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Real Rapid Application Development for RIA: Silverlight 4 Beta available for download
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:24 PM

Wow, this is really an awesome release, Silverlight 4 Beta is real RAD for RIA. Check out the official silverlight.net site to download the new stuff with full Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 support (it’s a developer release, so no go-live license at... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Silverlight, New Technology, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming, Silverlight 4

Multi-Touch gesture recognition in Silverlight 3
Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:54 AM

In this article, Jesse Bishop illustrates how to receive and interpret multi-touch input and translate these events into standard gestures, source code available! Read More... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: UX, Silverlight 3, New Technology, Rich Internet Applications, UX - Design, .NET Programming

.NET RIA Services: the place to start
Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:49 AM

Just a quick shout-out to post a new section of the silverlight.net site which contains all the necessary resources to start with .NET RIA Services: Enjoy Rapid Application Development for Rich Internet Applications (RAD for RIA) in Silverlight! Read... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: News, Patterns, Silverlight 3, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming

My Twitter Lists
Friday, October 30, 2009 5:11 PM

Twitter has just enabled a new feature named “Lists” which permits to organize in categories the people you are following and make their tweets available to others. In this way it’s very simple to navigate the various subjects, follow the lists created... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Silverlight, Web 2.0, News, Windows Azure, Silverlight 3, New Technology, Rich Internet Applications, UX - Design, .NET Programming, Programming, Cloud Computing

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and updated Silverlight Toolkit available
Monday, October 19, 2009 4:52 PM

Lot of news this week! Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available for download here. The new Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release is also available on Codeplex featuring Visual Studio 2010 support and various improvements on existing... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: WPF, .NET, XAML, Visual Studio, c#, Silverlight 3, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming, Programming, F#

Silverlight 3 Multi-Touch Drag and Zoom Behaviors published on Expression gallery
Sunday, September 06, 2009 12:28 PM

I’ve published in the Expression gallery the Multi-Touch behaviors featuring Drag and Zoom gestures already posted on CodePlex. The original article is available here. I should insert new features in the next weeks, feel free to ping me for any... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Expression, Silverlight 3, New Technology, Rich Internet Applications, UX - Design, .NET Programming

NDepend: a great tool to analyze Silverlight / Expression assemblies and save precious time
Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:03 AM

I usually work with early-stage products containing poor or no documentation, in such cases a tool to help understand the tools and libraries you are using can really be a time saver. Recently I’ve received a gift by Patrick Smacchia, Microsoft C# MVP... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Expression, Silverlight 3, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming, Programming

Get Started with Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 – A full course
Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:02 AM

I’ve recently found on Twitter (thanks to Arturo Toledo) a well-done and complete course (100-200 level content) about Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3, containing material for students, instructors and sample code. Topics include: Animations... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Expression, Silverlight 3, Rich Internet Applications, UX - Design, .NET Programming

Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 behaviors for enabling Multi-touch gestures
Friday, August 14, 2009 5:43 PM

In the previous post, I’ve described a basic example of WPF custom control for reusing multi-touch functionalities across applications. The same task can be achieved in Silverlight 3 using the new touch apis (check out this great article by Tim Heuer... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 3, New Technology, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming, Windows Systems

A WPF custom control for enabling Windows 7 Multi-touch gestures
Friday, August 14, 2009 4:44 PM

Windows 7 is now available, it’s time to build new user experiences using the new stuff, like multi-touch! To play with this new feature, I have started a Codeplex project at http://multitouch.codeplex.com containing a first WPF custom control (and some... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, New Technology, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming, Programming, Windows Systems, Microsoft Windows Systems

Simon in the cloud: deploying your existing Silverlight application to the Windows Azure platform
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:46 PM

Windows Azure July 2009 CTP is now available: you can download the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio from here. It’s now possible to associate an ASP.NET Web Application project in a Cloud Service solution as a Web Role: in this way... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming, Microsoft Windows Systems, Cloud Computing

Silverlight on iPhone? MonoTouch!
Monday, July 20, 2009 12:37 PM

MonoTouch is the Mono edition for iPhone and iPod. It will enable developers to compile for these devices taking advantage of the iPhone APIs and reusing .NET skills. As reported in the roadmap, version 2.0 should contain a Silverlight to iPhone compiler... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Silverlight, Mobile, Open Source, New Technology, Rich Internet Applications, .NET Programming, Linux and Open Source