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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services

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

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

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

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

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

To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your application.  The interesting data in your business applications come from a wide variety of data sources.  From a SQL Database, from Oracle...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client

To continue our series , let
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index

With Silverlight 4 and RIA Services all-but done, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some of the key features of the platform and tools that make Silverlight a fantastic platform for building business applications.    I
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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)
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Designing for the Windows Phone

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Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW

At Mix10 this morning in Vegas ScottGu announced that Silverlight 4 and RIA Services RC are available for download now!  These bits work great with VS2010 RC .  We have some great videos, and updated samples already posted on http://silverlight...(read more)
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Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

Silverlight TV is here at MIX10 where Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and Silverlight just became the best match since peanut butter and chocolate! Mike Harsh , Program Manager for the Silverlight team working on WP7, joins John Papa to demonstrate the WP7 device...(read more)
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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)
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New in the Silverlight 4 RC: XAML Features

Today, the Silverlight 4 RC was announced and made available to the masses.  But you may be asking yourself: what
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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)
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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)
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Introducing Expression Blend for Windows Phone

Windows Phone is an amazing platform to use and to design applications for. We are very proud to make a preview version of authoring for Windows Phone available with Expression Blend 4. Downloads will be available around 10:45am today at http://developer...(read more)
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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)
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Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development

So the news is out! Silverlight IS the platform for Windows Phone 7 Series development! Sweet. We also made available an update to Silverlight 4 that you might be interested in too! You may be wondering how you get started. If you are new to Silverlight...(read more)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Start preparing for the Silverlight Pivot control now

At MIX10 we just announced that Pivot, a new data visualization technology first demonstrated at PDC by Live Labs, is coming to Silverlight as a control this summer. Pivot enables users to see thousands of items at once and explore the relationships that...(read more)
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Expression Blend 4 Beta Feature Overview available for download

Expression Blend 4 Beta is out in the wild and available for download! As a companion whitepaper, check out the Expression Blend 4 Beta Feature Overview which provides a walkthrough of the new features. Here
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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)
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Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application

Silverlight for Windows Phone is one of the most exciting things to come along since the original release of Silverlight. Now I can take my same Silverlight/WPF skills and use them not only on the web, and on the desktop, but also on the Windows Phone...(read more)
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A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC

At MIX10, Silverlight 4 released an update, the Silverlight 4 RC (release candidate). A few things have changed since the beta which was released in November. If you haven
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Silverlight 4 RC Announced at MIX 2010!

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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)
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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)
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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/14/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #16, the last one before all the MIX festivities. Sending this one out a day early so I can make my flight on Sunday. In preparation for all the coolness at MIX, make sure you have your Silverlight/WPF/XNA development...(read more)
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.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)
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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)
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Microsoft User Experience Kit launched today at SXSW

Today at SXSW , of which Microsoft Silverlight is a major sponsor of the Interactive Festival , Microsoft User Experience Kit is targeted at technical and creative leads who want to better understand the tools, technologies, and scenarios that span Microsoft...(read more)
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SNEAK PEEK: .toolbox design school for Silverlight and Expression

Almost there! Follow @designtoolbox to learn when the site launches…...( read more )...(read more)
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SNEAK PEEK: New Silverlight application themes

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SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010

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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)
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Win a trip to see the launch of the Mars Rover in NASA

At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements. New data APIs in Codename Dallas, a Silverlight+ASP.NET MVC 2 site on Azure.... but did you realize they also launched a programming competition? NASA has...(read more)
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The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework is releasing at MIX 2010

Effective Rich Internet Applications are everyone
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MSDN Windows Developer Center Redesign

We've all been busy on our various sites. Earlier this year, we put out an overall redesign for MSDN. Yesterday, the asp.net site team went live with a redesign to the asp.net site (looks awesome, btw). Also yesterday, we went live with the redesigned...(read more)
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WCF Ria Services For Real

In my previous post I discussed creating the database and tables for the Silverlight HVP configuration data.  All that was great, and worked just dandy until it was time to get the data from the database server to the application running on the client...(read more)
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Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight

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Articles and Lab Experiments vs. Blog Posts

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Article: The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox

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Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10

On Monday the 15th from 5pm
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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)
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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 - Special Edition

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Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again :-) )

The Silverlight 4 beta came with a version of MEF that had 3 catalogs
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Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010

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A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface

The concept of creating vision videos to sell an idea has been around since there has been cameras and specially TVs. Just like today Microsoft publishes a Health future vision video, 50 years ago people were also pitching the “Hospital of the Future”...(read more)
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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)
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WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer

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Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight

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A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3

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Silverlight @ #MIX10

With only one week until MIX10, we wanted to give you a heads-up on all the news coming out of the conference, and highlight some of the great Silverlight sessions that every developer should attend. For those of you that don
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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
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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/8/2010

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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)
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Turn your head and check out this post [How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart]

When someone asked me how to rotate the axis labels of a chart from the Data Visualization package of the Silverlight Toolkit / WPF Toolkit earlier today, I realized it was time for a quick blog post. Because when I've answered a question two or three...(read more)
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PsyMUD: a MUD for Linux

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WPF: Now with Less Fuzz

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Now Every Thursday Morning - Silverlight TV

It has been 7 weeks since Silverlight TV kicked off its first episode with Keith Smit h. Since then we have posted a total of 12 shows on a variety of topics. Here are some interesting numbers from the show: 12 The number of episodes we have aired in...(read more)
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Excited about Windows Phone Development!

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Hot Expression Blend and Silverlight Topics Survey Results. Interesting Trends.

Thanks to everyone who filled up our Design Tools and Techniques Workshop for MIX10. Here are the results. I wanted to share with you as they show interesting trends on what people are interested in learning more related to Silverlight and Blend. The...(read more)
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Top 10 Standard Internet Comments

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jQuery to the Rescue: Changing style and target for all external links on my site

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My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010

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Ignore: New Technorati claim token

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Persisting the Configuration (Updated)

[Updated and expanded on March 5]   For this week
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Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight

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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)
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Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers

Yes, I know, there have been sooooo many rumors everywhere. But this evening Charlie Kindel, evangelist-in-chief for all things Windows Phone 7 Series, shared a little more about the strategy of the new platform, just in time to set the stage for Mix...(read more)
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Windows Phone 7 Series Live QA tonight at 6pm PST

Tonight, there is a live QA session about Windows Phone 7 Series @wp7dev, on Twitter, 6pm...( read more )...(read more)
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Persisting the Configuration

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Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development

Quick, what
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Making slsvcutil behave like

Just a quick note to clarify a subject where we get a lot of questions. By default, running Add Service Reference against a WCF service and then running slsvcutil against that same service will not generate the same proxy. Some things that are different...(read more)
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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)
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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)
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New SilverlightTV Episode: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever!

Yes its a bold statement. But we can at least claim its the Best Blend 3 Video Ever on SilverlightTV, since this is the first episode where Blend is covered. I spend 30 minutes explaining to John just how cool Blend is by going from a prototype to a working...(read more)
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Digital Rapids New 3.2 Upgrade Reaches New Heights in IIS Smooth Streaming Performance

Digital Rapids
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston

The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day event in Boston is now available. May 14
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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)
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Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service

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Vancouver 2010 website, NOS, breaks records

NOS , Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, the Dutch public broadcaster, has published great data about their Olympic game site on the influencing marketing blog, Marketingfacts.nl The following text is a translation from Dutch to English of the article from...(read more)
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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)
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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)
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When Is It OK To Hack?

This mini-tutorial is part of the SLHVP documentation   One of the goals of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project is to demonstrate best practices.  So when is it okay to throw in a quick hack to get things working? Case in point: as I approached...(read more)
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Highlighting a "weak" contribution [Enhancements make preventing memory leaks with WeakEventListener even easier!]

It was back in March of last year that I explained the motivation for the WeakEventListener class I'd started using in the Silverlight Toolkit 's Data Visualization assembly. Since then, a few other Toolkit controls have added WeakEventListener where...(read more)
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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)
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Visit the McNuggets

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MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog

I posted about the DeploymentCatalog in the new MEF preview the other day and I got a question or two along the lines of
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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)
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5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight

Implementing ICommand in your Silverlight 4 project only requires a few steps. I have had a dozens of questions about this lately so I decided to share a very simple technique to implement commanding in Silverlight 4. Step 1
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Gesturecons

Gesturecons is a set of wire-framing gestural icons created by Ryan Lee. The icons are available for download made available via a Creative Commons License. These icons will be very useful when creating wireframes or tutorials covering touch gestures...(read more)
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Josh Smith

My great friend and partner in crime, Josh Smith has recently published an Advanced MVVM Book.  Currently the book is available in the following three formats: Adobe DRM digital copy Paperback  Kindle digital copy If you are using the MVVM UI...(read more)
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Luke Wroblewski on Windows Phone 7 Series UX

Yahoo’s Chief Design Architect, Luke Wroblewski, put together a blog post that comments on the use of animation in Windows Phone 7 Series, including an interesting sampler of video snippets illustrating his points. Read the article here...( read...(read more)
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Carbon Counter and EcoLight win the Silverlight Eco Contest!

