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Launch of the Dutch Silverlight and Expression Insiders User Group
Monday, November 02, 2009 9:00 AM
Today is the day the Dutch Silverlight and Expression Insiders User Group is officially launched. How did it start? A few months ago during the Dutch Microsoft DevDays I met Expression MVP Rob Houweling and creator of Silverlight Spy Koen Zwikstra. We... Read More...
Silverlight 3 – Local Messaging Explained + Enhancement
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:30 PM
One of the new features Silverlight 3 introduced is called Local Messaging. This feature supports communication between different Silverlight applications that are running on the same client. This is particular useful in areas like Sharepoint where you... Read More...
OpenID User Control in Silverlight – Part 2 OpenID Integration
Friday, September 11, 2009 4:01 PM
It’s already a long time ago when I posted part 1 of the OpenID User Control, but sadly I didn’t have any time to blog, until now. Recap: Part 1 explained how to create the visual design of the user control with two visual states. The visual design we... Read More...
OpenID User Control in Silverlight – Part 1 UI Design
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:07 PM
More and more I see sites supporting OpenID as Authentication mechanism. I’m for example a user of sites like: I need to read this, Get Satisfaction and Google Login more or less. To support my own family I set up OpenID on my own domain, http://openid... Read More...
Tracking Silverlight (1, 2 and 3) support in Google Analytics
Sunday, July 12, 2009 1:47 PM
Half a year ago I blogged about tracking Silverlight support in Google Analytics. I’ve had a lot of reactions on how to track Silverlight support. In my original article I made use of virtual page views to track Silverlight support. But there are different... Read More...
Silverlight 3 – Did we get support for Credentials?
Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:22 PM
A few months ago, I investigated Silverlight 3 Beta on support for Credentials. There are two classes that give a little bit of notion that they are supporting Credentials. Both WebClient and WebRequest have a property Credentials of type ICredentials... Read More...
Silverlight 3 talking to a RIA Service, everything hosted on Windows Azure
Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:21 AM
This is my first tryout of Windows Azure. I wanted to know if it’s possible to run the Preview of RIA Service on the CTP of Windows Azure. First of all you’ll need a lot of different components, and if you want to host your solution in the cloud you’ll... Read More...
Moonlight 2 Preview 4, testing differently
Sunday, June 07, 2009 2:40 PM
I read we now have a new preview of the Moonlight runtime. It’s already the fourth preview. I’m giving a test run, just like I gave preview 1 and preview 3 a test run. But this time I did it differently. For the release notes see this page. What size... Read More...
Time for a new design? I think so!
Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:21 PM
Probably some people already saw my new blog design go live yesterday. Less than a year ago I upgraded from Wordpress 2.2.1 to 2.6. Now I just wanted a new design. And for the sake of doing some HTML and CSS I made my own design. I must say I really like... Read More...
Moonlight Preview 3, a new Test Run.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:30 PM
Moonlight has a new update. Basically I even missed the second preview. But here the test run of preview 3. The release notes are available here. I just had to search for updates on my add-ons. Just updated it like any other Firefox add on. And a restart... Read More...
Silverlight 3 and RIA Service – Cross Domain Proxy Enhanced
Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:18 AM
Some time ago I wrote a very small RIA Service that could be used to overcome Cross Domain issues. It’s a proxy that sits between your Silverlight application and any server where you want to get content over http. A lot people know that not even half... Read More...
Silverlight using WCF with Windows Authentication
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:59 PM
We all know it’s not possible yet to provide credentials when calling WCF Service. I’m telling yet, because I saw some signs that we might get support for credentials. But what about now? Yes now, because Silverlight 3 isn’t release to the web yet. Let... Read More...
Microsoft DevDays 2009 – I’m attending!
Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:57 AM
This year will be another year I’m attending the Microsoft DevDays. DevDays 2009 will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands. This year my focus will be largely to attend Silverlight sessions, but also Windows Azure and ASP.NET MVC are part of the sessions... Read More...
Silverlight on Linux – Running Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:52 PM
Just a few days ago I heard about the Preview 1 version of Moonlight 2.0. Moonlight is the Open Source version of Silverlight that is able to run on Linux. My first reaction was I want to see this, and as soon as possible. So I downloaded the latest Ubuntu... Read More...
Silverlight 3 and RIA Service – Creating a Proxy for Cross Domain HttpRequests
Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:51 PM
One of the first things I thought about after writing my first two articles on RIA Services (Basic and Advanced) was how I could take advantage of this new technology. The first thing I could thing of was a solution that helps overcoming the Cross Domain... Read More...
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