Community Silverlight content

Is Silverlight 4 moving away from cross platform?

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:30:10 GMT

In a recent article in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/silverlight_4_windows_bias/ they make the case that COM support in Silverlight 4 has “crossed a threshold” that will make Silverlight less appealing to developers that want to...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Clipboard access

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:20:00 GMT

Silverlight 4 (currently in beta) adds support for Clipboard ! In Silverlight 3 we had copy/paste available in the Textbox, programmatic access could be done, some IE only solution exists via HTML DOM bridge (so not OOB) or cross-browser (involving Flash...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Mouse Wheel support

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:00:19 GMT

MouseWheel event was available in Silverlight 3 but you had to manage it yourself. Silverlight 4 has built-in Mouse Wheel support for TextBox, ComboBox, Calendar, DatePicker and ScrollViewer (so DataGrid and ListBox as well). Now you can navigate months...(read more)

My UX prototyping presentation from Smidig2009

Community Blogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:33:07 GMT

Last month I was lucky enough to attend and speak at the Smidig2009 (Agile 2009) conference in Oslo. This was my first time attending the conference, and I’m really impressed with the content, speakers, organizers and attendees. The format of the conference...(read more)

Oredev and Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards

Community Blogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:02 GMT

I got back from the Oredev conference in Malmo (Sweden) a few days ago, where I spoke on advanced line-of-business features of WPF and Silverlight. I presented at Oredev last year and became a big fan of this conference – I had to go back! Just...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 -- #737

Community Blogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:03 GMT

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)

Silverlight 4 dials in skype

Community Blogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:11:31 GMT

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)

Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 - 2 -- #736

Community Blogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:28:15 GMT

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)

Sharing Blend Workspace Settings

Community Blogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:49:00 GMT

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)

Silverlight 4 WebCam - a quick glance

Corey Schuman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:09:34 GMT

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...(read more)

Changing your default WebCam & Mic – Silverlight 4

Corey Schuman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:58:02 GMT

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...(read more)

My talk at #notatpdc postponed

Community Blogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:16:05 GMT

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)

PDC09 – Meet the Griffs Code drop

Community Blogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:58:35 GMT

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)

Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 -- #735

Community Blogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:26:49 GMT

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)

Silverlight 4 Drag from desktop

Community Blogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:15:07 GMT

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)