The Silverlight Eco Contest winners have been announced. The grand prize goes to Daniel James for his Carbon Counter entry, a visualization of future carbon dioxide emissions time-lapsed over the next 100 years. As the populations increase its interesting...(read more)
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No trees were harmed in the making of this blog post [How to: Successfully print a Chart with the Silverlight 4 Beta]

One of the big requests people have had for Silverlight was the ability to print, so one thing that's new in the Silverlight 4 Beta is the PrintDocument class which enables applications to print anything they want! There isn't an excess of fancy bells...(read more)
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Jesse Liberty at TechDays and on UK Tour

Jesse Liberty ( the Silverlight Geek ) is doing a UK and Ireland Tour talking about Silverlight and calling at; Bristol, London, Cambridge, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin You can find details on Jesse
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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
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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)
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Microsoft Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming bring Winter Olympics to Europe in HD on the Web

Exciting news for those of you living in Europe. Eurosport, one Europe
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Vancouver Olympics

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John Papa and I discuss the MIX10K winners on SilverlightTV

If you haven
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Prepping for Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10

In just under a month MIX10 will kick off with a day of workshops. One of these workshops is a Silverlight Bootcamp that both I and Mike Taulty will be presenting at. Mike is a fantastic presenter and has some great content on Silverlight. I can
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MIX 10K Challenge Winners

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 9 John thwarts Adam
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Why do I keep getting prompted to install Silverlight?

Issue: some people get prompted repeatedly to install Silverlight while visiting web sites like nbcolympics.com. Solution: if you have old version of Webshots Toolbar or Kiwee Toolbar from American Greetings, you should upgrade to latest version from...(read more)
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Silverlight Deployment Troubleshooting Guide

After helping a few customers with Silverlight install issues, I think it may be helpful to publish a Silverlight deployment troubleshooting guide and keep it up-to-date, so here you go. Troubleshooting Steps Is Silverlight installed? on Windows, make...(read more)
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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
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New MEF Drop (Preview 9) on CodePlex!

I was pretty excited to see that there
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Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10

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Help me pick the mini-apps that we

On March 14th, in the afternoon I will be hosting a pre-session called Design Tools and Techniques. We will design some mini-apps from scratch, all the way from sketching them, wireframing, prototyping and doing the final UI in Blend. I’ll provide...(read more)
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New tutorials page aggregating recent work, 34 for launch

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MEF in the MSDN Magazine

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Windows Phone 7 Series: An Exciting Journey

This is an exciting time for designers of user experience. Our world is bursting from its seams, and I think we have an exciting journey ahead of us (see also this post): We get to play on PCs, phones, the Web, and a multitude of devices, many with insanely...(read more)
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Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate WPF & Silverlight Designer Known Issues

I have posted Known Issues, Application Compatibility and Designer Limitations here on the Cider Team blog. If you are using Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate for WPF or Silverlight development, I strongly encourage you to read the above blog post...(read more)
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Taking a Break with Hibachi Steak

This year for Valentine
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Silverlight 4 Beta Networking Screencasts

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SL TV 8: Silverlight Client for Facebook

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 8 John scores a cool interview with one of the developers responsible for the Silverlight client for Facebook application. This application made a big splash at the PDC 09...(read more)
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Hot Fix Available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Crash

A hot fix has been made available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate that solves the IntelliSense crashing issue.  Hot Fix:  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB980610 If you have experienced crashes when IntelliSense displays, please apply...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Let the Games Begin!

Friday night kicked off the opening ceremonies of the XXI Games of the Winter Olympiad in Vancouver, British Columbia. This has ushered in a new era of internet based video experiences using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming that will give viewers...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-15 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

Announced: Windows Phone 7 Series

This morning, in a continent far away, Steve Ballmer announced Windows Phone 7 Series. I am very excited about the new phone. There is a great article on Gizmodo and a neat live demo in Silverlight at windowsphone7series.com. And it
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

The United Kingdom The Republic of Ireland

  I am extremely pleased to say that thanks to the very hard work of Guy Smith-Ferrier, and the generosity of Microsoft UK, Microsoft Ireland , Microsoft User Group Support Services and Microsoft US ,  and the work and welcome of numerous user...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

XAML Power Toys and XAML Power Toys for Cider

I have just posted updates to three XAML Power Toys products. XAML Power Toys The new versions of XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and later can be downloaded here on the XAML Power Toys Home Page. I have...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-14 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

Silverlight TV 7: When and Where to Use MEF

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 7 Glenn Block, Program Manager working on MEF and self professed "MEF Maniac,
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

WCF and netTCP Binding in Silverlight 4

Tomek has a fantastic post over here about the netTCP binding in Silverlight 4. I
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Using Silverlight Media Framework for simple playback

If you aren
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Helpful Silverlight Snippets

Here are a few of the Visual Studio C# code snippets that we use on the Silverlight team when building controls and apps. Download a zip (7 KB) of them all and extract them into your Snippets folder, which is in your Documents folder: Documents\Visual...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Silverlight & MEF Talk from the London Silverlight User Group

Just a quick plug for a talk I gave last week at the London Silverlight User Group on the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4. Ian Smith kindly recorded this with great skill and speed and has the video available if you click the picture...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-10 more

Silverlight Test Driven Development

        At the end of Test Driven Body Snatchers I promised to follow up with a walkthrough of real-world Test Driven Development. What gets into me?  Well, a promise is a promise.  Walking Through Test Driven Development...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-10 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

Quick FAQ on Visual Studio 2010 RC release (February 2010) and Silverlight development

Yesterday Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was available for MSDN subscribers and would be generally available on 10 February 2010 for the public. This release represents a significant improvement in the overall Visual Studio...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-09 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

SketchFlow: Exploring Ideas

SketchFlow, the prototyping environment in Expression Blend, lets you build deep, dynamic prototypes with a lot of
Publication date: 2010-02-08 more

BBQ Shack

What the Heck is BBQ Shack? In September of 2009 I went on a cruise to Alaska with a simple goal of writing a WPF application that shared business objects and Ocean framework code with a Silverlight 3 project within the solution.  The WPF and Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-07 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

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

Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight

I heard someone saying they were having trouble setting up Smooth Streaming for IIS, so I wanted to try it myself. If you just want to see Smooth Streaming work, visit http://www.smoothhd.com/ for some sample demos. They'll adapt to your bandwidth and...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-05 more

Developing the world

January 2010 saw the launch the new Mass Effect 2 game, and EA Games in the UK wanted to mirror the game innovation with their digital marketing. Developing the world
Publication date: 2010-02-05 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

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

Hanselminutes Podcast 198 - Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer

My one-hundred-and-ninety-eighth podcast is up . I sit down with Erik Meijer from the Cloud Programmability Team to hear about the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) . Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

Flash Skills Applied to Silverlight session at MIX10

It
Publication date: 2010-02-02 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

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

Some Recent Notable Silverlight Posts

A couple folks on my team have recently started blogs.  If you haven
Publication date: 2010-02-02 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

MIX10

I
Publication date: 2010-02-01 more

On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation

Way back in July, shortly after Silverlight 3 was released, I posted a technique that allowed you to use the Navigation framework in the SDK to load pages in dlls that would be downloaded as part of the navigation process.  The solution relied on...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-02-01 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

Silverlight TV Episode 005

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! Episode 5 is all about using Metadata with MEF. Hamilton Verissimo makes a return visit to show us how metadata can make MEF ever more valuable to build Silverlight applications. ...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-31 more

Silverlight in

There
Publication date: 2010-01-30 more

Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop

I
Publication date: 2010-01-30 more

The Code Not Taken [Comparing two ways of creating a full-size Popup in Silverlight - then picking the best]

When it comes time to display a Popup that overlays the entire Silverlight plug-in, most people do it the same way. Unfortunately, although the typical approach appears correct at first glance (and may even survive a test pass!), there are some problems...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-29 more

PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4

(I know I promised this eons ago, so apologies in advance... on the flipside, I'm posting from my vacation in Paris, so hopefully that earns me 1-2 brownie points back.) First, m y PDC slides and the video . This is the same talk that I gave at TechEd...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-29 more

Announcing the First User Interface (UI) Components for Silverlight 4

Telerik Corporation , a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM, .NET CMS solutions and Web Application Testing Tools, is excited to announce RadControls for Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-27 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

Be one of the first to get the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook!

