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Silverlight MVP List on Twitter
Thursday, November 26, 2009 6:40 PM
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...
Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:11 PM
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...
Windows System Colour Theme for Silverlight
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:18 PM
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...
Sharing isn't easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:09 AM
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...
What’s New in Silverlight 4 – Download and Run!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:02 AM
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...
LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd
Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 AM
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...
CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta
Monday, November 23, 2009 12:53 AM
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...
10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching
Sunday, November 22, 2009 4:50 PM
The common technique many developers use to debug Silverlight Out of Browser applications is to attach the debugger to the SLLauncher.exe process. However, there is a another way to debug installed OoB apps. Attaching to the process does not allow you... Read More...
Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications
Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:48 AM
I was watching Joe Stegman’s talk at PDC09 about “ Improving and Extending the Silverlight 4 Sandbox ” and I learnt something that I felt I really should have known already and had a bit of a “D’oh!” moment but I’m not too proud to share my ignorance... Read More...
Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:12 PM
This is the first in series of posts called the “Extensibility Series.”  This series will cover writing design-times for WPF & Silverlight custom controls for the WPF & Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 that target .NET 4.0 and... Read More...
Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools
Friday, November 20, 2009 6:02 PM
The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release (where we first introduced Visual Studio 2010 support). It also adds a Silverlight 4 Beta version. New infrastructure & test... Read More...
MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session
Friday, November 20, 2009 2:09 AM
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...
Silverlight Toolkit November 2009: Activity Control –> BusyIndicator (a.k.a. Update 3: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application)
Friday, November 20, 2009 1:14 AM
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...
Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:47 PM
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...
BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release
Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:37 PM
BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit. Read More... Read More...
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