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What is coming in the next few weeks?

A couple readers of my blog and folks eager to learn more about Silverlight 2 have written to me asking for 2 things:

1. Tutorials and Videos on the specific topics of interest to them (great, keep 'em coming) and

2. Greater transparency in my schedule of what I'll be releasing

Normally, I don't like to say "I'll be taping, or writing about this subject or that, because the schedule inevitably changes; for any number of reasons: other things rise on the priority list, something is about to change in the way it works so I decide to wait, someone else is about to cover that topic, etc. etc.

All of that said, since I've been asked, here is my tentative list of what I hope to release in the upcoming weeks

Tutorials

  • Keyboard input events on controls
  • User controls
  • Expression Blend for Silverlight Programmers

HDI Videos

  • Creating Controls Dyanmically (in code vs. XAML)
  • Styles
  • Templates
  • Keyboard input events
  • Creating User Controls
  • Expression Blend For Silverlight Programmers
  • Recreating ScottGu's tutorial on Blend as a video

I'll probably add some, and I can't guarantee the order, but that is the plan, at least right now.  My hope is to turn these out quickly to provide a good base of material.

Thanks for your patience and support.

 

-jesse

Published Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:01 PM by jesseliberty

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# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

If possible, I'd like to see navigation and deployment tutorials.

Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:10 PM by shaggygi

# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

I know everyone is trying very hard, and we very much appreciate it.

But...

score: 200 to 0.5

I can find about 200 articles/webcasts/videos on PULLING and displaying data, but no one ever wants to show us how to PUSH/Save/CRUD back to a remote database.  There's half a video on silverlight.net, but the second half isn't even posted.  

Is it so hard in Silverlight to save data changes back to a remote database that no one wants to write about it?  Should I give up on Silverlight and move on?  Are LOB apps not going to work for this?

Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:43 PM by FlyingFishStix

# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

We're well underway writing a database-driven enterprise app. Most of our effort has been in creating custom controls -- all from code (so performance is quite fast). The database interfacing wasn't difficult. Check out the various videos on using Web services, as we found them helpful.

Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:14 PM by Drzog

# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

Hi Jesse, what I'd like to see is :

1. Navigation

2. How to use content created in Expression Design in SL 2

3. Is it possible to use the XAML from Expression Design and manipulate it via C# ? (for instance some sort of an active background ?)

4. Item templating for datagrids and listboxes

5. Creatign custom controls such as password boxes and dropdown buttons

Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:01 AM by Maciek

# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

To Drzog:

Hi, interesting post from you!

a) Are you guys using Astoria as your middle tier server? If not, did you write your own middle tier and client side to maintain tracking and concurrency?

b) Was Beta 1 good enough to accomplish what you needed to do?

c) You said:

>>Most of our effort has been in creating custom controls -- all from code<<

Do you mean you guys wrote them in C# instead of XAML? And more importantly, did you experiment with creating a UC in C# and in XAML and see a big difference in performance?

You should make a write up of your findings. If you like, you can respond to me directly @

Micnet@Ix.Netcom.Com

Thanks!

..Ben

Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:41 AM by BenHayat

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# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

>>Hi Jesse, what I'd like to see is :

1. Navigation

Please say more. What kind of navigation do you mean (yardarms?)

2. How to use content created in Expression Design in SL 2

Well... I'm going to start with a series on using Expression Blend for developers.  That may actually help with building the bridges you are looking for, but I'll add your idea to the list and Tim H. and I will talk over hwich of us might have a go at it.

3. Is it possible to use the XAML from Expression Design and manipulate it via C# ? (for instance some sort of an active background ?)

Short answer: it's software, with enough time and energy you can do anything. That said, this is not an area I've spent any time in at all.

4. Item templating for datagrids and listboxes

High on my list. You can count on a tutorial and some videos.

5. Creatign custom controls such as password boxes and dropdown buttons

Ditto.

As a rough guess, you'll see numbers 4 and 5 a good bit earlier than the others (at least from me; there are lots of folks buidling lots of interesting content!)

Monday, April 21, 2008 9:40 PM by jesseliberty

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# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

Would be very helpfull for us to know, at least, which controls we can expect in SL2 Beta 2, and we can focus in those MS will not provide, and we can focus to learn specific topics...because SL has a lot of gooood things to learn.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:48 AM by thosebug

# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

Creating Controls Dyanmically (in code vs. XAML)

I like that you had this FIRST(hope it remains that way).

I am especially concerned about creating the datagrid in code, and setting styles for ALL controls in code.

Thanks!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:56 PM by samcov

# re: What is coming in the next few weeks?

Jesse, here is a more real world problem I would like to see a programatic solution to.

I want to dynamically build a data grid, and give it a List of objects to display, but I only want to show a subset of the fields in the object.

Now, this wouldn't be a big problem if the datagrid didn't choke on anonymous types, but we should still be able to tell the frid which fields to display, just like we can in the XAML.

Sorry for the long winded response.

Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:51 PM by samcov