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Exercise 5.7: Creating a Flex application and production build

Use Flash Builder to create a production build of a Flash application.
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Exercise 5.1: Passing data to item renderers for display

Render data in a DataGroup container.
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Exercise 5.6: Handling a DataGrid itemClick event

Use the itemClick event to handle a user click on the DataGrid control.
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Exercise 5.2: Displaying dynamic data in a custom item renderer

Create an item renderer component and use it to render employee data.
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New debugging and profiling features in Flash Builder 4 beta

Try the enhanced debugging and profiling capabilities of Flash Builder 4 beta 2 on a sample application.
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Exercise 5.8: Deploying to the desktop

Use Flash Builder to create and produce a desktop application.
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Exercise 5.4: Using the DataGrid control

Use the DataGrid control to display employee data.
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Developer spotlight: Holly Schinsky

Meet Holly Schinsky, picked for her use of Adobe technologies such as Flex, AIR, and LiveCycle Data Services to create amazing applications.
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Exercise 5.5: Creating item renderers and item editors

Use multiple methods to apply item editors and item renderers to a DataGrid control.
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Research In Motion and Adobe Systems alliance

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Commitments

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http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!

We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services.   We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help us get more good...(read more)
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Designer v Xaml v Code

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

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

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The Underground at PDC

PDC is coming
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Top 20 Resources to Get Started with Silverlight and Blend

I know I know - I deserve a tomato (or two) in my face for not posting since Kawasaki’s talk in SxSW early this year. Man, blame Twitter! that little thing got me to feel I didn’t need to blog anymore as kind of satisfied my need to reach...(read more)
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Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid

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

A well composed Photosynth can offer an interesting way to explore 3D space. Even better when the content is as interesting as the method of exploration. Above is a distorted view captured from the Neil Gaiman
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Exercise 4.8: Binding to a data model

Use a ArrayCollection object to populate a Spark List control.
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Exercise 4.4: Separating the model from the view

Use the Flash Builder Data/Services wizard to connect to a data source and retrieve data for your application.
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Exercise 4.7: Creating and using a typed data model

Use Flash Builder to display details about the employee that is selected from a DropDownList control.
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Exercise 4.6: Creating a master/detail interface with a wizard

Use Flash Builder to display details about the employee that is selected from a DropDownList control.
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Exercise 4.3: Populating an application with data and handling faults

Use an HTTPService object with result and fault events to populate the sample application with data and handle an invalid data URL.
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Exercise 4.5: Making an HTTP request with parameters

Use parameters within an HTTPService object to request specific data.
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Exercise 4.1: Creating an event and dispatching the event object

Create an application that allows an administrator to choose an employee to feature on the Employee of the Month panel of the Employee Portal.
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Exercise 4.2: Extending the event class to pass data in the event object

Create an application that allows an administrator to choose an employee to feature on the Employee of the Month panel of the Employee Portal.
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As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!]

Back in May, I mentioned that Silverlight 2 and 3 don't support putting a Binding in the Value of a Setter . I explained why this is useful (ex: MVVM, TreeView expansion, developer/designer separation, etc.) and shared a helper class I wrote to implement...(read more)
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Introduction to viewports and scrolling in Flex 4 beta

Learn the basics of scrolling with viewports for Spark components.
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Building a desktop application with Flash Builder for Force.com

Get an overview of what you will learn in this tutorial series.
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Building a desktop application with Flash Builder for Force.com ??? Part 1: Set up salesforce.com data

Learn to use the salesforce.com website to set up the data and data access that are needed to create a Force.com Stratus desktop application with Flash Builder for Force.com.
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On the Web, competition is just one click away (JustHost is our new host)

This is a post about customer service, customer frustration and customer / user experience. I've made a move from my old webhost Inside.hr to JustHost.com. Reason? Well, I was frustrated with their
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Silverlight From Zero

    This is the first of a series of blog posts directed at folks who are new to Silverlight and/or want to brush up on the fundamentals.  It will consist of mini-tutorials on topics I think need more coverage, and links to existing mini...(read more)
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MindSmack has been rated the #1 Web Design Agency in the USA for the 7th month in a rowSmack.

MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, iphone applications, 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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Are You Classic or Lightweight? The MSDN Redesign

MSDN recently rolled out new presentation choices for its Library content, which includes the MSDN online section for Silverlight: If you haven't been there recently here's your obligatory handy link: Silverlight 3 on MSDN The added presentation choices...(read more)
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OWL and Billboard Launch Landmark Concert Series using Microsoft Silverlight

Our World Live (OWL), a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering with Billboard.com to bring music fans a new internet concert series . Billboardlive.com utilizes OWL's state-of-the-art technology, powered by Microsoft Silverlight to provide...(read more)
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Updated Code: XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer

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

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

The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL) plug-in is an open source, cross-platform plug-in for the Eclipse development environment that enables Eclipse developers to build Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Microsoft has collaborated...(read more)
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Updated Code: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates

I have updated the project templates Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates.  The Silverlight template needed an update to the .proj file. Please download the templates from the above post. Sorry for the problem. Close Have a great...(read more)
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Behind the Scenes at Microsoft

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Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update

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

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

Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add Silverlight content, in this case from Expression Blend, to your Web sites. In this example, we
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10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download

The 10 tutorials from the Eyes of Blend series on Project Rosetta site are now available for download in both Word and PDF format. The .zip files also contain source code for the starter projects and resource files if appropriate. One thing that’s...(read more)
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d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

The WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 shares several new design time (d:) properties and design time MarkupExtensions with Expression Blend 3 that provide necessary information for the WPF and Silverlight Designer to deliver a great...(read more)
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Silverlight Audio Player for WordPress

As a follow-up to my Silverlight For WordPress plugin, I have just deployed Mark Heath
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Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility

The Closed Captioning For Silverlight Media page at T2Sami.com says in its commentary: A number of very sophisticated Silverlight Video players are under development: some open source, some proprietary
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Accessible Media Player

Playing video in Silverlight is great, but what about viewers who have a hearing impairment? Not important? The World Health Organization (WHO) would beg to differ. According to their 2005 estimates,
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Quick start: Create your first Force.com Salesforce desktop application

Learn to build a Force.com Salesforce desktop application with Flash Builder for Force.com in an hour.
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Creating an XML electronic forms solution with an Adobe PDF form and IBM DB2 pureXML

Use LiveCycle Designer ES to create an eForm that interacts with a data management web service.
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Developer productivity improvements in Flash Builder 4 beta

Find out how Flash Builder 4 beta 2 can help accelerate daily development activities.
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Understanding data management in applications built with Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com

Learn about the management and movement of salesforce.com data in applications built using Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com.
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Understanding the technologies for building Force.com Stratus applications with Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com

Understand the technologies for building Force.com Stratus applications with Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com.
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New with the Silverlight Toolkit: Drag and Drop Support for all your Favorite Controls! (Part 1)

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

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

In part 1 you were introduced to the new Silverlight DragDropTarget controls.  In addition to being powerful these controls are very flexible, allowing developers to customize almost every single aspect of their behavior.  In order to understand...(read more)
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UFC 104: Bringing Pay-Per-View to Online Users with Silverlight, Smooth Streaming, and PlayReady

Back in August we told you about how UFC.com used IIS Smooth Streaming for the UFC 102 pre-fight weigh-ins. Building on the success of that, we
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10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3

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

While preparing my demos for the European ReMix Tour (photos), I realized that I was missing an important tutorial in the Through the Eyes of Expression Blend series. One of the great features added in Blend 3 was the ability to Import Adobe Photoshop...(read more)
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Announcing Convexion - A New PowerPoint-to-Silverlight Add-in

Electric Rain is excited to announce a new product called Convexion, a PowerPoint to Silverlight converter that
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Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit

Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
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Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update]

The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit came out on Monday and the Data Visualization assembly includes some nice updates. I discussed the details of the new release then and promised to revise my samples to run on the new bits. While I anticipated...(read more)
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Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2

If you have the Silverlight 3 SDK RTM version (not the GDR) installed on your box you will need to first uninstall it before running Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 setup. This is irrespective of the SDK language version or platform. The SDK GDR does not install...(read more)
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Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update

Overview Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available now. For Silverlight developers, the most exciting news about VS2010 is that Silverlight designer will be in feature parity with WPF designer, and VS2010 will support multi-targeting for Silverlight development...(read more)
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates

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

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

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

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

Today (19 Oct 2009) the Visual Studio team released the second beta for Visual Studio 2010 to the public. This is a significant milestone for the team and a huge improvement over the previous beta in my opinion as a user. As a developer, you can find...(read more)
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A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers

Since we appear to be in another revolution on user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX), I
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Silverlight Toolkit adds DragDrop targets!

One of the cool things I came across the in the October 2009 Silverlight Toolkit release was the addition of drag-n-drop targets for some of the core controls. Now I know you are thinking great, another drag-n-drop useless control?!? and you
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Distribution service: Adding the Share menu to an AIR application

Learn to add a Share component to your Adobe AIR application
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Distribution service: Adding the Share component to a Flex Project

Learn how to add and configure a Share menu component to your Flex project so it can be shared across social networks.
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Integrating PayPal Express Checkout with Flex and Adobe AIR

Perform secure transactions with PayPal Express Checkout from a Flex or AIR application.
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Building a micro-blogging solution for the enterprise

Use Adobe ColdFusion, LiveCycle Data Services ES, and AIR to build a build a quality, comprehensive, enterprise micro-blogging solution.
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Silverlight Live Streaming service update

Yesterday, the Silverlight Live Streaming team (SLS) posted an update on their blog regarding the future of the Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service. SLS was a beta service to users to have a place to host and deliver their Silverlight-based...(read more)
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Creating Killer Animations in Code

Learn how to create smooth animations in Silverlight and WPF by taking control of the Rendering event....( read more )...(read more)
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RIA Services Blog Posts

Thanks to Yannick Aristidi we are getting many of the RIA Services posts from my series translated into French!  Partie 1: les bases de la navigation Partie 2: l'acc
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Bell Canada uses Silverlight to offer

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

Microsoft has recently had the pleasure of working with Big Spaceship to deliver the new Victoria
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Adoption of Silverlight serialization and communication technologies in web applications

We have repeated the research of the adoption of communication and serialization technologies in Silverlight applications that was originally done in February 2009. The new report is based on a research done in October 2009 and will give you an idea of...(read more)
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Review: Microsoft Web Cam (QB)

  My boss (otherwise known as
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Adding Silverlight Video to Websites with Expression Web 3

Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add and encode Silverlight video for your websites. And you can also add Silverlight content from Expression...(read more)
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Bayesian Probability

  Spent the early hours of this morning reading a great blog post by Jeff Atwood which makes reference to a Elizer S. Yudkowsky
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Streaming Media Reader

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

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

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

Download these Spry widget themes and modify them to suit your own designs.
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Three new user interface controls in ColdFusion 9

Learn how to use the new file upload, map, and media player controls in ColdFusion 9.
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Developing Adobe Workflow Lab: An inside look at the Adobe Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 development process

Learn how to use WorkflowLab to build a successful project in Flex 4 beta.
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Introducing Adobe Flash Player 10.1

Get the inside scoop about the new features in Flash Player 10.1: global error handling, UI improvements, text and globalization features, media playback enhancements, and mobile migration.
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Exploring Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder workflows

Optimize your design and development processes with these workflows for interactive content and RIA development.
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Demos of Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices

Adrian Ludwig demos various websites with Flash Player 10.1 on Palm webOS using the Palm Pre, and Google Finance on Microsoft Windows Mobile using the Toshiba TG01 smartphone.
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Reducing CPU usage in Adobe AIR

Improve the performance of your AIR applications through framerate throttling.
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Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash | Adobe Developer ...

Create ActionScript 3 projects to run as native applications on the Apple iPhone.
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Introducing the Adobe Flash Platform

Get an overview of the tools, client runtimes, framework, services, servers, and ecosystem of the Flash Platform.
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Building video players in Flash with the Adobe Open Source Media Framework

Follow these lessons to learn the concepts required to build a fully functioning progressive video player authored from scratch using the OSMF and Flash.
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Expression Encoder: Which edition is right for you?

Did you know that the single best way to get video encoded for Silverlight, or indeed your Zune for that matter, is free? Yes that
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Innovative France 24 Silverlight Player

France 24, the French 24 hour news channel, has introduced a new Silverlight-based player that also uses Smooth Streaming to deliver an innovative take on live news. You can check out the player and their blog post (in French) here . Here
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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
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Live Smooth Streaming Now Released - IIS Media Services 3.0

If you’ve enjoyed live web broadcast events like Wimbledon and Sunday Night Football on NBCSports, the UEFA Super Cup on Canal+, and Roland Garros and the Tour de France on France Télévisions, then you’ve witnessed first-hand...(read more)
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Expression helps PING develop next-generation custom club-fitting application

PING, one of the best-known brands in golf equipment, was running out of time to deliver a prototype of its next generation custom club fitting, specifying and ordering system at the Professional Golfers
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Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date

This past weekend during a conversation about Silverlight controls at the San Diego Silverlight Education Day, someone asked about the DatePicker control and why the
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 26: Authentication and Personalization

The data we work with in business application is valuable.  We need to protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and updates what data when and other times we need to actively prevent data from being accessed expected by...(read more)
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Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast)

This Expression Blend 3 tutorial introduces you to brushes and how to change the appearance of the specific object. You will learn how to use different types of brushes, and the special emphasis is given to gradient tools. How to create and modify gradients...(read more)
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Getting started with Silverlight: Part 7 – Out-of-browser experiences

This is part 7 in a series on getting started with Silverlight . To view the index to the series click here . You can download the completed project files for this sample application in C# or Visual Basic . In our final stage of this getting started series...(read more)
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Getting started with Silverlight: Part 6 – Polish the UI with Styles and Templates

This is part 6 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 . We now have a functioning application but could...(read more)
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Getting started with Silverlight: Ste 5 – Integrating other controls

This is part 5 in a series on getting started with Silverlight . To view the index to the series click here . You can download the completed project files for this sample application in C# or Visual Basic . In our previous step we added better data binding...(read more)
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Getting started with Silverlight: Part 4 – Binding the data and storing some for later

This is part 4 in a series on getting started with Silverlight . To view the index to the series click here . You can download the completed project files for this sample application in C# or Visual Basic . In the previous step 3 we did a lot of work...(read more)
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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)
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Getting started with Silverlight: Part 2 - Defining the UI layout and Navigation

This is part 2 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 . Understanding layout management in XAML applications...(read more)
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Getting started with Silverlight: Part 1 - The tools and Hello World

This is a first part in a series of getting started posts for Silverlight developers. In our series in getting started, we
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Getting Started with Silverlight development

Over time a few people have contacted me about the missing WatermarkedTextbox from Scott Guthrie
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Silverlight 3 online and offline Docs updated

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

On October 1 st ,MSN released the beta of My Health Info , a new online service that helps people manage their health information on the Web. My Health Info is a unique service that offers people a variety of tools and widgets to upload, organize and...(read more)
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Top Web Design Company In The USA - MindSmack Rated #1 By TopSeos.com For October 2009

Here is a snippet of their posting. MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, iphone applications, 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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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)
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Silverlight Twitter Tips Launches

Very proud to announce the launch of #stwip -  si lverlight tw itter t ip s. Find them by following my Tweets or by the meme...( read more )...(read more)
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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)
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Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit July 2009 Release Update

I have been very busy and haven
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Helsinki ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki .  I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview today and it was a lot of fun.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site ...(read more)
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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)
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What Makes A How-Do-I Video Great ?

I recently received a tweet that asked for more videos by one particular evangelist.    Comparisons Without Offense Even though it was instrumental in causing me to write this post, my first draft did not include the key quotation  that ...(read more)
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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)
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Starter Kits available for SketchFlow and Behaviors

SketchFlow was designed to enable you to rapidly create and iterate on application prototypes. Initially concentrating on the flow of the application UI you then bring the prototype to life through the use of sketch styled controls, easy to use transitions...(read more)
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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

Belgium ReMix and Architect Forum: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium.    I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically the this application .    At the Architect...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Tell us what you think about Expression Blend 3

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

An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site

One of the projects I’m working on this year is the revitalization of the Project Rosetta site. The goal of the site is to provide tutorials for designers and UI developers demonstrating how to use existing skills with new technologies. The first...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Introducing Adobe Cookbooks 2.0

Find and share code with the community, and discover all the new functionality, in the updated Adobe Cookbooks 2.0.
Publication date: 2009-09-26 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

Silverlight designer sample code is posted

If you
Publication date: 2009-09-26 more

Polaner interactive flash website for BG Foods has launched.

We are contracted to redesign and develop he new site for the Polaner line of products. MindSmack was given full creative reign so we came up with the home page that showcases very high resolution photos of the main jelly jars moving in the wind, hanging from a huge tree branch with completely interactive rollovers [...]
Publication date: 2009-09-26 more

Using Dreamweaver to share existing Flash applications

Using Dreamweaver to share existing Flash content as a widget
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Creating a shareable application using Flex Builder 3

Use the Distribution service extension for Adobe Flex Builder 3 to create a shareable Flex application.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Building Lupo: A case study in building commercial AIR applications

Find out what it takes to build and release a commercial AIR application from the ground up.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Tracking applications

Understand how your shared applications are performing using free management software that allows you to register, track, monetize, and promote them.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Creating campaigns

Create and edit advertising campaigns to promote your applications using the Distribution Manager.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Advanced parameters for the Share Menu

Get an overview of all of the advanced parameters available when configuring a Share menu.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Sharing Flash applications to the desktop

Learn how to enable desktop sharing for a Flash application..
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Creating a sharable application using Flash Professional

Turn any Flash application into a shareable widget by using the authoring extension for Flash Professional CS3 and CS4
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Using Dynamic Variables with Flash Applications

Create variables to dynamically populate a sharable Flash application with content based upon user preference.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Distribution service overview

Understand what the Distribution service is and why you should care.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 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

Intel and Microsoft Announce Collaboration to Provide Great Experiences for Atom

As a team we are committed to continuing to extend the platform and operating system support of Silverlight to reach the broadest set of customers possible. Today, Intel announced at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) support for Silverlight 3 on their Atom...(read more)
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How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3

Let me start with a disclaimer that this is not a fully supported feature in Blend 3. This post describes how to share the workspaces manually and by bravely editing the config file. Proceed with care or not at all. Adjusting and customizing workspaces...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class

If you
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a ... TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF]

If you've done much work with WPF or Silverlight, chances are you already know what a TreeView is and what a DataGrid is. You know that a TreeView is good for showing hierarchical data and a DataGrid is good for showing tabular data. But you may not know...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program

I
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Programming for Absolute Beginners

You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Relative hyperlinks with Silverlight navigation

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

Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata

.NET RIA Services relies heavily on metadata annotations for expressing intent beyond what can be inferrd via convention. For example, validation rules on entities and members can be declared as annotations, which then enable a variety of consumption...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-22 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

Top 100 Global Brands of 2009

BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. It
Publication date: 2009-09-20 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

XAML Power Toys v5 Will Be Available Sunday at 7:00pm PST

My blog has been very quiet the last month because I
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Silverlight Firestarter Event- Today Sept 17th

Be sure to check out the remainder of today
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Prototyping for the Apple iPhone using Fireworks

Learn how to use a few scripts to make your Fireworks prototype work for the Apple iPhone.
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Using Pixel Bender with Flash Builder 4 beta as a number crunching engine

Learn how to build a real-life number crunching application with Pixel Bender.
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Developer spotlight: Ben Nadel

Meet Ben Nadel, picked for his knowledge of ColdFusion development and his work helping others in the greater developer community via his Ask Ben blog.
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Design a document review, commenting, and approval workflow using the eSubmissions Solution Accelerator

Create and manage an auditable review, commenting, and approval solution based on Adobe LiveCycle ES software.
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

InDesign to Kindle white paper

The Adobe InDesign to Amazon Kindle white paper overviews best practices for eBook authoring in InDesign and offers a detailed review of the eBook conversion process for compatibility with the Kindle and the Amazon store.
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Linda McMahon For Senate Website Has Launched.

