Messages from Silverlight category

Staring into a bright future

Steve Gillmor ties together a bunch of disconnected thoughts, ideas and trends in a post that snidely refers to Bill Gates getting a gold watch and retiring. Steve is a savant of sorts. He spots patterns and trends that others can
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing

If you're looking to learn more about Silverlight unit testing, here are 3 screencasts of interest....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-03 more

Your First ASP.NET Custom Control

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

Customizing the User Profile

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

Candidate for favorite new utility

I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

James Ward on Flex, AIR and Java

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

MIX09

   Scott Guthrie on Advances in the Design Experiences      - Web            - powerful set of tools and technologies            - Expression Web 3                   - Standard based web authoring                   - Multi-language targeting    Erik Saltwell (Group Program Manager) about Expression Web 3.0       -   Preview Feature that allows us to test the same design against several browsers and versions, and look at what are the differences    Announcement -
Publication date: 2009-03-21 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

AutoSpec

I was on my way home this evening when I was thinking of a test generation framework that could help me write some of the tests I always write to test construction setters, properties and null inputs to methods. Basically the tag line was going to be "AutoSpec - For those of us that are Test Driven but want to automate some of the mundane tests." Once I got home, I started to look if anything like this is out there and came across something different. I came across a Ruby product called Auto
Publication date: 2009-04-26 more

Silverlight vs. Flash SmackDown

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

Creating a WPF / Silverlight Control With a Semi Transparent Backgroun

Yesterday I was trying to create a control with a partially transparent background,. I am writing this because what I thought was so straight forward, was not.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Download Windows Vista Ultimate Cyborg Gamerz Edition x86 SP2

OS | Windows Vista Ultimate Cyborg Gamerz Edition x86 SP2 | 1.19 GB Version: Based on Windows Vista Ultimate x86 SP2 Minimum System Requirements:
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

New Silverlight 2 Video: Using Silverlight 2 Graphics

Watch Todd Miranda demonstrate how to use shapes and geometries to create graphics in Silverlight 2. View this and other Silverlight videos on the Learn page ....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

ASP.NET v4 Presentation Deck and Demos

My ASP.NET v4 New Features overview presentation that I delivered at Sydney Deep .Net User Group ( http://sdnug.org ) is available for download here ( http://sdnug.org/presentations/200910.zip ). Note: If the above link returns a 404 error, please try here instead. It covers almost every single new feature that will be covered in ASP.NET v4 in the next release With some demos showing off the permanent redirect feature, a bunch of templating demos, new client ID functionality and
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Silverlight 1.0 Video

Todd Miranda demonstrates how to simulate some of the functionality of a Textbox in a Silverlight 1.0 application. Watch this and other Silverlight videos on the Learn page....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-03 more

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

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

4 Awesome Visual Search Engines To Transform Your Search

Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

4 steps to increase bandwidth performance for ASPX pages on IIS 6.0

4 steps to increase bandwidth performance for ASPX pages on IIS 6.0... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Moonlight 2.0 goes Beta

Today we released the Beta for Moonlight 2.0, a quick follow up to the original Moonlight preview that we did in early May. Congratulations to the Moonlight team being lead by Chris Toshok on this release; And thanks a lot to the Silverlight team at Microsoft for helping us get here. This means that Moonlight 2.0 is now feature complete and we consider it ready to test against Silverlight 2.0 sites. Users that have installed Moonlight 2.0 previously will be offered a cha
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

vb.net/c# and javascript communication

vb.net/c# and javascript communication, how do i...... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-13 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

Differentiated UX

One of the first conversations about realistic and practical Differentiated User Experience (DUX) on the web, based on a conversation between Brian Noyes and Dax Pandhi.
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

VB 2008 Language Deep Dive - Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)

Last week I got the chance to visit the Toronto .NET User Group and give a talk on all the great new language features in VB2008. It was great to see so much excitement around LINQ and especially XML Literals! The slides and demo code are posted at the link below; heres the session abstract (with links inserted so you can find more info on each topic): Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new platform feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows you to access objects, databases,... Did you kn
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

NEWS: Prism 2.0 is Live

The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modular Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client line of business applications. These types of applications typically feature multiple screens, rich, flexible user interaction and data visualization, and role-determined behavior. They are built to last and built for change. This means that the application's expected lifetime is measured in years and that it will change in response to new, unfo
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Refactoring With ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# fixes I often use

One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient code. In this post, I'll show some...This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silve
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!]

Friend and fellow Charting fan Bea Stollnitz has just completed a 3-post series describing how to add annotations to pie charts created by the Data Visualization package that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit . Because annotations are...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #108

Out of browser support allows Silverlight applications to run as a stand alone application out of the browser. This is especially useful if you have an application that you want to run when you are offline and unable to connect via the browser. Configuring...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Running Silverlight 2 on Google Chrome using the Chrome Dev Channel

When Google Chrome first came out and I read that it used Webkit, the same rendering engine that powers Safari, I tried browsing a few Silverlight 2 sites. It kind of worked, as long as the sites didnt exclude browsers that werent on Microsofts official Silverlight support list. The controls loaded, but didnt animate or update smoothly. While Microsoft still isnt officially supporting Silverlight on Chrome, Chromes latest Dev Build (0.2.151.2) includes some specific fixes to support Silverlight
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Turing Project: Level 100, 300 AND 400

TURING Entry [100:2] [300:2] [400:2] [ What are these numbers? ] In previous post I described Project Turing. This is the second entry for that project and will describe how I hope to meet the needs of three audiences: Beginner [Level 100] novice programmers who may or may not have experience with other languages, may not know C# (or advanced C#), .NET or the fundamentals of Silverlight (e.g., what Xaml is) Intermediate [Levels 300] programmers who have looked at but not really
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Microsoft Research ESL Assistant

People who learned English as their second language usually make different mistakes than English natives. This can be attributed to a number of factors with the differences between their native language and English being a major one. Computer programs that correct spelling errors are nowadays provided in most programs. They usually use a dictionary and compare the words written by a user against the words in the dictionary. Only a few programs can check for grammatical errors and those that do a
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Link Listing - August 10, 2008

Code Camps Jacksonville Code Camp 2008 [Via: Scott Dorman ] Link Collections LINKBLOG for August 10, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Dew Drop - August 10, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Weekly Link Post 54 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ] Miscellaneous Top 10 source code search engines [Via: Compudicted ] Things I Love About PowerShell [Via: Tomas Restrepo ] This Week in Downloads - WF & Services [Via: Cliff Simpkins ] Community Facebook FbFund Competition [Via: Nikita Polyakov ] Impromptu Geek Dinner in W
Publication date: 2008-08-24 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

The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

I used to work for a man named Larry Weiss at Citibank, who did a number of magical things (including creating the best ATMs in the world in the 1980s that still surpass anything I
Publication date: 2008-07-12 more

Microsoft to launch iPhone competing device - with Verizon?

Microsoft Corp. plans to take aim at Apple
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

RIM releases new tools for developers creating web apps

RIM have announced new and improved tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry. The new tools include the BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2. The BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse , will allow developers to create web applications and content more easily and in a familiar Eclipse 3.4 environment. This plug-in opens up more rich internet applications using AJAX, Silverlight, PHP, ASP, Ruby on
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

SQL SERVER Interesting Observation Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries

Working with SQL Server has never seems to be monotonous no matter how long one has worked with it. Quite often, I come across some excellent comments that I feel like acknowledging them as blog posts. Recently, I wrote an article on SQL SERVER Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries Depend [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Update: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application

Well, it
Publication date: 2009-06-14 more

Telerik TV Launches Episode 3 - SimNet

Episode 3 - SimNet with Torger J. Wuellner Join Carl Franklin in the latest episode of Telerik TV as he hosts Torger J. Wuellner of Triad Interactive. In this episode Torger shows off SimNet, an e-learning platform which offers students the opportunity to learn Microsoft tools in a simulated Microsoft Office and Windows Vista environment. SimNet's portal site is built with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and is packed full of cool features. Watch as Torger demonstrates how he was able to use
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

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

Microsoft health hazard?

Microsoft health hazard? Tue,06 Oct 2009 07:22 GMT -4:00 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29438 news viewAdvertising | Freedom:- Seriously, would you want Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer (right) to be in charge of your health records? That
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Twenty Five Years

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

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

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

BBGeekcast: August 21, 2009 - Episode 78

After a week of not generating many headlines, RIM is back in a big way. They
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here ).  In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we
Publication date: 2010-03-19 more

News on Windows Mobile Marketplace

The folks at j2i.net apparently have Silverlight installed on their machines
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Snapshot of the Silverlight 4 Wishlist

It
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Helping Flash Become SEO Friendly

Now that Adobe has made the modifications to Flash so that it will be indexable, and the search engines have begun to index Flash , does that mean you can just put any Flash piece up and it will be indexed without any problems? Not really, you still need to do a little extra work on your part to ensure that the Flash work will be indexed and read correctly by the search engines. Otherwise you may be in the same boat as you were before they were able to read Flash. So here are a few things to
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Software Development MEME

Software Development MEME Posted by on July 17th, 2008 Yep , I got Tagged . And by none other than Pablo Castro !!. Now that I
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

MLB Switches from Microsoft Silverlight to Adobe Flash

Looks like Major League Baseball will be using the Adobe Flash Player instead of Microsofts Silverlight to stream games to their half-million subscribers this season. Topic Replies: 3
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Universal Studios to Launch Blu-ray Features on the iPhone

Universal Studios announced today that they would be releasing the first iPhone app to control Blu-ray features in upcoming Blu-ray releases starting with the two-disc Special Edition release of Fast & Furious on July 28. iPhone and iPod Touch owners will be able to control certain features over their local Wi-Fi network and in the [...] Related posts: Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid On The iPhone, Adds Key New Features. Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads. iPhone apps have been down
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

New Publishers joining The Small Publishers Room

New Publishers joining The Small Publishers Room Posted On Friday, February 13 2009 This was originally posted over on the Zerk Media blog but I wanted to cross-post it here since I think everyone should be subscribed to these blogs. Over the last month or so a number of new publishers have joined the Small Publishers Room. With some of our members moving to The Silverlight Room there was room to take on additional publishers. Here are the new additions: Corey Haines is currently a free
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Zune HD details

After artwork images leaked online of the new Zune HD, more details are now coming out about the next generation MP3 player from Microsoft. The Zune HD is rumored to feature an AMOLED capacitive touch display with a 16:9 aspect ratio, and HDMI out. It will coming in 16GB and 32GB flavors, and will be [...]
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Silverlight Color Fill Shape

Last time, I have implemented a application namely "Color Fill Toy". Since I am not so familiar with Expression Blend, the Silverlight version is far yet to be completed However, one of my reader Rob from web-snippets has implemented the Silverlight version...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-07 more

Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10

On Monday the 15th from 5pm
Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

10 resources to learn Moq

Last week I described the stack Ill be using to develop my new ASP.NET MVC project, and I said I was going to use RhinoMocks as mocking framework. Well, it later turned out that some tests were using RhinoMocks but most of them were using Moq and Il Maestro decided that the latter would be the mocking framework of choice. I never used it, so I started looking for some documentation online. And here Im listing the best 11 links about Moq. http://code.google.com/p/moq/ obviously, the starting
Publication date: 2009-10-24 more

Why does the British Library hate Britain?

The British Library is publishing on the web facsimile copies of rare books, allowing people to see in close up exactly as they look like. This is a good thing, surely? Well, no it
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

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

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

Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo - NYTimes.com

That's a lot of Silverlight downloads... Benefiting from the growth in broadband Internet access, NBCOlympics.com served up more than 1.2 billion pages and 72 million video streams through Saturday, more than doubling the combined traffic to its site during the 2004 Games in Athens and the 2006 Games in Turin. The popularity of the site will very likely make digital rights more significant in next year
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Getting started with Silverlight: Part 3 – Accessing Data

This is part 3 in a series on getting started with Silverlight . To view the index to the series click here . You can download the completed project files for this sample application in C# or Visual Basic . Now that we have our initial layout outlined...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

JAX - it's all about Technology, Architecture, Agility http://www.jax-conf.com

JAX is the the most comprehensive conference on web and enterprise development. It provides an ideal forum for software developers, project managers and architects to learn about the latest Technology, Architecture and Agile Methodologies. It is this very special blend of topics which has made JAX the conference of choice in Germany, India and Asia since its conception in 2001. The master minds of our industry will be at JAX to share their knowledge, answer questions and facilitate discussion
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

MediaPreview.TV - Beautiful Silverlight v1.0 App

Another very polished Silverlight application was launched recently.  It aggregates new feeds and music videos in a very slick user experience.  For instance, if you click the login button, the background is dimmed and the media is paused as the login UI animates to the forground.  This is a great example of the type of media enriched web applications we had in mind when we created the platform.  Click the image to run the app, note the text of app is in Portuguese.
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

St. Louis DotNet User Group Meeting

So I went to the St. Louis .Net user group meeting after work this evening, two months in a row now! It was definitely an interesting presentation from Denny Boynton . He was talking about Software + Services, rather than SaaS. It was a good talk, but...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

RadTips, Episode 5: Getting Started with the RadScheduler

I'm pleased to announce that another episode of RadTips is ready for your viewing pleasure. If you missed the first four episodes, I highly recommend you check them out as they covered the new client-side data binding feature of the RadGrid. This episode breaks away from the topic of the first four episodes and covers a new control: the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX! The RadScheduler is a powerful scheduling control that can be used to create and manage appointments in the browser. Follow alo
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

3D Spiral Image Rotation for MIX 09 Challenge

3D Spiral Image Rotation for MIX 09 Challenge 3D Illusion, Animation Effect, Image Manipulation No Comments
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

SQLAuthority News First Editorial T-SQL Challenges Beginners

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

RELEASE: NBC Olympics on the Go for Windows Media Center

We are pleased to announce we are launching NBC Olympics On the Go in Windows Media Center, an Internet-delivered catch-up TV service from NBC Universal powered by Wavexpress
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Creating Controls in Code

In my new video I demonstrate how you can create controls dynamically at run time. The technique is very straight forward, everything you can create declaratively in XAML you can also create dynamically in C#. xaml <Button x:Name="Button1"...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

How To Detect Javascript Status on client browser using Script Manager

How To Detect Javascript Status on client browser using Script Manager... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here . Presented By: Intel
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update

Overview Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available now. For Silverlight developers, the most exciting news about VS2010 is that Silverlight designer will be in feature parity with WPF designer, and VS2010 will support multi-targeting for Silverlight development...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

SYS-CON's Virtualization Expo Attracts More Qualified Delegates Than Any Gartner Event in the Past Two Years

Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is fundamentally altering the way that businesses run IT. The two content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions a
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Typemock Isolator 4.3 and future syntax

We just released Typemock Isolator 4.3 (here is the blog post with details). It's an awesome product but I envy the speed and ease with which oren can change his syntax (it's nice to work alone!) . I can tell you that the next version of Isolator is going to have a new syntax that is more towards the Arrange-act-assert meme (but you could still use the old one if you wanted to) plus lots of cool goodies. the new version has full support for Ivonna (for ASP.NET webform testing in process) and we.
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

New Developments in Search, Analytics and Social Media

How far we
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available

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

Silverlight MVP, and why I love Silverlight

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

User Group and Roadshow Event: Thanks Chris, Bob and Jim

The Burlington .NET developers had a great treat this week. On Monday night we had Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neil, our Dev Evangelists from the Microsoft Waltham office leading a Q&A; at the Vermont.NET User Group. We talked about everything from running .NET on Linux or even Unix, to Windows 7 to the age old "is VB going away?" question. It was also a nice opportunity for the members and Chris, Bob & Jim to connect one-on-one. Our meetings have been held lately at GE Healthcar
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Silverlight Tools Beta 2!

I have uploaded a blog to our teams webdevtools blog about what
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Great Silverlight Cache for ASP.NET Drop Down Lists

Most Silverlight examples are about the User Interface. XAML here, and video there, pretty this, and shaded that. But this post today on SilverlightShow.net is different. They use the isolated storage of silverlight to act as a Client-Side cache for ASP.NET drop down lists. A great blog post, that is very well planned and executed. Credits: Thomas Kirchir ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in sever
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Interesting Finds: July 27, 2009

Other Securing Web Services (Even with OOB) , Shawn Wildermuth Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship , Sam Gentile Visual Basic gets some T4 Toolbox love
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Shamelessly benefitting from the work of others [Links to Silverlight Airlines and Surface samples for RTW!]

I try to keep up with migrating my various samples to the latest Silverlight Beta/RTW releases, but I don't always have the chance to do so as quickly as I'd like. That's why it was great to find that someone had already done some of the work for me....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

Shine Draw

Today is exactly one year from the first article published here on UXPassion.com and today is the day when I'd like to introduce you to Shine Draw blog. His author Terence Tsang from Hong Kong is my colleague Microsoft MVP and hooked on all things Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Uri property in a Silverlight 2 UserControl

Uri property in a Silverlight 2 UserControl Posted by on July 29th, 2008 In creating a Silverlight 2 UserControl, I had a need to include a Uri parameter, so I added a property.  class MyControl : UserControl {
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

I'm a Mac Store, I'm a PC Store

There's something almost portentous about the news coming out on Friday the 13th, not to mention the day before Valentine's Day. Microsoft, following Apple's lead, will open its own line of branded retail outlets. Microsoft briefly had a San Francisco store during the dot-com boom, which quickly folded. Apple Stores, meanwhile, are prospering and flourishing. Openings in new cities are eagerly anticipated events on the scale of major rock stars coming to town: people stake spots in line a day
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Microsoft Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX Event

If you are interested to learn more about Silverlight, Expression Studio and ASP.NET, the Microsoft Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX event will be the perfect opportunity. The event will be held on 25th June 2009 (Thursday), 9am
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Is Microsoft/Novell

Microsoft betrays Moonlight in the sense that suddenly it gives Intel access to Silver Lie, for Moblin
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Congrats to Laurent Duveau, new Silverlight MVP

Id like to congratulate Laurent Duveau who is now a Silverlight MVP.  Looks like hes number 7.  Amazing work Laurent! So heres Lolo, the Silver Marvel! var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

RunAtServer website new version

As you may know I am the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting, a company based in Montreal, we are specialized in web development with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. We have launched our new website! www.runatserver.com 9 month after the launch of the first version, we grown very fast (we hired several consultants and we became Microsoft Certified Partner and Microsoft Silverlight Partner!). Our website needed to reflect those changes with a fresh new design and sec
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Microsoft .Net RIA Services

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

Using Popup to create a Dialog class

Presenting a dialog to the user is a common task for many applications. Silverlight 2 does not have a Dialog class, but it is possible to use the Popup class to create a very credible dialog. My Dialog class can
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Don Burnett on Prototyping with SketchFlow

Interesting article on SketchFlow by Don Burnett: http://uxmagic.com/blog/post/2009/07/12/Prototyping-a-WPF-3D-game-design-workflow-using-TrueSpace-3D-Expression-Blend-3-with-Sketchflow-and-exporting-the-prototype-XNA-Game-Studio.aspx...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

INFO: XXIX Olympiad & Microsoft/NBC Sports

On the eve of 08.08.08 and the excitement around the XXIX Olympiad, Microsoft and NBC Sports have teamed to deliver event coverage on a scale never seen before on the Internet, let alone on TV.  NBC and Microsoft will be streaming more than 3,500 hours of Olympics video to millions of online viewers in the United States, including LIVE coverage of every minute of competition from 25 sports. This is the largest media event ever done on the web, an unprecedented moment in the history of the Inte
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Dont Repeat Yourself

(this is a submission I made to the upcoming 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book) Of all the principles of programming, Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) is perhaps one of the most fundamental. The principle was formulated by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in The Pragmatic Programmer , and underlies many other well-known software development best practices and design patterns. The developer who learns to recognize duplication, and understands how to eliminate it through appropriate
Publication date: 2009-10-12 more

Sample SharePoint Web.Config for SharePoint 2 Beta 2

After the more than normal pain in getting this done for my previous post, I decided to post the fruits of my labour (not labor that my wife tells me about watermellons and men wouldn't know the first thing about birth....I'm not about to do the pepsi challenge on that :)) - this is a stock standard Web.Config for a MOSS install NOT a plain WSS install (there's about 3 lines different from a plain WSS install to a MOSS install - mainly anything that references SharePoint.Publishing....)
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools.

Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

New Look?

New Look? The new look is explained here, but was launched in anticipation of Mix and the advent of Silverlight 3, which I believe will open a whole new chapter for Silverlight and Microsoft. Renew. Refocus. Respond. Posted by jesseliberty
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Why OpenForce Europe?

Over the last several weeks I have had the opportunity to see new products from DotNetNuke Vendors or see the vendors discuss upcoming announcements that are being held until OpenForce Europe and OpenForce Connections. One thing that has caught my eye in these new product announcements is the level of polish and professionalism being shown in the current generation of DotNetNuke products. I personally cant wait to see the DotNetMushroom RAD module which is going to be launched at OpenForce Europ
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Getting Started with IronRuby and Silverlight

A great introduction tutorial on building Silverlight applications using IronRuby. Goes through setting up the environment and building a simple drawing application.
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Silverlight Geek Gone Fishing

    I will be away for a few days. Please leave packages outside my blog, and someone feed the cat.           Thanks....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-14 more

ASP.NET PDF Viewer User Control Without Acrobat Reader Installed on Client or Server

ASP.NET PDF document viewer control that does not require any Acrobat product to be installed... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

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

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

Troubleshooting Windows MSI Installers

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

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)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Graffiti 404 Manager

If you've been following my blog recently, you know I just switched from a mix of my old school home grown solution and the Microsoft ASP.NET welblogs to GraffitiCMS. One thing I started wondering was .... did I get all my traffic? This was pretty easy, because most of my old content is actually in a myKB.com knowledge base, found at http://ScottCate.myKB.com. I decided to let the old posts live where they are, and just start a new blog here on ScottCate.com. After reading: MadProps.org Custom 4
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Silverlight talk at AjaxWorld

I am pretty exited to be going to AjaxWorld (Oct 20-22) in San Jose.... I will be at least giving a Silverlight talk and maybe something else fun in the Ajax, MVC, ASP.NET space. I love getting out in the broad industry events because I can hear such...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Photobucket now enables you to Visual Search - International Business Times

Photobucket now enables you to Visual SearchInternational Business Times, NYBy integrating Photobucket rich interface with Windows Live Messenger and Silverlight application, it was able to create a unique new service. Photos can now be shared instantly through Windows Live Messenger with a single click that allows you to
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

ASP.NET MVC RC Released!

The new version of ASP.NET is very, very close. Scott Guthri just announced that the RC was publicly available. I'm pumped about this release not only because of my book, but also because this new release makes delivering with ASP.NET sooooooooooooo much easier than WebForms. One piece of functionality that is not spoken about so much is the ability for a partial view to use a layout (Master Page). That's right, folks. You can have a partial that only displays a snippet... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding

The upcoming version 3 of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Silverlight 2 is released!

As you may have heard , Silverlight 2 is now live and ready for prime time. Check out the Get Started page over at Silverlight.net to download the SDK. The Get Started page provides links to all the tools you'll need to start developing in Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Boston .NET Users Group Meeting

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

How to make dalalist items automatically adjustable like div using JQuery and CSS

How to make dalalist items automatically adjustable like div using JQuery and CSS... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #41: Using Bookmarks in your Silverlight Application

Bookmarks are very useful in web sites because they allow people to directly navigate back to a section of the web site they visited before. This tip will show you how to apply and use bookmarks in Silverlight applications. For example, if a user types...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Windows Live Streamer Beta 3

Windows Live Streamer Beta 3 Windows Live Streamer is an app that lets you upload videos to your favorite sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Silverlight and Youtube. Changelog for Beta3: * NEW servers: 1. Facebook 2. Twitter 3. Google Reader * BUG FIX: Czech question * Installer (Windows Live Streamer.CAB) Download this application
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

Sneak Peek of the Next MSDN Flash Newsletter

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

Free ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Tutorial Now in HTML

Last month I blogged about a free end-to-end ASP.NET MVC tutorial called NerdDinner that I wrote for the Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book from Wrox Press.  The book is now released and shipping on Amazon.  The NerdDinner tutorial walks through how to build a small, but complete, application using ASP.NET MVC, and introduces some of the core concepts behind it.  You can download a PDF version of the tutorial here. NerdDinner Tutorial Now Also Available in HTML A few... Did you know th
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

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

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

Creating a two dimensional barcode control for Silverlight 3

After using the Starbucks mobile card app for iPhone, I set out to create similar 2D barcodes in Silverlight 3....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Two steps forward, one step back: NBC's online Olympic coverage

Ever since NBC announced their very ambitious plans for online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I have been very excited to see how well they execute it. Promising 3,500 hours of online video, with 2,200 hours of live streams, full event replays, and highlights, for free, how could they go wrong? It has recently come to light that the online coverage may not be as complete as we were hoping. NBC will not be offering live online feeds of any events that will be broadcast on TV. The one
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

Startups welcome here – get a jumpstart with software you need

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

Update on DNN running on Windows 7

 So earlier this week I posted a blog post ranting about issues I was having trying to get DotNetNuke running on a Windows 7 virtual machine. I'm happy to say I resolved the issue, though in my initial frustration I completly deleted the VM, so I had to configure a new VM. Fortunately in the new VM I had the same issues from the previous one, I was worried that if I setup a new VM it would all work correctly the first time, which would    So the Application Pool in Windows7's IIS... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #63

Recently when deploying a Silverlight application with a web service I forgot to include a client access policy and cross domain file. As a result I got the following exception when attempting to browse to my application: The exception did not make the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

Microsoft Shows It

M$ showed it
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Tip of the Day #21

Shapes, gradients and brushes provide the user with a lot of power to make custom controls that look beautiful. For example, gradients can be made to look like shadows or lighting for stunning visual effects. For this demo, we are going to make the beginnings...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-26 more

Multi-Monitor Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope: Where

It
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Terrain Tutorial Part 1

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

Flash Penetration: The Truth

Last week I posted an item questioning Adobe
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Community Credit

  David Silverlight (isn
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Windows4All

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

Use Styles for an editable Silverlight ComboBox

Sometimes I think reading materials get overlooked in SDKs and we miss some hidden gems. One such gem I
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

HanselMinutes - Show #160 - JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines

In this episode Scott talks to Joshua Marinacci from Sun, a Staff Engineer working on JavaFX. JavaFX, along with Flash and Silverlight battle to be The VM for the Web. We chat about how JavaFX approaches things and muse on who will win the web.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Hanselminutes #125 - Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications

In this episode Scott talks to Saqib Sheikh, a developer for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, who is also blind. They chat about accessibility in Windows, on the Web and in the next generation of Web Applications written with AJAX and Silverlight. http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=143
Publication date: 2008-08-08 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

Saturday

Technorati Tags: web 2.0,He Kexin,blogging,wiki,Framemaker,Articulate,Adobe FrameMaker,elearning,blended learning,online collaboration,silverlight,madcap mimic,DITA It
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Carousel Video Posted

I'm very pleased to be able to announce that the videos Creating a Carousel Part 1 and Creating a Carousel Part 2 are now available.  These videos cover the material that is also discussed in my two part blog entry (beginning here) including such advanced topics as The Silverlight Layout System Overriding MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride Matrix Transforms Adding Attached Dependency Properties Programmatic Animation This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution By license.
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

One Team

I just released Learning ASP.NET 3.5 which is very exciting, through I must quickly and freely admit that my co-authors did a fantastic job shouldering the bulk of the task of the massive re-write to bring this book fully up to date for ASP.NET 3.5. The...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design

Learn more about how to choose the right colors for your user interface. In this video from the Principles of Design Series by Arturo Toledo, you will learn a few techniques to pick colors that work well with each other. Choosing the right colors for...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-01 more

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

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

Digital Rapids Extends Video Solutions with Support for Microsoft Silverlight 3

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

Weekly Stock Charts review from Stockcharts.com Publishers

The rally keeps chugging along and now looks better positioned to move higher than lower - but the initial outlook for Monday is for weakness. Tomas Leszczynski headed the list of Santoren.com , but most of his front page charts were of stocks. His daily S&P; chart shows a second long signal which may define the resistance level to break from the next pullback. I still like the idea of a move back to the low 800s (perhaps high 700s) but exact mirrors of prior bottoms are rare so it may
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

BlackBerry to Sport Flash and Silverlight? Maybe Next Year (PC World)

PC World
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Windows 7 Prices Announced! Pre-Order Your Copy of Windows 7 for $49.99 and $99.99 NOW

Microsoft has done a good job with Windows 7, not just technology wise but also in terms of creating a positive buzz around the software. I know quite a few people who tested Windows 7  beta and RC and are very excited to own a full version as soon as it is officially released. There is no mystery around the release date of Windows 7 which is October 22nd but the prices were being speculated. Well, today all of that ends as the prices of all the versions of Windows 7 are announced. F
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Link Listing - May 1, 2008

Link Listing - May 1, 2008 ASP.NET Deserializing JSON into a list of abstract base classes [Via: Kyle Baley ] Sharepoint Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit [Via: danlewisnet ] WPF How Do I Make a ListView or a ScrollViewer Left Handed? [Via: Matthias Shapiro ] Porting Silverlight 2.0 to WPF [Via: Straylight ] Code Camps Winnipeg Code Camp - Fall Edition! [Via: D'Arcy Lussier ] Twin Cities Sharepoint Camp [Via: Chris Williams ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: April 30, 2008 [Vi
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #62

Hyperlinks are a graphic or string that connects readers to another web site when clicked. Generally these are a few words that are identified by a blue color and a underline. Here is an example of a hyperlink: Click Me In Silverlight Hyperlinks can be...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

March Madness Brings The Big Dance to Plex Media Center [Downloads]

Track your bracket and catch up on the latest nail-biting, sextuple-overtime NCAA games in HD with March Madness, a plug-in for the Plex OS X port of the XBMC project. Plex has a lot going for it lately, including a status of being just under the radar enough to keep Hulu working just fine . To get started with the March Madness plug-in, make sure you">keep Hulu working just fine. To get started with the March Madness plug-in, make sure you've got the latest beta version of Plex, head to
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Silverlight 3 Firestarter in Portland

Announcing: Silverlight 3 Firestarter Simulcast in Portland, September 17th. Scott Guthrie keynote followed by presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and others. Register here .
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Mike

In reply to Microsoft could well deliver with Silverlight : Silverlight content is old.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Mix 10 Rollup Post

Piles of interesting stuff going on at Mix 10 this week. Here's a link rollup with all the details and downloads that you might care about. (As well as a few blatant plugs for my own sessions.) First: Watch Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes on demand. See recorded...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

Skyfire 1.0 mobile browser now available

Skyfire, the mobile browser that will be competing with Opera and Mozilla
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 3/23/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Binary Bob
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

That icky IISReset

Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

.NET RIA Services roadmap update

Today, we posted on the .NET RIA Services forum an updated roadmap for the timing and thoughts around the product offering. What is .NET RIA Services? Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

TUAW Guide: Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater

Filed under: Multimedia , Software , How-tos , Mac mini , Apple TV The Mac mini has always been the perfect form factor for a media center appliance (often called a Home Theater PC/HTPC). It's extremely small, almost completely silent and it can easily blend into an existing electronics shelf - or be hidden away completely. The lack of a refresh (and rumors that the line was going to be discontinued), coupled with technical specs that didn't justify the price-point, have led many
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Sizing in Silverlight

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

Silverlight Tip of the Day #60

If you have a control written in XAML that is included in your project you can load and create it directly from file by using the method: System.Windows.Markup. XamlReader .Load(). This method can also be used to directly create a Silverlight control...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-11 more

Blogs are the Most Important Innovation of the 21st Century

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

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

Important: Run the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121685&clcid=0x409 . Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe)...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Silverlight 4 Feature Requests

Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have established a more community focused way of tracking Silverlight 4 feature requests. You can find their feature tracker here: Silverlight Feedback Forum . Other than a few items that our outside our control (iPhone, bundling...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers

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

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0: Analogue of Adobe Flash

s p o n s o r e d   l i n k s Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 is the analogue of Adobe Flash. Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 to watch stream video and audio (clips) will need to install addition to the current browser. At this stage supported browsers are Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and Mozilla Firefox 1.5, 2 and 3. There is a lot of movement on the first day of the National Association of Broadcasters, one of the essential items in video and multimedia. read more
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Tech Ed 2008, Sydney 2-5 September

The Australian TechEd 2008 web site has been launched.  Check it out for information on the agenda.  It has RSS feeds to keep you up to date and also uses Silverlight.  I will also be presenting at TechEd this year.  Don
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

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

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

TELERIK BROADENS PRESENCE IN NORTH AMERICA

Leading .NET tools and solutions provider announces U.S. expansion, including enlargement of developer evangelist team SOFIA, Bulgaria; Waltham, MA, September 28, 2009
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Pacnet Launches a CDN

Today Pacific telecom and undersea-cable operator Pacnet announced its new Media Delivery Service, becoming the latest carrier to enter the CDN business.  The new product is available globally from today, and seems to offer both http website acceleration and streaming capabilities (both Flash and Silverlight).  The company, as one might expect, sees its advantages stemming from its ownership of the network, as opposed to pure CDNs.  It
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

The Future of Silverlight Contrib

As you may already know, we are merging Silverlight Contrib and Silverlight Extensions into one super-ultra-mega project.  Last month, we held a poll to let the community decide the name of the consolidated project.  Which played out in the following way:     So it
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #47

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

Save Web Page as Image

Save any Web Page as image C# code, Capture Flash as Image... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Michael Jackson Memorial Live with Silverlight

I just heard that the Michael Jackson Memorial, which happens tomorrow, July 7 th , 10am PST, will be streamed live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight.
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

Portfolio Extended

Featured Article Slideshow, Image on Articles (Automatic Resize), Advertisement/Banner Ready, Gravatar on Comments, SEO Optimized, Works with the Latest Version of Wordpress 2.7 (and below), Threaded Comments, Featured Video, Flickr RSS, Animated Tag Cloud LIVE DEMO | Download Portfolio Extended More Free Wordpress Themes: Turn Out Mag TealZine Free Wordpress Theme:: TheLatest Theme SilverLight Organic Moss Stacko Theme The MMOZine
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

From the Pipeline - 5.6.08

Even though today started out on the wrong side of the bed - so to speak - it
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Silverlight.js available on MSDN Code Gallery

Silverlight.js available on MSDN Code Gallery Posted by on July 2nd, 2008 Silverlight.js is now available for download on MSDN Code Gallery via http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightjs. Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2 Web sites can use this updated file to add support for Firefox 3 and to enable new features such as an automatic browser refresh when Silverlight installation is complete. Since this latest version of Silverlight.js introduced a number of breaking changes, you will want
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Asynchronous test support - Silverlight unit test framework and the UI thread

A discussion about the asynchronous, on-the-UI thread test features and methods found in the Silverlight unit test framework, along with some history....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

ASP.net Blog Platform avaialbe for review

Hi everyone,  I have created a blog platform made from mircosofts asp.net technology and i want too see what everyone here thinks. It is called Jumbilo and is at http://www.jumbilo.com http://www.jumbilo.com/JBlog.zip  Regards Paul Briggs... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

OMG, where do I start?

