start building more applications and games for Windows Phone 7. Developer tools beta for Windows Phone has been released . Few important updates in the beta are: Blend is now compeltely integrated into the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-13 more

New Video Series on Data Access

The first three videos are live. #1 | Data Access Layers in ASP.NET Applications #2 | How to Manually Bind a Dataset to a Datagrid #3 | How to Work with Datasets and Filters from an ASP Application More coming soon. [ Get them here. ] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Microsoft Surface: Announcing Online Design and Development Training

I love the Surface. I want one in my home office. Alas, that isn't going to happen any time soon, but thanks to things like the Surface SDK for Touch for Windows 7, I can play with the cool surface controls all I want. What, you don't know how to develop...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-28 more

"Web on the Server": Interview with Guy Peled of GIZMOX & Asaf Saar of SAP

Visual WebGUI (VWG) discussed live with Jeremy Geelan at the 5th International AJAXWorld Conference in NYC. Visual WebGui Guy Peled from GIZMOX explains how VWG is an open source rapid application development (RAD) framework for line-Of-business AJAX & Silverlight GUIs. "It cuts down development time (proven up to 90%)," Peled tells Jeremy Geelan. Asaf Saar from SAP then recounts how Visual WebGUI has helped him at SAP - without compromising on extensibility, scalability, performance, security o
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Alexi Giannoulis at the DNC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU8djhl0o14 Whomever at the DNC decided to use the Move Player and Silverlight needs a good smacking around.
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

A Big Day for the Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services teams

The release of Visual Studio Service Pack 1 today (currently available for MSDN Subscribers to download), marks the RTM of Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. It's been a long haul for EF, initially shown off in early 2006. ADO.NET Data Services, or ANDS as I've seen Shawn Wildermuth call it (though I still call it Astoria) is a bit younger, making its first public appearance in March 2007 at MIX. So they are finally here. There were a lot of doubting Thomas' in the first year or so of..
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10

On Monday the 15th from 5pm
Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

Using Silverlight AutoCompleteBox on custom types

The other day I wrote a simple little Silverlight application using a DataGrid to help navigate the TechEd DVD contents .  My code was admittedly quick and dirty.  I loaded up some data, and based on some events re-filtered and re-bound that...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

ASP.NET Podcast Show #119 - Using the History (Back) Functionality with the ASP.NET AJAX Web Services in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta 1

Subscribe to Everything.Subscribe to WMV format.Subscribe to M4V for iPod Users.Subscribe to MP3 (Audio only). Download WMV.Download M4V for iPod Users.Download MP3 (Audio only).Download PPT associated file. Show Notes:This show is an extension of Show #110 on ASP.NET AJAX and Live Maps.Back and forward are now enabled.Data stored on the url.Upcoming Community Events:GiveCamp in Ann Arbor, MI. http://www.annarborgivecamp.org. Check for Satellite events.CodeStock in Knoxville on August 9. ... Di
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Silverlight Designer Support in VS 2010

Visual Studio 2010 is a huge release in terms of designer support for Silverlight and WPF. You can now drag Silverlight controls from the Toolbox to the design surface. You can resize and position controls on the design surface, set their properties and...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-01 more

Flash is Dominating the Landscape, but Silverlight is Growing

A RIA statistics page is publishing the numbers of browsers having RIA plug-ins installed on a daily basis. The RIA space today is occupied by Flash but Silverlight is catching up. By Abel Avram
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Foundations of Programming Ebook

I'm excitted to finally release the official, and completely free, Foundations of Programming EBook. This essentially contains all 9 Foundation parts including a conclusion and some typical book fluff (table of content, acknowledgement and so on). A number of spelling errors were corrected, along with some small technical changes and clarifications - largely based on feedback, so thanks for everyone who provided it! Otherwise it's exactly the same as what's been posted here over the past... Did
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Ninject 2 hits beta status

Its not that a secret that Im a big fan of Ninject, so Im pretty excited to see that the experimental version that Nate was playing with has been upgraded to the next official release of Ninject, v2. Its completely written from scratch, and it takes full advantage of LINQ. You can read more about whats new, what has been removed, and what has been added on the official announcement on Nates blog. It seems like it also have an even easier way to integrate with ASP.NET MVC. Ill not have a lot... D
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Building a Great ASP.NET AJAX Application...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

Use PopFly Game Downloader to nab your faves before it shuts down

Filed under: Fun , Games , Utilities , Microsoft , Freeware Microsoft may be pulling the pin on Popfly, but that doesn't mean you have to kiss your favorite games goodbye. What's that you say? You didn't even know there were games on Popfly ? Well, there are - and some are actually pretty fun. Over at Coding4Fun, they've released a handy tool that allows you to save the games you enjoy forever and ever. Or at least until you grow weary and decide it's time to delete them from your
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Silverlight 2 in Action [ILLUSTRATED]

Chad Campbell, John Stockton,
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

New Shiny Silverlight 2 Healthcare Demo

Via Laurent I came across this excellent site showing off a cool new application called the
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

How to redirect to another page when session timeout in ASP.NET

A small solution to prevent session timout... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Winforms Gotcha: Form.Close() doesn't always call Dispose()

I just ran into a weird issue. During profiling I saw that controls on a form which was already closed were still reacting to events. I checked whether the Dispose() routine of the particular Form was called, but it wasn't. However, the Dispose() routine of other forms was called after it was closed, as in: immediately. The difference between the two situations was that if I used Form.ShowDialog(parentForm), a call to Close() on the particular form didn't call Dispose. Checking the Form.Close().
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Design Patterns - Part 1 published

I recently started writing a series on design patterns for DotNetSlackers. The series is aimed squarely at those who are new to design patterns. In the first part we cover the strategy pattern. At this moment in time I am not sure of how many parts the series will consist of but I have an idea so if there is a design pattern you would like me to cover then do let me know. View it - Design Patterns - Part 1... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Scale WCF Application Better with Asynchronous Programming

WCF is a framework that is asynchronous inside out. Internally, asynchronous patterns are used to achieve non-blocking calls between different layers inside WCF. Externally WCF exposes the asynchronous patterns for both client and service programming. Why Asynchronous Pattern? From performance perspective, its not always ideal to use asynchronous programming if you dont have to. Any asynchronous pattern involves at least some thread switches and thus causes delays to requests. So you should not
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Skyfire 1.0 Mobile Browser

Skyfire 1.0 is now available for on Windows Mobile (smartphones/PPC) and Nokia N and E Series (Symbian S60, 3rd Edition) phones. The free mobile browser comes packed with Flash 10, Javascript, Ajax and Silverlight 2. Features include scrolling, zooming, and Twitter and Facebook integration. Available in the US, Canada and the UK, a public beta and Blackberry version should be released sometime this year. Visit the site to download to your phone, send a link to it or install through your PC.
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Out-of-Band Security Bulletin for Visual Studio

Download security updates, register for the security webcasts, and access two new out-of-band security bulletins to find out more information on how it affects Visual Studio and certain types of applications.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Open or save documents in DOCX and DOCM formats with Aspose.Editor

Whats new in this release?Aspose.Editor v3.0 now supports importing or exporting documents in DOCX and DOCM formats. This new release combines other advanced features also like: Inserting tables, render shading and borders and customizing client editor control by plug-in modules.More about Aspose.Editor for .NETAspose.Editor is a .NET word processor control for desktop and web based applications. It provides support for Windows Vista, WinXP styling, spell checking and document conversion formats
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Latest sneak peek of Office Web Apps from TechEd AU

At an overwhelmingly popular session during Microsoft TechEd Australia 2009 this week, Reed Shaffner from the Office team provided among other things a brief but satisfying peek at the latest Office Web Apps experience that has yet to be opened up for public beta testing. Here
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Serialising Microsoft StreamInsight QueryTemplates

At first sight, StreamInsight doesnt appear to offer any support for dynamic queries. Once you have got over the initial wow factor of creating continuous queries over streams using LINQ, rather than some SQL dialect or specialised DSL, the reality hits you that your query is just code. You wrote the LINQ using C# or VB.NET, and you ended up compiling it into some assembly. Thats all very well, but its not very flexible. How are you going to store and manage your queries in a repository so that
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Digital Rapids New 3.2 Upgrade Reaches New Heights in IIS Smooth Streaming Performance

Digital Rapids
Publication date: 2010-03-03 more

Free Silverlight 3 Book Preview Now available

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight For those of you who were not able to attend MIX (and it wasn
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Silverlight 4 Links

Here
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template

To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code.  The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template.  It describes a prescriptive...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Silverlight: Write and Win! contest winners

The third edition of "Silverlight: Write and Win!" contest ended and today is the judgment day. Our jury with members Adam Kinney, Chris Anderson, Dave Campbell, Emil Stoychev, Michael Sync, Shawn Wildermuth and Tim Heuer carefully read each article and nominated the winners. And the winners are: 1st Build an Image HotSpot Designer in Silverlight by Damon Payne Damon will enjoy the Telerik Premium Collection for .NET, ComponentOne Studio For Silverlight, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 4

Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 4 Posted by on July 26th, 2008 Day 4 involves a lot of hard work (9 am - 12 am). It feels like the crunch time before final projects back in grad school.  At the start of the day, we reviewed each other
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Ninite, a powerful tool

Ninite offers a very simple way to eliminate the boring task of installing the programs after formatting the computer. You select the programs you want to install and it automatically downloads and installs all the programs selected for you, completely free User interaction. The task is so simple, that in just three steps you will be assisting the installation of all your programs having a coffee. All you have to do is (1) access the site Ninite to select which programs you install, (2) down
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #99

I recently had the opportunity to try out the controls from ComponentArt.com . I was very impressed with their ease of use, professional design and overall quality. Also, their staff are very prompt to responding to questions which made my developer experience...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Silverlight Navigation

In the first of 2 navigation videos we filmed for Silverlight TV, David Poll joins John Papa to demonstrate how the Silverlight navigation API can be used to solve common navigational structures. David explains how navigation works with Silverlight, how...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-29 more

Microsoft Expression Studio 3 Build 1762 Retail

Published by admin Oct12 Microsoft Expression Studio 3 Build 1762 Retail | 262MBMicrosoft Expression Studio opens a new world of creative possibilities. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to implementing your vision, regardless of whether you design for a standardized web sites, creating extensive application desktop or Silverlight.Click on Link Below To Start DownloadMicrosoft Expression Studio 3 Build 1762 Retail Share and Enjoy: Filed under: Downloads, build, design-for
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Simple & Advanced Pivots with C# and ASP.NET

How to create simple and advanced pivot tables in C# and ASP.NET... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

Review: IronPython in Action

I
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Introducing NETOOP (The .NET Object Oriented Portal)

Yesterday I announced and new project I
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

Zune HD details

After artwork images leaked online of the new Zune HD, more details are now coming out about the next generation MP3 player from Microsoft. The Zune HD is rumored to feature an AMOLED capacitive touch display with a 16:9 aspect ratio, and HDMI out. It will coming in 16GB and 32GB flavors, and will be [...]
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Visual Thesaurus

When I wasn
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Pseudo Terminals and Terminal Emulators

There was a discussion about how to host REPLs in applications like MonoDevelop recently and some of the discussion was centered around how to host something like a shell into a program like MD. Since I have been thinking about building a Silverlight-based version of the Midnight Commander (OH NOES!) I figured I should share some thoughts that I had on this matter. Widgets like ZVT and VTE today bundle a number of things in a single widget: A Unix Pseudo terminal with login/l
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Visual Basic How Do I Videos

Weve started two new How Do I videos series on the Visual Basic Developer Center. More to come, but heres the latest! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Press Release - DotImage Version 8.0 Released by Atalasoft, Enhances Web-Based Document Imaging Capabilities

EASTHAMPTON, Mass., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Atalasoft, Inc., the leading provider of imaging components and technology for Microsoft .NET Framework-based developers, announces the release of DotImage 8.0, the latest version of its .NET imaging toolkit. Atalasoft continues to save customers time and money when building enterprise content management (ECM) and electronic medical record (EMR) solutions. Atalasoft's DotImage 8.0 introduces Microsoft Silverlight viewing and annotating controls and a
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help

If you've installed the Silverlight Toolkit after Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected. You'll see this with types and members that are "shared" between...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-23 more

Ads come to Xbox 360 via your Dashboard

The Xbox 360 dashboard is about to get a whole lot less friendlier thanks to new ads/commercials that will briefly take the place of the usual NXE Windows, as you can see in the video below. To make matters worse, these ads are not static. They are in fact videos (or commercials) and come complete with sound . . . making the Xbox 360 Dashboard as annoying as those video advertisements you see on youtube and other sites whenever you are trying to watch a video. Although there are banner ads as
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Software Books Ordered

I just ordered some more books, on recommendations from a few of my peers. I'll post my thoughts on them once they've arrived and I've had a chance to read them. The Art of Agile Development: James Shore, Shane Warden: Books Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (The Agile Software Development Series): Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck: Books Domain-Driven Design Quickly: Floyd Marinescu, Abel Avram: Books For those of you who have already read these, what did
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Microsoft MIX 2009 Wrap-Up

I'm sure that there are about a million MIX wrap-up articles out there, but this one is going to be filled with mystery and intrigue... The first day keynote was actually quite interesting, with Bill Buxton leading up the group with a very interesting talk on interactive design. He gave a very cool presentation on why user experience matters and gave numbers from within Microsoft showing that they have been hiring user experience professionals at an even faster rate than developers. He even c
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Olympics Online, With a Hook

Olympics Online, With a Hook Submitted by srlinuxx on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 18:44. M$ nytimes.com: To view the video, it will be necessary to download a Microsoft Web browser software component based on a new proprietary technology, Silverlight. For many industry executives who compete with Microsoft the Silverlight strategy recalls a federal antitrust case in which Microsoft was found guilty.
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio CTP3 Shipped

The Windows Live
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

New SkyFire For Your Mobile

Folks who are bored of the default browser in your Windows Mobile device will be happy to hear that SkyFire is available now in a new version. Features of the new version include: A revamped starting page, it includes feeds, Facebook and Twitter integration. The readability on large text area has been improved, now the font size automatically adapts so the user can zoom and rad without the need for horizontal scroll. Skyfire supports the widescreen formats that are used by Windows Mobile devic
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

About cloud computing, hosting web apps and streaming the software

Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Remains of the Day: YouTube Gets More

YouTube adds legit clips from popular TV shows and movies, the Wall Street Journal explains why AT&T killed Google Voice, and Symantec rounds up the worst offending malware sites of the summer.Robot Chicken, Gossip Girl and Ellen Clips Coming Soon to YouTubeYouTube gets excited about a partnership with Time Warner that will bring legal clips from Turner, the Cartoon Network, CNN, Warner Bros. movies, and more. They said
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available...