MindSmack has just completed the design and development for http://www.Linda2010.com – Linda E. McMahon recently stepped down as the Chief Executive Officer of the WWE, a publicly traded company in Stamford, Connecticut that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Linda helped grow a company from a modest 13-person operation to a publicly traded, global enterprise with [...]
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Scale-out of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex WCF service in a web farm scenario

The recent post about performance of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex protocol pointed out scalability challenges associated with deploying a WCF service using the protocol in a web farm scenario. This follow up article introduces one possible solution...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Video: Silverlight Button Control Styling by Steve White

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

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

Bing Visual Search Released!

And it uses Silverlight! Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Silverlight Toolkit in the wild

The awesome online Sunday Night Football experience features the Accordion control from the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

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

Update 2: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application

Hi folks!  It
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

It’s Silverlight week in Seattle

I
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

Bing Visual Search powered by Silverlight

This morning (Sep 15 2009) at TechCrunch 50 , Yusuf Mehdi showed Bing’s new Silverlight powered Visual Search experience. Visual Search is using images to help customers refine and complete common vertical search galleries such as shopping, travel...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

Silverlight ICO/ICON Decoder (Parser)

It turns out the Windows BMP file format is similar to the Windows ICO file format. Given that, it wasn't too hard for me to produce a Windows ICO/ICON decoder (parser) based on the work I did around a Silverlight BMP decoder. I didn't spend a lot of...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-14 more

Oops

While we are transitioning to the new design, there are some minor problems with my blog, and so for now I will be dual posting to here ( http://SilverlightGeek.me ) and to http://geekswithblogs.net/SilverlightGeek     Thank you for your patience...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Silverlight and Sunday night football

My fascination with Silverlight Is not strongly determined by the video aspects, though they can be the most immediately compelling.  That said, it is certainly an indicator of the impacted Silverlight is having, that Silverlight was chosen for the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-12 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

Dialogs and ViewModel - Using Tasks as a Pattern

The ViewModel/MVVM pattern continues to gain popularity, with a blog post showing up every so often, and with tweets and retweets popping up even more often :-). At the same time, there are some interesting topics beyond the core pattern that continue...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Whatcha Think? New Silverlight Features

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

Using Custom Visual States

Learn how to define your own visual states and call them programmatically or via behaviors....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Discovering Silverlight 3

In July, I gave a talk about Silverlight 3, and even though the entire session was 3 hours (and two bottles of mineral water) long, I only had 5 minutes for RIA Services. So, my only goal was to shed some light on the topic, and scratch the surface of...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Dispelling a Common WPF/SL Myth

Everywhere I look I find WPF/Silverlight developers who believe a very popular myth: You cannot update a ViewModel or an ObservableCollection from a non-UI thread. Like most myths, there is an element of truth here. But not understanding that truth can...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (0e81227c-d519-43c4-bee1-e42856004245 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)

This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (e0c19a54-3ea8-4bec-84a2-ad77a4e340b7 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Prism, MVVM, Behaviors, Blend

I just confirmed that I will be presenting Silverlight 3 at the Lakeland, FL .NET User Group next Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. As everyone who knows me knows, I just love talking to people about Silverlight so this is just another excuse for me to do so...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Silverlight Firestarter Party in Portland

Erik Mork of the Sparkling Client fame is hosting a gathering for those in Portland who want to see the Silverlight Firestarter in Redmond . Details are below
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

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

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages

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

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

Sunday Night Football: Showtime!

Just a reminder that Thursday night is the kickoff of the NFL Sunday Night Football experience powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming on NBCSports.com and NFL.com. With a 720p HD broadcast feed, four additional feeds with switching, picture-in-picture...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Silverlight delivers online viewing experience for Sunday Night Football

The NFL and NBC will be delivering the entire Sunday Night Football season by using Silverlight 3.0 and IIS Smooth Streaming. The first game of the season will be broadcast tonight, with the Tennessee Titans vs. the Pittsburg Steelers. Game starts at...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-11 more

Wayfinding + Rich-Media Mashups: What Art Students are Doing with Flex, ActionScript 3.0 and TouchScreens

Art Institute faculty Jason Diehl embraced the introduction of ActionScript 3.0. He introduced it and Flex in coursework to help Art Institute students create some innovative wayfinding projects accessible both on the Web and via touch-screen kiosks.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

Augmented reality using a webcam and Flash

Take a look at augmented reality, its current uses, and its future potential; then dig in and create an AR experience.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

Three demos of exporting CSS and images from Fireworks CS4

From design to code: Watch these video presentations to understand how to create and organize a web page design and prepare it for exporting to CSS and images from Fireworks CS4.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

Adding SMS, fax, e-mail, and voice notifications to LiveCycle ES processes

Use PGi components and LiveCycle ES to build communications-enabled business processes.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

Solving business needs with Adobe InContext Editing

Find out how InContext Editing can add value to your business.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

Integrating Flash Builder 4 beta with other Adobe products

Learn how to use Flash Builder 4 beta with other four Adobe products.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 25: ViewModel

ViewModel (or Model-View-ViewModel) is an emerging pattern in the WPF, Silverlight space which enables a separation of concerns similar to that of the MVC pattern that is popular on for stateless web apps today (for example: ASP.NET MVC).  John Gossman...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Silverlight 3 Sample Updates

I finally got a chance to update both my Mix 2009 and bitmap samples to Silverlight 3. See the table below for links to the running samples as well as Silverlight 3 sample source code. Silverlight 3 Sample Live Sample and Source WriteableBitmap with Media...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Silverlight 4 Feature Requests

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

Silverlight feature suggestions

I
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Join us at IBC2009 in Amsterdam!

IBC is one of the largest conferences and exhibitions for the electronic media industry and we’ll be there starting this Friday in Amsterdam! Today, in advance of the show, we made some announcements about Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming, including...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience

Today Microsoft and Tesco , one of the world’s largest retailers, announced a collaboration to use Silverlight to deliver the next generation of Home Video entertainment to consumers. Starting this Fall, customers who buy certain home video titles...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart?

In my last blog post, I showed how you can use a custom control to add labels to a WPF pie chart. In this post I will discuss its implementation. I started by thinking about what I wanted the usage syntax to look like. Ideally, I would like to create...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

SketchFlow: Global State Behavior Sample

In a previous post last week I posted a sample for a behavior for conditional navigation by using a global state object. Just a few days later, we got a question on how to represent and reflect user roles (or other global state) in a SketchFlow application...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

What do you call that small white square icon in Expression Blend?

A question to all users of Expression Blend: What do you call that small white square icon? The one that is also yellow when bound to a property and disabled when not available? I believe we need a name for it if we
Publication date: 2009-09-06 more

Top Web Design Company In The USA - MindSmack Rated #1 By TopSeos.com For September 2009

Here is a snippet of their posting. MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, iphone applications, facebook applications, facebook games, twitter applications, post production and web development in the world. In business since 1996, we have won 100
Publication date: 2009-09-05 more

Silverlight Week in Seattle Sept 14 - 17

If you
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

How you chose and learned Silverlight

A few of us in the Silverlight team have been talking about various things and speculating on how we think the universe works. We
Publication date: 2009-09-04 more

Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight

I saw a note on Twitter come through yesterday about building pixel shaders for Silverlight in Visual Studio. The question, from @blamborn was: Does anyone know if there is a Shader Effects BuildTask like the #WPF one here http://bit.ly/gCkNT only for...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Adobe Flash Catalyst best practices

Follow these hints and to help move design assets from Illustrator to Flash Catalyst in a structured way.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Enterprise Development with Flex book excerpt: Performance improvements

Improve the performance of your Flex apps by using small Flash modules, application libraries, and runtime shared libraries.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Create a WordPress theme with Dreamweaver

Customize the look of your WordPress theme with Dreamweaver.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

ColdFusion 9 caching

Understand the new functionality of caching feature.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Five demos of Flash CS4 Professional

Watch these introductory video presentations to get up to speed with Flash.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Live dynamic streaming and DVR for non-developers

Set up a dynamic streaming environment without coding.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

SketchFlow: Conditional Navigation Behavior Sample

Yesterday, somebody asked me how to do conditional navigation in SketchFlow. Out of the box, there is no built-in behavior to do conditional navigation, but the good news is that it is not hard to write one. Here is an example for how to do it. There...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-02 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

Using Behaviors

Learn how to use behaviors by taking a simple application and making it more interactive without writing any code!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Silverlight 3 tutorial: How to use ChildWindow (webcast)

This Silverlight tutorial (webcast) will show you how to use and customize ChildWindow object. ChildWindow can be used as a pop-up dialog or window in your Silverlight 3 applications. This webcast shows how to add, launch, change background overlay color...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Simple Color Animation in Blend for a Button State

This tutorial shows off a few concepts in Silverlight that Blend makes very simple to work with including: Custom Control creation, Color Animation, Resources and State Management. Although you can not animate between Brushes during different States,...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend 3

I previously wrote a few blog posts about importing Adobe Photoshop files into Expression Blend 3. This post focuses on the ability to import an Adobe Illustrator .ai file and converting the content to Silverlight 3 or WPF objects. You can also use this...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-09-01 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

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

We
Publication date: 2009-08-29 more

Ultimate Fighting Championships 102 weigh in tomorrow via Silverlight

It’s time! The Ultimate Fighting Championship #102 on August 29 th will use Silverlight to bring the fights to online viewers at http://www.ufc.com . While this in itself is great news, there will be an exciting addition to the coverage –...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-29 more

Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited

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

A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic

Here's a Visual Basic implementation of HighlightingTextBlock for Silverlight 3....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Showcase Silverlight Apps for Talks and Demos

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

Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines

Here's an initial set of guidelines for building Silverlight custom controls. The first of hopefully many more posts....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Popfly Game Engine Source Code Released

Ben Anderson just released the source code for the Popfly Game Engine on codeplex.  You can read Ben
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Following up on some of the attention [Live sample posted and a *very* small tweak to the Html5Canvas source code!]

I posted the source code for a Silverlight implementation of the HTML 5 <canvas> API yesterday and some readers have been pretty interested in the concept/implementation. Thanks for all your comments and feedback! Earlier today, kind user Fabien...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 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

3 New Podcasts on Silverlight 3

  This month I had the opportunity to be on Sparkling Client three times to talk about Silverlight 3 features Easing
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Silverlight community samples – what do you want?

I normally hate short posts
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

Silvelight Resources Directory Update (28 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (28 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

OK, So Now Where

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

Pie Chart Easy AS

I wanted to add an animated pie chart to my previous post.  The samples from the Toolkit are terrific, but sometimes it is difficult to find the easiest, most cookbook like process; so for those of you who might want to do the same, here is an annotated...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

In Response To DNR 476

Dot Net Rocks is certainly one of the most influential and valuable podcasts for .NET developers and their recent show (#476) was a compelling discussion about whether software development has become too complex. Recorded at DevLink in Nashville, the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

BouncingPlane Behavior for Silverlight

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

Silverlight 3 Jumpstart Book

David Yack dropped by my office today and we had a good chat about the direction of Silverlight and RIA Services.   David has some great feedback for us from several real apps he has been working on.  He also dropped off a copy of his book...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-28 more

VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series

Over the next few months I
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Exploring Rich Island development with Flex Builder

Explore the finished sample application from the user's point of view, learn the application\'s architecture and set up a project in Adobe Flex Builder.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Integrating Adobe Flex and Rich Islands for Adobe Flash

Understand how to use the Adobe Flash Platform to create rich islands for SAP Web Dynpro applications.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Protecting online video distribution with Adobe Flash media technology

Learn about Flash Media Server content protection features and best practices, and how Flash Media Rights Management Server protects and controls access to premium commercial content with branded rich media applications that help you generate new revenue or reach new audiences.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Exploring Rich Island development with Flex Builder ??? Part 6: Synchronizing data in components

Animate the inventory amounts in the colored bins to count down based on the production rate.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Project Radiate Widget Manager demo

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Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Flex, BlazeDS, and Hibernate JPA on Tomcat and MySQL

Update a simple Flex application to access linked database tables.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Five great new features in Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn about the five highly-anticipated and valuable additions to the product.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Setting up a Fireworks web design mock-up for CSS and images ...

Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Creating a product catalog using Dreamweaver and InContext Editing

See how quickly and easily you can edit content online on InContext Editing enabled websites.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Developer spotlight: Artemy Malkov | Adobe Developer Connection

Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Building a website with Web Premium CS4

Learn to create and configure a database using phpMyAdmin and connect to it using Dreamweaver CS4.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Creating a WordPress theme with Dreamweaver

Lay the groundwork for building your own WordPress theme in Dreamweaver.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Quick Start: Create your first Facebook AIR application with Flex

Learn to build a Facebook AIR application with Flex in 40 minutes.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

A survey of Inversion of Control frameworks for Flex

Compare popular dependency injection frameworks for Flex.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Search engine optimization for Flash

Learn best practices for using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript -- as well as SWFObject -- for building sites with SWF content that will stand tall in search rankings.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Easy animation with the Motion Editor in Flash

Use rectangles to directly control the regions of a page instead of letting the CSS export engine define it for you.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Building extensions for Adobe ColdFusion Builder beta

Learn the basics of creating your own extensions for ColdFusion Builder beta.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

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

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

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

Type-On Text for SketchFlow with a Behavior

Nick Josevski shows in an article on his blog how to create type-on animations using SketchFlow Animations. He also asks if anybody knows a different, maybe easier solution. Here is a really simple, quick&dirty behavior sample that handles type-on...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart?

The WPF Toolkit and Silverlight Toolkit both include a very versatile chart control. Although support for labels (or annotations) is a frequently requested feature, it is not yet present in the current toolkits. David Anson blogged about a great solution...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 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

Accessing the Parent

Learn how to access the root as well as any parent element in-between in WPF and Silverlight....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Using Effects in Blend and C#

Learn how to use Effects both visually in Expression Blend as well as programmatically using C#....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Easing Functions in Blend

Learn more about easing as well as how to apply Silverlight easing functions to animations....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Element to Element Data Binding

Using Expression Blend, learn to easily create bindings between element properties in Silverlight and WPF....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Introduction to Behaviors

Get an introduction to behaviors and how they can be used to easily add interactivity to your applications....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Getting Started with Silverlight 3

Get an intro to Silverlight and learn what to install on your computer to get started with Silverlight design and development....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 more

Extension Methods

Learn how to enhance your existing types with more functionality without having to recompile, extend, or do other crazy things....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-24 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

WPF ribbon control roadmap and look into the future

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

Silverlight tutorial: Play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight

You can play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight 3 easily. Basically, since Silverlight 3 supports H.264 format you can create your own media player and play high definition video content directly from YouTube in your Silverlight application. Let me show...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

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

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.    Azure represents a general trend in the industry towards a cloud computing model. As much as I love the development phase of projects, the operations side...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-22 more

SketchFlow Prototypes embedded in DotNetNuke

Here is a post that shows you how to embed SketchFlow prototypes in a DotNetNuke site: http://dnnsilverlight.adefwebserver.com/Silverlight30/SketchFlowViewer/tabid/81/Default.aspx...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

MediaPlayer control included in Silverlight 3

For some reason I missed this until just recently, but Silverlight 3 comes with a MediaPlayer control courtesy of the Expression team. If you open the Assets panel and search for media, you
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

UX Passion

Today, I would like to introduce you a site called
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Hey! Where

I will be on vacation starting today, and returning on Monday, August 24. During that time I will be in Maine but I will be writing Programming Silverlight 4 , studying RIA Services in depth and otherwise having a geek vacation. Project Turing, the Mini...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Using web service faults with the new SL3 client HTTP stack

Carlos, one of our team members, has posted an quick blog post on how to use SOAP faults with the new client HTTP stack , introduced in SL3. This makes configuring faults significantly easier: there is no need to write custom code in your WCF service...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Updated FlickrViewr for Silverlight 3

Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more! Go here to see the app and get the code....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-17 more

LinqToSQL A Detailed Review

  Turing Project Page : [Novice: 8 | Advanced: 5 ]    FAQ Table of Contents What is this and where do I start ?       In a previous post I discussed the advantage of separating the Data Access Layer (retrieving data...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-16 more

MindSmack is honored by INC 500-5000 fastest growing companies coming in at #257 over all and #6 in the media category.

MindSmack is honored by INC 500-5000 fastest growing companies coming in at #257 over all and #6 in the media categorySmack! http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2009/company-profile.html?id=200902570 http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2009/lists/top-industry-media.html http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2009/the-full-list.html?o=250
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight

One of the features that a lot of developers seem to enjoy is the out-of-browser feature in Silverlight . This is the feature that allows you to take your Silverlight application and run it like a desktop application (without some of the trust levels...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 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)
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Upcoming Silverlight events

I have the pleasure of being invited to participate in two Silverlight events coming up soon (one very soon). These are a part of a
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

New networking stack in Silverlight 3

In previous versions of Silverlight, the browser handled all the HTTP communication for the Silverlight plug-in. The browser HTTP stack works well but has some limitations including the HTTP methods you can use and the response codes that are accepted...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

From DB to DataGrid

    Turing Project Page : [Novice: 6, Advanced: 4]    FAQ     Table of Contents   What is this and where do I start ?         In the previous entry , we created the design for the database...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

Silvelight Resources Directory Update (13 Aug)

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

More Silverlight application themes and fixes

When Silverlight 3 launched, we also published several additional application themes for the navigation and business application (for .NET RIA Services ) templates. I just uploaded two more themes from one of our designers, Corrina , to the Expression...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

Linq For Silverlight Developers

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

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.  This time I take up a challenge from Mr. Wildermuth .  Shawn recently raised a very interesting issue with RIA Services development.  He works with a lot of...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

How to index your Silverlight application in search engine

There isn't too many particles articles in the web talking about Silverlight SEO. Therefore, I would like to share my seo optimization knowledge with all of you....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

4 Expression Studio 3 Starter Kits available for download

AGI has put together 4 starter kits for you to enjoy.  The Starter Kits cover SketchFlow, Game Programming, SuperPreview and Silverlight Support in Expression Web. Each Kit includes a guide, assets and tutorial videos. Introduction to Prototyping...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-12 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

DataBase Design & Creation

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) Turing Page [Novice: 5, Advanced: 3]  FAQ Table of Contents         This project will explore, among other things, getting data into and out of a SQL Database. In fact, we
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Silvelright Resources Directory Update (11 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (11 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-11 more

Presenting Expression for Developers on a European ReMix Tour

The next few months will be full of conference visits and presentations. I
Publication date: 2009-08-11 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchal Data

Wow
Publication date: 2009-08-11 more

Silverlight 3 “toast” notifications

I was messing around with a new internal application the other day and made a wise crack about some of the features out in the open. And by wise-crack, I mean
Publication date: 2009-08-11 more

Seadragon.Com

Microsoft Live Labs recently released Seadragon.Com . Using Seadragon, you can share any size image on the net as a zoomable photo. You can then share the image on Facebook, Twitter, or embed it directly on your blog or any other site. The picture viewer...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

TabStudio add-in for Visual Studio

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

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 at Microsoft PDC09 – we will be there!