Test the Silverlight 4 developer preview application for Facebook which combines the many compelling platform capabilities of Silverlight 4 in a rich out-of-browser application within the familiar context of Facebook. " border="0" alt="clip_image002 ...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-26 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

Silverlight Client for Facebook available

Remember the final moments of the Scott Guthrie keynote presentation at PDC09? Where Brian Goldfarb came on stage and demonstrated a completed application using a lot of the features of Silverlight 4? Yeah, that Facebook application. Well, it
Publication date: 2010-01-25 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

Dynamic Blog Posts DynaPosts

Blog posts are by their nature static. It is not good form to go back to an existing blog post and update it, but often what I want is to keep everything on one page and have a quick way to notify that the page has been updated. Starting today, I
Publication date: 2010-01-24 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

Multi-Touch 101 - Silverlight TV Episode 3

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! Since this is our opening week we have published 3 new episodes. We
Publication date: 2010-01-20 more

Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight from Mike Downey on SilverlightTV

Congratulations to John Papa for recently launching a new show on Channel 9 called SilverlightTV. The show covers the Silverlight platform from a variety of angles including architectural issues, real design and development issues problems solved, community...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta

Many of you have heard of Project Rosetta by now, but for those who have not here is an excerpt from the site : The goal of the project is to help designers and UI developers learn new technologies by relating concepts and skills in a visual way from...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

Silverlight TV airs on Channel 9

The first episodes of Silverlight TV are now available on Channel 9 . Go behind the scenes at Microsoft with John Papa and learn what the Silverlight product team is dreaming up next. See exclusive interviews with the Silverlight product team, watch how...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-19 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

WPF & Silverlight Designer Team

The WPF & Silverlight Designer Team (Cider Team) has just launched a new team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/default.aspx During the months of Janurary and Feburary 2010 we will be adding a good bit of WPF & Silverlight content. ...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-19 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

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

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

Premier of Silverlight TV

I am proud to announce the premier of Silverlight TV airing on Channel 9 ! You can watch the first episode right here where Keith Smith (Silverlight Group Program Manager), along with host John Papa (Silverlight Evangelist), discuss Silverlight 4's out...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-16 more

IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released

Today the IIS team released a Beta 2 of the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, allowing for rich Silverlight experiences that take advantage of IIS Smooth Streaming capabilities. With this release, the IIS team has added support for Fast Forward...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-16 more

Silverlight 3 API listing in one big text file

One of the things we do to keep API quality high in Silverlight is to periodically dump the complete public API set to a text file & run a diff against previous versions to see what's changed. Figured these "txref" files might be of use to someone...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-16 more

Silverlight 4 beta API listing in one big text file

See previous post for explanation....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-16 more

Use Your Silverlight Skills to Win a Pass to MIX

The Silverlight Show web site is hosting a contest that can help you get a pass to MIX and/or get some travel expenses paid! Several Silverlight community leaders and our own Expression Evangelist, Adam Kinney, are judging the entries. Get your entries...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-15 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

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

"I feel the need... the need for SPEED!" [Seven simple, performance-boosting tweaks for common Silverlight/WPF Charting scenarios]

No matter how fast things are, they never seem to be fast enough. Even if we had the world's most optimized code in the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization assembly , I bet there would still be a couple of people who wanted better performance. :) Unfortunately...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-14 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

SilverlightShow Eco Contest

The SilverlightShow EcoContest is a cool opportunity for Silverlight designers and developers to show off their creativity and data visualization skills. Here
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Seattle Silverlight User Group

Tonight I have the privilege of presenting an Overview of Silverlight 4 to the Seattle Silverlight User Group (SeaSLUG as they like to be called). The event starts at 7pm tonight, January 13th at the cafeteria in Building 40/41 on the Microsoft campus...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-14 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

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

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 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

Silverlight Top 10 of 2009

2009 has come to a close
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Severely Decoupled Configuration

    In the spirit of a glass-house (you get to see everything as it happens), open source project, here is a draft of how I see handling configuration for the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform   -- this will be modified in the next iteration...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-11 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

Video of the SLHVP First Release

  Brief Video Illustration   I
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

Silverlight Session at NEBytes, 20th January, Newcastle

Just a quick plug for a session that I
Publication date: 2010-01-07 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

Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries

Voting on the open call sessions for MIX10 went live yesterday. You have until January 15th to submit a ballot with your top 5 choices. The most voted sessions will then be announced on Monday, January 18th. There are only a few variables to select your...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-07 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

Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released!

  I
Publication date: 2010-01-06 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

RIA Services and relational data

As we
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Angled headers for DataGrid columns

My last post demonstrated one way that you could angle the text in a DataGrid column header. I received a comment asking for how to angle the entire headers, along the lines of what you can do very easily with Excel. Here
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Rapidly Evolving Design

The problem with using a blog to track a rapidly evolving design, is that blogs don
Publication date: 2010-01-05 more

January 2010 Silverlight MVPs

Happy new year to all! I hope you enjoyed a safe celebration whether that be playing a board game with friends, toasting the new year with some bubbly, throwing things at Ryan Seacrest on TV, or whatever. Each quarter, new MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-05 more

Extending the SLHVP Player to a Platform

  This post is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform  documentation   Everything Flows, Nothing Stands Still
Publication date: 2010-01-05 more

Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement

Microsoft Silverlight has been nominated for a 2009 Crunchie award in the category of
Publication date: 2010-01-05 more

Silverlight 4 Beta

One of the things that I talked about in the screencasts that I made about Silverlight 4 and MEF was the PackageCatalog. By the way
Publication date: 2010-01-04 more

Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP

This mini-tutorial is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project documentation .   Taking Risks One of the great pleasures, and total terrors of documenting this open-source application is that occasionally I have to offer up some half-baked ideas...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-01-03 more

ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe

[ In addition to blogging, I
Publication date: 2010-01-02 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

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

Silverlight 4 Screencasts - the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

One of the interesting things about Silverlight 4 is the inclusion of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and I think it really helps to build the case for Silverlight 4 as a great platform for business applications. Silverlight applications are...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-31 more

Polling Video

  An interesting suggestion was made with regard to my intended use of embedded
Publication date: 2009-12-31 more

Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year from the Silverlight team

Share some of the holiday spirit with your friends and family with this interactive customizable holiday greeting card that is hosted on the Azure cloud....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-31 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

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 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

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

Silverlight HVP Design Update

  This blog post is part of the documentation for the Silverlight HyperVideo Player Open Source Project Design Change: Create an Interface: IMarkerEventHandler Optionally derive a base class MarkerEventHandler that implements the interface Instantiate...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-28 more

Last day for the Elves-only 30% OFF on Expression Studio!

I received this message from Elwe the Lizzard Elf - I thought you would find it useful (it’s about a big discount on Expression Studio 3!!!) Ay caramba! “If you are an elf like me who enjoys holidays because of the amazing, sometimes crazy...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-27 more

Silverlight Christmas Cards for 2009

Continuing the tradition from last year here is a list of Silverlight-based Holiday cards I could find. The cards are definitely getting fancier as the technology advances. Archetype Holiday Card Creator Shape, Decorate, Bake and Share Inside Xbox Happy...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-25 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

Information for Silverlight HVP Developers

Information for current and interested developers for the Silverlight HVP project has been consolidated, extended and updated on the new Developer
Publication date: 2009-12-24 more

A Silverlight HVP Update

A Silverlight HVP Update I
Publication date: 2009-12-24 more

Case Study - TwittZure Silverlight Twitter Client on Azure

Schematic used the engaging rich internet application of Silverlight 3 and the responsiveness of Windows Azure cloud platform to build a cutting edge Twitter application, the recently released Beta version of Twittzure. TwittZure enables users to access...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-23 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

Highlights of 2009

I copied this idea from Eric (and Mike ) and thought I
Publication date: 2009-12-22 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

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

HVP

This article is part of the Mini-Tutorial Series This article is part of the Silverlight HVP Documentation The State of the Silverlight HVP Project LeanKit Kanban has licensed us under their Open Source provisions, and has gone the extra mile to give...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-19 more

PDC presentation and demo

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

Extending the SMF for the HVP

In a radical and terrifying experiment, I
Publication date: 2009-12-18 more

Moonlight 2 is now available

We are pleased to announce the availability of Moonlight 2, an open source Linux implementation of Silverlight first announced by Microsoft and Novell in September of 2007. Moonlight is the first and only open source project that provides Linux users...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Silverlight 4 HTML Puzzle: How Does It Work?