A lot of email comes my way beginning with the sentiment:
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Protected Dependency Properties Are Not Really

I discovered an interesting fact yesterday.  I was attempting modify ImplicitStyleManager to support the DefaultStyleKey property.  Previously I was just using the concrete type of the object I was styling to retrieve its style from the resource...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Tip of the Day #28: How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor

In Tip of the Day #27 we talked about how to change the mouse cursor. But what if you want to have a cursor icon that is not supported by Silverlight? This tutorial will show you how to do it. For a complete demo of this tip visit: http://silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-19 more

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

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

Army of One…and Silverlight

Just doing some getting caught up from my holiday recently and I was reminded of a
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

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

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

FIX: Error message when you use the XMLSchema.Compile method to compile an XML schema (XSD) file: "The content type of the base type must not be a simple type definition"

957206 ... FIX: Error message when you use the XMLSchema.Compile method to compile an XML schema (XSD) file: "The content type of the base type must not be a simple type definition"This RSS feed provided by kbAlerz.com.Visit kbAlertz.com to subscribe. It's 100% free and you'll be able to recieve e-mail or RSS updates for the technologies you pick from the Microsoft Knowledge Base.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

HTML 5

Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Links (6/25/2009)

Using the Today token in a CAML query Be selective about how you get items from an SPList Using KeywordQuery to search in your SharePoint site Use SharePoint and Silverlight to display a summary of SharePoint blog posts on any site page How Page Parsing functionality in SharePoint (SPPageParseFilter) works with the constructor of a webpart How to use SharePoint Rich-Text Editor in Webparts and Controls Inconvenient PublishingScheduleControl SharePoint Task M
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Put Your Views (and Pages) On a Diet

One of the complaints I often here with our our default view engine and Pages is that theres all this extra cruft in there with the whole page directive and stuff. But it turns out that you can get rid of a lot of it. Credit goes to David Ebbo, the oracle of all hidden gems within the inner workings of ASP.NET, for pointing me in the right direction on this. First, let me show you what the before and after of our default Index view (reformatted to fit the format for this blog). Before
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Concurrent Basic on Channel 9 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Concurrency is an important topic on everyone's mind, when considering future trends for computing and programming languages. Concurrent Basic is a variant of the Visual Basic language, with new constructs baked in to help handle concurrency and parallelism, in a very natural way. Watch this high-energy video with language guru Erik Meijer, VB spec lead Lucian Wischik, and MS researcher Claudio Russo, to learn more about what Concurrent Basic is all about! Expert to Expert: Inside Concurrent Bas
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

.NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview

Today we posted a minor update to .NET RIA Services .  This release is mainly focused on addressing bug fixes we have heard in the forums and delivering on a few key areas
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Pick Your Sessions, Build Your Agenda and Win a Trip

Countdown to PDC2008: In this weeks edition of the PDC Countdown (only 65 days to go), Mike and Jennifer host the event marketing manager of the conference who talks about all of the great opportunities to win, win, win! Trips to LA, tickets to the Dodgers or Lakers, a movie premiere, or a trip down the red carpet at the Emmys could be yours. Or you could design the PDC t-shirt that will be handed out to thousands of attendees!! Wow, you could go down in PDC history if youre... Did you know
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston

The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day event in Boston is now available. May 14
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/23/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Data Services and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

Alright Keith and I are at it again and this time we want to give away the cool stuff like a: Lenovo T61P ! Okay do I have your attention now?  As some of you may recall we had a contest last time just for the MVP
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

Silverlight: Enabling Rich Internet Applications for the Open Source World

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

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

SQL SERVER - Maximum Columns per Primary Key - Fix : Error : Msg 1904, Level 16, The index on table has column names in index key list. The maximum limit for index or statistics key column list is 16

My present article covers two fundamental questions.1) What is the maximum number of columns included in Primary Key Index/Constraint?2) What is fix/solution for the following error:Msg 1904, Level 16, State 1, Line 1The index
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Dependency Properties - Precedence

Today we wrap up dependency properties by talking about one of the most important, though typically invisible aspects: DP precedence order. This is critical because dependency properties, by their nature, are designed to have their final value set from...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-03 more

Ads come to Xbox 360 via your Dashboard

The Xbox 360 dashboard is about to get a whole lot less friendlier thanks to new ads/commercials that will briefly take the place of the usual NXE Windows, as you can see in the video below. To make matters worse, these ads are not static. They are in fact videos (or commercials) and come complete with sound . . . making the Xbox 360 Dashboard as annoying as those video advertisements you see on youtube and other sites whenever you are trying to watch a video. Although there are banner ads as
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 - Special Edition

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Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

Microsoft Killed the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control

Yesterday, Chris Pendleton officially announced that the Microsoft Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control is now Dead . Frankly, I
Publication date: 2009-08-23 more

Happy Birthday, DotNetDevNet!

Last night saw the first birthday of The .NET Developer Network. A year ago on St. George
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Traditional Media In Transition

Watch out the video series called Traditional Media In Transition. We have some episodes where companies share their stories about using the Silverlight application. Here are some of the videos about Silverlight: Traditional Media in Transition: DNCC Traditional Media in Transition: Stimulant Traditional Media in Transition: Hard Rock International
Publication date: 2009-06-21 more

Microsoft Download Center Website Gets a New Look

Microsoft has made some significant changes to their Download center website. Microsoft quietly working on Download center website since 2003. After six years later they come up with a completely new download website. New download website does not look like other website including MSDN and TechNet. Microsoft Download Center website also have different colour scheme as compare to Windows or Windows Live Website. Microsoft tweak the home page of download center website by adding categories and ban
Publication date: 2009-03-03 more

How Did You Do That Fancy PIP Reflection Stuff?

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Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

TechDays 2008 Session Preview

Microsoft Canada TechDays 2008 is generating a ton of hype around the Internet, but no word yet on the sessions, until today!  You might want to go get an extra pair of socks, because they are about to be knocked off!  Compared to other events I have attended in the past that cost thousands of dollars, not to mention the hotel and travel expenses incurred because the event didn
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

ComponentOne delivers Silverlight 3 controls

Studio Enterprise 2009 v2 includes Silverlight 3 controls intended for the creation of business applications. Visit website for full story...
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 is here (or there) :-)

See Phil's post: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/07/16/aspnetmvc-codeplex-preview4.aspx And of course ScottGu's post: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/07/14/asp-net-mvc-preview-4-release-part-1.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Penguins in Tel Aviv? It Must Be the Annual Open-Source Convention

Israel, where I live, is known for its large number of high-tech startups. But when I moved here in 1995, Linux and the idea of open source software was virtually unknown, even among programmers. It was thus a delight to spend this (Friday) morning with 250-300 other open-source advocates, at the annual "August Penguin" conference -- and to see several dozen hands go up when a conference organizer asked how many people worked at a job that allowed them to work with open-source software. This w
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

XAML Playground: A XAML Designer Built In Silverlight For Gestalt | IRhetoric: Convergence in the Simulacrum!

Seems like I can't get away from writing designer tools. After shipping Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Designer, I helped out with the Gestalt project and assisted with the XAML Playground.
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Code Sample Taxonomy

What responsibility do we have as software professionals when we post code out there for public consumption? I dont have a clear cut answer in my mind, but maybe you can help me formulate one. :) For example, I recently posted a sample on my blog intended to show how to use jQuery Grid with ASP.NET MVC. The point of the sample was to demonstrate shaping a JSON result for the jQuery grids consumption. For the sake of illustration, I wanted the action method to be relatively self contained so
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

SQLAuthority News - MVP Summit 2009 - Day 4 - Keynote from SQLAuthority News - MVP Summit 2009 - Day 4 - Keynote of Steve Ballmer

An action pack day with lots of tech session and 4 back to back Keynote sessions is over. Steve Ballmer presented one of the keynote where all attendees really felt energetic. Steve is the person who has so much energy that may be 16 year old kid feel older in front of him. Just like [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Serialising Microsoft StreamInsight QueryTemplates

At first sight, StreamInsight doesnt appear to offer any support for dynamic queries. Once you have got over the initial wow factor of creating continuous queries over streams using LINQ, rather than some SQL dialect or specialised DSL, the reality hits you that your query is just code. You wrote the LINQ using C# or VB.NET, and you ended up compiling it into some assembly. Thats all very well, but its not very flexible. How are you going to store and manage your queries in a repository so that
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Wimbledon Is Here and We

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Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Career Defining Project, Beta 1, Velocity

Create defining projects (CDP) come along once in a blue moon in finance - primarily because project are confidential, with no public face. If you happen to find a CDP at a financial institution, grab it, and ride the waves, as it could be beneficial for a number of reasons
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

List of Silverlight Apps

Vav ! after a sneek look on AIR apps,I have found some good Silverlight apps ..If you found any please refer here at the bottom .. 2D Physics Simulation Grand Piano Silverlight Mind Map 3D Teapot Demo Infragistics Controls Demo Silverlight Pad Amazon Search Visualization JavaScript / .NET Chess Silverlight Playground AOL Social Mail Gadget Laugh-o-Sphere Silverlight Rocks Binary Clock LiveStation SilverNibbles Browser Poker Matrix Digital Rain Smalltalk on Silverlight Bubble Factory Michael
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Adobe Flash Player Exploit Grabs Your Files

If you have Adobe Flash player installed like most people on the Internet, make sure you check your flash version and ensure you are running version 9.0.124.0. If you are running a lower version, your machine is susceptible to sending pretty much anything to the hacked flash applet, and server. Updated your Flash now! That or uninstall it! How many of these rouge flash files are out there? About 250, 000 Web pages. That's at least how many have been tracked to take advantage of the explo
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 1 (Matt Gertz)

As Ive alluded to in previous blogs, music has always been a big part of my life, particularly performance music. Ive been a clarinet and saxophone player for many years, am an avid singer, and (with the help of friends) Ive done my best to teach myself piano and drums. Composition of music, however, has always been a problem for me. Ive written a few small pieces, but any attempt to write something larger has always ended up with me giving up after fifty or so measures. ... Did you know that
Publication date: 2009-02-28 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

Web 2.0 Expo and the state of the Enterprise 2.0 economy today (overview by Vassil Mladjov)

Ok, here is my 60,000 feet overview. (the video will be availabe soon) - There was not clear innovation that I can see at the show, nothing to get me exiting. There were a few clever tools in terms of clean UI and well execute ideas, but nothing of a WOW. - Most established Web 2.0 companies want to be now Enterprise 2.0 players
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

.NET Best Practice No: 2:- Improve garbage collector performance using finalize/dispose pattern

.NET Best Practice No: 2:- Improve garbage collector performance using finalize/dispose pattern... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #71

If you missed ScottGu
Publication date: 2008-11-18 more

The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More

In what may be a first (at least for me) I've secured agreement with the very generous folks I work for here and at O'Reilly  to loosely join the tutorials and the chapters of our forthcoming book Programming Silverlight (co-authored by Tim...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Azure Simon

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

What Does that .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.*

I need your feedback... I am chatting with some co-workers about the perception of in the .NET Community of what the System.* and Microsoft.* namespaces mean.    So I had the crazy idea of just asking you!   For this exercise...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-16 more

Oslo + Data Programmability (EF, ADO.NET, etc.) Teams Merge

Ive been waiting for someone from Microsoft to blog about this. Finally, Doug Purdy has done the deed: we made a decision to merge the Data Programmability team (EDM, EF, Astoria, XML, ADO.NET, and tools/designers) and the Oslo team (Quadrant, Repository, M) together. After watching his PDC 2008 presentation on Oslo, I got very excited because I knew that Oslos modeling platform was very much aligned with the importance of modeling highlighted by Entity Data Models being used not only in Entit
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

OpenUp and my Open Source submissions

OpenUp and my Open Source submissions Amir Shevat from Microsoft Israel DPE department started cool competition, named OpenUp. I decided to give hand to this initiative and posted sources of some of my applications on CodePlex and submit it to the competition. Currently, my submission includes (except old Vista Battery Saver and Windows Live Writer Plugins): WebCam control for WPF Silverlight controls library Duplicate images finder (yes, yes I posted sources for this application too) Lat
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Firefox 3 and Silverlight

Well today (17 JUN 2008) will be the release of Firefox 3, a seemingly much anticipated browser update. I checked out an earlier build (I think beta 2) and it was a nice browser. I
Publication date: 2008-06-23 more

Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls

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

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

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

Eye On .NET

Eye On .NET is periodical listing series for .NET(Blogs, Articles, Media, Events and Announcing) I hope that my simple view to .NET development be helpfully at least reflect the best. And this is my first List that will be focus on Blogs Community  :)   Scott Guthrie links: April 28th, April 11th ASP.NET MVC: (Part 0): What is it? , (Part 1): Building an MVC Application , (Part 2): URL Routing , (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views , (Part 4): Handling Form Edit and Post Sc
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

A MUST READ: Silverlight Deployment Guide

Everything you ever needed to know about deploying Silverlight within your enterprise. David Tesar wrote this paper
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

ALT.NET Seattle Day One

Day one of the ALT.NET Seattle conference is over and Im looking forward to tomorrows sessions. As an Open Spaces event, the first order of business was for us, the attendees, to set the session agenda for the rest of the conference. In the above photo, you can see Scott Hanselman proposing a topic in one of my favorite conference photos taken by Brad Wilson. This process took about two hours after which many of us headed out to Red Robin for a nerd dinner. This is my second ALT.NET Open Spaces.
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Showcase Silverlight Apps for Talks and Demos

Talking amongst a few of my cohorts, Erik Mork asked
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Developing Widgets with ASP.NET, WCF and jQuery

The article demonstrates how to use ASP.NET, jQuery and WCF to develop widgets - portable chunks of code that can be embedded into other HTML pages.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

FontPlayer XBAP

I thought it would be fun to update the UI (and some functionality) for the FontPlayer SDK sample. This app lets you to play with the fonts installed on your the machine. It also shows off the OpenType features of specific fonts. Some of the interesting...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

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

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

SQL SERVER Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet

I recently read this very interesting white paper. I really found it very interesting as this one was one very easy to read and humourous white paper related to SQL Server. The white paper is starts with very interesting note regarding Columbus.Contrary to popular opinion, Columbus did not prove that the Earth is round. Pythagoras, [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inclu
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Why Morgan Stanley chose Flash not Silverlight for trading app

Tim Anderson's take on Morgan Stanley's decision to use Flash for their trading application, and what this means for Microsoft and for developers making their own decisions about which display tech to go for.
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Using Blur to make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3

When an application needs to display a dialog, there needs to be something to make the user immediately focus on that dialog, even when there are lots of other elements on the screen Most AJAX applications dim the screen behind a dialog by using a semi-transparent overlay. That certainly works well, but another effect to consider is a blur effect. Here
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Link Listing - May 29, 2008

Link Listing - May 29, 2008 AJAX Cool ScriptManager stuff I missed... [Via: Jay Kimble ] ASP.NET ASP.NET Memory: Thou shalt not store UI objects in cache or session scope [Via: Tess ] Sharepoint Incredible resource for all possible CustomActions in SharePoint [Via: Sahil Malik ] Code Camps Desert Code Camp schedule is now available [Via: Dave Campbell ] Desert Code Camp Is This Saturday (May 31st) [Via: dwahlin ] Conferences PDC 2008 registration is now open [Via: guybarrette ] Three weeks
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

DotNetNuke 5.1.4 Released

After we released DotNetNuke 5.1.3 last night, a community member discovered a packaging error in the release. Specifically the DotNetNuke WebControls 02.02.00 package was not properly integrated. This package was added in 5.1.2 and included some additional defensive coding to help harden the DotNetNuke Web Controls against potential security issues. The latest web controls package does not fix any specific security vulnerabilities, but rather improves the baseline security posture of the platfo
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Facebook Hooks Up With Adobe For Richer Social Applications In Flash

Not to be outdone by MySpace announcing a deeper partnership with Microsoft yesterday, bringing Silverlight technology to its development platform and mobile application, Facebook and Adobe are today announcing a partnership and the release of fresh Flash client libraries to make it easier for developers to plug into the Facebook Platform inside their social applications built with Flash. Flash has been supported since the launch of Facebook Platform in 2007 through tags, embedding
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid Demo Application with Formatting of Data - Brij Mohan

In this post I am going to show you the basic example of Creating the Page with DataBound Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid, and also I will show you how to format the Data Using IValueConverter in DataGrid dynamically. Create a new project and Select Silverlight Application. Name your application and select Ok, select the options as given in the scre...
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  In this part, I wanted to consider the scenario that I hope is a common one.  The developer writes their Silverlight app using the RIA Services pattern and the application becomes wildly successful.  So successful in fact there is a demand to put a services head on top of the same application logic to facilitate writing a bunch of other clients.  This is the sort of pattern we see happening with
Publication date: 2009-08-01 more

Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development

Quick, what
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Mojave Experiment, now with added Silverlight

Whenever Microsoft release a site with Flash on it these days, there is a lot of stick both internally and on the blogosphere about why the marketing team didn't mandate the agency build it using Silverlight. It's amazing to see that the Vista...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-01 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

Crack Throttling: Debugging WCF TimeoutException for a Middle-Tier Application

Recently I helped a customer with a few friends to debug a TimeoutException issue happened in their middle-tier which uses WCF proxies. The issue turned out to be simple but the experience was quite interesting and I would like to tell you how we proceeded with it. Problem The customers scenario is a multi-tier application as following: ASPX clients [AC] ASPX invokes WCF clients [FE] WCF service (Basic Http with Binary) [BE] Backend services (over NamedPipe/HTTP) [BS] The ASPX clients ([AC])
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Netflix iPhone movie streaming on the way?

If the latest rumors are to be believed, apparently Netflix might just be offering up movie streaming for subscribers on their iPhones and iPod touch devices. And while nothing has been confirmed yet, it does seem somewhat likely. The
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Dew Drop - March 2, 2009

  Silverlight Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action (Davy Brion) Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions (Jesse Liberty) EntitySpaces 2009 Q2 - Can you Query me now? (Mike Griffin)   Web Development MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

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

Silverlight Web Galleries

Another totally new thing in Expression Media 2: Silverlight HTML galleries. Granted, we only shipped one with the product, but another will be downloadable soon. We expect that people will also develop their own and want to share them. What
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Scrolling so smooth like the butter on a muffin [How to: Animate the Horizontal/VerticalOffset properties of a ScrollViewer]

Recently, I got email from two different people with the same question: How do I animate the HorizontalOffset / VerticalOffset properties of a Silverlight/WPF ScrollViewer control? Just in case you've never tried this yourself, I'll tell you that it's...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Bing it!

Instead of 'Google it!' now there's new verb Bing it! Its Microsofts new and improved search engine.Though number of results returned is still less compared to that of google, the format and quality of results seems better. I personally like the category filter and price compare. There's lot more to bing, find out here http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html It still has long way to go to catch up with googles indexes, and hopefully will get there. It has been released internally for a long t
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

[Cool tool] Silverlight Spy

Silverlight Spy is a free(*) tool that allows you to inspect any online Silverlight app. Just launch it and point to a web page with a Silverlight app, then you can: Explore the XAP package Isolated Storage use Monitor performance Browse the UI visual and logical tree Examine objects Here is a screen shot of the app that shows the UI inspection (Live XAML outline): You can even decompile code inside the dll, for that you need Reflector installed, then go to Tools / O
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Big update for the Project Rosetta site today

We just shipped a major update to the Project Rosetta site, including a new a series of Flash to Silverlight tutorials, an updated API Guide with a quick reference list and a full list of recommended tools, code samples and frameworks to download. Getting...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

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

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

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

"WCF LOB Adapter SDK and the BizTalk Adapter Pack" Whitepaper

When building applications today, its hard to consider building something that doesnt involve connectivity of some sort. Applications require business data and logic that is distributed across several applications or servers. Unfortunately, not all systems provide the same interface to their data and business logic which ultimately forces developers to figure out how to talk to each of those systems. Connecting to a system doesnt just involve opening up a port on a network address either; we hav
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Links (6/7/2009)

Customising Content Query Web Part (CQWP) and Discussion Boards SPLimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart Mysteriously Increments zoneIndex Case Study: Dynamic Charts in SharePoint, No Code Required! Bigger SharePoint Templates Developing Sequential Workflows for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 jQuery for Everyone:
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Testing Silverlight Applications

If you are a developer who likes various aspect of testing in your application (beyond the does it work testing), you may be interested in a few frameworks for Silverlight. Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework This testing framework was developed by Jeff Wilcox of the Silverlight Toolkit fame among other things. This test framework is used by the Silverlight Toolkit team themselves (as is what is shipped with the source code for the project). This framework runs unit test inside the browser
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

MIX 2009 Wrap Up and Virtual Earth Session Replay

Wow – MIX 2009 was truly a blur for many reasons, but mostly because there was just SO MANY exciting sessions and announcements and the show just FLEW by. For those of you who didn’t get to come, there’s always next year; however, if you missed MIX or you were there and missed my session (not sure why you’d do that!), the session, along with all the others MIX sessions, are now live on the MIX Replay site . At the show we announced the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Con
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Technology Related Links

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Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Visual Basic 10 on the 10-4 Channel9 Series! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Check out the latest video in the 10-4 Channel 9 series, on Visual Basic 10: Episode 9: Visual Basic 10 In this ninth episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to Multiline Lambdas, Statement Lambdas, Collection Initializers, Array Literals, and Implicit Line Continuation. In future episodes, we'll look at diving into features like...
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

New Silverlight 1.0 Video

In this video, Michael Palermo will demonstrate a simple, minimalistic way to approach Silverlight. This video will stress just the necessary requirements and steps to get started with Silverlight....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh

The "Oslo" team heard you! There was some "regression in the quality of the bits" in the Jan CTP from the PDC CTP that affected you guys in our 3-pane mode for grammar editing in Intellipad (aka the bits are worse than they used to be). It was just a sample, but it's so so useful, that language developers are using the hell out of it, which means they're running into "performance and robustness issues" (which means it was slow and crashed) and we've fixed the worst ones in the January 2009 "Oslo
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

25 great free resources for making charts

Here you have a new roundup about great tools for making charts and graphs. You can choose between web generators, flash,  javascript libraries, Silverlight or PHP classes. At the end of the post you find also 3 tutorials to make pure css bar graphs and another one for Adobe Illustrator. JS Charts (JavaScript based chart generator) Protovis (visualization toolkit [...]
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Skyfire gets $5 million in funding, still looking for a viable business model

Skyfire , the company who plans to make a business of converting the whole web into a video stream for free has managed to raise another $5 million in funding. Earlier this Summer they hired former Travelocity executive Jeffrey Glueck to lead the company into the next phase. Now a regulatory filing reveals the startup has raised a Series C closed off its earlier Series B round of funding with an extra $5 million, reports peHUB . The total amount of funding raised by the company now reaches
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Blend 3 Survey: Enter to win a FREE ZUNE HD!!!

Hi everyone! We just announced the Blend 3 Survey on our Expression Blend team blog where you can enter to win the newly released FREE Zune HD!!! We hope to use the survey results as part of our planning for the next release of Expression Blend. This...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Prism v2: Migrating from Drop 9 to Drop 10

As you may know, last Friday a new drop of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight was released. As Erwin said in this post, one of the breaking changes of this new drop is that they removed the .Silverlight and .Desktop extensions from the Assembly names. If you are like me and have more than one solution using Prism v2 with a bunch of projects, you will probably find really annoying going over each project to update the references and the xaml files. So, in order to acc
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Microsoft Retail Stores Announced for Arizona and California

Today it has been announced by Microsoft that it will open its first two retail stores that are similar to those of its archrival Apple Inc. in Arizona and California. According to Cnet , it has been confirmed by the Vole that on Tuesday it has signed leases on storefronts in those two upscale bedroom communities. The Redmond, Wash., giant will open stores in Scottsdale, Ariz. and in Mission Viejo Apparently. Apparently, the Mission Viejo location has been targeted by Microsoft because
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Silverlight Slider and Absolute values

If you use the Slider object in Silverlight (or WPF for that matter) you may have experienced some similar frustration that I have recently. Lets take a look at what the Slider is first. The Slider is a simple control on the surface providing a track and a thumb (if you arent familiar with that term) that enables value changing. Some of the key properties are: Minimum the number that represents the lowest (left or bottom) value Maximum the number that represents the highest (right... Did you kno
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Bing Indexing NoIndex/Nofollow Content

August 8th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Bing
Publication date: 2009-08-09 more

Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in the TOP 100 Web Celebrities

TechCult, a famous blog about whats going on in the Net world just published the list of the top 100 web celebrities. The standing is mainly based on how many results they have on Google. Pretty strange that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs dont show up in this top 100, even though they influenced the web much more than Tila Tequila, Perez Hilton or Beppe Grillo which are the top 3 web celebrities of the list. The list is full of web developers, Web2.0 startups founders, but only 2 from the .NET bloggin
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Rethinking Introductory Material

Wow it is hard to respond to a community that you can
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

CLR Updates in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Kevin Frie, development lead for core parts of the CLR recently posted about what CLR updates that come in 3.5 SP1....   NGen infrastructure rewrite:  the new infrastructure uses less memory, produces less fragmented NGen images with much better locality, and does so in dramatically less time.  What this means to you:  Installing or servicing an NGen image is much faster, and cold startup time of your NGen
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Complexity Isnt Simple

It is very rare for me to respond to comments in follow-on blog post, in fact I don't think I've ever done so before. However the response to my previous blog entry about Dot Net Rocks show number 476 was so overwhelming, and so many good points were made, that I couldn't resist having another go at some of these issues. N.B.: I've taken the liberty of paraphrasing user comments.  The original comments can be seen here. Too Much To Keep Up With? Nate Jackson wrote that he felt, even as a... D
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

NBC's Crippled Online Olympics Coverage Attracts Small Audience

NBC apparently got about 72 million video streams during this Olympics season, and is touting this as a great success. It's true that this is a lot more than any previous Olympics, but I don't think NBC has anything to crow about. Remember, this is the most famous sporting event in the world, and it got non-stop media coverage for close to a month. Yet in a country with 300 million people, they only got a total of 72 million streams? That's less than one stream for every 4 Americans. And as Ben
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

You've got to know where you've been to know where you're going [Some background on Charting's ordered multiple dictionary implementation]

As I've said before, one of our key goals for the March 09 release of Silverlight/WPF Charting was to improve the performance of key customer scenarios . I didn't go into a lot of details with the release notes, but one of the ways we accomplished this...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

The VS.NET IDE's Command Window: A Tutorial

The VS.NET IDE Command Window (Ctrl+Alt+A) has more features than is commonly realized.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Chapter 2 - Building a Simple ASP.NET MVC Application

This is a rough draft of a chapter from the book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther. Comments are welcome and appreciated. When the book is published, the text from this blog entry will be removed and only the code listings will remain. Order this Book from Amazon In the previous chapter, we discussed all of the lofty goals of the ASP.NET MVC framework. In this chapter, we completely ignore them. In this chapter, we build a simple database-driven ASP.NET MVC application in the
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Pages in Silverlight

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

The ref and out keyword in C#

Ref and out parameter passing modes are used to allow a method to alter variables passed in by the caller. The difference between ref and out is subtle but important. Each parameter passing mode is designed to apply to a slightly different programming scenario. The important difference between out a... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Ads with sound hit Xbox 360 dashboard

Well, how
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #92

In Tip of the Day #86 I showed you how to load external images not included in the project such as images on the web. In this Tip I will be showing you had to load images from the client
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

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

Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

Silverlight.FX and Silverlight Store Sample App

I've got a project page finally up for Silverlight.FX , so it can be easily linked to rather than some arbitrary blog post of mine that alludes to it, and is a one-stop spot for the latest build, and relevant links and pointers to samples. As always,...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

40 Fixes/Features Wishlist for Live Spaces (7/11/08) - revised

Just recently, I wrote a post on things I'd love to see for Live Spaces, but I think I put more new features, than I did put about fixing Live Spaces. I'm a Windows Live fan and all, and sometimes I think Microsoft could so much more to make something that exists much more neater, but they just don't. For some reason. To me, Windows Live is similar to a big puzzle with most pieces in place, but some aren't positioned right, some pieces can't be found, and some are just plain wrong. You can see
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Microsoft to Yahoo: Forget it, then

Microsoft is walking away. The right thing to do in my opinion. Could Microsoft have bought Yahoo? Clearly, it could have done - for more money: In our conversations this week, we conveyed our willingness to raise our offer to $33.00 per share, reflecting again our belief in this collective opportunity. This increase would have added approximately another $5 billion of value to your shareholders, compared to the current value of our initial offer. It also would have reflected a premium of ove
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

TechEd South Africa Slides and Code - .NET RIA Services and ViewModel

This is a quick blog post to share slides and demos from my presentations at TechEd in South Africa. Feel free to post questions here... From the talk on ViewModel and Application Patterns for Silverlight... The app I built was a mini-Twitter client named...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Programming news: PHP 5.3.0, VirtualBox 3.0, Silverlight tutorials

Read about the releases of PHP 5.3.0, Sun VirtualBox 3.0, and Mono 2.4.2. You
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

SEO Impact on Adobe Making Flash Crawlable for Search Engines

Here's a list of the various parties this should impact Pubs and SEO people: They need to figure out how to optimize their flash for this. Might get pretty hairy and the guys who know how flash code works may be at an advantage here. Google and search engines: Some articles suggest that Google has a lead here but the other engines are not too far behind. The ability to index more data should give Google an advantage. The downside is that Google will have to pioneer efforts to fight search
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Q1 2009 Service Packs starting to ship

Looking for some updates for your Q1 2009 RadControls and Telerik tools? Then you may want to start grabbing some of the Q1 2009 first-round Service Packs. So far, there are two SP1s available for the Q1 2009 release: SP1 for the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX ( 2009.1.402 ) Sp1 for Telerik OpenAccess ORM ( 2009.1.405 ) For the ASP.NET AJAX controls, SP1 marks Telerik's official support for Microsoft's latest and greatest version of IE . If you need to officially support IE8 for your custo
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Microsoft Gets a Piece of Move Networks

Microsoft is extending its strategic relationship with Move Networks by adding an undisclosed amount of funding to the startup
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Hosting Silverlight Client Apps In A Silverlight Host App

For one of our customers, we need to be able to host multiple Silverlight applications within one dedicated Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

NBC Olympics Wins an Emmy with Silverlight

Silverlight, take a bow. You just won best supporting role in NBC
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom

I
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Web Site Clone Silverlight by kaiserem

We need a template clone of the web site [http://www.bierengel.it/] that can be customize in style e photos by us. WebSite must be in silverlight 2.0 and must be provided to be customized by us. Budged
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

View and Manage Downloads from a Statusbar in Firefox

Download Statusbar is a Firefox Extension for users who do not want the Firefox download window to get in way of their browsing. This Firefox addon is recommended for users who download files very often and using this addon they will be able to view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar instead of the download window. The fully customizable interface of this Firefox addon auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption. Users can pause/resume a file download wit
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Silverlight Geek Dinner, Sep 15th - Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue

We
Publication date: 2009-08-29 more

Update on Windows Azure

Windows Azure has continued adding features since the last major update at MIX.  Additional features and SDK updates will continue to roll out in the coming weeks and months. Cool New Feature #1:  Geo-Location support Starting in May, a new option was added to the portal to support geo-locating your code and data.  In order to use this most effectively, the idea of an Affinity Group was created.  This allows you to associate various services under an umbrella label for the... Did you know
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Multicasting with Silverlight 3 Local Messaging

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

Skinning Silverlight controls just got easier

This has been one of the features that I
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

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

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

Lionhead

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

Interesting Finds: April 3, 2009

Other stuff Exception Overhead - Part 2 , Jason Bock Twitter Poll Results: Favorite Visual Studio Add Ons , Jim Holmes Redmond Developer: Working with MEF in VB and WPF , Brad Abrams MbUnit 3 RTM , Andrew Stopford .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers And Queues - Part 2: Queue Policies and .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers And Queues - Part 3: The REST Queue Protocol , Clemens Vasters Pay as you drive 3 , Richard Veryard
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Time Flys Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana

We recently released my video on the new Animation Transition Control and in looking it over I noticed that I promised to follow up on the definition of a Date/Time
Publication date: 2009-05-09 more

Test Center: How secure is Opera?

