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Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:07:54 GMT

Quick Bit David @Pogue tweeted a link to this NY Times article , reporting that there are [longer] better, faster [stronger] apps available than Shazam (which is about to start charging new customers…) so I extensively examined the alternatives for just...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Fluid UI

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:06:20 GMT

This is the first of many mini-tutorials on Silverlight 4 features. An enhancement has been made that allows you to add animation when items are added ,or removed from, the list box. Silverlight 4 adds a new StateGroup to the ListBoxItem class:...( read more )...(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 )...(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 )...(read more)

MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:09:00 GMT

Earlier today I blogged about my session yesterday on Advanced Large Scale Applications with Silverlight at PDC 09. I had a great time at PDC but now that I am home and have a faster and more stable internet connection, I zipped my demo code for the Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Toolkit November 2009: Activity Control –> BusyIndicator (a.k.a. Update 3: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application)

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:14:45 GMT

Wow! What a week! PDC, the Silverlight 4 Beta, and now the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit! There’s been a ton of great news and exciting announcements, and now I can share with you that the Activity control, first blogged...( read more )...(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 )...(read more)

DomainDataSource Error Handling

Jeff Handley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:29:53 GMT

With the RIA Services July 2009 Preview release, we heard significant feedback about the DomainDataSource error handling story. The biggest problem was when errors occurred during Load() or SubmitChanges(), server-side errors would be silently swallowed Read More......(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 )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Security Overview White Paper

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:56:00 GMT

Wanted to let folks know about a white paper we're making available (attached below). We plan to incorporate this into the main Silverlight documentation by the time we ship the Silverlight 4, but in the meantime I didn't want to keep this content to...( read more )...(read more)

PDC Session: Silverlight 4 Beta Overview

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:48:05 GMT

Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday! My session video has already been posted online. You can also download the deck here. You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos. ......( read more )...(read more)

Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:17 GMT

The Silverlight Controls Browser sample app can now be taken out-of-browser. Here's info on that, plus how to get it done in your own apps....( read more )...(read more)

TrustedApp Sample from PDC 2009

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:39:00 GMT

Here is the source to the TrustedApp media player sample I showed at PDC 2009 . This sample requires the Silverlight 4 Beta which you can find here . This "trusted app" sample uses the new file system APIs, notification window APIs, windowing APIs, WebBrowser...( read more )...(read more)

BrowserFlow sample from PDC 2009

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:29:00 GMT

Here's the source to the BrowserFlow sample I showed at PDC 2009 . This sample requires the Silverlight 4 Beta which you can find here . The sample uses the combination of the WebBrowser Control and HTMLBrush to display an interactive Ad that also plays...( read more )...(read more)

PDC 2009 Out Of Browser Session

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:21:00 GMT

I just got back from PDC 2009 where I had a great time presenting a session on the new Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser Features. The talk is available on-demand here and you can find the slide deck here . The session covered the following new Silverlight...( read more )...(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 post does not cover multiple webcams, however calling CaptureDeviceConfiguration.GetAvailableVideoCaptureDevices returns a list of all [...]...(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/ Mic. Here you will find a menu where you can choose your default devices....(read more)

BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:37:02 GMT

BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)

Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:49:06 GMT

The November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit finally includes application library caching support to help reduce the size of your application .Xaps....( read more )...(read more)

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:30:00 GMT

I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009 . I was able to spend much of the time in a demo… Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk through it on your own machine: What you need to get started: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

Brad Abrams : Silverlight — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:10:00 GMT

We had a fantastic turnout yesterday for my session at PDC on Advanced Large Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight . The room was packed and there were so many great questions that they ended up kicking me out of the room! LOL Thanks so much for...( read more )...(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 )...(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 )...(read more)

EF v2 Goodness + RIA Services

Digital Ruminations — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:17 GMT

If you’ve spent any time on the RIA Services forums or attempting to use our LinqToEntitiesDomainService base class yourself, you’ll know that it wasn’t very hard to run into issues :) For example, it was very easy to run into server side issues when Read More......(read more)