In this Issue: XamlNinja, Zoltan Arvai, Alan Mendelevich, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Chris Klug, Pete Brown, Fons Sonnemans, Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, and Mark Miller Shoutouts: Corey Miller posted a User Experience Review post that's a good read. Jeff Wilcox announced The Silverlight Toolkit - now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Andrew Duthie blogged about the Freescale Sensor Badge - Fun Gadget! ... get yours! Laurent Bugnion announced another early release of his MVVM Light Toolkit V3...
StarterKits for Silverlight and the Expression Tools Lately I’ve seen some tweets passing by with links to various StarterKits. I’ve decided to "Bing” around a little and find out what these people were talking about. There are quite a few StarterKits available on various topics. I’ve listed a few below, old and new ones, that I find relevant to my fields of interest: Silverlight and the Expression Blend, Design and Web. Building a Zune Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit In this lab you will...
In this Issue: Michael Palermo, Rishi, Microsoft Expression Blog, Jeremy Likness, David Burela, and Ward Bell. Shoutout: Adam Kinney has a Photosynth linked that you won't believe: A Photosynth of Neil Gaiman’s Library From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and Internet Download Manager Michael Palermo has a solution to the use of the Internet Download Manager dorking up your Silverlight app. I Command MVVM On March 9, 2009, Rishi Posted I Command Silverlight, now he's posted I Command MVVM. With...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Jonathan van de Veen, Stephen Forte, Laurent Duveau(2), Alan Mendelevich, and nmarun. From SilverlightCream.com: Why Silverlight 3 Navigation cannot be fully leveraged when loading modules remotely with Prism 2 Damian Schenkelman goes into the future [November 5 :) ] to discuss why there are issues with Silverlight Navigation in Prism. He references articles that contain workarounds as well. Connecting to the SqlMembership model through Silverlight and WCF Jonathan...
In this Issue: Mark Miller, SmartyP(2), Goncalo Chaves(2), and David Anson. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher announced October 2009 version of Composite WPF(Prism) released and has some highlights from the release Damian Schenkelman posted a similar announcement: Prism 2.1 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight 3) just released (updated version for Silverlight 3) From SilverlightCream.com: MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 5b: ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection Mark Miller continues with...
In this Issue: Bob Thomson/Storm Ideas, Danijel Stulic , René Schulte, Jesse Liberty, Windows Client.NET, Sergey Barskity, Jeff Prosise, Vikram Pendse, Frank La Vigne, and Tim Greenfield. Shoutout: Damian Schenkelman posted that Prism 2.1 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight 3) just released (updated version for Silverlight 3) When you think User Group you think of a bunch of geeks sitting around, but holy crap... check out this stellar crew: Launch of the Dutch Silverlight and...
In this Issue: Rob Bagby, Paul Sheriff, Mike Taulty, Sergey Barskiy, and Gavin Wignall. Shoutout: Here's a quick one from the Expression blog: Export to Microsoft Word From SilverlightCream.com: Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part IV – Service Layer Rob Bagby has Part 4 of his excellent Patterns-Based Silverlight Development series up. He's addig the WCF service this time. Create a Login Screen in Silverlight 3 Paul Sheriff had a post up of a login screen in WPF that I archived in my Tag...
In this Issue: Mark Miller, Sergey Barskiy, Gavin Wignall, Josh Holmes, Bryant Likes, and Jeff Prosise. Shoutouts: András Velvárt sent me this yesterday and I was blown away by all the Silverlight goodness: Response Karl Shifflett did a re-release of his latest XAML Power Toys: Updated Code: XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer Karl Shifflett also updated the templates for VS2010: Updated Code: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates David Anson has a page up...
In this Issue: Visual Web Developer Team Blog, Laurent Duveau, Gavin Wignall, Victor Gaudioso, and Karl Shifflett. Shoutouts: Karl Shifflett has a post up on New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects My DE Rob Bagby reported some news on his blog: The Bagbys Are Moving to London... congratulations, my friend! Charles Sterling announced this just in time for tomorrow, Thursday October 29th: A Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight: focusing on getting started...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Pete Brown, The Silverlight Blog, Katrien De Graeve, Gavin Wignall, Rob Bagby, Nigel Sampson, Gergely Orosz, and The Microsoft Expression Blog. Shoutouts: Check out Walt Ritscher's Shazzam 1.1 – Topic List jfo has a quick post up Beta2 is out -- What's new in Cider Brad Abrams has an index page up for his .NET RIA Services series: Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update. Or you could use the Search page at SilverlightCream.com...
