Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Silverlight in Action Book Update

Silverlight in Action Book Update

Silverlight in Action Book Update

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 12:51 PM PDT

Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition (title likely to be changed to Silverlight 4 in Action) is almost complete. I've turned in all 25 chapters plus appendix, and had them go through editorial review, tech review, and copy editing. All the images are...( read more )...(read more)

Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:06 AM PDT

This morning we posted the "Preview 1" release of ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download it here . We've used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development cycle.  Our goal with early preview releases like the one today is to get feedback – both on what you like/dislike, and what you find missing/incomplete.  This feedback is super valuable – and ultimately makes the final product much, much better. ASP.NET MVC 3 As you probably already surmised, ASP.NET MVC 3 is the next major release of ASP.NET MVC.  ASP.NET MVC 3 is compatible with ASP.NET MVC 2 – which means it will be easy to update projects you are writing with MVC 2 to MVC...(read more)

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (6–Validation)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:37 AM PDT

One of the strengths of WCF RIA Services is in its capabilities around the application of common validation logic on both the client tier and the service tier. If I take the simplest route to create a new Silverlight+RIA Services project as in File |...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2010 -- #912

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:29 AM PDT

In this Issue: Anton Polimenov , Gill Cleeren , Jeff Fansler , Hannah Watkins , paulio , Michael S. Scherotter , Mohamed Mosallem , and Xianzhong Zhu . From SilverlightCream.com : WP7: UI Concepts of Windows Phone 7 With hardware descriptions behind him...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight and WebSockets

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:03 AM PDT

I was intrigued by this post from Tomek which has links to a prototype of an application built with Silverlight but using WebSockets. It's kind of interesting because running the application in IE9 gives me; now, the only bit of that application that...( read more )...(read more)

Building A StoryboardEventHelper Class To Create Additional Events For A Silverlight 4 Storyboard

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 11:57 PM PDT

In this blog post I will describe a technique as a workaround on how to "add" additional events to a Silverlight 4 Storyboard. The Silverlight 4 Storyboard class only has one single event, which is the Completed event . It fires when the storyboard...( read more )...(read more)

UI Concepts of Windows Phone 7

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 02:07 PM PDT

This is part 4 of the Windows Phone 7 series : What is Windows Phone 7 Hardware requirements for Windows Phone 7 Part 1 – Buttons, Screen, Cameras, Keyboards, Wireless, Bluetooth, CPU Hardware requirements for Windows Phone 7 Part 2 – Light...( read more )...(read more)

The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 - Part 3: Using Net.Tcp

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 01:18 AM PDT

This article is Part 3 of the series The Duplex Story in Silverlight: Looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 - Part 1 Looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 - Part 2: Using Sockets Looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 ...( read more )...(read more)

RIA Master Degree (Silverlight + HTML 5) Malaga University (Spain)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 12:31 AM PDT

Malaga University (Spain) is offering a master in Software Engineering and RIA technologies, some highlights: Silverlight and HTML 5 covered in the master. The teaching staff is a mix of university professors and Microsoft MVP's. 9 Months to 1 Year internships...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight HTML5 WebSocket client with an HTML bridge to Ajax/JavaScript

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:04 PM PDT

As part of our ongoing experimentation with the HTML5 WebSocket proposed standard for duplex communication between web browsers and servers, we have prototyped a WebSocket protocol implementation based on Microsoft technologies. The prototype consists...( read more )...(read more)

Wall of Tweets: design decisions behind popular twitter wall

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:50 PM PDT

Wall of Tweets is twitterwall product designed and developed by full service UX consultancy FatDUX Zagreb here in Croatia. It's very popular and used throughout the world. In this article I'd like to share some design thinking, design research and decisions...( read more )...(read more)
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