Scott Guthrie just announced on his blog that many of the demos that he presented during the PDC keynote are now available online . Both the demos and their source code are now online and available for you to download. Be sure to go grab the code and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Happy Holidays in Silverlight with help from COLOURlovers

A collision of ideas happened yesterday. The second run of the MIX 10k contest was announced and I realized just how close we are to the holidays. So I thought to myself,
Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available

[ In addition to blogging, I
Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text

I recently inherited the DataGrid control and, after reading over customer feedback and forum posts, one of the tasks I gave myself was to create a code example for the DataGrid.ColumnHeaderStyle property. After poking around I though it would be interesting...(read more)
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Silverlight-powered Virtual DVD now available from Tesco

In September, we announced that Microsoft and Tesco intended to collaborate and use Silverlight to deliver the next generation of Home Video entertainment to consumers. Dubbed
Publication date: 2009-12-16 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

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

TWC9 features Silverlight AR, BugCamSmash and Blend Extensibility

Very cool to see that this week
Publication date: 2009-12-14 more

Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!]

In my last post , I told the story of a customer who asked for an easy way to make the Silverlight/WPF WrapPanel use all available space to spread its children out evenly instead of bunching them up together. The following sample shows off the default...(read more)
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Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

Some folks have mentioned to me that they are having trouble getting some of my samples to work.  And in fact, just the other day, I ran into a problem getting my own samples to work.  It turns out to be a problem with the way windows treats...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-12 more

ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight - Options for Hooking a View to its Model

In the ViewModel, aka the MVVM pattern, a view such as a UserControl is bound to its associated view model. The view model manages state exposed as observable properties, operations exposed as methods and raises notifications via events. An interesting...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-11 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

Deploying your Silverlight and WCF RIA Services application

So you
Publication date: 2009-12-10 more

Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010

Bytes by MSDN is doing a bunch of really interesting interviews with folks behind the technology.   In this interview I talked to Billy Hollis about Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010. Tune in with Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis as they discuss...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-10 more

xml syntax highlighting in Silverlight

Several years back I posted a XML tokenizer for syntax highlighting . At the time I didn't post a complete app, since it was part of a larger project; if someone recently asked me for a little more context for the tokenizer so I put together a quickie...(read more)
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SketchFlow helps deliver an ambitious new auction tool - meeting tight time and budget constraints

Each year, in the lead up to Thanksgiving, Microsoft holds its annual Giving Campaign where as a company we focus on giving back. This can be by either giving time to our local communities, schools and other organizations, or through donations to registered...(read more)
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That's a WrapPanel and I am outta here... [A balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!]

A customer contacted me a few days ago asking whether there was an easy way to make the Silverlight/WPF WrapPanel use all available space to spread its children out evenly instead of bunching them up against each other as it usually does. Instead of trying...(read more)
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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

Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video

We
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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

Getting started with the charting controls

Recently I thought I would check out the charting controls in the Silverlight Toolkit. I
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RIA Services Link Listing #1

Starting a new link listing series around interesting posts/content related to RIA Services. Hope you find these useful, and if you'd like to share something please send them along... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
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BugCamSmash Dissected part 3

This part of of the series explaining how BugCamSmash was made is truly the quiet before the storm.  The tipping point before the big finale.  In part 1, we created a bug we could smash with a rock.  In part 2, we gave the bug the ability...(read more)
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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)
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My Presentations in Europe (December 2009)

This past week I
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BugCamSmash Dissected part 2

In part 1 of this series, explaining how BugCamSmash we walked through the creating the bug sprite, placing the bug at a random position on the screen and triggering a Smash animation when a rock sprite collides with the bug sprite. In this part we will...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-06 more

BugCamSmash Dissected part 1

When beginning the project that became BugCamSmash, I knew I was going to try and interact with the UI using the new webcam feature in some way. My first step then was to find a good method for hit detection as well as a good target to hit. Now normally...(read more)
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Inserting Silverlight DeepZoom images into your Web page

An Overview of Deep Zoom Technology Deep Zoom Composer is a free application that creates either Silverlight or AJAX content that displays images in a fixed area on a web page. Users can pan and zoom within high-resolution images inside this area. In...(read more)
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Silverlight 4

This one
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BugCamSmash

At PDC09, we released Silverlight 4 Beta and announced one of the availability of, one of the most requested features, Web Cam Support. Wanting to have fun with the new feature, I thought of a fun sample to create
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Subclassing Shape (or more accurately, Path)

One of the more subtle improvements in Silverlight 4 is that we unsealed the Path class. That means you can write a class that behaves like a shape without re-implementing properties like Fill, Stroke, etc. -- just subclass, set Path.Data to render what...(read more)
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Have you checked out the new RichTextArea control?

Silverlight 4 Beta includes a new RichTextArea control. RichTextArea enables you to display or edit rich content and has features like: displaying hyperlinks displaying inline images or other UIElements like a Button Read-only mode Selection APIs Formatting...(read more)
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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)
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Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Introduction to INavigationContentLoader

So, if you haven
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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

Pete Brown on Silverlight and WPF Convergence

Great post from Pete over here about Silverlight/WPF convergence;
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Using Azure as a Silverlight Streaming replacement

Many have inquired if Silverlight Live Streaming had a replacement since the announcement of it being deprecated . The SLS team blog pointed to Azure as a possible solution. Since it doesn
Publication date: 2009-12-01 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)
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Silverlight 4 Links

Here
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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
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Silverlight Design Time Assemblies

Introduction If you write Silverlight controls, you should consider writing design time assemblies for your controls too, for two simple reasons: developer productivity: try to imagine Silverlight development without tools like Visual Studio or Blend...(read more)
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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
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Free Silverlight 4 Event in Tampa

Florida has a fantastic developer community with some great people who are a just a blast to share technology with. That
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Silverlight 4: Sum is Greater than the Parts

Now that Silverlight 4 beta has been released there are tons of people trying the new bits, starting to develop applications, and blogging some great samples and ideas. You can check out all of the features from the Silverlight 4 beta Technical Whitepaper...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-29 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

Silverlight MVP List on Twitter

The Silverlight MVP community is notorious at sharing information through blogs and Twitter. I created a new Silverlight MVP Twitter list to make it easier to follow all of the Silverlight MVPs and the evangelists. You can follow the entire group using...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-27 more

Geek Profiles

Part of what Tim and I do is to provide meaningful connections between the dev team and the community. Today I
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Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn
Publication date: 2009-11-26 more

State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers

Learn how to extend the custom value pickers that make selecting a state, element, or storyboard name easier to your own properties....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-25 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
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PollingDuplex scaling in Windows Azure

One of the great sessions at this year
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Sharing isn't easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF]

I casually mentioned two tricks for sharing the same XAML across Silverlight and WPF in the notes of a post a couple weeks ago. I used both techniques in my DataVisualizationDemos project (which compiles for Silverlight and WPF from the same source code...(read more)
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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

LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd

This past week was a busy one
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Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration

If you
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Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications

One of the cool features for Silverlight 4 Out-of-browser applications that was announced as a part of the Silverlight 4 beta release is the NotificationWindow class. Most commonly referred to as
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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)
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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)
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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

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

Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications

I was watching Joe Stegman
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Extensibility Series

This is the first in series of posts called the
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Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools

The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release (where we first introduced Visual Studio 2010 support). It also adds a Silverlight 4 Beta version. New infrastructure & test...(read more)
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SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export

At PDC, a customer told me about a prototype he had built using several tab controls. He then asked me how one could include the content of different tabs of a tab control in the Microsoft Word documents that the SketchFlow Word Export creates
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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
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Silverlight 4 Fluid UI

This is the first of many mini-tutorials on Silverlight 4 features. An enhancement has been made that allows you to add animation when items are added ,or removed from, the list box.  Silverlight 4 adds a new StateGroup to the ListBoxItem class:...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 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)
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BrowserFlow sample from PDC 2009

Here's the source to the BrowserFlow sample I showed at PDC 2009 . This sample requires the Silverlight 4 Beta which you can find here . The sample uses the combination of the WebBrowser Control and HTMLBrush to display an interactive Ad that also plays...(read more)
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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

Silverlight 4 Security Overview White Paper

Wanted to let folks know about a white paper we're making available (attached below). We plan to incorporate this into the main Silverlight documentation by the time we ship the Silverlight 4, but in the meantime I didn't want to keep this content to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Silverlight Toolkit November 2009: Activity Control

Wow!  What a week!  PDC, the Silverlight 4 Beta, and now the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit!  There
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MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session

Earlier today I blogged about my session yesterday on Advanced Large Scale Applications with Silverlight at PDC 09. I had a great time at PDC but now that I am home and have a faster and more stable internet connection, I zipped my demo code for the Silverlight...(read more)
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PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009 .  I was able to spend much of the time in a demo
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Application Library Caching