Opera has long been an underrated, feature-rich browser worthy of greater attention and a larger market share. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, mobile phones, Nintendo gaming systems, and other now historical operating systems. Like all of the leading browsers, it supports Java and JavaScript, and its impressive, growing feature set pushes beyond today's standards such as tabbed browsing to include the likes of voice-controlled browsing, e-mail, and instant messaging.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Microsoft Expression Studio v2.0 [FrontPage 2007]

Microsoft Expression Studio takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression Studio give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

Ways to get hooked with Beijing Olympics 2008

    Only 4 days are left in the opening of a much awaited enthusiastic game. Exhilarated Sports fans are eagerly waiting to have its scoop and are carving ways to keep themselves updated with its related news. For the people who are really excited to grab some crunchy news and want to have a live stream of all the updates despite of their busy schedule, We at StartupMeme have tried to aggregate collection of webs that will help you to keep yourself up with an event: Updated Google Maps
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

Mozilla Introduces Firefox Snowl

Snowl is designed to extend the functionality of Firefox beyond the default tasks associated with the process of navigating web content. In fact, this is the premise of Snowl, that the open source browser is capable of dealing with content in addition to what it was originally designed for. Snowl, a project from Mozilla Labs, is described as nothing more than an
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Silverlight Chord Finder

I
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Silverlight LinkLabel v1.1 released

A new version of the Silverlight LinkLabel control was released. Now it supports line breaks, better handling of long links and several bug fixes. For full list of changes please read the Release Notes and check out the demo.
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Permission problem while trying to move/delete/rename folder in Vista ?

I get this issue everyday in Vista: I try to move/delete/rename folders and get a you need permission to perform this action error. Note these are not system folders, just some personal folders, and this is not related to UAC or drive hardware. I have this issue regardless which account I use (User or Administrator). At first you may want to look in the security tab and give full control permission to everyone but that does not solve the problem! (and this is a bad practice)   If you... Did you
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?

The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. On one side of the battle lines is the original Web page description technology called HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language. Over the years, its abilities were augmented first with JavaScript, a basic programming language, and later a JavaScript-on-steroids technology calle
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

RadFormDecorator Q1 2009 - more decoration options, faster rendering!

For the RadFormDecorator to be able to perform its task of decoration efficiently, there is a tradeoff between features, flexibility and speed. It is a complex control that uses many hacks designed for different browser - very often the *same* visual result is achieved in a [slightly] different manner for different browers.   We have just finished the new rendering of RadFormDecorator. As we have used a totally different approach - heavy use of inheritance and attribute selectors in or
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Chris Cavanagh's Silverlight Physics Simulator

Chris Cavanagh, physics modeler extraordinaire, has created a Silverlight based physics modeler.  This is a fun sample to play with but I noticed in his blog post that he's using the HtmlTimer.  This class is a wrapper on the javascript setInterval method and as such has a relatively low priority for calling back to the user.  This is why the class is marked obsolete.  The best way to build a high priority timer in the Silverlight v1.1 alpha is to use a XAML animation and hook it
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Sothink Quicker For Silverlight v3 0 Build 90107 PROPER-NGEN

Release Name: Sothink.Quicker.For.Silverlight.v3.0.Build.90107.PROPER-NGEN Size: 16 MegaBytes (6 files) NFO: View Mirror(s): Netload Download: http://netload.in/dateiX4Tw92KpN8.htm
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Permalink to Media & Politics (only one section today)

Media & Politics (only one section today) 06-Aug-08 Permanent link to MTA daily media news PEJ: McCain made almost as much news as Obama last week For the first time since the general election campaign began in early June, John McCain attracted virtually as much media attention as Barack Obama last week, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. McCain
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

I'm a PC and I'm an MVP video is out from the Microsoft MVP Summit 2009

This video was shot at the MVP Summit key notes. You can see me at the last frame of the video. MVP "I'm a PC" Video Cheers AlPosted from http://weblogs.asp.net/albertpascual... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here . Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Silverlight mapping

In the Storm Ideas blog there are three new posts which are part of a series about Silverlight, DeepZoom and DeepEarth. The team has been doing some interesting work on  Silverlight mapping over the last few weeks that deserves your attention. They have also created an example of how to use a combination of  RoadRecord search and Guided Navigation along with a DeepZoom collection of images in order to browse a large number of used car adverts in a very visual manner. Their last post is concent
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Online virtual operating system by windows4all.com

Introduction: Have you ever seen operating system in your own web browser, no! then have a look at this one - this is one of the first operating system you have ever seen before - Online virtual operating system - which has been rolled out by windows4all.com , which has been developed using Microsoft Silverlight . When you browse to windows4all.com , it will request us to install Sliverlight on to desktop, if you have already installed the same on to your desktop, then you will be dir
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Showing "tooltips" for list items in RadComboBox

There are two ways of doing this: The first approach is to assign directly the text to be displayed to every ComboBoxItem. This is done through the API or through the design time. You must assign the required text to every item's ToolTipText. The second approach is to handle the ToolTipTextNeeded event where custom logic can be applied: private voidTestComboBox1_Load(objectsender, EventArgs e) { ComboPopupForm parent = this.radComboBox1.ComboBoxElement.ListBoxElement.Element
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

A Live Mesh Moment

While I was out in the bush near Krueger national park in South Africa recently I found a great use for Live Mesh...  After a full day of seeing some excellent big game I had a ton of photos to show for my effort. Later that night, back in the lodge, I was briefly able to get on the spotty, very low bandwidth wireless network to work for me.  So I shared my pictures using live mesh and immediately shared getting a cloud hosted backup of my precious photos.   As they were uploading... Did you kno
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Leo Tolstoy for Developers

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

Visifire - open source data visualization components

Visifire - open source data visualization componentshttp://www.visifire.com/Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

If it's animation or special effects, it's Linux.

Read the interesting article at ComputerWorld. Related posts: Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux)... Click on the title to read the full article
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation

As those of you who
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Silverlight soft-body physics

Here
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

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

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

Tutorial Feedback Leave a Comment Why Dontcha?

Im incredibly pleased to say that we have implemented a comments section for each tutorial, just as we do for each video Please leave your comments and I will subscribe to the comments list and try to respond as quickly as possible (if your comment goes unanswered for a while, dont hesitate to send me mail: jliberty@microsoft.com NB: Ive heard loud and clear that you want to see more advanced topics covered; they are on the way. The current plan calls for a tutorial in September and one in Octob
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Tip: Don

Yesterday I was working on some Silverlight production and needed to create a custom UserControl that had some text. The trick was that I wanted the user placing the control to choose which color the text would be, inturn effecting the second key frame on a simple ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames My animation was really simple, I wanted the text to start out as white old for a few milliseconds then fade into my dynamic color. My first tendency was to just create the Storyboard procedurally, but
Publication date: 2009-02-18 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

Getting into the Mix

First, I want to say I think it
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Swivel Behavior in Silverlight 3

A while back I created a pair of Storyboards that make a pair of panels swivel to show a front side and a back side. The key ingredients in the storyboards are: Plane Projection using Perspective 3D Easing Visibility (Opacity can be used instead if you prefer) Easing and 3D features are new to Silverlight 3 but really give it a nice effect. The easing makes it start slowly, then appear faster at the 90 degree turn, and then ease out. Storyboard The storyboards are
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Custom ASP.NET Page Tracing

Starting a new large-scale project with an ASP.NET front-end, I wanted to add a mechanism to get constant feedback about what my app was doing. Something similar to the built-in tracing mechanism, but far more lightweight. is great for specific cases, but it probably isn't something you want to leave on all the time while developer and even if you do, there's so much noise you might miss out on those vital pieces of information. So after googling around for a good solution and being surprised...
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

New Tutorial - Expression Blend for Developers

This tutorial will show you how to use the second major development tool for creating Silverlight Applications: Expression Blend. Jesse Liberty walks you through Expression Blend 2.5 using a chat client as a metaphor....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-24 more

My History of Visual Studio (Part 7)

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio] [I know I promised to talk about Whidbey in this installment but I realized I needed a bridge to get there or else Id totally skip over Everett so this is that bridge.] In MSN the arrival of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET was like a breath of fresh air.  My team was working on (among other things) a COM based object model for a content management system.  I once estimated that fully half the code was associated with the implementation..
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Add a WMS Layer in Silverlight

ESRI has released the WMS Layer sample code at the code gallery. You can download it here. Another layer suppor for the ArcGIS Silverlight API that people requests often. Whats WMS? From Open GeoSpatial The OpenGIS Web Map Service Interface Standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases. A WMS request defines the geographic layer(s) and area of interest to be processed. The response to the request i
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Firefox 3

Today is D-Day ("Download Day") for the much-anticipated version 3 of Mozilla's popular web browsing client, Firefox. In an effort to create more buzz around the launch, Mozilla has requested that users help them attempt a new Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period by downloading the new Firefox release today. Over 1.7 million people from around the world pledged to download the new client today. As an aside, I think its pretty cool that they are trying to get in the Gui
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Singleton pattern in a multiple worker thread Application Pool

This article is about cross-"worker thread" solutions of implementing the Singleton Pattern in ASP.NET.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Link Listing - June 18, 2008

Link Listing - June 18, 2008 Code Camps Code Camp San Diego [Via: ] Link Collections Dew Droplet - June 17, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for June 17, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Links (6/17/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ] The Morning Brew #117 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Interesting Finds: June 18, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] Dew Droplet - June 18, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for June 18, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Miscellaneous Everything You Wanted To Know About MVC and MVP But Were Afra
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Collision testing on a free moving object in Silverlight

In a previous post Gavin Wignall dabbled in making a dragable bouncy ball that simulated a gravity effect when released. Now he has taken that project and cleaned it up a bit to get rid of most of the bugs. In addition to the dragable ball there is also a box (
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Interesting Finds: April 18, 2009

Other stuff Win7 killed a feature I love in Vista! and CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick , Chris Sells XML schema reader writer plugin for vs 2005/2008 , JadBenAutho Hanselminutes Podcast 158 - Secrets of Fog Creek with Joel Spolsky , Scott Hanselman Remote Desktop/Terminal Services and the Highly Graphical Application
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Video: New Xbox 360 ads invade dashboard

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

Some cool Surface examples

Saw some posts today over at Don
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Handle Session Timeouts on DotNetNuke Through an HttpModule

This article provides an HttpModule that tackles the session-timeout problem on DotNetNuke (DNN) platform. It will redirect users subsequent requests to a page that prompts some informative messages after session timeouts occur.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Strategies for editing DSL scripts in production

Another interesting question from Chris Ortman: So I write my dsl, and tell my customer to here edit this text file? How do I tell them what the possible options are? Intellisense? This is a web app, and my desire to build intellisense into a javascript rich text editor is very low. It might be a good excuse to try out silverlight but even then it seems a large task. Or I put express or #Develop on the server and make that the 'admin' gui? This is actually a question that comes up often
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Links for 2008-07-14 [del.icio.us]

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) - ScottGu's Blog ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express - ScottGu's Blog ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

What would I change about INETA?

While at the MVP Summit, I interviewed for an INETA Board Position. Specifically, the VP of Membership. I have no idea if I'll get it, though I hope I do. If I do get it, there's going to be some ch-ch-ch-changes. If I don't get it, I hope whoever they do pick takes these suggestions to heart. #1 The membership committee needs some SERIOUS house cleaning. As a User Group leader, I can count on one hand (actually one finger, with room to spare) the number of unsolicited emails I have rece
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Venezuelan Cedula de Identidad

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

Silverlight Tip of the Day #55

Styles are extremely important because they allow developers to control the look and layout of controls across their application. By using styles you can simply change the style declaration and all controls in the application are updated automatically...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-03 more

Dew Drop - Weekend Edition - April 25-26, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing The difference between Infrastructure & Application (Oren Eini) Practical Example of YAGNI: Good Intentions Gone Horribly Wrong and   How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos with Specification Tests (Bobby Johnson) The Scatology of Agile Architecture (Uncle Bob Martin) Pimp my architecture - Dan North and   OO with a bit of functional mixed in and   Writing unit tests can be fun (Mark Needham) Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners - Part
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

SharePoint Customizations - Answered ASAP

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

new asp.net site avaliable - preview

Hi all,we've finished our asp.net site: AspNetSource.com we offer catalog of articles and catalog of products.We'll be very thanful to hear your oppinions about the site. Thanks in advance... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

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

The Silverlight 4 beta came with a version of MEF that had 3 catalogs
Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

6 New Silverlight Image Rotators

After working for one whole day, I have created another 4 image rotators. We have all together 6 image rotators now! All image rotators are redesigned such that they can be reused easily using XAML....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Symbian goes Open Source !

This is pretty big news, Nokia buys Symbian and the Symbian OS goes Open Source, Symbian Foundation. Here is a white paper with more infos.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Search problems with the Silverlight 3 beta documentation

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

Having problems with layout? Switch to Plan B! [LayoutTransformControl scenarios for WPF]

When I first wrote about adding full LayoutTransform fidelity to Silverlight with my LayoutTransformControl project, I mentioned that I'd found two scenarios where LayoutTransformControl's behavior differed from WPF's LayoutTransform . (Background reading...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-21 more

Austria ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

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

21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight

This article talks about 21 important FAQ from the perspective of WPF and Silver light. Both of these technologies are connected to a certain extent. This article not only explains the theory aspect of these technologies but also shows small samples for each of them.
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Silverlight @ PDC!

Here are some of the Silverlight-focused PDC sessions. Hope to see you there! Session Time Speaker Expression Blend: Tips and Tricks Mon 10/2712:45-1:30pm Pete Blois,Douglas Olson Silverlight, WPF, and the .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code Mon 10...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

MSDN Live Winter 2009 is now history!

Wow. Friday 20 th of March and MSDN Live Winter 2009 is now history. I delivered my last two talks on Silverlight during this round of MSDN Live in Oslo yesterday. Over the last two and a half week the MSDN Live road-show have visited Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo. It has been a great experience, and I
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Editorial - Dvorak Has Right Idea, Wrong Platform

John Dvorak claims that it's time for Adobe to fight back against Microsoft's Silverlight initiative by porting its flagship apps to Linux. It's the right kind of thinking, just the wrong platform
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: CompositeTransform

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Designing for the Windows Phone

Learn how to get started building Windows Phone applications using Expression Blend....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Sunny Pixels | Blend 3: Photoshop Import- Supported Features

There are a variety of features in Adobe Photoshop that are supported when importing .psd files in Expression Blend 3. This post is a continuation of my previous post
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

SQLAuthority News SQL Server 2008 The Other Side of Index Live Presentation in Ahmedabad

Community Tech Days are here Tomorrow in Ahmedabad on Oct 3, 2009. I will be presenting the session SQL Server 2008 The Other Side of Index. I will be available there whole day if you want to meet and discuss SQL. I will be starting my session with following cartoon. You will have to [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Tech-Ed Roadshow from Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group - 20th June

What: A half-day event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) What : A full event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) on the latest technologies from Microsoft When : Saturday, 20th June, 9:00am-5:30pm Where : International Convention Centre, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411016 Registration and Fees : This event is free for all. Register here . Details : Image via CrunchBase Tech-Ed On Road brings you the very best in Microsoft Te
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

July Garden report

Bill McCarthy's latest garden post made me realize I hadn't taken any pics in a while so here's what's going on in mid July. The hostas are blooming.   The clematis are lush. There's a lot going on in the front garden - rubekia, foxglove, daisies, mallow, astilbe, roses, russian sage and so much more. The Hollyhocks are starting to open. Down by the road the menarda (bee balm) is open all along the fence. For some reason the daylilies along the fence haven't opened... Did you know that DotNetSla
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

AJAX on Internet Explorer 8

Developer on the IE team focusing on AJAX features for IE8. One of the AJAX improvements we adopted in IE8 from HTML5 is AJAX page navigations. In IE8 mode, we provide support for script to update the travel log components (for e.g. back/forward buttons, address bar) to reflect client-side updates to documents. This allows a better user experience where users can navigate back and forth without messing the AJAX application state. For more information regarding the feature and sample code, ref
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been updating the example from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Fantasy Soccer - Part 4 - Architectural Overview

Okay this Fantasy Soccer thing has got me thinking. What is this thing going to look like from about 100,000 feet? I.e. what are the big bits? Well being a pure geek, I really want to play with new shiny stuff (i.e. the new ASP.NET MVC Framework) but that has to be balanced against a desire to be real world for the average developer
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Handling security for Flex and Silverlight in ASP.NET

Al Pascual talks about security and how it relates to both Silverlight and Flex . Silverlight and Flex are plug ins that run on the browser, their security model is quite similar to the JavaScript model, the browser will make the requests to the server. For this storing credential information or any other sensitive information is not the recommended option as any user can download the SWF file or XAP file and be able to look inside the code, as well all requests going to the server, without u
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Death of Popfly shows the dark side of the cloud

I am not sure what goals Microsoft had for Popfly
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

SilverZine.com A Must Read

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

High Fiving The Ballmer

Ah! A joyful day it was. Steve Ballmer came to Belgium. I got up around 7 this morning and hopped in my car with my camera and flaptops. Drove aaaaall the way to the other side of the language border in my country and joined the local DPE team in helping to deliver a pretty sweet combo of events, hosted by Microsoft. I invited a bunch of bloggers and put them on the list of the Press so they could attend a press conference with SteveB and ask him some questions in a Q&A. As soon as I arrived, I
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Pete Blois on Expression Blend, Windows Phone, Rooler

A month ago I recorded this video with Expression Blend PM Pete Blois . Pete is a great guy to talk with, especially if you're interested in Expression Blend. We chatted about Silverlight 4, Silverlight for Windows Phone (and the Blend designer for that...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15 more

NBC, NFL Deal Puts Adobe One More Step Back

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

Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes

On Tuesday, June 22nd at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009, Microsoft announced it will bring Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recognized rich media technologies including Silverlight to Xbox LIVE within the next year. By extending...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Azure July CTP

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

Netflix instant watch on iPhone soon?

The word on the street is that Netflix is going to let iPhone users stream movies via WIFI. While the idea would be well received by customers, we wonder how the implementation would work. The iPhone doesn't support Flash (or Silverlight), so it's probably not going to be a web portal. Netflix can also develop its own application and take care of everything itself (rights management, streaming, decoding): that might be the most likely option. What
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

8.20 The Cooler

Nothing Fugazi About Fouzia The Definitive Guide To Finding Free Wi-Fi [Life Hacker] Wanna See John Mayer
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Cappuccino

The guys from 280 North did it again. Earlier, it was the awesome Keynote on the Web
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-02-16 more

Updating Prism-v2 Silverlight Applications to use dinamic module loading

The UX Patterns & Practices (Sustained Engineering) team has released a new article explaining the required steps to migrate the Composite WPF and Silverlight or Prism-v2 Reference Implementation: Stock Trader of the Prism-v2 Drop 10 to use dynamic module loading: Migrating Prism v2 RI from static to dynamic module loading Basically, the explained steps in the article allow to define the modules of a Composite Silverlight Application (in this case, the Stock Trader RI) in an .xaml file,
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

The ABCs of Alpha, Beta, CTP

A commenter to my last post asks the following question, What is the difference between a beta, a CTP, a fully-supported out of band release, an RTM feature, and a service pack? The answer you get will differ based on who you ask, but Ill give you my two cents on what these terms mean. Beta Lets start with Beta. A great starting point is this post by Jeff Atwood entitled Alpha, Beta, and Sometimes Gamma. The software is complete enough for external testing -- that is, by groups outside... Did yo
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Silverlight Contest app updated with new RadialPanel

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Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Asp .Net Interview Question Part 2

Asp .Net Interview Question Part 2... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Build Your Photo Album Using Silverlight

by Amanda Wong More and more websites are now offering services for photo albums and image galleries. For some websites like Facebook, photo albums act merely as a sub-page. But for some other websites like those photographers
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Throwing Together An Application

Creating a Quick and Dirty App in Silverlight There comes a point, usually within 3-6 months after I commit to a new technology, when it becomes my platform of choice for throwing together quick applications
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

SNEAK PEEK: .toolbox design school for Silverlight and Expression

Almost there! Follow @designtoolbox to learn when the site launches…...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-12 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

News: Download Silverlight 2 Beta2 for Visual Stuido 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

I think Visual Stuido 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (not beta) is released today. You can go and download it from this link. Downloads Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with SP1 Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 Silverlight Tools Beta 2 has been updated to support Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Here is the link where you can download the latest version of silverlight_chainer.exe. Downlo
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

GeoRSS Editor alpha version is up and running

GeoRSS is a great way to share geographic information that updates all the time, sending simple geography (points, lines and polygons to a consumer. GeoRSS is RSS with a collection of points, as flexible as RSS with the advantage of providing location to your information. A great tool that I personally use in a regular basis in my professional and personal life. If I may I would recommend to extend GeoRSS to add attributes for viewers to display. I would like to suggest to add
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Moonlight

Moonlight, which is an alternative to Microsoft Silverlight on Linux platforms has hit a public beta of it
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

NEW RELEASE: Silverlight for Designers Getting Started Guide

Hello! We’ve published new training content for Expression called: Silverlight for Designers Getting Started Guide. This content is available in the Expression Community site. This content includes a manual, assets and 11 videos. The content was...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

Beta 2 of Silverlight 2 has just shipped

The second beta of Silverlight 2 has just been released. The team has been cranking away and there are some new features and lots of bug fixes to show. A big thanks to all who provided vital feedback on our previous pre-releases! Animation Support for...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Your guided tour of the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre

When I decided to leave the patterns & practices team to move back to Australia, one of my big concerns was whether I would be able to work on teams with the quality and dedication I experienced on projects such as Enterprise Library. It turned out that my fears were unfounded, as Ive found myself working in the most high-performing team Ive ever experienced, Microsoft Australias Solutions Development Centre (SDC). The SDC is basically a software engineering team available for hire, buildi
Publication date: 2009-05-03 more

PDC2008 Professional Developers Conference

Microsoft has recently announced that the Professional Developers Conference (PDC2008) will be held in Los Angeles, CA from October 27 through October 30 2008. Registration for the conference is now live and you can save $200 with the early bird discount. Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, will be delivering one of the keynote speeches at this year
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

What's new in Silverlight 2 Beta 2?

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

A Big Day for the Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services teams

The release of Visual Studio Service Pack 1 today (currently available for MSDN Subscribers to download), marks the RTM of Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. It's been a long haul for EF, initially shown off in early 2006. ADO.NET Data Services, or ANDS as I've seen Shawn Wildermuth call it (though I still call it Astoria) is a bit younger, making its first public appearance in March 2007 at MIX. So they are finally here. There were a lot of doubting Thomas' in the first year or so of..
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Scalability: I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Does

Via Mark Pilgrim I stumbled on an article by Scott Loganbill entitled Googles Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed which contains the following excerpt The best way to explore Protocol Buffers is to compare it to its alternative. What do Protocol Buffers have that XML doesnt? As the Google Protocol Buffer blog post mentions, XML isnt scalable: "As nice as XML is, it isnt going to be efficient enough for [Googles] scale. When all of your machines and network links are... Did you
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

First Steps in Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2

(Ged Mead) As a Developer, Visual Studio is my comfort zone but I thought the time had come to see what the experience of creating a Silverlight 2 project in Expression Blend would be like. Having spent the past six months working almost exclusively on Windows Presentation Foundation, I was particularly interested to find out how different the WPF and Silverlight experience would be.
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Superior Windows Xp X64 Edition (64 Bit) Revival 6 2009

Description: This is a clean SECURE thoroughly tested A/V & IT Expert
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Update to Logging in to DotNetNuke from a Silverlight Application with RIA Authentication

I have made a few changes to the AuthenticationService so that it can be used from any portal and child portals as well. The previous post had a few hard coded variables to get the ball rolling. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Web.Ria; using System.Web.Ria.ApplicationServices; using DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals; using DotNetNuke.Security.Membership; using DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities; using DotNetNuk
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Silvelight Resources Directory Update (13 Aug)

12 new Silverlight Resources Entry...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac Debuts

In September of 2006, the New York Times released their
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine.

This month the PDF version is FREE ! http://phparch.com/c/magazine/issue/97 There are SEVERAL articles for Developers working on the Microsoft Platform ! Installing PHP on Windows by Hank Janssen and Pierre A. Joye The Windows version of PHP has always...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

SQL SERVER Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables

In my recent Business Intelligence Training Roadshow August September 2009 I quite often get request to provide more details about Analysis Service Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTable. Here is the white paper on the same subject.Microsoft Office Excel 2007 takes advantage of most of the features in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. To take [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several c
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

PollingDuplex scaling in Windows Azure

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

The MIX10 Trivia Application - Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET

Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-13 more

The desperate quest for doing it 'right'

This morning I ran into an interesting design decision. The problem at hand isn't that interesting, I've solved it a lot of times before. The interesting thing is that this problem isn't always solved the same way. It goes like this: do you tell an element which is inside a container (which can be inside another container) to exclude (remove) itself from its container or do you tell the container to exclude (remove) the element? This might sound simple enough, but what is the right thing to do h
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Look Ma, I

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

NBC Readies Online Olympics Coverage with Microsoft's Silverlight -- and Piracy Solutions are in Place

Click To Play Online viewers of the Summer Olympics, will need to download a small plug-in to their computers to watch some 2200 hours of live and on-demand video coverage from Beijing. The Web application is called Silverlight. It was introduced last year by Microsoft. To check it out, you might want to watch a baseball game this weekend on on MLB.com. For NBC and the International Olympic Committee, the issue of piracy of the online video coverage is of considerable concern, as Vic
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

The Democrats Lose: Comparing the Convention Web Sites

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

Virtual Earth Flight Simulator

You just have to check this out. Ricky Brundritt has created a Flight Simulator for Virtual Earth by writing a plug-in for the VE3D MapControl . In his 4 part blog series he also explains the making of and provides the source code. The control even leverages the local time. Ricky, this is just great!!! * The 3D control is usually started through the Virtual Earth AJAX MapControl but there is also a documented SDK that allows you to access the assemblies directly and extend them with
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Silverlight Image Slideshow

SharePoint Silverlight Slideshow is a webpart of Windows Sharepoint 2007 that displays photos from the SharePoint Picture Library. It is geared towards those developers who use the MS Sharepoint suit for web development. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is required before installing this webpart. Most developers use flash to display photos, but if you prefer silverlight technology then this webpart will help. Note: This post is targeted towards Windows developers only. In the
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 15: ASP.NET MVC

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services.  I have been updating  the example from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

That's one way to get Silverlight on a mobile device: Port it to Moblin Linux

September 23rd, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 11:53 amCategories:Channel, Corporate strategy, Linux, OEMs, Resellers, Silverlight (wpf/e), System builders, Windows 7, Windows clientTags:Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Device, Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Moblin Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDsTo date, whenever anyone asked Microsoft officials when the company will deliver a version of Silverlight running on mobile phones, the answers range fro
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Eclair Theme

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Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Dissecting Lucene.net storage: Documents and Fields

Lucene.net tutorial How to get started with Lucene.net Lucene.net: the main concepts Lucene.net: your first application Dissecting Lucene.net storage: Documents and Fields In the previous posts we discussed how to get started with Lucene.net, its main concepts and we developed a sample application that put in practice all the concepts behind Lucene.net developlent. But before moving on, I think its worth analyzing in detail how content is stored into Lucene.net in
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Silverlight 3 Is A Lot Cooler, But Still Not Worthy Of Taking Seriously

While Silverlight is proving a fantastic competitor for Flash particularly in enthusiast content, it still has a lot more ground to cover before it can be used heavily in the enterprise.
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #107

Animation Easing allows for you to apply built in animation functions to your Silverlight controls. The result is a variety of animation effects that make your controls move in a more realistic way. For example, you can add springiness to your controls...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Your New Excuse to Get an Xbox

Games are fun, addictive, beautiful, and immersive. Websites, for the most part, are not. Take a moment and think about what video games look like, what they sound like, the way you can move on the screen, what
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Link Listing - July 13, 2008

WPF WPF.JoshSmith [Via: Josh Smith ] SQL Server Get ready for SQL Server 2008 RTM release! [Via: ssqa.net ] Link Collections Best of the Web - June [Via: Sean Hodge ] New and Notable 251 [Via: Sam Gentile ] LINKBLOG for July 12, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Interesting Finds: July 13, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] Dew Drop - July 13, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for July 13, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Weekly Link Post 50 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ] Links (7/13/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ] Miscellan
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Check Out the Security Development Lifecycle War Story Video with Steve Lipner

Follow the story of the security struggles that began with Code Red and led to the Microsoft Security Push.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Client Web Development Using Open Source Software

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

Silverlight Effect Samples

We recently worked on new samples of Silverlight effects and ad banner done completely in Silverlight. Now these samples are published on the web site.
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

3D Capabilities in Silverlight 3

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

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
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

BeginAnimation() method for Silverlight

Yeah, it's been awhile since I've blogged anything, so I thought a nice way to get back in the game was to post a BeginAnimation method. Sometimes you just want to start a simple animation in code, and the Silverlight way of doing it through storyboards...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-01 more

Authenticate .NET web service with custom SOAP Header

How to authenticate .NET web service with custom SOAP Header... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Parsing the

It
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Microsoft is cloud building, with lots of servers...

There seems to be plenty of news about clouds, even when the weather is fine!  It
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

If I was in charge at Microsoft

We
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

Windows Azure (aka Project Red Dog)

In my previous post, I was thoughtstreaming Ray Ozzie
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

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

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

PROFESSIONAL VISUAL STUDIO 2008

Description: Professional Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is the stylish edition in the current phylogenesis of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and this inventiveness examines the different facets of the IDE
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

ZOMG! ZOMG!

http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.html This is why Silverlight and DeepZoom where inventorated
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

DOWNLOAD: Silverlight Migration Guide

Upgrading Your Windows Media Player Online Experiences For the past decade Windows Media technologies have been used for delivery of video and audio content over the Internet and within enterprise networks. The Windows Media-based ecosystem core advantages
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Cross Domain Policy Extras

Cross Domain Policy Extras Today's post wraps up the series on cross-domain policy files with some side stories that you probably don't have to deal with when using WCF in Silverlight. I've been giving all of the examples using the defined Silverlight policy format. However, if...
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Press Release - Infragistics Ships User Interface Components for Microsoft Silverlight 3

PRINCETON, N.J. and ELSTREE, United Kingdom, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Infragistics, a world leader in user interface (UI) development tools and experts in the User Experience (UX) market, today shipped the NetAdvantage Silverlight control toolset to develop UIs in Line of Business applications that is part of NetAdvantage for .NET 2009 Volume 1 and NetAdvantage for Web Client 2009 Volume 1. Built on Microsoft Silverlight 3, Infragistics provides developers with advanced, unique controls to quick
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Silverlight

What if you want to get a Color from its hexa value (#FFBBCC88) ? Unfortunately Silverlight do not have the ColorTranslator class which allows you to do ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FF1133") in ASP.NET. What we have is the Color.FromArgb() method which takes 4 parameters (alpha, red, blue and green channels as bytes). So here is a small method you could write: public static SolidColorBrush GetColorFromHexa( string hexaColor) { return new SolidColorBrush( Co
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Mitch Fincher blogs about the Agile Boot Camp, part 1

Mitch Fincher was a student in our Agile Boot Camp, part 1, taught by Matt Hinze, CodeCampServer and MvcContrib committer. Mitch gives a good student's perspective on the curriculum. For lots of folks, all the buzzwords sound like: "Blah, Blah, Blah, Dependency Injection, Blah, Blah, Blah, Program to Abstractions, Blah, Blah, Blah, RhinoMocks, Blah, Blah, Blah, StructureMap, Blah, Blah, Blah, Inversion of Control." I think this is pretty common, and I think Matt did a good job of explaining...
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Adobe helps search engines to handle Flash

Adobe helps search engines to handle Flash Jack Schofield / Internet / Search 02:11pm A number of web sites are written using Adobe's Flash technology, which search engines have not been able to search. Now some will be able to, according to Adobe. It says: Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. Google has
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Weekend Shootout Round 1: MLB.TV Premium

Lets just cut right to the chase. I
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Opera 10 Alpha (Build 1535)

O Opera é um browser alternativo pequeno, rápido e leve, que suporta HTML 4.0, Javascript 1.3, SSL 3, XML, WML, CSS2 alguns plug-ins do Netscape, navegaç
Publication date: 2009-05-28 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?
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

Exceptionally Mysterious

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

How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight?

