Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Silverlight Tour in Montreal this summer

Silverlight Tour in Montreal this summer

Silverlight Tour in Montreal this summer

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 11:52 AM PDT

Get an awesome Silverlight training this Summer! The Silverlight Tour has a new class in Montreal , and provide top Silverlight 4 content!!! >> This course will be taught in English << What: Silverlight training When: July 19-22 (4 days) Where...( read more )...(read more)

Please rate your dining experience [How to: Show text labels on a numeric axis with Silverlight/WPF Toolkit Charting]

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 11:51 AM PDT

A customer contacted me a few days ago asking how to display text labels on a NumericAxis . (Whereas CategoryAxis makes it easy to use text labels for the in dependent axis, this request was about text labels on the d ependent axis.) It's a bit of an...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day#27 – Displaying Special Characters in XAML

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 10:12 AM PDT

If you try to use the special/reserved characters in a string in XAML you will get a slew of errors in your Error List. Example reserved characters include: < > & " For example, if you tried to do this: <Button Width="100" Height...( read more )...(read more)

jQuery Slides & Demo from my Remix Australia Talk

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 07:47 AM PDT

On the 1st of June I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Remix conference in Melbourne, Australia on the Microsoft/jQuery contribution story and the new Templating engine that were announced at Mix10 in Las Vegas earlier this year. This conference punctuated the Web Camps world tour that I've been on and was a welcome break to enjoy someone else running a big event :-)  I loved the widescreen, colorful slide template they gave me to use and the "love the web" theme for the conference was definitely running high through the attendees.  I overheard someone say that half the attendees were non-microsoft developers which was great to see as many of the talks were on open source, geo-location, HTML5 and other topics that were useful...(read more)

Phoenix Silverlight UserGroup tonight

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 06:11 AM PDT

Yes it really is the first Wednesday of the month! and Yes, we are having our normally scheduled meeting tonight. Everyone should be back from any Memorial Day festivities, dragging your collective drawers at work and looking for somethign interesting...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (3 – Client)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Having taken a look into the service side of WCF RIA Services in the previous post , it seems natural to have a bit of a look into the client side. If we make a "vanilla" WCF RIA Services project in Visual Studio 2010 as in; File->New Project Choose...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2010 -- #874

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:34 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Alan Beasley and Michael Washington , Miroslav Miroslavov , Max Paulousky , Teresa and Ronald Burger , Laurent Duveau , Tim Heuer , Jeff Brand , Mike Snow , and John Papa . Shoutouts: To pay homage to the Advanced Options...( read more )...(read more)

SNEAK PEEK: Another Silverlight theme pack preview

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Building on the positive feedback of the previous Silverlight application themes released last month (Cosmopolitan, Accent Color, and Windows) the design team is working on another theme targeting business application developers. We don't yet have an...( read more )...(read more)

SNEAK PEEK: Another Silverlight theme pack preview

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Building on the positive feedback of the previous Silverlight application themes released last month (Cosmopolitan, Accent Color, and Windows) the design team is working on another theme targeting business application developers. We don't yet have an Read More......(read more)

Silver Soccer - A Case Study for the Flexible Surface Effect (Silverlight 4)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Silver Soccer is a case study for the Flexible Surface Effect (Silverlight 4). Today afternoon (GMT) I was pointed to a Silverlight project of a german IT company. Quite cool. Not just because it has to do with soccer (german "Fussball"). When...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #26 – Changing the Startup Class

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 01:04 PM PDT

When a Silverlight application is launched the entry point is a class that inherits from System.Windows.Application. By default, when you create a new Silverlight application project, this would be your App class which gets defined in App.xaml.cs. You...( read more )...(read more)
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