The November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit finally includes application library caching support to help reduce the size of your application .Xaps....( read more )...(read more)
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BusyIndicator: David Poll

BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
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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

PDC Session: Silverlight 4 Beta Overview

Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday! My session video has already been posted online. You can also download the deck here. You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos. ......( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 and building business applications (PDC09-CL19)

Hi everyone!  Wow
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC

We had a fantastic turnout yesterday for my session at PDC on Advanced Large Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight . The room was packed and there were so many great questions that they ended up kicking me out of the room! LOL Thanks so much for...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF

As if you need
Publication date: 2009-11-19 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

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

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

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: A Word for Visual Studio 2010

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Styles

Note
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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Commanding

Note
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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Customising the Window

Note
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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Animating Items Into/Out Of ItemsControls

Note
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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: HTML interop & dynamic language features

Note
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Silverlight 4 Adds Arabic Support

Silverlight 4 adds support for Arabic culture: Install, configuration and runtime UI are in Arabic and RTL layout on Arabic culture Support mixed BiDi/ComplexScript text Support RTL layout with FlowDirection attribute and implemented by all controls Below...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Data Grid Enhancements

Note
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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Taking Control of Navigation

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: SelectedValue

Note
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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Mousewheel Support in Controls

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: TextBlock with Trimming

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: CompositeTransform

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Viewbox

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework

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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

Sample Project from PDC09 Talk - and Many Links on Behaviors

Thanks to all of you that visited my talk at PDC09. I was really happy to see such a large audience and so much interest in prototyping with SketchFlow, and in the opportunities for developers to extend SketchFlow to make it possible for designers to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

Using the FluidMove Behavior

Learn how to use the cool and mysterious FluidMove behavior to easily animate changes in position caused by layout updates....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

Silverlight Virtual Twilight Tour

In anticipation of the opening of the Twilight Saga: New Moon movie on November 20th, MSN has created a Virtual Twilight Tour . Created entirely in Silverlight 3.0 - from the video player to the map interface - the Tour brings Forks, La Push, Port Angeles...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

Silverlight Podcast: IIS7 Media Services 3.0

Introducing the Silverlight Podcast series, which we’ll use to go deep on features and projects. In this first installment, Silverlight Senior Product Manager David Sayed and IIS Senior Program Manager Chris Knowlton talk about IIS7 Media Services...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-17 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

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

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

The Silverlight HVP Spec

The Silverlight HyperVideo Player: A Community Project The Silverlight HVP Elevator Pitch : The Silverlight  H yper V ideo P layer (HVP) will do for Silverlight How Do I Videos what Hypertext did for the Internet: it will provide simple, fast, and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-15 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

Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09

The 2009 edition of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, affectionately known as PDC09, is next week. If you share my interest with Silverlight and related technologies, the list below should help provide some guidance to getting the most...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-13 more

PDC09: Pre-Conference Workshop on Silverlight 3

It
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A Tale of 2 Web UIs

For no reason whatsoever, I found myself wandering across to the
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Mix and Blend: Surfing + Silverlight = Design

by Arturo Toledo , Sr. Product Manager, Silverlight Design Audience A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Europe as part of the Microsoft REMIX Tour 2009 . REMIX is basically the little brother (or sister) event of Microsoft MIX
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On Our Cross Plat Commitment

When I joined Microsoft and started talking about Silverlight, many in the Mac community expressed skepticism about Microsoft
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What does a Design Studio have in common with Keannu Reeves and Patrick Swayze?

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Europe as part of the Microsoft REMIX Tour 2009. REMIX is basically the little brother (or sister) event of the Microsoft MIX event
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MSN Video is being re-launched in the U.S. as Bing Video powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming

We are excited to announce the re-launch of the MSN Video on www.bing.com/videos/browse . For the tens of Millions of MSN Video customers, this release delivers a vastly improved viewing experience with the help of Microsoft Silverlight. Users demand...(read more)
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Facebook Toolkit for Microsoft Developers

Build your own FaceBook applications with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WinForms or Silverlight ! Read More Download the SDK Facebook.dll : This is the main assembly that will be used by all applications. This has all the logic to handle communication with the...(read more)
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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)
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Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control

Earlier today at TechEd Europe in Berlin, Germany we announced the launch of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control, the newest addition to the Bing Maps Platform. The Bing Maps Silverlight Control uses the power of Silverlight to provide a powerful and rich...(read more)
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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)
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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

Does Sony Ericsson's Aino Try Too Hard to Do Everything?

Is Sony Ericsson's Aino mobile phone useful despite having so many functions?
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

WordPress 2.0 for iPhone: Review

Wordpress releases a new app for mobile blogging on the iPhone. Will this revolutionize blogging on the go?
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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!
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An Adult-Sized Tauntaun Sleeping Bag? Want This For Yourself, You Will!

The perfect Christmas gift for the Jedi in all of us.
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Let Your Skin Glow

Don't let your complexion suffer as temperatures drop
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Settlement agreements are safe havens?

Are settlement agreements the new save haven for bad medical equipment?
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Why Haven't You Booked Wing Han Tsang for a Private Function?

Move over Susan Boyle, there's a new "virtuoso" in town!
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Commitments

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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

Subscribe to 62 Silverlight Twitter

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Designer v Xaml v Code

  This is the second in my new series on Getting Started With Silverlight (please see the first article for information on the series and where to get the software you need). Don
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The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming

In August 2008 we were proud to be part of sports history and deliver a Summer Olympics online experience for fans everywhere. In partnership with NBC, the Silverlight and MSN teams are once again delivering on our commitment to providing the highest...(read more)
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The Silverlight Toolkit

It
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The Underground at PDC

PDC is coming
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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)
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Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid

I previously wrote about DataGrid grouping using the declarative model of adding GroupDescriptors. Unfortunately that feature (the declarative part) never made it to the release of Silverlight 3. It was pointed out to me that I should update that post...(read more)
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A Photosynth of Neil Gaiman

A well composed Photosynth can offer an interesting way to explore 3D space. Even better when the content is as interesting as the method of exploration. Above is a distorted view captured from the Neil Gaiman
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As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!]

Back in May, I mentioned that Silverlight 2 and 3 don't support putting a Binding in the Value of a Setter . I explained why this is useful (ex: MVVM, TreeView expansion, developer/designer separation, etc.) and shared a helper class I wrote to implement...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-03 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
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Silverlight From Zero

    This is the first of a series of blog posts directed at folks who are new to Silverlight and/or want to brush up on the fundamentals.  It will consist of mini-tutorials on topics I think need more coverage, and links to existing mini...(read more)
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Are You Classic or Lightweight? The MSDN Redesign

MSDN recently rolled out new presentation choices for its Library content, which includes the MSDN online section for Silverlight: If you haven't been there recently here's your obligatory handy link: Silverlight 3 on MSDN The added presentation choices...(read more)
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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)
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Updated Code: XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer

I was working on a post for T4 Preprocessed Text Templates (I
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My new home page, revised [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

In the time since sharing my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links , there have been some great new articles I'd like to highlight. And in case you haven't heard, we published the October 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit last week, so...(read more)
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Eclipse Tools For Silverlight Now Available

The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL) plug-in is an open source, cross-platform plug-in for the Eclipse development environment that enables Eclipse developers to build Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Microsoft has collaborated...(read more)
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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)
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Behind the Scenes at Microsoft

I
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re: Silverlight Synchronicity

I would like to express my appreciation for making this commitment and for the other work you do as well.  Working with your tutorials was central to my Silverlight education so you have already had some impact but your stronger and clearer voice about the importance of this issue for everyone who uses the Internet is invaluable. Thanks...
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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
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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
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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
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Using T4 Templates for Simple DTOs

Im looking at 5-7 files of data in CSV format. The columns and format can change every 3 to 6 months. What I wanted was a strongly type wrapper / data transfer object for all the CSV file formats I had to work with, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to try a T4 template. If you havent heard of T4 templates before, then it is a technology that is worth your time to investigate. Hanselman has a pile of links in his post T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Code Generation Best
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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 .
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Idle Timeouts in RIA Services Authentication

A question came up in the Silverlight Forums about how to timeout a user when using .NET RIA Services. Since I have implemented this before I thought I would share an approach I used. There might be a better way that is more integrated with the ASP.Net security, but for now this works. To start with, youll need the Sample Application that Brad Abram has been building and blogging about and you might want to read through this post on Authentication in RIA Services before going any further. Once.
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Samedi .NET Silverlight event recap part deux