How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight? The challenge today is really simple. All we have to do is to write Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadget, that consumes either WCF, ASMX or REST based service. Really simple, isn
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

Connections

Featured Article Slideshow,Image on Articles (Automatic Resize),Advertisement/Banner Ready,Gravatar on Comments,SEO Optimized,Works with the Latest Version of Wordpress 2.7 (and below),Threaded Comments,Featured Video, Flickr RSS, Animated Tag Cloud LIVE DEMO | Download Connections More Free Wordpress Themes: InnodeMag Portfolio Extended Turn Out Mag Eclair Theme TealZine Free Wordpress Theme:: TheLatest Theme SilverLight
Publication date: 2009-04-26 more

Speaking at Tech-Ed 2008 Hong Kong

If you happen to be in Asia around October 8-10, Ill be speaking at Tech-Ed Hong Kong. Come by and say hi. Im giving three talks, one on each day. October 8 11:45 AM 1:00 PM ASP.NET MVC - An alternative approach to building Web Applications October 9 11:00 AM 12:15 PM Developing Data Driven Applications Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data October 10 9:30 AM 10:45 AM Write better designed code with Test Driven Development... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top know
Publication date: 2008-09-16 more

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

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

The Roadshow Rides Again! - May/June Edition

The Northeast Roadshow We're at it again! It's time to pack our laptops and gear to head out across the northeast for our fifth Roadshow! Only this time, you're getting three of us for the price of, well, zero - the events are free after all... Jim O'Neil, our new colleague here in the northeast, is joining Bob and me as we set out to tour various cities, bringing you deep developer and architect content. And some giveaways as well, of course. What's the Roadshow?
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Favorite Twitter Posts

Not to be confused with the seminal What I think I think series , these are what I think are the best things I
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Microsoft uses Olympics to push Silverlight

Microsoft uses Olympics to push Silverlight August 11, 2008 Olympics fever has taken over the world, and Microsoft has come up with a clever idea to boost the use of Silverlight: partner with NBC to show clips of Olympic competitions with the Silverlight player. In the US, the official online destination for video from the Beijing games is NBCOlympics.com. Many viewers will want to bypass athlete profiles and other lightweight content and get straight to the business of watching video from the
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

Silverlight 3 Beta!

Here are all the Silverlight 3 Beta links, if you
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Get Off Of My Cloud (Stop Paying Twice For Your Content)

In early 2007, I found myself at a business luncheon in New York, sitting across from an executive of Major League Baseball. The gentleman was waxing rhapsodic about the success of MLB.com; and, especially about the 2009 launch of MLB TV . He went into detail on how it would be included in most cable & satellite packages (in the USA)
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Microsoft Virtual Earth

Microsoft Virtual Earth News Posts New Microsoft Virtual Earth features - International Business Times Microsoft's Virtual Earth has released the Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control community technology preview (CTP) which supports video, animation, and vector graphics. Get stories by e-mail on this topic. Platforms now include Silverlight, AJAX,
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Silverlight MsBuild tricks - video

Build Silverlight apps and libraries without having to install the SDK in your build lab, following this video. A re-post....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Mike Chambers Compares RIA Client Download Size

Mike Chambers has posted an entry entitled Rich Runtime Install Sizes Matrix in which he compares the download size of RIA runtimes Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Silverlight 3 beta, and JavaFX.
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

IPL 2009 - Live Streaming Video Links

After a lot of hoopla about security issues, the second iteration of Indian Premier League (IPL) is finally on its way. And if the first few overs are any indication it
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

The evil of the Office UI ribbon license

For the next major version of a certain application I'm working on (gee, what might that be ) I'm researching some UI frameworks and techniques. In the past few months I've spend most of my time working on application support library code, language designs, algorithm design etc. etc. (more on that in a later article) and I arrived at the point where I wanted to see how my vision for the major version would work in a draft application, just to see how the various elements would work together visu
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Emphasis using Expression Design

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

Channel9 WCF duplex demo

Recently I spent some time with Robert Hess over at Channel9 discussing Silverlight 3 and giving a short demo of our duplex binding. If you haven
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Drop-Down Menu Button with Telerik ContextMenu for Silverlight

Sometimes, when a button is clicked we want to display a drop-down menu with options. This is handy interface, usually present in toolbars, but sometimes - as standalone buttons, like the Save As button in the the VS2008 Save As dialog. Sometimes the drop-down buttons consist of two parts action and menu, and are called split buttons. In this post I will demonstrate how to achieve the drop-down menu button part. If you need a split button, just add another button and keep track of what was the
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Links of the Week #37 (week 20/2008)

Development 6 useful visual studio tweaks you need to know Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta - A long list of changes and improvements in SP1 of .NET 3.5. It looks like this is bigger that 3.5 altogether! ;) Looking forward to Astoria, Entity Framework and more. Yaml .NET Parser - Yaml is much like JSON and a really nice way to represent data in lists. Redirect LINQ to SQL DataContext Log Messages To Log4Net - I'm going to implement this first thing Monday morning...
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

This Week in jQuery, vol. 3

Another week, another collection of links to some of the most interesting and exciting new jQuery happenings around the web. Plugins Jörn Zaefferer
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

VIEWS - Opensource Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight

Jared Bienz from Microsoft announced that VIEWS, the Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight, is live on Codeplex. VIEWs is a wrapper around the JavaScript Virtual Earth control that allows a developer to write a complex Virtual Earth Mashup using a managed language for all client-side scripting. It was originally created by Adam Eversole in Microsoft Research and it was an internal-only project when Jared found it. Then,  Jared refine and polish it with the help of Adam within 8 days. Now, we
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

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)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Skyfire 0.9 - WVGA Support, Twitter and Facebook Integration

Skyfire released a new Beta of their free mobile browser for Windows Mobile and S60, Version 0.9. This is a big upgrade, the release note s are huge. Here are some of the highlights. Skyfire now supports almost all Windows Mobile screen resolutions; QVGA (320x240, 240x320), WQVGA (400x240), VGA (640x480), and WVGA (800x480).  On S60, support for the N80's 352x416 resolution has been added.  No joy for E90 (800 x 352) users yet though. Twitter and Facebook integration: Your Twitter timeline
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Links for the month of May

Its being a while since posting links to whats happening around the community, I thought today is a perfect day to do that as I have to catch up myself on the blogs and email, I have been really busy traveling for work. Things not to miss a free event called Community Day 09. MVPs Headline at 3rd Microsoft Community Day!   From Shawn Wildermuth: Silverlight Tour and Silverlight Firestarter both coming to Washington, DC And talking about Shawn, please make sure you read his article..
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Cnet Says,

Sounds cool! I like Cnet
Publication date: 2008-09-06 more

How Do I: Use the SDL Process Template Documentation and Reporting?

This 5-minute video will help you learn how to use the new SDL Process Template's document templates and security metrics reporting. The built-in SDL document templates will help you jump start your use of the Microsoft SDL.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Looking at Your Computer Desktop through 3D Glasses

Ah, those crazy Linux-using, Deviant Art artists. Someone has created an anaglyph theme for the GNOME (Linux) desktop. Don some red and blue-tinted glasses, and watch your desktop pop out of your screen. After all, it
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Does the Olympics Video Suck For You Too?

Admit it. These Olympics have been awesome so far. The mind-blowing opening ceremony. Michael Phelps. The breadth of games covered. All wrapped up in an HD bow. Too bad the online experience doesn
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

AirdrieBMX.com Top Stories: Youth Olympics - 2010

AirdrieBMX.com Top Stories: Youth Olympics - 2010The IOC announced some time ago that a new Olympicgames - the Youth Olympics, for athletes that are aged 14-18 yrs old - would be intiated. The first edition of the games will take place in Singapore August 13-26, 2010.
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

FTab(Floating Tabs)

FTab(Floating Tabs) is a COOL cross browser DHTML floating window script with support for tabs... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Get Ready To Watch Flash On Your TV

Adobe Flash is unquestionably the most popular video format on the Internet. If Adobe has its way, it will also be the dominant video format on televisions too. Right now Flash powers everything from... (Click on the title for the full story...)
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated

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

Microsoft PDC 2008 is coming!

PDC 2008 registrations are now open.You could expect a lot of fantastic announcements this year about Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Silverlight, Live Mesh
Publication date: 2008-05-28 more

.Net RIA Services: Sharing Code between the Client and Server

.Net RIA Services: Sharing Code between the Client and Server This is another post in a series of posts about building applications with Microsoft .Net RIA Services and Silverlight 3 and ASP.Net . Build a Simple Application with .Net RIA Services (Silverlight 3)
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

A slightly less trivial browser history example

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

The Client

Brad renfro death | Desy | Brad renfro | The client The client | Cedy | The client movie | Brad renfro Hayes macarthur | Brad renfro | The client | Soxy Tips for Choosing the Right Performance-tracking Tool Capturing the network and download order is usually accomplished by installing some type of network sniffer on the client
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Using Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

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

How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+)

  So, this is kind of embarrassing, that it took me a while to figure this out.  I have not been doing pure asp.net server control programming for a while, but I figure since it took me a... 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
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 links collection

It always started with a tweet from Scott Hanselman yesterday evening: ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet. The ASP.NET MVC interim version has been released as source code + MSI with project template + release notes 7 weeks after the last official release of the P3. Lots of people already wrote about the new features so Id rather read what they already wrote then rewriting it myself. Here is the list of the posts/documents I printed and that Ill be reading today: ASP.NET... Did
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Deep Zoom: Coming (eventually) to a mobile browser near you

The Silverlight news just keeps on a'comin, this time in the form of Deep Zoom. No, it's not some sort of Apple mole feeding inside information back to Redmond. To put it simply: Silverlight Deep Zoom allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery, from a 2 or 3 megapixel shot from a digital camera to gigapixel scans of museum pieces, all without waiting for huge file downloads. The simple zooming interface allows users to explore entire collections down to specific de
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Code Snippet Manager in Java and Swing

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

marketing

NewsNew Dashboard Commercials Bring Ad Breaks To Your 360By Luke Plunkett on July 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM As many of you have no doubt probably seen by now if you
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

Microsoft sued over Silverlight

Microsoft is being sued over allegations that Silverlight infringes on several patents held by a small US software firm.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Speaking on Designer/Developer workflow tools with Ryan Stewart on Oct 21

Since its inception, the Seattle Interact group
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

EOAST - Evolution of a software thingy - Part 3

This is the the third instalment of my experiences and ideas around the development of a piece of software to initially satisfy my disappointment around Outlook and also to allow me to play with some new technologies and making them all work together. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here. This latest instalment will focus a little more into the design detail. The "InformationAggregator" (as I have coined this project) is intended to be fairly generic as to the kind of information it collects but
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

OpenVideoPlayer : New v1.1.5 release for Flash

OpenVideoPlayer is a shared code base for building advanced, scalable and robust Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight web-based video players. More...
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 8/17/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Julie Lerman
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Microsoft Builds Awesome Applications Using FaceBook APIs

Microsoft released a demo video of two applications developed using SilverLight, .NET and recently released FaceBook APIs. The user interface of the applications are unbelievable good and you can see it in the below video published by Tech Crunch For developers : Microsoft is going to release the full source code, APIs along with the documentation of these applications soon. This will definitely help the .NET developers to easily kick start FaceBook API usage. We will publish th
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

SQL SERVER Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler

IntroductionSQL Server Profiler is a powerful tool that is available with SQL Server since a long time; however, it has mostly been underutilized by DBAs. SQL Server Profiler can perform various significant functions such as tracing what is running under the SQL Server Engines hood, and finding out how queries are resolved internally and what [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categ
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

AutoCompleteBox: The 5 things you need to know

  AutoCompleteBox works great with collections. You don’t have to connect it to a sophisticated web service. We named this control the AutoCompleteBox, not AutoComplete. Its different. It is a rich control that provides a set of suggestions...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Addressing authorization with OAuth or the .NET Access Control Service

OAuth As I mentioned in the post, "OAuth Channel for REST services", OAuth allows a client application to obtain user consent (as access tokens) for executing operations over private resources on his behalf. Resources in this context represent anything from the user that the service provider make public through services, they could be for instance contacts, pictures or personal information to name a few. The access token that the consumer gets from the service provider represents in some way an
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

Delete me.

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Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Popfly Game Creator

Microsoft have announced the Popfly Game Creator. Popfly was launched last year as as an easy way to create widgets and mashups using Silverlight. With Popfly Game Creator, it is adding a simple Web-based authoring environment for creating casual arcade-style games. Mark Harrison
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Look Ma

I have been trying to consolidate. Most of my work is here, in this blog, and for this site, but I also have a Blog for O
Publication date: 2008-06-23 more

Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block

Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block to log events in Application Events Log... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

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

URL Rewriting using ASP.NET for SEO

An article describing how to implement URL rewriting in ASP.NET using three different methods... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Health Monitoring and ASP.NET MVC

Health monitoring has been available in ASP.NET since v 2.0, and the health monitoring features can give you information you cant find anywhere else. I was troubleshooting an MVC application recently and needed information about the application: When was the application starting? When was the application shutting down? Why was the application shutting down? When was view compilation taking place? This is the type of information you can record with health monitoring in both We
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Pencake Ecard (Facebook Application)

Pencake provides a platform for user to create his/her own Ecard by a drawing tool. The recipient can also see how the e-card is drawn when they receive the Ecard. Users can comment on any Ecard, customize other user-created Ecard by their own creativity...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

Links (7/5/2009)

SharePoint **** SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery How to Upload Files to SharePoint Server 2007 from ASP.NET Web Applications WebPart Development
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

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

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

Tutorial: Simple Parent/Child Navigation in Silverlight

Alex Knight has a great tutorial up on simple Parent/Child navigation in Silverlight. The best part about Silverlight is it provides heaps of great tools to use, so people like me who are completely graphically minded and a little bit developer stupid are still able to create sweet menus and the like. This blog will show a simple way to create a menu that has all the main categories visible and when clicked will show your child links for that category, and when clicked again will make them
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 4

Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 4 Posted by on July 26th, 2008 Day 4 involves a lot of hard work (9 am - 12 am). It feels like the crunch time before final projects back in grad school.  At the start of the day, we reviewed each other
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Techsmith Camtasia Studio V6.0.1 Build787 Portable Precr

TechSmith Camtasia Studio v6.0.1 Build 787 Portable portable and precracked
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Persisting the Configuration

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

SILVERLIGHT 101 FROM LEARNVISUALSTUDIO.NET

Silverlight 101 from LearnVisualStudio.NET 106 Mb This textbook (PDF) and video series demonstrates and explains the concepts behind building rich interactive applications using Silverlight. Covers 1.0 and 1.1 Alpha. Will be released to LearnVisualStudio.NET subscribers. Tags: .NET, ebooks, Programming 02 September 2009 11:10pm - Programming
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Discussing Free Music Hosting? This website helps you make and host casual..

[ Yahoo! News Search Results for free music hosting ] Music, comedy, auction will benefit Freeland arson victims (Small Town Papers News Service) Friends of Maureen and Angus MacDonald, owners of the Tartan Thistle in Freeland, are hosting a fundraising event from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 17 at the Greenbank Farm to raise money following an arson fire that damaged their business
Publication date: 2008-05-19 more

(MS)NBC using Microsoft Silverlight for Olympic video streaming - PowerPC users screwed

So the Olympics are in full effect after an amazing opening ceremony. Time to catch up on the events on teh Internets? Not so fast Apple users! Install Microsoft Silverlight Beta 2 if we want to watch any streaming videos from NBC.com? Two year old PowerPC Mac? Sorry, Silverlight doesn't work on your machine. We didn't plan on having to install a potentially very annoying Microsoft application framework just to watch some web videos. Ever heard of Flash? Why one earth would NBC...Oh..M
Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

Microsoft faces lawsuit over Silverlight

Microsoft's latest legal headache is a suit from a little-known company called Gotuit Media, which charges elements of Silverlight infringe on the video metadata company's patented technology. ________________ Source: Beyond Binary
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

VS2008 SP1 - Thar she blows

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

Generating Word Reports / Documents

Generate Word documents by appling XSLT on XML data.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

SQL Server 2008 Augmented Reality Powered By What?

Serge Jespers demoed a series of augmented reality apps at the DevSummit in Bangalore, including one that got quite a laugh from the audience. SQL Server Usergroup Belgium has posted Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Augmented Reality Experience , and of course it is powered by Flash. Actually, this is not surprising, as Silverlight does not have support for webcams. As for me, well, I like SQL Server, and so I'm glad that we can be of assistance in any way. Really! ;-)
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Microsoft out of band patches especially for IE

Microsoft out of band patches especially for IE
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Yes, I Am Still Talking About Prism - On The Connected Show!

URL : http://www.connectedshow.com/default.aspx?Episo... I had a chance to sit down (metaphorically) with Dmitry Lyalin  and Peter Laudati and talk about Silvelright, MVVM and Prism 2.0. Let me know if you agree, disagree or think that I am a little obsessed with IoC containers. The Connected Show is a podcast on New Microsoft Technology for the developer community, produced independently by Dmitry Lyalin and Peter Laudati.
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

LOTD for August 20

The airport perimeter security market is large and growing rapidly. This article has a nice summary of all of the varied technologies involved: http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8551 Article about how much needs to be done for airport perimeter security in the US: http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8560 Raytheon just won a $100+ million contract to provide airport perimeter security for four New York City-area airports. This is a great market for Raytheon
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

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

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

Weekly Link Post 99

This is is my weekly link post.  It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me
Publication date: 2009-06-22 more

Embed Windows Media Video (WMV) File to Playback with WMP Player on Websites

Windows Media Video (WMV) format is of the widely used video codec formats. WMV codecs were developed by Microsoft to support online streaming videos, WMV Screen and WMV Image, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD-ROM), ForSure-certified online stores and devices. WMV is the only video codec format that supports the Microsoft Silverlight platform. Embedding WMV files and playing them as streaming videos online will be easy after reading this tutorial. WMV video files can easily be created on our
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

The Great Client-Server Architecture Myth

The webification of applications over the years has led to the belief that client-server as an architecture is dying. But very few beliefs about architecture have been further from the truth. The belief that client-server was dying - or at least falling out of favor -  was primarily due to fact that early browser technology was used only as a presentation mechanism. The browser did not execute application logic, did not participate in application logic, and acted more or less like a televisio
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Three

Here's an example of an animation where clicking a button will increase the size of the font of the button. First I've declared two constants of type double, one for the font size of the button at the initialization time, which is declared as initFontSize; and the other one at runtime when the button is clicked. When clicked, the event handler creates a DispatcherTimer that generates Tick events every tenth of a second. The TimerOnTick method here increases the FontSize by two units every tenth
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Disable Autoplay on Silverlight Video in Expression Encoder 2 SP1

By default any Silverlight video you create in Expression Encoder 2 has AutoPlay set to true. If this cause you troubles, find out  a way to solve the problem in the post of Walt Ritscher. There is a way to configure AutoPlay in Expression Encoder. It
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Essential Silverlight 2 Up to Date Apr 2008 eBook-BBL

Essential Silverlight 2 Up to Date Apr 2008 eBook-BBL Posted:2008-04-22 15:54:33 | Category:Web Development Seeds:1 Peers:0 Size:4.95 MBs The type of the release is: eBook In the CHM format with ISBN: 0596519982 and Pub Date: April 15, 2008 The size of the release is: 02 disks x 2.88mb And release...
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Download the MyWindowsPC Windows Live Toolbar Buttonmintywhite Tools Add comments

my Windows PC member Gary made a Windows Live Toolbar Button to give you quick access to my Windows PC at the click of a button.If you do not already have the Windows Live toolbar, you can get it here. From the Windows Live toolbar download page:With Windows Live Toolbar, you always have quick access to Windows Live and Live Search, no matter where you are on the web.Video of the button in actionDownload the my Windows PC - Windows Live Toolbar ButtonHello there! If you are new here, you might w
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Silverlight 3 has Released!

WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up: - Scott Guthrie's Silverilght 3 kick off announcement - What's New in Silverilght 3 - Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime, tutorials, other links) - Breaking Changes (good to read if you're migrating...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

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
Publication date: 2009-11-12 more

PDC 2009 Out Of Browser Session

I just got back from PDC 2009 where I had a great time presenting a session on the new Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser Features. The talk is available on-demand here and you can find the slide deck here . The session covered the following new Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Silverlight, MVVM, Prism and More at VSLive Orlando

Are you planning on attending VSLive Orlando t his week? If so, please stop by the 3 sessions I will be presenting at VSLive Orlando and say hi. I really enjoy speaking at the conferences and getting the chance to have great conversations with all the people. Often it gives me a greater breadth of understanding of what people are trying to accomplish and the struggles they face. For me the conferences have always been about the conversations and the people. If you are going to be at the c
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Microsoft Attacks Sage in ERP Market Battle

Microsoft is taking aim at U.K.-based Sage Software in an attempt to grab a greater stake in the enterprise resource planning software market.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Visual Studio Tools

I've been meaning to post something about two awesome and competing toolsets that recently have some news to report. First, my friends at DevExpress won both the Attendee's Pick : Overall Winner and Breakthrough Product awards at Tech:Ed Developers a couple of weeks ago. DXperience won the Attendee's Pick. CodeRush, their productivity-enhancing Visual Studio tool, won the latter award, and you can watch a video of a complete non-computer user shaming a developer (Brendan) last November, here
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

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

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Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

ASP.NET AJAX support in custom controls

How to update your ASP.NET custom control to make it work with ASP.NET AJAX correctly... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Taking a Break with Hibachi Steak

This year for Valentine
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Bing 2.0 Is Coming This Month, Say Microsoft Employees On Twitter

Here comes Bing, version 2.0. Microsoft (MSFT) held a huge company meeting at Safeco field in Seattle yesterday and news of Bing 2.0 hit Twitter during the event. ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley rounded-up some employee tweets about it. Here's a couple:
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Displaying the Number of Active Users...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-30 more

BlogInto, the new bloginy desktop client is available

Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

A few announcements for those in the UK

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I
Publication date: 2010-03-08 more

Link Listing - August 12, 2008

WPF Podder Skinning Competition Hall of Fame [Via: Josh Smith ] Code Camps Codestock rocked! [Via: Michael Eaton ] The Codestock T-shirt challenge [Via: Michael Eaton ] Link Collections The Morning Brew #156 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - August 12, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for August 12, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Podcasts Udi Dahan Scales Web Applications! [Via: dotnetrocks ] Miscellaneous Nullable ConvertTo Extension Method [Via: stefan.sedich ] ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Tip
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Game Contest

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

Free Silverlight v1.0 Training on Lynda.com

As a few folks have noticed, the Silverlight Essential Training I recorded for Lynda.com is available free on Lynda's site.  4.5 hours of video training on Silverlight v1.0, 100% free.  You can watch all the videos and download the exercise files free of charge.  This training will also be made available in Silverlight video format on Silverlight.net at some point in the future as well.  I recorded this training on site at Lynda's facilities in Ventura, California in September of 2007 and I spent about 2 months preparing the material before that.  A huge amount of credit goes to Chris Mattia from Lynda for helping to make the training.  Chris was my training development manager (TDM).  He worked with me on the training outline and also sat outside the recording booth, listening to every word I said and making sure that I stayed on course and comments were relevant.  I took some snapshots of the Lynda.com building while I was there and I finally put them up on Flickr: This is the lobby of the Lynda.com building.  They have a the Lynda logo etched into a relight. The LCD TV behind the receptionist desk welcomed me when I arrived in Ventura. The bathroom in the lobby has a very cool sink. Here's the booth where the training was recorded in.  I spent way too much time in here.  This is the inside of the booth.  Notice the huge pile of used scripts in the corner.  Here's a picture of Chris Mattia, my TDM.  The machines are outside the booth to prevent noise in the recording.  Everything on my monitor was mirrored on Chris'.  I also created a bunch of sample apps for the training that we didn't have time to use in the recording.  I've got these very well commented and broken out into the steps to build them.  I'll be putting these up shortly. 
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

The Widget Interview #001: Ori Soen of MuseStorm

I wanted to make some new post series in Widgets Lab and a good way to break the ice after having covered much if not all of the big picture in the widget market is to do quick interviews to the CEO´s  behind the companies . our theme is of course widget Startups and these quick interview will be focused in clearing up the story and profile of those companies. MuseStorm Founded all the way back in 2005 in Tel Avi, Israel. Musestorm is the perfect company to check out to understand how much
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Project Turing: Beginning RIA Svcs

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 9 | Advanced: 6 ] FAQ | Table of Contents | Definitions What is this and where do I start ? From Database to DataGrid The next step in Project Turing is to create a first iteration of the Silverlight application that will...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Major League Baseball dumps Microsoft

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

Silverlight 3 talking to a RIA Service, Everything Hosted on Windows Azure

Mark Monster has published his first tryout of Windows Azure. He wanted to find out if it
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Editable Silverlight ComboBox

Tim Heuer posted today about using the AutoCompleteBox control (Silverlight Toolkit) to enable editable ComboBox scenarios in Silverlight apps. This was originally one of the more complex samples that we included in the toolkit sample project, and Tim...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: October 2009

What an utter disaster this month has been for Microsoft on the security patches. I had a chance to start working on this edition before the security patches were announced, and I was so pleased at how few items there were. And then, we saw 13 (yes, thirteen ) security bulletins published, most of which are for
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Have you voted yet?

Have you voted in the Packt Open Source CMS awards yet? If not head on over and be sure to vote for DotNetNuke! If you're really feeling generous you could vote for a Open Source CMS MVP as well, wink wink, nudge nudge! From the Packt Site " The Packt...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Writing text on a Path in Silverlight

One of the things that I
Publication date: 2008-10-07 more

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 supports Windows 7, Vista, XP SP3

This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 3 . It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic. Note : One of the prerequisites for Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio is the installation of the Visual Web Developer feature in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If VWD is not alr
Publication date: 2009-07-20 more

October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Building a Great ASP.NET AJAX Application...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

DeepZoom Training Videos

Hello! One more drop of content. I’m heading to SxSW tomorrow morning and I’m expecting lots of folks will want to learn more about using DeepZoom Composer to create immersive photo experiences with the help of Silverlight. We have four videos...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

Saving a few lines of code. Part II - Doing reflection

I was just about to write the second blog post of the series, this time involving currying, the forward pipe operator and other functional programming beauties when two people discouraged me from doing it. FirstMike from the WinForms team kindly implied that with functional C# programming I can get some permanent brain damages and I definitely won't keep my audience concentrated. Then came Joe Zydeco's comment tomy previous blog post and I gave up. I don't know why people don't like functional
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

The Silverlight Toolkit grows up a little with an install experience

The Silverlight Toolkit's March 2009 release is out, now with an installation experience that adds controls to the Visual Studio and Expression Blend toolbox, and improves the design experience....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

MVC and ORMs for PHP Developers tonight in Burlington, VT

I finally read the abstract for Matthew Weier OPhinneys PHP U.G. talk, Play-Doh: Modeling Your Domain Objects, tonight and realized he is focusing on the MVC design pattern and ORMs. Im looking at my day /evening which still has two more dog walks (I havent been on my bike in over 2 weeks :-(), client work, 2 articles to write, a screencast to create and a major house cleaning preparation for some weekend guests. Boy would I like to steal 4 hours out of the evening to go to Matthews talk and ex
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

RIM

Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Hanselminutes Podcast 121 - LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2

My one-hundred-and-twentyfirst podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. We chat about...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Silverlight Design (Nova/DC/MD)

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Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

March Madness Online going HD w/ Silverlight

Mari and I have been talking up CBSSports.com NCAA March Madness on Demand for what seems like years . While we
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Blend 3 Behaviors: Interactivity Without Code

Blend 3 introduces a powerful design pattern for interactivity: Behaviors. Behaviors allow designers to create production-quality interactivity without writing code. They work in WPF and Silverlight. For those of you who are missing triggers in Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Windows 7 to Get Security Patches on Tuesday

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

Online Office gives Microsoft Open Web religion

Microsoft promotes its own Silverlight for building fancy Web applications. But to ensure wide availability, the online version of Office 14 will rely on JavaScript.
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-07

@jaredbangs looks like you
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions

I am finishing up my tutorial on Hyper-video and in the more advanced section I discuss the idea of displaying a button when the video's marker is hit, and then removing the button after a short time has passed. To make this work, I instantiate an object...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

So Much Technology

We have, I think, officially passed the point where anyone can keep up with the new technology available for developers, just from Microsoft (let alone all the new options from all the other companies), and PDC is les than a week away. A  totally...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

Is there a Microsoft tax for attending Microsoft

Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Silverlight 3's New Client Networking Stack

One of the most useful yet little-known new features of Silverlight 3 is one that has nothing to do with UIs: a brand new networking stack called the client HTTP stack , the client networking stack,  or simply the client stack . Silverlight 2 introduced rich networking to Silverlight. With classes such as WebClient and HttpWebRequest, you could call Web services, perform duplex networking, consume RSS, perform asynchronous downloads of images, assemblies, and other assets, and more. In Sil
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Silverlight Tour Montreal in November

The Silverlight Tour is coming back to Montreal next week. When: November 02-04 Where: Montreal, Qc Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: he
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

www.ASP.net - What's Missing ?

Next week I have a week full of meetings on things like. The Next Version of Web Forms Dynamic Data v.now and v.next ASP.NET 4.0 But the BIG part of the week will be spent on strategic planning for www.ASP.net web sites in the coming year. We want to answer questions like .... What's the NEXT great multi-media experience for developers ? What social networking features are missing and wanted on www.asp.net ? What improvements do we need to blogs, forums, RSS, etc.? What's missing... Did you know
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Have A Great Drawing

by Jason ChanSinging and playing sports requires talent, drawing needs it too. You need plenty of practice to draw good pictures. Attending a drawing class helps improve your drawing skills as a teacher will introduce you some basic drawing techniques. The teacher will teach you the right posture of holding a pencil and the way of using color. Though the teacher may assist you in certain extent, drawing is most likely coming from you.Patience is needed to do anything and there is no exception fo
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Webcast schedule has been updated

The Webcast schedule has been updated slightly. You can find it here . You can always find it in the sidebar as well: The key change is this September 10 Silverlight Animation and Expression Blend...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Silverlight Behaviors

(Nikhil Kothari) In the past, I've written about behaviors and control extenders in the context of Ajax and HTML-based UI. This post introduces a similar behavior semantics for Silverlight and XAML-based UI as well.
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Introduction to Table-Valued Parameters with Example

Table-Valued Parameters is a new feature introduced in SQL SERVER 2008. In earlier versions of SQL SERVER it is not possible to pass a table variable in stored procedure as a parameter, but now in SQL SERVER 2008 we can use Table-Valued Parameter to send multiple rows of data to a stored procedure or a [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

SealTale.com

table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { } In their own words
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Microsoft PDC 2008 Is Coming

After years of waiting, PDC is finally here! Registration opened up today at www.microsoftpdc.com. In the past, these events have served for significant announcements and events. This year will be no exception. Expect detailed announcements around Silverlight, Mesh, and other Microsoft Live services! When you mix in Microsoft's operating system announcements, their services platform, mobility, and developer tools, some announcements are bound to knock people's socks off and set the trend i
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Mini-Review of Code Rush

These days I'm very much in the market for anything will cut down on manual typing.  Thus I'm dictating more of what I write (using speech recognition), and today I began to explore CodeRush : a highly extensible Visual Studio plug-in Being very...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX

Several days ago I've received message with link to the InsideRIA. Mike Slinn of the InsideRIA has posted interesting article about job trends regarding Silverlight, Flex and JavaFX. If you go to the Indeed webpage and search for these keywords, you might...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Eye on Microsoft: Less Money, Mo

Eye on Microsoft: Less Money, Mo
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Binding combobox to Enum in silverlight

These days I
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Creating a Deep Zoom Slideshow

The MultiScaleImage control is quite flexible in that it allows you to do a bit more than just zooming in and panning on images. At its core, it is basically a layout panel that allows you to view high resolution images efficiently. Everything else that...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

A fix for simple HTML display in Silverlight [HtmlTextBlock bug fix for Silverlight 2 RTW!]

