Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

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Alan Cobb — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:13:33 GMT

Jesse,

As you suggested, I translated Scott's Silverlight Digg app to WPF. It was a bit more involved than I expected. I wrote it up in a blog article with downloadable WPF source code for VS2008.

See: www.alancobb.com/.../TranslatingScottGusSilverlightDiggClientToWPF.aspx

Alan Cobb

re: Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

Jim Lynn — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:11:21 GMT

I totally agree. The first thing I thought when reading ScottGu's posts was 'Why can't I download the beta NOW?' but the second was 'That looks so much more like WPF now' and I did exactly what you recommended - I followed the demo as a WPF application. Then when it wouldn't talk to digg (which Scott talks about) I just switched it to talk to a site I maintain and it all worked great. I even added a MediaElement to play movies from my site and display comments. Now my only frustration is that I can't just point people at a URL and have it work until 2.0 beta ships.

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re: Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

Joe1972 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:24:40 GMT

There was a hint on a recent Dot Net Rocks that the DockPanel would not make the cut - as it can be emulated with a Grid. Wrap Panel - I would expect that to make it.

To keep WPF compatibility I think it would be quite easy to wrap up existing Panel support to fill in the gaps.

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Thomas Meinike sent me the first German SL link, and very cool... a xaml collection, and Jesse Liberty

re: Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

BenHayat — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:44:15 GMT

>>But I want to. Does that count?<<

Jesse, you're my hero and friend, and whatever you say, I accept (and yes it counts a lot). But you can't blame me for not trying or asking ;-)

BTW, I just got my Quad CPU HP up and running (Vista with SP1) and neither in FF nor in IE 7, I can see the area (like here) where I can leave a comment. It shows all blank. So now, I'm on my XP and I can put in comment. Do you know why this is happening?

..Ben

re: Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

wisecarver — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:24:51 GMT

Hold your hand up Jesse...

I'm giving ya a High 5!

re: Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

jesseliberty — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:52:10 GMT

I really want to clarify. But I can't.

But I want to. Does that count?

re: Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

BenHayat — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:41:57 GMT

Jesse, this is what Scott said regarding the Panel support:

"built-in layout management panels (StackPanel, Grid, Panel, etc),"

Can you tell us if we are getting WrapPanel and Docpanel?

Thanks!

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re: Learning Silverlight 2 - More things you can do today.

wisecarver — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:31:03 GMT

Kudos ;-)