Co-presenters Laurent and Louis-Philippe blogged in details about the event.  Louis-Philippe even captured my fantastic designer skills. Here showcasing Sketchflow: and here in Expression Design: Ohhhhhh, much better! This one also in Expression Design: Of course, I only did the logo  ;-) A great way to learn SketchFlow is by downloading the Expression Blend Starter Kit called Introduction to Prototyping with SketchFlow: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc197141.asp
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Moving Forward With Eclipse

It is great to see the work that started last year with the Eclipse Foundation at  EclipseCon 2008  in Santa Clara, California continues its exciting journey. Today at the Eclipse Summit in Germany, the Interoperability team at Microsoft announced a number of updates with our partners  Tasktop and Soyatec . Microsoft is providing funding to these projects and architectural guidance.   Here are the goodies: Modernizing Eclipse on the  Windows7 platform  Extend the Eclip
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Microsoft extends Windows 7 and Azure to open source developers (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Microsoft will unveil on Wednesday several open source initiatives to boost interoperability between Microsoft technologies, such as Windows 7, Windows Azure, and Silverlight, and open source technologies, including the Eclipse tools platform and Java.No tag for this post.
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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
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Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update

  Thanks to all of you who asked
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New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

To get to this Options dialog, use the Tools menu, selected Options, select Text Editors, select XAML, select Miscellaneous. MarkupExtension IntelliSense and Editing The most requested feature for the WPF & Silverlight XAML Editor was MarkupExtension...(read more)
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Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page

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 Silverlight content, in this case from Expression Blend, to your Web sites. In this example, we
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10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download

The 10 tutorials from the Eyes of Blend series on Project Rosetta site are now available for download in both Word and PDF format. The .zip files also contain source code for the starter projects and resource files if appropriate. One thing that’s...(read more)
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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)
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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
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.NET RIA Services Overview

This article provides a detailed overview of .NET Rich Internet Applications (RIA) services. After a brief introduction, Sergey analyzes the concept with the help of an ADO.NET Entity Framework application along with relevant source code and screen shots. 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 .
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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
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View and print Reporting Services Reports from Silverlight.

Perpetuum Software LLC announces the release of a new version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 1.1 an up-to-date decision making solution which combines two powerful Microsoft technologies: MS SQL Reporting Services 2005 and Silverlight 3.0. The product represents a native Silverlight control which is easily integrated into any Silverlight application thus providing the ability to view Reporting Services 2005 reports in Silverlight. A new version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting
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Saving ASP.Net Form Data with jQuery AJAX and JSON Parser

Using jQuery Ajax and JSON.Net parser to process ASP.Net webform data and avoid page post back... 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 .
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Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard October CTP

The Telerik WCF Wizard that I have shown on this blog several times has been updated and is available on Telerik Labs for download . Whenever Telerik puts something up on Telerik Labs we hope that some early adopters will try it out and give us feedback. We had an amazing demand for the Telerik OpenAccess WCF wizard and got tons of feedback. The most overwhelming piece of feedback is the name of the wizard: so as of this CTP, the wizard is now renamed the Telerik Data Services Wizard.
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WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the eleventh in a series of blog posts I
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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
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WPF not Windows Forms gets the Windows 7 love

Microsoft
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Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008

Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008 Product Description Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug
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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
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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...
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Blendable MVVM: WCF and Asynch Data Sources

Wrapping up building a Blendable View Model for Silverlight by connecting to a WCF Service
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Samedi.NET special Silverlight event in Montreal

27Oct The Montreal .NET Community organized a full-day Silverlight workshop last Saturday. The topic of the day was:
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Microsoft's 'Signature PCs' show its vision of computing perfection

Microsoft's 'Signature PCs' show its vision of computing perfectionTechFlash (blog)
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Silverlight Audio Player for WordPress

As a follow-up to my Silverlight For WordPress plugin, I have just deployed Mark Heath
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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
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Accessible Media Player

Playing video in Silverlight is great, but what about viewers who have a hearing impairment? Not important? The World Health Organization (WHO) would beg to differ. According to their 2005 estimates,
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Mini-Microsoft Interested in Adobe AIR

Kevin Goldsmith pointed this out and I thought it was awesome . For those not familiar with Mini-Microsoft, he
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/21/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
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Microsoft job posting confirms Silverlight UI, OpenGL presence

Interpreting the Microsoft job posting tea leaves are always fun, and the latest one is pretty interesting. The ad appears to be for Microsoft developers to create demonstration applications to give developers an idea of what the platform is capable of. Product: Windows Mobile Division: Entertainment & Devices Division Do you dream about building cool iPhone applications that will make the current crop of applications look downright plain? Ever wonder what it means to del
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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.
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Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it!

  OK, so we all want to be somewhat popular, and it seems that my last article, To Brace Or Not to Brace, seems to have gotten a lot of attention, so, here goes my opinion on the popular... 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 Silverligh
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How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition)

  Not sure why this was hard, but I wanted to make a trivial command file to deploy my database (or any change to it).  For those of you that dont know the DataDude project, I have to say... 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 Silverlig
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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?
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Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2

Y es you have creativity and there are talented designers and initiative developers with you, then what you need now is an integrated environment such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional the .NET Framework that are designed to simplifies the basic tasks of creating, debugging and deploying applications. With all the said in hand bringing your vision to life it
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Deep Zoom Composer in production

Recently Konstantin Kishinsky (Microsoft Russia) presented in his blog Deep Zoom Composer 1.0 (in russian), which everyone can download from Microsoft site . What is it and how it works - you can find in user guide . And now i want to show you how we can use it in production. First of all pay your attention on export: Deep Zoom Composer can export project to Silverlight Deep Zoom and to Seadragon Ajax . Using Silverlight the main question is: on how many PCs Silverlight is installed? In comparis
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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:
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Hello Tekpub

James Avery and I have just launched a new site, Tekpub.com , that is focused on helping developers kick ass in their jobs. There have been a lot of questions about this after our
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Working with the Internet Explorer Developer Tools

Internet Explorer has been out for a while now, and I am very pleased with it, especially from a developers perspective. First I am more and more appreciative of the IE team getting CSS compliant, this is making it so much easier to create a consistent...(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 .
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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
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Postgresql - Day 2

My migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL for an upcoming project continues. On day 1 I managed to get the application up and running quickly, thanks to NHibernate. Ayende was kind enough to post some advice to minimize the already-few problems I ran into (I've since implemented the ISQLExceptionConverter and am really happy about it). Today I had a bigger challenge - making the OLTP to OLAP transformation script work. I knew this would be more difficult because I'm using straight up SQL... Did
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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
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Migrating Polling Duplex Binding Element from Silverlight v2.0 to v3.0 for WCF Services In The Cloud Code Samples

When running the WCF / Windows Azure samples (see my previous blog entry) you may get an error indicating that the Polling Duplex Binding Element cannot be loaded if you have Silverlight v3.0 installed (The type 'System.ServiceModel.Configuration.PollingDuplexElement, System.ServiceModel.PollingDuplex' registered for extension 'pollingDuplex' could not be loaded). Replace the reference in the WcfSamples project from the v2.0 Silverlight Duplex Polling assembly C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
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20+ Perfact jQuery Plungins Make You Website More Attractive

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. By using of jQuery you can write less but do more. There are large of ready made jQuery plugins available from generous designers and developers on the web can help add stunning functionality and effects to your website. Then you have collect 20 Perfact jQuery plungins hope them can be helpful to you. Now, let
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Electric Rain Convexion Pro v1.0.154

Electric Rain Convexion Pro v1.0.154 | 14.7 MB Convexion is the first-ever PowerPoint 2007 Add-in to export to Silverlight and WPF formats while retaining the highest animation, transition, and design fidelity found in the original PowerPoint. Convexion retains your layout and effects, and you never have to worry whether the viewer has the correct fonts installed, as the converted presentation looks and plays just like the original slideshow.Now you can quickly and easily publish your presenta
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New with the Silverlight Toolkit: Drag and Drop Support for all your Favorite Controls! (Part 1)

One of the highest voted requests on the Silverlight Toolkit CodePlex page is drag and drop support for the TreeView control.  The good news is the Toolkit team listened and has not only delivered Drag and Drop for the TreeView, but they
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Expectations Are Everything

Quick Bit Anyone who has ever debugged a program knows that you tend to see what you expect. I
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Silverlight Toolkit Drag Drop (Part 2): Customizing Drag and Drop Behavior

In part 1 you were introduced to the new Silverlight DragDropTarget controls.  In addition to being powerful these controls are very flexible, allowing developers to customize almost every single aspect of their behavior.  In order to understand...(read more)
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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
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10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3

If your schedule is in anyway similar to mine you
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New Tutorial: Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Expression Blend

While preparing my demos for the European ReMix Tour (photos), I realized that I was missing an important tutorial in the Through the Eyes of Expression Blend series. One of the great features added in Blend 3 was the ability to Import Adobe Photoshop...(read more)
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Microsoft to Ubuntu : F*@CK Y$U

This is a classic, I surfed over to Agency Spy to read his post about the new Windows 7 boot sequence, thinking hey if it
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Office 2010 Developer at SPC & Whats the end-user value?

