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Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop

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Apple iPhone app FastMall is now 100% FREE for all shopping mall maps + 15 other new features.

FastMall is the first and only iPhone app that lets you shake your iPhone to find, then be taken to the nearest bathroom. It also provides turn-by-turn directions for finding your way inside shopping malls and around shopping districts in the USA, Canada and UK. Have a stroller? In a wheelchair? Trouble with stairs? FastMall provides [...]
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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)
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PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4

(I know I promised this eons ago, so apologies in advance... on the flipside, I'm posting from my vacation in Paris, so hopefully that earns me 1-2 brownie points back.) First, m y PDC slides and the video . This is the same talk that I gave at TechEd...(read more)
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Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes

Get an overview of the techniques that help you author content that will render properly on any device.
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Announcing the First User Interface (UI) Components for Silverlight 4

Telerik Corporation , a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM, .NET CMS solutions and Web Application Testing Tools, is excited to announce RadControls for Silverlight...(read more)
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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)
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Creating self-updating ColdFusion Builder beta extensions

Use a simple library to enable your ColdFusion extension to detect newer versions, download them, and install them.
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Debugging Flex 4 applications

Learn the fundamentals of debugging Flex application in Flash Builder 4 beta.
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Hello! Flex 4 book excerpt: FXG and MXML graphics

Learn about the full designer-developer workflow from design tools such as Illustrator to developer tools such as Flash Builder 4.
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Be one of the first to get the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook!

Test the Silverlight 4 developer preview application for Facebook which combines the many compelling platform capabilities of Silverlight 4 in a rich out-of-browser application within the familiar context of Facebook. " border="0" alt="clip_image002 ...(read more)
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The flash.globalization package in Flash Player

Learn about how the flash.globalization package enables you to seamlessly enable your SWF applications to accommodate users around the world.
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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)
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Silverlight Client for Facebook available

Remember the final moments of the Scott Guthrie keynote presentation at PDC09? Where Brian Goldfarb came on stage and demonstrated a completed application using a lot of the features of Silverlight 4? Yeah, that Facebook application. Well, it
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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)
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Dynamic Blog Posts DynaPosts

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

Two architectural demands for the Silverlight HVP , which are common to many larger applications, came together this week and crystallized into a design that looks to solve two more unanticipated requirement. Specifically, we knew that (1) we wanted to...(read more)
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Multi-Touch 101 - Silverlight TV Episode 3

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! Since this is our opening week we have published 3 new episodes. We
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Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight from Mike Downey on SilverlightTV

Congratulations to John Papa for recently launching a new show on Channel 9 called SilverlightTV. The show covers the Silverlight platform from a variety of angles including architectural issues, real design and development issues problems solved, community...(read more)
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Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta

Many of you have heard of Project Rosetta by now, but for those who have not here is an excerpt from the site : The goal of the project is to help designers and UI developers learn new technologies by relating concepts and skills in a visual way from...(read more)
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Silverlight TV airs on Channel 9

The first episodes of Silverlight TV are now available on Channel 9 . Go behind the scenes at Microsoft with John Papa and learn what the Silverlight product team is dreaming up next. See exclusive interviews with the Silverlight product team, watch how...(read more)
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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)
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WPF & Silverlight Designer Team

The WPF & Silverlight Designer Team (Cider Team) has just launched a new team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/default.aspx During the months of Janurary and Feburary 2010 we will be adding a good bit of WPF & Silverlight content. ...(read more)
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Private browsing in Flash Player 10.1

Understand support for private browsing in Flash Player 10.1 and its implications for both users and developers.
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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
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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
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Get Your Questions Answered on Silverlight TV

The first episode of Silverlight TV is in the books. A special thank you to Keith Smith for coming on and doing a fantastic job and to everyone who watched our show! The planning for many future episodes is under way. One of the plans is to have take...(read more)
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Premier of Silverlight TV

I am proud to announce the premier of Silverlight TV airing on Channel 9 ! You can watch the first episode right here where Keith Smith (Silverlight Group Program Manager), along with host John Papa (Silverlight Evangelist), discuss Silverlight 4's out...(read more)
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IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released