Not a huge release this one, but we've just shipped an update for Silverlight 2 that fixes a number of minor bugs that have been reported over the last couple of months. Get it while it's hot, here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Just say no

For some reason WSUS apparently thinks we need Silverlight on our workstations and servers. (and is there any wonder why I don't have auto updates turned on?)
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

25 Inspiring Silverlight Websites, Videos and Customer Stories

As part of the CRE8 Conference last week in Miami, August de los Reyes and I presented a collection of the cool videos, websites and customer stories. Here is a great list for you with the best of best in Silverlight and UX. August de los Reyes, Director...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-03 more

Windows Hosting with Silverlight

For some time now, the Microsoft brand has been synonymous with information technology and more recently, formed close ties with the web hosting industry.  Over the years, Windows hosting has made a name for itself with powerful features such as ASP, ASP.NET, FrontPage and MS SQL among several others.  One of the most highly sought after features these days is a Microsoft technology known as Silverlight. What is Silverlight? Silverlight is a browser plugin that supports major web br
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Cross Domain Fun

Has this type of thing ever happened to you? Sometimes its best to put the keyboard down and walk away from the computer. Last night I was reminded of this when I was writing some code examples for my Silverlight book and struggling with a problem with my WCF service. The problem was that it worked. No, I am not crazy (well not completely). I had a Silverlight client and a WCF service on a different domain. Both use the Cassini web server with different ports on the localhost. I did not include.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 25: ViewModel

ViewModel (or Model-View-ViewModel) is an emerging pattern in the WPF, Silverlight space which enables a separation of concerns similar to that of the MVC pattern that is popular on for stateless web apps today (for example: ASP.NET MVC).  John Gossman...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000!

I was honored to be asked by ComponentArt to participate in a judging panel for their just now released 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition . The grand prize is USD $10,000. Yes, that
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Guest comment: Is Microsoft

Guest comment: Is Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

Skyfire on the Way to BlackBerry with Flash Support

Even though the web browser on recent Blackberry devices has improved a lot (mostly thanks to the higher-res display...), it is fair to say that they are still far from being "good". But the arrival of Skyfire for Blackberry might solve this problem. Skyfire is a web browser that aims to offer a desktop web experience in your mobile. They do it by having a desktop machine load the page from their data center, then compresses the page into a mobile-friendly format. Think of it as some kind of "
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

ReMixUK08 - Some early details...

Mix 08 in Las Vegas earlier on this year was one of the single best events I've had the opportunity to attend. The quality of the sessions, keynotes and peripheral events was very high and yet there's always a slight disappointment that this kind of event happens in a place where most UK/European designers and developers can't get to easily. So, I'm hoping that the UK ReMix08 event that's just been properly announced with the launch of the website can bring some of that magic here... The agenda
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Moonshine: drinking fermented Windows Media content on Linux

Novell developer Aaron Bockover has created a clever Firefox plugin that uses Moonlight to play conventional Windows media streaming video content at websites like C-SPAN. The plugin takes advantage of the video codecs that Microsoft provides for Moonlight, Novell's open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application framework. Moonlight 1.0, which was officially released Wednesday, automatically downloads a proprietary codec pack from Microsoft in order to provide
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Mozilla & Microsoft, Strange Bedfellows, Stranger Allies

You know things are getting weird when Microsoft and Mozilla agree on anything. After all, one is a closed source developer, the other is open source. The one uses bullying tactics and sheer market drive to push its browser, the other has used an appeal of quality to the prospective users. This is one of those
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

UFC 104: Bringing Pay-Per-View to Online Users with Silverlight, Smooth Streaming, and PlayReady

Back in August we told you about how UFC.com used IIS Smooth Streaming for the UFC 102 pre-fight weigh-ins. Building on the success of that, we
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

Mix 08 Sessions available in new dual-stream versions using Silverlight

I posted the month before last that the Mix08 Sessions, mine included, were up and available at http://sessions.visitmix.com . I posted links to the MP4, WMVs and other downloaded versions at the time as well. The Silverlight versions were the same versions...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-17 more

Silverlight ICO/ICON Decoder (Parser)

It turns out the Windows BMP file format is similar to the Windows ICO file format. Given that, it wasn't too hard for me to produce a Windows ICO/ICON decoder (parser) based on the work I did around a Silverlight BMP decoder. I didn't spend a lot of...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-14 more

Foundations Of Programming - Small Update

I've updated the Foundations of Programming license to a Share-Alike (as opposed to a no derivatives) license. As always, you can download it from: http://codebetter.com/media/p/179694.aspx OR http://openmymind.net/FoundationsOfProgramming.pdf Additionally, I've released the raw docx file (under the same license): http://openmymind.net/FoundationsOfProgramming.docx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 article
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit

Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Microsoft health hazard?

Microsoft health hazard? Tue,06 Oct 2009 07:22 GMT -4:00 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29438 news viewAdvertising | Freedom:- Seriously, would you want Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer (right) to be in charge of your health records? That
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Free eBook - Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET

I wrote a few articles for the Simple Talk Website (run by RedGate Software) over the past year and was honored to be included in the "Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET" eBook they just released.  The book is a free PDF that covers a lot of different topics including: ASP.NET Master Pages Tips and Tricks Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0 Implementing Waiting Pages in ASP.NET Token Replacement in ASP.NET Regular Expression Based Token Replacement in ASP.NET A Complete URL Rewriting Solution for ASP.NET 2.0
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Getting CDONTS to work on Windows Server 2008 x64 - Steve Schofield Weblog

Had a question come up on the IIS 7 list server (iislists.com) on using CDONTS on IIS 7. Steve has written a blog post on the topic I thought was worth referencing. Getting CDONTS to work on Windows Server 2008 x64 - Steve Schofield Weblog... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Dreaming of RIA Services - Literally

I was having a hard time sleeping last night so I got up and did some work. I started reading up on RIA Services on Brad Abrams' blog and Nikhil Kothari's . I needed a refresher from the last time I dug into them just before TechEd. I'm really excited about RIA Services because they bridge a very frustrating gap when working with ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria).  I finally went back to sleep and dreamt that Brad and some other's from Microsoft were at my user group ( www.vtdotnet.org ) 
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Silverlight 3 Out-of-Browser Support

Chris Koenig has posted an article that will give you an overview of creating a simple Out-Of-Browser experience for Silverlight 3 . I know it was just announced today, but I had to play with the OOB experience in Silverlight 3 and give it a quick Road Test.  Luckily, it is just as simple as it looks. 
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Source viewer added to the Silverlight SDK sample browser

The Silverlight SDK sample browser lets you explore all the live samples used by the official Silverlight documentation . In the past, the source code for the samples could only be found in the documentation. Now, however, you can view the source directly...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

The Morning Brew #368

I
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

Is Performance a "functional" requirement?

We had an internal thread on this yesterday, maybe I was a little too glib but here is what I had to say about the topic [edited so it can be read standalone] The original question, Is performance a functional requirement is highly unexciting for me. However the revised question, What is the best way to capture performance requirements is profoundly interesting. It is precisely the (anti-)correlations between attainable functionality and level of responsiveness that sometimes makes for... Did
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Light Up the Web: Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

Microsoft Silverlight Streaming offers free and inexpensive hosting services that make exposing your video and audio content as easy as pie. An article by Rob Blackwell Read the article HERE at Devx!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-23 more

Showcase Silverlight Apps for Talks and Demos

Talking amongst a few of my cohorts, Erik Mork asked
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

NBC's Olympics Smashes Online Traffic Records, But Fewer Actually Watching Video

The Beijing Olympics are helping NBC Sports crush its previous online traffic records. Consider: before the games, NBC Sports' biggest online traffic day was the US Open playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate, which brought 9.1 million page views and 1.5 million videos streamed. Over the first four days of the Games, NBCOlympics.com had 291 million page views and 13.5 million video streams. But despite mammoth traffic to the site, relatively few appear to be downloading Silverlight and
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Toolkit posts: "Silverlight in Style," dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight, and TreeView expansion

The Silverlight Toolkit site is a great starting point, but a lot of the important conversations that we’re having with customers are happening elsewhere: on blogs. I thought I’d take a moment to share some important resources to show you...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 2/16/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Danny Simmons describes associations between Room and Exit entities in his D3: Modeling Part 1
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service

October 19th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 10:31 amCategories:Azure, Corporate strategy, Silverlight (wpf/e), Utility/cloud computing, Windows LiveTags:Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Silverlight Streaming, Softies, Team Management, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo FoleyMicrosoft is discontinuing its free Silverlight Streaming service and replacing it with a paid, Azure-hosted service before the end of calendar 2009.Microsoft is confirming the rep
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

RIA Services at MIX10

A bit about my RIA Services talk at MIX10... let me know what you'd like to see. [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #40 I wont be posting anything tomorrow due to the US holiday of Independence Day on Saturday. I will be taking the day off. Daily Oddball The Best Way to Photograph Fireworks (Tweeted by Dana Coffey ) .NET Framewo
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

SQLAuthority News - Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000

If you are still using SQL Server 2000 (you should have upgraded to SQL Server 2005 by now), there is Security Upgrade for Service Pack 4 and MSDE.Download SQL Server 2000 Security Upgrade... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Merged Resource Dictionaries in Silverlight 3

Merged Resource Dictionaries provide a way to define and split resources into separate files. By locating application resources in external file we can then reuse them between applications. This feature can be helpful in custom control development, but not only. In Silverlight 2 resources cannot be factored into separate files and that leads to large App.xaml file holding application-wide shared resources. The same problem exists while developing custom controls. All default style keys must be
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Time To Update My Favorites

Periodically I take a shot at listing my favorites: some folks find useful items they hadn
Publication date: 2009-10-21 more

Consuming REST/POX and REST/JSON services in Silverlight 4

A new feature in Silverlight 4 is the ability to consume REST/POX (XML) services in a strongly-typed way, using the same programming model as the desktop framework. That includes WebGet/WebInvoke attributes, UriTemplates and body styles. By default, only...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-30 more

Game Creator Alpha: Microsoft Popfly does Silverlight games

Game Creator Alpha: Microsoft Popfly does Silverlight games By Emil Protalinski | Published: May 02, 2008 - 03:32PM CT Microsoft Popfly is a free tool designed to help non-programmers create, share, and embed mashups. Anyone with a Windows Live ID can sign up and begin combining different types of web content, including text, images, web pages, feeds, gadgets, and applications. Microsoft has now further expanded Popfly by releasing the alpha version of the Popfly Game Creator. The slogan?
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

User-initiated operations in Silverlight

User-initiated operations in Silverlight: must be initiated by the user via an input device like keyboard, mouse or accessibility client... ...within Silverlight have an in-built timeout have atomicity of transaction cannot be marshalled across the specific...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-10 more

A battle royale for RIA market

Developers say that a main factor in the use of Flex, JavaFX and Silverlight is the prior programming skills that an RIA builder brings to the table. The companies, meanwhile, discussed how they will try to find more uses for their platforms to stay ahead in a tight market. Visit website for full story...
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

"WCF LOB Adapter SDK and the BizTalk Adapter Pack" Whitepaper

When building applications today, its hard to consider building something that doesnt involve connectivity of some sort. Applications require business data and logic that is distributed across several applications or servers. Unfortunately, not all systems provide the same interface to their data and business logic which ultimately forces developers to figure out how to talk to each of those systems. Connecting to a system doesnt just involve opening up a port on a network address either; we hav
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Progressive Metal

Do you have fits of interest? I go through bursts of reading fiction and I
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

LINQ Tip of the week: A quick peek behind the curtains

In our previous post in this series we had a look at how to optimize query execution with the help of parameterized queries. Today we will briefly look at what actually happens behind the curtains when a LINQ query is executed and you get back  the results.   As you already know LINQ can be used to query various data sources like in-memory objects, XML or databases,which is of particular interest to us. Consider the following example where we query for all employees who are born in the sam
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #17

Silverlight currently has full mouse support for single click. However, double click is a another story. In this tip I Read the Rest......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

SketchFlow and Blend at PDC

Microsoft’s professional developer conference (PDC) starts Monday in Los Angeles. We have a number of talks on Expression Blend and SketchFlow. If you are coming to PDC, we’d love to see you there… I will hold a talk on SketchFlow on...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-16 more

Webcast: Event Handling

Today's Webcast was intended to be a smooth presentation of a topic I know cold. Not uncharacteristically,  I went off on a tangent from which I never returned and ended up writing all my code spontaneously. The good news was it was "fresher"...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Expression Studio 3, Deep Zoom Composer

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Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

The Silverlight BlockText Control

Introduction Yes, I was searching for months if there is any possibility to simple justify block text! And I didn
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

WPF Data Binding: Unraveling data templates

Data binding in WPF in general and particularly working with data templates tends to be quite tricky some times. Here I'll present you some more advanced tips for dealing with data templates. To start with, I want to refer to an article I read a while ago. It is about the basics of data templates and I want to use it as a starting point and a foundation to build on. If you are just starting to work with WPF or you have never met with data templates, please read it first to get acquainted with
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Link Listing - September 4, 2008

Link Listing - September 4, 2008 ASP.NET Watch out for Date Kind in JSON Deserialization [Via: Rick Strahl ] WPF Using MVVM to work with CheckBoxes in XamDataGrid [Via: Josh Smith ] WCF Generate your own RSS feed with WCF: Syndication [Via: jay.smith ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: September 4, 2008 - [Rough Cut] [Via: Jason Haley ] Dew Drop - September 4, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for September 4, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Podcasts Glenn Block and Brian Noyes on Prism [V
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Live Search from Silverlight

My first article is now online over at CoDe Magazine.  The article is a short one that explains how to use Live Search from a Silverlight application using HTTP communication. I modified an excerpt from my book Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 (with the permission of O
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Highlights of 2009

I copied this idea from Eric (and Mike ) and thought I
Publication date: 2009-12-22 more

SQL SERVER Interesting Observation Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries

Working with SQL Server has never seems to be monotonous no matter how long one has worked with it. Quite often, I come across some excellent comments that I feel like acknowledging them as blog posts. Recently, I wrote an article on SQL SERVER Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries Depend [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Session Update Coming and Early Bird Discount Ends Soon

This week's Countdown to PDC reveals a little more than before. Leaking a little bit about the upcoming session update next week. Surface, SharePoint, Live Platform, Identity, Mesh, SQL Server 2008, Exchange, Ad Platform, Office Communication Server, Windows 7, Open XML, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Oslo, Virtualization, XNA and so much more content we can hardly keep our hard hats on! Why havent you registered for the PDC yet?! Plus Mike issues a new Hard Hat Challenge will the... Did you know tha
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Windows PowerShell is Awesome

Windows PowerShell is a command line shell for Windows that relies upon and deeply integrates with the .NET Framework. PowerShell includes a scripting language, development framework, and a re-hostable runtime. It takes best ideas from popular command shells that came before it and improves upon them. PowerShell is built around an idea of object pipelines, which is the source of its power and flexibility. It is one of those elegantly designed systems that make you quietly giggle with delight. I
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Happy Birthday, DotNetDevNet!