Whew! What a week at the SharePoint Conference! Let me re-cap some highlights for you and talk for a moment about "Real User Value". On Monday, I delivered a session called "What's New in Office 2010 for Developers". It was very well attended, and the demos came through 100%. I laid out the investments we made in this release and why they matter. One of the best slides is the one you see here: My demos showed nearly every thing in this list working as part of an end-to-end enterprise demo. B
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The new Google-friendly 301 redirects in asp.net 4.0

Take a glance at one of the new features in asp.net 4.0 and expand our redirection repertoire by embracing the permanent 301 redirect:http://runtingsproper.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-google-friendly-301-redirects-in.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 .
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VS2010 Beta 2 : Pin to Source for debugging COOL! But with a caveat

Theres a new debug feature called Pin to Source. You can use it from a DataTip or the from context menu. Heres the pin on the DataTip. You need to click it to engage it and then click again to pin it down. When you want to inspect a variable, this will leave the DataTip hanging around in the code window while you continue debugging. (Another benefit of the new WPF code editor.)   So as I continue debugging, I can scroll back to that code line and the DataTip is still there. You can...
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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
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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
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What needed to be monitored to get better Governance

Collecting, modeling, validating and analyzing data from different domains to create to-be architecture in a form of principles, standards and blueprints are not enough to create successful enterprise architecture. The real challenge of enterprise architecture is the ability to make it happened in projects. If you can't find signs of enterprise architecture outcomes in running projects, all the work that you've done worth nothing. In this post I'll try to describe what are the main task that I'm
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VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

This is the tenth in a series of blog posts Im doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  In todays blog post Im going to cover a small but really nice improvement to code intellisense with VS 2010 which is its ability to better filter type and member code completion.  This enables you to more easily find and use APIs when writing code. Code Intellisense with VS 2008 To help illustrate this intellisense improvements coming with VS 2010, lets start by doing a simple... Did you
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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
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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
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SQLAuthority News PASS Sessions I will be there!

As PASS is now one week away and I am all excited for the same. I am going to attend following two sessions for sure. I encourage all of you to also visit the same sessions. We can all talk about SQL , SQL Integration as well Beyond Relations.First sessions I will be attending of [...]... 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 .
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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
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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
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Using Visual Studio 2010 for Silverlight development

Previously I made note of things about the release of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 with regard to Silverlight development. Ive gotten a few questions about if people should start using it for Silverlight development. Perhaps I can help provide you with the best information I can to make that decisionso here it goes. Go-live support Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 both have go-live support as indicated in the license terms (which are available on the VS2010 download). If you have never bot
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The Telerik CAB Enabling Kit and SCSF - Tutorial 6: The RadTreeView UIExtensionSite

Welcome to the sixth tutorial in my series of tutorials about the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit. This week, we will learn how to use the RadTreeView UIExtensionSite. I will be using a TCEK enabled Smart Client Application as the base for this tutorial. Ive also create a simple module called the Settings module that I will use in this tutorial. Adding the RadTreeView UIExtensionSite To add the RadTreeView UIExtensionSite, the first step you will need to take is to simply drag a RadTreeView onto th
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How To: Silverlight grid hierarchy load on demand using MVVM and RIA services

Ive made small example on how to load on demand RadGridView hierarchy child data using MVVM and RIA service:     Using partial classes you can extend very easily generated code with desired load on demand logic: public partial class Customer { bool ordersLoaded = false; public IEnumerable > CustomerOrders { get { if (!ordersLoaded) { var query = from o in MyDataContext.Doma
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TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard Beta 2 Now Available For Download!

Just a month after releasing the quite popular Telerik TFS Tools (built by Imaginet Resources with RadControls for WPF ), a fresh new update of the TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard is waiting for you to be downloaded ! Beta 2 of the TFS tools ships numerous enhancements and optimizations, as well as new functionality: Iteration Planning Tool . This planning interface lets you take work items directly from the product backlog and schedule them into future iterations. Whats mor
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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
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Taking asp.net app offline with appoffline.htm

Dont beat your head against the wall for this next time Scott just read your old notes. As a gentle reminder (to self :) the file name is app_offline.htm not ... appoffline.htm appoffline.html its ... App_Offline.htm (casing doesnt matter but dont forget that underscore) ... 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 .
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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
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Watch Windows 7 Launch Event Live!

On the eve of Windows 7 Launch New York City, Microsoft is hosting an event party which can be watched Live Streaming Here. Steve Ballmer , Microsoft CEO will be donning the stage shortly to introduce Windows 7 to the world. There will be a live stream available (embedded below) and proceedings will begin at 11am NY time ( see other time zones ). Meanwhile the people of London have been queuing this morning to purchase Windows 7 at a PC World store. Watch the LIVE Video: Note:
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Watch official Windows 7 launch live streaming event now!

If you are curious about today
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Tribute to Charlotte Moran and FSU vs. UNC Match Preview

Tonight
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Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2009 -- #712

In this Issue: Mark Miller , Kirupa , Sergey Barskiy , Timmy Kokke , Laurent Bugnion , Jeff Prosise
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More on Microsoft's Xbox Upgrade Streaming Technology

Dan Rayburn submits: Microsoft ( MSFT ) has given me a few more details surrounding how they are managing to stream 1080p videos on the Xbox 360 with consumers only needing a 4Mbps connection. Microsoft said that Zune Video on Xbox LIVE takes advantage of Microsoft's Smooth Streaming technology, which is a feature of IIS Media Services and that Zune Video was built from the ground-up for the Xbox 360 platform. While the Silverlight plug-in also takes advantage of Smooth Streaming technology
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Connecting SharePoint UI Elements: SPDrag and the DropBox

Guest Author: Einar Otto Stangvik Will Code for Nuts So the last few posts have focused on some of my core javascript libraries. Nothing of the fancy stuff, just basic paper and glue type things. To make it all come together, I
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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
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re: Silverlight and XAML, have you guys met Old Man SVG?

I would have thought that if Google and other large non Microsft players on the web ignored IE and silverlight (give IE users a less rich user experience) Microsoft would have to fall in line as their customers moved to the competition. The power can rest with web developers it doesn't have to be one vendor. Wag the Dog.
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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
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Are You a Webkit Developer? RIM

Want to complain about your BlackBerry browser, or do you want to actually do something about it?  Now
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Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 are now available for downloading . This is still a
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How Does Bing Rank Tweets?

October 21st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment As previously reported, Microsoft has made deals with both Facebook and Twitter, which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time search efforts. To me, this says that social media just became an even bigger part of search engine marketing, particularly with Google rumored to be talking to Facebook and Twitter too. Bing has already made a beta version of its Twitter search available to users at bing.com/twitter. The most interest
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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
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A First Pass at PotterKata

Tonight at Hudson Software Craftsmanship , I paired with another group member and worked on the PotterKata for the first time.  Id seen NotMyself write about it a few days ago, which prompted me to suggest it for the group to work on ( summary of the meeting here ). Briefly, this kata is a fairly real-world exercise in that it has to do with business rules for a shopping cart that are non-linear.  In this case, the rules are: One copy of any of the five books costs 8 EUR. If, howe
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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 .
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31 Days of Refactoring eBook

This August, Sean Chambers, blogger on Los Techies, wrote an awesome series of posts, called 31 Days of Refactoring, during which he wrote on post per day, describing one refactoring technique. Since during August I was on holiday, and I never had time to read the 31 posts, last week I decided to create an easy to read version of the series, and I assembled an eBook, putting together all the post, doing some minor edits, and applying some formatting. And I sent it over to Sean so that he could
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SQL SERVER Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key

IntroductionNot long ago, I had an interesting and extended debate with one of my friends regarding which column should be primary key in a table. The debate instigated an in-depth discussion about candidate keys and primary keys. My present article revolves around the two types of keys.Let us first try to grasp the definition of [...]... 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
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Rapid7 Acquires Open Source Metasploit Security Project

An independent security researcher and a prominent figure in open source exploit data collection now has a new commercial home.... 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 .
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Is Silverlight ready for the enterprise?