Today the IIS team released a Beta 2 of the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, allowing for rich Silverlight experiences that take advantage of IIS Smooth Streaming capabilities. With this release, the IIS team has added support for Fast Forward...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 API listing in one big text file

One of the things we do to keep API quality high in Silverlight is to periodically dump the complete public API set to a text file & run a diff against previous versions to see what's changed. Figured these "txref" files might be of use to someone...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 beta API listing in one big text file

See previous post for explanation....( read more )...(read more)
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Use Your Silverlight Skills to Win a Pass to MIX

The Silverlight Show web site is hosting a contest that can help you get a pass to MIX and/or get some travel expenses paid! Several Silverlight community leaders and our own Expression Evangelist, Adam Kinney, are judging the entries. Get your entries...(read more)
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Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight

Coming from other platforms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash you will be used to defining colors with hexadecimal values. Silverlight does support the use of hexadecimal values in XAML, in fact it supports 4 different formats (rgb, argb, rrggbb...(read more)
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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)
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"I feel the need... the need for SPEED!" [Seven simple, performance-boosting tweaks for common Silverlight/WPF Charting scenarios]

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

Tonight I have the privilege of presenting an Overview of Silverlight 4 to the Seattle Silverlight User Group (SeaSLUG as they like to be called). The event starts at 7pm tonight, January 13th at the cafeteria in Building 40/41 on the Microsoft campus...(read more)
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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
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Free Blend Training With Silverlight Design Days

Adam Kinney, a technical evangelist here at Microsoft, will be hitting the road in a few days to commence the Silverlight Design Days tour. Dates are scheduled in Mountain View, Irvine, Chicago, Austin, New York, and London, with more international dates...(read more)
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Interaction design and rapid prototyping with Fireworks

Watch these videos to learn how Fireworks plays an indispensable role in the information and interaction design process.
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Defining and using new skin parts in a Spark skin

Use the Spark framework to add child components to a skin.
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Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF

One of the things that seems hard-baked into MEF if you watch the Silverlight 4 and MEF screencasts that I
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Silverlight Design Days

Event Schedule Jan 29 – MountainView, CA, US – register Feb 9 – Irvine, CA, US – register break for MIX10 – event site Mar 24 – London, UK – register May 4 – Chicago, IL, US May 7 – Austin, TX, US...(read more)
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Effects with the Pixel Bender Toolkit

Update parameters to create interactive effects that run in Flash Player.
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Silverlight Top 10 of 2009

2009 has come to a close
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Severely Decoupled Configuration

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

Brief Video Illustration I
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Silverlight Session at NEBytes, 20th January, Newcastle

Just a quick plug for a session that I
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MindSmack.com ranked top web design agency in the USA for January 2010.

MindSmack.com specializes in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, post production, iphone application development, facebook applications, facebook games, twitter applications, post production and web development in the world. In business since 1996, we have won 100
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Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information

Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information
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Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information

Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information
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Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information

Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information
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Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information

Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information
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Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information

Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information
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Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information

Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information
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Catch Alicia Keys Live from the Apollo this Thursday, 1/7, 6pm PST

You’re invited to watch Alicia Keys perform live this Thursday, January 7, at 6pm PST. For more information about this exclusive event, watch the video promo below. Our World Live (OWL) , a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering...(read more)
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Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries

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

After a short break, our third Silverlight podcast is now available. This podcast features Sean Hayes of the Microsoft Accessibility Business Unit. It is about accessibility on the web, with Silverlight and the Accessible Media Project. Listen to the...(read more)
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Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released!

I
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iMeta Agility & Silverlight

Just a little plug for a video I made just before Xmas with the guys from iMeta , a UK company that
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RIA Services and relational data

As we
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Angled headers for DataGrid columns

My last post demonstrated one way that you could angle the text in a DataGrid column header. I received a comment asking for how to angle the entire headers, along the lines of what you can do very easily with Excel. Here
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Rapidly Evolving Design

The problem with using a blog to track a rapidly evolving design, is that blogs don
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January 2010 Silverlight MVPs

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

This post is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform documentation Everything Flows, Nothing Stands Still
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Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement

Microsoft Silverlight has been nominated for a 2009 Crunchie award in the category of
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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
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Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP

