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The Future of Client App Dev : WPF and Silverlight Convergence
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:51 PM

Silverlight has come an amazing distance since the initial 1.0 release and 1.1 alpha (controls? who needs controls?) just over two years ago. It’s hard to believe that we’re on Silverlight 4 in such a short time. It’s even harder to believe that each... Read More...

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

Filed under: WPF, .NET, Silverlight, WindowsClient, PDC09, win7

PDC09 – Meet the Griffs Code drop
Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:58 PM

Ian and myself really enjoyed presenting our pre conference session “Getting the most out of Silverlight” and we both hope that you enjoyed the sessions. The slide decks will be posted at some point by the event team and I will update the post when this... Read More...

by xaml ninja

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, MVVM, Ninject, PDC09

Sela Developer Practice – Take Two
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:41 AM

I’m enjoying PDC09 at LA. As a part of Sela representatives here I am participating at lectures and meetings with many key professionals from Microsoft and other companies. After getting back from PDC I’ll participate at Sela Developer Practice (SDP)... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, DEV, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 5) – DataBinding improvements
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:26 AM

Silverlight 4 introduces improvements in DataBinding. between the improvements are IDataErrorInfo support, ability to bind to DataObjects, StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue support and many others. This post will show how to use StringFormat... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, c#, Data Binding, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta

Silverlight 4 Quick Tip: Styling application
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:24 AM

Silverlight 4 supports default styles. Default styles are styles with TargetType, but without x:Key property set. Those styles will be applied to all controls from corresponding type. The sample of default (also sometime called anonymous) style: <... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, c#, DEV, Csharp, style, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 2) – Printing Support
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:18 AM

In previous part (here) I’ve created sample application which uses Webcam and captures the image. In this post I’ll show how to print received image (and any part of the UI) to a printer. In Silverlight 4 we got new class, called PrintDocument which is... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta, Printer

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 1) – Webcam/Mic Support
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:16 AM

This post starts a series of post about new features in Silverlight 4 Beta released at PDC 09. Today I’ll show how to use Webcam/Mic support feature in the new version. In order to use the Webcam/Mic the user should has valid drivers installed. To see... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, c#, DEV, Csharp, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela, Silverlight 4, Beta, Webcam

PDC09 – Day 2 – Keynotes – Live blogging
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:00 PM

PDC09 – Day 2 – Keynotes – Live blogging Last yesterday we are sitting in amazing place 8 row just in front of the stage creating a homorganic row of blue shirts (There is a power in numbers). Even that this happened after an hour of the keynotes I need... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: Silverlight, HTML, IE8, DEV, Codeplex, blend 3, .NET 4.0, PDC09, SDP, Sela

PDC09 Day 1 – Sketch Flow
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:45 AM

Live blogging… Last session for today – and it is SketchFlow prototyping with Christian Schormann. The session is good, with very nice demos. Chris talking about SketchFlow in a nutshell - dynamic, interactive prototypes. For modern UX the static mockups... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Blend, DEV, blend 3, PDC09, SDP, Sela

Silverlight Tip: Enumerating embedded resources
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:28 PM

Today I’ve got a “Call for Help” from one of Silverlight MVPs – Bill Reiss . The mail said: “I would like to enumerate all items that were marked as Content or Resource in the main XAP file. If I can’t do both I’d settle for one. Any sample code for this... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, c#, mvp, .NET 3.5, DEV, Silverlight 3, Csharp, Dynamic, .NET 4.0, Resource, Embedded, PDC09, SDP