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Sela Developer Practice – Take Two
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:41 AM

I’m enjoying PDC09 at LA. As a part of Sela representatives here I am participating at lectures and meetings with many key professionals from Microsoft and other companies. After getting back from PDC I’ll participate at Sela Developer Practice (SDP)...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, DEV, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 5) – DataBinding improvements
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:26 AM

Silverlight 4 introduces improvements in DataBinding. between the improvements are IDataErrorInfo support, ability to bind to DataObjects, StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue support and many others. This post will show how to use StringFormat...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, Data Binding, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta

Silverlight 4 Quick Tip: Styling application
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:24 AM

Silverlight 4 supports default styles. Default styles are styles with TargetType, but without x:Key property set. Those styles will be applied to all controls from corresponding type. The sample of default (also sometime called anonymous) style: <...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta, style

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 4) – Out-of-browser applications: even more features
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:23 AM

In addition to previous features, Silverlight 4 adds some more nice improvements to Out-of-Browser model. Now it allows to control Top/Left position of the out-of-browser window, bring it to the foreground (if not active), check if the window is topmost...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta, Out of Browser

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 3) – Elevated Out-of-browser applications
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:21 AM

Silverlight 4 enhances the out-of-browser feature introduced in previous version of the technology. Silverlight 3 added a feature to use application in Out-of-browser mode – install application shortcut to desktop or start menu, and launch it within application...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta, Out of Browser, DOM

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 2) – Printing Support
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:18 AM

In previous part (here) I’ve created sample application which uses Webcam and captures the image. In this post I’ll show how to print received image (and any part of the UI) to a printer. In Silverlight 4 we got new class, called PrintDocument which is...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Printer, Silverlight 4, Beta

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 1) – Webcam/Mic Support
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:16 AM

This post starts a series of post about new features in Silverlight 4 Beta released at PDC 09. Today I’ll show how to use Webcam/Mic support feature in the new version. In order to use the Webcam/Mic the user should has valid drivers installed. To see...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta, Webcam

Silverlight 4: What’s New?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:14 AM

Today Microsoft announced new version of Silverlight, and released the Beta version of Silverlight 4. Here is the summary of new features in this version: Better Out of Browser Applications Elevated Privileges Support Cross Domain Networking Access Full...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, Beta

C# 4 dynamic and DynamicObject in Silverlight 4
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:30 AM

One of the coolest new things with Silverlight 4 is the ability to use C# 4 and in particular the dynamic keyword and infrastructure that comes along with it. The dynamic keyword allows for dynamic typing in .net, which is great for a number of reasons...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

Silverlight 4 beta announced
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:14 AM

Today Scott Guthrie announced the beta release of Silverlight 4, the release rate for Silverlight is amazing. Its only been 4 months since we got the release of Silverlight 3 and now everyone is getting their hands on with the beta of version 4, amazing...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

Upcoming Balder release
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:31 PM

My blog has been dead silent lately. The reason for this is that I'm quite busy getting a new release of Balder out the door. For the upcoming release, which will be named 0.8.8 - still in Alpha mode, I've focused a lot on code quality and getting...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Balder

Silverlight Tip: Enumerating embedded resources
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:28 PM

Today I’ve got a “Call for Help” from one of Silverlight MVPs – Bill Reiss . The mail said: “I would like to enumerate all items that were marked as Content or Resource in the main XAP file. If I can’t do both I’d settle for one. Any sample code for this...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, c#, mvp, .NET 3.5, DEV, Silverlight 3, Csharp, Dynamic, .NET 4.0, Resource, Embedded, PDC09, SDP

Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight)
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:59 PM

In a previous post and video, I went through how to use the stock easing functions in your WPF 4 applications. Now, let’s look at how to create your own easing functions. Once you know the formula you want to use, the mechanics of creating custom...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, WindowsClient

Launch of the Dutch Silverlight and Expression Insiders User Group
Monday, November 02, 2009 9:00 AM

Today is the day the Dutch Silverlight and Expression Insiders User Group is officially launched. How did it start? A few months ago during the Dutch Microsoft DevDays I met Expression MVP Rob Houweling and creator of Silverlight Spy Koen Zwikstra. We...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Technology, Uncategorized, SIXIN

Balder gets declarative
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:56 PM

We're getting closer to the BETA mark for Balder, and we're starting to get most of the features we want in for version 1 ready. The latest feature is the ability to declaratively through Xaml get Balder up and running. Current release is versioned...( read more ) Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, c#, 3D, Game Development, Balder

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