This mini-tutorial is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project documentation . Taking Risks One of the great pleasures, and total terrors of documenting this open-source application is that occasionally I have to offer up some half-baked ideas...(read more)
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ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe

[ In addition to blogging, I
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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
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Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam

This week I decided to experimenting with a few webcam features and put together an application activates a webcam, allows the user to take snapshots, and save the snapshots to PNG files. I like when demos use MVVM out of the box instead of just throwing...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 Screencasts - the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

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

An interesting suggestion was made with regard to my intended use of embedded
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Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year from the Silverlight team

Share some of the holiday spirit with your friends and family with this interactive customizable holiday greeting card that is hosted on the Azure cloud....( read more )...(read more)
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Microsoft Silverlight Support Policy is Available

Many businesses rely on Microsoft Silverlight to run their business and consumer applications. Until recently, Microsoft did not have a clear support policy for Silverlight. Now we have it. Although Silverlight is not a tool, its support policy is similar...(read more)
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Getting the Absolute Position

Learn how to use the TransformToVisual method to figure out the position of anything anywhere in your application....( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight HVP Design

Design Update This blog post extends the previous post in which I discussed the IMarkerEventHandler interface and how it might be implemented. We are actively looking at using an IoC (Inversion of Control) container such as Ninject...(read more)
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Maximum TV Launches Silverlight-based Spanish Language TV Site

Maximum TV has just launched a Spanish language TV station on the web using Silverlight, IIS Smooth Streaming, SQL Server, and Windows Server to deliver an amazing ad-supported video experience. We really like the video walls (shown below) that show 12...(read more)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant.

I have been incredibly lucky; the editors I
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Information for Silverlight HVP Developers

Information for current and interested developers for the Silverlight HVP project has been consolidated, extended and updated on the new Developer
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MindSmack launches landmark iPhone app called FastMall. Shake your iPhone for the closest restroom anyone? Turn by turn navigation inside shopping malls? Yep.

We are truly excited to release this iPhone app for shoppers, mall goers, parents, money savers, geeks and all others. We have basically recreated Google maps but with very high end designed interactive virtual maps for internal structures starting with malls, rodeo drive (soon universities, hospitals, theme parks and the world…) See below for tons of [...]
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Getting StartED with CSS excerpts: Styling tables, backgrounds, and borders

Read these chapters from APress to learn how to make the most of CSS when styling tables, backgrounds, and borders of your site.
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A Silverlight HVP Update

A Silverlight HVP Update I
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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)
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Limited Time Expression Holiday Promotion in the US

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

I copied this idea from Eric (and Mike ) and thought I
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LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (3.0) videos

Watch these tutorial and demonstration videos to learn more and get started with Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (3.0).
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Authoring LiveCycle forms for the iPhone

Create a mobile-enabled service request process using LiveCycle ES2 and LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile client for iPhone.
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Building a game with Flash Builder using the Cairngorm framework-Part 1: Displaying the board and processing player moves

Learn how to develop a four in a row game and leverage the power of Flash Builder 4.
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Using Web Services with Data Centric Development in Flash Builder 4 beta

Build a simple web service-based photo display application in Flash Builder 4 beta.
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Developing games for Nokia S60 Touch devices

Learn best practices for creating games for touch screen handsets.
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Building streaming video players in Flash with the Adobe Open ...

Follow these lessons to learn the concepts required to build a fully functioning streaming video player authored from scratch using the OSMF and Flash.
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Introducing the Adobe Flash Platform Gaming Technology Center

Get ready to build and distribute games for the Flash Platform.
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Falling Snow in Silverlight

Learn how to create a falling snow effect in Silverlight using nothing more than a behavior....( read more )...(read more)
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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)
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HVP

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

Here is my presentation at last week
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Flash to Silverlight Guide

The first sections of the new Flash to Silverlight Guide are up! The purpose of this guide is to familiarize developers and designers with Silverlight concepts by relating them to Flash concepts. Comparisons are drawn between each pair of concepts in...(read more)
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Extending the SMF for the HVP

In a radical and terrifying experiment, I
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Moonlight 2 is now available

We are pleased to announce the availability of Moonlight 2, an open source Linux implementation of Silverlight first announced by Microsoft and Novell in September of 2007. Moonlight is the first and only open source project that provides Linux users...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 HTML Puzzle: How Does It Work?