Last night saw the first birthday of The .NET Developer Network. A year ago on St. George
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Microsoft Invests in Heavily-Backed HD Online Video Service Move Networks

So Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is also jumping into the online video investment space, and has done an undisclosed amount of strategic investment in already-heavily backed online HD video tech provider Move Networks. This is technically part of its third round, which it earlier closed in at $46 million from investors such as Benchmark Capital, as well as Cisco, ComcastInteractive Media, and Televisa. Prior to Microsoft coming in, the American Fork, UT-based company had raised $67.3 million in fundin
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Silverlight community controls contest

I suspect we
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Developer Platform Musings

Both references are good reads and would propbably be a good debate topic for many but lets not do the religious cult thing: At This Point, Id Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers ... and the ensuing: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In The .NET World Abstraction, Componentization, Reusability, etc. They have all changed the world the developers live and breathe in, havent they ? No, I dont want to sauter transistors on a motherboard anymore. Give me a PC anytime. Give me solutions
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Reading XML Easily in Silverlight using LINQ

(Kirupa Chinnathambi) In my most recent tutorial, I discuss how to load an XML file into your Silverlight application.and thats it. The tutorial leaves you at a bit of a cliffhanger. You have an XML file loaded into memory with no information on how to go further to do something useful. That is where this post comes in. In this post, I will briefly describe how to use LINQ to parse the XML data.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

IBM to buy ILOG

IBM has announced plans to buy ILOG for $360m, subject to antitrust scrutiny. ILOG specialises in rules-based processing centred on their JRules engine. Although it has been obvious for some time that ILOG was interested in being purchased, the news still came as something of a surprise. In recent times, they have been pursuing a greater presence in the .NET world, releasing a .NET version of their engine, becoming a Microsoft Global ISV partner and joining Microsoft's prestigious Business Proce
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Crashing WCF 3.5 JSON Services with DateTime.MinValue

Ah, here's another fun one. I've been working on cleaning up some of the DevConnections Demos from last year with jQuery 1.2.6 and the release version of jQuery.ui 1.5 as I had previously been using beta versions and in between versions of jQuery that came with the UI beta. One of my demos has been an interop Stock Portfolio example that shows stock portfolios as well as stock quote lookups. These demos actually worked fine before when I used them for the conference and testing in various scenar
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Link Listing - May 7, 2008

Link Listing - May 7, 2008 ASP.NET Avoid using the Session in The Page Constructor [Via: anas ] Sharepoint Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure gives Access denied [Via: Sahil Malik ] WPF WPF for Line of Business applications [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ] Code Camps TECHbash in 3 Days - Get your Swag here! [Via: Jason N. Gaylord ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: May 7, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition [Via: Jon Galloway ] New and Notable 2
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Great architectural overview of RIA with Silverlight 2.0

If you want to get a nice comprehensive overview of Silverlight 2.0 Architecture Development and Deployment then check out this 4 part series from my colleague Bob Familiar. There
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Networking in Silverlight 2 Beta 1

For the actual real content of this post I'll defer to other links, but at least you'll have all those links collected in one place: here ;-) In a nutshell, Silverlight 2 fully supports networking and calling services. It would be crazy if it didn't because by choosing the SL model you are choosing to run your application entirely on the client side (i.e. with no postbacks) so where will the real data come from (given that you are sandboxed in the browser and hence cannot access local data sour
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Horizontal Table for your reports

An user asked us how to create a table where thetable grows horizontally instead of vertically. After some fiddling around, it proved to be quite easy to go about doing that.I started offusing the crosstab item as initial template for this task. As the table would be growing "in columns" instead of "in rows", we do not need a row group so we delete it. Then bind the crosstab to a sample business object making sure we've added as many static rows as we need.Next step in order to show all the data
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

SharePoint Quick Start FAQ - Part 4

SharePoint Quick Start FAQ - Part 4... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Odd/Even Looping in ASP.NET MVC

Ran into a post from Scott Sandersen earlier in which he laments the verbosity of doing things like odd/even parsing in an iterative loop in ASP.NET MVC. Steve proceeds to show an abstract solution which is a great idea for more complex scenarios, but if all you need is odd even type parsing may be a bit of overkill especially since it such a common scenario. I tend to use a slightly simpler approach for odd even figuring based on a logical variable thats changed in a loop. Heres what my versio
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

New Silverlight 2 Video: Using Silverlight 2 Graphics

Watch Todd Miranda demonstrate how to use shapes and geometries to create graphics in Silverlight 2. View this and other Silverlight videos on the Learn page ....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

Microsoft says no plans for 64-bit Silverlight 3

In an interview with Scott Guthrie of Ars Technica, corporate Vice President of the Microsoft .NET developer division had this to say about 64-bit Silverlight: Right now our plan is to run SL in 32-bit mode (and not have a 64-bit native version). This is mostly because other browser plug-ins (and most browsers) don't support 64-bit yet. We are looking at adding native 64-bit support in the future though. This once again adds to the developers that are not pushing 64-bit software enough, an
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Spline Based Animation Helper

This code sample demonstrates an animation helper class to wrap up the code needed to animate a FrameworkElement
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

C9: Programming the Mesh

Definately worth a watch. Check out the Silverlight demo @ 27:10.
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader

Continuing my series of posts on ways to use INavigationContentLoader (a feature in the Silverlight 4 Beta SDK), in this post, I
Publication date: 2010-01-01 more

WebUI Test Studio Release History : Q1 2009 SP2 (version 2009.1.527)

Automation Design Canvas On some web pages, while recording a test in Web UI TestStudio, multiple clicks on the same button would leave the recorder in a locked state. The recorder failed to recognize when the browser was ready, usually after the third click; Clicking on a MailTo link (a link that starts an email) with the recorder would leave the recorder in a locked state.The recorder failed to recognize that a MailTo link does not make the browser interact with the web server; Fixed record
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Photobucket now enables you to Visual Search - International Business Times

Photobucket now enables you to Visual SearchInternational Business Times, NYBy integrating Photobucket rich interface with Windows Live Messenger and Silverlight application, it was able to create a unique new service. Photos can now be shared instantly through Windows Live Messenger with a single click that allows you to
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Want to help?

Would love to spread the word of the radio station. This is Rods and mines baby and we want to get the word out! What am I asking............ Just to take the code below and post it on your blog, its a link to the Radio which runs 24/7 music from independent musicians, and we have some great Artisan/Crafter shows too!! You can visit the website to see the show listings.I would so much appreciate it !!You can launch the player from your site. Just copy and paste the code in the box.Install Micros
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Tip of the Day #18: How to Set Browser Cookies.

Cookies are strings of text that the server can store on the client side. These cookies can then be sent back by the client to the server each time the client accesses that server again. Cookies are commonly used for session tracking, authentication,...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Goodbye to Bill Gates Links

Yes, it's Bill's last day, here's a collection of videos for your viewing pleasure: Channel 9: Bill Gates: Transitioning into the Future Channel 9: This Week on Channel 9 with Jeff Sandquist and Bill Gates stories Channel 9: 'Softies share their Bill Gates stories MS PressPass: Bill Gates Looking Backing, Moving Ahead CNN: Bill Gates Slideshow narrated by Bill Gates MSNBC: Tom Brokaw interview with Bill Gates   You should also check out the Bill Gates Retirement Party on Gizmodo and Bill Ga
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Saving Files Locally in Silverlight

Learn how to take some data from Silverlight and write it locally to a file....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-01 more

Thoughts on AJAX Preview 4 and JSINQ

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is adding client-side templates. You can bind data in the browser using declarative markup, imperative JavaScript code, or mix and match both approaches. The purely declarative approach looks like the following:
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Hey Pop-Up Ads, Get Outta My Xbox!

Over the weekend, I sacrificed the better portion of one evening to my Fight Night Round 4 addiction. Home alone, playing offline (but connected to Xbox Live) and grinding through match after match, I was confronted with this: Aah! After a moment of shock, I realized this was an advertisement for the upcoming film The Final Destination, and suddenly Fight Night Round 4 was stumping for it in every available nook and cranny. Each post on the corners of the boxing ring had a number you cou
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Microsoft Makes Investment in Move Networks: Beet.TV Has Early Preview from Microsoft on Collaboration

Not surprising that Microsoft will be a strategic investor in Move Networks, the small Utah startup which has introduced a new way to stream high quality online video through a process called adaptive streaming. In April at NAB in Las Vegas, I interviewed Microsoft's Steve Skleplowich about the newly announced alliance between Microsoft and Move. He explains what a future alliance will mean -- it's all about Silverlight. You can see this in action now, with the Democratic National Convention
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Configuration & Decoupled Modules

Two architectural demands for the Silverlight HVP , which are common to many larger applications, came together this week and crystallized into a design that looks to solve two more unanticipated requirement. Specifically, we knew that (1) we wanted to...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-23 more

Databinding XML in Silverlight 2

One of the things I miss in Silverlight ( from WPF ) is the ability to naturally bind to XML data and this discussion with Daniel prompted to wonder what I could do about writing classes that make XML data binding more declarative.
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Blend 3 Behaviors: A Sample Action

Right before the weekend, another post on Behaviors… In my last post, I discussed a few of the building blocks of the Behaviors mechanism in Blend 3: Triggers, Actions and Behaviors. I also talked a little bit about the Source for Triggers and the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 Released!

Page Brooks announced that new version of SilverlightContrib 2009.1.0 has just been released. It includes number of new features and several breaking changes, but for the complete list see this. You can download the latest bits from the codeplex or try the live demo. Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 has just been released. This release includes the CoolMenu refactoring that was featured as a three part series on this blog. I still have quite a few improvements to make on this control, but I fig
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 3: Authentication

More update on my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

2010 Winter Olympics Online hits new highs for engagement times, experience quality and monetization

February 12-28 th , Vancouver, Canada : The recent Winter Olympics online video experiences using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming set the bar for the industry. The proof is in the unbelievable statistics made available from CTV, NRK, NBC and France...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Live Mesh as an application platform

The potential You surely read quite a bit about Live Mesh. Oran Dennison has number of very technical and insightful posts on various aspects of the underlying platform. Recently, we run an internal prototype to  build an application on top of Live Mesh. Im not talking about the kind of the typically showcased consumer-centric application where its all about sharing my personal photos, apps and videos with friends and family. Im talking about a typical app for collaboration, involving group... D
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation Application: New Themes and Tweaks

Corrina , head UX-designer for Silverlight,  just posted some cool new themes for the Silverlight 3 Navigation Application and, better yet, some ideas on how to tweak the ones that are out there to make them match your specific scenario.   I really love where this is going
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Link Listing - August 7, 2008

SQL Server SQL Server 2008 RTM [Via: Robert M. Bruckner ] SQL Server 2008 RTM Requires/Installs .Net 3.5 SP1 & Wait for VS2008 SP1 before you install SQL2K8 on your Dev machines [Via: Greg ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: August 6, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #152 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - August 6, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Links (8/6/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ] Interesting Finds: August 7, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #153 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

FXG Import for Expression Blend previewed at MIX10

This is an excerpt from the day 1 keynote at MIX10, of Jon Harris building a Windows Phone application in Expression Blend. Although the demo is slick, the main thing I wanted to point out here is the preview of the FXG Import, which is shown in the first...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Getting Started with Silverlight 2 Controls

(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight 2 provides a variety of controls that can be used to collect and display data, display collections of items, and play media. Developers coming from ASP.NET will find that using Silverlight controls is similar in many ways to using ASP.NET server controls because the Silverlight controls can be defined using an XML syntax and expose properties, methods and events.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

VS 2010 WPF UI

Jason Zander (General Manager, Visual Studio, Developer Division) published some info and screenshots of the new VS 2010 WPF UI: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

MLB.TV Sees New Features, Lower Prices for 2009

MLB.TV Premium will see several new features for 2009, including "DVR" functionality. Fans will also see prices down $10 from last year for the streaming video package. MLB.com has rolled out the latest offerings of their streaming-video package for out-of-market games via MLB.TV and MLB.TV Premium, adding new functionality, and at a lower price than last year. Fans will find the price of both online packages down $10 from 2008, showing that MLB is working to pull in subscribers that are bei
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Staying Alive

To bring you up to date if you are not familiar with Amalga, it is currently one of the Healthcare Solutions from Microsoft, the brains. Below is an excerpt from an archive in the Washington Post about the beginnings before Microsoft, when the project was called Azyxxi.   Dr. Freied thinks hospitals should be designed more like airports and in the video he explains why.   Some of his statistics were interesting, like female doctors have overall better results on keeping patients alive
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

Some Astoria Bits and Pieces

Actually, a couple of announcements from the Astoria team: Firstly, there
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Netflix iPhone movie streaming on the way?