It
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Expression Studio Resources - now including myself, Adam Kinney

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

Announcing

After more than five years working for the WPF and Silverlight teams at Microsoft, I’ve decided to move on and start my own business. Participating in the creation of WPF and Silverlight was a fantastic experience. I’m proud of the work we’ve...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 20: NHibernate

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 explore one of the most popular data access solution for .NET
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (07 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (07 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-07 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

Silverlight SEO Testing

However, in order to attach more visitors from the search engine, there is a need for my new Silverlight site to be SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly. Amazingly, my site is able to be listed in Google within 48 hours. Besides that, the content...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

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

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

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Still have good fun updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I wanted to consider how we might build the admin site of our site.. Because it is just for a very small number of trusted users, I
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Quick Bit on Turing Project

Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (06 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (06 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Silverlight 3 Resources

I have uploaded 40 of my Shine Draw samples into the Silverlight Resources Directory. There are many new features, go and check it out now! You may also upload you own resources. Later on, I will write an article on teaching users how to use it....( read...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 17: Evolving an Application

More from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-08-05 more

Creating A Form

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) TURING Entry [100:4] [ What are these numbers? ] In Entry [ 100:3 ] we were about to create a form and then go on to data validation. Here is the form we
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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)
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Top Web Design Company In The USA - MindSmack Rated #1 By TopSeos.com For August 2009

Here is a snippet of their posting. MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, iphone applications, facebook applications, facebook games, twitter applications, post production and web development in the world. In business since 1996, we have won 100
Publication date: 2009-08-04 more

Updated

Note: I updated this blog entry because the first method ran into problem with StackFrames in release builds without .pbd files.  I did find a JIT Compiler workaround but would never suggest such a hack. I have so much to share with you since my...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary

This series on updating my Mix09 talk to current bits has sort of taken on a life of its own and I am not quite through, but I have had numerous requests for a directory of these posts so folks can quickly find what they are looking for.   Notice...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-03 more

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

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

AgOpenSource Moves Forward

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

Video Wiki

This page will serve as the Overview of the VideoWiki Application to be developed as part of the AgOpenSource project. This particular application is on temporary hold pending its move to Moderated Open Source as of July 30. Definition VideoWikipedia...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

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

Developing with Rx (Part 2): Converting the Event-based Async Pattern to IObservable

In part 1 we talked about how to convert events to IObservables.  However Rx isn't just about querying events, it's also about querying asynchronous operations. There are two common asynchronous patterns in the .NET framework: the event-based asynchronous...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 more

Bayesian Probability (Quick Bit)

Added a Quick Bit today on Baysian Probability....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-08-02 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

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 Silverlight Site Redesign

We have been working on a new redesign for the silverlight.net site
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

How Corporations Should Handle Mistakes

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

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

Expression Blend 3 released!

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

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

.NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch

There is the well-known elevator pitch - can you describe something while riding in an elevator? Now we have the twitter pitch - what can you describe in 140 characters? Here was a question on twitter from yesterday: Can someone explain in 140 characters...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store

I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my  Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Q&A with Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 3

Read Scott Guthrie
Publication date: 2009-07-23 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

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

Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released!

Download the MSDN offline docs for Silverlight 3 here . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. The plan is to update this CHM at the end of every month, so stop...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

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Katrien De Graeve has a whole bunch of 3 minute videos on Blend 3 and SketchFlow on her blog. And not just in English, but also in French and Dutch. Wow. Thanks Katrien!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Mini-Tutorial

What It Is With element binding, it is now possible to bind the value of one object in your UI directly to a second object, without recourse to binding to a data object or handling events. How You Do It The canonical example (for me) is binding a TextBlock...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

11 Storyboard Animation Easing Demonstration

In Silverlight 3, there are a lot of fantastic new features. One of it is the use of Easing Function in your Storyboard Animations....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider

I have gotten lots of good comments on my series updating my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

SketchFlow: A Bit of History

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

Introducing Rx (Linq to Events)

It
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Cool New Samples in the Community Gallery!

5 new community samples have been added to the Community Gallery . Check out the DotNeNuke Silverlight Chat Module , use the mouse to position control movement , view a Silverlight Workflow Designer , review Silverlight Financial Charts , and checkout...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here's a workaround

Unfortunately, the web service that underlies the F1 behavior in Visual Studio is flawed. Specifically when you are trying to find a Silverlight API, the service is promoting the old, v3 beta1 content for Silverlight, and will show you that page (the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation

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

Silverlight 3 Bouncing plane gratuitous demo

I
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

MindSmack is Hiring - Times Square NYC Penthouse - Web Developer/Web Designer/Mobile App Genius

Company Name: MindSmack.com MindSmack.tv Country: United States City/Town: New York How to apply: Contact Name: Sam Feuer Contact Phone: 732-348-8785 Contact Email: Mind@MindSmack.com Job Details: MindSmack.com is currently looking to hire 2 new designers/developers. Company: MindSmack.com Able to handle clients in office/on phone. Position Type: Permanent Pay Rate: Open Preferred Skills: ActionScript 3.0, PHP, Objective C, Android What: MindSmack.com is an award winning, cutting edge web/mobile/TV/post [...]
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Silverlight and Making a Statement on Twitter

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

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Adding transitions to the Frame control

Continuing with my recent theme of enhancing the built-in support for Navigation in Silverlight 3, I thought I
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

My new home page, enhanced [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

In the time since posting my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links , there's been some great activity! Of particular significance, the June 2009 WPF Toolkit includes the same Data Visualization goodness that was introduced for Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

The Great Video Instruction Debate

Over the past year or so I
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source

More updates on my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

Simple Styles for Silverlight

This is a long time coming. I finally created a version of Simple Styles that is designed for Silverlight. Woohoo! This was a rewrite, a complete departure from the WPF Simple Styles and it may still be a little rough around the edges so please send me...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-19 more

New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms

3d Perspective Transform In addition to the transforms that were available in Silverlight 2 (translate, skew, etc.) you can now apply perspective transforms to any Silverlight Element to create 3D images and animation. We have a two part video on how...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-19 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

Watch Dr. Richard Feynman making Physics fun in Project Tuva, a Silverlight-based, rich media experience

Explore the natural laws of physics as explained by the brilliant and dynamic Dr. Richard Feynman , American physicist, Nobel laureate, author and humorist in his classic "Messenger Series" of lectures from 1964. Project Tuva is the Silverlight-based...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-18 more

Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008

As we
Publication date: 2009-07-18 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

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

Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3

First build of Silverlight.FX on top of Silverlight 3 with updates/enhancements ready - new features include ApplicationContext class, new Float/Spin3D effects, and Back/Forward integration. [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-17 more

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Overview

Last Friday we announced the public release of the Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow Release Candidate and Silverlight 3 RTW. If you haven
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Improved Collection Support in Deep Zoom Composer

A couple of days ago, we released another version of Deep Zoom Composer. One of the major changes we made revolved around dealing with large collections of images, and this was something that Deep Zoom Composer never handled particularly well in the past...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

An "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release [HeadTraxExtreme sample application updated]

A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme , an...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Navigating to Pages in dynamically-loaded assemblies

In my last post on the new navigation feature in Silverlight, I explored how you can navigate to pages in assemblies/projects referenced by your main application.  Almost immediately, a number of you asked how you can navigate to pages in assemblies...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3

Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Who's Using Expression? Stimulant

Stimulant worked with Microsoft and StepChange to create "MIXr", a Silverlight-based application, in only 6 weeks using the Microsoft
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsAZjb7FKXA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ErrS68YMM...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

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The Weekly Source Code 44 - Virtu, an Apple Emulator in C# for Silverlight, WPF and XNA

I really advocate folks reading as much source as they can because you become a better writer by reading as much as writing. That's the whole point of the Weekly Source Code - reading code to be a better developer. Reading code in Open Source projects...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser

More from my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-15 more

Spotted First SketchFlow Prototype in the Wild :)

I spotted my first SketchFlow prototype running on a public-facing web site (without the player, but with a description): http://www.silverlightbuzz.com/ One note: If you like running storyboards as part of a screen, also consider using Visual States...(read more)
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Rating Control: Netflix Style

In his recent post blog , Jafar Husain did a nice introduction to the Rating Control which we shipped with the July edition of the Silverlight Toolkit. Jafar and I (the PM) spend quite a bit of time on this control making sure we provide a very powerful...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

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

More update on my Mix09 talk
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

First Book on SketchFlow: A Chapter Available for Download

Sara Summers and Chris Bernard are writing a book on SketchFlow. Yay, thank you! You can get a free chapter including tutorial projects at http://www.dynamic-prototyping.com/....( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Controls Sample App

Want a quick reference and simple example of how to use all the cool controls in Silverlight 3?  Check out the Silverlight Toolkit Samples The best part is not only can you run it as a quick reference and get a feel for how the controls work, but...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

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

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

Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to!

One of the new features I mentioned in my What
Publication date: 2009-07-14 more

UI Virtualization

Today’s post is motivated by a scenario that’s common in business applications: displaying and interacting with a large data set. We’ll quickly run into performance problems if we use the na
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

NibblesTutorials: Beautiful New Tutorials On Blend and SketchFlow

Celso Gomes, who is an extraordinary designer on my team in the Expression Blend world, has updated his great tutorial site, all in Silverlight of course. There are now some great tutorials based on the new samples that ship with Expression Blend 3. See...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Navigating to Pages in referenced assemblies

At long last, Silverlight 3 has arrived!  That, in and of itself, is worth a thousand blog posts, but since there
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

TODAY ONLY - Win a free pass to the Patterns & Practices Summit

Telerik is  giving away a free pass to the 2009 PNP Summit ($1900 value) along with a Telerik Premium Collection license TODAY. To be in the drawing for the big prize, you need to attend the last of
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

Silverlight 3 Released

Today we officially shipped the final release of Silverlight 3. Silverlight 3 Features Silverlight 3 is a major update and delivers a ton of new features and capabilities.  Some of the new Silverlight 3 runtime capabilities include: HD Media Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

Three Years and Three Versions

Silverlight 3 just shipped! 3 is so much bigger than 2. See Scott's post announcing the release to web (RTW) and outlining the major features. Microsoft.com/silverlight gets a facelift. Goodbye dusk (theme), hello dawn. Be sure to check out the overview...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed?

Alas, Silverlight 3 is released ! It has been a long road
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics

With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Mix09 talk
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Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview

Silverlight 3 is here!!! The Silverlight platform has come a long way (in a relatively short period of time) from a scriptable graphics and media runtime into a full-fledged platform for developing Rich Internet Applications, using managed code, the goodness...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Ships

Silverlight 3 is out in the wild!! (team-signed poster in my office) Links to all the good stuff: Developer Runtime (pc, mac) SDK (link) VS Tools (link) Expression Blend RC (link) July Toolkit (link) Some of the new Silverlight 3 features include
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Silverlight Charting gets an update - and a TreeMap! [Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release now available!]

We've just published the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit to help celebrate today's release of Silverlight 3 ! Silverlight 3 includes a wide variety of new features that significantly enhance the platform and make developing powerful applications...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

See the Light: Silverlight 3 & Expression 3 Launch

Today, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Microsoft is announcing the latest release of the Silverlight browser plug-in and the upcoming availability of Expression 3 design tools. The live launch event is headlined by a keynote speech presented by S. Somasegar...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 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)
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SketchFlow Map: A Mini Tutorial, Part I

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

Creating a Minimal Workspace for SketchFlow

With Blend 3, we have made the Blend UI much more configurable. Panels can now be docked and undocked, and the panels can be set to
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

Get Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3 Now

Today we announce the availability of Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3. With version 3, Silverlight rounds out a feature list that delivers innovation and benefits to key areas of rich internet applications, including: Support for true high definition...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: How Updates Work

Silverlight makes updating your out-of-browser XAP a breeze. It does the heavy lifting for you, asking that you merely invoke the update logic from within your app at a time or frequency of your choosing, and respond to events raised by Silverlight. If...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-11 more

Is your career THRIVING

Thrive
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

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

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

Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design

Learn the simple recipe to design the look of a glassy button. It is a very simple process as you will discover and surprisingly easy to replicate even for the non-designer. Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design Click these links to download...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, a memorial

Today represents a significant moment in music history, as millions of eyes focus on one single event
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

Who's Using Expression? McCann Worldgroup

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

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

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

Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design

Learn more about how to apply the right colors for your user interface. In this video you will experiment how to apply colors to a user interface. Learn more about color while exploring Expression Design. Experimenting with User Interface Colors with...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-03 more

Qixing

Qixing Zheng just posted a series of short video tutorials on Blend 3 and SketchFlow. See them at: http://blogs.msdn.com/canux/archive/tags/Mini-tutorial/default.aspx Stay tuned, more on SketchFlow very soon…...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-03 more

Top Web Design Company In The USA - MindSmack Rated #1 By TopSeos.com For July 2009

Here is a snippet of their posting. MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, iphone applications, facebook applications, facebook games, twitter applications, post production and web development in the world. In business since 1996, we have won 100
Publication date: 2009-07-03 more

Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

I got a MVP award from Microsoft for my activities on the online community, especially in the Silverlight category....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-02 more

Silverlight 2 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

31 Days of SIlverlight !

Jeff Blankenburg has committed to publishing a Silverlight article EVERY DAY for the Month of July. [ CLICK HERE ] to check it out.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-01 more

JUST RELEASED: p&p Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I - beta2

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-07-01 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

Organizational Chaos Followup

About a month ago I wrote about getting organized .  Since it is Sunday and I
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening!

June has been a madhouse month; I
Publication date: 2009-06-30 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

Game Programming with Silverlight.

Tomorrow, June 30th, is the release date for my book titled
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

WPF Toolkit: Charting release

The Silverlight Toolkit's chart controls have made their way into the WPF Toolkit! More details on David's blog....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-30 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

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

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design

Learn more about Unity, a principle of design that will help you communicate visual cohesion in your user interface composition. Unity will help you communicate a single message even when using multiple objects. Learn more about Unity while exploring...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

WPF Charting: It's official! [June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!]

The WPF Toolkit team just published the June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit . Those of you who know I'm on the Silverlight Toolkit team are probably wondering why this is relevant - so let's get right to the release notes for the next version of Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000!

I was honored to be asked by ComponentArt to participate in a judging panel for their just now released 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition . The grand prize is USD $10,000. Yes, that
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Silverlight Attached Behavior and Commands

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

Wimbledon Is Here and We

Can
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Principles of Design Series: Creating Mosaic and Tiled Patterns using Expression Design

In this video, one of many in the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, shows how to create patterns (mosaic, tiles) with Expression Design. Watch and discover how easy it is to create your own patterns in Expression Design so you can then reuse...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development

J. D. Meier emailed me this week to ask my opinion on
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design

In this video from the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo of the Expression team at Microsoft, demonstrates Emphasis, a basic principle of design. Watch this video to learn more about the concept of Emphasis while using Expression Design. Principles...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-23 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

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Balance using Expression Design

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

Photobucket Visual Search launches, powered by Silverlight and Windows Live!

We
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Silverlight Revives Playboy, Rolling Stone Archives

Silverlight is bringing magazine memories back to life through Bondi Digital Publishing
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Principles of Design Series: Learning about Rhythm using Expression Design

This is the 2nd of 13 in the Expression
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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

Who's Using Expression? Hard Rock Café

How would you share one of the largest and most valuable collections of rock memorabilia with the world? Duncan/Channon, Hard Rock International
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Photobucket Visual Search powered by Silverlight and Windows Live

We
Publication date: 2009-06-20 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

Hanselminutes Podcast 164 - Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer

My one-hundred-and-sixty-fourth podcast is up . When's Silverlight 10 coming out? These versions are moving pretty fast. Scott chats with Tim Heuer to try and make sense of it. How does offline for Silverlight work? What's the best way to keep on the...(read more)
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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Symmetry and Asymmetry using Expression Design

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

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

Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Saving and exporting files from Fireworks

Learn how to work with bitmap images from other programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Flash graphic effects learning guide

Create special effects using Flash features like filters and blend modes, and learn how ActionScript gives you precise control over the display and expressiveness of effects.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Opening and importing bitmap images

Learn how to work with bitmap images from other programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Using Smart Guides and tooltips for precise positioning and layout

Become familiar with the Fireworks tools that allow your place your graphics exactly where you want them.
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Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Scaling objects without distortion with 9-slice scaling

Intelligently resize your vector content while maintaining its proportions.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Flex 3 in Action book excerpt: Advanced reusability in Flex

Get an overview of some of the advanced reusability features in Flex.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Understanding the role of CFCs in Flex application development

learn how ColdFusion Components (CFCs) can provide back-end data services to front-end Adobe Flex applications.
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Deploying the Flash application with ColdFusion URL variables

Learn to embed your Flash application code in a CFM page and pass ColdFusion variables to it that will appropriately update the Flash display.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Binding data to Flex UI components with Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn how to use DataGrid and PieChart controls and bind them to the data returned from a ColdFusion Component (CFC) function.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Getting started with ColdFusion and Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn to set up a ColdFusion data source and Flash Builder project, and retrieve data from a CFC method and bind it to a Flex user interface element.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Flash Builder 4 beta for ColdFusion developers

Learn about the data-centric features in Flash Builder 4 beta and how developers can easily use Flash Builder and ColdFusion to create Flex applications.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Creating ColdFusion Master/Detail forms with Adobe Flash Builder 4

Learn to populate a ComboBox control with a data list of employees, customize the display, and generate a form that presents editable information about a selected employee.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Managing ColdFusion data with Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn to use the Flash Builder Data Management wizard to map CRUD operations between an application and server by creating ActionScript event handlers for UI controls.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Generating ColdFusion forms with Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn to generate a form using a custom data type and populate the form with the employee sales data returned from a search tool.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

What's new in the Flex 4 SDK beta

Learn what you'll find as you explore the Flex 4 SDK beta.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

What's new in Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn about the three main feature themes in this release.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4 beta

Learn about the differences in architecture, components, layouts, use of states, and effects.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Building a data-centric application using Flash Catalyst beta and Flash Builder 4 beta

Explore the Flash Catalyst beta and Flash Builder beta workflow.
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Getting started with Adobe Flash Catalyst beta

Learn the basics of interaction design in Flash Catalyst beta.
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Building data-driven map applications using the Flex DataMap control

Create a Flex application using the Yahoo! Maps component and data-driven techniques.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Using Drupal themes with Dreamweaver CS4

Understand the fundamentals of a Drupal theme and how Dreamweaver CS4 helps designers produce these themes.
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Performance tuning for ColdFusion applications

Explore different ways to improve ColdFusion application performance.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Effects in Adobe Flex 4 beta

Learn how to take your Flex applications to the next level with the new effects included in the Flex 4 SDK beta.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

Update: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application

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

Silverlight Deep Zoom Lights Up the CMA Music Festival

Yesterday, the Country Music Association (CMA) and Microsoft teamed up at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville to bridge the divide between the country music world and the world of technology. Using Silverlight Deep Zoom, Microsoft and partner Firefly...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-14 more

Introducing NETOOP (The .NET Object Oriented Portal)

Yesterday I announced and new project I
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

What is Expression?