Scott Guthrie just announced on his blog that many of the demos that he presented during the PDC keynote are now available online . Both the demos and their source code are now online and available for you to download. Be sure to go grab the code and...(read more)
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Happy Holidays in Silverlight with help from COLOURlovers

A collision of ideas happened yesterday. The second run of the MIX 10k contest was announced and I realized just how close we are to the holidays. So I thought to myself,
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Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available

[ In addition to blogging, I
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Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text

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

In September, we announced that Microsoft and Tesco intended to collaborate and use Silverlight to deliver the next generation of Home Video entertainment to consumers. Dubbed
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Best SF Books of All Time

Someone just asked me my favorite SF books, and while creating such a list is almost absurd, nonetheless, it being the end of the year, here
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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)
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LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (version 3) videos

Watch these tutorial and demonstration videos to learn more and get started with Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (version 3).
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Tracing network traffic with the Network Monitor in Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn how to debug network traffic between a Flex application and an application server at runtime.
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Adobe Flash and search engine optimization (SEO): Techniques, issues, and strategies

Learn practical steps and best practices you can follow to optimize your SWF-based content for search engines.
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Displaying Flash video files in ColdFusion 9

Learn about the new feature in ColdFusion 9 that allows you to play FLV files.
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Looking back at the best Flash sites of 2009

Find out what some of the best Flash experiences were in 2009 to help inspire your own projects.
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TWC9 features Silverlight AR, BugCamSmash and Blend Extensibility

Very cool to see that this week
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Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!]

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

Some folks have mentioned to me that they are having trouble getting some of my samples to work. And in fact, just the other day, I ran into a problem getting my own samples to work. It turns out to be a problem with the way windows treats...(read more)
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ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight - Options for Hooking a View to its Model

In the ViewModel, aka the MVVM pattern, a view such as a UserControl is bound to its associated view model. The view model manages state exposed as observable properties, operations exposed as methods and raises notifications via events. An interesting...(read more)
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Silverlight for Point Of Sale (POS) applications

Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications, including critical Point of Sale (POS) applications. The ChristophDotNet blog provides a nice introduction of how Silverlight can be used in a POS environment...(read more)
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Deploying your Silverlight and WCF RIA Services application

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

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

xml syntax highlighting in Silverlight

Several years back I posted a XML tokenizer for syntax highlighting . At the time I didn't post a complete app, since it was part of a larger project; if someone recently asked me for a little more context for the tokenizer so I put together a quickie...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-10 more

SketchFlow helps deliver an ambitious new auction tool - meeting tight time and budget constraints

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

A customer contacted me a few days ago asking whether there was an easy way to make the Silverlight/WPF WrapPanel use all available space to spread its children out evenly instead of bunching them up against each other as it usually does. Instead of trying...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-09 more

Overview of the Flash Player 10.0.42 Security Update

Learn about the minimal security-related impacts in this release, and stay informed about future product updates.
Publication date: 2009-12-09 more

MEF, Silverlight and the HVP

This article is part of the Mini-Tutorial Series This article is part of the Silverlight HVP Documentation Executive Summary This article continues the design and exploration phase of the Silverlight HVP project by beginning to examine the role...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-09 more

Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video

We
Publication date: 2009-12-09 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

Getting started with the charting controls

Recently I thought I would check out the charting controls in the Silverlight Toolkit. I
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

Character animation with the Bone tool in Flash

Get tips for using the Bone tool in Flash to articulate the parts of an animated cartoon character to best effect.
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

Building a Flex application that invokes a BlazeDS Remoting destination using Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn how to call Java class methods from a Flex application using BlazeDS.
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3D view controller in Flash using ActionScript 3

Apply the 3D features of Flash Player 10 and Flash CS4 using ActionScript 3 to pan, zoom, and move objects within a 3D space.
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

Developer spotlight: Kevin Schmidt

Meet Kevin Schmidt, picked for his use of Adobe technologies such as ColdFusion and Flex to create compelling business applications.
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RIA Services Link Listing #1

