Friday, September 18, 2009

Glow Behavior

Glow Behavior


Glow Behavior

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 01:38 PM PDT

Some weeks ago, Adam Kinney wrote about a nice workaround for creating a Glow Effect in Silverlight using a DropShadowEffect. Since Glow is a common effect, I thought it would be nice to wrap this into a Behavior. Please note, you wouldn't want to use...( read more )...(read more)

Top 100 Global Brands of 2009

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:28 PM PDT

BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. It's interesting to see who made this list – some of them are pretty obvious (e.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon). Others make total sense, but I probably wouldn't have...( read more )...(read more)

[french] Montreal User Group special Silverlight event!

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:05 PM PDT

For anyone near Montreal don't miss this user group special event in less than 30 days: Click on the image to register. I'll have the pleasure to present on Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services, as well as other members of my team at RunAtServer Consulting...( read more )...(read more)

Extend Glass Frame Into a WPF Application

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 11:10 AM PDT

Update the look of your application by giving it the Vista look!

Watch out if you're running Grafitti

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 08:43 AM PDT

This isn't necessarily Silverlight, but it's important to bloggers, so I'm using that tag. If you're not using Grafitti and don't care to read my rant, just delete! I was using the free version of Grafitti for our Phoenix Silverlight User Group. I really...( read more )...(read more)

How to set multiple enum members (flags) in XAML

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:28 AM PDT

I was dealing with the DataForm control and I wanted to show multiple command buttons through the CommandButtonsVisibility property. CommandButtonsVisibility is enum. While it was perfectly clear how to do this in code ( dataForm.CommandButtonsVisibility...( read more )...(read more)

UX thoughts – Learning Phase Tools III

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 01:46 AM PDT

In my last post in the UX thoughts series , I wrote about how allowing the user to experiment and being consistent with the already existing knowledge of the user can help learning to use your software. Reusing existing applications If we are taking the...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2009 -- #694

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:35 PM PDT

In this Issue: Bob Bartholomay , Mark Tucker , Chris Klug , Damon Payne , Phani Raj , John Papa , Victor Gaudioso , Jonathan van de Veen , Tomasz Janczuk , and Fredrik Normén . Shoutout: Chad Campbell has the material up from his Silverlight – An Out...( read more )...(read more)

One Day Remaining in the Silverlight Control Builder Contest!

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 06:07 PM PDT

Time is almost up on the 2009 Silverlight Control Builder Contest ! So far, we have received 8 entries . Yes, we have a real contest this year. If you are planning on entering the contest, make sure you have submitted your entries before 9/19/2009 at...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Firestarter Event- Today Sept 17th

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:44 PM PDT

Be sure to check out the remainder of today's Silverlight Firestarter event! Live Telecast: www.msdnevents.com/firestarter/online Twitter tag: #slfs: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23slfs Questions: please send them to mithund@microsoft.com Online presentations...( read more )...(read more)

Impersonation, WCF, and making updates to a database

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 12:14 PM PDT

I was troubleshooting a problem with WCF where the updates to a remote database were failing.  The reason for the failure was found pretty quickly to be delegation. For general impersonation questions in regards to WCF, there is lots of great information found here . For my situation, the problem was that the ASP.NET application that was calling the WCF service was impersonating and I couldn't enable delegation in my environment.  So the connection to SQL failed.  There are a number of ways to solve this problem, but some have more problems then others. Fix #1 The easiest way is the add a User ID and Password to the web.config file.  But then you have to worry about updating that if the password expires and also the security...(read more)

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

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:41 PM PDT

My blog has been very quiet the last month because I've been working very long hours in preparation for the next release of Visual Studio 2010.  On the weekends I was relaxing and not doing much with my computer. I've been all cranked up at home...( read more )...(read more)

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