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Silverlight MVP List on Twitter

2009-11-26T23:40:00Z

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

2009-11-26T21:05:40Z

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)

Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search

2009-11-25T19:11:51Z

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)

State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers

2009-11-25T08:43:47Z

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)

Windows System Colour Theme for Silverlight

2009-11-25T00:18:53Z

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

2009-11-24T19:58:58Z

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)

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

2009-11-24T07:09:00Z

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)

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

2009-11-24T05:02:00Z

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

2009-11-24T01:58:07Z

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)

LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd

2009-11-23T07:30:16Z

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

2009-11-23T05:53:19Z

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 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications

2009-11-23T04:38:13Z

One of the cool features for Silverlight 4 Out-of-browser applications that was announced as a part of the Silverlight 4 beta release is the NotificationWindow class. Most commonly referred to as “toast” these are the little notifications that popup in Read More......(read more)

Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration

2009-11-23T03:36:10Z

If you’ve been working with Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight (or WPF) development, you’ve likely used the Open in Expression Blend feature in Visual Studio. This occurs when you right-click on a XAML file in your project/solution Read More......(read more)

RIA Services templates not showing in Visual Studio 2010?

2009-11-22T23:22:06Z

Last week, the Silverlight 4 beta release included the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 . This single installer would perform the following (assuming you had either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 already installed: Install Read More......(read more)

10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching

2009-11-22T21:50:00Z

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......(read more)