I updated my HtmlTextBlock sample for RTW last night and got an email from kind reader Ed Silverton this morning pointing out a problem setting FontSize on a standalone instance of the control. (Background reading: HtmlTextBlock Announcement for the Alpha...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

.Net RIA Services: Custom Validation

.Net RIA Services: Custom Validation This is another post in a series of posts about building applications with Microsoft .Net RIA Services and Silverlight 3 and ASP.Net . Build a Simple Application with .Net RIA Services (Silverlight 3)
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Telestream and Wowza Partner to Offer Live Video Production and Universal Streaming to iPhone, Web and TV Screens

Affordable video production and industry-first single-encode streaming to multiple screens to be demonstrated at IBC Show in Amsterdam Nevada City, Calif., and Evergreen, Colo., September 3, 2009
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Accessing .chm files in Vista

The other day I downloaded the Silverlight Toolkit controls and was attempting to view the accompanying help file when I ran into the same problem I had the first time I used the Silverlight .chm file ; the contents of the help file wouldn't display....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-26 more

Silverlight news for August 19, 2008

Silverlight news for August 19, 2008 0 comments posted by Ivan Dragoev on Tuesday, August 19 Martin Grayson continues his great Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, docking, expanding panels series with the second part. Now, he is dealing with element docking. See the demo here. Using Transform Matrices to Create 3D Looking Terrain - Mike Snows continues with the terrain tutorials. Demo is also available. Check also his tip How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor. Mike Taulty had a Curiou
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Green Eggs and Blend

  I
Publication date: 2008-07-12 more

PDC 2008 I will see ya there!

I
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

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

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

The Morning Brew #382

Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation Generation tool that was used to build the VS2010 documentation Information Pretty Code #1 - Building Sel
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Issuu goes for Scribd iPaper, releases Issuu Paper and Turns into a platform

  I wrote about Issuu Flash Magazine Widgets almost 6 months ago. when they had just released them and i remember thinking they were the slickest ones. but that Scribd iPaper was superior because of its features. that is no more true. issuu was heavy at work during that time and now they got their own markup language and Ajax implementation and while they still do flash. they are now also offering a choice called
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

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

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

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
Publication date: 2009-10-28 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

New Web Services Features in Silverlight 2 RTW

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

Making extension methods amenable to mocking

The question of how to mock extension methods comes up frequently enough that I though I might give my opinion and solution to it (which does NOT include using TypeMock ;)). A first differentiator is whether you control the definition of the extension methods or not. The latter case would be, for example, the built-in Linq extension methods (First, Count, etc. on IEnumerable) and there's no way to mock them unless you use TypeMock. The former would be your own logic that you decide to p
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Silverlight Design and Animation: Slides and Links

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

Hypervideo put to work

Eric Mork (of Sparkling Client ) has created a site with videos using Joel Neubeck & Tim Heuer's video player that makes terrific use of Hypervideo. Eric creates short teaching videos, and embeds markers in each.  When the video hits each marker...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-01 more

Watch The Euro 2008 Championship Match Online!

Today
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

SQL SERVER Get Query Plan Along with Query Text and Execution Count

Quite often, we need to know how many any particular objects have been executed on our server and what their execution plan is. I use the following handy script, which I use when I need to know the details regarding how many times any query has ran on my server along with its execution plan. [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

Links of the day

Baseball
Publication date: 2009-03-07 more

Feed Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer with the www.ASP.net web site !

The VS / VWD startup page displays a collection of current items of interest to developers. But did you know that you can configure what gets displayed in your Visual Studio / Visual Web Developer home page. The default looks like this. But see here how I've changed it to show the list of new articles from the www.asp.net web site !!!! Now when I fire up Visual Web developer I get all the latest articles from the ASP.NET web site articles list. In a few days I'll have a NEW RSS feed that aggrega
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

Bubble Breaker

A good tutorial for beginners to develop game in Silverlight.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

[Cool Tool] Vector Magic

Vector Magic is an online tool that converts bitmaps into vector images. It provides a wizard that helps you through the process, so you can easily generate your vector graphics from bitmaps, then import into Microsoft Expression Designer or Blend. I already used it several times and the results are amazing! It is also impressive to have such a service as a website! http://vectormagic.com/ First step is to upload your picture (gif or jpg):   At first the tool try to identify your image... Did yo
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

BNS to Attend Hosting Day in Thailand

BNS is attending the Microsoft Hosting Day South East Asia and India. This event will be held at theClaming haven of The Metropolitan Hotel in the urban hubbub of Bangkok. This invitations only event provides an excellent opportunity for BNS to share ideas and best practices and learn from key hosters in the South East Asia and Indian continent. Hosting Day South East Asia and India is a must-attend event that offers a unique opportunity to network with key Microsoft Executives, and industry
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

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

Resizing Data Controls in ASP.NET Applications

In this article Aravind demonstrates how to resize ASP.NET data controls such as the GridView at run time. After listing a brief overview of the concept, he provides a short coverage of style settings and the events which need to be captured to achieve the desired result. He makes use of a single JavaScript file to illustrate this functionality and provides crisp explanation of each line of the code. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors?
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Announcing a free, open source Charting solution for Silverlight [Silverlight Toolkit released today at PDC!]

Today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference , we announced the immediate availability of the Silverlight Toolkit . The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of controls for Silverlight that add new functionality and enable new scenarios. There...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #91

In addition to controls, the Silverlight Toolkit comes with a great set of themes that can easily be applied to your controls. These themes currently include: Bureau Black Bureau Blue Expression Dark Expression Light Rainier Purple Rainier Orange Shiny...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Future of Web Apps cheers the independent Web

The Future of Web Applications conference in London is always a thought-provoking event, thanks to its diversity, independence and character. That said, it is a frustrating creature at times. The frustration on day 1 was the barely functional wi-fi, which ruined a promising interactive application called HelloApp, built with ASP.NET MVC. HelloApp would have told us who we were sitting next to, what their interests were, their twitter ID and so on. Microsoft must be disappointed since the dev
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

Democratic Convention Video: Everywhere Online, But HD Awesomeness on Official Site

Democratic Convention Video: Everywhere Online, But HD Awesomeness on Official Site August 25th, 2008 Yes, I know..we don
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

How Silverlight 3 Validation Works

As RIA Services is plodding towards a release, many people are looking at it to help them with validation of data in Silverlight. Using this validation in Silverlight 3 is pretty straightforward but there are some caveats. I want to show you under the covers so you understand what is happening. In this first part of the series, let's look at what it means to use validation from the outside.
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

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

Flash vs Silverlight: JavaScript Sample 2

function updateProperty( x, y ) { var silverlightObject = document.getElementById("JavaScriptSample2"); silverlightObject.content.JavaScriptSample2.UpdateProperty(x, y); } Testing Vote for this sample Flash is Better? (0 votes) Silverlight is Better?...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Mindy

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

MIX 09

Two weeks ago we held our MIX conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is my favorite conference of the year
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Silverlight Office(r) 2010 App

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

How To Convert Movies to Flash or Silverlight with c#

Looking for a fun software development project? Want to build your own YouTube? Ya me either, but how the heck do you convert videos to flash or Silverlight? It's not that hard actually as long as you use FFmpeg and some c# code. FFmpeg is a free video and audio converter. What I like about Silverlight is it will just take the WMV format, and stream it for you. So if your video is already in WMV, your are done. If not, you can convert i to WMV, including the HD formats. In flash, you will
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Lots of buzz about MvcContrib!

As the ASP.NET MVC framework gains in adoption (its only been 4 months since the release), many folks are also clamoring to download and use MvcContrib.  Ive come across several posts and discussions about using various features of MvcContrib on the web.  Ill list them for you here.  You can also check out CodeCampServer to see a full project that uses MvcContrib, and there is plenty of content in my book ASP.NET MVC in Action. Elijah Manors blog Grid and model binder post on... Did you k
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

A Silverlight 3 FireStarter event narrative

Minimal event description: FREE Silverlight and Expression Training on Sep. 17 in Redmond and online presented by Microsoft product team members and evangelists. Flavorful description: When you wake on Sept. 17th the year of 2009 you have a smile on your...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

Link Listing - May 5, 2008

Link Listing - May 5, 2008 Code Camps Iowa Code Camp in the rear view mirror [Via: Derik Whittaker ] NoVa CodeCamp 2008.01 Schedule Released [Via: Jeff Schoolcraft ] Conferences ASP.NET Connections Slides and Samples Posted [Via: Rick Strahl ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: May 4, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] Dew Drop - May 4, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] Weekly Link Post 40 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ] Question: How do you stay up to date? [Via: Jason Haley ] Links (5/4/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Eyeblaster Lights Up the Web with Silverlight

Ad Campaign Manager serves up first Microsoft Silverlight banner campaign New York, New York (April 7, 2009)
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2009 -- #712

In this Issue: Mark Miller , Kirupa , Sergey Barskiy , Timmy Kokke , Laurent Bugnion , Jeff Prosise
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design

In this Principles of Design Series video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team, shows how to design a full colored icon (a pencil). In fast-forward style you will see the artist take a simple shaped pencil icon turning it into a full colored...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Assigning a Custom Label Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource

In my previous post, Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource, I discussed how to put a DropDownList value in a GridView.  As I explained, my motivation was to...This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silve
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Introducing Bespin, online collaborative code editor

After word processors, mockup designer and mind mapping tool, it's the time of code editors: yesterday the Mozilla Labs announced Bespin, a online web-based collaborative code editor. It's still a very early alpha release, so many things are still missing and are waiting to be implemented. The high level features of Bespin are: Ease of use Real-time collaboration Integrated command line Extensible Fast and responsive Accessible from anywhere At the moment the collaboration and... Did you know th
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

Two Silverlight TV Episodes on Silverlight for Windows Phone

I sat down with John Papa to record two Silverlight for Windows Phone videos at MIX.  Check them out: Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight   Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

SharePoint CAML Query builder dialog for your Web Parts

SharePoint CAML Query builder dialog for your Web Parts... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

KlearTouch Demonstration

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

The road to the keynote

Last week, Microsoft organized the Belgian edition of the Techdays, for the first time in Antwerp. After reading (Twitter, blogs
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Developers, developers, developers! SharePoint wants you!

If you
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

RadControls for Silverlight and WPF

My colleague Hristo Deshev just announced the availability of Telerik RadControls for WPFBeta2. This is a very important release not only because it brings so many new features and controls for WPF, but because this is ourfirst release that includesthe Silverlight and WPF controls under a single distributable. For this first release we ported just a fewSilverlight controls for WPF (namely TreeView, PanelBar, Calendar, DatePicker, Slider, ProgressBar and NumericUpDown), but inthe longrun alm
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Microsoft Releases Insurance Value Chain

Helping insurance companies jump-start development projects for line-of-business software applications that use common ACORD standards, Microsoft Corp. today released the Microsoft Insurance Value Chain (IVC) Software Factory for ACORD Standards at ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum 2008. The IVC Software Factory for ACORD Standards is a set of development tools and assets that use the Microsoft .NET Framework to aid insurance firms and software vendors in the integration of existing applicati
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Forum 4.5.3 User Control Panel

In 4.5.3, one of the primary goals was to minimize post backs. This goal was across the entire module, from end users to moderators and module administrators. For moderators and module administrators, finding areas to enhance via Ajax was pretty easy, all we had to do was look at where those users spend a large portion of their time within the module. However, for typical end users the areas a developer can expose an Ajax experience quickly is very limited because... Did you know that DotNetSlac
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

US Olympic Committee to launch TV network in 2010 - Reuters

US Olympic Committee to launch TV network in 2010 - ReutersNew York Times US Olympic Committee to launch TV network in 2010ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States Olympic Committee will launch a cable television network devoted to Olympic and Paralympic Games next
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Property Auction Website by thecrmsolutions

Hi, We would like someone to develop a property auction website for us. The closest thing that resembles can be seen @ http://www.bid4assets.com/channel/index.cfm?fuseaction=channelamp;channel=22
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Introducing the WebsiteSpark Program for Web Developers and Designers

Today marks the officially launch of the WebsiteSpark Program , which provides Web developers and designers access to Microsoft software and solutions, including Silverlight, as well as the training, support and, coming soon, market exposure to help great...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-26 more

Let the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Pro Network Help You Get Started with the SDL

Implement the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), the industry-leading software security assurance process, in your organization with the help of the SDL Pro Network, a group of consultants and trainers specialized in application security.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Hanu Kommalapati's MSDN Magazine Articles

Hanu Kommalapati decided to create a blog post in which to present the  MSDN Magazine articles that he has recently written: ".NET Framework Internals: How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects", "Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight, Part 1" and "Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight, Part 2". I wrote some MSDN magazine articles but never really blogged about them.
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

Dreaming of RIA Services - Literally

I was having a hard time sleeping last night so I got up and did some work. I started reading up on RIA Services on Brad Abrams' blog and Nikhil Kothari's . I needed a refresher from the last time I dug into them just before TechEd. I'm really excited about RIA Services because they bridge a very frustrating gap when working with ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria).  I finally went back to sleep and dreamt that Brad and some other's from Microsoft were at my user group ( www.vtdotnet.org ) 
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

The State of the ViKi

In my previous posting about the VideoWiki project I mentioned that I fell off the edge of the world when I tried to replicate the work I had done previously with the player emitted by Encoder. I
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Silverlight Control Skin Sets

Silverlight Control Skin Sets
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

RALEIGH: Developers Dinner

If you attended the Dev Dinner in Raleigh on Thursday, March 26, 2009 then here is the link to download the material I used. I have also included additional resources below from my peer Marc Schweigert (the god of Virtual Earth). I am sorry I could not upload this to joelreyes.net\raleigh as promised due to ftp issues. Also, I had to break-down the upload to multi-parts due to file size limitations on skydrive.live.com. Presentation material Additional Resources another recording of
Publication date: 2009-03-29 more

Using one platform to build another [HTML 5's canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!]

Background There's been some buzz about the upcoming HTML 5 standard over the past few months. In particular, there are a couple of new features that people are looking forward to. One of them is the new <canvas> element which introduces a 2D drawing...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

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.
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Some thoughts now that Silverlight 2.0 is Released.

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

Using Behaviors : A Quick Walkthrough

In my previous post, I provided a brief introduction to Behaviors and how they can be used to simplify tasks that were once complicated. My post was deliberately vague on details, so this post will start a series of posts on using behaviors as well as...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Silverlight calling Workflow Services

One question I was asked during my web cast yesterday about calling WCF services from Silverlight is if the service could be a workflow service.  I said - "Of course" - not knowing that it was a little more complex than that :) That said - here is a sample. SilverLightUsingWorkflow.zip (535.08 KB) Unfortunately I don't have time to go into the details right now - working on another project at the moment. The key to making it work is setting the instanceid context to null on the server
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Relative hyperlinks with Silverlight navigation

If you haven
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

New Video Series on Data Access

The first three videos are live. #1 | Data Access Layers in ASP.NET Applications #2 | How to Manually Bind a Dataset to a Datagrid #3 | How to Work with Datasets and Filters from an ASP Application More coming soon. [ Get them here. ] ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Google presentation: The Open Web goes mobile

The slides of my Google presentation are now online (PDF, 841K).This presentation, too, has been taped and will be published online. I'll let you know when that happens.I also caved in to Jon Boutelle's peer pressure and now publish my slideshows on Slideshare.net; including this one.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Wrox Silverlight 2 Programmer's Reference Early Access

Wrox has started a new thing as of late they're calling Wrox First. It's essentially a wiki of the book that I and my fellow Silverlight 2 authors are working on--Silverlight 2 Programmer's Reference. Not only do you get early access, you can also shape how the book develops by making comments and suggestions. My understanding is that it's just $19.99 and will get you access to drafts, revisions, and the final chapters as they are in the book for up to a year after publishing. Seems like an inte
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Playboy Posts Free, Unedited Searchable Web Archive

It's sex. It's free. What more could you want? Admittedly, it's soft-core, but Playboy and parnter Bondi Digital Publishing have unveiled PlayboyArchive.com . It's a 53-year archive, with one issue from each year, completely digitized (including ads), viewable and searchable. Did I mention free? If you've managed to avoid Microsoft's Silverlight to this point, you're going to have to install it if you want to view the archive, though. The issues cover the years 1954 through 2007, Bondi
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

Eight Key Practices for ASP.NET Deployment

Discover some best practices for deploying ASP.NET applications as well as a few useful procedures that you can follow to improve your application's performance.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

On Email and Organization

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

No, not that Tom Hollander

I've been maintaining a relatively public online profile since the early days of the web, back to when I started peddling shareware apps for $10 a pop in the Netscape 1.0 era. And while I never have (and probably never will) climbed beyond C-list internet celebrity status, for a very long time I was the only Tom Hollander on the web in any meaningful way. So it caused me some irritation when another Tom Hollander, an actor with credits including Pirates of the Caribbean, came on to the scene a
Publication date: 2008-08-24 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

A preview of upcoming Charting changes [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 1]

It was about two months ago that I posted about Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0 . At the time, I explained how I was hoping to do occasional, out-of-band releases of the Data Visualization assembly that's part of the Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

Maintaining balance [A versatile red-black tree implementation for .NET (via Silverlight/WPF Charting)]

Problem I spent some time in my last post explaining how Silverlight/WPF Charting takes advantage of an ordered multi-dictionary to improve the performance of various scenarios . I wrote about Charting's use of a custom binary tree implementation and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

Unblocking downloaded CHM documentation files on Windows Vista

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

WEB09: Silverlight coming to Auckland!

In a few weeks I
Publication date: 2009-03-30 more

RIM Is The World

Blackberry has been making waves this past week. First Fortune Magazine named RIM, the makers of Blackberry, the fastest growing company in the world . Then came the news that upcoming Blackberry devices, possibly next year, will offer Flash and Silverlight support in their their mobile handsets. It
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Using ASP.NET Authentication in a Web Service with Silverlight

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

Composite Application using WPF and SilverLight

Composite Application using WPF and SilverLight NJMSDEV Meeting Tonight Patterns and Guidance for Composite Application using WPF and SilverLight Navneet Srivastava will present: 1. Patterns and Gudiance. 2. Design Concepts. 3. Scenario. 4. Examples of some patterns. 5. Prism. 6. Implementation: CAB and other Framework. posted @ 3/5/2009 10:53 AM by Paul Mooney
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Expandable panel inside a GridView

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

To save Vista, Microsoft chooses Adobe Flash Player!

When a company as large as Microsoft continues to select Adobe Flash Player when they are building a competing technology, you have to wonder why they do not eat their own dog food. This Vista campaign is an ideal opportunity for Silverlight 1.0 or 2.0, so why did Microsoft choose Adobe Flash Player? The fact is that Silverlight's installation base is less than 10% of computers and Flash Player's proven reach is just too tempting to use because: Adobe Flash Player just works, 98.5% of the ti
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Google Chrome gets first update and more confusing

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

Digital Playboy Archive For Free

If there is males who have never seen the Playboy magazine nows your chance and its free! Microsoft, Bondi digital Publishing and Playboy Enterprises bring you 53 classic issues of Playboy all viewable through Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment

Calculating and even trying to understand what all adds up to the UX ROI is difficult task. When we are faced with clients and investors
Publication date: 2009-10-11 more

Silverlight Brings You the Gold

Offering over 3,600 hours of video coverage, NBCOlympics.com is the largest online media event ever accomplished on the Web. Powered by Microsoft Silverlight, viewers will be able to watch LIVE Olympic events in high-definition and up to 4 events simultaneously...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Tip of the Day #15

Communicating between Javascript and Silverlight is, fortunately, relatively straight forward. The following sample demonstrates how to make the call both ways. Calling Silverlight From BLOCKED SCRIPT In the constructor of your Silverlight app, make a...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-08 more

Full Implementation of a Silverlight Policy Server.

In Silverlight Beta 1 you could only use sockets to connect to the same host the Silverlight application was served up from. In Beta 2 a change was made to allow you to connect to any server. However, before the Silverlight application can connect to...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Silverlight Control Explorer

Shine Draw has released more than 60 samples. In order to make all the controls more presentable to all of the developers, I decided to create this Control Explorer....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Leveraging ILMerge to simplify deployment and your users experience

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

Microsoft 2019 Vision, now on Silverlight (with Source Code)

Now, you might have seen this great video of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Microsoft vs Adobe: The Rivalry Heats Up

Want to watch a great boxing match? Just take a seat and watch the back-and-forth between Adobe Systems and Microsoft. I wrote about this is fight without an end last year, but now it seems the punches being thrown with more intensity. No surprise - like two aging gladiators, the two software companies that have managed to outlive and beat most their peers. At face value, the fight is about Flash vs Silverlight. Look deeper and the tussle is over not just online video but about cloud computing
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Microsoft Rolling Out Bing 2.0 Next Week?

Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

SQLite C# port raises hopes for a Silverlight local database manager

Yesterday programmer Noah Hart announced a port of SQLite to C#: I am pleased to announce that the C# port is done to the point where others can look at it. Unfortunately the code was taken offline almost immediately afterwards, thanks to the intervention of the author of SQLite, D Richard Hipp: Noah, you are welcomed, even encouraged, to take the source code to SQLite and translate it in any way you want and do whatever you want with it. But you need to make it abundantly clear to
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Portugal ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

  ReMix in Lisban, Portugal was a fabulous was to end my ReMix tour.  They keynote (as much as I could understand of it) was a lot of fun.  They did the Developer\designer egg shtick , but with a real egg! My this point, I have really hit my stride with the the Silverlight 3 overview I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day ) Silverlight 3 Control
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

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

Silverlight Related Skills

Yesterday , I wrote the first of a series of posts on skills related to effective Silverlight programming; specifically an introduction to LINQ. Today, with that material fresh, I'd like to take a giant leap forward and consider a number of advanced techniques...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-21 more

Hard to find error creating SPWeb through API

Ever wondered what it is like to be on 3rd line support at Microsoft?  The client calls in with a really obscure error that only happens some of the time?  No me either,  but the past few days have probably been pretty close. The Problem I am working on a Silverlight/SharePoint solution, that will take the Education world by storm in the not too distant future, which was throwing a very strange error during the creation of a SharePoint web (SPWeb). 1: MESSAGE 2: System.Null
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #94

In Tip of the Day #93 I showed you how to read XML via XmlReader . However, a better and simpler approach (IMHO) would be to use LINQ. Let
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Demand for RIA-jobs on the rise

I
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Developing with Rx (Part 1): Extension Events

Based on the logs it seems there is tremendous interest in Rx , the new .NET 4.0 interfaces that allow you to query events and asynchronous operations.  I can't say I'm surprised.  In my opinion Rx is the big story of .NET 4.0.  I've been...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Membership roles in CS2008

Hi, Does anyone know where I can read/update the membership details at the database schema for a user so that I can add/remove him from a certain role? For example, say I want to promote a user to "Trusted User" whenever he has more than 10 posts submited. I know where to find the # of posts, but I can't find the table and attribute for the user/role association. Anyone know where is it?... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Silverlight installation experience guidance posted

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Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

What do you think of my Silverlight How Do I Videos?

I'm always looking for ways to make this blog specifically and all my material on silverlight in general more interactive. Survey Monkey offers free surveys, so I thought I'd try it out by asking you to take a 1 page survey on what you think of...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-24 more

Integrating FCKeditor in ASP.Net

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

Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 3rd)

A few interesting post on .NET RIA Services
Publication date: 2009-04-04 more

Baseline Registry Settings for new Domain Controllers

I have a list of baseline registry settings which I put on any new domain controller. I thought I'd share the VB Script below which sets all these as well as enables some performance counters. Many of the settings are applicable outside of a Domain Controller. Note: These settings have been tested countless times with Windows Server 2003 domain controllers. I indicated where possible which settings do not apply to a Windows Server 2008 (or better) domain controller. I've used these on Windows Se
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

PhizzPop Online Challenge 2! Silverlight + Live Services

Hello! We’ve posted a new challenge for you. This time it is for you to create a Silverlight + Live Services experience. Very fun! Here
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Think you have search engine skillz? Prove it and win a pass to MIX.

I
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Full Flash and Silverlight Video Coming to BlackBerry, Report

Watching video on a BlackBerry right now is not the best experience -- it involves a download then playback.  According to a post on the Boy Genius Report , support for Flash Video and Silverlight will be streaming to the BlackBerry in around 12 months. Although a more limited version of Flash, called Flash Lite, is on many mobile devices outside the U.S., the new implementation is for the full Flash application to appear on the BlackBerry, the report says. Last September, I interviewed Ado
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Beta: Flip4Mac WMV 2.2.1.7 beta

Telestream's QuickTime components for playing Windows Media gets improved WMV playback in Safari, improved compatibility with Firefox and Camino, improved output results when using DV .mov source in Studio and Silverlight, and other changes.
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Drilling deeper into the Charting client-side API

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

Microsoft Shuts-Down Its PopFly Mashup Tool

Microsoft has announced that in late August it will be discontinuing availability and support for PopFly , its once popular mashup creation tool. As some of you may remember, we originally covered PopFly in May, 2007 , shortly after its release as a developer preview. PopFly
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

The Knowledge Chamber: Silverlight 3.0 for Great Business Apps

It was great fun to be interviewed on The Knowledge Chamber by Robert Hess
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

VoIP using Microsoft Silverlight

VoIP using Microsoft Silverlight has just been accomplished for the very first time. I'm pretty busy at ITEXPO so I don't have time to test this, but wanted to share an email that Founder & CEO of TringMe, Yusuf Motiwala sent me. Apparently, he had to utilize a workaround to get around the lack of mic support in Silverlight. Email from Yusaf: Just wanted to let you know about a first ever demonstration of VoIP/Telephony over Microsoft Silverlight platform at: http://tringme.com/silverlig
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

IOC Blocks Overlay Ads on Olympics Online Video

For those of us who don't like to see overlay ads pop up or stream by while watching video, you won't see any on the NBC Olympics coverage on MSN. That's a mandate from the International Olympic Committee, which keeps tight control of the way the Games are presented. Microsoft's Eric Schmidt is one of the key executives in the MSN/NBC Sports joint effort for online coverage of the Olympics in the United States. He came by the Beet.TV studios on Friday to fill us in on various technical and
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Watch Indian Union Budget Online

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

FREE Silverlight 2 EBook Raffle

FREE Silverlight 2 EBook Raffle Greetings, I've been heads down working on Silverlight 2 in Action over the past couple of months. With the release of Silverlight Beta 2, we are ready to make a couple of announcements. First, I would like to announce a raffle for Silverlight 2 in Action. Then, after providing a brief history of the book, I would like to announce the roadmap for the book. Raffle In celebration of the release of Beta, I have been given FIVE (5) coupons for one FREE Ebook to d
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Interesting Finds: July 28, 2009

Other The TFS MVP Kerfluffle , Jeremy D Miller Unethical behavior , Ayende Rahien My Mistake + Here's Why I Like Team System , Ben Day Improving Mono's compatibility with .NET CLR , Miguel de Icaza Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code? , Eric Lippert ILMerge , Microsoft Downloads On effects and ubiquitous parallelism , Joe Duffy Windows 7 Creating a bootable/installable Windows 7 (and Vista & Win2k8) USB key the easy way -
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

UppercuT Presentation Afterthoughts

The presentation for TopDNUG went pretty well. There were some good questions and back and forth. The room really seemed to come alive when in a matter of less than ten minutes I added UppercuT to two different Open Source projects (Reflexil and Quartz.NET) and had them off of the ground and building. Full builds, too. With versioning, compiling, unit testing, packaging, etc. I also unveiled the new logo for UppercuT: Here is the slide deck: UppercuT Presentation (may need to be renamed to
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

VS2008 SP1 and NetFX3.5 SP1 Released (Adam Braden)

Today we shipped Service Pack 1 (SP1) for both Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5.  This is the first time weve release both a VS SP and a .NetFramework SP at the same time!  Additionally, we released ENU, JPN and 8 additional languages that ship with SQL 2008 at the same time!  See the announcement on Somas blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/08/11/service-pack-1-for-vs-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-released.aspx Here are the links for information and where to get... Did you kno
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Web Crawler - BOT Programmer - MYSQL Database Programmer by TROY45

I am looking for expert programmer that has at least 5 years experience in web scraping, data mining, web crawling and MYSQL databases. This is for a large project. I will discuss details exactly only after I see proven experience
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

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

Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight

I am over in Bangalore, India speaking at the Great Indian Developer Conference , and as I get on stage for my first session my laptop does not project to the monitor. Oh well, I guess I have to reduce my five gazillion by one trillion screen resolution. Still not working. Tried the old reliable, rebooting. Still no dice. We try another laptop just to make sure it is me, not the monitor, sure enough it is me. I was the first speaker at the conference and now the conference organize
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

.NET Micro Framework and Robotic Vehicle

Pavel has some great posts on his blog about robotic vehicles using the .NET Micro Framework. "When I was invited to TechEd North America 2008, I didn't want to go with "bare hands". That's how the simple robotic vehicle was build, completely based on .NET Micro Framework. Module in the vehicle is the smallest .NET Micro Framework module on the market, the Digi Connect ME. Remote controller is based on Tahoe development board equipped with accelerometer. For communication are used ZigBee modu
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache Management

For most ASP.NET developers, the Cache (ala System.Web.Caching) offers great promise for scalability and performance, especially in a mostly read-only environment. The hardest part about caching is populating it with data. What are the safest ways to get this data? What are the safest ways to store this data? The author will discuss his framework for accessing and storing data in the ASP.NET cache (with a "Generics" twist). He also shows how to keep your cache fresh with the help of detailed exp
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

New PluginCheck Page Needs Your Help

Following up on the Flash Detection on the What
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

Hey! There Is Such A Thing As A Free Lunch!

Free eBook: Chris Anderson: The Kindle Store ASIN : B002DYJR4G You have to respect a man who believes in his message.  Chris Anderson , author and editor in chief of Wired Magazine , and formerly Internet Editor at the Economist ,  has followed...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

Hacking Silverlight 2

Coming soon... Silverlight 2, Microsoft's new web framework for developing rich internet applications, brings the developer and the designer together. This cross-browser, web-oriented subset of Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation plugs into the browser and provides an easy-to-use toolkit for building rich internet applications in JavaScript or any .NET language such as C# or VB. When coupled with designer-friendly graphics tools like Microsoft Expression Blend, designers, web developer
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

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

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

Slides and Code from Day One at the GIDS

Now that you know I'm in India speaking at the first annual Great Indian Developer Summit, it's time to move on and start doing some presentation wrap-ups. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I've so far delivered three focused sessions on three relatively new Microsoft technologies- ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, and WPF. These topics are clearly of great interest to the local .NET community as every one of my talks (except for the first, which was in the keynote main hall) were filled to capacity,
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

Complexity Isn

It is very rare for me to respond to comments in follow-on blog post, in fact I don't think I've ever done so before. However the response to my previous blog entry about Dot Net Rocks show number 476 was so overwhelming, and so many good points were...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the - PR Inside

Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the - PR Inside 2009-07-15 18:42:01 - Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the art search engine optimization services at a reduced rate. Tulsa Websites and SEO Supernova Broadcasting releases panamaNET information technology - pressbox.co.uk Supernova Broadcasting releases
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

RIM bringing Silverlight and Flash to BlackBerry Devices

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

WSS FAQ additions and correction CVI - 25th - 31st May 2008

Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx) (Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checki
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Prism v2 – Guidance and Patterns for WPF and Silverlight

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

Regions in Prism Video

Check this great companion hyper-video on how to do Prism Regions . In addition, there is also a previous hyper-video all about Silverlight Prism and how to create a new Prism project. Regions in Prism are kind of like Master Pages. They allow us to have master and sub-views. If you're interested in composing views separately and then bringing them together in the running application, Regions are for you. As with all of the things in Prism, Regions are a part of the buffet. You can use th
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Transfer data from server to client

How to transfer the data from server database to client database,If both have same schema... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

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

Surprise! Expression Studio 2 Is Live!