Starting a new link listing series around interesting posts/content related to RIA Services. Hope you find these useful, and if you'd like to share something please send them along... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-07 more

BugCamSmash Dissected part 3

This part of of the series explaining how BugCamSmash was made is truly the quiet before the storm. The tipping point before the big finale. In part 1, we created a bug we could smash with a rock. In part 2, we gave the bug the ability...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-07 more

Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Event-based and Error-Handling INavigationContentLoaders

Last week, I gave an introduction to INavigationContentLoader, a Silverlight 4 Beta SDK extensibility point that allows you to load arbitrary content in conjunction with the Silverlight navigation feature, and walked you through building a Typename-based...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-07 more

My Presentations in Europe (December 2009)

This past week I
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BugCamSmash Dissected part 2

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

BugCamSmash Dissected part 1

When beginning the project that became BugCamSmash, I knew I was going to try and interact with the UI using the new webcam feature in some way. My first step then was to find a good method for hit detection as well as a good target to hit. Now normally...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-05 more

Inserting Silverlight DeepZoom images into your Web page

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

This one
Publication date: 2009-12-04 more

BugCamSmash

At PDC09, we released Silverlight 4 Beta and announced one of the availability of, one of the most requested features, Web Cam Support. Wanting to have fun with the new feature, I thought of a fun sample to create
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Subclassing Shape (or more accurately, Path)

One of the more subtle improvements in Silverlight 4 is that we unsealed the Path class. That means you can write a class that behaves like a shape without re-implementing properties like Fill, Stroke, etc. -- just subclass, set Path.Data to render what...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Have you checked out the new RichTextArea control?

Silverlight 4 Beta includes a new RichTextArea control. RichTextArea enables you to display or edit rich content and has features like: displaying hyperlinks displaying inline images or other UIElements like a Button Read-only mode Selection APIs Formatting...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

IIS Smooth Streaming with the Apple iPhone

At PDC09 two weeks ago, Scott Guthrie announced that the next release of IIS Media Services will deliver adaptive streaming video to the Apple iPhone. If you haven’t seen the demo, you can check the preview out by going to www.iis.net/iphone on...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Introduction to INavigationContentLoader

So, if you haven
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

Silverlight Team Twitter List

Last week I wrote about the new Silverlight MVP Twitter list I created to make it easier to follow all of the Silverlight MVPs and the evangelists. You can follow the entire group using this link: www.twitter.com/john_papa/SilverlightMVP I also...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

Pete Brown on Silverlight and WPF Convergence

Great post from Pete over here about Silverlight/WPF convergence;
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Best practices for branded application design

Learn simple techniques for building effective branded applications
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

3D moving stars in Flash using ActionScript 3

Learn how to apply the 3D features of Flash Player 10 and Flash CS4 Professional using ActionScript 3 to make a user-controlled 3D animation of a string of stars that responds to user input.
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Invoking web services using custom components

Learn how to create a LiveCycle ES2 service that returns third-party web service data.
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Test Driven Development using Flash Builder 4 beta and FlexUnit

Learn how to apply TDD techniques using integrated support for FlexUnit in Flash Builder 4.
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Using Azure as a Silverlight Streaming replacement

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

Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update]

We shipped the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit a little over a week ago and it includes a handful of improvements to the Data Visualization assembly . It also adds support for the new Silverlight 4 Beta ! And while we were busy getting...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Silverlight 4 Links

Here
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Building extensible Silverlight applications with MEF

At PDC09, Glenn Block delivered a great presentation on building extensible RIAs using the Managed Extensibility Framework ( FT24 from the PDC09 sessions ). Glenn is one of the PMs and face-man for MEF. He
Publication date: 2009-11-30 more

Silverlight Design Time Assemblies

Introduction If you write Silverlight controls, you should consider writing design time assemblies for your controls too, for two simple reasons: developer productivity: try to imagine Silverlight development without tools like Visual Studio or Blend...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-30 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

Free Silverlight 4 Event in Tampa

Florida has a fantastic developer community with some great people who are a just a blast to share technology with. That
Publication date: 2009-11-30 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

