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Silverlight 4 Text Trimming
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:44 PM
Another feature which was in WPF but not in Silverlight 3… TextTrimming is now available in Silverlight 4! With previous version of Silverlight you could try some workaround (calculate the width of your text depending on the font size and family), but... Read More...
Handling Network Outage in Silverlight with Caliburn
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:11 PM
If you are building an OOB application with Silverlight that relies on web services, you may have some interesting challenges on you hands.  You probably want to have some fallback for certain operations when the network is down.  You can do... Read More...
Silverlight 4 Clipboard access
Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:20 PM
Silverlight 4 (currently in beta) adds support for Clipboard ! In Silverlight 3 we had copy/paste available in the Textbox, programmatic access could be done, some IE only solution exists via HTML DOM bridge (so not OOB) or cross-browser (involving Flash... Read More...
Silverlight 4 Mouse Wheel support
Friday, November 20, 2009 10:00 PM
MouseWheel event was available in Silverlight 3 but you had to manage it yourself. Silverlight 4 has built-in Mouse Wheel support for TextBox, ComboBox, Calendar, DatePicker and ScrollViewer (so DataGrid and ListBox as well). Now you can navigate months... Read More...
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...
Silverlight 4 Implicit Styling
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:50 PM
One of the cool new features of Silverlight 4 is Implicit Styling: you can now theme your application without resorting to the ImplicitStyleManager from the toolkit. For that you just create Styles in resource and do not specify x:keys (just the TargetType... Read More...
Discovering Silverlight 4 – What is new?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:24 PM
Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie revealed Silverlight 4 in his keynote. The painful silence enforced by the NDA is now over, and I can talk about all the cool new stuff on Silverlight 4! To me, the most amazing thing is how much the Silverlight... Read More...
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...
Silverlight 4 beta released!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:22 PM
Silverlight 4 beta was announced by Scott Guthrie a few minutes ago during his keynote at PDC 2009 . So only 4 months after Silverlight 3 released, we have a new version to play with!! Silverlight 4 brings several interesting features: Webcam/mic support... Read More...
The Silverlight 4 Beta is Available!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:41 PM
You can check it out immediately at http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta Have fun! There are a ton of new features. Read More... Read More...
On Being Blow Away by Technology
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:17 PM
While watching Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brian Goldfarb demonstrate Silverlight 4, I had a range of reactions: Wow! I’ve got to play with this stuff! I’m feeling overwhelmed by the avalanche of technology How will I find the time to do billable... Read More...
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...
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...
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...
Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 4) – Out-of-browser applications: even more features
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:23 AM
In addition to previous features, Silverlight 4 adds some more nice improvements to Out-of-Browser model. Now it allows to control Top/Left position of the out-of-browser window, bring it to the foreground (if not active), check if the window is topmost... Read More...
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