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Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 -- #737
Friday, November 20, 2009 10:26 AM
In this Issue: Michael Wolf , Colin Blair , John Papa , Ning Zhang , Andy Beaulieu , and Tomasz Janczuk . Shoutouts: In case you missed it in the rush the other day, Robby Ingebretsen announced the release of Seesmic for Windows ... that's going on my...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 dials in skype
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:11 AM
One of the pains in silverlight 3 out of browser was the strict sandbox that was put in place. Although well meaning, this put a heavy restriction on the type of rich desktop like experiences we could produce. Just as in the api limitations in Adobe Air...(read more)
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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 - 2 -- #736
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:28 AM
In this Issue: Rob Houweling , Michael Washington , Colin Eberhardt , Laurent Bugnion , Tomasz Janczuk , Jeremy Likness , and Andy Beaulieu . From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight 4 – Using the webcam Rob Houweling has a tutorial up on using the webcam...(read more)
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Sharing Blend Workspace Settings
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 PM
Expression Blend 3 has two pre-defined Workspaces, available under the Window/Workspaces menu. the Design Workspace is tuned for layout and UI creation, and is the default view you see in Blend. the Animation Workspace is tuned for creating Storyboard...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 WebCam - a quick glance
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:09 PM
WebCam support in Silverlight 4 is a much anticipated feature, and probably didn’t come as much of a surprise.  It’s relatively simple to enable this feature.  The below example shows a simple UI with the code to enable the webcam.  This post does not cover multiple webcams, however calling CaptureDeviceConfiguration.GetAvailableVideoCaptureDevices returns a list of all [...]
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Changing your default WebCam & Mic – Silverlight 4
Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:58 PM
Webcam and microphone support are a much anticipated feature to Silverlight 4.  If you have more than one webcam or audio input device, it’s possible to change your default device. Right click on your application > Click Silverlight > Webcam/ Mic.  Here you will find a menu where you can choose your default devices.
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My talk at #notatpdc postponed
Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:16 PM
Hey guys, I am really sorry for having to postpone my talk about Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow. We had some huge difficulties with the NotAtPDC.com website, and unfortunately we were not able to locate the site administrator on time to solve the issue...(read more)
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PDC09 – Meet the Griffs Code drop
Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:58 PM
Ian and myself really enjoyed presenting our pre conference session “Getting the most out of Silverlight” and we both hope that you enjoyed the sessions. The slide decks will be posted at some point by the event team and I will update the post when this...(read more)
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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 -- #735
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:26 PM
Silverlight 4 Overview Postings Every time there's a beta or a release I try a different way to get all the good stuff out. I waited until today, and am scooping up all the overview blog posts, and posting them first in this post. I've got a few submissions...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 Drag from desktop
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:15 PM
One of the exciting announcements made at pdc 09 was that silverlight 4 will support drag and drop from the desktop to both the web and out of browser. Whats great too is how similar the process is to WPF, the object properties are exactly the same, the...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 Implicit Styling
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:50 PM
One of the cool new features of Silverlight 4 is Implicit Styling: you can now theme your application without resorting to the ImplicitStyleManager from the toolkit. For that you just create Styles in resource and do not specify x:keys (just the TargetType...(read more)
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NotificationWindow – Silverlight 4
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:51 PM
A new addition to Silverlight 4 is the NotificationWindow.  This type of window enables you to show a System notification much like when you receive an Outlook new mail notification or a Growl notification in OSX. Since it operates like a system message, this feature is only available in Out of Browser (OOB) scenarios. This example [...]
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Silverlight 4 – new features
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:46 PM
When Silverlight 3 debuted at MIX09, there were a number of places to find information about the new features, so better than others.  Unfortunately I never remembered the sites and always relied on Google to produce the site for me.  This time will be different; this post will serve as my place for SL4 info. [...]
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Check if running in Out of Browser - Silverlight
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:35 PM
As Silverlight increases its Out of Browser features it will become more important to detect if the application is running in or out of the browser.  This is the check: This was a quick one.
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Silverlight 4 Beta Summary
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:29 PM
At the PDC Conference today, The Gu unveiled the first public release of Silverlight 4 (Beta). This release has some really great additions, but I am most excited about the advances in Business Application Development for Silverlight. Why will Silverlight...(read more)
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