Silverlight is a relatively new platform. And it is a good one. I've seen great apps produced using it. I've seen popular component vendors publish controls to be used in SL Apps. I have, also, seen a lot of open-source projects based on it. I still wonder though, are enterprises developing apps using silverlight?
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Introducing

We did a soft launch with some information of a concept that Adrian Ludwig and some of the other brain-trust folks at Adobe came up with recently called Contextual Applications . I have absolutely fallen in love with this term (and I had nothing to do with thinking of it). In a lot of ways I think this is RIA 2.0. One of the problems with RIA was that it had a grossly vague definition. It was kind of a Frankenstein combination of a desktop-like user experience, better design, real-time communi
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Zoho Integrates With Google

Zoho Integrates With Google
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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.
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Announcing Convexion - A New PowerPoint-to-Silverlight Add-in

Electric Rain is excited to announce a new product called Convexion, a PowerPoint to Silverlight converter that
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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)
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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)
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Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2

If you have the Silverlight 3 SDK RTM version (not the GDR) installed on your box you will need to first uninstall it before running Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 setup. This is irrespective of the SDK language version or platform. The SDK GDR does not install...(read more)
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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)
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates

Silverlight 3 application demonstrating Sample Data. Displaying Sample Data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is now very easy with the DesignData markup extension.  The below video is a complete tutorial for using...(read more)
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Silverlight (and WPF) Data Visualization classes unsealed [Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release now available!]

We've just published the October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit as part of today's .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010's Beta 2 release ! One of the big things we've done with this release of the Toolkit is to add rich support for Visual Studio 2010...(read more)
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Time To Update My Favorites

Periodically I take a shot at listing my favorites: some folks find useful items they hadn
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Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release

The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is out, and includes easy drag and drop components and an awesome Visual Studio 2010 experience for the toolkit controls....( read more )...(read more)
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight updates

Today (19 Oct 2009) the Visual Studio team released the second beta for Visual Studio 2010 to the public. This is a significant milestone for the team and a huge improvement over the previous beta in my opinion as a user. As a developer, you can find...(read more)
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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
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Silverlight Toolkit adds DragDrop targets!

One of the cool things I came across the in the October 2009 Silverlight Toolkit release was the addition of drag-n-drop targets for some of the core controls. Now I know you are thinking great, another drag-n-drop useless control?!? and you
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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
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bing SEO tips

50% OFF on OIO Publisher, Upto 60% OFF on HostGator Hosting, 25% OFF on Thesis Theme! Checkout Now!! Fine, 90% of your organic traffic comes from Google search and not from Microsoft bing , Yahoo or other entities. But it wouldn
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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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CascadeCE!

We have just published the source for my port of Sergio's Silverlight 3 game Cascade to the Silverlight for Windows Embedded platform! Now if I can just find a handheld device that's shipping with SilverlightCE on it... Check out CascadeCE
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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
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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:..
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Microsoft sets 22nd March as the release date for Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft has just announced the release date for Visual Studio 2010 . Users will be able to get their hands on the final version of Visual Studio 2010 on 22nd March 2010. On a related note, Microsoft has also announced that the Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and Dot Net Framework 4 has been made available to MSDN subscribers. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Dot Net framework 4 Beta 2 will be made available to the general public on 21st October. Visual Studio 2010 brings: Tools for Wind
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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
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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
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SharePoint: What's coming when with the 2010 release?

October 19th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 9:05 amCategories:Corporate strategy, Development tools, Office, Office 2010/Office 14, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 10 ("Hawaii")Tags:Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo FoleyEven though Microsoft released a private beta of its SharePoint 2010 product to testers in July, the company has said relatively little about the next release of its collaboration pl
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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
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Building A Product For Real

As some of you know; I
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BlueHat

Peleus here. As part of Adobe's Secure Product Life Cycle (SPLC) efforts, we are always looking ahead to determine the future of the threat landscape. My particular focus is researching threats to Adobe's Flash Platform products. This week, I will be co-presenting with Jesse Collins from Microsoft's Silverlight team at the Microsoft BlueHat conference. We will be combining our research so that we can create a more holistic view of the RIA threat landscape. This cooperation is complimentary to
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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)
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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)
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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
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Bell Canada uses Silverlight to offer

This week Bell Canada announced the availability of
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Big Spaceship delivers a beautiful Silverlight experience for Victoria

Microsoft has recently had the pleasure of working with Big Spaceship to deliver the new Victoria
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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)
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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
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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
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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)...
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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
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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
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Important news: FlashDen is changing its name to ActiveDen

For just over three fantastic years FlashDen has been the jewel in Envato
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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
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IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released - Chris Knowlton

What Just Happened? We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package. In addition, we released the beta of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, which allows developers to easily create Smooth Streaming experiences using Silverlight. Supported features include PlayReady, DVR co
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MVVM and Prism 101

This is the third post in a series of articles about implementing the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) architectural pattern for Silverlight/WPF. The bulk of the series describes the implementation details when using the Composite Application Library (Prism) Framework.
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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
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MonoDevelop

I
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SilverBullet #12

When working in a web environment ever so often you need to encode/decode a Url or a piece of Html. In Silverlight you need to look for the System.Windows.Browser.HttpUtility class.
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AVG Free 9 offers speed, lacks etiquette

Security software maker claims significantly faster scan times in AVG Free 9, but some unfortunate behavior from its LinkScanner tool might annoy some enough to swear off that otherwise-excellent feature. from CNET News.com Related posts: AVG 9: Faster scans, ID protection service Microsoft offers some Silverlight 4 details Microsoft extends free time zone updates
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10/GUI dares you to use your fingers instead of a mouse

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo . This is really awesome. It
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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.
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Microsoft patches 'record number' of security holes

Microsoft has released 34 security patches this week, as part of their regular monthly updates, a record amount. Of the 34, many were "critical," Microsoft's most severe rating for security holes. The fixes included patches for holes in Windows Vista, XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 7 . The variety includes patches for Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player , Oulook and Silverlight . McAfee , makers of commercial anti-virus software, said that many of the security holes patched thi
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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
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Learn To Write A Good Article

What
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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
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Review: Microsoft Web Cam (QB)

  My boss (otherwise known as
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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)
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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
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Streaming Media Reader

We
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Free Webinar: Delivering True HD via HTTP with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming

Listen to media experts Jaime Miles of Level 3 Communications and Chris Knowlton of Microsoft talk about delivering True HD Video (1080p) over the Web on Thursday, October 15 th . Click here to register and learn why Smooth Streaming is the future of...(read more)
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Design pricing: It

Setting proper pricing for your UX design work is crucial. It goes hand in hand with setting your customer's expectations. Set the price too low and you will gain reputation of the same kind. Set it high
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PDC 2009

Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC.   Just this week I have talked to folks on Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, ASP.NET, .NET RIA Services, MEF that all have very cool new stuff to talk about at the PDC.    We just recently announced the Scott Guthrie will be giving one of the keynotes, so you can be sure that will be fun.. You can bet Scott will be talking about the latest from ASP.NET, Silverlight, the .NET Framework and Visual Studio
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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
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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
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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 .
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Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus

  Several years ago, I was invited to a special showing of what was going to be the new SqlServer 2008 database in San Francisco.  I had expected a sales demo but was hugely surprised by... 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 Silverligh
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My History of Visual Studio (Part 8)

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio]  I cant really talk about what was going on in the IDE without covering what was happening in the runtime because their fates are so intertwined, so even though its off topic a little bit, allow me to cover some details from Framework 2.0. Longhorn, which became Windows Vista, was probably the single greatest influence on the Developer Division during the years when .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (collectively Whidbey) were being develop
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Experimenting with MongoDB from C#

Ive often felt that we treat relational databases as a hammer to use with every kind of nail, screw, bolt, rivet, metric nut, and wall anchor we encounter in software development. The modern relational databases is a marvelous piece of engineering, and we have centuries of collective experience in designing, optimizing, securing, and managing them, but they just arent the best fit for every scenario. The last few months Ive been keeping an eye on the growing No-SQL movement. Id like to make ro
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SQL SERVER Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database

In one of the recent projects, I found out that despite putting good indexes and optimizing the query, I could not achieve an optimized performance and I still received an unoptimized response from the SQL Server. On examination, I figured out that the culprit was statistics. The database that I was trying to optimize had [...]... 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
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Nasosoft .NET Components Suite v2.1: EXCEL, PDF, RTF2HTML, HTML2RTF

Nasosoft .NET Components Suite v2.1.0 Nasosoft .NET Components is a suite of comprehensive components for .NET developers, including: Nasosoft.Documents.Xls   Nasosoft.Documents.Xls is a .NET component that can read and write Microsoft Excel files. It features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office Automation libraries. It does not depend on any Microsoft Office Automation Libraries, and can be used without Microsoft Excel installed. Nasosoft.Documents.Pdf    ... Did you kno
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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
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