Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Connected Show Podcast #29 With … Me!

Connected Show Podcast #29 With … Me!

Connected Show Podcast #29 With … Me!

Posted: 05 May 2010 12:09 PM PDT

Back at Philly Code Camp, Peter Laudati interviewed me on WPF 4, Silverlight , and Windows Phone 7 all for the Connected Show Podcast. Pete is one of our awesome Developer Evangelists here on the east coast. Listen to Connected Show #29, Get Lit with...( read more )...(read more)

Digitally Signing a XAP Silverlight

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:21 AM PDT

I've been referring a lot of people lately to the steps to sign a XAP. So I decided to post an excerpt I wrote about signing Silverlight XAP files in the Silverlight 4 Whitepaper on Channel 9 here to help spread the word. The signing process is important...( read more )...(read more)

Power tool brings back index to offline help!

Posted: 05 May 2010 09:40 AM PDT

If you've used the new offline help viewer, you may have noticed the index is missing. I personally used the index in the old help viewer quite a bit, to quickly locate a specific class or topic. If you install the power tool , which is currently in beta...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Training

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:53 AM PDT

Want to get ahead of the game on one of the hottest technologies around - Silverlight 4 - Here it is... We are pleased to announce a discount of £50 off the course price for the Silverlight Masterclass to any, fully paid up, current NxtGenUG Member. When...( read more )...(read more)

The joys of being an early adopter... [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example to go with the April Developer Tools Refresh]

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:19 AM PDT

Last week saw the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP - April Refresh , a free set of tools and an emulator that lets everyone get started writing Windows Phone 7 applications. Not only is the application platform for Windows Phone 7 based...( read more )...(read more)

.NET Memory Leak: XslCompiledTransform and “leaked” dynamic assemblies

Posted: 05 May 2010 07:39 AM PDT

I have written before about high memory usage caused by improper usage of XmlSerializer objects both in a case study and in a debugging lab .  The problem there was that every time you create a new XmlSerializer object with a non-default constructor, you generate a new dynamic assembly that contains the definition and methods for the serializer.  Since assemblies can't be unloaded from a process unless the application domain they are loaded in is unloaded memory will keep increasing if you create new XmlSerializer objects until eventually you end up with a System.OutOfMemoryException. In the case of the XmlSerializer dynamic assemblies, they are quite easy to spot as you can look at meta-data (see previous posts) and figure out that...(read more)

talking code and experience

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:09 AM PDT

Over the next couple months we have a couple events Myself or Dave will be at. Starting this weekend and then leading all the way through june. If your on either coast, come on by and say Hi. 5/6/2010 Disruptathon - Tysons Corner VA Mobile Business Apps...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (2 – Services)

Posted: 05 May 2010 07:28 AM PDT

Following on from the previous post , I thought I'd dig a little more into what makes up a WCF RIA Service DomainService rather than taking the approach that we took in the previous blog post/video where I just added an Entity Framework model and let...( read more )...(read more)

TechEd India 2010 - my first session on developing an IPL Portal using Visual Studio 2010

Posted: 05 May 2010 06:34 AM PDT

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Flipping panels

Posted: 05 May 2010 12:22 AM PDT

This is part 3 of the series "Silverlight in Action": Visuals staring at the mouse cursor. Floating Visual Elements . Flipping Panels . Here we're sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site. In this '"how to" session, we'll cover one of...( read more )...(read more)

Using Silverlight Grid Control

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:05 PM PDT

Introduction The Grid control is the most flexible layout panel, and supports arranging controls in multi-row and multi-column layouts. It is conceptually similar to an HTML Table element. Grids (not to be confused with DataGrids) offer easy and exact...( read more )...(read more)

Smoothly Scrolling a ListBox

Posted: 04 May 2010 11:30 PM PDT

Learn how to scroll items inside your listbox smoothly by changing the ItemsPanel used....( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2010 -- #855

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:25 PM PDT

In this Issue: John Papa , Adam Kinney , Mike Taulty , Kirupa , Gunnar Peipman , Mike Snow ( -2- , -3- ), Jesse Liberty , and Lee . Shoutout: Jeff Wilcox announced Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New version in the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit From...( read more )...(read more)

My Displays, including my New 30" Dell 3007WFP-HC

Posted: 04 May 2010 07:56 PM PDT

Primary PC Over the next month or three, I'll be building a new ultimate developer PC , with some pretty hefty specs. One thing I managed to do before that, however, was snag a great used Dell 30" display on eBay. I was pretty nervous about buying used...( read more )...(read more)

Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

Posted: 04 May 2010 06:25 PM PDT

Introduction One of the things I found frustrating in the previous versions of Silverlight was the lack of the Right Mouse Click support. Now we know that this functionality has turned real with Silverlight 4. Furthermore, we know that the April 2010...( read more )...(read more)

Next San Francisco Silverlight User Group 5/13/2010

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:00 AM PDT

After a hiatus, the San Francisco Silverlight User Group is starting up again.  If you are a designer or developer in the San Francisco Bay Area and you are interested in Silverlight, please come to the next meeting of the San Francisco Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)
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