Thursday, June 17, 2010

US Open in Silverlight

US Open in Silverlight

US Open in Silverlight

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 01:45 PM PDT

NBC Sports is streaming a simultaneous broadcast of their US Open coverage using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming, Thursday through Sunday. Visit the NBC Sports homepage to watch the event online!...( read more )...(read more)

IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta Now Available

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 12:09 PM PDT

At NAB, we announced that a beta of IIS Media Services 4.0 would be available in the second quarter of 2010. We're pleased to let you know that the beta is now available for download. The beta includes some of the features we showed at NAB and Streaming...( read more )...(read more)

Revisiting the Code Not Taken [Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight]

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 10:21 AM PDT

Earlier this year I wrote about two approaches for creating a Popup to overlay the entire Silverlight plug-in . I began by showing the technique most people start with and then demonstrated a rather surprising side-effect of that approach. Here's the...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform (Silverlight TV #33)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 09:19 AM PDT

In this mini episode Jesse Liberty explains Transmedia Storytelling and why he believes that Silverlight may be the ideal platform for creating Transmedia applications on the web, Windows Phone 7 and eventually set-top boxes. Relevant links: John's Blog...( read more )...(read more)

Data Driven Applications with MVVM Part III: Validation, Bringing the UI Closer

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 09:29 PM PDT

Introduction In this short series of articles I'll cover what MVVM is and how to use it in practice, how to solve issues when applying this pattern and how to take advantage from it. Part I: The Basics Part II: Messaging, Unit Testing and moving to a...( read more )...(read more)

Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 10:27 PM PDT

For those of you who were not able to make it to Internet Week last week, the Expression Studio 4 keynote video is now available! (And my condolences to you, since that means you likely also missed the best Microsoft party ever, props to the Expression...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2010 -- #884

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 10:03 PM PDT

In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai , Emiel Jongerius , Charles Petzold , Adam Kinney , Deepesh Mohnani , Timmy Kokke , and Damon Payne . Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu reported his Coding4Fun: Shuffleboard Game for WP7 has been posted -- Big ol' Tutorial and 6 videos...( read more )...(read more)

Null Or Empty Coalescing

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 09:35 PM PDT

In my last blog post, I wrote about the proper way to check for empty enumerations and proposed an IsNullOrEmpty method for collections which sparked a lot of discussion. This post covers a similar issue, but from a different angle. A very long time ago, I wrote about my love for the null coalescing operator . However, over time, I've found it to be not quite as useful as it could be when dealing with strings. For example, here's the code I might want to write: public static void DoSomething( string argument) { var theArgument = argument ?? "defaultValue" ; Console.WriteLine(theArgument); } But here's the code I actually end up writing: public static void DoSomething( string argument) { var theArgument = argument; if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace...(read more)

Haack and Walther join the speaker lineup at Web Camp Redmond!

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 06:52 PM PDT

  The Web Camp in Redmond on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th June is starting to shape up nicely with some last minute speakers added to the roster !  Phil Haack the Program Manager for ASP.NET MVC and Stephen Walther the Program Manager for Ajax Control Toolkit and Microsoft's jQuery contributions are now on board!  They'll be joining me on stage on Friday as we look at MVC and jQuery as well as give their unique insight into their respective technologies!  It should be a blast so be sure to bring your questions along for these rock stars! If you've not done so already, sign up for Web Camp - Redmond – we've only got a few seats left! If you can't make it for the Web Camp in Redmond but would like to have your question answered...(read more)

I want my app to look like the Zune client

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:20 PM PDT

Earlier I had posted about the theme pack for the Silverlight Business Application and amongst them was the Cosmopolitan template. The cosmopolitan theme is inspired by the Metro theme which was first seen in the the Zune Client. Since then, there have Read More......(read more)
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