Monday, October 5, 2009

Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date

Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date

Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:51 AM PDT

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 "15" is there and how come they can't change it. Here's the control that was being referred...( read more )...(read more)

How can I improve on existing WPF data virtualization solutions?

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 09:25 AM PDT

In a previous post, I compared two data virtualization techniques implemented by Paul McClean and Vincent Van Den Berghe for WPF. In this post, I describe a solution that combines some of the best features of both. I started with Paul's solution...( read more )...(read more)

Phoenix Silverlight User Group Meeting October 7, 2009

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 07:16 PM PDT

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be Wednesday October 7 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner). The graphic above is a link to a map. This month we are...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2009 -- #704

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 06:34 PM PDT

In This Issue: Laurent Bugnion , Chad Campbell , Mark Miller , Jacek Ciereszko , Laurent Duveau , Kirupa , Ning Zhang , Timmy Kokke , Expression Blend and Design Blog , and Mark Tucker . Shoutouts: Since the demise of the MSDN Social Bookmarks, I've wanted...( read more )...(read more)

Speaking at TechEd Europe!

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 12:02 PM PDT

URL : http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/ I am excited to be asked to speak in Berlin this November at TechEd Europe 2009. This event is happening November 9-13th in Berlin, Germany. If you have a chance, it'll be a great time to see and be seen....( read more )...(read more)

My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs - Part 1

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:17 AM PDT

URL : http://slextensions.codeplex.com As some of you may know, I am a contributor to the SilverlightContrib open source project. Recently this project and the Silverlight Extensions open source project (also know as SLExtensions) decided to merge to...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight, MVVM, Prism and More at VSLive Orlando

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 07:46 AM PDT

Are you planning on attending VSLive Orlando t his week? If so, please stop by the 3 sessions I will be presenting at VSLive Orlando and say hi. I really enjoy speaking at the conferences and getting the chance to have great conversations with all the...( read more )...(read more)

MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new?

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:06 AM PDT

I am happy and proud to announce that the MVVM Light Toolkit V2 has been published ! Shortcut: Jump directly to the installation instructions . Excerpt from the Get Started page : The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development...( read more )...(read more)

Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 05:42 PM PDT

My latest Data Points column is now online and in print in the October 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine. The column's title is " Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm " which focuses on the validation features in Silverlight 3. This includes the DataForm...( read more )...(read more)

Microsoft CodeFx for Silverlight

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 03:22 PM PDT

"All-In-One Code Framework" code-name "CodeFx" delineates the framework and skeleton of most Microsoft development techniques using typical examples in different programming languages. CodeFX is a set of code samples available on CodePlex...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 3 Activity control

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 12:06 PM PDT

The Activity control is an async/background activity indicator: it shows a progress bar while data is being loaded or work is being done in the background. Maybe you already saw this control which comes with the new "Silverlight Business Application"...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009 -- #703

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:42 PM PDT

In this Issue: Gavin Wignall , Manish Dalal , Jeff Wilcox , Terence Tsang , and Mark Tucker . Shoutouts: Rishi , the author of nRoute had to move his site. Last night I transitioned all his links in the database to point to the new site, so feel free...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight for Embedded

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:12 AM PDT

La notizia di oggi è che Silverlight sarà disponibile sulla piattaforma Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 che è stata rilasciata lo scorso 30 Settembre. La piattaforma è già disponibile per il download al seguente indirizzo: Link: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 01, 2009 -- #702

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:14 PM PDT

First I'd like to congratulate all the returning MVPs, and all the new ones... fun awaits and I hope to see you all at the Summit! I'd particularly like to call out people I know that have just become Silverlight MVPS. Tim Heuer did a great post with...( read more )...(read more)

Textbox update binding on text changing

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:13 PM PDT

When using binding and textboxes you can find a nasty surprise… binding entities get only updated when your textbox looses the focus… this can work for you in a lot of scenarios, but in some other not, e.g. What happens if you want to enable a Save button...( read more )...(read more)

No longer a C# MVP...

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 05:48 AM PDT

URL : https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Shawn... Eight long years ago I was presented with my very first MVP. In those days I was a .NET MVP, the only designation for anyone doing .NET. Yeah, I am getting old ;) A couple of years later they retired...( read more )...(read more)
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