If the latest rumors are to be believed, apparently Netflix might just be offering up movie streaming for subscribers on their iPhones and iPod touch devices. And while nothing has been confirmed yet, it does seem somewhat likely. The
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Who Activates, Displays, and Closes Screens?

Jeremy Miller just published a post asking for feedback on how we activate and deactivate our screens in our application frameworks (what I also call a Presentation Framework). I started replying in the comments then realized it was going to be too long so here is my reply to his post. I find this topic very timely as I have gone through this process of creating a Presentation Framework for Silverlight and WPF applications several times over recently. Sidenote: Prism itself is a library
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

4 Calendars & Plans for 2010 / 5770

I live, more or less consciously. in the rhythm of four calendars; three of which are very closely aligned: The Gregorian Calendar (Today is 12/20/2009) The Jewish Calendar (Today is 3rd of Tevet, 5770 ) The Microsoft Fiscal Year (Today is about 3.5 months...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-20 more

Amazing AIR 4.0 demos!

If you've been reading the techblogs this week, you may be wondering "Is this the death of Flash ?" There's lots of commentary out there, and no matter how ill-founded, we'll all likely end up in conversations with less-clued-in coworkers or friends asking, "Hey, I heard that *this* will finally be the death of Flash !" Fun, huh? If so, then relax. It's all going to get worse. ;-) There are more corporate conferences coming up in the next few weeks, and a browser release or two. These
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Silverlight delivers online viewing experience for Sunday Night Football

The NFL and NBC will be delivering the entire Sunday Night Football season by using Silverlight 3.0 and IIS Smooth Streaming. The first game of the season will be broadcast tonight, with the Tennessee Titans vs. the Pittsburg Steelers. Game starts at...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Silverlight security overview paper has been officially published

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/A/A1A80A28-907C-4C6A-8036-782E3792A408/Silverlight Security Overview.docx (The content hasn't changed since RC but the formatting & presentation has undergone a facelift courtesy John Allwright) A little...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-07 more

Silverlight 2 Interview on HerdingCode PodCast

Earlier this week Tim Heuer and I got a chance to be interviewed on the HerdingCode podcast.  Thanks to Jon Galloway and co for a great show!..  It was a very fun experience.   Here is the topic list we covered...  Fun, fun stuff...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-18 more

MSDN Blog Postings

A Bing software development kit (SDK) for iPhone and Mac is available for download on the Microsoft CodePlex community development site. The kit includes source code. The kit allows you to integrate results from Bing Search for Web,
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Interesting Finds: July 23, 2009

Other Improving Cold Startup Performance (Prefetch) , Sasha Golshtein Small Companies Need Team System 2008: The Licensing Discussion , Benjamin Day Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers , Jeff Atwood
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

GDC09: Worlds In Motion Summit: Keynote

Raph Koster, Metaplace Summary Raph promised to be nice and not make us depressed this year. It was an elegy on
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extension Methods, Implicitly Typed Variables, and Object Initializers

One of the more substantive additions to the .NET Framework 3.5 and C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 languages was LINQ, a set of classes along with language enhancements that allow developers to use a common library and SQL-like query syntax to work with common data stores. The initial article in this series, An Introduction to LINQ, provided an overview of LINQ and its core pieces: the standard query operators, the language extensions that allow for LINQ's query syntax, and LINQ providers. We also lo
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

MVC and ORMs for PHP Developers tonight in Burlington, VT

I finally read the abstract for Matthew Weier OPhinneys PHP U.G. talk, Play-Doh: Modeling Your Domain Objects, tonight and realized he is focusing on the MVC design pattern and ORMs. Im looking at my day /evening which still has two more dog walks (I havent been on my bike in over 2 weeks :-(), client work, 2 articles to write, a screencast to create and a major house cleaning preparation for some weekend guests. Boy would I like to steal 4 hours out of the evening to go to Matthews talk and ex
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

TwtMyCard Upgrade: Now Featuring More Oomph

TwtMyCard was down after some brief problems handling the new geo-location features in Twitter. This is what I get for using someone elses Twitter library :) While it was down I added some caching and other performance improvements.  Its at least 50% faster to send business cards. Maybe even 51%. I also added the oomph plug-in to the app based on a suggestion from Karsten Januszewski . If you had IE with oomph installed previously, you saw a little icon in the upper left to bring out
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

NEWS: ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is Out!

This release is representative of the RTM release thats around the corner Key changes: Removal of System.Web.Routing.dll and System.Web.Abstractions.dll both of which are in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Server Install mode as the descriptions implies it is for installing MVC Framework on the server - for situations where one needs to host an MVC application only. So, take it for a spin. Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: ASP.NET MVC RC2... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles wr
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Sample Updates for Beta 2

I updated a few of my most recent samples to work with the Beta 2 version of Silverlight 2. You can find general information on Beta 2 in the getting started section on Silverlight.net . Scott Guthrie also has a good write-up on some of the new features...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Silverlight 2

On Thursday night we published the first public release candidate for Silverlight 2, described in some detail by Scott Guthrie .  This is a developer-only release and you can learn all about what it is and how to get it in a terrific blog post by...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-27 more

Tip of the Day #110

A common place to put styles in Silverlight applications is the App.xaml file. Any style declared in App.xaml is automatically picked up by any of your custom controls in your application. However, if you create a Silverlight Class Library you will notice...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-20 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #64

In Tip of the Day #42 I discussed how to create Silverlight-enabled WCF web service. In this tip I will discuss the steps necessary to take in order to publish and deploy the web service with your Silverlight application on your server. For security reasons...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

MSDN Live Winter 2009 is now history!

Wow. Friday 20 th of March and MSDN Live Winter 2009 is now history. I delivered my last two talks on Silverlight during this round of MSDN Live in Oslo yesterday. Over the last two and a half week the MSDN Live road-show have visited Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo. It has been a great experience, and I
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Silverlight 3 Released

Today we officially shipped the final release of Silverlight 3. Silverlight 3 Features Silverlight 3 is a major update and delivers a ton of new features and capabilities.  Some of the new Silverlight 3 runtime capabilities include: HD Media Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

2008 Games Go Live on the Web

2008 Games Go Live on the Web August 9th, 2008 The Beijing Olympics kicked off with much pomp and ceremony yesterday, and are already proving to be the most hi-tech Games to date. In line with its increasingly important role in global communications and media transfer, the web will be one key way that both Chinese and international citizens can keep track of the Games over the next couple of weeks, with extensive online video coverage provided by a variety of sites and partnerships. The New
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Silverlight 2 UI Templates

One of the things I hear a lot about it wanting well-designed control templates/styles for developers to use in Silverlight (and WPF). As someone with that missing creativity gene, I agree. While we wait for some of these galleries to emerge (and designers...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-07 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/19/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #20. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight and Windows Phone. If you have something...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-19 more

New SQL Server User Group in Orange County - First Meeting on 8/14/2008

For all my Orange County readers you might be excited to know that you now have another great option for getting your SQL content. Reza Madani is starting a new Orange County SQL Server Users Group and their first meeting is this Thursday, August 14th. Plus, they are bringing in a heavy hitter for their first meeting in the form of Lynn Langit giving a presentation on Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2008. Here are all the details for the meeting: SQL Server User Group SIG: Date/Time:
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

A lesson in installer testing at the expense of Adobe Premiere Elements 7

My wife is putting together a video for her brother's wedding, so I purchased Adobe Premiere Elements 7, at the recommendation of Blake Caraway.  After some frustration that the serial number I was granted did not work, I tried to get it to work on my laptop just to be sure I wasn't screwing it up somehow. I tried to install it on my laptop, and the installer bombed saying that D:\ is an invalid path.  I'm not sure why it cares, and it just so happens that I don't keep a CD drive in my... Did yo
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

SnagIt 9 Is Released and Ready for Download

TechSmith makes 2 of my favorite applications: SnagIt and Camtasia. SnagIt 9 was just released this week and it has some great new features. You can check out the full story on the new release and whats new from this link. You can upgrade to SnagIt 9 by clicking on this link. This page also shows the differences between the features in SnagIt 8 and 9 in a chart. I use SnagIt just about every day for grabbing screen captures of samples for presentations, articles, my book, sending images to clien
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Converting it to VB

Just to tie the previous two blog posts together, I copied the C# into Instant VB and here is what it spit out (line break added to fit) Private Sub AnyPropertyCheckBox_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs) Dim isVisible As Nullable...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-18 more

Flash to Silverlight Guide

The first sections of the new Flash to Silverlight Guide are up! The purpose of this guide is to familiarize developers and designers with Silverlight concepts by relating them to Flash concepts. Comparisons are drawn between each pair of concepts in...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-18 more

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released

Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools.  You can download them here . What is included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-13 more

Accordion part 3

We continue our exploration of Accordion. This time we
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

Updated Source for Image Samples

In addition to updating the image samples to the final version of Silverlight V2, I've also updated the source: PNG Encoder Source GIF Decoder Source BMP Decoder Source...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Symbian^4 to Beak Compatibility with S60 Apps?

Symbian^4 is not yet available but we have started seeing it mentioned around the Internet. David Wood, the
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

The joys of being an early adopter... [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example to go with the April Developer Tools Refresh]

Last week saw the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP - April Refresh , a free set of tools and an emulator that lets everyone get started writing Windows Phone 7 applications. Not only is the application platform for Windows Phone 7 based...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

Silverlight 3's New Client Networking Stack

One of the most useful yet little-known new features of Silverlight 3 is one that has nothing to do with UIs: a brand new networking stack called the client HTTP stack , the client networking stack,  or simply the client stack . Silverlight 2 introduced rich networking to Silverlight. With classes such as WebClient and HttpWebRequest, you could call Web services, perform duplex networking, consume RSS, perform asynchronous downloads of images, assemblies, and other assets, and more. In Sil
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Flash Search Being Enabled By Google, Yahoo; Images/Video Still Not Searchable

Flash Search Being Enabled By Google, Yahoo; Images/Video Still Not Searchable By Rafat Ali - Mon 30 Jun 2008 10:03 PM PST In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users. Content from a Flash application or even a
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Olympics on Silverlight

Olympics on Silverlight Posted by on August 9th, 2008 08.08.08 - after 7 years of preparation and anticipation, the XXIX Olympiad has finally opened in Beijing. What an amazing opening ceremony. And such breathtaking architectures of the "Birds Nest" National Stadium and "Water Cube" Aquatics Center. It
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Astoria Team Preannounces Forthcoming ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP 1

Mike Flasko
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!]

A few months ago, I described a proof-of-concept project and learning exercise I'd worked on to implement some of the basics of the HTML 5 <canvas> specification using Silverlight as the underlying platform: HTML 5 <canvas> announcement ,...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Silverlight vs Flash: 3D Spinning/Rotating Globe

Silverlight vs Flash: 3D Spinning/Rotating Globe 3D Illusion No Comments
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

MIX09: Consuming Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 3

Come hear how to work with external REST, SOAP, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services from Silverlight. Learn how to securely and efficiently communicate with services using Binary XML, debug services with improved Faults support, and implement server-to-client "push" using the new Add Service Reference for Duplex functionality. Eugene Osovetsky   Read more about this video
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Power tool brings back index to offline help!

If you've used the new offline help viewer, you may have noticed the index is missing. I personally used the index in the old help viewer quite a bit, to quickly locate a specific class or topic. If you install the power tool , which is currently in beta...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

Workaround: Visual Studio contextual help brings up Silverlight help

Recent updates to Silverlight meant I had to install the latest Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio. This has had an annoying side affect
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #101 - Bypassing the Image Cache

By default Silverlight will not download an image more than once if is contained within the image cache. That is, as long as the URI remains the same it will reference the image from the cache. So what if the image changed on the server even though it...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Invoking GlassFish WebServices from SilverLight and .NET

In the heels of the Developer.COM Award for Metro for its interoperability capabilities here are two blog posts from Guy Burstein specifically describing how to do it: From SilverLight and From .NET Client. Metro interoperability is a key reason for the Metro Adoption. We have had a number of GlassFish customer wins that started on a desire to interoperate with Microsoft's stack. And it is always nice to see GlassFish mentioned at MSDN :-)
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Dependency Properties

In  a previous post I began talking about Custom Controls, and I will continue that discussion over the next few days and weeks even as I start producing videos on the topic. It turns out that the more you look at Custom Controls, the deeper you...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Microsoft Gets a Piece of Move Networks

Microsoft is extending its strategic relationship with Move Networks by adding an undisclosed amount of funding to the startup
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part 3 and 4

In Part 3 of his series Faisal adds some code in the btnLogin
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

RadioButtons in a DataTemplate in Silverlight

To illustrate the mechanics of Attached Behaviors, Karim Hernandez decided to implement a working RadioButtonGroup . I was recently asked by a customer,
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Portugal ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

  ReMix in Lisban, Portugal was a fabulous was to end my ReMix tour.  They keynote (as much as I could understand of it) was a lot of fun.  They did the Developer\designer egg shtick , but with a real egg! My this point, I have really hit my stride with the the Silverlight 3 overview I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day ) Silverlight 3 Control
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

Why DataBinding With ComboBoxes is NonTrivial

 
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta!

Today at PDC09 , Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services .  As you may know RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build traditional 2 tier apps...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Silverlight Live Streaming being discontinued. What now?