You would be forgiven if you didn't realize Expression Studio 2 is now available.  It went up quietly this week on the newly red-designed Expression website.  While there will be a bigger splash later in the year to announce the launch of this product, the reason why you haven't heard much about it yet is because while the product is now released by Microsoft, the physical media for the product is in the process of being shipped to retailers. While the physical media won't be available likely
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

David Kelley on "Is Silverlight 3 ready for business"

  Introduction Silverlight 3 is on its way with tons of new goodies. But each technology has to be well accepted from the business users in order to be successful. But what can help the business to take such a decision? We, at SilverlightShow.net , think that sharing experience is a good start. This article is a part of our
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Silverlight 2 Launch Party in Portland

PDX baby. That
Publication date: 2008-11-05 more

Working with Chart Multiple Axes Nevron Chart Axis Docking

Introduction Having a chart with several Y axes is a requirement you will meet very often when you develop charting enabled applications. It is essential that a good charting product supports flexible Y axis positioning and layout. This white paper outlines the different options you have with Nevron Chart for .NET to address a variety of situations requiring you to use multiple Y axes. Features The most common requirement is to have two Y axes and two series scaling on each of them. This is comm
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Twitter A Real Challenge for Blogging

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

MetaASO: A Bootstrapped P2P Startup From India

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

Silver Bullet

Playing catch-up to Apple's QuickTime and Adobe Flash, Microsoft has been pushing Silverlight, its multimedia offering to let users watch video through their web browsers. Massachusetts-based Gotuit Media, a multimedia vendor, is having a go at Microsoft for infringing three patents, in the Northern District of California, which is usually considered defendant friendly. Gotuit's patented technologies afford adding metadata tags to video, enabling search and navigation. Certainly 6,931,451 is
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Webcast: Event Handling

Today's Webcast was intended to be a smooth presentation of a topic I know cold. Not uncharacteristically,  I went off on a tangent from which I never returned and ended up writing all my code spontaneously. The good news was it was "fresher"...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Follow the Cursor" Animation - lets do it with behaviors

Most day
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

URL Rewriting module for IIS 7 is live

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

Silverlight Debugging Challenge

In about a week, I'll be posting a video on creating a form that responds to keyboard shortcuts (as an intro to a video on user controls). This is also covered in the tutorial User Controls ) As a challenge to those of you who are already comfortable...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-01 more

May 23rd, 2009Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

May 23rd, 2009Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Microsoft removes a hurdle for Mono

July 6th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:08 pmCategories:.Net Framework, Development tools, Legal, Linux, NovellTags:Mono, Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Icaza, Moonlight, Ramji, Mary Jo, DonnieBoy, No_Ax_to_GrindAs reported recently by OSNews, a number of Linux vendors have been on the fence as to what to to with Mono, Novell
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

How to install the KDE desktop environment in CentOS

CentOS by default uses GNOME as its desktop environment.  But for KDE fans, they won
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

F# in VS2010

With Visual Studio, we strive to give your organization the tools to tackle a broad range of software problems with the interoperability and efficiency that you need and have come to expect from software based on the .NET Framework.   As part of this, Visual Studio 2010 marks the first release to directly support functional programming through the F# programming language.   F# is a highly productive .NET programming language combining functional programming and object-oriented
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

Silverlight still heading to Windows Mobile 7, WM 6.5 skipped

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

Extensible Templates in Deep Zoom Composer

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

Why I Dislike Classic Or Typical WCF Usage

If you
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

My History of Visual Studio (Part 2)

[also see Part 1]  Visual C++ 2.0, Dolphin was a very ambitious release. We were really happy with VC1 but there were quite a few things that were entirely unsatisfactory.  One of them, maybe the most important, was the fact that window management in the thing was just a nightmare.  VC1 used the standard MDI interface for all the windows, including the tool windows like registers, watch, output, and so forth that was just not adequate because you found key display windows were swimming... Did y
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Olympics Are Coming To Media Center

Olympics Are Coming To Media Center Blog.PostedBy: Sarah Perez | Today @ 2:16 PM The 2008 Beijing Olympics are nearly here and along with the Silverlight-powered NBCOlympics website, the Microsoft/NBC partnership will also bring us video from the Olympic Games right to our Media Center PCs. These videos will be made available as clips on Vista Media Center and organized into channels based on event (e.g. swimming, gymnastics, track & field, etc.) The service, called "Olympics On the Go,"
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Australian Partner Conference

Norbert Haehnel invited me to do some demos during his keynote at the Australian Partner Conference. Demo went great, I don
Publication date: 2008-08-08 more

Bing: Microsoft Reveals its New Search Engine [Video]

Following speculation last week that Microsoft was planning to rebrand its search engine, the company has announced that it will be launching Bing on June 3rd. In addition to a new name, Microsoft is re-positioning itself in the search market as not necessarily a better place to go for navigational queries (i.e.
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Olympic swimming gold captured by Silverlight

Have you seen the amazing Olympic final in the men's swimming 4X100 relay? World records were set by many swimmers in this race and it all came down to the final touch at the wall. The Americans beat the heavily favored French team by .o8 of a second. You can see it again thanks to Microsoft's Silverlight and NBC. The Wall Street Journal says NBC is providing some 3,600 hours of coverage of the games, about 75% of it live, across its broadcast and cable networks and its Web site -- even as it
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Greenery - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Greenery is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design. This skin comes with 3 variations greenery
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Final March Madness Stats: Streaming Media Use For NCAA Tourney Jumped 75 Percent

The final tally is in
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Silverlight Unit Testing, RhinoMocks, Unity and Resharper.

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

Getting friendly with jQuery (A beginners guide)

Learning jQuery the fun and easy way (hopefully).... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

52 New Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Screencasts

Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond present 52 screencasts to help you understand Silverlight 2. Visit the new screencast page to learn about DataBinding, controls, media events, templating and more!...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store

Silverlight applications
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

New controls in Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3 runtime and SDK introduce many new controls. Some of these controls were previously released as part of the Silverlight Toolkit and some are completely new. Regardless of their origins, since they are now part of the Silverlight 3 product...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Windows 7 tours gets animated Silverlight browser

[See post to watch Flash video] Those fun and quirky animated characters at the beginning of every Windows 7 tour video released earlier are back to do more of what they do best, animate! Replacing a static imagery, the new Windows 7 tours page now features a fancier Silverlight player that does a little more than just play videos. Once loaded, each of the four
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Office 2010: Outlook

Zack Whittaker
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

My ASP.NET MVC stack and why I chosen it

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

MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences

Bill Buxton talked about why user-centered design is so important; now we
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Silverlight powers Netflix in Media Center

I
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Dew Drop - July 26, 2008

Silverlight / WPF SilverlightFlyoutPanel (Ola Karlsson) Improved XAML
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

VMware Launches ThinApp 4.0

VMware announced the upcoming availability of VMware ThinApp 4, an application virtualization solution that lets customers run multiple versions of virtually any application on any Windows operating system without conflict. For example, users can run both Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 on the same operating system without disruption. ThinApp, based on Thinstall technology, the leading agentless application virtualization solution, requires no pre-installed software on physical or vi
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

QuarkBase: Find Everything About a Website

Of all the tools and web services I have ever used to find information about a website, none have succeeded in providing the most up-to-date and relevant data except QuarkBase. QuarkBase is a free online tool to find complete information about a website. QuarkBase gets all its data from over 30 data sources and uses many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc. The information is categorized into various t
Publication date: 2008-08-31 more

Links (5/21/2008)

.NET **** Data Dynamics Analysis - I was a heavy DD Dynamicube user for many years. Lots of features I was looking for have now been included. Definitely something to check out. Strongly typed property names Enterprise Library 4 Released - And It Is Fast! Obtain the Identity of a New Row Using LINQ Using LINQ to SQL and ConnectionStrings in a Class Library Using let in LINQ to Objects Generic types and IDisposable, the "using" trick Using "Like" in LINQ to SQL Using Linq's DataContext to (
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Link Listing - September 12, 2008

Link Listing - September 12, 2008 MSBuild Deploy, test and pack your code - Part 2 Using MsBuild [Via: mehfuzh ] WPF Setting the Publish Status to Include for 3rd Party Files with XBAP deployments [Via: Bil Simser ] Code Camps Richmond Code Camp 2008.2 Open for Business [Via: kevin ] WCF Configuring WCF Performance [Via: Jesse Ezell ] Link Collections Daily Find #97 [Via: Tim ] Interesting Finds: September 12, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #178 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - S
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Controlling UI Object

This is a new request from my friend Pierre. He wants to implement a POC to demonstrate how to control objects on the stage. That's a very good sample for your reference if you want to implement some layout application. If you want to add a resize functionality...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

MonoDevelop

I
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

SQL SERVER - Generate A Single Random Number for Range of Rows of Any Table - Very interesting Question from Reader

Just a day ago I received email from reader how to get single random number for range of rows of any table. The question was not very clear to me so I had asked him to send me question in simpler words. He sent me question back in simple words. Let us understand this problem [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

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

Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted

We recently got some great new Mix09 sessions posted. Here are a few that I think are cool as they directly relate to what my team is doing.. if you can make to Vegas, please come by.. if you can
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Silverlight Tour Comes to Washington DC

May 21st, 2009The Washington DC stop on the Silverlight Tour is coming up.  It
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Using ImageMagick to Create Previews and Thumbnails from Uploaded Images

This ASP.NET Web Application demonstrates the use of ImageMagick to create thumbnails and larger preview images, both from an uploaded image file.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

September 1st : SharePoint 2007: Deep Dive for the Developer

Advertisement: SharePoint 2007 Training by Sahil in Europe and United States (more information). I have been INSANELY busy for the past 3 months. Every weekend, morning till evening, and every weekday, as much as I could. Why? I wanted to put together the absolute best, no prisoners taken SharePoint 2007 training course. Those who have worked with me,... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several ca
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Review: IronPython in Action

I
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

Tip: Cascading Styles in Silverlight 3

Like in CSS you can now cascade styles in Silverlight 3 too. You can append and/or override values by basing one style on another. In this way you can built a powerful and reusable set of styles to apply in your Silverlight applications. Syntax Style cascading is accomplished by using the new BasedOn attribute of the Style class. 1: "Headline" TargetType="TextBlock"> 2:
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Hanselminutes Podcast 155 - A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown

My one-hundred-and-fifty-fifth podcast is up . Scott digs deep with Pete Brown about the Commodore 64 Emulator he is writing in Silverlight 3 . Is Silverlight fast enough? What about offline support? What Silverlight 3 features made the job easier? All...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Extension Methods Part 2

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

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

I had a great time at my talk  PDC2009 talk, but i was disappointed that I could not demo in both C# and VB
Publication date: 2009-11-30 more

Silverlight Spikes AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Matches Live to Your Computer

Just when we thought spending summer days in the sand were behind us (at least here in Redmond), the AVP recently announced that they will use Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming to bring beach volleyball fans around the world live, SD and HD streaming...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

A Simple Object Collaboration Framework

A library that simplifies complex interactions between objects by providing a new mechanism of instance discovery and lifetime management. It is an extension of the .NET CallContext or HTTPContext mechanism that provides a way of sharing objects within an execution code path.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight

Today is a wildly exciting day for Silverlight and all football fans! NBC announced that this fall, Silverlight together with IIS Smooth Streaming, will power full HD (720p) experiences for live delivery of all the NFL Sunday Night Football games this...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Mix Essentials Event in South Africa in June

I am very excited that Joe Stagner and I will be heading to South Africa the week of June 23rd.   While we are there, we will have a chance to interact with the very passionate .NET community in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.  The South...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Countdown to Silverlight 3 Part 7: Navigation

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

Drop shadow and blur effects in Silverlight 3 Beta

You can add drop shadows or blur effects to your objects very easily in Silverlight 3 Beta. Check out DropShadowEffect and BlurEffect . In these API reference there is code showing how to create the effects using XAML or proceedural code as well as a...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Going lean in Visual Studio (even more than Jimmy!)

Jimmy Bogard appropriately points out that Visual Studio gets really cluttered with toolbars that rarely get used. It's more productive to keep your hands on the keyboard, so that leaves little mousing. Even moving around the solution explorer doesn't really require the mouse. So these toolbars just take up space. There is an option in Tools > Options where you can nuke the navigation drop-downs at the top of the window. After all, how often do you use them. ... Did you know that DotNetS
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

Writing Behaviors : Triggers (DoubleClickTrigger to be Exact!)

In my previous posts, I briefly discussed what behaviors are and how to use them . Let
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #46

Default Fonts By Default, Silverlight supports the following local fonts (as shown rendered in Silverlight):   You can also choose from a long list of East Asian fonts if they are available on your local computer: Batang BatangChe DFKai-SB Dotum...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-26 more

10 New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Gallery Entries!

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

Microsoft and Capgemini Ink ERP Partner Deal

Microsoft and Capgemini announced a partnership deal on Friday that aims to better integrate Microsoft's software with SAP's enterprise resource planning solutions.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

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)
Publication date: 2009-11-02 more

Introducing an RIA Benchmark for Flex, Silverlight, HTML and More: GUIMark

I have recently released a new benchmark called GUIMark. GUIMark is kinda like an Acid3 test on speed that
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

New Silverlight 2 Video

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

Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation

I presented the first of a new series of live web casts today in which a number of resources were mentioned. As promised, here are links to all of them Silverlight.net Getting Started Page Learn Page Silverlight Microblog Scott Guthriess blog entry on Expression Blend for Programmers Three videos on Blend For Programmers. One, Two, Three. Tutorial on Blend for Programmers Tutorial on Skinning and Styling Controls in Blend (to be posted soon) Register for next presentation... Did you know that D
Publication date: 2008-06-26 more

ColorPicker Control for WPF/Silverlight

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

Panoramic Deep Zoom -- Question of the Day -- Repost

If you want to learn how to stitch diverse photos together into a panorama, and then turn it into a Deep Zoom application, it's actually very easy, and I've got the full details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/10/18/panoramic-deep-zoom...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extension Methods, Implicitly Typed Variables, and Object Initializers

One of the more substantive additions to the .NET Framework 3.5 and C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 languages was LINQ, a set of classes along with language enhancements that allow developers to use a common library and SQL-like query syntax to work with common data stores. The initial article in this series, An Introduction to LINQ, provided an overview of LINQ and its core pieces: the standard query operators, the language extensions that allow for LINQ's query syntax, and LINQ providers. We also lo
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Tip of the Day #31: How to Detect Alt, Shift, Control, Windows and Apple keys with Left Mouse Down in Silverlight

When clicking on your Silverlight application how do you know if the <Alt>, <Shift>, <Ctrl>, <Windows> and/or <Apple> key is down as well? To do this, you simply need to check the Keyboard .Modifiers member which returns...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Firefox 3.0 and (ASP.NET) caching observations

1. Have a page with code in Page_Load Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Response.Cache.SetAllowResponseInBrowserHistory(False) Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache) Response.Cache.SetNoStore() Response.Expires = 0 Response.Write("" & DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()) End Sub 2. In aspx ...
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Using a Built-In Shortcut to Add Properties to a Class

After declaring your class, suppose you want to add individual element properties to that class. This process has been simplified in Visual Studio when working in C#.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

DDJ: One Perspective on Silverlight

Written sometime ago, but only recently published.
Publication date: 2008-08-05 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

Microsoft Backs Down from Yahoo

The web is afire with the news that after its latest bid attempt to takeover Yahoo failed, Microsoft decided to back down. My desktop news widget is going wild with this news... updating every 30s or so with more updates from Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Forbes, Information Week, CNet News, etc; hot news indeed. All those big time journals aside it appears that BoomTown's Kara Swisher was the first to break the news. So what happened? Why not read it directly from Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballme
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Data Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm

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

Get your weekly RadWebinars

Our partners at Falafel Software are hosting two great webinars in the coming weeks. Introducing Telerik Reporting on Tuesday, 22nd July 9.30-11.30 AM PST More details and registration Developing with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX on Tuesday, 29th July 9.30-11.30 AM PST More details and registration The format of these webinars is a two-hour live training session with dedicated time for Q&A. The webinars will be a great resource for all developers using these p
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

How to fix German c:\Programme Access denied

Some months ago I opened a Microsoft Support call to ask why I cannot open c:\Programme (the German translated folder for c:\Program Files) on Windows Vista or Windows 7 Beta. When you type c:\Prog on a German Vista machine you will get a drop down list containing c:\Programme. Use the arrow keys to select it and press enter. What you get is a access denied message. Another test I did was to open c:\Programme\Windows NT, and wow, this was working without any problem. But when I clicked in t
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

My 1st Talk @ 3rd Webmaster Malaysia Gathering

After being quiet for a very
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Dew Drop - February 28, 2009

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

FlickrViewr Using DevDave

DevDave (Dave Relyea) is a dev lead on the Silverlight team. He just blogged a really slick new animating wrap panel. Read about it here and try out the sample app below. There are a bunch of different "interpolations" that you can choose from...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Disney videos coming to YouTube, Hulu might be next

Filed under: ABC , ESPN-HD , Internet It's a bit surprising to see the Disney family of channels mixing it up with the riff raff like YouTube and, potentially, Hulu given so much time spent increasing its online video presence already ( ABC.com , ESPN 360, etc.) but here we are. The deal with YouTube will put video clips (with shared advertising revenue from 15 second prerolls, overlays and banners) and all ESPN to embed its own player on YouTube's page, similar to the deal with CBS a
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

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

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

Labels Creation using Crystal Report in Windows Application using C#.NET 2.0

An article about Labels Creation using Crystal Report in Windows Application using C#.NET 2.0... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

.NETOOP high level configuration storage decision.

In designing .NETOOP we have this issue: Since .NETOOP will be an adaptable application designed to meet the needs of many users, some of the things that one might hard code in an application like Web Site Name will need to be set at installation time. For system  configuration settings we have the web.config file. For language and culture variations we have resource files. But this type of site configuration doesnt really  fit nicely into either of these categories. We could use.... Di
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Link Listing - September 4, 2008

Link Listing - September 4, 2008 ASP.NET Watch out for Date Kind in JSON Deserialization [Via: Rick Strahl ] WPF Using MVVM to work with CheckBoxes in XamDataGrid [Via: Josh Smith ] WCF Generate your own RSS feed with WCF: Syndication [Via: jay.smith ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: September 4, 2008 - [Rough Cut] [Via: Jason Haley ] Dew Drop - September 4, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for September 4, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Podcasts Glenn Block and Brian Noyes on Prism [V
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

WCCO launches YouReport

WCCO.com just released public
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

IBM to buy ILOG

IBM has announced plans to buy ILOG for $360m, subject to antitrust scrutiny. ILOG specialises in rules-based processing centred on their JRules engine. Although it has been obvious for some time that ILOG was interested in being purchased, the news still came as something of a surprise. In recent times, they have been pursuing a greater presence in the .NET world, releasing a .NET version of their engine, becoming a Microsoft Global ISV partner and joining Microsoft's prestigious Business Proce
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Sprint Palm Treo 800w to sport Internet Explorer 7.11?

Details on unreleased handsets sometimes pop up in some unlikely places. The Sprint Palm Treo 800w is slated to release in a couple months, but that apparently has stopped a user from testing their own Palm Treo 800w on DSL Reports' website. The user-agent data shows that the bandwidth tester was using a Palm Treo 800w on Sprint's network. Display resolution was apparently set at 320×320. But, most interesting is the mention of Internet Explorer (IE) 7.11. I mentioned some time ago that Mic
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Microsoft Makes Investment in Move Networks: Beet.TV Has Early Preview from Microsoft on Collaboration

Not surprising that Microsoft will be a strategic investor in Move Networks, the small Utah startup which has introduced a new way to stream high quality online video through a process called adaptive streaming. In April at NAB in Las Vegas, I interviewed Microsoft's Steve Skleplowich about the newly announced alliance between Microsoft and Move. He explains what a future alliance will mean -- it's all about Silverlight. You can see this in action now, with the Democratic National Convention
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

POLL: Silverlight developer patterns

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

Livestation has been updated

Livestation is a free software application that provides a range of live news television channels and radio stations (over 500) that can be received on a computer anywhere with a basic broadband connection. You can watch television on your desktop, or on your laptop, at home, at work, on the move, or in a hotel [...]
Publication date: 2008-08-11 more

Silverlight Tools RTW Released!

I am proud to announce we have released the official version our Silverlight Tools for Silverlight 2. Prior to this release we had released an RC1 candidate alongside the RTW version of Silverlight. If you have the RC1 or any previous version please upgrade...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Why Haven't You Booked Wing Han Tsang for a Private Function?

Move over Susan Boyle, there's a new "virtuoso" in town!
Publication date: 2009-11-08 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

Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit's TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0]

Now that Data Visualization is part of the Silverlight Toolkit and the WPF Toolkit , it has an official release vehicle for both platforms of interest. This is great because it means that any customers who need to be running signed bits from an official...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

SQL SERVER - 2008 - SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution

This article is very serious and I would like to explain this as simple as I can. SCOPE_IDNETITY() which is commonly used in place of @@Idnetity has bug when run in Parallel Plan. You can read my explanation of @@IDENTITY vs SCOPE_IDENTITY() vs IDENT_CURRENT in earlier article.The bug is listed here in connect site SCOPE_IDENTITY() [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inclu
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Trackonomics

Standard Podcast [95:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Week Three of The Gillmor Gang on TechCrunch went as well as could be expected. After the reunion cattle call and last week
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Map your Data

Map your Data
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

SP1 for Crystal Reports 2008: fixes reports not opening up in VS2008 and "entry point not found" in stand-alone version

Note that I am referring specifically to "Crystal Reports 2008", not the version, "Crystal Reports 2008 Basic", which comes packaged with Visual Studio 2008. Today for some reason, I could no longer open up any Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2008. When I attempted to open them, they did not open or throw an error message, however the VS2008 Document Outline window would open up with the text "There are no items to show for the selected document." Then I went to try to start up the stand alone.
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Soft-deletes are bad, m'kay?

Have you ever ran into database tables with a field which is used to mark if a row has been 'deleted' ? Probably. These fields are used to implement 'soft-deletes'. For the soft-delete impaired, a quick introduction. Soft-deletes are row deletes which are not really happening: instead of removing the row from the database table, a field in the row is set to a value which signals that the row is officially 'deleted'. Every SELECT statement on that table is then filtering on that field's value so
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Really? $50 a year for Silverlight ads on my Xbox 360

( photo: original ) After reading Major Nelson
Publication date: 2009-07-05 more

Friday Books - Introducing MS Silverlight 2

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

Using Silverlight AutoCompleteBox on custom types

The other day I wrote a simple little Silverlight application using a DataGrid to help navigate the TechEd DVD contents .  My code was admittedly quick and dirty.  I loaded up some data, and based on some events re-filtered and re-bound that...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Microsoft Joins Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 -- # 283

Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 -- # 283 Lars Godejord rippling water with SL2. From SilverlightCream.com: Water Ripples with Silverlight 2 beta1 Lately I haven't been doing a single-post Cream, but Lars submitted this to me, and I thought the effect was pretty unique to Silverlight, and worth posting solo. He said he doesn't have the source, but he gave links to his sources he used, so I figured that was good enough for me :) Rat around on Lars blog... he's the one that did the Texturmap
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

6/01/09 Weekly Wrapup: @rjacquez on Twitter

By RJ Jacquez. Follow him on Twitter in English  @rjacquez and in Spanish @rjacquezEspanol , for real-time announcements, tips & tricks, how-to tutorials, Adobe-branded giveaways (including software at 1K followers) and more.   Last week was an exciting week with many announcements coming from our Adobe Labs. Specifically, Flash Catalyst and Adobe BrowserL
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Silverlight game mashup with Live Earth

Click on the image to take you to the site: Pity I can
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #93

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a great format for saving structured data in. In this Tip I will be showing you how to read and process XML files from Silverlight using the XmlReader object. Let
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Interesting Finds: August 2, 2009

Other STM (Software Transactional Memory) , Salvador Gascon
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Camtasia Crash Tip Update

Back on July 3 I posted a Camtasia Crash Tip for those of you who use this terrific product for screen captures. Since then, unfortunately, I
Publication date: 2008-07-28 more

SQL SERVER - Start SQL Server Instance in Single User Mode

There are certain situation when user wants to start SQL Server Engine in
Publication date: 2009-02-10 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

Craig Shoemakers hilarious desktop backgrounds

Craig Shoemaker has created a series of desktop backgrounds themes for .NET developers and featuring the one and only Gu, Scott Guthrie. Download them here var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Books On My Reading List

Posted by Davy Brion on February 1st, 2009 What does any self-respecting European development geek do when the British Pound
Publication date: 2009-02-02 more

What is coming soon?

You have noticed, I
Publication date: 2008-06-09 more

Give us feedback on Silverlight 2

We
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight

Something you might not be aware of is that the part of Comcast that I work for is all open source. We use open source technology, we open source projects, we're even all on Macs which is something new for...
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Hey, who took my Chiron?

If you
Publication date: 2008-10-11 more

Travel stories and session recaps from Mozilla Camp Europe Prague, 3-4 October 2009

Late last night I came home from the fantastic event that was Mozilla Camp Europe Prague, 3-4 October 2009 , and I thought I
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Beatles RockBand website wins coveted FWA

September 29, 2009: Judges from the Website awards program and Web institution, the Favourite Website Awards (FWA), Xbox Beatles RockBand website to receive the coveted ‘Site of the Day’ award . up another milestone for Silverlight, selecting...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Addition of __clrtype__ to IronPython

One of the important additions to IronPython 2.6 is something that enables several important new ways of integrating with the .NET framework. One the use cases is for .NET attribute support, which has long been missing from IronPython. The new feature is __clrtype__ . This allows you to customize the CLR type used for Python classes. By default a Python class in IronPython is not a true .NET class. This is because Python classes are much more flexible than .NET classes (and can be garbage co
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

VPC for IE testing refreshed with beta 2

Microsoft has updated the VPCs to test your web apps with different versions of Internet Explorer. You can now download these VPC: IE6/XP SP3 IE7/XP SP2 IE7/Vista IE8 beta 2/XP SP3 >> Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image These new VPCs will expire in January, 2009. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

PhotoZoom and SLS updates to Silverlight 2 Beta 2

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

re: Drag and Drop with Managed Code

Thought you guys might be interested in this, just open source a "almost" WPF compatible drag drop framework for Silverlight blogs.imeta.co.uk/.../726.aspx
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are Rounding Errors

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentThis is the third installment of our exclusive interview last week with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In the first article we showed an overview and video footage of the main subject areas we covered: Big Opportunities, Operating Systems/Browsers, Mobile, Search and Developers. In the second post we did a deeper dive on his thoughts on big business opportunities for Microsoft in the next 5
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Silverlight, Async, Events

Warning - long post with a lot of sketched code. Largely just me "thinking aloud". I'd been reading this post about how events are a bad mechanism to use for the asynchronous programming model in Silverlight and then this follow up post. This reminded me a little bit ( i.e. it's not the exact same situation ) of the approach that I ended up in taking to dealing with Storyboards in Silverlight at one point when I was playing with earlier bits. I don't necessarily disagree with what's been wri
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3

Our second Silverlight podcast features an interview with James Clarke of the Expression Encoder team. Learn about how Encoder works, screen capture and its object model. There are two versions: Enhanced AAC file for iPod: click here Standard MP3 file...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

JavaFX squares off against AJAX (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant's high points and the low points of their rival. Related posts: Java mobile platform to get widget apps (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Emphasizing the growing importance of mobile device applications,... Sun Executive Reveals More Open-source Plans for JavaFX (PC World) PC Wo
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Class to handle HTTPS and non HTTP services

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

Silverlight 3 related information

Silverlight 3 has been release and now we have also the Unit Testing Framework binaries here that will help making Unit Tests in our solutions when using Silverlight 3. More information
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Web Campaign Targets IE 6 Use

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

Silverlight 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

Behind the Scenes at Microsoft

I
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

Low Cost Hardware Platform for .NET Micro Framework - USBizi

GHI Electronics (known from the great Embedded Master
Publication date: 2008-07-13 more

DotNetRocks - Show #441 - Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3.0

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

Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight

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Publication date: 2010-03-09 more

Windows Workflow Foundation FAQ

Windows Workflow Foundation FAQ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

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)
Publication date: 2009-10-21 more

Woohoo! Subtext 2.0 released!

Ive just completed my upgrade to my site of the official 2.0 release of Subtext, the Open Source blogging engine that I use to manage content on this site. You can read the full announcement from grand poohba Haack himself here. Im loving this release because of the improvements made but also a little selfishly because the modifications Ive made to my own fork Ive been using have made it into this release! These modifications really make this the best platform for me when using Live Writer. This
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Converting from Base64 to varbinary and vice versa

Converting Base64 values to varbinary and vice versa is now easier using the XQuery functionality available from SQL Server 2005 onwards. The code samples below show how to perform the conversion: -- Convert Base64 value in a variable to varbinary: declare @str varchar(20); set @str = '3qAAAA=='; select cast(N'' as xml).value('xs:base64Binary(sql:variable("@str"))', 'varbinary(20)'); -- Convert binary value in a variable to Base64: declare @bin varbinary(20); set @bin = 0xDEA00000;... Did you kn
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #66

Microsoft Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements. This tool is especially great for creating vector based graphics for your elements. If you do not have Expression Designer, check...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

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

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

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

TechEd Ask The Experts: Website Graffiti? Silverlight 2.0 Annotation at the Vista booth

I'll be doing a fun Ask the Experts session at the Windows Vista booth Windows Vista at TechEd Developer 2008
Publication date: 2008-06-02 more

Develop Silverlight on Eclipse : Eclipse4SL

Eclipse4SL has been out for a couple of months since the release of Silverlight 2. However, I didn't do any testing on this tool until yesterday. I have a lot of findings and let's see it one by one....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

London Geek Knight on IronPython

The London Geek Knights hold regular geek meetings on a range of subjects in the London Thoughtworks offices. They're open to all, and on 24th July I'll be presenting on IronPython and Silverlight. ... [67 words]
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Mono and the Google Summer of Code 2009

Once again, the Mono project will be participating in the fabulous Google Summer of Code. This is a great opportunity for students that want to get involved with open source to contribute, learn and get paid for their work during the summer. We have been very lucky in recruiting some great students in the past years and these students have taken on some very sophisticated tasks over the years. MonoTorrent, ParallelFX, FastCGI for mod_mono, WinForms designer and theming, Genda
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

SQL Server 2008: new data types and .Net 2 with and without SP1

If you use the new data types in SQL Server 2008, and your front-end application uses .NET 2, you may hit difficulties. Andrs explains why and how...... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Silverlight 2 Application on MySpace

Check out Michael Scherotter's first Silverlight 2 application on MySpace . If you go to my profile page on MySpace today, you
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Happy 6th anniversary, LLBLGen Pro!

Today, it's been exactly 6 years ago we released the first version of LLBLGen Pro, v1.0.2003.1 after a development period of roughly 9 months (Sunday september 7th 2003, late in the evening). It was a big gamble, would it succeed or fail? We got our first customer within 9 minutes after release and we then knew it would be a success. And it still is, with thousands of companies using it world-wide, from small mom & pop shops to the biggest banks on the planet. Honestly, we hoped for success
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Silverlight 2 Beta 2: Available very soon

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight We're just wrapping up the final details for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. It should be available to download very very soon, so keep your eye on http://www.silverlight.net for details. There's...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-06-04 more

DevTeach Toronto 2008

DevTeach Toronto is fast approaching, and features a number of world class speakers including Micorosft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Regional Directors: There are a number of reasons why you should attend the event. Here's a few to start: Keynote by Scott Hanselman, Microsoft Scott Hanselman is one of the most prolific, renowned and respected blogger (http://guy.dotnet-expertise.com/ct.ashx?id=d94fb145-722c-4b78-948b-a6fe0a08209b&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hanselman.com) and podcast
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

Flash Platform Steams Ahead, Makes BBC Headlines

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

What I've Been Up To

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

Will Wimbledon Be a Grand Slam Online?

Wimbledon starts today, and you can catch all the action online through the magic of livestreaming. Well, you can catch it if you run a Windows machine and if you want to pay $24.99 (though we have some free passes
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Skyfire: Opera and Safari browser contender

Here come to new challenger! Opera has well known as the champion of free browser for most platforms, including Java, Symbian, and Windows Mobile; while Safari is the powerful native iPhone browser. Now they can
Publication date: 2008-08-01 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

Putting the Silverlight Layout System to Work

More: The Layout Model (Part 1) In my previous blog entry I described the fundamentals of the Silverlight Layout System ( SLS ). Today, I'd like to build a simplified version of the custom Carousel control that I create in greater detail in a forthcoming...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Linus Torvalds: I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease

What else to say? http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

User Controls in Silverlight

This tutorial demonstrates how to create UserControls in Silverlight. A UserControl is simply an empty control that can be used to create other controls. Fill them with XAML, code, or a mixture thereof and reuse them throughout your application....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Link Listing - September 5, 2008

Link Listing - September 5, 2008 ASP.NET Sys.StringBuilder.appendFormat(mask, args[]) [Via: scott cate ] Code Camps Code Camp 2008.3 [Via: Ken Lovely ] Link Collections Interesting Finds: September 5, 2008 - [Rough Cut] [Via: Jason Haley ] The Morning Brew #173 [Via: Chris Alcock ] Dew Drop - September 5, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ] LINKBLOG for September 5, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ] Podcasts Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate [Via: Hanselminutes ] Audible Ajax Episode 29: Interview with
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

Upgrading to CS2008 - What happens to existing gallery images?