So what is Expression then? Well let
Publication date: 2009-06-10 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

French International tennis tournament at Roland Garros broadcast live on the Web using IIS 7 Smooth Streaming

France Télévisions partnered with Microsoft, Inlet Technologies and Level 3 Communications to broadcast the French International tennis tournament, held at Roland Garros from 24 May to 7 June 2009, live on the Web. This was the first ever application...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-10 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

Improving the performance of web services in SL3 Beta

Silverlight 3 Beta introduces a new way to improve the performance of web services. You have all probably used the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service item template in Visual Studio to create a WCF web service, and then used the Add Service Reference command...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-08 more

MindSmack.com added to Wikipedia.com

MindSmack is honored to be listed and discussed on Wikipedia. Here is the category url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_design_companies And our direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindsmack
Publication date: 2009-06-07 more

Targeting Other Elements via the Blend 3 UI

In an earlier post, I described how you can change what your EventTrigger and Action (based on TargetedTriggerAction) can target. You can get into various interesting scenarios where what your Action is attached to is not the element your Trigger is listening...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-07 more

Silverlight Validation in Detail

  In a previous pos t I mentioned that Silverlight 3 has enhanced support for data entry validation. In this first of two mini-tutorials on the topic,  I will take you through the process of implementing validation in some detail. The key to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-06 more

Forms Auth\Windows Auth

I was talking to some coworkers today about the scenarios for Forms Auth and Windows Auth in line of business applications.    We were having a debate about which was more common. As you might guess at Microsoft we are an all windows shop...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-06 more

Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3

One of the goals of new versions of Silverlight is to be be backward compatible with previous versions. We make this a priority goal so that people can keep their previous applications deployed while not worrying that people with newer Silverlight will...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-06 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

Ocean for Silverlight

Ever since Silverlight version 1 was announced, I’ve been working with my WPF and .NET back-end libraries to ensure that I could reuse business entity objects between the tiers regardless of the UI technology.  I wrote these demos in NYC while...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-04 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

Troubleshooting Silverlight 3 Broken Bindings

Introduction I’ve been working with Silverlight 3 for awhile now and one thing I find frustrating is debugging data bindings.  In addition to emitting binding error information to the Output window,  WPF provides developers a rich set...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

Top Web Design Company In The USA - MindSmack Rated #1 By TopSeos.com For June 2009

Here is a snippet of their posting. MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, post production and web development in the world. In business since 1996, we have won 100
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

MindSmack.com recognized by NJBiz in its selection of New Jersey

Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works

What is SketchFlow? SketchFlow, new in Expression Blend 3, provides built-in
Publication date: 2009-06-01 more

ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight

I've been writing about ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern ( here , here , here and more) and implementing it in Silverlight.FX for quite some time now, and it continues to be an exciting area for further thinking, and prototyping. This time around I want to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-31 more

Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead

At the Google I/O conference this past week, they announced Google Wave . Almost immediately, I started seeing Twitter replies, blog posts and various articles talking about how Google Wave is going to kill Flash/ Silverlight /JavaFX. None of these made...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-31 more

And to think that I found it on Bing

Ever since I started writing books I check Google (and for the past number of years it has been Google) for my name every now and then; both for the ego gratification and to see if there is misinformation or unhappy readers or other stories I should respond...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-30 more

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

Episode #1 of the Misfit Geek Podcast is now LIVE !

The first podcast in my new series is now live at http://misfitgeek.com/podcast/misfit-geek-podcast/ This episode is an interview with Senior Lean PM Scott Hunter on the future of Web Forms. Hope you will listen, subscribe and enjoy ! Technorati Tags...(read more)
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Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding

The upcoming version 3 of Microsoft
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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

Who's using Silverlight? 2nd Factory

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

Who's using Silverlight? Schematic

See how OriginDigital, partnering with Schematic, used Silverlight, Expression Blend and DeepZoomPix to create a unique user experience tool that integrates video and written materials for corporate PR and training uses. Who's using Silverlight? Schematic...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Silverlight DataForm helpers

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

.NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere!

While the feedback on .NET RIA Services has been great, many people have commented on the way we store metadata as custom attributes on
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

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

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

Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio Beta land

In a previous post I wanted to call attention to the multi-targeting and design surface improvements for Silverlight developers with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . There has been some comments on that post and a few emails and Twitter replies as well with...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-25 more

On The Bleeding Edge: Where All The Fun Is.

Tim Heuer did a brilliant job in his recent blog post sorting through and summing up some of the confusion that has arisen out of the current unusual circumstances of Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio all having two versions available at the same time...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-25 more

Adobe LiveCycle ES Java service invocation

Learn how to remotely invoke services using the APIs and SOAP endpoints.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Understanding ActionScript 3 debugging in Flash

Whether you're a designer or developer, learn the basics of debugging and understand the most common issues that occur in debugging ActionScript 3 projects in Flash CS4 Professional.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Understanding video formats and controlling video volume in Flash Lite 3.x

Learn how to control the volume of embedded video in a Flash Lite 3.x mobile application.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Prototyping AIR applications with Fireworks

Leverage the features in Fireworks to create an interactive prototype of an AIR app using reusable graphic assets.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Building a Drupal site in 10 steps

Get an overview of how to set up a Drupal site, including adding content and altering menus, modules, and themes.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development excerpt: Building Your First AIR Application

Apply an OOP approach to building your first AIR application.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

AdvancED Flex 3: Sculpting interactive business intelligence interfaces

Learn about the techniques available in Flex to represent, aggregate, and manipulate data effectively for BI scenarios.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Developer spotlight: Elad Elrom

Meet Elad Elrom, picked for his use of Flex and Flash to create applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

AIR 1.5: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3

Learn building AIR applications with this structured training course.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Adobe AIR in Action excerpt: Copy and paste, drag and drop

Learn how to implement these simple operations well in your AIR applications.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Protecting Flash Lite content packaged in a Symbian installer with OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock

Learn how to package your mobile content into a SIS installer and apply digital rights management.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Using Dreamweaver, InContext Editing, and Spry to build a dynamic site

Learn to build a simple dynamic site that users without HTML or Ajax knowledge can edit online.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Invoking the LiveCycle ES 8.2.1 Distiller API from Java

Convert a PostScript file to a PDF file from Java using LiveCycle ES.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Uploading a file with Flex and Java

Learn how to implement file upload functionality with a Flex front end and a Java servlet.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Interactivity without code!

Add animation, navigation and interactivity to your projects without writing code. Developers are able to encapsulate pieces of interactivity into reusable Behaviors that can then be utilized within Expression Blend. A Behavior is added to an element...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Silverlight TreeView Advanced Scenarios (TreeViewExtended)

Hi Folks, One of the most important tenants of Silverlight Controls development we picked up in Microsoft is WPF Compatibility. That means, that if we end up building FooControl in Silverlight and FooControl exists in WPF we
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Silverlight Visual Studio helper files

For things that aren
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Who's using Silverlight? Ebay

When you really need to know if you won that Ebay item, use the new auction item tracker tool created by Ebay using Silverlight and Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8). This tool allows you to easily track all the items you are interested in as well as see which...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Breaking News: Windows Media Center brings Netflix to consumers using Silverlight

It
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Just Built My First SL3 / Dev 10 App

As you no doubt know we released Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 today which you can download here   (the usual caution applies: I would advise only installing this on a machine you are prepared to repave!). I installed it and Silverlight 3 on my laptop...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Chart tweaking made easy [How to: Make four simple color/ToolTip changes with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

While answering a support forum question I'd seen a couple of times before, I figured it would be helpful to write a post showing how to make simple styling changes to charts created by the Charting controls that come with the Silverlight Toolkit . Note...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Silverlight powers Netflix in Media Center

I
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Well today was the public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . It is the first time developers will have the chance to take it for a spin and kick the tires. I wanted to share some information specific for Silverlight developers with regard to Visual...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

MIX '09 Overview Video

Want to see what happened this year at MIX '09? Watch this video for a recap to see and hear what attendees and presenters had to say about the show. MIX '09 Overview Video...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

.NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template

We
Publication date: 2009-05-19 more

Tech Ed 2009 Demo Files

It is always a blast to talk at Tech Ed and this year was no different. It was great to get to meet many of you and hear how you are using DataGrid, DataForm, Validation, and RIA Services in your projects today. As promised, here are the files for the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

Behaviors and Commands

In my previous post, I explained the basics of how to write a simple behavior. I concluded by mentioning that a behavior can actually be made to work with triggers. This is possible despite a Behavior having no real mechanism for a trigger to bury itself...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

Looking at Behaviors, the Class

In my earlier article a few weeks ago, I described the basics of Triggers and Actions. Triggers and Actions satisfy your standard, run-of-the-mill, cause and effect condition where something happens when you do something: In this post, I am going to talk...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-17 more

Pixel Lab Silverlight Site Launched

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

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

ViewModel + .NET RIA Services Part 2: Testability, Server Mocking and Dependencies

In Part 1 of ViewModel and .NET RIA Services , which I recommend you check out first if you haven't, I created a simple product search UI using Silverlight and .NET RIA Services using the ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern. One of benefits of the ViewModel...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-14 more

Logging Navigation in the Silverlight 3 Beta

I
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

Silverlight Best of MIX in Phoenix

I
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

Pineapple upside-down chart [How to: Invert the axis of a chart for "smaller is better" scenarios]

Let's imagine that we want to use Silverlight (or WPF!) to chart the performance of a book on one of those "bestsellers" lists... The book we care about has been doing very well lately; here's the corresponding data we want to display: var items = new...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-13 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

Top Web Design Company In The USA - MindSmack Rated #1 By TopSeos.com For May 2009

Here is a snippet of their posting. MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, post production and web development in the world. In business since 1996, we have won 100
Publication date: 2009-05-12 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

Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guidance

We
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Silverlight Enterprise Deployment

This paper provides guidance on how to deploy Silverlight within organizations using common infrastructure deployment services. It also describes the installer switches for 3rd party deployment tools or manual script processes for deployment....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Editing Model & Default Initializer for Silverlight Controls

Introduction This is part of the series on design time feature implementation in Silverlight Toolkit. This post uses the Chart default initializer to illustrate how to implement default initializer for Silverlight controls, and explain the underlying...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Microsoft Expression offer in UK 40% off

If you are a designer or developer that works with Microsoft technology (ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc) then this is a cracking offer from the guys over in the Microsoft Store
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Multicast Comes to Silverlight!

Today is a big day for Enterprise media departments who want to migrate to Silverlight. At the Streaming Media East show in New York City this morning, Qumu, Inc., known as an innovator in rich media streaming video solutions for the enterprise, announced...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-11 more

Refactoring Silverlight ChildWindow for a non-modal use

I
Publication date: 2009-05-11 more

Knowledge Base

Books Links Feeds Sites Share and Enjoy:...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-10 more

User-initiated operations in Silverlight

User-initiated operations in Silverlight: must be initiated by the user via an input device like keyboard, mouse or accessibility client... ...within Silverlight have an in-built timeout have atomicity of transaction cannot be marshalled across the specific...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-10 more

Playing around with Silverlight 3

Ok, I admit it
Publication date: 2009-05-09 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

New animation API for Silverlight (Easing Functions)

Easing functions allow you to apply custom mathematical formulas to your animations. For example, you may want an object to realistically bounce or behave as though it were on a spring. You could use Key-Frame or even From/To/By animations to approximate...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-08 more

New Video: Silverlight 3 Toolkit AnimatedTransition Control

Jesse Liberty demonstrates how to use the new AnimatedTransition control to easily enhance other controls by adding animated transitions from one visual state to another. Watch this video and more in the Learn page ....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

NASA releases Silverlight powered Photosynths of the International Space Station and Mars Science Lab

As part of its charter, NASA is tasked with providing public education on its work and programs. To that end, NASA teamed up with Microsoft to bring the public an up close and personal view of the International Space Station and a full scale model of...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

This is a note that I

Remember the Newton ?  Such a great idea
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

One more platform difference more-or-less tamed [SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better!]

Earlier this week I wrote about the "app building" exercise my team conducted and posted my sample application , a simple organizational hierarchy viewer using many of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit . One of the surprises I had during the process...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

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

Share, Inspire, Admire: Expression Community Gallery for Designers & Developers

Where can you share--and find--design-related assets at Microsoft? Just a few weeks ago, we launched an easy answer to this dilemma. The Expression Gallery on the Expression Community site gives you a place to show off the projects you've been working...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

Kelley Blue Book Perfect Car Finder

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

Moonlight 2.0 Preview Released

We
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

New York Times Silverlight Kit Announced

Yesterday, Microsoft and the New York Times released a New York Times Silverlight Kit ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/NYTimesSilverlight ) at the Enterprise Developer Conference in NYC. The kit makes it easier for designers and developers to use REST...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

Software as a Service: A pattern for modern computing

Understand the core pattern of SaaS in pragmatic terms and its strategic advantages.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

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

6 New Community Gallery Entries

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

Going "extreme" with Silverlight 3 [Sharing the source code for a real-world sample application]

My teammates and I spent some time last week on an exercise known as "app building" to help identify issues with the latest build of Silverlight, the SDK, and the Silverlight Toolkit . The way app building works is that everyone comes up with an idea...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Silverlight Contest app updated with new RadialPanel

Isn
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion tweens

Learn how motion tweens help you create movement with Flash, as well as minimize file size.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Frame-by-frame animation

Learn how frame-by-frame animation is best suited for complex animations in which an image changes in every frame instead of simply moving across the Stage.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Using ActionScript 3

Use ActionScript to add animation to a document, either by referencing an existing motion tween or by copying the animation from a tween span to ActionScript 3 code.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Shape tweens

Make one shape appear to change into another shape over time, or create color and gradient animations.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion presets

Learn how to add animations with a minimal number of steps, and create a custom preset to reuse throughout your documents.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Overview

Read an overview of improvements made to animation in Flash CS4 Professional.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Frame rates

Think about the impact of frame rate when creating animations.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion Editor

Learn how to customize and duplicate animations easily using the Motion Editor.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Timelines and keyframes

Learn about using timelines, keyframes, and layers in Flash for your animation projects.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion tween manipulations

Learn about moving, splitting, joining, and reversing motion tweens in Flash, and more.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Preset and custom eases

Learn how to apply easing to make tweens appear more realistic.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion paths

Learn how manipulating motion paths can achieve special results in animations.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Designing and prototyping Flex applications using Fireworks

Learn how the combination of bitmap editing and vector manipulation tools, along with Flex integration features, make Fireworks an ideal tool for designing Flex applications.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Motion migration guide for Flash CS4 Professional

Migrate your motion tweening skills from previous versions of Flash to the new motion model in Flash CS4 Professional.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Deploy your first Flex application on Facebook

Learn to deploy on Facebook as an iFrame application.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Building a kiosk using Flex

Create a simple touchscreen Flex application.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Building a List component in Flash Lite

Learn how to create a custom scrolling list to display data within a mobile application.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Validation. Hey! You

Towards the end of my
Publication date: 2009-05-04 more

Looking at Triggers and Actions

Like I
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

4 New Silverlight Showcase Applications

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

Starting a Podcast

Enough people have asked me about it so I
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Announcing the re-release of MSDN Code Search Preview

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

Trying to get the story straight [A brief summary of Storyboard differences between WPF and Silverlight]

I was investigating a Silverlight Toolkit bug this morning and got into a spirited discussion about Storyboard behavior with Jafar . We disagreed on a couple of points, so I [grudgingly :) ] coded up a quick test application to help sort things out. Unfortunately...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Register Silverlight Controls with Visual Studio and Blend

Introduction This is part of the series on design time implementation changes in Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release. This post illustrates the integration of Silverlight Toolkit with Visual Studio and Blend 3 after running Silverlight 3 Toolkit March...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox

We're considering simplifying the AutoCompleteBox API be removing a few rarely used events, and would love to get some feedback from scenarios this might impact....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

WEB09 – Silverlight and Blend in Auckland, New Zealand

I
Publication date: 2009-05-01 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

Expression for Art’s Sake – Silverlight and Blend in Wellington, New Zealand

What do you get when you invite 14 companies for 3 1/2 days and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Top five misperceptions about ActionScript 3

Read about the misheld beliefs some people have about ActionScript 3.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Externalizing service configuration for BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services ES

Configure your services at runtime to simplify deployment.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Creating desktop applications for the cloud with Adobe Flex, AIR, and Amazon S3

Employ the Amazon Simple Storage Service in place of a multi-tiered server infrastructure.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store

Silverlight applications
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

ScottGu Mix Keynote coding demo posted

A ton of folks have asked us about getting the source code to Scott
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

Slideshow using DomainUpDown and TransitionContentControl

I
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

ActionScript 3 migration cookbook

Get a high-level introduction to ActionScript 3 and a reference for accomplishing frequent tasks when creating content in Flash Professional.
Publication date: 2009-04-26 more

IIS Smooth Streaming Released for 1080p Video

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

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Launch

Silverlight 3 offline/out-of-browser apps maintain a sticky presence on your desktop upon the initial detach (install) operation. They can be looked up and launched in an experience not unlike the one you see with conventional desktop applications. You...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Get your FREE Core ASP.NET Reference Card Here !

Get it [ HERE ] (Free, but Registration is Required.)...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness

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

My new home page, extended [Updated collection of great Silverlight and WPF Charting resources!]

