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Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up
Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:23 PM
Well, PDC09 is over and it was a blast. What a relief it is to finally be able to show the world what the Silverlight team has been working on since Silverlight 3. Based on the feedback at the conference, people are excited to dig into the new bits and...
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...
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...
SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export
Friday, November 20, 2009 6:54 PM
At PDC, a customer told me about a prototype he had built using several tab controls. He then asked me how one could include the content of different tabs of a tab control in the Microsoft Word documents that the SketchFlow Word Export creates – normally...
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...
A Party Game.
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:07 PM
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...
Silverlight 4 Fluid UI
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:06 AM
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:...
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...
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...
Silverlight 4 Security Overview White Paper
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:56 PM
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...
PDC Session: Silverlight 4 Beta Overview
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:48 PM
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...
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...
TrustedApp Sample from PDC 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:39 PM
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...
BrowserFlow sample from PDC 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:29 PM
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...
PDC 2009 Out Of Browser Session
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:21 PM
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...
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