Guys… As mentioned in my last post that I’ll be sharing a live demo of Desktop simulation we did in Silverlight. Please don’t go mad because I’m a bit late to do it. Actually I have been so busy last 2-3 days but now its live. Enter any password and login, you are ready to play. Don’t try this on Real Windows because such a deed will be useless :P If you want to host it on your website, you are more than welcome to do that and here is the iframe you need to add to your webpage: <iframe src="http://silverlight.ser...

Guys, I need to share screenshots of a cool demo a friend (Waqas) as well a coworker and I developed using Silverlight 2.0. Yes this is fully interactive demo of Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight 2.0. The Login Screen: The desktop: Yes its Windows 7 running inside Internet Explorer 8 under Windows 7 :P Did not find a better way to express. And yes clock gadget is also home made. I’ll be converting this application to Silverlight 3.0 with Offline Execution support and host on Silverlight...

The day I read about what’s new in Silverlight 3 on Tim’s Blog, I got really amazed to know that what amazing features this new version has to offer Sigh… Among all the cool features, Silverlight 3 provides developers the ability to enable offline application execution. In other words, a developer can provide a few settings in Application Manifest which will make an application be able to save on user’s computer. So lets see how it works. Create a Silverlight 3 Application in Visual Studio and open...

Yesterday I was installing Microsoft Expression Blend 3 March CTP on my Windows 7 Box. After following 2-3 Screens in the setup wizard, following screen came: God! What to do next? Where is the next button? Where to click. Literally I clicked every single pixel of this screen but nothing happened :(. Neither did I know if installer is doing something or downloading some updates to be installed. I kept the installer running for next 3-4 hours and do my own work hopping that it’ll proceed but nothing...

Just a quick post to announce that Silverlight 3 Beta has arrived. Third version of Silverlight seems very much promising. A lot of new features has been added to this release even then plugin size is almost 30-40 KB smaller than it was for Silverlight 2. Microsoft has also released new versions of Tools for Visual Studio and Expression Blend. I could not stop myself from downloading the tools right away and having some hand ons with it. You can have a look on complete set of changes and enhancements...