In this Issue: Alex Knight, Michael Washington, Gavin Wignall, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Karl Shifflett(2), Mark Miller, The Silverlight Blog, René Schulte Shoutouts: In addition to the XAML Power Toys release noted below, Karl Shifflett also announced XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released Rob Eisenberg has announced Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0! Shawn Wildermuth shares his material with us from his Second Week of European Conference Tour... like being there...
In this Issue: Rishi, Andrea Boschin, Tiago Andrade e Silva, Jeff Wilcox, Vijay Rajagopalan, Gavin Wignall, Damon Payne, Tim Heuer, Hannes Preishuber, Jafar Husain Shoutouts: Watch a webcast by Tim Heuer in the Architect Innovation Cafe – Webcast Series: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 Andrew Duthie announced Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – October Preview Rob Bagby had this announcement up: Watch the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Virtually From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Stefan Olson, Ning Zhang, Gavin Wignall, Jeremy Likness, Jeremiah Morrill, David Kelley, Sergey Barskiy, Jeff Wilcox, and Rob Bagby(2). Shoutout: Get the info direct from Tim Heuer: Silverlight Live Streaming service update From SilverlightCream.com: Selecting an obfuscator for Silverlight If you're looking at obfuscating your Silverlight, read Stefan Olson's post carefully... he dug deep into a range of obfuscators and has reported his findings.Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, David Anson, Chris Klug, Walt Ritscher, Rob Bagby, Gavin Wignall, Vikram Pendse, Jeremy Likness, David Kelley, and Jafar Husain. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer has posted A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers ... good information if you're working with or want to work with a true Designer. If you're in Ireland or Northern Ireland, Martha Rotter has an absolutely great program going: Introducing the Silverlight Jumpstart Program ... I want to do that in...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Expression Blend and Design, Rob Bagby(2), Jeff Wilcox, Tim Heuer, David Anson, Mark Miller, Timmy Kokke, and Jeremy Likness. Shoutouts: Lee poses the question Same XAML Silverlight and WPF – different result ... see if you can comment! The Thirsty Developer chats with Chad Campbell: Thirsty Developer 75 - Sparking a Business into Divot Dog Shawn Wildermuth had a chance to do a short podcast while in Bulgaria producing: Five Minutes with Me Laurent Bugnion announced MVVM...
In this Issue: Mark Miller, Kirupa, Sergey Barskiy, Timmy Kokke, Laurent Bugnion, Jeff Prosise, Ronnie Saurenmann, Expression Blog, The Silverlight Blog, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Check out .NET Rocks Show 489 because Shawn Wildermuth announced I am on .NET Rocks Talking about Declarative UI's Jon Galloway has a post up on The Designer/Developer Workflow Crisis (That Everyone’s Ignoring) that's definitely something to check out. Unless you've been sleeping behind the door, you already know...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan, SmartyP, Corey Schuman, Gavin Wignall(2), Jeff Paries, Vikram Pendse, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutouts: Tomasz Janczuk has updated his research from July:Adoption of Silverlight serialization and communication technologies in web applications – October 2009 Check out Alexey Zakharov's Issues of Silverlight style system and join in the discussion. DanDan sent me a link to his Binaural Beats Generator... I'll let you be the judge From...
In this Issue: Jeff Handley, Jeremy Likness, Gavin Wignall(2, 3, 4, 5), Mark Miller, Nigel Sampson, and Microsoft Expression Product Site. Shoutout While not a complete solution, Koen Zwikstra had done an OOB solution for Silverlight a while back and now he's giving up the source: Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (sourcecode). Forget all those weight-loss gimmicks! I worked Monday the 12th, took off the 13th and felt worse all day, was at the Dr with flu symptoms on the 14th... ended up with...
For a long time I’ve been wondering how to create a smoke effect like used in the Silverlight Logo for example. There are some techniques to render smoke by using 3D modeling software. But creating this effect in a tool like Expression Design is easier than it looks. Below is an example of what the end result might look like. After opening expression Design start by creating a new document.The size of the document isn’t very important as long as you have a bit of space to play with some paths, so...