It's been a while since the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit - and even longer since I last posted a collection of Charting links . It's clearly time for an update, so I've added a bunch of new links to the collection below (FYI: previously...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Easing is

For those who have been wondering
Publication date: 2009-04-25 more

Check us out at TechEd North America 2009

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

View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services

Over the weekend, I saw a question on StackOverflow about combining .NET RIA Services and the ViewModel pattern and answered briefly there, but the topic is worthy of a blog post. At a high level, .NET RIA Services generates a data model for use in the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Using pages, states and layers in Fireworks CS4

Learn best practices to structure your Fireworks document, organize objects, and reuse common elements.
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Using LiveCycle Content Services ES to seamlessly store and manage documents protected with LiveCycle Rights Management ES and LiveCycle Content Services ES

Make interaction seamless through the use of spaces and smart policies.
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Flex 3 in Action book excerpt: Introduction to pop-ups

Learn how to create, position, communicate with, and close pop-up windows.
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

H.264 for the rest of us

Read this video compression guide to understand F4V-specific settings in Adobe Media Encoder and Flash Media Encoding Server, and learn about estimating acceptable video bit rates.
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Test Driven Development with ColdFusion

Use MXUnit to build unit tests for ColdFusion.
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Silverlight Installation Experience whitepaper and sample code released

The Silverlight project templates in Visual Studio and other tools (such as Expression Blend) provide a default experience for users who do not have Silverlight installed. However, the current default experience is not very enticing: Unless you modify...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-19 more

Making a good posting GREAT

An example of the difference between an
Publication date: 2009-04-19 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

A Twitter App I want

Whose tweets do the people whose tweets I value, value? That is, this application would help me find the people whose tweets I consistently value, and then find out whose tweets they consistently value, and it would do it in a reasonably anonymous way...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-19 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

MIX09 Workship is Online Now

I found out today that my MIX09 worskhop is now officially online. I won
Publication date: 2009-04-19 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

Peeps love Silverlight too!

Okay
Publication date: 2009-04-15 more

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: The Install

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

Accordion Part 5: AccordionButton

I believe this is going to be the last post in this series, although I bet I will have some loose Accordion posts coming up. This part is going to focus on AccordionButton, and show you how to retemplate it. Previous posts: Part 1
Publication date: 2009-04-12 more

VideoWiki - Step 0

The neurons in your brain have a basic structure of an axon (the finer cable like projections) and dendrites (the branches) and the soma (the central part of the neuron). The axon emerges from the soma at the axon hillock where there is the greatest density...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 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

VideoWiki Design Step 1

The initial approach to designing the VideoWiki is to layout all the obvious pieces of the design, understanding that this will evolve over time. Here is my first cut at the design. If you have Silverlight 3 installed, the following is the live interactive...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 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

A bit more than meets the eye [Easily animate LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator!]

I came across a question on the Silverlight Toolkit support forum yesterday asking how to animate the values of a Transform used by the Silverlight Toolkit 's LayoutTransformer . (Background on LayoutTransformer: Motivation and introduction for Beta 1...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

Behaviors : Writing Your Own Triggers

In my previous posts, I briefly discussed what behaviors are and how to use them. Let
Publication date: 2009-04-11 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

Silverlight installation experience guidance posted

I
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

MouseWheel Behavior for Silverlight

A demonstration of the MouseWheel behavior to add mouse wheel-based scrolling in Silverlight applications, effortlessly, using Silverlight.FX and behaviors... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-11 more

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

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

Using Flash CS4 and Adobe AIR to build custom browsers for e-learning and social networking

Explore the Flash CS4 and AIR components workflow and learn to build and customize a sample AIR application.
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Using the Salesbuilder Adobe AIR sample application

Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Developer spotlight: Justin Putney

Meet Justin Putney, picked for his use of Flash and ActionScript to create extensions and release them for free to the Flash community.
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Foundation Form Creation excerpt: Performing advanced form scripting

Add calculations and scripts to your form by applying either JavaScript or FormCalc to your objects.
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Rapid interactive prototyping with HTML, CSS and JavaScript using Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4

Learn how to work with web scripting languages and CS4 tools to create working models that replicate product functionality.
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Sharing data with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta

Learn how to send custom messages back and forth between Flex applications.
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Accordion Part 4 templating example

Mehdi pointed me to a great accordion on this site . It is a horizontal accordion that only uses images. In this post I
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Some known issues in SL3 Beta

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

VideoWicki

VideoWicki Project and Meta-Project
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #105

From within VS you can specify which Internet browser you want launched when running your Silverlight application. Your default system browser is not affected by this setting. To make this change right click on your startup web page and choose Browse...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Managing Silverlight 3 navigation behavior

I
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Top Web Design Company In The USA - MindSmack Rated #1 By TopSeos.com For April 2009

Here is a snippet of their posting. MindSmack.com and MindSmack.TV specialize in the highest level of interactive web design, flash, animation, 3d, ad design, video, post production and web development in the world. In business since 1996, we have won all 100’s of recognized awards including: 1st Annual DesignFirms.org Award 2nd Annual DesignFirms.org Award 5 FWA Awards Cool Web [...]
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

The Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit

The Silverlight product team has just release some additional material for advertisers: the Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit . This download includes a whitepaper and samples that describe and demonstrate several aspects of creating ads using Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

The Silverlight Documentation Sample Browser

The Silverlight 2 documentation includes many live samples. However, you can access these samples only from a topic with a "run this sample" link. The best way to find the samples in the Silverlight 2 documentation is to do a search on "run this sample...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

New Silverlight Toolkit Video

In Part 1 of this two part video Jesse Liberty demonstrates how to set various important properties in the new Accordion toolkit control . Watch this and other Silverlight videos on the Learn page....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

Use Silverlight easily in your WordPress site

Install the Silverlight for WordPress plugin to easily manage Silverlight content within your WordPress-enabled web site. The plugin works with the WordPress web editor as well as tools like Windows Live Writer. More details at Silverlight for WordPress...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

Blend 3 Behaviors: A Sample Action

Right before the weekend, another post on Behaviors… In my last post, I discussed a few of the building blocks of the Behaviors mechanism in Blend 3: Triggers, Actions and Behaviors. I also talked a little bit about the Source for Triggers and the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

VS item templates for Silverlight Resource Dictionaries

To make it easier to create merged resource dictionaries in Silverlight 3 beta, I put together a little Visual Studio item template so you can do "Add | New item... | Silverlight Resource Dictionary". For C# users, take the attachment & copy it into...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

VB item template for Silverlight Resource Dictionary

Here's the VB version of the resource dictionary item template . Copy the attachment into "C:\Users\ <your name> \Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual Basic" ....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

The New Microsoft Mouse

I had a little trouble unpacking my new mouse     But once I did, I really like it. Very comfortable and very nice looking. (no wise cracks about looking for the apple logo, thank you).  I'm impressed by the willingness of Microsoft to...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-05 more

Understanding the architecture of applications built on the Facebook and Flash Platforms

Get an overview of the different types of applications you can build and how the applications communicate with your server and the Facebook server.
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Build your first Facebook application

Daniel Dura shows you how to build Flash applications on the Facebook Platform.
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Silverlight out-of-browser support: What kind of apps can you build?

This is first in my series of technical drilldown posts on the new offline and out of browser support in Silverlight 3. It is something of a tradition in Microsoft to list out scenarios when a new feature set is being conceived. This practice is by no...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Silverlight + MySpace = WayCool!

Today MySpace announced support for Silverlight on their Open Platform. Yes, you can start leveraging the power of .NET in your MySpace apps. How cool is that? You can get the details here . You will be able to download an open source MySpace Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Keeping you informed, and reducing confusion

To ensure that the effort to provide maximum information about the code provided in the dozens of examples associated with videos , tutorials and blog entries is most useful,  I've decided to respond to a few messages of confusion by clarifying the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 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

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

.NET 4.1 Preview - New Base Class Library (BCL) Extension Methods - RFC

As web programmers, we use a lot of strings to move data around the web. Often we
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #103

Of the course of the last year I have been collecting links to some really good Silverlight tutorial blogs that I thought I would share with you. These are active blogs, frequently updated, that are specifically oriented to teaching Silverlight development...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Silverlight 3D Overview

Applying simple 3D effects (a.k.a. perspective transforms) to objects in your Silverlight 3 Beta application is easy. Currently there are no meshes to define, no camera, none of that "3D engine" stuff-- just 12 properties of the PlaneProjection that you...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #104

With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta 1 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration (or hardware acceleration) is now available. The GPU is a processor attached to your graphics card that is generally used for calculating floating point operations. In...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Enabling multiple user access to the ColdFusion Administrator and RDS

Understand the new multiple user feature and learn how to configure it.
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

Merged Help

Adobe community expert Peter Grainge walks you through a simple process for creating merged help with RoboHelp 8.
Publication date: 2009-03-31 more

WEB09: Silverlight coming to Auckland!

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

Quick 3-d Update

I mentioned in a previous blog post that I'd posted a two part video on the new 3d capabilities in Silverlight 3. Since then I've had a few great conversations with Jeff Paries (who knows more about Silverlight Animation than most people on the planet...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-30 more

Dependency Property Generator Article

A few weeks ago, I wrote a dependency property generator for Silverlight. Overall the feedback in my inbox has been great, but one thing many of you wanted was to learn more about what to do once the code gets generated. At first glance, it may not be...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-30 more

Blend 3: Triggers, Actions, Behaviors

This post is the second in a series of posts about the Behaviors model in Blend 3. In this post, we
Publication date: 2009-03-30 more

Smooth Streaming Technical Overview

IIS Smooth Streaming dynamically detects local bandwidth and CPU conditions and seamlessly switches, in near real time, the video quality of a media file that a player receives. This technical overview provides background information and technical details...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

After looking at the options available for WordPress plugins for Silverlight , I found one that was outdated and the author
Publication date: 2009-03-28 more

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

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

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

Silverlight Tip of the Day #101 - Bypassing the Image Cache

By default Silverlight will not download an image more than once if is contained within the image cache. That is, as long as the URI remains the same it will reference the image from the cache. So what if the image changed on the server even though it...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Supporting the unsupported [Two fixes for the unofficial WPF Charting assembly!]

In my last post I described a few updates I made to my ChartBuilder sample/application/learning tool for the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit . As usual, I posted the complete source code to ChartBuilder for interested parties to download and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

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

Web platforms installed in one click…seriously.

Ok I
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Silverlight 3 and SEO

All great RIA applications have a meaningful client and server component to them.  Supporting SEO, or Search Engine Optimization in a RIA is an excellent example of using the client and server components.   It doesn
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Accordion, part 2

I
Publication date: 2009-03-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #102

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

Mix 09 Trip Report

  It is traditional when you return from a conference to file a "trip report" with your team. What follows is my trip report to you , with an emphasis on what I learned. I will not review, here, all that was discussed about what is new...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application

Seema Ramchandani works on performance as a Program Manager on the Silverlight team. She gave a fast-paced talk at MIX09 covering the graphics and media that contained some helpful tips for performance profiling, debugging and optimization. Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Silverlight 3 Beta!

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

Highlighting AutoCompleteBox improvements thanks to Silverlight 3

Thanks to the Silverlight 3 Beta, the AutoCompleteBox can become a highlighting auto complete control even easier!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

ScottGu

Some folks that could not make it to Mix have asked about Scott
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Flash 10 vs Silverlight 3: Perspective 3D

The first comparison on Flash 10 and Silverlight 3 Beta is on the capabilities of 3D rendering. There are all together 4 comparisons: Perspective 3D on an image with drop shadow effect. Perspective 3D on various kind of controls. Perspective 3D on video...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

On Email and Organization

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

Sharing skills and code with Silverlight and WPF: MIX

Check out my Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF talk from MIX '09. Yeah, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Accordion, part 1

Accordion is a fun control with a lot of properties and options. I had great fun building it and I hope you will have great fun while using it. This post gives an overview of the control. Next parts will look into other controls that are used with Accordion...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Perspective 3D Sample

Finally getting around to posting the Mix demos, and the first I
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

WriteableBitmap Sample

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

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

Free Silverlight 3 Book Preview Now available

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight For those of you who were not able to attend MIX (and it wasn
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

How to build a good install UX with Silverlight

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight The Silverlight object model exposes events that can be used to build a very friendly end user experience for installing Silverlight. When it comes to using a Web site that requires a plug-in...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Chroma Key Pixel Shader Sample

Here
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Local Messaging Samples

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

Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser Chess Application

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

Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight

Brandon Bray gave an interesting presentation at MIX09 on how the CLR (the execution engine that underlies the .NET Framework) was refactored to support for Silverlight; I thought I
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine

Although the Silverlight Tools don't have a multi-targeting story, you can build Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine. Here's information on how we do this within the Silverlight Toolkit team....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

CITI Private Pass Launches Jonas Brothers World Tour And U2 360 Tour

MindSmack has just finalized this awesome quick site take over for Jonas Brothers World Tour and the U2 360
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Reducing the risk of malicious web attacks with HP SWFScan

Read about the free tool that scans SWF applications for security vulnerabilities.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

From table-based to tableless web design with CSS

Take the first steps towards CSS layouts and away from table-based layouts.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Advancing mobile storytelling with Adobe's distributable player solution

Pioneering mobile storytelling developers from Untravel Media share their experience and the advantages of developing with the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 distributable player solution.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Exploring the new 3D features in Flash CS4 Professional

Get an overview of 3D: controlling rotations, animating with motion tweens, programming effects with ActionScript, and more.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Working with masks in Fireworks CS4

Follow this presentation to learn how to work with masks.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Using the Kuler panel with Fireworks CS4

Follow this presentation to learn how you can create a color theme for your website or web application.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

AdvancED Flex 3: Integrating via data and media services

Learn about the data services architecture, explore the steps, and see data services in action.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Silverlight Charting is faster and better than ever [Silverlight Toolkit March 09 release now available!]

We've just published the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit and I bet there's something in there to make just about everyone happy! There are bug fixes for some of your favorite controls, a variety of cool new features sprinkled all around, and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 released

Announcing the release of our latest Silverlight Toolkit: March 2009 edition. I just checked when I blogged last and that was in December 2008, when we released the December edition. Since then I have not posted a single thing
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

What is .NET RIA Services?

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

March Madness is upon us

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Basketball , March Madness   Just a quick update from MIX. If you
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

Behaviors : Making Interactivity Easy (and Fun!)

Yesterday, at MIX09, we released a preview version of Expression Blend 3. Expression Blend 3 contains a lot of cool new features, and one new feature that I and a few other Blenders have been involved with is something known as Behaviors. In this introductory...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-20 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

Blend 3

Today at Mix, Doug Olson and I presented an overview of what the next version of Blend will bring. Blend 3 is going to be a huge and exciting release, and it offers a wide range of powerful tools for both production and design phases of software development...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-20 more

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

Tips for building AIR applications that can be easily updated

Learn about the potential pitfalls when building and deploying an Adobe AIR application update.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Cooking in Flex with faqcontrib

Share faqcontrib's experience and start contributing to Flex cookbook.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Foundation Fireworks CS4 excerpts: Visual effects and extending Fireworks

Learn about creating popular visual effects, and understand the SWF panel development process to get the most out of Fireworks.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Using Flex Ant Tasks to build Flex projects ??? Part I: Creating a build script for Flex

Learn how to set up, create, and execute a basic Ant build script using the Adobe Flex Ant tasks.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Encoding options for H.264 video

Learn how H.264 video works and how to encode it for Flash Player delivery using Adobe Media Encoder or Adobe Flash Media Encoding Server.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Mix09: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 3

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

Download Silverlight 3 Beta today!

At MIX09 Silverlight 3 Beta was unveiled, with over 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video performance and quality improvements, and features to improve developer productivity. Find out...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Silverlight Smooth Streaming: UX Simulator

I
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

SketchFlow

Shown for the first time publicly today at Mix 2009 in Las Vegas, SketchFlow is a fun, informal, flexible, quick and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich, dynamic interactivity with Expression Blend. SketchFlow is part of Expression Blend - I’ll...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Silverlight 3 Beta is Live!

If You Want To Develop Silverlight 3 Apps Dev Runtime, SDK and Tools Blend 3 Preview Silverlight 3 Toolkit .NET RIA Services If You Want To Run Silverlight 3 Apps Windows Developer Runtime Mac Developer Runtime...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Silverlight 3 Beta Sample - Slidentity - Presentation Creation App

I
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Introducing Offline and Out of Browser support in Silverlight

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

A guide to Silverlight 3 new features

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

Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video

As of this morning I have uploaded five videos (with C# and VB source code) for Silverlight 3. To have this ready at the moment of release I opted for most to build with pre-beta code. This note will review what to do if you run into trouble making the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Silverlight Makes Version 3 at MIX '09

Silverlight Version 3 takes center-stage at MIX '09, and shapes up to be a great platform for RIA and LOB apps. More coming by way of .NET RIA Services... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Silverlight 3 Beta Released!

A developer-only release of Silverlight 3 Beta has been released. Check out Welcome to Silverlight 3 Beta . This page gives you links to the Beta runtime, tools, documentation, samples, and summary of what's new in Silverlight 3 Beta. Also, I'm copying...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 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 3 Beta Bugs

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

Silverlight 3 Beta Offline MSDN docs (CHM) is available

You can get the MSDN offline docs here . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot view content, do the following to resolve...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model

Wednesday at MIX09 was a great day. I was exhausted, but after the keynote I was so high on excitement it was great. Throughout the day Twitter was buzzing (or is it fizzing?) about all the news around Silverlight 3 . In one conversation around the out...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Visualizing Data via Project Descry

This year
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Using timeline labels to dispatch events with the ActionScript 3.0 TimelineWatcher class

Use the TimelineWatcher class to programmatically monitor the timeline while keeping it separate from your application logic.
Publication date: 2009-03-17 more

Mix 2009: So Much to Tell You about Blend

In just a few short days, Mix 2009 will open in Las Vegas. This is very exciting for the Blend team, as we have lots of news to share. I want to type it all right now, but I
Publication date: 2009-03-16 more

Follow Silverlight updates on Twitter

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

Search optimization checklist for RIAs

Integrate search into the planning stages and production cycles you will encounter when developing RIAs.
Publication date: 2009-03-16 more

Search optimization techniques for RIAs

Understand the challenges and learn techniques to improve the relevance of your SWF content in search results.
Publication date: 2009-03-16 more

Adobe Flash Player version checking protocol

Learn what to watch out for and what techniques to utilize to ensure that search engine spiders can enter your website's front door.
Publication date: 2009-03-16 more

Some new features for REST services

Just a quick announcement here of a release that will be interesting to SL developers who want to access REST services. The WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 is now out, go grab it at http://msdn.com/wcf/rest . The release gives you a polished install/uninstall...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Join Microsoft during SxSW

Hello!, here is a summary of the activities Microsoft will host during SxSW. Hope you can join us! lots of opportunities to talk about Expression, Silverlight, Windows Mobile, Web Standards. Lots of parties too :) Also in the Microsoft Tradeshow booth...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

Build an YChat! Instant Messenger application using Flash Lite for mobile devices

Learn how to create a mobile chat application that accesses the Yahoo! Instant Messenger server.
Publication date: 2009-03-14 more

TemplatePanel (aka MasterPage) for Silverlight

In my last post, I introduced the current set of layout panels provided by Silverlight.FX . All of those panels positioned their children by computing the size and position based on desired and available sizes, i.e. by overriding the measurement and arrangement...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

Tiny Laptops

    The latest craze among us geeks are the ill-named Nettops ;
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

An Hour Being Flexible

  You never know where you'll end up discussing Silverlight
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

JavaFx vs Flash vs Silverlight!!!