The Microsoft Live team announced in a blog post that the Silverlight Streaming service is being discontinued. The Silverlight Streaming service offered free hosting for Silverlight applications and videos...
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 8/3/2009+

Note: This post is updated weekly or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Alex James delivers Tip 30
Publication date: 2009-08-09 more

Adobe Says HTML 5 Won

When it comes to rich media on the Internet today, much of the media is powered by Adobe Flash. Flash has some competition like Microsoft Silverlight , but Flash continues to be one of the most supported rich media applications. The future of Flash is not as clear as it once was with Google touting the ability to support rich media applications online with HTML 5. For its part Adobe insists that Flash will survive HTML 5 and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen went so far as to dismiss HTML 5, re
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

BTSUG Aug27th - A4SWIFT and BizTalk

Hi folks, Have I got a deal for you.... no seriously we
Publication date: 2008-08-18 more

Avoiding Uninstall/Reinstall when Debugging Out-of-Browser Apps

Every few weeks I muck around with an out-of-browser application with the Silverlight 4 Beta. Every few weeks I have to look up what I need to do to avoid uninstalling and reinstalling my out-of-browser application every time I debug. Since I
Publication date: 2010-02-19 more

Working at Microsoft: The Connector Bus

Technorati Tags: Microsoft If you are fortunate enough to work for MS in its Corporate HQ, they provide a
Publication date: 2008-10-08 more

IPL 2009 - Live Streaming Video Links

After a lot of hoopla about security issues, the second iteration of Indian Premier League (IPL) is finally on its way. And if the first few overs are any indication it
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Tech News, Resources from Blogosphere - 21 April 09(1)

Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems For $7.4 Billion; Now Owns MySQL and Java Obama names first US technology chief New in Google Labs:
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Silverlight 2 B2 Resources

Silverlight 2 B2 Resources Posted by on June 24th, 2008 Based on the questions I received in the last period, I
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Silverlight Migration Guide - Upgrading Your Online Media Experiences

See how to provide Rich Interactive Applications using your existing media assets and Microsoft Silverlight to bring your video and audio content to Mac, Windows, Linux and Mobile Devices everywhere the Web works. Silverlight gives you the power to create...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

HP Pavilion 774e keeps rebooting??

I have tried seaching everything to try and fix to no avail. The log you requsted is below. This problem started when I loaded the Blackberry software for my curve phone. I uninstalled system started to reboot itself. I did a partial system restore and tried to update everything I could (e.g. drivers, XP update, etc..) then i got this first error message Stop 0x0000008E (0xc000005, 0x0D04B7B, 0xec83B290, Ox00000000) kmixer.sys - address EC8B290 base at EC83B290, date stamp 00000000 win dump
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Simulating .NET's ScriptService in PHP

An easy-to-use class that allows one to create PHP classes whose methods are automatically exposed in client-side JavaScript... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Mix 09: Microsoft swings for the fences

Justin James offers a roundup of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Tip of the Day #19: Using Isolated Storage

Silverlight uses Isolated Storage as a virtual file system to store data in a hidden folder on your machine. It breaks up the data into two separate sections: Section #1 contains administrative information such as disk quota and section #2 contains the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

To XAML, with love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight)

I
Publication date: 2010-07-25 more

News roundup: CBS picks Silverlight for March Madness on Demand; Full Flash coming on Windows Mobile; So many app stores; Maps as the metaphor for cellphone era

Silverlight, Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash in online video and rich Internet applications, will power CBSsports.com's March Madness on Demand -- the men's college basketball tournament, reports the SportsBusiness Journal. CBS was already using Windows Media Player for the service, which drew 4.8 million users last year. Silverlight will power a higher-quality version, SBJ reports. Also, Microsoft's Scott Guthrie wrote in a November update on Silverlight that "CBS College Sports is now u
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Link Listing - July 15, 2008

ASP.NET West Wind Ajax Toolkit updated [Via: Rick Strahl ] WPF Clicking or DoubleClicking on an Item in a ListView [Via: Matthias Shapiro ] Code Camps Silicon Valley Code Camp Registration Open [Via: Beth Massi ] Link Collections The Morning Brew #136 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Daily Find #90 [Via: Tim ] Links (7/15/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ] Miscellaneous How to: Use the Jet Engine to import comma or tab delimited files. [Via: Jan Schreuder ] ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Tip #20
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Silverlight's Big Bang Moment

Silverlight's Big Bang Moment Tomorrow is the official start of the 2008 Summer Olympics and, along with it, the "big bang" moment for Silverlight. It's really the first site with mass appeal to really show off the capability of the platform, especially in places where it excels over Flash. Comparisons with Flash are unavoidable and expect pundits to dissect everything on the site. For decision makers and web designers, this will be their first chance to evaluate Silverlight in a real world
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Can you access a loose XAML file from LoadComponent?

The answer is no. The job of Application.LoadComponent in Silverlight is to
Publication date: 2010-04-16 more

Silverlight 2 (beta1): Styling the Datagrid & Formating Datagrid Date Column

This sample will demonstrate how to create the custom style for Datagrid and how to format the column in Silverlight Datagrid. Download : SL2DataGridWithStyle.zip (520 KB) (As of now, please download the code and check-out the code in my sample. I will update the article tonight.Thanks.)
Publication date: 2008-05-09 more

Link Listing - May 8, 2008

Link Listing - May 8, 2008 Sharepoint Creating Hierarchical Menus with a CustomAction in SharePoint [Via: Jan Tielens ] WPF Metadata - a Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Hey! I
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Day #7: Using WCF Web Services With Silverlight (and LINQ)

This is the 7th post in a series of " 31 Days of Silverlight ." Today I'm going to show how to create a simple WCF service, and consume it from a Silverlight application. Talking to data services is something you're going to need to do quite often, which is why I've spent two consecutive posts talking about it. Create your Silverlight application I'm going to start from the beginning. First, we need to create a new Silverlight project. I'm naming mine JBWCFService. We will then be pro
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

Silverlight Cream for June 07, 2008 -- #293

Silverlight Cream for June 07, 2008 -- #293 I've got 17 links here tonight... Welcome to SL2B2.. :) ... Many are by the same folks, so I'm just going to list names: Scott Guthrie (duh), Michael Scherotter, Joel Neubeck(2), Kathy Kam, Walt Ritscher, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth(2), David Anson, Tim Heuer(4), WPFEDevCon, Mike Taulty/Mike Ormond, and Mike Snow. Wow... what a bunch of links! ... I tried not to pull all the "Silverlight 2 Beta 2" links since we're all posting that. There are
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation

Silverlight 4 Out-of-Browser apps now have the ability to be elevated trust applications, if you request it and your users consent. One of the more powerful features of trusted applications is the ability to use IDispatch COM servers on the local machine...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-15 more

Animation Web Cast

Due to technical difficulties (total video chaos) today's animation webcast was scrubbed.  To make up for that, I'll be recording a video on Animation From Soup to Nuts in the next 2 weeks which we'll post as quickly as we can. In the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

Sunny Pixels | Blend 3: Photoshop Import- Supported Features

There are a variety of features in Adobe Photoshop that are supported when importing .psd files in Expression Blend 3. This post is a continuation of my previous post
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Adobe Flash Player Exploit Grabs Your Files

If you have Adobe Flash player installed like most people on the Internet, make sure you check your flash version and ensure you are running version 9.0.124.0. If you are running a lower version, your machine is susceptible to sending pretty much anything to the hacked flash applet, and server. Updated your Flash now! That or uninstall it! How many of these rouge flash files are out there? About 250, 000 Web pages. That's at least how many have been tracked to take advantage of the explo
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Silverlight MsBuild tricks - video

Build Silverlight apps and libraries without having to install the SDK in your build lab, following this video. A re-post....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Silverlight TV 22: Tim Heuer on Extending the SMF

In this episode of Silverlight TV , Tim Heuer demonstrates how to use the Silverlight Media Framework (SMF) to create a nice media experience akin to what has been demonstrated through the 2010 Winter Olympics and Sunday Night Football players. He also...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-30 more

Make Microsoft Silverlight Ready For Firefox 3

Make Microsoft Silverlight Ready For Firefox 3 16 June, 2008 Posted by SolSie As Multimedia, WebApp, Windows PC (0) Comment Tomorrow will be the official release of Mozilla Firefox 3. The new release will break some Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 installation experience on web sites that used the original Silverlight 1.0 SDK Silverlight.js file. Silverlight is Microsoft  cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media and rich experiences on the Web. T
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching

The common technique many developers use to debug Silverlight Out of Browser applications is to attach the debugger to the SLLauncher.exe process. However, there is a another way to debug installed OoB apps. Attaching to the process does not allow you...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

Getting Started with WCF

A very quick and simple introduction to using WCF.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Microsoft Ships Visual Studio 2008 and .NET SP1

In what promises to be the most significant release for .NET developers this year, Microsoft today released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Announcement : RadDock for WinForms Beta is here!

RadDock for WinForms Beta is here! Telerik just released the new beta of RadDock for WinForms. The control offers enhanced design-time support as well as new simplified and completely transparent architecture based on a single interface - IDockWindow. You will also get a new drag & drop mechanism, re-dock support and many more. Read more info and try the demo. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 artic
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

From the Pipeline - 5.6.08

Even though today started out on the wrong side of the bed - so to speak - it
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight

Something you might not be aware of is that the part of Comcast that I work for is all open source. We use open source technology, we open source projects, we're even all on Macs which is something new for...
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Catch Alicia Keys Live from the Apollo this Thursday, 1/7, 6pm PST

You’re invited to watch Alicia Keys perform live this Thursday, January 7, at 6pm PST. For more information about this exclusive event, watch the video promo below. Our World Live (OWL) , a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

Click your way to great Silverlight charts [Live ChartBuilder sample and source code!]

Yesterday in my Introduction to Charting with the Silverlight Toolkit post, I included a teaser for my ChartBuilder application. The tease ends today, because I've just posted a live ChartBuilder for everyone to play with and am also making the source...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-30 more

2009 NCAA March Madness On Demand Adds HD Video Streams

CBSSports.com announces that NCAA March Madness on Demand will have an additional, high-definition quality video player available for users when action from the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship begins on Thursday, March 19. CBSSports.com has selected Microsoft Silverlight to power its new high-quality player to deliver the enhanced video stream. By downloading the new Silverlight high-quality player, users can upgrade their NCAA March Madness on Demand experience from the stan
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Dew Drop - April 22, 2009

  Web Development Cropping image using jQuery, Jcrop and ASP.NET (Miron Abramson) Dynamically Generating and Caching Images in ASP.NET with the GeneratedImage Control (Scott Mitchell) jQuery Auto-Complete Text Box with ASP.NET MVC (Ben Scheirman) Lazy Loading jQuery Tabs with ASP.NET (Mike) The two ways one writes JavaScript code.. (Jay Kimble) UrlRewrite
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

[Slashdot] Stories for 2009-02-14

======================================================================Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco | March 31 April 3, 2009Meet and Learn form the Greatest Minds on the Web TodaySave $100 or Get a Free Expo Pass with Discount Code websf09bn5Register today at http://p.sf.net/sfu/web2expo-com======================================================================Slashdot Daily NewsletterIn this issue: * Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux * Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Mond
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

Major League Baseball Streams All Shows via Swarmcast Solution

Perhaps the most significant live Internet programming development to date is the streaming of all the Major League Baseball games. The games are made available on a subscription basis in very quality level watched in the Silverlight Web plug-in. Minneapolis-based Swarmcast is providing the MLB with the solution to scale the quality streaming using http protocol. Justin Chapweske, CEO, explains why this works. He explains that his company organizes other CDN resources to stream the basebal
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Select beta testers gain Skyfire browser for Symbian: Video

For those that have been waiting ages the awesome Skyfire mobile web browser is now available for S60. Like Opera Mini and Deepfish, Skyfire renders server side along with Flash and also packs support for Quicktime. According to the likes of symbian-freak, intomobile, and engadget, Skyfire is open only to select private beta testers so isn
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Improving Mono's compatibility with .NET CLR

For as long as we remember, most new versions of IronPython, IronRuby or the Dynamic Language Runtime exposed new missing functionality in Mono. After a major release of any of these tools that deeply exercise the internal Reflection.Emit support and the runtime we would implement the missing features and ship a new Mono version. As part of the Microsoft/Novell collaboration on Silverlight for Linux, a couple of months ago, we received from Microsoft the test suite for the Silverl
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Fan Mail

When you work in public, and you invite people to tell you what they think, they will. It often isn
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

New Irish Silverlight Showcase App - Zignals

Have you heard of Zignals yet? If you have, I
Publication date: 2008-09-18 more

8.20 The Cooler

Nothing Fugazi About Fouzia The Definitive Guide To Finding Free Wi-Fi [Life Hacker] Wanna See John Mayer
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Web services interop with WCF - Relevant Forum Questions

I was just browsing the WCF forum on MSDN. Here's a summary of the interesting threads dealing with interop: How to map complex data types exposed by a J2EE web services, into a WCF client? How to use connect from an AXIS 2 client to a WCF service using SSL? How to transfer a Hashtable or Vector over web services? How to transfer a Fault from WebLogic/Java to a WCF client How to tell svcutil.exe to use existing types when generating proxy classes Contract-first design with WCF and the svcutil.ex
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Doing 3D in Silverlight

Doing 3D in Silverlight Posted by on July 29th, 2008 Wait a minute
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

CLR Properties vs. Dependency Properties

Like many things in .NET, you have several ways of doing something with each way custom-tailored to a particular task. Using properties is one such example. You can either use CLR properties, or you can use dependency properties. In case you are not familiar with CLR and Dependency Properties, let
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Banana SplitButton [A WPF-specific fix for SplitButton and some code analysis improvements for the Silverlight version, too]

I've previously written that one of my ContextMenu test cases for the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit was to implement a quick "split button" control for Silverlight using Button and ContextMenu . Though it wasn't my goal to build a general...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-06 more

Dailymotion tests non-Flash video portal

h-online.com: French video portal Dailymotion is ditching the use of proprietary plug-ins such as Flash and Silverlight for its "pré b
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

FOLLOW UP: RIA Dinner (Reston, VA)