I’d like to provide you with a SilverBullet™, a small snippet of Silverlight, a class or namespace hidden in the silverlight .NET framework, to help you out in times of need. It’s not to learn, but something to keep in your pocket. Just remember it’s there and you’re safe. This time I would like a little helper class to your attention. When working in a web environment ever so often you need to encode/decode a Url or a piece of Html. In Silverlight you need to look for the System.Windows.Browser.HttpUtility...
In this Issue: SilverlightToys, SilverlightTips, Rishi, and Fons Sonnemans. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher blogged What’s New in Shazzam 1.1 – Better Silverlight Support ... take a look at it now! From SilverlightCream.com: Element Data Binding SilverlightToys has a post up on Element Dat Binding with a bunch of examples to demonstrate it... buncha good code! Silverlight QueryString Validating ID, GUID, and Timestamp SilverlightTips rolled up 3 of their posts into one project that is discussed and posted...
In this Issue: Lee, Lester, Ian T. Lackey, Silverlight Tips, Gavin Wignall, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra reports he has an update: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.4 released... if you haven't downloaded this, stop now and go do so... I'll wait :) Andy Beaulieu had a presentation at the CNY .NET Developer Group, and has posted all his materials: Creating Behaviors in Silverlight 3 Congratulations go out to Jonathan van de Veen for Developers 42 online for one year!... and thanks for the Shoutout!...
I was trying to regenerate a Silverlight proxy, but I kept getting this error: Turns out, Win 7 sometimes adds an <extendedProtectionPolicy policyEnforcement="Never" /> element to your Web.config. Here’s the workaround according to the Silverlight Web Services team: On Windows 7, when you use the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service item template, an <extendedProtectionPolicy /> element may be generated in Web.config. This element is not supported by Silverlight. Simply remove the element...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Gavin Wignall, Fernando Cerqueira, Silverlight Tips, Mark Tucker, Mike Taulty, Robbe Morris, Brad Abrams, Christopher Bennage, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: The Silverlight Blog reports Silverlight Spikes AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Matches Live to Your Computer From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 – Local Messaging Explained + Enhancement Mark Monster has a great detailed post up on Local Messaging, and adds in an enhancement of his own.Using Images and Video in Blend...
In this Issue: Gavin Wignall(2), UXPassion, Andrea Boschin, Shawn Wildermuth, Mark Tucker, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: If you're DeepZooming, A Deep Zoom Blog has a very cool post up on clearing up text on maps: "Exact" Map rendering Tim Heuer has been busy updating his tutorials for beginners [and nobody's gonna notice if YOU check them out :) ] : Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners Have you seen Wordle? John Bruin did it in Silverlight: Silverlight Wordle The Silverlight SDK announced...
In this Issue: Jared Bienz, Tim Heuer, Sergey Barskiy, Alex Knight, Gavin Wignall, Damon Payne, Peter Bromberg, Shawn Wildermuth, and Mark Tucker. Shoutouts: Robbe Morris at EggHead Cafe has put up EggHeadCafe in Silverlight Release Candidate Now Available. Would be cool to see a series of articles detailing this :) John Bruin has a demo of of Silverlight Money Pyramid. This is pretty cool... I don't see a link for source though :( From SilverlightCream.com: Skins for WPF and Silverlight By way of...
In This Issue: Laurent Bugnion, Chad Campbell, Mark Miller, Jacek Ciereszko, Laurent Duveau, Kirupa, Ning Zhang, Timmy Kokke, Expression Blend and Design Blog, and Mark Tucker. Shoutouts: Since the demise of the MSDN Social Bookmarks, I've wanted to move my tag page to it's own page on WynApse.com, and I finally did that last night. There's a left-border link to Tagged Posts that contains a tag cloud of, at this moment, 7268 articles tagged 10259 different ways using 421 unique tags, on all sorts...
Today I would like to show you how to create lines like above in Expression Design. After opening Expression Design, start by creating a new .design document. Now, zoom in a bit to the upper left corner of the document. Draw a small rectangle and give it some easy numbers. Move the rectangle to 10, 10 and change it width and height to 10 too. Change the stroke of the rectangle to none, and change the fill color to black. Copy the black rectangle and move it to position 10,20. Change its color to...
In this Issue: Gavin Wignall, Manish Dalal, Jeff Wilcox, Terence Tsang, and Mark Tucker . Shoutouts: Rishi, the author of nRoute had to move his site. Last night I transitioned all his links in the database to point to the new site, so feel free to re-acquaint youself with his posts. András Velvárt has another thought and comment-provoking post up Silverlight is slowly becoming the real WPF/Everywhere ... check it out and join in the discussion! Particularly if you have a touch system, check out...
