Thursday, April 8, 2010

Poll: What Are Your Favorite Silverlight TV Episodes?

Poll: What Are Your Favorite Silverlight TV Episodes?

Poll: What Are Your Favorite Silverlight TV Episodes?

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 01:10 PM PDT

It's been 3 months since Silverlight TV first aired in mid January. We've aired a variety of topics (from design centric to hardcore developer code to awesome demos) and a variety of guests (who can forget Ward Bell is his white fur jacket?). So far,...( read more )...(read more)

Join me for some exciting sessions at Devlink 2010

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 11:08 AM PDT

I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting four sessions at Devlink 2010 in August 2010. The sessions are listed below. Hope to see you there! Best of Both Worlds: Sharing code and UI between Silverlight and WPF Pete Brown Applications Swang-AUD...( read more )...(read more)

New Channel 9 Video: Dave Campbell on Silverlight Cream

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT

I've known Dave for a while. He's a great contributor to the community of Silverlight developers. His site and daily link post, Silverlight Cream, has become the go-to source to find good Silverlight content and good bloggers. While at MIX10, I caught...( read more )...(read more)

Join me for some exciting sessions at Devlink 2010

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 11:08 AM PDT

I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting four sessions at Devlink 2010 in August 2010. The sessions are listed below. Hope to see you there! Best of Both Worlds: Sharing code and UI between Silverlight and WPF Pete Brown Applications Swang-AUD...( read more )...(read more)

New Channel 9 Video: Dave Campbell on Silverlight Cream

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT

I've known Dave for a while. He's a great contributor to the community of Silverlight developers. His site and daily link post, Silverlight Cream, has become the go-to source to find good Silverlight content and good bloggers. While at MIX10, I caught...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight TV 20: Community Driven Development with WCF RIA Services

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:33 AM PDT

In this episode, John talks with Jeff Handley about how the community's feedback really helped shape some features in WCF RIA Services. Jeff is very active in the community and has a wealth of knowledge about WCF RIA Services. Relevant links: John's Blog...( read more )...(read more)

Microsoft Silverlight Recap at NAB 2010

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:16 AM PDT

Today we announced many exciting new developments for the media industry with Silverlight and IIS Media Services , just in time for the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB) happening next week in Las Vegas. We announced plans to work...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #109 – Attach to Process Debugging

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:54 AM PDT

Using Visual Studio you can attach to an instance of your browser that has a Silverlight application running from the server (IIS). This is very useful especially since unexpected problems can occur once you deploy and run your application on the server;...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #109 – Attach to Process Debugging

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:54 AM PDT

Using Visual Studio you can attach to an instance of your browser that has a Silverlight application running from the server (IIS). This is very useful especially since unexpected problems can occur once you deploy and run your application on the server; problems that you normally won't see when you just run locally on your box. To accomplish this open up Visual Studio. From the menu select Tools->Attach to process (Ctrl+Alt+P). This will bring up the following dialog. The trick here is to understand...(read more)

Great Silverlight User Group meeting last night - Thanks Joel!

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:05 AM PDT

Last night's Silverlight User Group meeting in Phoenix went really well. We had about 15 in attendance, and everyone seemed engaged with Joel Neubeck's great Windows Phone 7 presentation. When it was over, we gave away a couple copies of Windows 7 Ultimate...( read more )...(read more)

ChildWindowMouseScrollResizeBehavior - Silverlight 3

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 07:30 AM PDT

I created a Silverlight 3 behavior that provides resizing for a regular Silverlight 3 ChildWindow using mouse wheel scroll including Blend 3 design time support. Get the download at the Expression Gallery . Short description : 1. Import System.Windows...( read more )...(read more)

Layout Rounding

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:49 PM PDT

WPF and Silverlight both operate on a subpixel grid. That is, you can align elements on partial pixel boundaries, like this: <Rectangle Margin="10.5 10.5 10 10" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1" Height="100" Width="300" /> Unfortunately, for single...( read more )...(read more)

Layout Rounding

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:49 PM PDT

WPF and Silverlight both operate on a subpixel grid. That is, you can align elements on partial pixel boundaries, like this: <Rectangle Margin="10.5 10.5 10 10" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1" Height="100" Width="300" /> Unfortunately, for single...( read more )...(read more)

Customizing the Caret and Selection Styles in WPF 4

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 10:14 PM PDT

WPF 4 allows you to customize the caret (the blinking line in a textbox that shows your current cursor position), as well as the selection brushes. This is great to allow you to be able to fully incorporate a custom color scheme. Carets The Custom Caret...( read more )...(read more)

Creating a Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Pivot Application [Part 3]

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:47 PM PDT

This is part 3 - the final part - of how to create a Pivot style application for Windows Phone 7. Attached is the sample project and code for this example. The screencast starts off in Blend and shows how to create the endless pivot menu across the top...( read more )...(read more)

Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:30 PM PDT

In the .NET 3.5 timeframe and earlier, many client developers referenced System.Web.dll in order to be able to use System.Web.HttpUtility and its helpful encode/decode and parse methods. While those functions were really useful, the full framework is...( read more )...(read more)

RSS feeds in Orchard

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:14 PM PDT

When we added RSS to Orchard , we wanted to make it easy for any module to expose any contents as a feed. We also wanted the rendering of the feed to be handled by Orchard in order to minimize the amount of work from the module developer. A typical example of such feed exposition is of course blog feeds. We have an IFeedManager interface for which you can get the built-in implementation through dependency injection. Look at the BlogController constructor for an example: public BlogController( IOrchardServices services, IBlogService blogService, IBlogSlugConstraint blogSlugConstraint, IFeedManager feedManager, RouteCollection routeCollection) { If you look a little further in that same controller, in the Item action, you'll see a call to the...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 -- #833

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:06 PM PDT

In this Issue: Alan Mendelevich , Siyamand Ayubi , Rudi Grobler ( -2- ), Josh Smith , VinitYadav , and Dave Campbell . Shoutouts: Jordan Knight has a demo up of a project he did for DigiGirlz: DigiGirlz, Deep Zoom and Azure , hopefully we'll get source...( read more )...(read more)

Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:30 PM PDT

In the .NET 3.5 timeframe and earlier, many client developers referenced System.Web.dll in order to be able to use System.Web.HttpUtility and its helpful encode/decode and parse methods. While those functions were really useful, the full framework is a pretty hefty tax to pay for just a couple methods. I ran across this tax today when I tried to use a popular twitter library (written in .NET 3.5) with a .NET 4 client profile project. That project references the full System.Web.dll and won't compile under a client profile project in .NET 4. You no longer need to rely on ASP.NET DLLs on the client just to encode/decode HTML. The .NET 4 client profile includes a new class that provides some of the functionality of System.Web.HttpUtility, without...(read more)

Watch the Silverlight 4 Launch event and LIVE QA with ScottGu and others

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:23 PM PDT

Next week on 13-April at 8:00 AM PST Scott Guthrie will deliver a keynote address for the DevConnections conference being held in Las Vegas, NV. Scott will provide updates on the progress made in Silverlight 4 and will provide the details of availability...( read more )...(read more)
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