Thanks to everyone who attended the RIA dinner on June 17th.  I promised to publish the deck and code James used as well as some follow up links.  Here they are: Presentation - deck, code Expression on microsoft.com - http://www.microsoft.com/expression/ Expression Community Site - http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx (lots of great resources on the "learn" tab) Expression Design Forum - http://forums.expression.microsoft.com/en-US/design/threads/ Expression... Did you know that Do
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Editorial - Dvorak Has Right Idea, Wrong Platform

John Dvorak claims that it's time for Adobe to fight back against Microsoft's Silverlight initiative by porting its flagship apps to Linux. It's the right kind of thinking, just the wrong platform
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Make Routing Ignore Requests For A File Extension

By default, ASP.NET Routing ignores requests for files that do not exist on disk. I explained the reason for this in a previous post on upcoming routing changes. Long story short, we didnt want routing to attempt to route requests for static files such as images. Unfortunately, this caused us a headache when we remembered that many features of ASP.NET make requests for .axd files which do not exist on disk. To fix this, we included a new extension method on RouteCollection, IgnoreRoute, that cre
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Using Silverlight Media Framework for simple playback

If you aren
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Silverlight Controls

In my earlier column i referred to the nice new look of the Silverlight 2 controls. I couldn't resist throwing together a very fast application (using Blend to lay  it out, and Visual Studio to bind the data) showing off a few of the controls. Not...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-14 more

Build an Out Of Browser Client with Silverlight 3

My Data Points column in the June 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online. In this issue I demonstrate how to build an out of browser application using Silverlight 3 and demonstrate how the API works under different circumstances.   I demonstrate the features using a Silverlight Twitter client (a light weight client I might add) that uses offline storage of data when the app is offline, and it also displays the network status. I hope you enjoy it!  
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 available

Grab the runtime bits from here (windows and mac) For the dev bits: Install Visual Studio 2008 then Install Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 - This add-on to Visual Studio 2008 allows you to use .NET to create Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Web sites. The Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Runtime and the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK are installed as part of this install. For additional information read the overview. Install Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview - This is a preview version of Expression
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

The Morning Brew #382

Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation Generation tool that was used to build the VS2010 documentation Information Pretty Code #1 - Building Sel
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Updates for the Silverlight Training Kit

We have had a good response to the free 8 module Silverlight Training Kit we released on Channel 9 back at MIX and that Scott Guthrie announced . We have since updated at the Silverlight 4 Launch with some new content and fixes. We
Publication date: 2010-05-31 more

Professional LINQ

Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer) by Scott Klein Read more about this book... I am really getting into LINQ right now, so I am looking for good references to get the concepts in my brain. I ordered a copy of Scott Klein's Professional LINQ...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Microsoft Vine To Connect Family, Friends When Crisis Hits

Microsoft is launching a new product into private beta on Tuesday morning with the aim of keeping friends and family in touch during emergencies. The idea for product, called Microsoft Vine , came to Microsoft GM Public Safety Initiatives Tammy Savage four and half years ago during Hurricane Katrina . Development started a year and a half ago. Vine is designed to keep family and friends in touch when other communication methods are either broken or not particularly efficient. Times of cris
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Ignore this post

Poll: What is your favorite web gaming technology? Flash 0 votes Java 0 votes Shockwave 0 votes Silverlight 0 votes I can't decide 0 votes ignore this post
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Silverlight Output Protection

The purpose of output protection is to increase content protection during transmission between a computer
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Any recommendation for WPF Datagrid?

Can anyone recommend the WPF Datagrid? Either the paid version or free version is okay for me. I just need nice and helpful WPF Datagird. Which Datagrid do you use in your project? Since I have started working with WPF (Windows Presentation Framework), I
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Caveats with WPF dynamic resources and animations.

Recently we've been building some cool stuff in WPF with resources and animations. In this post I will share some experience with a bug from our code base I fought recently. The actual code is complex, so here is a simple example that I used when hunting the nasty bug (source code is in the bottom of the page):
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

TechEd North America 2009: US$200 Early Bird Savings End Friday - Register Now!

Save US$200 when you register now! Join 9,000 of your peers to explore current and soon-to-be-released Microsoft products and technologies including the Azure Services Platform and Visual Studio 2010.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

How Would You Improve Netflix's Windows or Mac Streaming Player?

Now that we've made the transition to Silverlight, how would you improve the Netflix Windows or Mac player? I would like some sort of Windows Media Center or Macintosh remote control support (the only officially supported remote it the Logitech Presentation Remote). GeekTonic has a hack for remote controls, but I'd like to see official support. How would you improve the Netflix streaming computer player?
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

New Silverlight Tips Blog Domain

This is just a heads up that I am changing this blog to point from http://www.silverlightdev.net to http://www.michaelsnow.com (yes that
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services

Over the weekend, I saw a question on StackOverflow about combining .NET RIA Services and the ViewModel pattern and answered briefly there, but the topic is worthy of a blog post. At a high level, .NET RIA Services generates a data model for use in the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

I used to work for a man named Larry Weiss at Citibank, who did a number of magical things (including creating the best ATMs in the world in the 1980s that still surpass anything I
Publication date: 2008-07-12 more

Using Blur to make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3

When an application needs to display a dialog, there needs to be something to make the user immediately focus on that dialog, even when there are lots of other elements on the screen Most AJAX applications dim the screen behind a dialog by using a semi-transparent overlay. That certainly works well, but another effect to consider is a blur effect. Here
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Telestream and Wowza Partner to Offer Live Video Production and Universal Streaming to iPhone, Web and TV Screens

Affordable video production and industry-first single-encode streaming to multiple screens to be demonstrated at IBC Show in Amsterdam Nevada City, Calif., and Evergreen, Colo., September 3, 2009
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

SQL SERVER - FIX : ERROR : Could Not Connect to SQL Server - TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error 07e, status code 060

This is a very common error faced by so many people and I get lots of questions regarding this error. This error occurs due to many reasons and I have already posted few solutions on this error, see if you can find your solution here SQL SERVER - Fix : Error : 40 - could [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Posts about Politico as of March 5, 2009

A nearly $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill advanced steadily in th
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

How To Detect Javascript Status on client browser using Script Manager

How To Detect Javascript Status on client browser using Script Manager... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here . Presented By: Intel
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

On Fighting the Web; The invitation

But fighting the web is like holding back the ocean; it will route around you or it will wear you down, but will never go away, and it will never tire or give up. Yet in spite of the futility of fighting the web, Silverlight is being positioned in opposition to the web, not in support of it This is one of a few great quotes from DeWitt Clinton
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Adhoc testing of .NET RIA Services

Suddenly my Silverlight 3 application breaks during development process. Cause I have installed Visual Studio 2010 a few hours before, I was sure: must be something with 2010. After uninstall and reinstall SP1 everything worked fine, except .NET RIA services :-( So back to structured trouble shoothing. What is the first point, the database- SQL Profiler shows no requests. Second point is Entity model. Till now I do not know any point to interactive test a model. Next point is the RIA Service. B
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Silverlight 2 2D Physics updated

I
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Silverlight TV 13: MVVM Light Toolkit

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In this episode, Silverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss using MVVM with Silverlight. Laurent and John discuss their experiences with MVVM and...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-12 more

A fix for simple HTML display in Silverlight [HtmlTextBlock bug fix for Silverlight 2 RTW!]

I updated my HtmlTextBlock sample for RTW last night and got an email from kind reader Ed Silverton this morning pointing out a problem setting FontSize on a standalone instance of the control. (Background reading: HtmlTextBlock Announcement for the Alpha...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

Introducing TelerikTV!!!

Introducing TelerikTV!  Pwop Productions has joined forces with Telerik to bring you a bi-weekly (that's every other week) dnrTV-style show focusing on a project that was built with Telerik's developer tools for .NET I give you episode #1 complete with a new Telerik Silverlight video player control. Lino Tadros on ActiveFocus Lino Tadros from Falafel Software shows off ActiveFocus, a web-based Project Collaboration and Productivity System that his company built using te
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Want To Follow Silverlight MicroBlog?

SilverlightShow is featuring a brilliant Twitter tool written by Emil Stoychev that you can download here you can grab the HTML or you can download the source. If you just get the HTML and plop it into your blog you are free to tell it whom you want to follow (e.g., SLMicroblog. Heres the HTML: ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Upgrading to CS2008 - What happens to existing gallery images?

As per title, we have around 6,200 images in our galleries and are concerned what's going to happen to them should be we upgrade to CS2008. For reference they are all stored in the file system and we're on CS2007.1... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

SQL SERVER - Poll Result - What is Your Favorite Database?

I previously posted a Poll about What is Your Favorite Database?I got great response from users. In fact, I received some of the best poll-related comments on this blog and they are worth reading.Let us check the result first. Here are the votes I received on different database. Total votes received are 1,697.SQL Server - [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silve
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Cisco VPN and Windows 7

Before I had posted a small blog entry on how it was basically impossible to get the Cisco VPN software working on a Windows Vista machine. It turned out to be one of the most hit blog entries I had mainly due to the amount of help that was being provided in the comments. In the comments, many folks tried to help others with a solution. Though, one of the last entries I read recently was about a gentleman that pointed out that if you get all the Vista updates, that it seemed to just work. There.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Are you Certifiable? Choose your Occupation

This has been a very busy week with the HIMMS conference and many other items at hand.  If you are a geek and checking in here, this might be a fun way to see if you can be certified.  Here
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Top 100 Global Brands of 2009

BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. It
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Windows 7 technologies headed to embedded devices

While Intel was off showcasing its latest and greatest in San Francisco, Microsoft was camped out over on the right coast with a bit of its own news. In a two-part announcement at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, the Redmond giant declared that Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 had been released to manufacturing, meaning that Silverlight is now a huge step closer to getting all up in your next embedded device . In more interesting news, the outfit also stated that its initial rollout of
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Get your FREE Core ASP.NET Reference Card Here !

Get it [ HERE ] (Free, but Registration is Required.)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Tip of the Day #14

You may have noticed that right clicking on a Silverlight application brings up the following context menu and configuration dialog: Context Menu: Configuration Dialog: So what if you want to use right click in your application? While right click functionality...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

DeepZoom Composer now with stitching feature

I’ve received a couple emails from friends who attended the Paris and Brighton events asking about what we used for the presentation “slides” (in reality they are not slides anymore but one single huge image… like a mind map)....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-21 more

Creating Controls in Code

In my new video I demonstrate how you can create controls dynamically at run time. The technique is very straight forward, everything you can create declaratively in XAML you can also create dynamically in C#. xaml <Button x:Name="Button1"...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

WPF Overview talk @ TechEd Southeast Asia

Thanks again to everyone who attended the WPF overview talk today! Some links: WPF Community Site (the patient monitoring source code will be posted here soon) Microsoft Expression ZAM 3D by Electric Rain World population app - source code With 3D Without...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds, with Jon Harris

You are pressed for time, but you are dying to know what SketchFlow is? The thought of watching an hour of demo video, like presented here, makes you look frantically at your watch? The solutions is here, exclusively at electricbeach.org: Jon Harris presents...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-04-15 more

http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!

We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services.   We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help us get more good...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-08 more

Updated security overview for Silverlight 4 RC

I updated the white security overview white paper for the Silverlight 4 RC release. Biggest change was I've added a section on security recommendations for trusted apps. Other than that it was fairly minor edits, a typo here (eg. Assembly.Load -> Assembly...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-20 more

50% more ASP.NET skins

A big thank you guys! Tribute to the generosity of you, our community, we now have 50% more skins available for the telerik ASP.NET components. Check out the latest additions in our Skins Exchange Program and feel free to download a copy for your project. Also, don't forget tovote for your favorite community skin - we have an Xbox and free RadControls licenses waiting for the winners. Voting will close on September, 15th. Once again, I would like to express our enormous gratitude to eve
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

Tip of the Day #3

In order to make your Silverlight control transparent to the background of your web site you have to do two things. From an ASPX page: Add the tag PluginBackground ="Transparent" to your Silverlight control. Add the tag Windowless ="true"...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

2 years ago I gave up on Silverlight

Almost two years ago, to the day, I completely gave up on Silverlight. How do I remember the day so clearly? Because every now and I again, I get an email notification that someone has replied to my following forum post: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/1334/216456.aspx. In it, I asked why the Shape classes are sealed. At the time I figured it might have just been a early-release kinda thing. However, since the issue continues to be raised I'll assume the problem still hasn't been fixed. This...
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Event-based and Error-Handling INavigationContentLoaders

Last week, I gave an introduction to INavigationContentLoader, a Silverlight 4 Beta SDK extensibility point that allows you to load arbitrary content in conjunction with the Silverlight navigation feature, and walked you through building a Typename-based...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-07 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 13: The New Class Library Project

Well
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #12

Once you have an image loaded how do you go back and get the original file name for the source file? This can be accomplished through the Uri property of the images Source. However, you must first typecast the images Source to be a BitmapImage. The Uri...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Congrats to Laurent Duveau, new Silverlight MVP

Id like to congratulate Laurent Duveau who is now a Silverlight MVP.  Looks like hes number 7.  Amazing work Laurent! So heres Lolo, the Silver Marvel! var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

SQLAuthority News FIX : An error occurred while executing this command. If this error persists, please contact your Live Meeting administrator.

Recently, while I was scheduling a live meeting for one of my online training sessions, I kept receiving the following error message repeatedly. I had never encountered this type of error before, and despite searching online for a long time, I could not solve this problem.After several failed attempts, I finally managed to fix this [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inclu
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Electric Rain Convexion Pro v1.0.154 Incl Keymaker-CORE

This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. CORE has released another awesome application as they say:
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

SQL SERVER - Generate A Single Random Number for Range of Rows of Any Table - Very interesting Question from Reader

Just a day ago I received email from reader how to get single random number for range of rows of any table. The question was not very clear to me so I had asked him to send me question in simpler words. He sent me question back in simple words. Let us understand this problem [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Internet Download Manager v5.15 Build 6

Intere;t Downlod; Manager v5.15 Build 6 Ine;re;t Downlod; Manager (IDM) is a tool to ic;rease downlod; speeds by up to 5 times, resume ad; schedule downlod;s. Comprehensive error recovery ad; resume capb;ility will restart broken or ine;rruped; downlod;s due to lost conec;tions, e;twork problems, compue;r shud;owns, or ue;xpeced; poe;r outages. Simple graphic user ine;rfce; makes IDM user fried;ly ad; easy to use.Ine;re;t Downlod; Manager has a smart downlod; logic cce;lerator that e;atures
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Who Ate My Mouse Down Event??

