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Five Silverlight 4.0 features you cannot do without

2009-11-27T08:19:00Z

Only 4 months have passed since 10 July 2009 - when Silverlight 3.0 has been released - and the last 18th November at the PDC the first beta of Silverlight 4.0 has been launched to the world. In this short time great work has been accomplished by the Read More......(read more)

A look at the Printing API in Silverlight 4

2009-11-26T09:05:56Z

By Corey SchumaWith the addition of the much anticipated Printing API, Silverlight continues to round out its feature set. Although beta, it’s very flexible enabling you to print what you see on screen, selected portions of the UI, custom “print-friendly Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 4 Text Trimming

2009-11-26T03:44:21Z

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......(read more)

Silverlight 4 and command line execution

2009-11-25T07:47:05Z

In my last post on out of browser we showed how easy and powerful it is , all be it a bit of a step back in the development time machine, to execute native windows applications using the new com support in silverlight 4. The next logical question arises Read More......(read more)

Ian Burt on performance issues with RIA services and a bit more

2009-11-25T07:16:00Z

Building N-Tier business applications with technologies currently in a CTP version (facing WCF RIA Services, formerly .NET RIA Services) could be not the easiest job. One of our recent articles was on this topic ( Building N-Tier business applications Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 - 2 -- #743

2009-11-25T05:45:18Z

In this Issue: African Geek , Alan Mendelevich , Jeff Wilcox , CorrinaB , Tim Heuer , Jeff Handley , Timmy Kokke , Cameron Albert , Antoni Dol , and Fredrik Normén . Shoutouts: Check out the WCF RIA Services Code Gallery on MSDN ... lots of good resources Read More......(read more)

Handling Network Outage in Silverlight with Caliburn

2009-11-25T04:11:37Z

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......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 -- #742

2009-11-24T16:38:55Z

In this Issue: Rene Schulte , Jason Harper , Brad Abrams , John Papa , Jeremy Likness , Jeff Wilcox , Fredrik Normén , Tim Heuer , Shawn Wildermuth , and Andrej Tozon . Shoutouts: Ward Bell has a PDF up of PDC 2009 Session Links -- thanks Ward! Tim Heuer Read More......(read more)

Tim Sneath Interview on Silverlight 4 and WPF

2009-11-24T16:34:36Z

I was lucky enough at PDC 09 to run into (dr) Tim Sneath and ask him about WPF and the Silverlight continuum in the time of Silverlight 4. Go out to facebook and watch the interview. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=190747957550 Over the next Read More......(read more)

Implicit Styles in Silverlight 4

2009-11-24T05:14:00Z

Introduction Only three months after the release of the latest official version of Silverlight 3, a new beta version – Silverlight 4 is already a fact. There are a lot of new things, which deserve to be mentioned, such as Rich Text, drop target, webcam Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 4 : A long term player

2009-11-23T16:27:00Z

Well, I still not came out of those glorious demos of Silverlight 4 Beta shown by Scott Gu on eve of PDC09..My mind is still in that 2nd Day keynote at PDC..Wow !! Microsoft and Team Silverlight made it !! You all must be wondering why this place is still Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 -- #741

2009-11-23T16:02:18Z

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness , Andrej Tozon , Lee , Adam Kinney , Karl Shifflett , Andy Beaulieu , and Rob Houweling . From SilverlightCream.com : Revisiting Lorem Ipsum in Silverlight 4 with RichTextArea and Printing Jeremy Likness revisits some previous Read More......(read more)

Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight

2009-11-23T15:05:11Z

URL : http://wildermuth.com/downloads/takemypicture.zip WebCam and Microphone support was one of the most requested features for Silverlight and Microsoft has answered the call. There are several ways to interact with the WebCam, but i'll start with the Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 - 3 -- #740

2009-11-23T05:43:28Z

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness , Jesse Bishop , Deborah Kurata , Mark Tucker , Fredrik Normén , Corey Schuman ( 2 ), Laurent Duveau , Jeff Wilcox , and Erik Mork . Shoutout: Joe Stegman posted his BrowserFlow sample from PDC 2009 From SilverlightCream Read More......(read more)

erlight Cream for November 22, 2009 - 2 -- #739

2009-11-22T22:11:38Z

In this Issue: Chris Klug , Gavin Wignall , Jeff Handley , Brad Abrams ( 2 ), Mike Flasko , Karl Shifflett , Jeff Wilcox , Nikhil Kothari , and Colin Blair . Shoutouts: John Papa posted the material from his PDC Session: MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Read More......(read more)