As per title, we have around 6,200 images in our galleries and are concerned what's going to happen to them should be we upgrade to CS2008. For reference they are all stored in the file system and we're on CS2007.1... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-25 more

Introduction to PayPal for C# - ASP.NET developers

Overview that presents all PayPal integration options, targeted especially at C# developers... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

TreeMap in Silverlight Toolkit: How to write your own interpolator

One of the new concepts introduced in the TreeMap control are Interpolators. They are used for example to interpolate the colors of rectangles or the font size in the titles of the NHL teams in the sample TreeMap in the picture above. I would like to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-07 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

Getting Started with Silverlight 2 Controls

(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight 2 provides a variety of controls that can be used to collect and display data, display collections of items, and play media. Developers coming from ASP.NET will find that using Silverlight controls is similar in many ways to using ASP.NET server controls because the Silverlight controls can be defined using an XML syntax and expose properties, methods and events.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

SharePoint Site Provisioning The Real World

This article will help you to create your own custom site provisioning that integrates your business process and will show you how to add some custom functionalities.   read more By Alon Havivi Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

AgOpenSource Project Touring

Today, after a bit of design work, I begin very frequent updates on a new application to be created under the AgOpenSource project, code named: project Touring .   [This is a place holder
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

New feature in Subtext 2.0: publish in the future

In the last two days I wrote about two new feature of Subtext 2.0: Enclosures and performance optimizations for skins. Today Ill talk about another new feature of Subtext 2.0: Future Posting. I already anticipated this feature while I was testing it last week: posting in the future allows the blogs author to write a post either with the post editor online or with any offline blogging application (like Windows Live Writer), set the date and time, save it on the server as published (not as draft),
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash, JavaFX and Silverlight?

While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the potential to
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

News roundup: CBS picks Silverlight for March Madness on Demand; Full Flash coming on Windows Mobile; So many app stores; Maps as the metaphor for cellphone era

Silverlight, Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash in online video and rich Internet applications, will power CBSsports.com's March Madness on Demand -- the men's college basketball tournament, reports the SportsBusiness Journal. CBS was already using Windows Media Player for the service, which drew 4.8 million users last year. Silverlight will power a higher-quality version, SBJ reports. Also, Microsoft's Scott Guthrie wrote in a November update on Silverlight that "CBS College Sports is now u
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Sun heading into the cloud

Sun heading into the cloud By Dan Farber (CNET Blogs) I managed to hook up with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz for a video interview. We talked about Project Hydrazine, a new cloud computing initiative with services similar to what Google and Amazon.com offer. We also discussed JavaFX, Sun's competitor to Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, and Project Insight, which is designed to gather instrumented user action data via JavaFX and provide it to developers. http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9937
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

The Silverlight Streaming service has been upgraded to support Silverlight 2 beta 2 applications. As a note to customers who were previously hosting Beta 1 applications for test purposes, as beta 1 is no longer a supported test platform for SLS.  Authors should update/upload their applications using the latest Silverlight 2 bits.  These are available (with the tools) from the Silverlight community site. Silverlight 1 applications hosted on SLS are not affected by this upgrade and still suppo
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Silveright Resource Directory Update (21 Aug)

3D Menu Carousel using PlaneProjection An 3D Menu Carousel effect using Plane Projection (Perspective 3D). The author also explained how this application is implemented. Original Post Hit Test (Get all objects in a specific point) Most of the time, when you are creating games, you will have to find out all the UIElement in a specific coordinate. (Or we can this hittest). In such circumstance, you will need to use the method VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHo
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

MIX09 10k Challenge - My Favorite Silverlight Entry

More than 60 creations have been submitted to the MIX09 - 10K Challenge!! Everyone must spare some of their time to take a look on all the entries. They are brilliant and creative! I am sure you can get a lot of inspirations there! The deadline of the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 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

Make Games with Microsoft Popfly

Microsoft Popfly is a Silverlight based game creation tool. You are supposed to be allowed to share your game creations. Let's see if it works :)
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

jQuery UI Datepicker and z-Index

The jQuery date picker is a nice little date picking solution thats easy to use and work with. Ive used this control in many places and some time ago wrapped it into an ASP.NET server control to make it easier to work with yet. The control works great, but theres one thing that a number of people using the control have run into:  When the date picker is used with other controls that use z-Indexes extensively its quite easy to end up with a date picker that doesnt pop up properly: Ooops... D
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Some flexcoders stats

Some flexcoders stats Posted by: Doug, in flexcoders I
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

New version CTP of ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 is now available

ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria) has now the CTP2 release for version 1.5 available that will have the following new features: Projections, the possibility of getting only the columns chosen instead of retrieving all the columns. With this we have now a new set of expressions to provide this ability on the URI. DataBinding , Simplification of the DataBinding for Silverlight and WPF, because instead of using the DataServiceCollection class we can bind it directly to the Data Servi
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Link Listing - September 3, 2008

MSBuild MSBuild your way to ZIP Deliveries
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Get the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit covers the technologies in the .NET 3.5 SP1 release and the out of band releases that are a part of the same wave, namely ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Silverlight controls. Currently, the training kit contains six hands-on labs, made up of the following technologies: 1) ADO.NET Data Services 2) ADO.NET Entity Framework 3) ASP.NET AJAX History 4) ASP.NET Dynamic Data 5) ASP.NET MVC 6) ASP.NET Silverlight controls
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Microsoft Introduces

Microsoft has just introduced its
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Internationalizing Forums/Groups/etc.

Ok - I have a strange question - i've been looking @ internationalization of forums (as well as the base internationalization support in CS08sp1) - it seems like specifying a forum that is: Automobile (french) Cars (U.S.) is pretty simple to do... However what if i wanted to have one unifed forum and the label of the forum driven from a resource file: so forum id: abc123 in EN: Cars: FR: Automobile this way you could have the forum share information from different users languages... inside... D
Publication date: 2008-08-24 more

Silverlight Layout Fundamentals Part 1 - What is Layout?

Silverlight Layout Fundamentals Part 1 - What is Layout? Posted by on July 20th, 2008 This is the first part of a series of articles on Silverlight 2
Publication date: 2008-07-20 more

Glimpse for Silverlight

Introduction After my previous blog post, “Troubleshoot Silverlight 3 Data Bindings” I got some feedback and while in Phoenix I upgraded the code and have decided to call this Glimpse. This initial release of Glimpse is a proof of concept...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-08 more

Microsoft Office Communicator Vista Gadget project released to CodePlex

Back in June at TechEd in Orlando, we demo'd an Office Communicator Vista gadget in the Unified Communications booth. I also had a breakout session in which we discussed how to build Vista gadgets using WPF and where we went through the gadget and the tools and techniques that we used to build it. We've gotten the ok to put the project out on CodePlex, you can now download it at http://www.codeplex.com/MOCVistaGadget. The CodePlex project includes all the source code, as well as a .gadget fi
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Basic flow diagram visual editor by vins78

Using Flash, Flex or Silverlight is welcomed. I need an application that is able to build a workflow (places, transitions and arcs). The application is able to save the builded workflow in XML and post it to a given URL
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight

In ASP.NET 2.0, we introduced a very powerful set of application services in ASP.NET ( Membership , Roles and profile ).  In 3.5 we created a client library for accessing them from Ajax and .NET Clients and exposed them via WCF web services.   ...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

geekSpeak: Join a Discussion Like No Other

Learn about the latest technologies from industry experts during this "talk-radio" show. Hear about the new caching capabilities in the Microsoft .NET Framework version 4 or composite application development in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Survey finds disaster recovery is the top issue for organisations

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

Mozilla UX chief: What's next for Mozilla, Firefox and the Web

Shortly after having a door slam in my face and it nearly breaking my nose, I sat down with Aza Raskin, the head of user experiences at Mozilla Labs to discuss not only where Mozilla is heading in the near future but also what he sees in the next-generation World Wide Web. This interview was done over a cup of coffee in a bustling room. Everything said here is from Raskin himself, with notes taken by myself and paraphrased to make it readable. The views from the UX guy As the he
Publication date: 2009-10-03 more

Olympics on Silverlight

Olympics on Silverlight Posted by on August 9th, 2008 08.08.08 - after 7 years of preparation and anticipation, the XXIX Olympiad has finally opened in Beijing. What an amazing opening ceremony. And such breathtaking architectures of the "Birds Nest" National Stadium and "Water Cube" Aquatics Center. It
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

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

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

Using LINQ to XML in Silverlight 2

(Martin Mihaylov) When working with data, it often comes in an XML format. So we have to serialize and deserialize it in order to use it. There are several ways of doing that for example: DOM, XQuery, XSLT. DOM is the oldest from the three, but still can do the work. XQuery and XSLT are not very easy to use and require some time to master. In .NET 3.5 a big programming model improvement was made with the LINQ - Language-Integrated Query. It can be used for objects, databases and XML. In the foll
Publication date: 2008-07-27 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design

Learn more about the point, line and form; elements of design (some theorists see them as principles of design). These elements are the foundation you can use to compose and design user interfaces. Explore these elements while exploring Expression Design...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

DotNetNuke Coming soon to a CodePlex near you!

Now that the holidays are through and we have had a chance to assess and fix a number of issues reported in DotNetNuke 4.9.1 and 5.0.0, we are just about ready to release DNN 4.9.2 and 5.0.1. To avoid some of the confusion with a dual release we are going to stagger the two releases. DotNetNuke 4.9.2 will be released on Monday, February 16th. DotNetNuke 5.0.1 will be released the following Monday, February 23rd. Barring any major hidden show-stopping issues, DotNetNuke 4.9.2 will be the final 4.
Publication date: 2009-02-13 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Blur Animation Effect

The effect is simple, the star icon in the application will follow your mouse position. While star icon is moving, the residue image will fade out steadily. Traditionally, this kind of effect is done by creating a lot of instances with different opacity...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

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)
Publication date: 2009-11-12 more

SQLAuthority News Authors Birthday Top 7 Commenters Volunteers

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

LatticeFramework 2 Beta version is available

We are glad to announce that LatticeFramework 2 Beta version is now available for download in the download area. Tutorial for generating ASP.NET MVC applications is also available for everyone. http://latticesoft.com/forums/ Installation: LatticeFramework Studio 2.0 will install side by side with version 1.x and can run in parallel. There is no need to uninstall version 1.x. Here just some of the new features included in this release 2.0: 1. A new universal SQL Query... Did you know that D
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Microsoft LookingGlas

Noch ist vom neuen Social Media Monitoring Tool von Microsoft nur der Codename bekannt aber jetzt schon gibt es im Microsoft Advertising Blog einiges zu lesen. Mit Microsoft LookingGlas sollen Vermarkten die Möglichkeit erhalten Kundendiskussionen in sozialen Netzwerken zu verfolgen. Aber Looking Glas soll noch mehr können, wie zum Beispiel die Beiträge automatisch als positive oder negative zu bewerten und sie grafisch dementsprechend anzuzeigen. LookingGlass, which is built on a numb
Publication date: 2009-10-12 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

Digg Accelerator for IE8

Digg is an online destination that enables people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. The new Digg Accelerator enables you to quickly Digg, Submit, and find related content from anywhere on the Web.  A great tool! Also, coming soon, is a Silverlight version of the accelerator providing a really rich experience for Digg stories, revealed John C. More Info :  Download
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Image Slide Show using Perspective 3D

today I will bring you a 3D Image Slideshow using the perspective 3d technology in both Flash and Silverlight. Implementing this effect in the past is not that easy. However, thanks for the advancement of the technology, you may now create it on the fly...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

Apparently Radio 1's Big Weekend is a big thing in England, and to launch the festivities they've made The Big Zoomy Photo Thing a central piece of the action (as you may guess, this is Silverlight/Zoom incognito). (picture cropped to save room...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Why Oslo Matters To Me

I've been bloging some about my experience using and playing with different parts of the Oslo stack on projects and articles. I've gotten a couple of reactions as to why it matters.  I have covered some of it in my article series that focuses on DSLs and developers here: Part 1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd441702.aspx Part 2: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd548006.aspx Part 3: Coming Soon But there is a bigger picture here that I want people to get their
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

Visibility pattern in Silverlight

Corey Schuman has a new blog post concentrated on  visibility pattern in Silverlight . The Visibility pattern is way of overriding the base Visibility of a control and adding a custom animation.  There are a couple ways of hiding a control on screen 1.) setting the Opacity to 0 or 2.) setting the Visibility of the object to Collapsed.  Depending on the situation, the latter is probably a preferred way of hiding an object because once collapsed, the space for that control is freed up.
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Flash v Silverlight Gallery

Stumbled across this great site with a tonne of examples built for Flash and Silverlight. It
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

MSDN Community Distribution - July 2008

We have just received the July 2008 edition of the community distribution ... if you need a copy, please bring a DVD or external drive to TechED (South-Africa) and we can give you a copy. What's on the DVD? Main Themes Why Develop for Windows Vista? Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview Your Featured Content Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation What's New in Windows Presentatio
Publication date: 2008-08-01 more

Scale WCF Application Better with Asynchronous Programming

WCF is a framework that is asynchronous inside out. Internally, asynchronous patterns are used to achieve non-blocking calls between different layers inside WCF. Externally WCF exposes the asynchronous patterns for both client and service programming. Why Asynchronous Pattern? From performance perspective, its not always ideal to use asynchronous programming if you dont have to. Any asynchronous pattern involves at least some thread switches and thus causes delays to requests. So you should not
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Dell Mini 9 Project

I ordered the following Dell Mini 9 from Dell on one of their one day only sales ($50 off) (which seem to occur every few weeks, so it pays to be patient
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

Expander Control Part 1

I recently described the HeaderControl from the Silverlight Toolkit. Derived from the HeaderControl (and thus, to be thought of as a specialized version of the HeaderControl) is the Expander. In its simplest form, the Expander has two properties that do all the work: the Header property and the Content property. Put text into each, and hey! presto! you have a working expander.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Convert PowerPoint to Silverlight Application

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

SQL SERVER Choose Right Edition of SQL Server Express for Your Application

SQL Server Express is better alternative of MySQL. I have recently helped quite a few organizations to move to SQL Server Express recently. However, one question keep on coming up quite often regarding which is the right edition for SQL Server Express. SQL Server Express have more than one edition available.Here is the quick guide [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories includ
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Webhosting Deals : High Performance Windows 2008 DotNetPanel Hosting

Hostgator is the best shared web hosting provider and ThePlanet offers the best dedicated servers for cheap. This web hosting offer posted by SoftsysHosting-Rick on 25 July 2009 Experience Fastest Hosting on our latest Windows 2008 / IIS7 / MS SQL 2008 Hosting Plans with DotNetPanel on our ultra fast server cluster with Quad Processors, 4-8GB RAM & 100Mbps connectivity. Supported Technologies: Classic ASP, ASP.NET (1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 SP1), PHP 5.2.x, Silverlight, Per
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Silverlight Best of MIX in Phoenix

I
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

PDC Buzz on Blogsphere

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

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/8/2010

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Publication date: 2010-03-08 more

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
Publication date: 2010-02-23 more

Stop Using Flash From Now On!

by Nick Martin Adobe Flash is being widely used in this modern world, as it can handle unmatched interactivity, protect source code and also well-suit for animation and media. Moreover, it can add interactive elements or movements to make a vivid website. However, there are various reasons for us not to recommend flash to all of you, when you need to build an entire website or want your main website functionally within Flash. Not Search Engine Friendly: Major search engines, such as Google a
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

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

Where do I go now?

Well, I
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #57

Let
Publication date: 2008-10-09 more

Skyfire on the Way to BlackBerry with Flash Support

Even though the web browser on recent Blackberry devices has improved a lot (mostly thanks to the higher-res display...), it is fair to say that they are still far from being "good". But the arrival of Skyfire for Blackberry might solve this problem. Skyfire is a web browser that aims to offer a desktop web experience in your mobile. They do it by having a desktop machine load the page from their data center, then compresses the page into a mobile-friendly format. Think of it as some kind of "
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Preliminary Product Review

NB: This post is not about Silverlight; it is a short digression to share one of the cooler new products I
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Akamai Unleashes HD Network

Akamai (AKAM: chart, news) had promised an announcement today regarding a new strategic direction for video delivery.  And what did it turn out to be?  Why the Akamai HD Network of course!  The new platform is billed as
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Interesting Finds: April 4, 2009

Other stuff Refactoring logic from an ASP.NET page , Jonathan Cogley Dice.com Shows 45% Drop In Tech Jobs , Leena Rao Creating a functional programming model for MEF , Glenn Block Highlights From This Year
Publication date: 2009-04-06 more

Blinded by the (silver) light

You know, I am a real big fan of Pat Helland. I have never met the man, never corresponded with him, but find some of his content to be out-of-the-ballpark outstanding. I'd love to watch the video on irresistible forces meeting movable objects but I need SilverLight to do it. Now I'm on Linux at the moment and there is no SilverLight plug-in for Linux so that's it. I'm skipping over it. What a pity.
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

iGaming news: LineRider and X-Plane

Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App StoreA couple of new games from the wider world have hit the App Store, and fans of both should be excited: LineRider brings an online sensation to the touchable side, and X-Plane brings flight simulation street cred to iPhone and iPod touch users. LineRider (store link) started out as a simple, no-frills sledding Flash game from a Czech student and has exploded into an online phenom -- the current version runs in MS Silverlight, and it has spawned over 11,000
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Working with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX on Microsoft CDN

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

Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight - Charles Petzold

I've been experimenting recently with implementing a "fisheye" effect in Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-05-24 more

Windows4All: Microsoft Silverlight brings you full-fledged

How powerful is Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

Whats New In Silverlight 3 Merged Resources

Silverlight 3 provides the ability to manage your various resources in dedicated files and folders, and then merge them together as needed. This allows for far easier scaling of applications and easier reuse of resources. It is easiest to see this at work by creating a small example. Ill open a new application and name it MergedResources1 and Ill create this one in VB. To keep life simple, Im going to use some of the resources I used in the based-on-styles discussion. Ill create a simple layo
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Fun with Reflection, DataTable, Classes and SQLHelper

Some simple data conversion methods to help with the SQLHelper v2 utility class   read more By Peter Bromberg Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

New Ballistics App

Winchester has developed a new external ballistics web app .  You can find it here . First impression is that it
Publication date: 2009-08-08 more

Microsoft Education: Learning Content Development System

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

Win your own Olympic medals with Popfly

As the 2008 Olympic Games officially kick off today
Publication date: 2008-08-09 more

Dependency Property System

On the 17th I began a discussion of Dependency Properties, but as I said then, there is more to say. This central concept to Silverlight Programming has traditionally been taught as an advanced concept.(Can we have traditions in a product that hasn't...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-01 more

RadGauge for Silverlight - coming up with Q3

There are lots of exciting things coming up with the official release of "RadControls for Silverlight". One of them is the newly included RadGauge control in the suite. As it has already become a tradition - RadGauge for Silverlight will share the same code base as its WPF analogue. This will allow the users to use the same API with both the controls. With Telerik RadGauge for Silverlight you will be able to display and monitor live data using the rich set of features the control provides. Fu
Publication date: 2008-09-17 more

The Thirsty Developer 51: Dangling Links

This week Dave and Larry interview Edward Thomson a software engineer with Teamprise about cross platform development.  Teamprise creates clients for Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Clashing titans: Microsoft vs. Adobe

Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Have you seen Microsoft Interactive Canvas (MIC) in action? See why it won the Design Week award

Winning a Design Week award is similar to winning an Oscar, or Bafta, in the film world: it
Publication date: 2009-05-14 more

Blendable MVVM: WCF and Asynch Data Sources

Wrapping up building a Blendable View Model for Silverlight by connecting to a WCF Service
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #99

I recently had the opportunity to try out the controls from ComponentArt.com . I was very impressed with their ease of use, professional design and overall quality. Also, their staff are very prompt to responding to questions which made my developer experience...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Long time, no blog!

Yes, Its been quite a while since my last blog post! A lot has been happening internally including a job move for me to the Solution Architecture team in MCS as a Solution Architect from the fantastic Application Development Consulting (ADC) team. I still retain my strong technical focus youll be pleased to know and I dont think Ill be getting away from BizTalk anytime soon J Ive been doing a lot of work in the fluffy cloud space in recent months and will be presenting a rather complex... Did y
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

SQLAuthority News - Ahmedabad User Group Meeting February 21 2009

It is my pleasure to announce that SQL Server User Group Meeting is held on February 21, 2009. This is the second meeting of year 2009 and will be one interesting meeting as we will have back to back two presentation from SQL Experts.The agenda of meeting will be as following.Working with IDENTITY values in [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a
Publication date: 2009-02-20 more

Microsoft releases Silverlight 3 (Macworld.com)

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

MVP Mike McIntyre: Visual Web Gui is an open source product for porting .NET Windows Forms applications to the web

It is used to create ASP.NET web applications with a very AJAX like experience - without the AJAX programming hassle.It may be worth it to you to give it a try. Though it's little rough around the edges at this point, this product can be used today to produce web applications from .NET Windows Forms projects. And - the developer is rapidly improving the product each month.It's easy to get started and it to produce useful web applications. I've been playing around with it for about a week and hav
Publication date: 2008-05-04 more

Four Transforms

I haven
Publication date: 2008-08-16 more

What to read on the GigaOM network

Silverlight takes its first step into the living room (NewTeeVee) Valuations for later-stage cleantech startups have tumbled: VC (Earth2Tech) Apple developer diary, day 1: Game on (TheAppleBlog) Create tour widgets for your site with Amberjack (OStatic) Keep stuff on your notebook with MojoPac (jkOnTheRun) Planning a home office in a small space (WebWorkerDaily) Market research you can use: Keep informed about Cloud Computing and IT Infrastructure. Learn more 
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Olympics Video Player Debuts

The summer games are just a little over a month away, but you can start catching Olympic fever online now, thanks to the new video player on NBCOlympics.com. With more than 2,200 hours of live footage being streamed from the event, the new player offers a host of features that will literally let you catch all the action (though some of it will be delayed). To try it out, visit NBCOlympics.com and click on video. It
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Case Study: CSW Solutions Inc.

Jose Rolando Guay Paz from CSW Solutions Inc has built a very cool website using DevExpress ASP.NET controls. Working with a tight six week deadline, Jose was able to leverage an online reservation system using the ASPxScheduler Suite. To also streamline their code productivity, Jose and CSW Solutions leveraged the power of CodeRush and Refactor Pro. In fact, there was enough time to build a second administration website to manage the reservations and customers. Click the image below to read mor
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Developing an ASP.NET AJAX Server Centric Based Mini Blog System - Part 1

In this first part of the series, Xianzhong Zhu examines the development of a simple popular blog system under the ASP.NET 3.5 environment and using ASP.NET AJAX Server-Centric techniques. After a brief introduction, he provides a detailed overview of the basic system requirements required for building the blog. He then delves deeper into the front-end and back-end pages, architecture and database design of the system and the connection string used for the project. At the end of the article, Xia
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight? What is it?

Every time I search Microsoft for information I come across Sliverlight; download Silverlight here... OKay, so I did. Nothing! From what I understood it is a richer alternative to flash player. I love watching movies on the internet. But nothing changed. Either the flash player or Move player continued to be used. I am aware I probably did not configure it properly. So before I go on another download adventure, will someone please explain what exactly is Silverlight; and if time permi
Publication date: 2008-06-22 more

PC versus Mac

Here at Pageflakes, it
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Silverlight-3 FireStarter 17 Sept 2009

On 17 September you have a wonderful and free opportunity to kick-start your Silverlight and Blend 3 skills.  I’ve started writing Silverlight 3 applications and love where this platform currently is and where it’s heading. Come join...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

Patch Tuesday: MS plugs critical IE, Windows Media Player holes

October 13th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 10:43 amCategories:Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Botnets, Browsers, Complex Attacks, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Hackers, Malware, Metasploit, Microsoft, Patch Watch, Pen testingTags:Microsoft Windows Media Player, Windows Media, Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., FTP, Microsoft IIS Server, Media Player, SecurityMicrosoft today released its largest ever batch of Pa
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

<3 your web, Vegas style, it

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: Mix09 , Silverlight It
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

The proverbial "one line fix" [ComputeFileHashes works around a troublesome Silverlight-on-Mac issue]

When I achieved cross-platform parity by adding MD5 support to the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes , I thought I was done for a while. But then I got an email from a coworker reporting that the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes running...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-01 more

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

Quince Silverlight-powered UX Pattern Explorer

Quince is an on-line directory of UX design patterns created by Infragistics, written using Microsoft Silverlight. Quince contains around 100 patterns with large numbers of examples from desktop, web, and other platforms. More info :  Quince Source:
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

AlertFox Lets You Monitor Your Website In High Technology !

Now you can feel the hardcore website monitoring technology with a powerful application called AlertFox Free Website Monitoring Tool. This tool is available in beta version, which can provide website monitoring service for Web 2.0 and SaaS web application. It has come out with the capability to monitor all the popular internet applications, which can comprise ActiveX, AJAX, Flash, Flex, complex HTML and Silverlight technology. Click to know about Network Monitoring Software
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Dew Drop - June 8, 2009

  Design / Methodology / Testing Reflecting reality (Jimmy Bogard) TDDing an Interface - a Twitter influenced discussion (Brett Schuchert) The Impact of Staffing Practices on Software Quality and Productivity (Derick Bailey) Multiple roles (Steven
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

ASP Dot Net Developers (Karachi)

Employer: Softech Worldwide LLCIndustry: Software DevelopmentLocation: Karachi, PakistanExperienced ASP .Net Developers are required to work on Rich Media Platform.Using the following Latest Tools, Technologies and Platforms, at our Karachi-Pakistan officeDot Net 3.5. Windows Communication Foundation.Windows Workflow Foundation.Web Services.Microsoft Silverlight 2.MS Live authentication.MS Live Streaming Services.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.Identity LifeCycle Manager (ILM)
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

DotNetNuke 5 Quick Start Guide - 6 Free Videos

In this free video tutorial we provide a quick start guide to using DotNetNuke 5. This tutorial will help you get started using DotNetNuke without getting into all of the finer details, once you've got to grips with this tutorial you can then explore the other video tutorials on DNN Creative Magazine and those tutorials will help you to get the most from your DotNetNuke portal. The videos contain: Video 1 - Introduction, Configuring and Securing Admin and Host User Accounts Video 2 -
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-02-20 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 11: The Client-Only World

I have had a great time so far with this series.. I hope you have gotten something out of it as well. Some readers have asked me if RIA Services is required for the client validation goodness. Nope, the .NET RIA Services bits are not required
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

New Popfly Game Creator Features

Adam Nathan recently blogged about some of the new features they've added to Popfly Game Creator including the color swapper for skinning actors, guidelines and snapping for aligning characters, actor stamping for easier tiling, new events, and the ability to clone a level! All-in-all, this should make building games using Popfly even easier. Check out Adam's post for the full details. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We alrea
Publication date: 2008-06-18 more

Deep Zoom Obama at hit in Brazil

Brazilian website and television show Olar Digital recently produced a video segment on Microsoft
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity - Omar AL Zabir blog on ASP.NET Ajax and .NET 3.5

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity Dropthings
Publication date: 2009-07-06 more

HAPPY EASTER! Since, I

HAPPY EASTER! Since, I
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Silverlight and Web Service Errors

When working with data and Silverlight there has often been the questions of wondering why when a service call fails that Silverlight returns the HTTP 404 status code. In fact I
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

The Official Round-Up from Nitrome

For those of you who didn
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

Adding a Location Crosshair to Silverlight Charts

Colin Eberhardt has a blog post in which he is described how to add a location crosshair to your Silverlight charts. Colin: The chart itself is rendered using the charting component of the recently release Silverlight Toolkit. Creating and displaying a simple line chart is as simple as referencing the correct silverlight toolkit namespaces and placing a chart with an associated lineseries into the XAML for your page.
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Added BMP Decoder

I updated the Image Source samples to include the BMP Decoder (missing from my previous post)....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

WSE 3 Deployment: MSI and ClickOnce

Overview of deployment techniques using example WSE 3 enabled solutions... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-10-04 more

Is your DNN Portal Healthy? Get a checkup with the Engage: Dashboard Module

Has your DotNetNuke site had a checkup lately? Do you know how big your database is? Do you know how big your database is? How many records are in your event log? site log? What about the last time it was backed up? Have you looked to see how many of...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

Changes coming to DotNetNuke

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

RIA: Microsoft to finally offer Silverlight COMET?

Appears somebody is finally listening @ Microsoft, with a WCF push service for Silverlight coming in the near future.
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Silverlight Fifteen Puzzle

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

What I miss in Silverlight 2.0

No, I do not miss a particular control or class. I am thinking about principle design issues. Search Engines The extension for Silverlight applications is xap.  The content is kind of binary. At the end of the line, no content for search engine spider. Proposed solution: add metacontent, like the original XAML file. Librarys Some of the new controls are not included native in Silverlight base installation. Datagrid or Tabcontrol are in separate dlls (e.g. System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll)...
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

How to handle thickness

Yesterday, we spoke about type converters. We even, built simple generic enum converter. Today, we
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

Google Competes in RIA?

I
Publication date: 2008-08-18 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #39

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

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template

To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code.  The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template.  It describes a prescriptive...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-16 more

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 22-24, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies.
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Glue

What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary : 1  a : any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (as hides or bones) b : a solution of glue used for sticking things together Hm
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Molding code to your will with Sculpture

CodePlex
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

wrox.books24x7.com adds Wrox Blox

Our partner books24x7.com now includes Wrox Blox as part of the Wrox online subscription library at wrox.books24x7.com. So in addition to the more than 200 books available there, you can get Wrox Blox too. So far, they've added 3 Wrox Blox: Scripting SQL Management Objects in Windows Powershell, SOA and ESB Architecture with Biztalk, and Working with Animation in Silverlight 1.0. I know they have many more Blox queued to add shortly, as well as a raft of Visual Studio 2008 books and other rece
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

[Slashdot] Headlines for 2009-02-14

======================================================================Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco | March 31 April 3, 2009Meet and Learn form the Greatest Minds on the Web TodaySave $100 or Get a Free Expo Pass with Discount Code websf09bn5Register today at http://p.sf.net/sfu/web2expo-com======================================================================Slashdot Daily Headline MailerMoonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux from the cue-the-brouhaha dept. posted by timothy on T
Publication date: 2009-02-14 more

JAX - it's all about Technology, Architecture, Agility (http://jax-conf.com/)

AX (http://jax-conf.com/) is the the most comprehensive conference onweb and enterprise development. It provides an ideal forum for softwaredevelopers, project managers and architects to learn about the latestTechnology, Architecture and Agile Methodologies. It is this veryspecial blend of topics which has made JAX the conference of choice inGermany, India and Asia since its conception in 2001.The master minds of our industry will be at JAX to share theirknowledge, answer questions and facilitat
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 -- #281

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

Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Hatred is a Disease

Ive been doing Open Source stuff for a decade, but I work at Microsoft (They dont call me Misfit for nothing.) There are a few folks in the so called Open Source Community that viscerally HATE Microsoft. Personally I consider this a chosen form of stupidity. I love working at Microsoft and I love many of our products, and I dislike some of the others. I love and use many non-Microsoft products, and hate others. But I do so based on the products attributes. Lest we forget what the origin
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum

I recently recorded a CodeCast interview with Ken Levy. We discussed the VS2010 Editor, VB.NET line continuation removal, interop with dynamic languages, the Microsoft languages strategy, and the upcoming VS2010 Beta1 release. Recording: CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum This episode includes Ken Levy with a part 2 interview with Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Beauty with Silverlight

I created something cool that I
Publication date: 2008-05-25 more

The Microsoft Expression Gallery

You know the Expression Suite ! Tools for building the UI "experience". Well know there is a gallery of designs created by YOU ! Check them out here..... http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

HeadTraxExtreme Sample Application Updated

David Anson has posted about  an "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release . A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme, an organizational hierarchy viewer loosely based on an internal tool . That blog post has been fairly popular, and I wanted to update the sample code for the recent
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #90

The CSPROJ file, saved in XML format, stores all the references for your project including your compilation options. There is also a SLN file which stores information about projects that make up your solution. If you are using Visual Studio and have the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-07 more

Microsoft Analysis Services 2005: Displaying grid using ADOMD.NET and MDX

The article explains how to fetch data from Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 (OLAP) Cube using ADOMD.NET and MDX; and display it in the form of a grid.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

New Silverlight Video on Gradient Brushes

Todd Miranda demonstrates how to use gradient brushes in Silverlight 2 . Watch this and other Silverlight videos on the Learn page....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

C# In Depth by Jon Skeet Book Review

Jon Skeet published a great book titled C# In Depth by Manning Publishers. I strongly recommend getting this bookThis site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Microsoft Web Platform Installer now includes Silverlight Tools!