Before I leave, I want to squeeze in one quick note about a problem a lot of folks are running into as they upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2. I
Publication date: 2008-06-14 more

Ajax

The objective behind writing this article is to make use of Ajax Control Toolkit into implementation.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Typemock Isolator 4.3 and future syntax

We just released Typemock Isolator 4.3 (here is the blog post with details). It's an awesome product but I envy the speed and ease with which oren can change his syntax (it's nice to work alone!) . I can tell you that the next version of Isolator is going to have a new syntax that is more towards the Arrange-act-assert meme (but you could still use the old one if you wanted to) plus lots of cool goodies. the new version has full support for Ivonna (for ASP.NET webform testing in process) and we.
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking Screencasts

I
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Taylor Swift Slays Ex-BF Joe Jonas and Kayne West During SNL Singing Monologue

Don't burn your ex's pictures, just mock him in song on national TV!
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

GeekTonic Week In Review: March 7, 2009

  It's been another busy week at GeekTonic .  We've been putting the Kindle2 through the paces, and trying out lots of new HTPC stuff.  In case you missed anything from the past week, here is a summary of the past week's news and stories on GeekTonic. Check out the GeekTonic Media Gadget Showcase - Be sure and sign up for the Gadget Showcase at GeekTonic.  Get started by joining the GeekTonic Flickr Group and adding photos of your media gadgets and Media Setup photos for a cha
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

How-to: Consume WCF services from Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight(Prism-v2) Modules

Yesterday, while developing a demo app that uses Prism-v2 , WCF services , ASP.NET web application and interaction with WebBrowser controls (we will post it soon.. stay tunned!),  I run into a little problem trying to consume the service from a module.  I thought could be useful posting about it to save someone a little time. The Problem I had a WCF service in place. It was working fine with a ASP.NET web app, but when I tried to cunsume it from a Prism-v2 module I got the following ex
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization

To continue our series ,  In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as such we need to know who is accessing what data and control certain data access to only users with privilege.  Luckily this is very easy to do with...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-27 more

Microsoft Announces Source Code Analysis for C#

URL: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis/R... Interestingly, Microsoft has released a new tool that they've used for years internally to analyze code in their code base. Its been informally called "StyleCop" and differs from FxCop in that it analyzes source code, not compiled binaries. If you are interested in consistency in your code base, you should take a look!
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

"97 Things" - Architect Axioms

I recently stumbled on "97 Things - Things every software architect should know" (via Bobby Woolf). This is a list of axioms for architects (which will eventually be a book by O'Reilly) edited by Richard Monson-Haefel. While I don't agree with all the axioms, and some, which I feel, are a bit overlapping (e.g. one on trade-offs and one on balancing), there's a lot of great stuff ther. For instance, here are a few of the ones I like:Don't put your resume ahead of the requirements - by Nitin... Di
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Virtual Earth Silverlight Control Part 2: Locate Me

Steve Strong has created a method to report the current location on the Virtual Earth Silverlight control . I have decided to create a separate class of objects to mark my current location. I did this mainly because I wanted to use a different symbol to mark myself on the map -- like a "You Are Here" marker. I have extended this class to collect a time stamp, and this -- in combination with persistence -- can be used to track my movements.
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Silverlight for Point Of Sale (POS) applications

Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications, including critical Point of Sale (POS) applications. The ChristophDotNet blog provides a nice introduction of how Silverlight can be used in a POS environment...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-11 more

Apps for Windows

If Twitter clients weren
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Carrying sensitive information in SAML assertions

When SAML is used in conjunction with WS-Security, only an small piece of the token is encrypted, the proof key for the relying party. The rest of the token goes in plain text, that also includes the user's claims. ... Did you know t
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Migrating Prism v2 Silverlight applications from static to dynamic module loading

The P&P Sustained Engineering Team has published an article in the Composite WPF & Silverlight Knowledge Base that explains how to modify the Prism v2 Silverlight Reference Implementation so it uses Dynamic Module Loading. By doing this, each module generates its own XAP file and the ModulesCatalog.xaml file in the Shell project defines how modules should be loaded: Migrating Prism v2 RI from static to dynamic module loading As I mentioned, the article targets the migration of the Si
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

How Did You Do That Fancy PIP Reflection Stuff?

I
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Nine

One of the few Australian television programs we watch is Underbelly. However when I say watch I think we
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Build a Simple Twitter client using Silverlight 2

See how you can build a simple Twitter client in Silverlight. We will also learn the shortcomings of WebClient Class in Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Sparkling Client Podcast on The Bubble Chart

I'm very pleased to provide this link to a brief discussion with Erik Mork about the Bubble Chart from the Silverlight Toolkit, which I believe ties in nicely with this post from late December.   [Bubble chart from the most recent samples, slightly modified]                 [ Previous Podcast on the Silverlight Toolkit ]       Previous: 1 Chart - Three Axes                            ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We alrea
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: A Word for Visual Studio 2010

It
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Screen Scraping

        I had decided to create a list of what videos were already available on the Learning Pages of Silverlight.net.  When I clicked on the page for the entire list, however, I was quite daunted by the sheer number. I opened...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Who Wants Me To Write A Book

Recently someone left me the following message on my new article ( http://www.codeproject.com/KB/smart/GeoPlaces.aspx )   Hi Sacha, I
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #32

BiDi or Bi-directional text is text that flows right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). For example, while English flows left to right other languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Persian scripts flow right to left. Chinese characters can also be written...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-25 more

Blackberry 8520 speed test in Celcom EDGE network

These videos recorded to demonstrate the speed of Celcom EDGE network, when it is use to browse internet using Blackberry Curve 8520 hand held. From here, you
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit

Quick callout to my colleague and evangelist Yochay Kiriaty, who posted a great set of learning materials and labs for Windows Phone 7 on Channel 9 . That
Publication date: 2010-04-02 more

Moonlight 1.0 Release - Open Source Silverlight 1.0 Implementation on Linux

Congrats to Miguel (nice guy and a fine dancer) and team for the release of Moonlight 1.0 . What is it? "Implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems has officially reached its 1.0 level. We are feature complete, we pass all the Microsoft regression...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Expression Blend 2 SP1, Expression Media 2 SP1 and Silverlight 2 Released

Hello! As many of you know already the buzz about Silverlight 2 being released started over the weekend. We first announced this during the Silverlight Day (MIX Essentials) event in Tokyo last Friday. Forest Key hinted about this imminent release. Today...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Protected Dependency Properties Are Not Really

I discovered an interesting fact yesterday.  I was attempting modify ImplicitStyleManager to support the DefaultStyleKey property.  Previously I was just using the concrete type of the object I was styling to retrieve its style from the resource...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Losing Tab and Esc Key Functionality in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

I've been using Microsoft Virtual PCproduct for many years, posting separate VPCs for each client's work and for test beds for installing beta software or trying out products for my Toolbox column. A couple of months ago I started noticing that when in a VPC the Tab and Esc keys were being ignored. For example, when I would use Alt+Tab from within a VPC I would be toggling through the applications in the host environment. Likewise, if I hit Ctrl+Esc from within a VPC it would display the Start
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Working with Chart Multiple Axes Nevron Chart Axis Docking

Introduction Having a chart with several Y axes is a requirement you will meet very often when you develop charting enabled applications. It is essential that a good charting product supports flexible Y axis positioning and layout. This white paper outlines the different options you have with Nevron Chart for .NET to address a variety of situations requiring you to use multiple Y axes. Features The most common requirement is to have two Y axes and two series scaling on each of them. This is comm
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Shamelessly benefitting from the work of others [Links to Silverlight Airlines and Surface samples for RTW!]

I try to keep up with migrating my various samples to the latest Silverlight Beta/RTW releases, but I don't always have the chance to do so as quickly as I'd like. That's why it was great to find that someone had already done some of the work for me....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

Prism v2: Migrating from Drop 9 to Drop 10

As you may know, last Friday a new drop of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight was released. As Erwin said in this post, one of the breaking changes of this new drop is that they removed the .Silverlight and .Desktop extensions from the Assembly names. If you are like me and have more than one solution using Prism v2 with a bunch of projects, you will probably find really annoying going over each project to update the references and the xaml files. So, in order to acc
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Interesting Finds: April 3, 2009

Other stuff Exception Overhead - Part 2 , Jason Bock Twitter Poll Results: Favorite Visual Studio Add Ons , Jim Holmes Redmond Developer: Working with MEF in VB and WPF , Brad Abrams MbUnit 3 RTM , Andrew Stopford .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers And Queues - Part 2: Queue Policies and .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers And Queues - Part 3: The REST Queue Protocol , Clemens Vasters Pay as you drive 3 , Richard Veryard
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Microsoft Web Application Installer

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-04 more

F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here's a workaround

Unfortunately, the web service that underlies the F1 behavior in Visual Studio is flawed. Specifically when you are trying to find a Silverlight API, the service is promoting the old, v3 beta1 content for Silverlight, and will show you that page (the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available

For those of you who were not able to make it to Internet Week last week, the Expression Studio 4 keynote video is now available! (And my condolences to you, since that means you likely also missed the best Microsoft party ever, props to the Expression...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-06-17 more

Intel Is Porting Silverlight to Moblin, a Linux OS

Intel has showcased IIS Smooth Streaming running on Windows 7 but also on a Moblin device based on their Atom processor on September 23rd during Intel Development Forum 2009. This indicates an effort to port Silverlight to Linux separate than Moonlight.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

TechEd Video Interview: Wietse Dol and John Doornbos

Check out this video interview I did with web developers Wietse Dol and John Doornbos. Last year, Wietse and John created a website to financially manage European Union research projects. They chose DevExpress ASP.NET tools to build the website and they've been very pleased. In fact, they came by the TechEd booth to share their great story. In the video, we discuss: How they built the website How they chose DevExpress What functions the website serves How the website has scaled
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Dew Drop - April 3, 2009

  .NET / Visual Studio Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework Part 1 and   Part 2 (Morshed Anwar) Rhino Queues, Take 6 (Ayende Rahien) Getting Started with Live Tools for Visual Studio (Bruce Kyle) Convert List/IEnumerable to DataTable/DataView (Chinh Do) Gotta Love CodePlex (Darrel Carver) Assigning Foreign Keys In NHibernate (Davy Brion) Creating a functional programming model for MEF (Glenn Block) Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th

My favorite conference of the year is approaching fast! MIX10 is shaping up to be a fantastic conference yet again. If you have attended MIX in prior years you know how the people and conversations found at MIX are top notch, rewarding and just a lot...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Certified ASP.NET 3.5!

I completely forgot as I did this in beta 3 months ago that was a surprise this morning to get a notification that I earned the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development competency (exam 70-562). Certifications are not important for anyone, but for me as an MCT I need to be certified to teach training, so this one is good for Visual Studio 2008 courses! The 70-562 exam should be available to public in august 2008. The preparation... Did you kn
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Getting started with the ASP.NET MVC framework (excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action)

(excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action). Depending on how long youve been building web applications on the Microsoft platform, youll relate to some or all of the following pain. In the 1990s, developers built interactive websites using executable programs that ran on a server. These programs (CGI was a common technology at the time) accepted a web request and were responsible for creating an Html response. Templating was ad-hoc, and the programs were difficult to write, debug and test. In the late.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

What You Wanted to Know: Top

A couple of days ago we posted our 2009 Top 10 for Silverlight. One of the ways we came up with that list was by looking at traffic to this blog and which announcements received the most attention. During the process, we also discovered that many of you...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

SQL SERVER Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet

I recently read this very interesting white paper. I really found it very interesting as this one was one very easy to read and humourous white paper related to SQL Server. The white paper is starts with very interesting note regarding Columbus.Contrary to popular opinion, Columbus did not prove that the Earth is round. Pythagoras, [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inclu
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Steve Ballmer discusses Healthcare at Microsoft

Steve Ballmer adds his words relative to healthcare and the focus at Microsoft in providing the software platforms to help make this happen.  The video is in Silverlight, so you do need the browser add on.  If you haven
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Silverlight at the Olympics

I'm sure many of you have heard by now... Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is powering the NBC Olympics video experience! At http://nbcolympics.com/video, you can see live event coverage as well as on-demand viewing of already-happened events. Check it out! ...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Bayesian Probability

  Spent the early hours of this morning reading a great blog post by Jeff Atwood which makes reference to a Elizer S. Yudkowsky
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

On The Bleeding Edge: Where All The Fun Is.

Tim Heuer did a brilliant job in his recent blog post sorting through and summing up some of the confusion that has arisen out of the current unusual circumstances of Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio all having two versions available at the same time...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-25 more

UserControl to let users manage layout of any Silverlight DataGrid

Code and demo for a UserControl to manage layout (reorder/remove/add/freeze columns) in a Silverlight datagrid, and make the layout persist in future sessions.
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Rounding Up SXSW Week

Aral gave a talk on the Open Source Flash Book at the SXSW Interactive 2009 and his blog made to the Wikio top 30 UK technology blogs for March 2009. Ryan has some details about the Adobe Events at the SXSW . Many people on the blogosphere recommend a session on Flash Player Internals available on Adobe TV as a must-watch for all Flash developers. But Jens, the Flashgamer, warns us to watch it from Peter Elst
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Better Navigation

I was pretty happy with the threading navigation I had introduced   Just to double check, I asked my buddy David Platt, author of the absolutely essential Why Software Sucks, to take a look. He was quite gentle in ripping my guts out. He pointed out that the juxtaposition of the word More with a left pointing arrow is so jarring it just forces you to stop and think (Don't Make Me Think!"). He also noted that putting one link at the top of the article, and the other at the bottom... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF

9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Creating Killer Animations in Code

Learn how to create smooth animations in Silverlight and WPF by taking control of the Rendering event....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-18 more

Revival of the Java Applet?