JavaFx has been released more than 3 months. Today, I gonna release a new comparison on JavaFx, Flash and Silverlight. I picked up one of my previous sample Fps Meter and clone it using JavaFx. To reduce my effort, I started my implementation using the...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

Where's your leak at? [Using WinDbg, SOS, and GCRoot to diagnose a .NET memory leak]

In my last post, I explained how it was possible for "hidden" event handlers to introduce memory leaks and showed an easy way to prevent such leaks. I used a sample application to contrast a leaky implementation with one that uses the WeakEventListener...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-13 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

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

LINQ-TO-Twitter ?

Mehfuz Hossain (a Microsoft MVP) has been working on [ Creating Custom LINQ Providers ] and has built a [ LINQ-to-Twitter ] provider. Man our MVP's are the BEST !!...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

Debugging JavaScript code in Adobe AIR with Aptana Studio

Check out the JavaScript debugger, part of the Adobe AIR Development Plug-In for Aptana Studio.
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

Baseball Mania Las Vegas Slot Machine Design Prototype

SportsSlots has contracted MindSmack to design and develop a working prototype that will be sold to casinos all around the world including the Bellagio in Las Vegas. This is a full scale 3d prototype that was designed and developed 100% from scratch. Smack some homers with it, click here!
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

California Democrat Emanuel Pleitez For Congress Web Site Is Live!

MindSmack was contracted to design and develop a professional web site experience to help showcase Emanuel Pleitez’s achievements and policies to enhance the San Gabriel Valley and East Los Angeles in California. Here is a bit about the man: Emanuel Pleitez was born and raised in the Eastside of Los Angeles. He is the oldest of [...]
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

CITI Private Pass Site Wins Site Of The Year Award Through DesignFirms.org

MindSmack has worked with CITI Private Pass for the last few years and has just won the site of the year award for its work. Citi
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Prebuilt CSS templates in Fireworks CS4

Use this sample template to make the most of the CSS Export feature in Fireworks CS4.
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Performance-tuning Adobe AIR applications

Get an overview of the standard tuning techniques that will help you build better performing AIR applications
Publication date: 2009-03-11 more

Silverlight Sneak Peek: Building line-of-business with Silverlight

Want some sneak peeks at Silverlight enhancements for line-of-business applications? Check out the video with Robert Hess and Brad Abrams where Brad shows some some sneak preview of some feature enhancements. If you want to download the episode above...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #98

I would like to announce that I am currently working on a book titled
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Controls are like diapers: you don't want a leaky one [Implementing the WeakEvent pattern on Silverlight with the WeakEventListener class]

One of the nice things about developing on a platform that uses a garbage collecting memory manager (like Silverlight and WPF) is that the traditional concerns about memory leaks pretty much go away; most common types of memory leaks are impossible in...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Gravatar control for Silverlight and WPF - source and control binaries

A control for Gravatars that works in Silverlight 2 and WPF. Download contains binaries and full open source code....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Developer spotlight: Aaron Beall

Meet Aaron Beall, picked for his use of Fireworks, Flash, and Adobe AIR to express himself creatively.
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Creating a Flash Lite 2.0 navigation menu

Learn how to create an animated menu for mobile devices.
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Creating a simple three-column design

Take your CSS skills to the next level by creating a website with three vertical columns.
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Dependency Property Generator for Silverlight

Ever since I wrote an article describing dependency properties, many people have been asking me to help debug their dependency property issue. In majority of the cases, the problems were related to the C# equivalent of forgetting to dot an i or cross...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Upcoming Flash vs Silverlight Comparisons

After implementing more than 60 samples, I start feeling that I am running out of good ideas. Therefore, I have spent some time to research and organize new ideas. Below are some of the comparisons I will make in the coming days. If you have any nice...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

Follow Microsoft

Hello! I just signed up to Twitter. Actually I did months ago but never used it. Now I want to get started. It seems pretty easy to use but still confused with the @reply or @ this or that not sure what it is… If you have tips let me know. Follow...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Security Guidance for Silverlight Applications

Provides security guidance when developing and deploying Microsoft Silverlight 2 applications....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Using statistics well

I recently wrote a rambling rant about the use (and overuse) of statistics, and pointed to the Twitter Influence Calculator (now Twitalyzer ) as a working example of statistics of questionable value. I should have paused. It turns out that (a) they are...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Orbiting Text around an object

This is another 3D text effect without using any 3d library. The texts will orbit around an object in a 3d manner. I have also applied a tricky technique in which the texts will actually move behind the object. It works with all kind of transparent object...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Moo cards

You'll have noticed that some of our biz cards seem to have shrunk. This is the "moo card" phenomenon
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Silverlight Guidance: Whitepapers on SEO, Security, Media

Did you know that there are some whitepapers on Silverlight development? Just recently released is one on security in Silverlight development and deployment. You can view some others (some older, but there are still some gems): Security Guidance for Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Specialized Layout Panels for Silverlight

The layout system in Silverlight is, in my opinion, one of the key differentiators in presentation engine capabilities from HTML/CSS (on a related note, see my post long ago about my browser/scripting wish list and the references to need for core layout...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

MIX

If you're headed to MIX'09, there are some great talks available on the Silverlight Toolkit, Silverlight controls, rich Internet applications, and more......( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-08 more

Displaying LiveCycle ES process data in Flex graphs

Programmatically populate a Flex graph control to view a visual representation of process data.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Creating marketing platforms with Adobe Flex

Learn how to leverage the Flex SDK to build marketing platforms.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 more

Creating a Spry XML data set

Learn to create basic and dynamic XML data sets with Dreamweaver and ColdFusion.
Publication date: 2009-03-06 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

Tips for Presenting

It
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

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

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

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

A rose by any other name... [LayoutTransformControl on track to ship in the Silverlight Toolkit under the name LayoutTransformer!]

I'm a believer in the power of LayoutTransform - so much so that I wrote a control to graft this capability onto Silverlight 2 (which natively supports only the slightly less practical RenderTransform ). I've posted extensively about what my LayoutTransformControl...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #97

I recently stumbled across a cool tool by EnvyGames that allows you to generate sprites from 3D Models and their animation files. This tool, called SpriteWorks , is ideal for creating high quality sprite animations and one that I
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Inspiration for Next Generation UX

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

Using Silverlight for workflow creation

The other day I was given a peek at a company who implemented a full-frame Silverlight application that when I saw it it was one of those
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

MeetTheFamous.com Celebrity Trivia Interactive Game Launches!

It’s simple really
Publication date: 2009-03-03 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

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

Silverlight vs Flash: Matrix Text Effect

It has been a long time that I didn't implement text effect comparison. Text Rendering is a very interest topic when comparing Flash and Silverlight. It's because they have different rendering system which result in a dramatic differences on performance...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

Trevino Jarrett Joins The MindSmack Crew

Trevino, a.k.a. Trev, a.k.a.
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

Apple iPhone Applications In Development

MindSmack is currently working on 7 unique applications that will begin beta testing over the coming weeks and months. We are extremely excited about these applications and will keep the public informed as to when they become ready to go live. If you have any ideas for any type of mobile application, feel free to [...]
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

Aaron Karo launches Ruminations.com

Ruminations.com is an interactive community of people writing what they’re thinking. The site was founded by author and comedian Aaron Karo, who began writing a humorous email column entitled Ruminations in 1997 that has now been read by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. A “rumination” is a short, funny observation or anecdote. After registering at [...]
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

TopSEOs.com Ranks MindSmack #1 For Best Web Design In The United States Of America

We are truly honored to get this awesome accolade from this highly respected authority on the web. Evaluation Criteria for Web Design Though it is perhaps one of the most evident features of a website, the design is not always given as much thought it deserves. The design of a website is intricately intertwined with not only [...]
Publication date: 2009-03-02 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

DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode_ForRealz [How to: Reliably detect Silverlight design mode in Blend and Visual Studio]

Catching up on Dave Campbell's fantastic WynApse feed earlier today, I came across this post by Bryant Likes about detecting design mode in Silverlight . One of the things mentioned in that post was the challenge of finding a design mode check that works...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-01 more

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

Silverlight Tip of Day #97

Once you have an image loaded how do you go back and get the original file name for the source file? This can be accomplished through the Uri property of the images Source . However, you must first typecast the images Source to be a BitmapImage . The...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-03-01 more

Overview of the Flash Player February 2009 Security Update

Learn how minor changes to this update improve security without affecting SWF content, and stay informed about future product updates.
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

We love to measure everything

I just received a note from a colleague about the " Twitter Influence Calculator ."  Not being able to resist, I immediately put in my name and out popped more statistics than you can shake a stick at
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Silverlight Unit Testing, RhinoMocks, Unity and Resharper.

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

MIX09 ticket winners

I actually didn
Publication date: 2009-02-25 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

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM)

The wizards over in the Microsoft patterns & practices group have been at it again and released .... The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) What
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Animated logos in Fireworks CS4

Learn how to create an animated 3D-like GIF logo using the new features in Fireworks CS4.
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Managing Localized RoboHelp 7 Projects

Learn best practices for managing the process of creatng localized help in multiple languages.
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Code in Flex, test in Flash

Ensure a smooth workflow between application design and development by coding your project in Flex and testing it in Flash.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Quick start: Embedding an Adobe Rich Island into an SAP Web Dynpro application

Get up and running quickly with a working Rich Island sample application and deepen your understanding of the technologies used.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Tableless layouts with Dreamweaver CS4

Learn to create a two-column CSS layout from scratch and understand what you need to consider in the process.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Understanding live DVR - Part 1: Implementing a live DVR player

Learn the importance of live DVR to consumers and publishers by building a sample video player application that leveraging the live DVR capabilities of Flash Media Server 3.5.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Building your first dynamic website

Learn to develop database-driven web applications with Dreamweaver to create dynamic web pages.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Flex 3 Component Solutions excerpt: Introducing hierarchal data and components

Make the best use of your hierarchal data.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 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

More About the Layout System

I recently posted about the Silverlight Layout System (and now have posted videos on the subject here and here ). But this can get quite confusing and a reader posted this question: You mention PreArrange() and it is called but you are not clear on which...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

And now for something completely different

I'm not sure it is useful,  but it is one of the more creative approaches to searching I've seen. Amaztype takes an entirely different approach to finding things on Amazon.  They start by presenting you with a sparse (beta?) window    ...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-22 more

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

The Patterns and Practices team @ Microsoft have been busy working on helping answer the question
Publication date: 2009-02-21 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

Silverlight Code Snippets for DependencyProperties and other Handy Stuff

Download The Snippets Now (provided for the reading averse) I was teaching someone about DependencyProperty the other day when I realized two things: first, DependencyProperty is a bad name. Does anyone know what they depend on (DependencyObject doesn...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available...

Not a huge release this one, but we've just shipped an update for Silverlight 2 that fixes a number of minor bugs that have been reported over the last couple of months. Get it while it's hot, here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

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

Silverlight 2 gets minor update

Yesterday a minor update to the Silverlight 2 runtime was released. You may see terms of
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

One Last Riddle: Solve this and win a pass to MIX09

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight So, if you haven
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #95

When it comes to drawing shapes such as rectangles you are probably fully aware you can draw shapes specifying the color and thickness of the lines. This is done via the properties StrokeThickness and Stroke . For example, take a look at the rectangle...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #96

If you ever run into this error when running your application you might be a bit perplexed by its encrypted meaning. Looking at the exceptions details you will see something like which really doesn
Publication date: 2009-02-21 more

Ambiguous contract is ambiguous [Minor bug fix for CRC32 and MD5Managed HashAlgorithm implementations]

Kind reader Gregor Zurowski contacted me over the weekend to let me know that he was using my free CRC-32 HashAlgorithm implementation in his project and he'd found that omitting the call to the Initialize method lead to incorrect hash values being returned...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Flex quick start guide for PHP developers (updated for Flex 3)

Use your existing PHP development skills to start building Flex applications.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Get some tips and tricks that you can use to help protect your ColdFusion

Get some tips and tricks that you can use to help protect your ColdFusion applications.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Silverlight is FIZZING, Not Fizzling

Any good politician, regardless of leaning, knows that the language you use to frame a topic is key to how it is perceived. By repeatedly using pejorative terms to describe your own position and that of your opponents, you start to move a debate onto...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

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

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

Moonlight 1.0 Released, Silverlight script updated – and a Chrome hack

First a congratulations to the Moonlight team for reaching their official release of 1.0 ! Miguel and team have done a great job providing parity with Silverlight 1.0 and should be proud of their accomplishments. Miguel, when is Moonlight 2 coming out...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Help! The Silverlight Toolkit Ate My PC!

Dear Jesse, "I loaded the Silverlight Toolkit from December 1988 on my CPM machine and it broke my Apple IIe in my vacation home in Maine. What should I do?"
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Moonlight 1.0 Release - Open Source Silverlight 1.0 Implementation on Linux

Congrats to Miguel (nice guy and a fine dancer) and team for the release of Moonlight 1.0 . What is it? "Implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems has officially reached its 1.0 level. We are feature complete, we pass all the Microsoft regression...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Moonlight 1.0 Release

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

The Silverlight Toolkit team is on top of your feedback

Earlier this week, Jesse Liberty posted some great tips for providing the Silverlight Toolkit team the right amount of information to help solve your issues. On the team, we
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Kaxaml Swag

With MIX quickly approaching, it
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

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

I
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

The Layout Model

I have finished a video , to be posted soon, on how to build a Carousel control. Along the way, I had the opportunity to explore the Silverlight Layout System ( SLS ) and will describe this fascinating corner of Silverlight 2 in this and future blog entries...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 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

Silverlight Migration Guide - Upgrading Your Online Media Experiences

See how to provide Rich Interactive Applications using your existing media assets and Microsoft Silverlight to bring your video and audio content to Mac, Windows, Linux and Mobile Devices everywhere the Web works. Silverlight gives you the power to create...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Silverlight vs Flash: Image Manipulation - Scale

I believe you will always make use of the scaling tool insider Flash or Blend. However, have you ever thought of achieving image scaling by coding? That's not an easy technique. You have to take care of the mouse position, image position, scale factor...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Get a free ticket to MIX09 for having fun with Silverlight

Did I mention I
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

XMP metadata in Creative Suite 4 Production Premium

Experience first-hand how XMP metadata improves many common editing, asset tracking, animating, and compositing tasks -- and even enables new capabilities, such as searching a video according to the spoken words in its soundtrack.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Dependency injection with Flex

Discover the Interface construct in ActionScript 3.0 and see how it enables you to use dependency injection in your Flex objects.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Adding video to a web page

Learn to use Adobe Media Encoder and Dreamweaver CS4 to create and post video files to a website, and Flash CS4 to create a video presentation.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Embedding metadata with Flash

Use the [Embed] metadata tag to work with embedded files in SWFs, such as graphics, symbols, fonts, and XML.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Creating simple interactive content using Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver

Explore the Adobe CS4 product workflow and learn the fundamentals of creating mockups and interactive content.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Using the Text Layout Framework library in Flex 3.2 and AIR 1.5

Learn how to display easily rich text inside of the Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 runtimes.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

MindSmack.com wins Dope Award for MindSmack.tv web design and web development.

DopeAwards.com has given MindSmack.tv their recognition award! Founded in 1999 as an innovative boutique design and development firm for numerous award-winning websites and Internet campaigns, MindSmack is proud to announce the creation of MindSmack.TV. MindSmack.TV operates as a full-service production and post production house with capabilities to fully integrate media between traditional television, and the increasingly [...]
Publication date: 2009-02-12 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

Creating Extension Methods in VB

    MORE: Extension Methods     I received a question about how to create extension methods in VB . It turns out that the key difference is that the extension must be defined in a Module and not in a class. Thus, building on the code...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

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

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

What server language should I use?

Understand your server language options for building dynamic websites.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Creating a simple animation in Flash

In this simple tutorial, learn how to import artwork into Flash CS4 Professional, create an animation, and change an animation after you've created it.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

SwitchBoard: Integrating your ExtendScript

Learn how to create a simple Adobe AIR application and test it.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Choosing a Flex framework

Get a summary of the most popular frameworks currently available for Flex and make your choice.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Code editing in Dreamweaver

Learn how Dreamweaver CS4 accommodates web coders' workflows.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Logged in: Introducing Adobe AIR Marketplace

Check out Adobe AIR Marketplace, your resource for cool and useful community AIR apps.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 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

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

Silverlight as the V in ASP.NET MVC

One thing that I
Publication date: 2009-02-10 more

Designers and UI Developers | Join a Silverlight AQUENT Seminar

Join an AQUENT seminar and learn more about designing Silverlight experiences with Expression Blend and other Expression tools. I reviewed their 3 day course in Redmond a few months ago when we hosted a pilot event. The event went great. They put together...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-09 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

New Silverlight Tutorial on DataEntities and WCF Feeding

In the newest addition to The Silverlight Geek Tutorials , Jesse Liberty shows how to move data from a database to the User Interface. See this and other Silverlight 2 tutorials on the Learn page....(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-07 more

My new home page, expanded [Updated collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!]

It's been a couple of months since I shared my semi-comprehensive page of Charting resources on the web . During that time, the Silverlight Toolkit's December release came out with some great new Charting features ( Woot! ) and there have been a number...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-07 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

MIX09 Challenge - My Favorite Entry 2

Finally, there are total of 105 entries submitted to MIX09 - 10K Challenge! I am shocked how creative for those newly added entries. Most of them are very funny and interesting. I have selected some of my favorite entries here. I am sure you will love...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-07 more

Simple styling with CSS

Learn to use CSS to create background colors and shapes, borders, and font styling.
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Using the Deco tool and Spray Brush to create complex, geometric patterns in Flash

Rapidly generate decorative patterns using the new procedural drawing tools in Flash.
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Industry trends in prototyping

Get an overview of the thought process and common strategies for generating prototypes using Fireworks CS4 from David Cronin, Director of Interaction Design at Cooper.
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

ChangeableObject and ValueConverter: databinding conveniences

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

The Expander

More: Expander Control Part I I recently examined the Expander control and in that entry I promised to return and show how templating can add value to the user experience of this Silverlight Toolkit control. You will remember that when we left the expander...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Works on My Machine

Scott Hanselman used an icon in one of his presentations that I will rip off, steal , borrow (?) take/use/modify/
Publication date: 2009-02-05 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

Permanent Up-to-date Get Started Link

I have added a link on my sidebar to a permanent page, that I will be keeping up to date, on Getting Started with Silverlight. (clicking the image will take you to the page) Please feel free to direct
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Adding Silverlight Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio and Blend Toolbox

Now that title is a mouth-full. I
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Infragistics Gives Us Quince - The User Experience Patterns Explorer

Infragistics has made the Quince UX patterns explorer available for free to the development community. Quince is an online repository of the world's most useful and usable UX patterns focused on creating superior user experiences where you can go to enhance...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

New Video Series: UI Design for Developers Series, by Total Training.

