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DevAcademy 4
Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:49 AM
DevAcademy 4 is coming at March 22, at Airport City near Lod (local event). Come and see me presenting new features of Silverlight 4! At this session I’ll new line of business (LOB) related features of Silverlight 4, improved out of browser model, native... Read More...
Silverlight 4 Tutorial @SDP
Sunday, December 27, 2009 5:06 PM
My Silverlight 4 Tutorial day at SDP is over. I’d like to thank all participants!!!   As promised, here is source of application I’ve build during the session. Additional samples here and here . Labs could be found here .   See you at Silverlight... 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...
Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 3) – Elevated Out-of-browser applications
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:21 AM
Silverlight 4 enhances the out-of-browser feature introduced in previous version of the technology. Silverlight 3 added a feature to use application in Out-of-browser mode – install application shortcut to desktop or start menu, and launch it within application... Read More...
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...
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...
Silverlight 4: What’s New?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:14 AM
Today Microsoft announced new version of Silverlight, and released the Beta version of Silverlight 4. Here is the summary of new features in this version: Better Out of Browser Applications Elevated Privileges Support Cross Domain Networking Access Full... Read More...
PDC09 Day 1 – Dynamics in C# 4
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:07 AM
Switched to the Dynamics in C# 4 session. This session hall is not full at all… I’d rather say it is pretty empty… Probably this session is for real technology geeks like me :)   Did you know, that you cold create your own dynamic object by deriving... Read More...
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...
Silverlight Quick Tip: ChildWindow Title Customization
Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:03 AM
Today I discovered nice feature of ChildWindow control in Silverlight 3. I was at client’s location and been asked about the ChildWindow title customization with an icon. I had to admit, that I never tried to put something different than text and immediately... Read More...
WPF Quick Tip: How to get WPF Window client area size
Sunday, September 20, 2009 12:18 AM
This time my quick tip will be not about the Silverlight, but about WPF. When you have WPF window, the runtime size of it could be discovered by ActualWidth/ActualHeight properties. In most cases this is enough. But what about the case, when you need... Read More...
Silverlight Quick Tip: Dynamically Displaying Class Fields/Properties
Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:21 AM
In one of my projects I had to create something like Visual Studio property window, for data set of different controls/data classes. Those controls/classes are still under development and I needed the way to display/change values of those properties dynamically... Read More...
Silverlight Quick Tip: How to Perform a Hit Test
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:54 AM
In some cases, especially when developing rich UI application developer need to identify which control were clicked or under mouse pointer at some point of time or just under some coordinate at the UI. For those purposes Silverlight provides “FindElementsInHostCoordinates... Read More...

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