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RIA Services How to Load Only If Authenticated
Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:01 PM
One of the things I ran into in converting to the PDC release of WCF RIA Services is around error handling in the Domain Data Source.  By default the PDC release handles error handling a little different than prior release in a good way.  Previously...
Is Silverlight 4 moving away from cross platform?
Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:30 PM
In a recent article in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/silverlight_4_windows_bias/ they make the case that COM support in Silverlight 4 has “crossed a threshold” that will make Silverlight less appealing to developers that want to...
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...
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...
My UX prototyping presentation from Smidig2009
Friday, November 20, 2009 6:33 PM
Last month I was lucky enough to attend and speak at the Smidig2009 (Agile 2009) conference in Oslo. This was my first time attending the conference, and I’m really impressed with the content, speakers, organizers and attendees. The format of the conference...
Oredev and Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards
Friday, November 20, 2009 6:22 PM
I got back from the Oredev conference in Malmo (Sweden) a few days ago, where I spoke on advanced line-of-business features of WPF and Silverlight. I presented at Oredev last year and became a big fan of this conference – I had to go back! Just...
by Bea Stollnitz
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Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 -- #737
Friday, November 20, 2009 10:26 AM
In this Issue: Michael Wolf , Colin Blair , John Papa , Ning Zhang , Andy Beaulieu , and Tomasz Janczuk . Shoutouts: In case you missed it in the rush the other day, Robby Ingebretsen announced the release of Seesmic for Windows ... that's going on my...
Silverlight 4 dials in skype
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:11 AM
One of the pains in silverlight 3 out of browser was the strict sandbox that was put in place. Although well meaning, this put a heavy restriction on the type of rich desktop like experiences we could produce. Just as in the api limitations in Adobe Air...
by Michael Wolf
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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 - 2 -- #736
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:28 AM
In this Issue: Rob Houweling , Michael Washington , Colin Eberhardt , Laurent Bugnion , Tomasz Janczuk , Jeremy Likness , and Andy Beaulieu . From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight 4 – Using the webcam Rob Houweling has a tutorial up on using the webcam...
Sharing Blend Workspace Settings
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 PM
Expression Blend 3 has two pre-defined Workspaces, available under the Window/Workspaces menu. the Design Workspace is tuned for layout and UI creation, and is the default view you see in Blend. the Animation Workspace is tuned for creating Storyboard...
My talk at #notatpdc postponed
Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:16 PM
Hey guys, I am really sorry for having to postpone my talk about Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow. We had some huge difficulties with the NotAtPDC.com website, and unfortunately we were not able to locate the site administrator on time to solve the issue...
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...
Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 -- #735
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:26 PM
Silverlight 4 Overview Postings Every time there's a beta or a release I try a different way to get all the good stuff out. I waited until today, and am scooping up all the overview blog posts, and posting them first in this post. I've got a few submissions...
Silverlight 4 Drag from desktop
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:15 PM
One of the exciting announcements made at pdc 09 was that silverlight 4 will support drag and drop from the desktop to both the web and out of browser. Whats great too is how similar the process is to WPF, the object properties are exactly the same, the...
by Michael Wolf
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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...
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