Hello! Ok a while ago I mentioned we had produced a short video series with Total Training called UI Design for Developers. Total Training invited us to visit them at NY where they have their studios and with their help we produced these 13 video series...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Microsoft Web Application Installer

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-02-04 more

Dynamic streaming on demand with Flash Media Server 3.5

Implement Adobe's recommendations for developing and enhancing the performance of streaming recorded media on demand.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Getting started with Cocomo

Create a real-time collaboration application with Flex and Cocomo.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Understanding Flex itemEditors

Create an inline itemEditor by simply naming a class and creating a complex class right within the MXML tags.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

PatchPanels: Integrating your ExtendScript

Create a simple Flash plug-in that gets the RGB, CMYK and HSB values of the foreground color.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Developer Spotlight: David Hassoun

Meet David Hassoun, picked for his use of Flex, Adobe AIR, and the Flash Media Server family of products to deliver RIAs utilizing streaming media technologies.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Fireworks CS4 How-Tos excerpts: Importing, exporting, symbols, prototyping, scaling

Get essential techniques from Jim Babbage about file importing and exporting, using symbols, structuring a document, distortion-free scaling, and more.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Best practices with CSS in Dreamweaver CS4

Familiarize yourself with best practices for using CSS and specific CSS features in Dreamweaver CS4.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Dynamic streaming in Flash Media Server 3.5 - Part 2: ActionScript 3.0 dynamic stream API

Learn a quick and easy way to add dynamic streaming capability to custom SWF-based video player applications.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Dynamic streaming in Flash Media Server 3.5 - Part 1: Overview of the new capabilities

Get an overview of the enhanced capabilities and concepts of dynamic streaming through Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Foundation Form Creation excerpt: Getting into advanced form design

Learn how various form components and scripts help shape the data that the user is submitting.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

From screen to print: Creating a print CSS in Dreamweaver

Learn about media types and how to take advantage of them to create compact pages for print.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Dreamweaver CS4 Missing Manual excerpts: Behaviors, site management, and templates

Read this chapter from O'Reilly Media to learn how to publish your website.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

PatchPanel: Flash panels for multiple CS applications

Use a framework that embraces running the Flash plug-in in multiple Adobe Creative Suite applications.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Flash Lite 3 training video

Get up to speed with fast with Flash Lite 3 with this interactive video tutorial.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Creating a driving directions Flex app using the Google Maps API for Flash

Create a map and integrate the driving directions with Flex UI components.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Flex 3 Component Solutions excerpt: Audio and video components

Put fully featured audio and video players in your Flex application.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Creating a Spry HTML data set

Discover the ease-of-use of Spry HTML data sets by way of three simple examples.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Adobe - Developer Center : Unit testing with mock objects in ...

Learn how Mock objects can improve the code coverage of your Flash and Flex applications by adding behavior verification to your unit tests
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

New Adobe Captivate 4: Taking eLearning to the next level

Go beyond screen capture to author rich eLearning experiences with Adobe Captivate 4. Now featuring SWF commenting, professional project templates, customizable widgets, and more.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Transitioning from Microsoft Windows Media to the Adobe Flash Platform

Ease the transition from Windows Media to a solution utilizing the Adobe Flash Platform and its related technologies.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Flash CS4 Missing Manual excerpts: Video, testing and debugging, optimization, and sound

Read these chapters from O'Reilly Media to add sound to your animations, present video, test animation playback at a variety of connection speeds, and optimize your animations.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Using the SQLite database access API in Adobe AIR

Explore three different approaches to accessing local data.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Creating a simple document in Flash CS4 Professional

Never used Flash before? Follow these simple steps to create a FLA file, add a simple animation, and publish your work in Flash CS4 Professional.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Pixel Bender basics for Flex and AIR

Learn how to leverage Pixel Bender to apply filters, blends, and area fills to any display object, including images and vector graphics.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Building a portable RIA with Flex and PDF

Create a PDF-based RIA using Flex and LiveCycle Data Services.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 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 Can YOU Do with 10K of Silverlight or WPF Code?

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

The Tree View Control

The Tree View control is ideal for displaying hierarchical data. While there is a great deal you can do with this control, in its simplest form it is fairly straightforward to work with, once you grok the essential recursiveness it demands (well, requests...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-31 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #88

If you have ever worked with images while developing and running Silverlight app you have more than likely come across the AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR  exception. This exception is thrown if an image was not able to load for whatever reason (I.e. it couldn...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #89

In this Tip I will be showing you how to place hard coded strings into a resource area. This is a common best practice for software development that makes it much easier to manage the strings in your application. To start, open up your App.xaml file and...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Thank goodness for reference implementations [Low-overhead .NET MD5 implementation (source code and tests) works great on Silverlight!]

In yesterday's post announcing ComputeFileHashes's new support for MD5 on Silverlight , I promised to share some details about my experience getting an MD5 HashAlgorithm implementation for Silverlight. Recall that an MD5 class is available in the desktop...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

CITI Private Pass Launches New Web Experience!

MindSmack has put together this award winning flash experience for all Private Pass CITI Cardmembers. The site has a fully functional, interactive concert location finder for every US city. This was developed in flash as well and pulls data from Live Nation. This awesome new tool allows users to find concerts and purchase preferred tickets, [...]
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Inc.com gives MindSmack.com the award of best business you can start in your pajamas for 2009.

This is quite a funny award for me but it has generated a serious amount of publicity for the company and for me personally. I want to thank Inc.com and StartupNation for the praise and thank all of the people who initially voted for MindSmack which brought us the recession buster award for 2008 and [...]
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Lunarpages.com new site launches!

MindSmack has just redesigned the Lunarpages.com website to a highly professional interface for their consumers. The new design including site navigation is made for solution-based purposes. This is to serve the customers better in searching the best solution for their hosting needs. Their new design does improve on several things: * More [...]
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New Version of Kaxaml with Support for Silverlight 2 RTW

File this one under
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Sharing of my Google Analytics results.

Here are the real statistical results extracted form Google Analytics. The visitor results are collected from the past 30 days....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #86

In Tip of the Day #84 I discussed the importance of being able to load controls from server side components (DLL
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Why is the Silverlight Key enum missing common characters like comma and period?

Short version is, the keys we left out are harder than you might think to support, and they weren't necessary for the scenarios we focused on (tabbing around forms, writing common controls, accelerated keys, etc.). The longer version requires a little...(read more)
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Silverlight Tip of the Day #87

When a Silverlight application is launched the entry point is a class that inherits from System.Windows.Application. By default, when you create a new Silverlight application project, this would be your App class which gets defined in App.xaml.cs. You...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

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

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

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

Report From MDC

I had a blast speaking at the M SDN D eveloper
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Why I'm Going To Mix

I confess, if I didn
Publication date: 2009-01-27 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

Toolkit: Header Controls Video Posted

MORE Blog entry on HeaderContentControl I'm happy to say that my latest video on the Silverlight Toolkit, covering the HeaderContentControl and the HeaderItemsControl is now available for download. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Patterns & Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Knowledge Base

J.D. and the very smart folks over in the Patterns and Practices group have been at it again and have published another GREAT development resource. Patterns & Practices Application Architecture Knowledge Base Authored by .... - J.D. Meier , Alex Homer...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 more

Cross-platform feature parity: achieved [Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes now includes MD5!]

I was very happy with last week's release of ComputeFileHashes supporting the command-line, WPF, Silverlight, *and* ClickOnce . Only one thing bothered me: the Silverlight version didn't do MD5 due to the lack of support for that type of checksum by Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2009-01-27 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

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

My First Flash Ecard

Few days ago, I found an interesting Flash Ecard made by me 8 years ago. At that time, I was still using Flash 4 and the Ecard is completely horrible. Well, through it's ugly, you will never get improved if you didn't try your first step. Same as before...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-28 more

NEWBIES: What tools should I install to get started with Silverlight authoring?

You want to start authoring Silverlight applications? These are the programs you need to install to have a full toolset to get started creating Silverlight. If you do not have a license for the tools then you can always get the trials. Visual Studio Web...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 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

New Silverlight Showcases and Feeds

If you want some great Silverlight information, be sure to subscribe to at least two feeds: Microsoft Silverlight Bloggers and Silverlight community feeds . I
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Flash vs Silverlight: Media / Video Player

The sample below is made based on the Audio Player I implemented before. Actually, I am not video expert and you may find that the application may not be perfect. For example, the seek function in Flash is not working very well and I have no idea to set...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 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

Microsoft Web Platform Installer now includes Silverlight Tools!

Now supporting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Web PI makes it easy to install and stay up-to-date with the Microsoft Web Platform. This updated release lets you install Visual Web Developer with the Silverlight Tools and much more! Install today...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #75 - Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools

I am proud to announce we have released Silverlight 2 Tools localized in 7 languages! Please follow the links below to get the language of your choice. DMT page details: Chinese - China Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1-33DA...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Animating items part two

In my previous post , I introduced my thoughts on how animation between positions should be done. Today I will walk you through some of the technical benefits of that approach with a cool animated wrappanel sample. Yes, the silverlight control toolkit...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-27 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

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 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

Silverlight Tip of the Day #73 - Threading in Silverlight

Threads are used to run multiple jobs concurrently within the same application. In a computer with a single processor, threads are time sliced and the processor will switch between the threads being run. In a computer with two or more processors, threads...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-26 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #74 - Monitoring for App.Current Events - Startup, Shutdown, UnhandledException & Exit.

Ever noticed there was an event off the Page class called Loaded() that tells you when the page is loaded but none for for Exit() or Quit()? Example for Page.Loaded(): public Page() { InitializeComponent(); this .Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(Page_Loaded...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-26 more

AutoCompleteBox control: The missing guide

This is a comprehensive developer’s guide to using AutoCompleteBox. With the initial Silverlight Toolkit release, we focused on providing API reference documentation. This is "the missing guide" that covers the full breadth of the control...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Graphing

Okay, thus begins random excursions into aspects of the Silverlight Toolkit, supplementing a more systematic set of videos
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Developing Facebook applications with ColdFusion

Build your first Facebook application with server-side ColdFusion code.
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Silverlight Toolkit: TreeView, TreeViewItem & HierarchalDataTemplate

Hi folks,   I
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Introducing TransitionContentControl

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

Efficiently animating items on movement

In my previous post , we talked about one approach to visualize the change of content. So, we had a control with the content
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Øredev 2008 Summary

Sharing Knowledge . That was the theme of the
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Animating with effects and transitions

Practice animating with effects and transitions.
Publication date: 2008-11-24 more

Using styles

Practice using styles.
Publication date: 2008-11-24 more

MindSmack Wins StartupNation.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE StartupNation Honors Nation
Publication date: 2008-11-24 more

Using the Adobe AIR update framework

Include update capabilities in your AIR applications to ensure your clients always have the latest version of your apps.
Publication date: 2008-11-24 more

Silverlight vs Flash: Passing Query String / Parameters

It's very common that you have to pass some predefined parameters to Flash / Silverlight in different pages of the website. How can we achieve that? Here is a simple example....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-23 more

Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help

If you've installed the Silverlight Toolkit after Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected. You'll see this with types and members that are "shared" between...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-23 more

Meet Adobe Groups

See how Adobe Groups gives the Adobe community a common place to connect, find one another, and locate communities of people who share their interests -- whether in their own back yard or worldwide.
Publication date: 2008-11-22 more

Adobe Device Central 2.1 and Flash Lite 3.1 Updates

Learn about the features in the new updates to Adobe Device Central and Flash.
Publication date: 2008-11-22 more

A Better Multi-Page Solution

I've posted on multi-page Silverlight applications, and in fact have two videos ( here and here ) that show an approach that works quite well and that I was happy to steal at the time. I recently received email from Lucas Stark (Senior Web Developer at...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-22 more

Microsoft Student Technology Day Videos Online - SteveB and more industry/MSFT greats

On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-21 more

Managed Html Controls source code

In early October I blogged about the managed wrapper for client-side HTML controls that we use in the Silverlight unit test framework. If you were intrigued by it, you’ll be happy to know that the source code is published and part of the Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-21 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

Becoming a Silverlight Programmer

I received a wonderful and very kind email from saleh alabbas who asked this canonical question: "imagine you have good knowledge in C#, what plan you would draw for yourself to become an expert in developing web and Silverlight applications?" I'm asked...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-21 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

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

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

140+ hours of video on Expression training

See you in 5.83333 days... :) Hat tip to Arturo Videos are here ( RSS feed here )...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

140+ Microsoft Expression free training videos and growing!

Hello! Some of you might have visited www.microsoft.com/videos. It’s a Beta version portal for video that uses Silverlight. Microsoft Expression has its own channel in there and currently has 140+ videos and we are continously adding more. This...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

Creating standards-compliant web designs with Fireworks CS4

Learn how to use the enhancements to the CSS Export feature so you can create better web designs.
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

Nine New Community Gallery Entries

Learn some advanced Silverlight programming techniques with Pencho Popadiyn
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Welcome to Microsoft VORTEX event attendees! - Central Eastern Europe

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

Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom

I
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #3: Silverlight Game Support, Limitations and Workarounds

While exploring techniques for game programming with Silverlight I came across some hurdles and discovered some workarounds. I plan to use this blog to track these issues for the purposing of hopefully saving you time from having to do similar research...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

An unexceptional layout improvement [Two LayoutTransformControl fixes for Silverlight 2!]

I'd almost finished patting myself on the back for managing to implement WPF's LayoutTransform on Silverlight using just the RenderTransform available on that platform. (Background reading for LayoutTransformControl: Motivation and introduction for Beta...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Build a highlighting AutoCompleteBox (like IE8 and Firefox 3) in 5 minutes

The auto complete functionality that IE and Firefox provide in the URL address bar is nice: both these browsers (and many other auto complete implementations) highlight the text that you’ve typed, inside the results display. If you use the Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-19 more

Announcing Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5

Learn about the key features of the newest video and audio streaming server to get an idea of what\'s coming in the next generation of video on the web.
Publication date: 2008-11-18 more

BlackBookSafe: Anatomy of an AIR 1.5 application

Explore how the BlackBookSafe sample application uses the new features in AIR 1.5.
Publication date: 2008-11-18 more

AIR 1.5 Cookbook excerpt: Applications and native window menus

Learn to build different types of native menus for your HTML, Flex, and Flash apps built on AIR.
Publication date: 2008-11-18 more

White paper: Adobe Flash Player 10 security

Learn how the Flash Player 10 security architecture helps you deliver trusted content to your users.
Publication date: 2008-11-18 more

Introducing Adobe AIR 1.5

Learn about the notable new features in Adobe AIR 1.5.
Publication date: 2008-11-18 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #71

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

Silverlight Tip of the Day #72

When creating a Silverlight application with a web site there are a number of cleanups you will want to perform. I have created a little check list here that I will maintain and update as I get new ideas. Change the Page Title. By default the title is...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-18 more

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

We shipped Silverlight 2 last month.  Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines.  It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Dragging data between List components

Practice dragging data between List components.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Deploying and application

Practice deploying an application.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Populating a control from an HTTPService request

Practice populating a control from an HTTPService request.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Extending components

Practice extending components.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Using XML with E4X

Practice using XML with E4X.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

TBA

TBA.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Binding data and handling a user event

Practice binding data and handling a user event.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Validating form data

Practice validating form data.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Creating a project and adding controls

Practice creating a project and adding controls.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Creating an application using the Cairngorm framework

Learn to create an application using the Cairngorm framework.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Creating an item renderer

Practice creating an item renderer.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Creating and deploying an Adobe AIR application

Practice creating and deploying an Adobe AIR application.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Using static methods and properties

Undersatand how to use static methods and properties.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Getting familiar with ActionScript syntax

Learn ActionScript syntax.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Introducing Flex SDK 3.2 and Flex Builder 3.0.2

Get a quick summary of what is included.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 more

Flex 4 sneak peek

In this tech talk, get an idea of what Flex 4 may feature, including support for XFG and Thermo.
Publication date: 2008-11-17 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

Silverlight Tip of the Day #70

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

Give us feedback on Silverlight 2

We
Publication date: 2008-11-14 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

Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2

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

Toolkit posts: "Silverlight in Style," dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight, and TreeView expansion

The Silverlight Toolkit site is a great starting point, but a lot of the important conversations that we’re having with customers are happening elsewhere: on blogs. I thought I’d take a moment to share some important resources to show you...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-14 more

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

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

Speaking at Code Mash 2009

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

Please Don

Scott Hanselman , who has the most popular blog in the world, will tell you that if you want to have a popular blog you must never make promises
Publication date: 2008-11-13 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

Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

There seems to be a fair amount of misunderstanding about windowless mode, and the current documentation doesn't provide enough detail to help out. The upcoming doc refresh will fix this, but I thought it might be helpful to provide some information here...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

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

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

WCF, HTTP and Security topics for Silverlight

Our team has been watching the forums and there are a lot of questions regarding using Silverlight with WCF services, HTTP questions and security questions. We created some new topics and updated existing topics to better cover these areas for the Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-12 more

Understanding the video encoding ecosystem for Flash

Get a brief introduction to the process of encoding and publishing video for Flash, and understand which Adobe products and partners are available to help you.
Publication date: 2008-11-12 more

Programmatically accessing LiveCycle Content Services ES

Learn how to create client applications that are able to access LiveCycle Content Services ES.
Publication date: 2008-11-12 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

WPF Designer Hotfix posted

The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  This contains a number of important fixes (see below). This hotfix is particularly important for Silverlight Tools users. If you...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

WPF Toolkit and Silverlight compatibility

At PDC the WPF Tookit was made available which provides several new controls to WPF to help bring even more compatibility to the WPF and Silverlight story. The new controls were the DatePicker , Calendar , DataGrid and the VisualStateManager concept to...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

My new home page [A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!]

It's been nearly two weeks since the Silverlight Toolkit's November release . I've been trying to keep up with what's been written about Charting and want to summarize some of the most helpful posts I've seen so far. Overviews ( 100 level ) Silverlight...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

Flex 3 Cookbook excerpts: Images, bitmaps, videos, sounds; unit testing with FlexUnit; compiling and debugging

Learn about the tools for dealing with images, sound, compiling, and debugging as well as the concept of the FlexUnit Framework.
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

Programming Flex 3 excerpts: Application debugging; embedding Flex applications in a web browser

Learn how to debug a Flex application and deploy it on the web.
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

Providing alternative content for SWF files

Improve the overall user experience and searchability of your web content by following these simple guidelines.
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

Obtaining and Caching a Lot of Words

It is surprising how often I wish I had a lot of words handy.  This week it has been because I've wanted to play with the AutoCompleteBox (you just set the list of words as the ItemSource for the control and voila! In previous posts I demonstrated...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-10 more

ToolBox Panels

Lately I
Publication date: 2008-11-10 more

Shoutouts

Before I take off, a couple of shoutouts that I
Publication date: 2008-11-10 more

Using Blend with Visual Studio

For the past six months or so I've been experimenting with and then "preaching" the idea of developing with two tools: Expression Blend for the UI and Visual Studio for the code.  This has paid big dividends for me in productivity and it...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-09 more

Viewing a LOT of Images Effectively (plus 700 Obama Newspaper Covers in Silverlight Deep Zoom )

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/politics/730_Obama_Newspapers_from_66_Countries_DeepZoom_Collection'; I don't talk politics as a rule on this blog. However, regardless of your political affiliation, the last week has generated a lot of news. When I saw these...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-08 more

Silverlight 2 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion

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

Improving ChartBuilder's cultural sensitivity [ChartBuilder app/source updated!]

