Monday, February 1, 2010

New Silverlight 3 Behavior for Toggling DataGrid Row Detail Visibility

New Silverlight 3 Behavior for Toggling DataGrid Row Detail Visibility


New Silverlight 3 Behavior for Toggling DataGrid Row Detail Visibility

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 10:58 AM PST

I was chatting with a customer last week about how they were using Silverlight for their B2B portal.  They were having some difficulty with showing and hiding the DataGrid component's Row Detail template programmatically.  I found a WPF-oriented...( read more )...(read more)

Quick tip: Commenting out properties in XAML

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 09:26 AM PST

Often when you write XAML, you wish you could ignore a property temporarily. In code, it is easy to do: Just comment out the line where the property is set, and you are good to compile. LayoutRoot.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red); //LayoutRoot...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 08:41 AM PST

In my head, I see Silverlight 4 applications as either running; In Browser Out of Browser Out of Browser and Trusted Out of Browser and Trusted and in the presence of COM interop ( i.e. on Windows ) and you might write functionality that only works in...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Design Day Registration open for NY, Chicago, Austin

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 07:33 AM PST

The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day events in Chicago, Austin and New York are now available. May 4 – Chicago, IL, US register here May 7 – Austin, TX, US register here May 11 – New York, NY, US register here "A Silverlight Design Day...( read more )...(read more)

MIX10

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 03:40 AM PST

I'm excited as it's looking pretty likely that I'll be able to get to my first ever MIX conference – MIX10 in March, Las Vegas. The current plan is that I'm going to pitch in and deliver the Silverlight Bootcamp;   with "Mr Silverlight TV" himself...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Session on MEF at Silverlight User Group, 3rd February, Microsoft London

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 03:32 AM PST

Just a quick advert for something that I thought I'd already publicised but now I'm "not so sure" as I can't find it on my site :-) I'll be giving a talk about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight down at the Silverlight User Group...( read more )...(read more)

New York Times Silverlight Kit Updated

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:28 AM PST

I just pushed out an update to the New York Times Silverlight Kit to make some minor fixes and keep up with the innovation that's happening at the New York Times Developer Network .  See the release notes here ....( read more )...(read more)

On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation – Revisited for Silverlight 4 Beta

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:28 AM PST

Way back in July, shortly after Silverlight 3 was released, I posted a technique that allowed you to use the Navigation framework in the SDK to load pages in dlls that would be downloaded as part of the navigation process.  The solution relied on...( read more )...(read more)

Back from Best of Tech-Ed/Convergence Reykjavik, Iceland

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:00 PM PST

Last week I had the real pleasure of speaking at the Best of Tech-Ed and Convergence in Reykjavik, Iceland. I was absolutely amazed by the size of the developer and IT community in Iceland, and the turnout at this conference. For an island of about 300...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/1/2010

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 10:00 PM PST

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #9. I've returned from a great time in Iceland. Awesome community and incredible place to visit. One item of note: If you want to see the WCF RIA Services source code shipped with the product, be sure to vote in...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 -- #790

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness , Vikram Pendse , David Burela ( 2 ), Paulio , David Anson , Jesse Liberty , and Brett Balmer . Shoutout: Jeremy Alles has a Minor update to the Silverlight MVVM frameworks explorer Seema Ramchandani posted his materials...( read more )...(read more)

Top Albums 2009

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:34 PM PST

I realize that 2010 is officially 1/12 over and so any excuse about waiting until the last minute to allow for late breaking slam dunks is going to seem disingenuous. The truth is that over Christmas vacation, I compiled most of the list and even wrote...( read more )...(read more)

Saving Files Locally in Silverlight

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 06:19 PM PST

Learn how to take some data from Silverlight and write it locally to a file....( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight TV Episode 005 – Using Metadata with MEF

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 02:08 PM PST

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! Episode 5 is all about using Metadata with MEF. Hamilton Verissimo makes a return visit to show us how metadata can make MEF ever more valuable to build Silverlight applications. ...( read more )...(read more)

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