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Silverlight MVP List on Twitter

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:40:00 GMT

The Silverlight MVP community is notorious at sharing information through blogs and Twitter. I created a new Silverlight MVP Twitter list to make it easier to follow all of the Silverlight MVPs and the evangelists. You can follow the entire group using...( read more )...(read more)

Geek Profiles – Scott Guthrie

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:05:40 GMT

Part of what Tim and I do is to provide meaningful connections between the dev team and the community. Today I’m happy to launch a new series of Geek Profiles, highlighting many of the folks who design and implement Silverlight. These are not intended...( read more )...(read more)

A look at the Printing API in Silverlight 4

Community Blogs — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:05:56 GMT

By Corey SchumaWith the addition of the much anticipated Printing API, Silverlight continues to round out its feature set. Although beta, it’s very flexible enabling you to print what you see on screen, selected portions of the UI, custom “print-friendly...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Text Trimming

Community Blogs — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:44:21 GMT

Another feature which was in WPF but not in Silverlight 3… TextTrimming is now available in Silverlight 4! With previous version of Silverlight you could try some workaround (calculate the width of your text depending on the font size and family), but...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search

Brad Abrams : Silverlight — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:11:51 GMT

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn’t really get to walkthrough during the talk. I thought I’d do a blog post showing how it is done. To get started you need: Visual Studio 2010 Read More......(read more)

Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:11:51 GMT

State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:43:47 GMT

Learn how to extend the custom value pickers that make selecting a state, element, or storyboard name easier to your own properties....( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 and command line execution

Community Blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:47:05 GMT

In my last post on out of browser we showed how easy and powerful it is , all be it a bit of a step back in the development time machine, to execute native windows applications using the new com support in silverlight 4. The next logical question arises...( read more )...(read more)

Ian Burt on performance issues with RIA services and a bit more

Community Blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:16:00 GMT

Building N-Tier business applications with technologies currently in a CTP version (facing WCF RIA Services, formerly .NET RIA Services) could be not the easiest job. One of our recent articles was on this topic ( Building N-Tier business applications...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 - 2 -- #743

Community Blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:45:18 GMT

In this Issue: African Geek , Alan Mendelevich , Jeff Wilcox , CorrinaB , Tim Heuer , Jeff Handley , Timmy Kokke , Cameron Albert , Antoni Dol , and Fredrik Normén . Shoutouts: Check out the WCF RIA Services Code Gallery on MSDN ... lots of good resources...( read more )...(read more)

Handling Network Outage in Silverlight with Caliburn

Community Blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:11:37 GMT

If you are building an OOB application with Silverlight that relies on web services, you may have some interesting challenges on you hands. You probably want to have some fallback for certain operations when the network is down. You can do...( read more )...(read more)

Windows System Colour Theme for Silverlight

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:18:53 GMT

This is something that I played with on a basic level a while ago but Corrina has just put together a post with a new downloadable theme around high-contrast themes for Silverlight – here’s the link; Windows System Colour Themes for Silverlight...( read...( read more )...(read more)

PollingDuplex scaling in Windows Azure

Microsoft Weblogs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:58:58 GMT

One of the great sessions at this year’s PDC talked about a collaboration between Invensys and Microsoft’s DPE team to build a solution that can deliver energy pricing information to a variety of clients, using a duplex message pattern. Effectively Invensys...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 -- #742

Community Blogs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:38:55 GMT

In this Issue: Rene Schulte , Jason Harper , Brad Abrams , John Papa , Jeremy Likness , Jeff Wilcox , Fredrik Normén , Tim Heuer , Shawn Wildermuth , and Andrej Tozon . Shoutouts: Ward Bell has a PDF up of PDC 2009 Session Links -- thanks Ward! Tim Heuer...( read more )...(read more)

Tim Sneath Interview on Silverlight 4 and WPF

Community Blogs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:34:36 GMT

I was lucky enough at PDC 09 to run into (dr) Tim Sneath and ask him about WPF and the Silverlight continuum in the time of Silverlight 4. Go out to facebook and watch the interview. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=190747957550 Over the next...( read more )...(read more)

Sharing isn't easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF]

Microsoft Weblogs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:09:00 GMT

I casually mentioned two tricks for sharing the same XAML across Silverlight and WPF in the notes of a post a couple weeks ago. I used both techniques in my DataVisualizationDemos project (which compiles for Silverlight and WPF from the same source code...( read more )...(read more)

Implicit Styles in Silverlight 4

Community Blogs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:14:00 GMT

Introduction Only three months after the release of the latest official version of Silverlight 3, a new beta version – Silverlight 4 is already a fact. There are a lot of new things, which deserve to be mentioned, such as Rich Text, drop target, webcam...( read more )...(read more)

What’s New in Silverlight 4 – Download and Run!

Microsoft Weblogs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:02:00 GMT

Last week I posted about the great new materials on Channel 9’s site and on Silverlight.net for Silverlight 4. I had several people ask me about a downloadable version of my “What’s new in Silverlight 4” whitepaper that is posted on Channel 9’s site in...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3

Microsoft Weblogs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:58:07 GMT

Our second Silverlight podcast features an interview with James Clarke of the Expression Encoder team. Learn about how Encoder works, screen capture and its object model. There are two versions: Enhanced AAC file for iPod: click here Standard MP3 file...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 : A long term player

Community Blogs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:27:00 GMT

Well, I still not came out of those glorious demos of Silverlight 4 Beta shown by Scott Gu on eve of PDC09..My mind is still in that 2nd Day keynote at PDC..Wow !! Microsoft and Team Silverlight made it !! You all must be wondering why this place is still...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 -- #741

Community Blogs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:18 GMT

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness , Andrej Tozon , Lee , Adam Kinney , Karl Shifflett , Andy Beaulieu , and Rob Houweling . From SilverlightCream.com : Revisiting Lorem Ipsum in Silverlight 4 with RichTextArea and Printing Jeremy Likness revisits some previous...( read more )...(read more)

Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight

Community Blogs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:05:11 GMT

URL : http://wildermuth.com/downloads/takemypicture.zip WebCam and Microphone support was one of the most requested features for Silverlight and Microsoft has answered the call. There are several ways to interact with the WebCam, but i'll start with the...( read more )...(read more)

LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd

Microsoft Weblogs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:30:16 GMT

This past week was a busy one – with lots of announcements and cool releases happening at this year’s PDC conference . All of the PDC keynotes and breakout sessions are now posted online for anyone to watch for free. You can find sessions...( read more )...(read more)

CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta

Microsoft Weblogs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:53:19 GMT

One of the features you may have missed that was added to the Silverlight 4 beta is the new CompositeTransform class. The new class provides a simpler way to transform an element, by simply offering a single object to instantiate rather than a group of...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 - 3 -- #740

Community Blogs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:43:28 GMT

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness , Jesse Bishop , Deborah Kurata , Mark Tucker , Fredrik Normén , Corey Schuman ( 2 ), Laurent Duveau , Jeff Wilcox , and Erik Mork . Shoutout: Joe Stegman posted his BrowserFlow sample from PDC 2009 From SilverlightCream...( read more )...(read more)