Kind readers Eugenio and Thimp independently reported that the initial version of ChartBuilder did not work well on machines with certain culture settings. Specifically, ChartBuilder was inadvertently using the CurrentCulture for formatting numbers in...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-07 more

New Silverlight DataGrid Video

Todd Miranda demonstrates how to manually configure Silverlight 2 DataGrid columns . Visit the Learn page to watch this and other videos on Silverlight....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-07 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

Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF

Last week was our big PDC conference, and I've been busy catching up back at work this week.  I'm hoping to publish a bunch of new posts soon (including some on the PDC announcements we made).  Until then, here is the latest in my link-listing...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

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

The Weekly Source Code 36 - PDC, BabySmash and Silverlight Charting

First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-fifth in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." At the end of my crazy babies talk at...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Silverlight 2 Launch Party in Portland

PDX baby. That
Publication date: 2008-11-05 more

Hey Startups – get some BizSpark

Remember DreamSpark , the program for students in higher education to get access to the developer tools and platforms from Microsoft at no charge ? How about some love for individuals in startup organizations trying to create the next great innovation...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-05 more

Let this day not go unremarked

I have sat through too many tragic memorable days not to note this glorious turning point in American history. Having lived through the assassinations of JFK (11/22/1963), Dr. King(4/4/68), RFK (6/6/68), and then 9/11, and of course so much more
Publication date: 2008-11-05 more

Reach New Possibilities in Mobile at MAX 08

Check out the new exciting things we are doing with mobile technology this year and join us to learn what new opportunities lay ahead for those already enriched in the mobile world and for those going mobile.
Publication date: 2008-11-05 more

Smaller is still better! [A simple step continues to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications]

A few months ago, I looked at the size of Silverlight 2 XAP files and blogged a simple way to reduce the size of typical XAP files by about 22% . Silverlight 2 was still under development at the time and a lot of work has gone on since then (including...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-05 more

12 New Silverlight Gallery Entries

See time fly with the Silverlight Analog Clock , send a holiday e-card with Greeting Creator , find out what to wear using the Weather Forecast Control , or explore the The Dadameter and more in the Silverlight Community Gallery ....(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-05 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

Offline Silverlight Documentation now has Index

The Silverlight 2 Offline documentation now has an index (before it only had a table of contents and search). When you open the CHM, click on the Index tab to try it out. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot view content, do the following to resolve...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Book Plug: Silverlight 2 Unleashed

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

Using Encoder Templates in your Silverlight Application

I received a comment regarding the new Expression Encoder SP1 Silverlight player templates and how they can be used within your own application. Right now the templates appear to stand on their own. That
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Silverlight Unit Test Framework source code released

A week ago, we gave the world the first release of the Silverlight Toolkit. Shawn Burke told you that we’re agile, and that we have a neat release model. The fun continues! Today, the source code to the Silverlight Unit Test Framework is available...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Working with images in Dreamweaver CS4

Learn to use the Fireworks and Photoshop image editing integration tools in Dreamweaver CS4.
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Applying unobtrusive InContext Editing code

Create clean semantic HTML markup using Dreamweaver CS4 and the InContext Editing Markup Extractor.
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Graphical skinning with Flex

Leverage graphical assets to create a highly stylized application skin.
Publication date: 2008-11-04 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

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

AutoCompleteBox control / Worker Threads

I recently began a discussion of the Silverlight Toolkit and on the way towards explaining the AutoCompleteBox I became distracted by creating a list of words to use as our datasource. I've actually reworked that example, slightly to build the list using...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #67

1. Debugging The following items will help you debug performance in your Silverlight application: EnableRedrawRegions
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Silverlight Tip of the Day #68

The Professional Developer Conference of 2008 has concluded. If you were not one of the fortunate people to attend don
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #69

By popular request I am posting the Silverlight Developer Reference image for Silverlight 2. This image is large (6750x4200) and will make a great poster for printing for your reference. To download, right click on the image and choose
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

Getting Expression Encoder 2 SP1

The new Silverlight 2 media player that Expression Encoder 2 SP1 ships with is great. You can encode video and output Silverlight content in minutes. With SP1, when you select one of the new templates, the only bits generated are your video asset + thumbnail...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-03 more

Kitchen Updates

I updated my Kitchen PhotoZoom gallery with a few photos to show some progress I made over the last few weekends. Updates include adding crown to the cabinets some casing updates and we put in the backsplash (not grouted yet). The backsplash, shown below...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-03 more

Denying Rights Management ES services for specific applications

Configure LiveCycle Rights Management ES to deny services to specific client applications.
Publication date: 2008-11-03 more

My Favorite Utilities

About twice a  year I try to publish a list of the utilities that I use all the time
Publication date: 2008-11-02 more

Successful .Xap deployment with your CDN: Set the application/x-silverlight-app MIME type

If you host XAP files on a CDN or other host (such as Amazon S3), you need to have the server configured with the new Silverlight MIME type. You can find out specifics in the breaking changes reference. When you do not need to configure the MIME type...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-02 more

Renaming Xap to Zip is dead. Long live renaming Xap to Zip!

Teach Windows to treat Xap files as first class compressed folders with this simple registry entry. After applying, you’ll be able to open .Xap files and view their contents, and get the same shell experience as Zips have: If you’ve ever had...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-02 more

Put it all together: Adobe Flex, BlazeDS, and Hibernate JPA on Tomcat and MySQL

Build a simple Flex application that accesses a relational database.
Publication date: 2008-11-02 more

On Learning New Technology

  I had a great PDC.  I arrived with a schedule filled with sessions I intended to go to, and (shhhhh!) I skipped them all (except, ScottGu
Publication date: 2008-11-01 more

PDC: Silverlight 2 Control Model Session (PC29)

Thank you to everyone who made it to my talk on Thursday! As promised, some links: Session deck Session samples Session recording Also, if you haven't already, please take the time to fill out the online evaluation. Your comments help me be a better speaker...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-01 more

Silverlight 2 Changes

Between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 & Silverlight 2 RTW, there were a few changes and additions. Here's a brief rundown on the areas I directly worked on. The overall breaking change list can be found here. Control Model Silverlight 2 RTW Updates generic.xaml...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-01 more

TechEd 2008 North America DVD Update

Thanks for all the feedback on the TechEd North America DVD issues with viewing the content once Silverlight 2 released. In trying to do a good job providing a good user experience to viewing the content easily, the TechEd team created a Silverlight 2...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-11-01 more

Expression Encoder SP1 now available

Apparently
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Updated Source for Image Samples

In addition to updating the image samples to the final version of Silverlight V2, I've also updated the source: PNG Encoder Source GIF Decoder Source BMP Decoder Source...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Different kinds of controls you can make in Silverlight

Silverlight 2 gives you the ability to create your own controls. The term custom control has been thrown around a lot in the Silverlight community, but it's not always clear what that means. Here are my thoughts. There are three types of controls that...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

AutoCompleteBox: Video introduction

A video introduction to the AutoCompleteBox control that shipped with the Silverlight Toolkit. This is a 720p HD video. I’m also publishing an introductory guide to the control that can be read here. Duration: 12m:55s Description: This video walks...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Introducing the AutoCompleteBox

The Silverlight AutoCompleteBox is now available. This guide covers the control’s properties, usage, and demonstrates how to hook it up to a JSON web service. Note: This post contains live Silverlight content that your news reader may not be able...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Themes Revisited: The Implicit Style Manager

In a recent post on theming using the new Themes from the Controls Toolkit I showed that you can add a theme to your Xaml and then add a container as the content of that theme. A powerful alternative is to use the ImplicitStyleManager to apply the theme...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 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

Free Expression Blend 2 video series for Designers

Ah! giving away free stuff is what I like the most Makes people happy! This year we are producing lots and lots of small 5min videos (aprox) to answer particular questions we’ve received about Expression Studio tools. We will be publishing these...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Expression Encoder 2 SP1 released

Hello! Yesterday evening we released a Service Pack for Encoder 2. The amount of improvements and new features are so many that I think it’s actually better if you visit this site to get a comprehensive list. Notice that we now have an ‘Express’...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-30 more

More Silverlight Controls

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

Click your way to great Silverlight charts [Live ChartBuilder sample and source code!]

Yesterday in my Introduction to Charting with the Silverlight Toolkit post, I included a teaser for my ChartBuilder application. The tease ends today, because I've just posted a live ChartBuilder for everyone to play with and am also making the source...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-30 more

The Silverlight Toolkit now available

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 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

Silverlight Toolkit Released – More controls!

Today at Microsoft PDC , Scott Guthrie demonstrated some of the new controls that have been provided as a part of the Silverlight Toolkit . The Silverlight Toolkit was what was previously named the Silverlight Control Pack in the press release when the...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 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)
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Toolkit release & Themes

Today at Microsoft PDC , Scott Guthrie demonstrated some of the new controls that have been provided as a part of the Silverlight Toolkit .  The Silverlight Toolkit was what was previously named the Silverlight Control Pack in the press release when...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 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

PhotoZoom Sample

My goal was to update my DeepZoom sample to RTM using the DeepZoom composer but decided to directly use PhotoZoom as I needed that for some general photo storage anyway. The nice thing about PhotoZoom is that it automatically generates a Silverlight 2...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

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

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

Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight applications

My whitepaper on Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight is now online: http://silverlight.net/learn/whitepapers/seo.aspx It provides a story for Silverlight 2 application authors and publishers who want their apps and content to show up in search...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Check out the great new Silverlight controls and themes!

You might have noticed the Silverlight 2 release included new controls such as ComboBox and PasswordBox . You might have wondered where the tree control or additional layout controls are. If you need these controls and don't have time to develop them...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Silverlight Tools RTW

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

Little Trees Air Fresheners New Website And Game Goes Live!

Little Trees came to MindSmack looking for a complete redesign and development of their old flash website and to develop a catchy game that would be fun for all of their online traffic. So we came up with what you see here @ Little-Trees.com and for the always addictive interactive game called Release The Trees [...]
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Introduction to typography enhancements in LiveCycle Designer ES Update 1

Use kerning, font scaling, and letter spacing to customize the look of text on your form.
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Using Ajax to retrieve data from ColdFusion

Leverage ColdFusion data using Ajax with the built-in functionality of ColdFusion 8.
Publication date: 2008-10-28 more

Silverlight 2 Sample Updates

I updated the PNG , GIF and BMP samples to the final version of Silverlight 2 including addressing several reported bug fixes....( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-28 more

Without Apps, there

I
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

Windows Azure (aka Project Red Dog)

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

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

Using Subversion with Dreamweaver CS4

Learn to set up your own Subversion repository.
Publication date: 2008-10-27 more

Greetings From PDC

PDC is a wonderful conference but get ready for the onslaught of announcements, new material, information overload
Publication date: 2008-10-26 more

Download reference docs for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework

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

Silverlight unit testing templates updated

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

Loaded event timing in Silverlight

The FrameworkElement.Loaded event in Silverlight has a timing difference versus the FrameworkElement.Loaded event in WPF. Specifically, in WPF, the Loaded event will occur after the template is applied. In Silverlight, the Loaded event is not guaranteed...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-25 more

Meet Silverlight Authors and Anders Hejlsberg at PDC

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

<3 your web, Vegas style, it

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: Mix09 , Silverlight It
Publication date: 2008-10-23 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

Awesome controls are coming for the Silverlight platform

Now that the wait is over and Silverlight 2 is out there in the wild, there’s very little excuse not to be using this awesome Microsoft platform. Easy-to-use controls make fast, easy development possible, and there is a clear roadmap out there now...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-23 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

Introduction to target version in Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Learn about the different ways of resolving a target version warning.
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

Silverlight Tip of the Day #65

In Tip of the Day #23 I showed you how to capture the mouse wheel event. In this tip we will take it one step further by implementing a IMouseWheelObserver interface that your Silverlight elements and controls can inherit from. This way, anytime the mouse...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

November 22, 2008

November 22, 1963.  45 years.  Sic Transit Gloria Mundi...( read more )...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Silverlight 2 Watermarked TextBox Control

In the early days of Silverlight 2, one of the included controls was the WatermarkedTextBox . In Beta 2 the control was removed from the runtime for among other things, WPF compatibility. The control source code was made available for people to look at...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

AjaxWorld Talk: Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

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

17 New Silverlight 2 Community Gallery Entries

Add an interactive Rich Textbox to your application, spice up the UI with Chart Controls . In your spare time play a game like Bird Hunt or listen to Podcasts . Also, create cool image galleries with Picture Viewer , and more in the Community Gallery...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Ensuring that your JavaScript Silverlight applications work with Silverlight 2

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   While Silverlight 2 was designed to be fully backwards compatible with Silverlight 1.0, there is a chance that you may have some JavaScript code that behaves differently than expected when...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

It Ain't You, Babe

  I'll be writing a set of mini-tutorials on the DataGrid that will, as the King advises, begins at the beginning, goes on till it comes to the end and then stops[1], but before I do, a "Set Of Behaviors That Is Perfectly Understandable But...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Stand up for a cure official web site is revamped and online!

MindSmack has recently completed the site overhaul for SUFAC.org This site has very special meaning to everyone @ MindSmack and we are honored to be a part of the SUFAC.org family. Stand Up for a Cure was originally founded to raise awareness and funding for lung cancer research, treatment and education. With a new case being diagnosed [...]
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Panoramic Deep Zoom

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , DeepZoom , Deep Zoom Technorati Tags: Silverlight , DeepZoom , Deep Zoom   I
Publication date: 2008-10-22 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

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

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

Sizing in Silverlight

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

Silverlight.net updated code samples

With the release of Silverlight 2 many people faced the task of ensuring their applications/code written targeting Beta 2 was upgraded to release. The team at the Silverlight community site was no different. We
Publication date: 2008-10-21 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

SilverlightContrib releases Silverlight 2 Controls

Last week I had the pleasure of talking with the crew from the Herding Code podcast . Among the questions was one about the open source community and Silverlight . There was mention about MVCContrib and how that community sprouted almost instantly with...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

Using Subversion with Dreamweaver CS4 - Part 3: Configuring Apache with Subversion support

Learn to set up your own Subversion repository.
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

Using Subversion with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Find out how you can benefit from Subversion and how to integrate version control into your workflow.
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

Bridging the gap between Flex and Struts using FxStruts

Use FxStruts to link a Flex front end with a Struts back end.
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

Building a video application with Flex Builder

Capture your computer camera\\\\\\\'s video stream in a few simple steps.
Publication date: 2008-10-21 more

Silverlight and Data

Tim and I and many others have been discussing, off and on, the frequent requests for videos/tutorials/demos, etc. that show how to move data into and out of databases and display them in Silverlight. On the one hand, my response is that the very question...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-19 more

On My Way to AjaxWorld!

I have very excited to be going to AjaxWorld in San Jose, CA next week.  I love getting a chance to get out of Redmond and talk to real-life developers and an industry wide event such as AjaxWorld gives me such a great opportunity to see what is...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-18 more

Some thoughts now that Silverlight 2.0 is Released.

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

Silverlight 2 Interview on HerdingCode PodCast

Earlier this week Tim Heuer and I got a chance to be interviewed on the HerdingCode podcast.  Thanks to Jon Galloway and co for a great show!..  It was a very fun experience.   Here is the topic list we covered...  Fun, fun stuff...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-18 more

Introducing Adobe Fireworks CS4

Learn about the notable new features and improvements in the tenth anniversary release of Fireworks.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Designing a website application with Fireworks CS4

Learn the process of creating a web app, from sketching the original page design to developing wireframes and creating the final look.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Mac Install or Detection Failures

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Mac del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Mac Silverlight is suppported on the Mac as you may well know, but not on the PPC-based versions. Occasionally we get questions from folks who have Intel-based Macs, but who cannot install...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Participate in the PhizzPop Online Challenge!

Hello! A moment ago we launched the PhizzPop Design Challenge . PhizzPop is a series of activities for designers to have fun and learn how to create experiences using Silverlight, WPF, Expression Studio and Live Services. PhizzPop has different activities...(read more)
Publication date: 2008-10-17 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)
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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)
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Silverlight Tools versioning

Heads up on a possible version number misunderstanding that has been mentioned a few times already during the early days of the Silverlight 2 release. General instructions: Don't panic! Specifically: If you install the Silverlight Tools , which is the...(read more)
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Expression Blend 2 SP1, Expression Media 2 SP1 and Silverlight 2 Released

Hello! As many of you know already the buzz about Silverlight 2 being released started over the weekend. We first announced this during the Silverlight Day (MIX Essentials) event in Tokyo last Friday. Forest Key hinted about this imminent release. Today...(read more)
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Calling secure (SSL) services from Silverlight 2

Now that Silverlight 2 has been released , one of the features (or should I say fixes) that is included is the ability for non-secure applications to call secure services. Previously this was not allowed and we referred to it as
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Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Service proxy generation

One of the nice little additions to the data client services in Silverlight 2 is the removal of the need to drop out of Visual Studio to do some proxy code generation. Prior to Silverlight 2 release, if you wanted to consume an ADO.NET Data Service (the...(read more)
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Did You Try to Attend A WebCast Today??

Apparently a Web Cast cancellation sent out months ago did not reach some 34 loyal, innocent and now very frustrated users; to whom I sincerely apologize. It was not my intention to leave you in limbo; in fact I didn't even know about the meeting until...(read more)
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Honoring your user’s culture settings with Silverlight

One thing that I
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Silverlight Tip of the Day #61

If you have a FrameworkElement such as an Image , Button, TextBlock , etc. you can add a tooltip to the element. Tooltips are usually small, boxed text that popup when a user hovers over the control. The purpose of the tooltip is to tell the user what...(read more)
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Where is the Silverlight content?

The content is there, but it turns out there is a little problem with filtering when you've integrated the Silverlight help into the Visual Studio help collection. If you set any filters for local help in Visual Studio, the Silverlight documentation is...(read more)
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Some Great Information Posted on the Silverlight 2 DataGrid

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

My theory, based entirely on my own experience is that many developers would like to know just a bit more about design (not all developers, and not a lot more, just some developers, and just a bit more). Our reasons include: 1. The bar has been set higher...(read more)
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