The Java Applet caused a lot of hype in the mid 90s when some people believed it would become the standard for interactive content on the web. It never happened. Some will claim this is because M$ shipped a buggy implementation. The simple truth is that designers design the web, and Adobe Flash created a very designer-friendly interface. Java Applets are Java programs and you need to be a programmer to write one. It was a completely inaccessible technology from the design side. Arguably, the ra
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Silverlight for Google Chrome Hack

Silverlight program manager Tim Heur has posted an article on Google Chrome hack which would allow company
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Speculative Development and YAGNI

It's amazing how much time speculative development can swallow up during the course of a project. Speculative development happens when a developer implements features above and beyond the requirements based on the assumption that he'll need such functionality at a later point in time. I think it's a trap every developer has fallen into at one point or another. We are tasked with something simple - like exposing the latest news through an RSS feed - and turn it into something complex - like buil
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

Slides and Code from Presentation in Atlantic City

I very much enjoyed my double presentation at the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference in Atlantic City,     where I promised, as always, to post my slides and source code. Here are the slides  for the introductory session Here...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-26 more

Dew Drop - June 8, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing Reflecting reality (Jimmy Bogard) TDDing an Interface - a Twitter influenced discussion (Brett Schuchert) The Impact of Staffing Practices on Software Quality and Productivity (Derick Bailey) Multiple roles (Steven
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Prototyping Technique and Tool

While speaking at the USI 2009 conference in Paris, I attended Todd Zaki Warfel paper prototyping session.  The purpose of paper prototyping is for a team to create screen mock-ups with simple tools like paper, scissors and Post-Its.  Team members would consist of graphic designers, engineers, marketing people and stakeholders.  The goal is to produce the mock-ups without relying on software tools because clients often focus on non important stuff instead of functionalities at that... Did you kn
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Code Camp Montreal 2009

The next Code Camp Montreal will take place on Saturday, May 30th 2009. Local speakers interested in presenting (French or English)? submit your sessions! http://www.codecampmontreal.com/Appel%20aux%20conf%c3%a9renciers.ashx I
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Numbered And Bulleted Lists for Silverlight

(Matt Perdeck) Silverlight 2 is a great idea, but there are some gaping holes. One of the things I missed was support for ordered and unordered lists - a counterpart for the HTML and tags. This library fills that gap.
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Listagem dos Downloads Abril 2009

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Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Data focused Silverlight demo

Yet still more time on traveling , I thought I'd do a little demo of a data oriented scenario with Silverlight. Here is what we are after: The data for the app is loaded from a Linq model and sent to the Silverlight client via a WCF services. As the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

This is Your Facebook on WPF

While Facebook recently announced new API's to open the Facebook Stream, Microsoft is showing a new application built on a WPF framework that gives users a feel for what is possible with the Windows platform. This new experience offers fast performance, docking, taskbar integration and adaptive UI while a Silverlight example showcases feeds, exploring friend profiles, and browsing an expansive display of photos with DeepZoom. More examples along with sourcecode coming soon, watch the Silve
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 - First-Pass Must-Haves

Back in 2006 I paved (or "formatted", or "torched", or "gave " a technical enema ") to my main machine and blogged about the what I call the first-pass software I installed on this new fresh machine . It was time to torch my Atwood Quadpower machine and name it Quadpower7 . Time for a clean install, and this time it includes Windows 7 x64 Ultimate . I know I have a Tools List (that I know needs to be updated, thank you) but what I needed on this new machine was to be as p
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Debugging a

If you
Publication date: 2010-07-20 more

Specialized Layout Panels for Silverlight

The layout system in Silverlight is, in my opinion, one of the key differentiators in presentation engine capabilities from HTML/CSS (on a related note, see my post long ago about my browser/scripting wish list and the references to need for core layout...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Spin Spin Sugar [Updated code to easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application]

A few weeks after the initial release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools in April, I blogged a sample showing how to easily animate device orientation changes for Windows Phone 7 applications . I noted at the time that the default behavior for application...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-07-13 more

Silverlight 3 Is Here: Smoother Video, Better Web Apps

Microsoft releases Silverlight 3, the free plug-in for video and audio content on the web, and its answer to competing technology like Adobe Flash. The upgrade improves Silverlight's streaming capabilities, and it offers developers new tools for building webapps that run outside of the browser.
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

.NET Fireside Chats - Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina

The .NET Zone just published an interview with Kry and me. Check it out: .NET Fireside Chats - Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina You can learn some interesting stuff about what lead to writing the first edition of the book, what a 'Framework' is and what the hardest framework design problems are. I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts Oh, and they published a sample section of the book for free in PDF format. This is from Chapter 9 and covers LINQ guidelines. Enjo... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Editable Silverlight ComboBox

Tim Heuer posted today about using the AutoCompleteBox control (Silverlight Toolkit) to enable editable ComboBox scenarios in Silverlight apps. This was originally one of the more complex samples that we included in the toolkit sample project, and Tim...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Some flexcoders stats

Some flexcoders stats Posted by: Doug, in flexcoders I
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

The Weekly Source Code 36 - PDC, BabySmash and Silverlight Charting

First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-fifth in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." At the end of my crazy babies talk at...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Scrum Master Training in Pittsburgh

Scrum Master training is coming to Pittsburgh, July 24 and 25, 2008. Ill be in this class, which is an attraction unto itself. The classes return periodically, so if you cant make this one, check their site for another. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Linked Resource Dictionaries in Loose XAML

Something cool that I didn't know "just worked" - linked resource dictionaries in Loose XAML! In this sample: dictionary.xaml contains a ResourceDictionary page.xaml just links to dictionary.xaml. See how it looks when you navigate to page...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Falling Snow in Silverlight

Learn how to create a falling snow effect in Silverlight using nothing more than a behavior....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-21 more

TechDays Toronto Schedule and Details / FailCamp Toronto 3

TechDays Canada 2009 is Microsoft Canada
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

RC0 & ContentPresenter

  The breaking changes document points out that ContentPresenter now derives from FrameworkElement and thus loses 18 public properties  as well as TextAlignment, TextDecorations and TextWrapping. All of this calls for a bit of rewriting if you've...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-28 more

OWL and Billboard Launch Landmark Concert Series using Microsoft Silverlight

Our World Live (OWL), a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering with Billboard.com to bring music fans a new internet concert series . Billboardlive.com utilizes OWL's state-of-the-art technology, powered by Microsoft Silverlight to provide...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications

I was watching Joe Stegman
Publication date: 2009-11-21 more

New Channel 9 Video: Robert Kihm on Aptify RAD

While at MIX10, I caught up with my friend Robert Kihm from Aptify. They have a great business application development platform that makes it easy to create apps that target different UIs and platforms without making code changes. In addition to the robust...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-29 more

Apple iPhone Deal With China Unicom Imminent? - Mac Rumors

Fortune summarizes recent fast-moving developments in reports of Apple and China Unicom
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Styles

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #40: 1.05 != 1.05 - Peril with Floating Point Comparisons.

The other day I found a bug in one of my Silverlight applications that was doing floating point comparisons. In my animation of an image I was increasing the ScaleTransform .ScaleX by
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Get the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit covers the technologies in the .NET 3.5 SP1 release and the out of band releases that are a part of the same wave, namely ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Silverlight controls. Currently, the training kit contains six hands-on labs, made up of the following technologies: 1) ADO.NET Data Services 2) ADO.NET Entity Framework 3) ASP.NET AJAX History 4) ASP.NET Dynamic Data 5) ASP.NET MVC 6) ASP.NET Silverlight controls
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Convert Flash Movies To Silverlight: SilverX

SilverX is a free software which aims to help Silverlight designers/developers for converting existing Flash content to Silverlight . It supports most of the Flash
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Microsoft Shows It

M$ showed it
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

MediaPlayer control included in Silverlight 3

For some reason I missed this until just recently, but Silverlight 3 comes with a MediaPlayer control courtesy of the Expression team. If you open the Assets panel and search for media, you
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Transfer data from server to client

How to transfer the data from server database to client database,If both have same schema... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Tech News, Resources from Blogosphere - 31 March 09(2)

How To Make Your Television Play Anything in 3D Tech Giants Introduce
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Arizona: Silverlight, MVC, MEF, WPF

It
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Sharepoint Debugging with WSS V3

SharePoint debugging experience in WSS V3 can get annoying, when exceptions start looking like this generic message "An unexpected error has occurred" To enable stack trace similar to the ASP.NET error page, edit your web.config at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories and edit the following entries as follows: and there you are...go fix it now! ;) Did you k
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Microsoft MVP Summit 2009

This year again, I took part in the Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle. Got some great information on Silverlight, nice contact with the products team. Some really cool stuff I will talk later in march. Part of the Canadian delegation (quieter this year): But the MVP Summit is more a social than technical event (let
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Windows XP Professional SP3 Corporate February 2009+Official

RELEASE INFO   Release Date .... February 2, 2009  Program Type ... OS  Platform ............ Windows XP Professional SP3 Corporate  Language .......... English  Image Type ....... ISO   INSTALL NOTES   Unrar and burn with Nero/UltraISO  License Product K.@.y intergated.  RELEASE NOTES:   Design base on Original Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3  Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 - VL (x86) - CD (English)  Date Posted (UTC):
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

The ALT.NET Conference: loving it

Its been a great trip, and landed yesterday in Seattle with snow on the ground, but a wonderful sun. And this morning its still sunny (thats the view from my hotel room). Right now Im the lounge at DigiPen, waiting for the second day of ALT.NET Conf to start. The opening evening was very very interesting, and Phil Haack already wrote a great commentary of it. Im really impressed by the huge amount of smart people that are attending, and its also a great opportunity to meet people Ive been intera
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Database Connections with the Virtual Earth Silverlight MapControl CTP

Introduction It has been long anticipated and finally it arrived as a Community Technology Preview (CTP): The Virtual Earth Silverlight MapControl. To get access to the CTP you need to register at Microsoft Connect . Once you are registered you will have access to an installer which gets you the libraries as well as the offline documentation. There is also an Interactive SDK, a link to a getting stated guide on Via Windows Live and another one that allows you to submit bugs and feature re
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Calling JavaScript functions from Silverlight 2

Malcolm Sheridan demonstrates how to call JavaScript functions from Silverlight 2 . Silverlight 2 is a great technology to build business centric applications, and one of the coolest features is the ability to call JavaScript functions from your Silverlight code.   
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Forms Auth\Windows Auth

I was talking to some coworkers today about the scenarios for Forms Auth and Windows Auth in line of business applications.    We were having a debate about which was more common. As you might guess at Microsoft we are an all windows shop...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-06 more

Creating a Minimal Workspace for SketchFlow

With Blend 3, we have made the Blend UI much more configurable. Panels can now be docked and undocked, and the panels can be set to
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

Silverlight news for August 19, 2008

Silverlight news for August 19, 2008 0 comments posted by Ivan Dragoev on Tuesday, August 19 Martin Grayson continues his great Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, docking, expanding panels series with the second part. Now, he is dealing with element docking. See the demo here. Using Transform Matrices to Create 3D Looking Terrain - Mike Snows continues with the terrain tutorials. Demo is also available. Check also his tip How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor. Mike Taulty had a Curiou
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Dialogs and ViewModel - Using Tasks as a Pattern

The ViewModel/MVVM pattern continues to gain popularity, with a blog post showing up every so often, and with tweets and retweets popping up even more often :-). At the same time, there are some interesting topics beyond the core pattern that continue...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Balder: A Silverlight 3 Managed 3D Engine Optimized for Multicore

Silverlight 3 doesn't offer native support for loading and rendering 3D models. However, Balder offers a very complete managed 3D engine for Silverlight 3. It achieved the necessary frame rate taking advantage of Silverlight's threading capabilities.
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Programmatically Trigger Events of a Control in Silverlight

(Mahesh Chand) There are occasions when you need to fire controls events programmatically. This article shows you how to fire the click event of a Button control programmatically in Silverlight 2.0.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Expression Studio 3 LAUNCHED

We announced the official launch of Expression
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Dew Droplet

  I
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

What I learned on my summer vacation

There are (at least) two truisms when you work for yourself: You either have too much work, or almost none. and You can take a vacation anytime you want, as long as you're willing to spend just as much time apologizing to customers and struggling to catch up, and you're willing to not be paid for that time. With those two in mind, we[1] decided to take a week off and head over to Yoho National Park. I decided to document this trip using this 21st century equivalent of the old elementary school
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF

I
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

NBC and Vista on a Full Online Coverage in Beijing

NBC is going full strength on Beijing Olympics by giving users online coverage to all its sports. However, only Vista users would be able to enjoy this. In an excerpt: NBC announced two significant technology partnerships with Microsoft and Wavexpress today to provide 2008 Olympics coverage over the web. The new initiatives embody a natural evolution for Olympics coverage considering the times
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Flash goes Open Source; Are HTML/CSS coders doomed?

According to the latest episode from the Boagworld podcast,
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

How will Silverlight 'light up' Microsoft's Web-based Office apps?

August 7th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 10:31 amCategories:Azure, Code names, Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2010/Office 14, Office Live, SharePoint Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Utility/cloud computing, Windows 7Tags:Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Web Application, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Cloud Computing, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo FoleyMicrosoft still has yet to release the technology preview test build of its Office Web Apps that is slated for some time in August.
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Toolkit Control

You can learn a great deal about the new TimePicker class with a fairly simple example program that I will lay out and zip through here (a full video on the topic is coming very soon). To begin, you
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

Msmobiles.com Podcast 299

msmobiles.com Podcast 299 (format: MP3) (right click above to download the podcast) You can listen to this podcast also from this web page, through the Flash player: URL to RSS feed of this podcast (for your podcast catcher) is: http://x.msmobiles.com/portal/podcast.xml If you use iTunes then click HERE to subscribe to this podcast. In this episode Edward from msmobiles.com is chatting with: Mickey from The Cellphone Junkie podcast , Alli from JustAnotherGeekSite.com
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more