Friday, August 19, 2011

Silverlight Tour Vancouver in November

Silverlight Tour Vancouver in November

Silverlight Tour Vancouver in November

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 12:37 PM PDT

Due to popularity, the Silverlight Tour is already coming back to Vancouver this fall, come and learn top Silverlight 5 content from true experts!!! What: Silverlight training When: November 01-04 (4 days) Where: Vancouver, BC Registration/info: http...( read more )...(read more)

Book review: Professional Windows 7 Game Development

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:23 AM PDT

Don't miss... Webinar recording 'XNA for Windows Phone 7' WP7 series by Andrea Boschin XNA for Silverlight Developers Ebook: ($2.99) All SilverlightShow Ebooks This review is on the book 'Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using...( read more )...(read more)

Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:35 PM PDT

In a recent blog post, I wrote a a controller inspector to demonstrate Controller and Action Descriptors. In this blog post, I apply that knowledge to build something more useful. One pain point when you write Ajax heavy applications using ASP.NET MVC is managing the URLs that Routing generates on the server. These URLs aren't accessible from code in a static JavaScript file. There are techniques to mitigate this: Generate the URLs in the view and pass them into the JavaScript API. This approach has the drawback that it isn't unobtrusive and requires some script in the view. If you prefer the unobtrusive approach, embed the URLs in the HTML in a logical and semantic manner and the script can read them from the DOM. Both approaches get the job...(read more)

Invisible pixels are just as clickable as real pixels! [Tip: Use a Transparent brush to make "empty" parts of a XAML element respond to mouse and touch input]

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:16 PM PDT

Tip Use a Transparent brush to make "empty" parts of a XAML element respond to mouse and touch input Explanation I got a question yesterday and thought the answer would make a good addition to my Development Tips series. As you probably know, WPF, Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Training Montreal in September 2011

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 06:17 PM PDT

Still a few seats available for the next Silverlight Tour stop in Montreal , come and learn top Silverlight content from local experts!!! >> This course will be taught in French * << What: Silverlight training When: September 06-09 (4 days...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK) Released

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Microsoft released the new stable version of "Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (SDK 7.1)" at Codeplex. This is the first stable build after the February 2011 release. This release features several new controls and fixes to the existing...( read more )...(read more)
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