Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Kung Fu Silverlight: Architectural Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services

Kung Fu Silverlight: Architectural Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services

Kung Fu Silverlight: Architectural Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:34 PM PDT

MVVM (Model/View/ViewModel) is an architectural pattern that is well-suited for Silverlight and WPF development. It is a variation of the MVC pattern that was borne out of the development of Expression Blend. At its heart, MVVM imposes three kinds of...( read more )...(read more)

Tsitsi Gora on User Experience Design for Silverlight

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:25 PM PDT

While on campus in September, I met up with Tsitsi Gora, a user experience designer in developer division at Microsoft. Tsitsi has worked on the in-tool experience for Silverlight, as well as some of the Silverlight business application templates. If...( read more )...(read more)

Tsitsi Gora on User Experience Design for Silverlight

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:25 PM PDT

While on campus in September, I met up with Tsitsi Gora, a user experience designer in developer division at Microsoft. Tsitsi has worked on the in-tool experience for Silverlight, as well as some of the Silverlight business application templates. If...( read more )...(read more)

Using the Visual Studio Async CTP with RIA Services

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:30 PM PDT

I've been excited about this CTP for quite a while now and it's great to finally have a chance to play with it. Way back in early RIA days we had a number of conversations with the TPL (Task Parallel Library) folks to see if we could use Task<T> Read More......(read more)

Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 5

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 11:36 AM PDT

I'm currently studying for the Beta exam of Silverlight 4. So I thought, why not share what resources I'm using. To start with one should be familiar with Silverlight of course, but refreshing some of the topics that haven't be touched that often is always...( read more )...(read more)

My Commentary on the Silverlight brouhaha

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:47 AM PDT

Anyone reading this knows I go by the AKA "WynApse". I've used it since Windows was a puppy, we still had "DOS Apps" and "Win Apps", and I needed a business name for selling my shareware. I only re-state that obvious because I want to make it clear that...( read more )...(read more)

Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 08:16 AM PDT

quick note – this post has a lot of sketchy code in it that I've not really tidied up – apply a pinch of salt and look for better examples elsewhere as I'm just trying to skate across the surface of the different API options. Following up on that previous...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight ComboBox Frequently Asked Questions

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 08:20 AM PDT

I've wanted to do a follow up to my original ComboBox post for a while now. I answered a number of the questions throughout the comments, but I thought I'd gather all the answers up and add some nice code samples. Hope this helps. How do I use a ComboBox Read More......(read more)

ScratchAudio

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 07:45 AM PDT

I came across a fantastic app today running on Silverlight called ScratchAudio… From my brief experiment with the app, it's a pretty slick site that lets me record and edit songs in the browser using Silverlight's rich capabilities for UI and also its...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight *versus* HTML5? Really?

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:36 AM PDT

  "Someone's got it in for me, They're planting stories in the press. Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it quick, but whether they will I can only guess." "Idiot Wind" , Bob Dylan, 1974 A couple of lines that seemed relevant to me in all the commentary...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 048 for 11/1/2010

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:04 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #48. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7 , Windows Forms...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 048 for 11/1/2010

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:04 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #48. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7 , Windows Forms...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next week

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Next week in Malmö, Sweden, there will be several great sessions on Windows Phone and Silverlight development at the Øredev Conference. I look forward to having a chance to present on some great topics and have some fun conversations as well. There's...( read more )...(read more)

RIA Services and Windows Azure Table Storage

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PDT

We worked right up to the deadline, but I'm happy to say we got a preview of RIA support for Windows Azure Table Storage into the October Toolkit release (that coincides with the SP1 Beta release ). You could integrate with table storage previously, but Read More......(read more)
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