Now supporting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Web PI makes it easy to install and stay up-to-date with the Microsoft Web Platform. This updated release lets you install Visual Web Developer with the Silverlight Tools and much more! Install today...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Times Reader headed to the Mac

The New York Times is bringing its e-reader desktop application to the Mac this month. The newspaper publisher unveiled its latest efforts last night, with a slew of screenshots. The Times' First Look post notes that the application will be running on Microsoft's Silverlight technology, enabling rich-media effects and rendering. Users will be able to read, browse, and search the entire publication while offline. The big difference between the PC application and the Mac version will be the abi
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

MIXrsquo;09 ndash; the intersection of design amp; technologyhellip; Silverlight Toolkit FTW!

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Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Bullit NetNewsWire style

Bullit NetNewsWire style Bullit is the style I developed to read my RSS feeds on NetNewsWire. Clarity and readability were the most important factors. Bullit uses 70% (and up to 700px) width for the reading column. Body copy is 13px Lucida Grande. Article headings use a slab serif, and headings in the body text are reverse-indented to stick out because bloggers frequently use small headings, which are hard to distinguish from the body. Images are never wider than the reading column, embedded F
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Symbian-Guru Featured In SkyFire

The SkyFire web browser was updated a few weeks ago with a hot new Facebook and Twitter integration - allowing you to customise the browser
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

SQL Data Services - SQL Server in the Cloud !

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

LIDNUG: Tim Heuer presentation recording now available on www.lidnug.org

The recording of Tim Heuer
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

I Want An Ink Enabled Netbook

As we look at the immediate future of mobile devices, Ink is still very much a second class citizen. The ultra-sub-mini-net low cost notebook pond is so full of contenders swimming around in the shallow end, you need a Baywatch-sized cast of lifeguards to sort them out. Running along side that pool and parallel with that development is a move towards touch and multi-touch (Windows 7). But touch and multi-touch haven
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Getting Started with Silverlight development

Over time a few people have contacted me about the missing WatermarkedTextbox from Scott Guthrie
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Intersoft Solutions Releases WebUI Studio 2009

JAKARTA
Publication date: 2009-06-16 more

RIA Svcs Data Source Control

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 11 | Advanced: 8 ] FAQ | Table of Contents | Definitions What is this and where do I start ? Part 3 of 3 This is the last of a three part sub-series on using Entity Frameworks and RIA Data Services to move data from our...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Free Podcasting Kit for SharePoint 2007

Free Podcasting Kit for SharePoint 2007 A few days ago, the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint was released on CodePlex (our open source project hosting web site). And, for colleges, it
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Ninject 2 hits beta status

Its not that a secret that Im a big fan of Ninject, so Im pretty excited to see that the experimental version that Nate was playing with has been upgraded to the next official release of Ninject, v2. Its completely written from scratch, and it takes full advantage of LINQ. You can read more about whats new, what has been removed, and what has been added on the official announcement on Nates blog. It seems like it also have an even easier way to integrate with ASP.NET MVC. Ill not have a lot... D
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Parallel Computing on Azure

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

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

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

A Post Resurrection! and some answers for Windows Mobile Fans

The other day I told you about some attempted transparency from Microsoft, over at the Windows Mobile Facebook page. I was, to say the least, sceptical at the time , but it seems Microsoft have finally deemed to grace fans at FaceBook with some answers! Answers though that are innocuous, and well, affected by a generous slathering of PR spin, sanitised and no real answers at all. For  example: Nikita When will
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

NBC's Olympics Smashes Online Traffic Records, But Fewer Actually Watching Video

The Beijing Olympics are helping NBC Sports crush its previous online traffic records. Consider: before the games, NBC Sports' biggest online traffic day was the US Open playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate, which brought 9.1 million page views and 1.5 million videos streamed. Over the first four days of the Games, NBCOlympics.com had 291 million page views and 13.5 million video streams. But despite mammoth traffic to the site, relatively few appear to be downloading Silverlight and
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Alan Cheslow: Alchemy: Turning Microsoft

Alan Cheslow Alchemy: Turning Microsoft's embedded platforms into consumer gold | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com - http://blogs.zdnet.com/microso
Publication date: 2009-05-29 more

How to make Silverlight be AiR?

How to make Silverlight be AiR? Today we
Publication date: 2008-04-27 more

Confessions of a ListBox groupie [Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly]

A customer recently asked how to implement a simple "grouped ListBox " experience in Silverlight (now available in desktop , mobile , and extra crispy flavor!), so I dashed off this sample to show one way that's pretty easy to work with. Well, actually...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

Microsoft announces new SkyDrive features

Today the Windows Live SkyDrive team has two announced new features. While today's update isn't anything compared to what we will be seeing in Wave 4 in the coming months, the update is focused on delivering a smooth intuitive experience for sharing photos. If you have Silverlight installed you can now arrange your photos by simply dragging them into the order you want. You can also sort your photos and files by name, size, date, or type. This includes arranging photos in your slide shows.
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Adobe Flash set-top-boxes and TVs headed to a living room near you

The software is due out later this year. It will show information from The New York Times and other sources while you're watching TV, and it can stream high definition video content from the internet. We were excited when we first saw Yahoo! and Intel's TV widgets platform that was introduced at CES earlier this year . It display photos from Flickr and browses MySpace profiles on your TV set without interrupting the shows you're watching, topping off what industry folks are calling the "
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

My Twitter Updates for the Week

Sitting by power outlet on third floor west side by Microsoft Silverlight @ # sxsw # @ markzero I have seen three companies that can/will be huge at # sxsw - my thoughts: http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2009/03/15/2616/ in reply to markzero # # sxsw sitting in VC secrets with Larry Chiang, Kent Howery - Founders Fund, Sharon Wienbar - Scale Ventures, Rob Hayes - First Round Capital # # vcsecrets Woot - it seems a lot earlier than 10:21 AM. . . # # vcsecrets Want to get
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

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)
Publication date: 2009-12-05 more

May 2009 Conferences Update

The UK
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Introduction to Merge Statement - One Statement for INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE

MERGE is a new feature that provides an efficient way to perform multiple DML operations. In previous versions of SQL Server, we had to write separate statements to INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE data based on certain conditions, but now, using MERGE statement we can include the logic of such data modifications in one statement that [...]... 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
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Two new DIWUG sessions!

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

YouTube got Microsoft

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

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
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

Disposing a WCF Proxy

A common misconception is to think that a WCF proxy can be used and disposed as any other regular class that implements IDisposable. However, the IDisposable implementation in the WCF client channel is not like any other, and it can throws exceptions. A phrase I got from this thread in the WCF forum will give you a better context about this scenario, I think a key thing to notice is that Close() often implies doing "real work" that may fail, including network communication handshakes to shutdown
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 - How to call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs

Your App class (App.xaml + App.xaml.cs) is primarily used for global events and declarations such as styles. The primary events this class handles by default include: Application_Startup() - called when the applications starts. Application_Exit() - called...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-26 more

Use PopFly Game Downloader to nab your faves before it shuts down

Filed under: Fun , Games , Utilities , Microsoft , Freeware Microsoft may be pulling the pin on Popfly, but that doesn't mean you have to kiss your favorite games goodbye. What's that you say? You didn't even know there were games on Popfly ? Well, there are - and some are actually pretty fun. Over at Coding4Fun, they've released a handy tool that allows you to save the games you enjoy forever and ever. Or at least until you grow weary and decide it's time to delete them from your
Publication date: 2009-07-25 more

Silverlight 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

Interesting Finds: July 31, 2009

Other Rebasing System.Reactive to the .net CLR , Jb Evain
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Tip of the Day #24: How to Apply a XAML Template to a Class

Let
Publication date: 2008-08-06 more

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)
Publication date: 2010-03-06 more

Two samples from today's MIX talk

Thanks to the folks who attended my talk at MIX 2010 today. As promised, I'm posting the two samples I showed. I'll post an update when the video from my talk is available, so folks who couldn't attend can see it. Local Search I built a Silverlight application...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-18 more

The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition

We spent a lot of time at Corillian (my last job) thinking about Identity, and a few months before I left I started getting into Cardspace and OpenID . This was a little over a year ago. We did a podcast on OpenID as well . At that time, I tried to take...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-04-30 more

Is your career THRIVING

Thrive
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

The Killer App Ubiquity Myth: The Olympic Bounce For Silverlight

Now that Microsoft has released the Silverlight Olympic data I hope we can put to rest the killer app equals instant ubiquity argument. Often overlooked in all of killer app dogma (or you can call it a smoking gun like Steve Gillmor) is the fact that adoption of Silverlight was event, rather than application, driven. It
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

WPF Bindings and CurrentCulture Formatting

I was surprised to find today that while putting together some localization samples that by default WPF bindings do not respect the current culture. For example check out this localized form that has been localized to German and is running with both Culture and UICulture in the de-DE locale:   If you look at the highlighted formatting text youll notice that the form is localized (ie.the UICulture is applied) and that the active culture which in this case displays the CultureInfo.CurrentCultu
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

VoIP using Microsoft Silverlight - TMC Net

TMC NetVoIP using Microsoft SilverlightTMC Net, CT - 46 minutes agoVoIP using Microsoft Silverlight has just been accomplished for the very first time. I'm pretty busy at ITEXPO so I don't have time to test this,
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

What Does JavaFX Mean For You?

We Recommend These ResourcesCode Signing for Microsoft Authenticode TechnologyCode Signing for Adobe AIR TechnologyVeriSign Authenticated Content SigningHow Java Developers Can Write Great SQL Securing Applications for the Mobile InternetThere's a lot of hype, talk and tutorials going on around JavaFX. What I'd like to do in this article is to take a step back and discuss what JavaFX means for you (and me), the ordinary Java developer. With technologies like JavaFX, it's easy to get caught up in
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Two Model-View-ViewModel Screencasts

I have great news for anyone who is interested in learning how to create MVVM applications, either in WPF or Silverlight!  Craig Shoemaker , host of the Polymorphic Podcast and Pixel8 podcast, recently published two screencasts that show how to build MVVM applications from the ground up.  I am the guest on the WPF screencast, and Tim Heuer leads the way in the Silverlight version.  I think that the WPF screencast is a great complement to my
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Origami Experience 2.0 Part 1: Web Browsing

In Part 1 of my 4 part series of blog posts looking at the Origami Experience 2.0 software, I am going to talk about one of the most important new experiences in the new release: browsing the web directly in Origami Central. Origami Central, one of the three apps in the Origami Experience, has the built in capability to browse webpages just as you would in IE7. ActiveX controls work just fine in the browsing experience of Origami Central - as does Flash and Silverlight (demo video below!).
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

A Mouse Wheel Blend Behavior

One fairly useful piece of functionality missing from Silverlight is the use of the Mouse Wheel, thankfully there's a lot of code out there about how to use the Html Bridge to receive DOM events and bring in Mouse Wheel functionality.
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

SQL SERVER Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008

Change data capture (CDC) is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 designed to capture insert, update, merge, and delete activities applied to SQL Server tables and to avail those changes in an easy-to-understand format.Conventionally, detecting changes in a source database to transfer these changes to a data warehouse required any of the following:Special [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in sev
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Mix 09: Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls

Thank you to everyone to who came to my talk at Mix09!  I
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Guestcasting on Windows Mobile World 9 podcast

Last week I had a chance to join an interesting Windows Mobile podcast - Windows Phone World, hosted by Dawid from Polish Pda.pl and Surur from WMPowerUser . While the overall focus was on various things WM, we also discussed how things other companies are doing related to that. So varios news and interesting things from Symbian, Android, featurephones, etc;  have been covered as well. The agenda of the podcast included: Samsung Omnia top in Europe OmniaHD - with WM - real or not? Sp
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Smaller is better! [A simple step to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications]

Smaller is better! [A simple step to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications] Posted by on July 17th, 2008 When putting content on the web, it
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Adam Kinney just published TCSWeekly episodes 4, 5 and 6

Adam Kinney just published the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of TCSWeekly. The videos cover a lot of wonderful stories, so make sure you'll watch them. TCSWeekly 004 - amazing visuals and one monster MVVM article TCSWeekly 005 - a UX Pattern Explorer and more Designer-ready content TCSWeekly 006 - Silverlight is fizzing along with Moonlight and Contests Congratulations Adam!
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Scrum Master Training in Pittsburgh

Scrum Master training is coming to Pittsburgh, July 24 and 25, 2008. Ill be in this class, which is an attraction unto itself. The classes return periodically, so if you cant make this one, check their site for another. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design

In this video, part of the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, demonstrates the basics of designing icons. Icons are a way to abstract a real visual object into a usually smaller representation that preserves the essence of the original object...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Mobile Learning in India | Upside Learning Blog

Six in ten people (more than 4 billion individuals) around the world are carrying a powerful computing device in their pockets and purses. They don
Publication date: 2009-07-26 more

Tip of the Day #22

No game is complete without a great sound track and sound effects! This tutorial will show you how to do both with a very small amount of code. Silverlight currently supports the following formats: Video WMV1-3 (Windows Media Video 7, 8 & 9 respectively...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-07-26 more

Currency amount with or without $ and with commas

Needed to verify a currency amount entered has commas and two decimal spaces to the right. This has a range between 1.99 to the tens of millions. If you want to make the decimal side optional, add a question mark before the final $ in each expression. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

WEB09 – Silverlight and Blend in Auckland, New Zealand

I
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

Some great content has been published since I posted my previous collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links . What's more, the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit and the February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit have both been released...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-10 more

Chapter 4 - Understanding Views

This is a rough draft of a chapter from the book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther. Comments are welcome and appreciated. When the book is published, the text from this blog entry will be removed and only the code listings will remain. Order this Book from Amazon The set of views in an ASP.NET MVC application is the public face of the application. ASP.NET MVC views are responsible for rendering the HTML pages that people see when they visit your website. In this chapter, you
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 -- #687

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Damian Schenkelman , Allan Muller , Katrien De Graeve , Rob Eisenburg , András Velvárt , Andrew Duthie , Terence Tsang , Imran Shaik , and John Papa . Shoutout: Walt Ritscher is back to his "Reflection on Design" series...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Microsoft Security Essentials To Arrive on Sept. 29

Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond's free consumer security software for PCs, will be available for download by the general public on Tuesday.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Programmer Symbology

Have you ever taken a step back and looked at all the funny characters we use in programming computers? I did this yesterday. Sometimes, when you look at familiar things in just the right light, they seem so strange. I use the period to terminate all my sentences. In many programming languages the period is more of a continuation character. It says: Im going to act on this thing, and here is what I want it to do. boss.MakeMeASandwhich(); That code uses a semicolon to finish a statement
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Podcast on DataBinding

Happy to return to my monthly interview on the Sparkling Client podcast; this month discussing the fundamentals of data- binding. This podcast is supported by the following links Data binding tutorial Data binding video Data binding margin notes Data...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-26 more

Q2 Asp.Net skinning

It's that time of the year again and we're getting ready for the next quarterly release here at telerik. This time we have a major visual update coming for the ASP.NET product line. Almost all skins will get a refresh - some a minor QA to bring back to original designs, others a more thorough facelift. Wanted to get back to you even before the beta release next week with a sneak view of what's coming so you can have your say. Here's the major planned changes in skinning: Black skin preserves
Publication date: 2008-06-28 more

Tweets on 2009-06-08

@ kayray I played Spore for hours, but it wasn
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Windows Live Photos

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

IKVM 0.42 Release Candidate 1

A new release candidate is available. Changes since previous release candidate: Changed version to 0.42.0.1. Fixed a regression introduced in 0.40 that caused a System.NotSupportedException to be thrown by ikvmc when compiling multiple targets where one target (indirectly) implements a non-public interface from another target. Thanks to Erik Vullings for reporting this. Binaries available here: ikvmbin-0.42.0.1.zip Sources:..
Publication date: 2009-10-20 more

Links on a Rainy Sunday

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

What an Architect Should Know About Smooth Streaming

Ever wondered what it takes to deliver a really good streaming video experience over the web? Think it's only possible if you have the infrastructure, resources, and bandwidth of a major CDN (Content delivery network) provider? Microsoft has created a new technology called Smooth Streaming (or Smooth HD) which allows adaptive streaming of Silverlight content over HTTP. What this means is that the video file can leverage edge servers and cache services plus the Smooth streaming client will aut
Publication date: 2009-09-20 more

How to use Silverlight RC0 -- and some code updates for my Silverlight 2 book.

RC0 Update: So, after a lot of effort, we finally got Silverlight 2 RC0 out the door, and it's a release that we're really proud of. I won't go into a lot of detail as to what's new, Scott's Blog does that quite adequately.  I've...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-01 more

Sivlerlight 2 Binding Modes Diagram

Heres a tony little nugget form my upcoming book. There are always concepts that are just natively drilled into me yet they dont flow smoothly when I try to explain them. For example take the Silverlight 2 binding modes. You have OneTime, OneWay and TwoWay as options. OneWay is the default and many examples of XAML based binding I see of XAML in both Silverlight and WPF omit the Mode property entirely. But OneTime is not always the appropriate option, either. Read only data is better suited for
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Welcome Two New Elegant Coders

I am happy to introduce 2 new Elegant Coders! We are excited to have their contributions to the site and look forward to their wisdom. Kirstin Juhl @kirstinj We are excited to have Kirstin drop wisdom like she has been doing on her current blog: I [heart] Code . From her own bio: I am a former engineer who writes code. I did Toyota Operating System, Kanban, and Lean in my factories a decade ago, and am fascinated by its use in software development today. You can take the girl out of
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Using Silverlight to Build a Guitar Chord Calculator

John Papa announced that his article on building a guitar chord calculator with Silverlight was just published by Simple-Talk. You may also check the CodePlex source and the Demo . One of the advantages of using Silverlight is that it can be used to build any type of application, including games. As well as spending a lot of time building varying types of business applications and writing a book that focuses on building data driven applications, I
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

May geekSpeak webcasts are open for registration

Join us every Wednesday at 3 PM Eastern (Noon Pacific) in May for some great developer conversation with industry experts. Get your questions on these technologies answered live. Here are the links to register: May 7 - WCF Strategies for Windows Mobile with Jim Wilson May 14 - Asynchronous Programming Demystified with Gerald Walsh May 21 - Contextual Collaboration Using Unified Communications with George Durzi May 28 - Connecting Microsoft Silverlight with Pete Brown Technorati Tags: geekSp
Publication date: 2008-05-06 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

15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources - SmashingApps

Microsoft Silverlight is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework. To see the magic of Silverlight, we must suggest you to check out this show...
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Locate Me and Virtual Earth Sample for Silverlight

A little sample app that uses Silverlight 3, the Virtual Earth Map Control CTP and IP-based geo-coding to implement the Locate Me scenario... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Microsoft Unveils Data Warehouse SQL Server Solutions

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

List of Silverlight bugs and Workarounds

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

SecondLife Launches Mono-based servers

Jim Purbrick (Babbage) from Linden Labs has announced on the SecondLife Blog that they have started the rollout of their Mono-enabled servers. They are using Mono as an engine that accelerates the execution of user provided scripts by translating LSL scripts into ECMA CIL bytecodes and in turn letting Mono turn that into x86 machine code. [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
Publication date: 2008-08-21 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

Popfly To Shut Down In A Month

Proof that you not only need a good idea and good first execution, but that you need to keep up evolving it as time goes. This is precisely how you could describe Popfly, a site that had the original purpose of providing a way to create Silverlight powered mashlets   in the same way you create feed mashups with Yahoo Pipes. Later on as the site was slowly updated and Silverlight evolved to version 2 it became more of a Silverlight Game Engine Editor. So it is now more known for its silverlig
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Silverlight Version 2 RC0 Released!!

Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2
Publication date: 2008-09-26 more

RIA Services Blog Posts

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

Virtual Earth Silverlight: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code

Now that we
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening!

June has been a madhouse month; I
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

Doubling performance with Silverlight multithreading

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

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
Publication date: 2010-03-17 more

Microsoft Launches Online TV Player | MSN Video Player To Rival BBC iPlayer & Hulu

With the collapse of Project Kangaroo, I assumed online TV in the U.K. would be limited to the BBC iPlayer for a long while to come. However, that doesn
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

LINQ Tip of the week: A quick peek behind the curtains

In our previous post in this series we had a look at how to optimize query execution with the help of parameterized queries. Today we will briefly look at what actually happens behind the curtains when a LINQ query is executed and you get back  the results.   As you already know LINQ can be used to query various data sources like in-memory objects, XML or databases,which is of particular interest to us. Consider the following example where we query for all employees who are born in the sam
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

SQL SERVER - Deprecated DataType vardecimal

I received following email yesterday from Satnam Singh- Computer Programmer from Bangalore.
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Hang on! I've been mentioned on This Week on C9!

I think I'm almost famous. I'm mentioned 10:47 - 12:25. The mentioning was in response to my Visual Studio vNext wish list. Check out the video.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-08-12 more

Dew Drop - June 1, 2009

  Web Development Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project (Philippe Leybaert)   .NET / Visual Studio NH Prof & Teaching NHibernate and   NHibernate Queries
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

SkyDrive adds new features!

  We
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Now with more forehead! (or, a happy shade of blue)

Over the past 13 1/2 years, I
Publication date: 2009-09-19 more

Microsoft Invests in Video Delivery Firm Move Networks

Microsoft Invests in Video Delivery Firm Move Networks Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 25, 2008 - 11:38am. American Fork, Utah - Move Networks, a provider of Internet TV distribution technology, announced that Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has paid an undisclosed sum for a stake in the company.
Publication date: 2008-08-26 more

Microsoft launches new Windows Mobile homepage

Microsoft launches new Windows Mobile homepage
Publication date: 2008-06-29 more

Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: HTML interop & dynamic language features

Note
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Akamai sees more publishers switching to HD video online

Filed under: Industry , Media streamers , Internet Sure Akamai sponsored a new IDC whitepaper finding smooth video and high resolution is important to most online audiences -- services it is conveniently positioned to help provide -- but that doesn't mean the results are wrong. Last year a similarly self promotional survey found 75% or broadcasters planning HD online and in the last twelve months we've had an explosion of HD on the net, from the Olympics and NCAA Championships to
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Progressive Metal

Do you have fits of interest? I go through bursts of reading fiction and I
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

ADO.Net Data Services Offline (

ADO.Net Data Services Offline (
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Intro to XAML in 20 Minutes (or less) - Or "What the heck is this XAML thing?" - Or "How I learned to love my zammel"

The Moth - XAML: Level 100 "Since you are reading my blog, chances are that you are a .NET developer. Do you realise that eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML) is now part of .NET? Are you familiar with it? How would you describe XAML (pronounced "zammel") to someone that is not familiar with it if you only had 10-20 minutes? Below is my take. Background XAML was introduced as part of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) which was released in November 2006 as part of .NET Framewor
Publication date: 2008-05-20 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

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?
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

WPF Updates!

A couple exciting updates: WPF/E has released their first CTP! Download it for Windows and Mac. Karsten Januszewski has released source code for the Woodgrove Finance Application. Expression Blend (formerly Expression Interactive Designer) has released...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Help Aussie Kids Get a Great Education

Help Aussie Kids Get a Great Education No, really... this one's for real... you watch the Office 2008 Charity Demo and Microsoft coughs up a buck for the charity... Watch the demo Gosh, you'd think the Mac fan-boys would jump on this to try to break Microsoft :) Looks like it's capped at $100,000AU ... so I've done my 35 seconds worth, and we've now all watched it $2790AU worth according to the counter. The entire site is Silverlight, so it's cool to see the UI and how it all works. Check
Publication date: 2008-05-27 more

Columns of a different color [Customizing the appearance of Silverlight charts with re-templating and MVVM]

When we created Silverlight Charting (background reading here and here ), we tried to make things as designer-friendly as possible. So friendly, in fact, that it would be possible for someone to take the default look-and-feel of what we'd released and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Using a Profiler to Speed Application Performance

Use a profiler to measure before you optimize. If ever you doubt this advice, then you should read this fascinating account of how an application was given a five-fold speed increase just by finding out exactly where the performance problems were and then tackling them in detail.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2009-02-28 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #38

If a user visits your Silverlight site without Silverlight installed they will automatically see the following image: While this is a clear message you may want to consider a better, more customizable experience for your web site that includes your web...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-09-12 more

Make Routing Ignore Requests For A File Extension

By default, ASP.NET Routing ignores requests for files that do not exist on disk. I explained the reason for this in a previous post on upcoming routing changes. Long story short, we didnt want routing to attempt to route requests for static files such as images. Unfortunately, this caused us a headache when we remembered that many features of ASP.NET make requests for .axd files which do not exist on disk. To fix this, we included a new extension method on RouteCollection, IgnoreRoute, that cre
Publication date: 2008-07-15 more

Permanent Link to WCF & WF Webcast Series on MSDN

WCF & WF Webcast Series on MSDN Posted June 12th @ 11:35 am by Dave MSDN is launching a webcast series this month on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). The great thing about this webcast series is you get to hear from industry experts such as Juval Lowy, Jon Flanders, Jesus Rodriguez and Matt Milner on their experiences and guidance to using the WCF and WF technologies found in .NET 3.5. Webcast Title Date/ Time Presenter Beyond
Publication date: 2008-07-29 more

Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed?

Alas, Silverlight 3 is released ! It has been a long road
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

BizTalk Server 2009 To Arrive Before July

Microsoft on Friday described its next service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution -- BizTalk Server 2009 -- which is "on track for availability during the first half of 2009," according to the company's announcement.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more

Test Message 2, Please Ignore

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Publication date: 2008-04-22 more

Solve the riddle, and get a free pass to MIX

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

Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework

I
Publication date: 2009-06-02 more

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
Publication date: 2009-10-25 more

Think first, 'doing' is for later

In the comments section of Ayende's blog, I recently debated the usage of principles like the ones in SOLID and argued that these principles aren't really the important thing to focus on. Instead, people should focus on thinking. In the Netherlands we have an old saying: "Bezint eer ge begint", which translated to English is something like "Think everything through before you start". Now, before I wake up the anti-Waterfall people, I'd like to add that this post isn't about Waterfall... Did you
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Silverlight 3: Navigation Application Template Extra themes posted!

Have you tried out the new Silverlight 3 Navigation Application?  Our plan with this as to make it much easier to folks to get started building a RIA application with Silverlight.  You can find it in the File\New Project dialog. The features...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

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

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

Functional Programming Battles GOTOzilla

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

Latest sneak peek of Office Web Apps from TechEd AU

At an overwhelmingly popular session during Microsoft TechEd Australia 2009 this week, Reed Shaffner from the Office team provided among other things a brief but satisfying peek at the latest Office Web Apps experience that has yet to be opened up for public beta testing. Here
Publication date: 2009-09-13 more

Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition

TITLE : Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition TYPE : Computer/Programming AUTHOR : Matthew MacDonald / Mario Szpuszta PUBLISHER : Apress ISBN : 1430215674 PAGES : 1520 pages EDITION : 3rd LANGUAGE : ENGLISH RELEASE DATE: Unknown RELEASE NOTES : ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

Free Silverlight DataGrid with source code!

Um. Whoa. Okay, DevExpress rocks. I think this will be very well received by the community and you
Publication date: 2008-06-06 more

Testing Legacy Code

Oren wrote today about a fun problem he'd run into with trying to TDD some changes to some code about which many of his assumptions were proving incorrect. The problem is that each test he wrote that verified one of his assumptions needed to later be fixed when he found the underlying assumption wasn't true. The result was a lot of thrashing and not a lot of productivity. The solution in this case for him was to worry first about just verifying that the code does what it does. This caugh
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Me? I

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Publication date: 2008-08-10 more

iPhone in the Enterprise

The new iPhone has hit the streets, and with its ActiveSync support, that means its hit our enterprise, too. We support Windows Mobile via Activesync and Blackberries via BES, and we enforce password and locking policies on all devices. The deal breaker is whether or not a device can be remotely wiped, which Windows Mobile and Blackberries can. One of our coworkers scored a new iPhone on Release Day, so we had a chance to test it out. After configuring ActiveSync, the iPhone picked u
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

What is the problem of the Hong Kong Educational Situation?

by Barry Lee Form March to May, secondary 5 and secondary 7 students need to attain HKCEE and HKALE respectively. Students need to pay many efforts in order to get a good grade. However, what can students learn or earn at the end of the exams? Students may get an offer in university or secondary six. However, they may also get great pressure. Besides, they may be disappointed because their, like drawing and music, may be not approved by exams. Anyway, attaining public exam must be an unforge
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

How Do I Video Series on Hyper-video released

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

Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop

I
Publication date: 2010-01-30 more

Some Tips On Using Animations In Your RIA.

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

Silverlight Tip of the Day #64

In Tip of the Day #42 I discussed how to create Silverlight-enabled WCF web service. In this tip I will discuss the steps necessary to take in order to publish and deploy the web service with your Silverlight application on your server. For security reasons...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

MIX Essentials Mexico and unique cuisine

Well, I have about 3 hours until I leave this little city called Mexico City . Sarcasm of course, did you know there are roughly 25 million people in Mexico City. I didn
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Thirsty Developer Show - Twitterlight (Silverlight + Twitter Client)

Last week Larry Clarkin of The Thirsty Developer and I sat down to discuss my hobby project Twitterlight, a fully-functional Twitter client written in Silverlight. We discussed Twitter's REST service, getting started with Silverlight development and some common pitfalls to avoid. I think it turned out nicely, check it out and let me know if you have questions or thoughts: Listen to the podcast The source code is available at http://employees.claritycon.com/sholstad/publicsource/Twitterlight_v22.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

"The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated" on Windows Server 2008 R2

When I was installing a brand new demo environment using Microsoft's latest and greatest platforms (Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008) I ran into an annoying issue related to SharePoint. The slipstreamed installation (including SP2) went fine, but when I tried to create a new Collaboration Portal or Publishing Portal I got the error: "The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated at the web application level before this feature can be activated
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Binding a ComboBox to Enum Values with RadControls for Silverlight

A common request in our support is to display a combo box, containing all values of a specific Enum. This is fairly easy with RadComboBox for Silverlight - all you need to do is to fill its ItemsSource collection with the Enum values. The best way to do this is to create a view model for the Enum: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Linq; using System.Reflection; namespace SilverlightApplication1 { public class EnumModel { private Type enumType; publi
Publication date: 2009-06-13 more

Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip

I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the tag with your mouse, it tells you that the keyboard combination of ALT + SHIFT + F10 will expand the menu. What it doesnt tell you is that theres a two key combination that will also expand it. I learned this one from Karen Liu of the C# IDE team who also happens to have a blog post with a nice collectio
Publication date: 2008-06-24 more

Blogwerx

Advertisement/Banner Ready, Gravatar on Comments, SEO Optimized, Works with the Latest Version of Wordpress 2.7 (and below), Threaded Comments LIVE DEMO | Download Blogwerx More Free Wordpress Themes: SilverLight Organic Moss Stacko Theme Free Wordpress Theme:: TheLatest Theme Turn Out Mag Portfolio Extended Plurkified Theme
Publication date: 2009-04-22 more

March Madness: Live on YouTube via Silverlight

YouTube finally got live video yesterday. CBS has embedded its Silverlight March Madness live coverage directly onto a YouTube channel. You can check out the new, live coverage here - it
Publication date: 2009-03-21 more

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
Publication date: 2010-03-08 more

Silverlight Tour in Paris early April

The Silverlight Tour is coming back to Paris, France in 2 weeks! When: April 01-03 Where: Paris, France Registration (Fr): http://www.octo.com/com/com_formation-silverlight.html If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts!
Publication date: 2009-03-15 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

Apple is like Microsoft

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

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

the RealMedia of 2010

@ chrismessina : I
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Spline Based Animation Helper

This code sample demonstrates an animation helper class to wrap up the code needed to animate a FrameworkElement
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages

Recently David Poll posted a very cool technique for navigating to dynamically loaded pages and on demand downloading of pages in a Silverlight 3 application .  It was very cool but the explicit wire up of each page can be a pain in large applications...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Silverlight install experience too hard?

Man, I feel like Im constantly on this soapbox about creating a good non-installed experience. Im recently sparked again by reading a recent post from Pascal Leloup entitled Silverlight Its too damn complicated to setup. These are the times that I wish I could sit next to every developer at the moment they experience this frustration. Part of the time it can be dealing with beta software (as is the case in one of Pascals scenarios here), and others I think just take some time to understand the..
Publication date: 2008-09-09 more