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Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:43 AM

The Silverlight HVP Spec

The Silverlight HyperVideo Player: A Community Project The Silverlight HVP Elevator Pitch : The Silverlight H yper V ideo P layer (HVP) will do for Silverlight How Do I Videos what Hypertext did for the Internet: it will provide simple, fast, and easy...
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Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:14 AM

Commitments

I’ve received a number of messages along the lines of, “Seems like things have really slowed down on your blog” or even “Hey, where’s the signal? Too much noise.” Fair enough ; though this is a common effect of the run up to a major “show” such as PDC...
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Friday, November 06, 2009 2:28 PM

Designer v Xaml v Code

This is the second in my new series on Getting Started With Silverlight (please see the first article for information on the series and where to get the software you need). [updated11/8] Don’t Start with Xaml… Until recently, just about every introduction...
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Monday, November 02, 2009 9:44 AM

Silverlight From Zero

This is the first of a series of blog posts directed at folks who are new to Silverlight and/or want to brush up on the fundamentals. It will consist of mini-tutorials on topics I think need more coverage, and links to existing mini-tutorials , tutorials...
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Monday, October 26, 2009 5:46 PM

Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility

The Closed Captioning For Silverlight Media page at T2Sami.com says in its commentary: A number of very sophisticated Silverlight Video players are under development: some open source, some proprietary…. The commitment to captioning in Silverlight is...
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Monday, October 19, 2009 3:34 PM

Building A Product For Real

As some of you know; I’ve been showing a number of Silverlight features in terms of Project Turing.   It was never my intention to finish that project; rather to use it as a mooring point to ensure that the mini-tutorials were realistic about building...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:48 PM

Project Turing: Beginning RIA Svcs

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 9 | Advanced: 6 ] FAQ | Table of Contents | Definitions What is this and where do I start ? From Database to DataGrid The next step in Project Turing is to create a first iteration of the Silverlight application that will...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 6:25 PM

Project Turing: Multiple Tables & RIA Services

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 10 | Advanced: 7 ] FAQ | Table of Contents | Definitions What is this and where do I start ? In the previous listing in the Project Turing series, I examined extracting data from a single table and displaying it in the DataGrid...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:33 PM

In Response To DNR 476

Dot Net Rocks is certainly one of the most influential and valuable podcasts for .NET developers and their recent show (#476) was a compelling discussion about whether software development has become too complex. Recorded at DevLink in Nashville, the...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:48 AM

LinqToSQL A Detailed Review

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 8 | Advanced: 5 ] FAQ | Table of Contents | Definitions What is this and where do I start ? In a previous post I discussed the advantage of separating the Data Access Layer (retrieving data from your data store) from the...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 7:17 PM

Linq For Silverlight Developers

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 7] FAQ Table of Contents What is this and where do I start ? Special Note: This posting introduces a new element in the series: definitions for terms that may not be familiar. Clicking on the link will bring you to the definition...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:39 PM

From DB to DataGrid – So Many Choices!

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 6, Advanced: 4] FAQ Table of Contents What is this and where do I start ? In the previous entry , we created the design for the database. Over the next few postings, we’ll be working with that Data in five distinct ways...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:02 PM

DataBase Design & Creation

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) [Novice: Page 5, Advanced: Page 3] FAQ Table of Contents This project will explore, among other things, getting data into and out of a SQL Database. In fact, we’ll explore a number of ways of doing so...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:26 PM

Creating A Form – Level 100

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) Turing Page [Novice: 4] FAQ Table of Contents In Novice Page 3 we were about to create a form. Here is the form we’ll create: Layout Is Easiest In Expression Blend To create this form, I’ll begin by opening...
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Friday, July 31, 2009 3:08 PM

Turing Project: Two Levels

Turing Entry: [Novice: 2] [Advanced: 2] FAQ Table of Contents In a previous post I described Project Turing. This is the second entry for that project and will describe how I hope to meet the needs of two audiences: Novice: programmers who may or may...
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