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Silverlight 3 Links from the Reston DevDinner
Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:54 AM

Thanks again to Marc Schweigert for hosting last night’s DevDinner in Reston. My blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog and you can follow me on twitter , or message me on twitter via @pete_brown. Below are demos I used and links I mentioned or wanted... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, RIA, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, scottgu, Events, Seema Ramchandani, WorldWide Telescope, Expression Blend, Expression Encoder, Marc Schweigert, MIX09, Synthesizer

Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1.5 of 2) More on Service Call Chaining
Friday, June 27, 2008 11:05 AM

In my previous post , I discussed how to chain service calls. One question I received on that was how to do the opposite: take an action after all the calls (or by extension, some logical groups of calls) have completed. This is one of the challenges... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Architecture, Async, Patterns

Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 2) - Async Service Call Chaining
Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:41 PM

The Publish and Subscribe pattern (which uses the Observer Pattern in .NET - more info here ) is one of those patterns we use all the time while thinking nothing of it. In .NET, we get the concrete implementation via events and delegates. By abstracting... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Business Applications, Architecture

Silverlight Charts and Graphs - with Source Code
Monday, March 31, 2008 5:46 AM

If you are looking for some great Silverlight 2 charts and graphs for data presentation (not interactivity at this point), check out what the people at VISIfire have come up with . Besides being a great example of what one can do with vector drawing,... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

State Management and Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2 Beta 1
Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:07 AM

Some of the questions that came out of the Silverlight for Business Applications webcast I did on Wednesday centered around how to handle "global variables" and how to handle state. I'll address both of those here as they are very common... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

Links from Today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications Webcast
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:02 PM

I'll post a link to the recording once I have that. In the mean time, here are some of the links mentioned in today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications webcast: Silverlight 2 Woodgrove Bank Sample Application Source Code for same (also includes... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, RIA, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Events

Using Silverlight Isolated Storage for Local State Backup
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:55 PM

A recurring problem that both Silverlight and Flash developers have to deal with is the volatility of the browser. One place where this can really hurt you is if, for example, you want to pop up a donation page or other straight browser content at the... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

Upcoming Silverlight 2 Talks and Webcasts
Friday, February 22, 2008 7:25 PM

I hope you're as excited about Silverlight 2 as I am! If you haven't checked it out yet, Scott Guthrie just posted a great article and a huge multi-part tutorial for building a Silverlight 2 application to pull Digg results back via REST. He shows... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, MIX08, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Events, Microsoft DPE

Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, Ajax - Which One is for Me?
Monday, February 04, 2008 1:43 AM

Early in my programming career, we had a choice to make at the beginning of each project: do we do this as a command-line/console app (prompt and response), use a DOS windowing library, or do a Windows 3 native app? Eventually, it became the norm to do... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, .NET, Silverlight, RIA, Business Applications, User Experience (UX), Silverlight Business Applications, Architecture

WPF In the Enterprise - the Lawson Smart Client
Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:16 AM

This is a great example of what a real business-oriented WPF (and by extension, Silverlight 2.0) application can look like. Battleship gray this is not. The look and feel is beautiful, the visual feedback slick, and the workflow simple and appropriate... Read More...

by POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, .NET, Silverlight, RIA, Business Applications, User Experience (UX)