Silverlight Drag and Drop API

Introduction Drag and drop is a common UX paradigm and a top requested feature. In Silverlight 4 Beta, we introduced a basic set of API to enable the most common scenario of dragging pictures files and dropping them to Silverlight applications, and we...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-28 more

Silverlight MVP List on Twitter

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

Geek Profiles

Part of what Tim and I do is to provide meaningful connections between the dev team and the community. Today I
Publication date: 2009-11-27 more

Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search

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

State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers

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

Windows System Colour Theme for Silverlight

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

PollingDuplex scaling in Windows Azure

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

Creating a Share Menu that can be launched in different configurations at runtime

Learn to use three buttons to open the Share menu in one of three configurations.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Augmented reality with animated avatars using the 3D drawing API

Read about the process behind creating BOW cARds, interactive business cards that take unique advantage of animated AR technology in Flash, displaying 3D animations based on 2D block patterns.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Extending ColdFusion Builder

Integrate your CFC projects with ease using ColdFusion Builder extensions.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Sharing isn't easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF]

I casually mentioned two tricks for sharing the same XAML across Silverlight and WPF in the notes of a post a couple weeks ago. I used both techniques in my DataVisualizationDemos project (which compiles for Silverlight and WPF from the same source code...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-24 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

Tracking High-dollar shipments with an RIA

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Integrating Amazon Flexible Payment Service with Flex and Adobe AIR

Perform secure transactions with Amazon FPS from a Flex or AIR application.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd

This past week was a busy one
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration

If you
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications

One of the cool features for Silverlight 4 Out-of-browser applications that was announced as a part of the Silverlight 4 beta release is the NotificationWindow class. Most commonly referred to as
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta

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

10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching

The common technique many developers use to debug Silverlight Out of Browser applications is to attach the debugger to the SLLauncher.exe process. However, there is a another way to debug installed OoB apps. Attaching to the process does not allow you...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-23 more

RIA Services templates not showing in Visual Studio 2010?

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

Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up

Well, PDC09 is over and it was a blast. What a relief it is to finally be able to show the world what the Silverlight team has been working on since Silverlight 3. Based on the feedback at the conference, people are excited to dig into the new bits and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-22 more

Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications

I was watching Joe Stegman
Publication date: 2009-11-21 more

Extensibility Series

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

Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools

The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release (where we first introduced Visual Studio 2010 support). It also adds a Silverlight 4 Beta version. New infrastructure & test...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-21 more

SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export

At PDC, a customer told me about a prototype he had built using several tab controls. He then asked me how one could include the content of different tabs of a tab control in the Microsoft Word documents that the SketchFlow Word Export creates
Publication date: 2009-11-21 more

A Party Game.

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

Silverlight 4 Fluid UI

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

PDC 2009 Out Of Browser Session

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

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

Here is the source to the TrustedApp media player sample I showed at PDC 2009 . This sample requires the Silverlight 4 Beta which you can find here . This "trusted app" sample uses the new file system APIs, notification window APIs, windowing APIs, WebBrowser...(read more)
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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)
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Silverlight Toolkit November 2009: Activity Control

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

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

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

The November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit finally includes application library caching support to help reduce the size of your application .Xaps....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

BusyIndicator: David Poll

BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser

The Silverlight Controls Browser sample app can now be taken out-of-browser. Here's info on that, plus how to get it done in your own apps....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

PDC Session: Silverlight 4 Beta Overview

Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday! My session video has already been posted online. You can also download the deck here. You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos. ......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Silverlight 4 and building business applications (PDC09-CL19)

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

Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC

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

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

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

WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta

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

Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09

Lots of wow from this morning with Silverlight 4 (and RIA Services) taking center stage in the keynote, here at PDC09. [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development

In my post on RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture , a while back (right after MIX09), I mentioned that I like to think of RIA Services as RAD for RIA. At that point we had a very early preview of framework bits with little tools support. A large...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Facebook vanity web address directory launches. FacebookVanity.com

This is an interesting idea for a site that we had that has not been done before that we know of. Basically everyone has a Facebook page. Most businesses do not have any 1 niche specific site to advertise their Facebook page except through Facebook search and their own site. This is a pay only [...]
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