Saturday, April 24, 2010

Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 -- #846

Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 -- #846


Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 -- #846

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 02:30 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Timmy Kokke , Pete Brown , Paul Yanez , Emil Stoychev , Jeremy Likness , and Pavan Podila . Shoutouts: If you've got some time to spend, the User Experience Kit is packed with info: User Experience Kit , and just plain...( read more )...(read more)

Data Binding in Silverlight

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 11:16 AM PDT

Data Binding is a simple, yet powerful way to connect (bind) your business model and user interface (UI). When the data in your business model changes the UI reflects changes automatically and vice versa (when a user changes the data in the UI, the data...( read more )...(read more)

Slides and demos from my talk on Silverlight 4

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 03:58 AM PDT

Yesterday Visual Studio 2010 was officially launched in Sofia, Bulgaria. Thanks to all who attended and all the great questions you asked. Here are the slides and demos from my session on What's new in Silverlight 4?...( read more )...(read more)

SQL Schema Source Control

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 12:27 AM PDT

Track database schema changes automatically

C# application that you can run against your SQL Databases (supports SQL 2008 right now, but you could easily support 2005 )

Currently supports SVN but could be extended to use TFS, or other source control providers.

Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 -- #845

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 09:28 PM PDT

In this Issue: Jason Allor , Bill Reiss , Mike Snow , Tim Heuer , John Papa , Jeremy Likness , and Dave Campbell . Shoutouts: You saw it at MIX10 and DevConnections... now you can give it a dance, John Papa announced eBay Simple Lister Beta Now Available...( read more )...(read more)

Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 08:58 PM PDT

I'm starting a occasional series of postings on top things every Silverlight and WPF developer should know. Originally, I was going to make this a top-10 style list, but I'll keep that for my presentations, and instead expand on it here, with one topic...( read more )...(read more)

Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 08:58 PM PDT

I'm starting a occasional series of postings on top things every Silverlight and WPF developer should know. Originally, I was going to make this a top-10 style list, but I'll keep that for my presentations, and instead expand on it here, with one topic...( read more )...(read more)

Tip #103 revisited

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 10:08 AM PDT

In Tip #103 I showed a way of customizing the start page in order to add the New Website and Open Website controls.  It turns out that using a loose XAML file as I did in that post is not the recommended practice; in fact, it's recommended that you...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #3 – Mouse Right Clicks

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 02:12 PM PDT

With Silverlight 4 comes full support for mouse right clicks. To demonstrate this, I will be creating an application that pops up a context menu when you right click on your Silverlight application. The new two events your UI elements can monitor for...( read more )...(read more)

Framework .NET 3.5 Sp1 required for targeting frameworks 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 (multi-targeting) using Visual Studio 2010

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:02 PM PDT

We have had some customers ask why they are unable to target earlier frameworks .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010. Targeting earlier frameworks (also known as Multi-targeting) is in-fact fully supported in VS 2010, but there is a pre-requisite that .NET Framework 3.5 Sp1 must be installed on the machine for VS 2010 to be able to target any of the earlier frameworks 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5. During VS 2010 installation, only the latest 4.0 version of the .NET framework will be installed on your machine as part of the Visual Studio installation. So if 3.5 Sp1 was not already present on your machine, you will see only the .NET Framework 4 in the target framework dropdown of the New Website / New Project dialogs (In these dialogs, framework dropdown...(read more)

ebay simple lister with silverlight 4

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 02:22 PM PDT

Just a month ago , Dave ( Building Innovative Windows Client Software ) and Myself ( Building the eBay Simple Lister with Silverlight ) were at mix showing the world the eBay simple lister. Today I am VERY proud of the whole Cynergy and eBay team to announce...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:54 PM PDT

A little bit of hidden gem in the Silverlight 4 release is the ability to modify the Authorization header in network calls. For most, the sheer ability to leverage network credentials in the networking stack will be enough. But there are times when you...( read more )...(read more)

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