First I'd like to congratulate all the returning MVPs, and all the new ones... fun awaits and I hope to see you all at the Summit! I'd particularly like to call out people I know that have just become Silverlight MVPS. Tim Heuer did a great post with links to everyone, so I won't repeat that. Bryant Likes -- wow... it's been a well-earned award all the way back to rolling that gear, Bryant :) Jeff Paries ... if you're not familiar with Jeff, you should be... Jeff is the animation master of Silverlight!...
In this Issue: Damon Payne, Rishi, Nigel Sampson, Chris Klug, Andrea Boschin, Bryant Likes, Timmy Kokke, Shawn Wildermuth, Terence Tsang, and Mark Tucker. Shoutouts: As referenced below, Shawn Wildermuth is beginning a validation project: Introducing Project Niagara Laurent Bugnion has announced MVVM Light Toolkit Messenger V2 beta, and has some good discussion comments. Koen Zwikstra also has an update: Document Toolkit 1.1.0.3 Tim Heuer announced Silverlight Firestarter Seattle videos online......
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Boyan Mihaylov, Silverlight SDK, Christopher Bennage, Stephen Forte, Jacek Ciereszko, Jesse Liberty, and Mark Tucker. I'm still at least 2 days behind, but the crunch is over, so now I can maybe catch up. From SilverlightCream.com: Helpful extension methods for Show / Hide animations in Silverlight Colin Eberhardt is sharing some of the code he uses regularly by way of Extension Methods to Show/Hide animations, and boy that demo works great... thanks Colin!Creating...
I’d like to provide you with a SilverBullet™, a small snippet of Silverlight, a class or namespace hidden in the silverlight .NET framework, to help you out in times of need. It’s not to learn, but something to keep in your pocket. Just remember it’s there and you’re safe. Occasionally it’s required to use an Rss or an Atom feed in your projects. Just to show some news, or the latest update on the stock exchange. Working with these, often large, chucks of xml directly can be a pain. In Silverlight...
Unlike WPF, Silverlight doesn't contain a DataTemplateSelector. A DataTemplateSelector is used to select a data template based on the data-bound element and the data object. But, it isn't hard to build your own. Start by adding a class to the solution and call it something like “DataTemplateSelector”. Inherit this class from System.Windows.Controls.ContentControl. The ContentControl class has a property for a data template and a property for content, which you can use to data-bind to. Next, create...
In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Jonathan van de Veen, Alex Golesh, Chris Cavanagh, Michael Washington, Danijel Stulic, Bob Bartholomay, Mark Tucker, Chris Klug, and Lee. Shoutouts: Jeff Handley has another poll that he'd like you to take a shot at: Should DomainDataSource.AutoLoad be True or False by default? Walt Ritscher has announced that Shazzam development is moving again... check it out if you haven't already and stay tuned for enhancements! Steve Commisso has been hard at work and has reported...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Silverlight Toys, Matthias Shapiro, qixing, Chris Klug From SilverlightCream.com: Hidden Object: Episode 4 – Adding Particles with a Behavior With a nod to Robby Ingebretsen, Mark Tucker adds shooting particles when an item is selected... and you thought it was just going to select, huh?Pixel Shaders Silverlight Toys has a great tutorial up not only on using PixelShaders but building your own... I know we've done this before, but hey, two sources can't be bad :)Color Image...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Fredrik Normén, Silverlight Toys, Nikhil Kothari, David Poll, Terence Tsang, and Bea Stollnitz. Shoutouts: If you had trouble with the SilverlightSpy site, it's back up now, so go get a copy to try! From SilverlightCream.com: Hidden Object: Episode 3 – Marking Items off the List In this espisode of his game development series, Mark Tucker creates hotspots for selecting items and marking them off on the game board. Create an automatic scrollable image slider in Silverlight...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Bart Czernicki, Bob Bartholomay, Silverlight Toys, Sergey Barskiy, Andy Beaulieu Shoutouts: Falling into the category of the next MVP->Microsoft category, a big Congratulations goes out to Pete Brown!! Now with more forehead! (or, a happy shade of blue) As promised, Karl Shifflett announced XAML Power Toys v5 Published ... with tons of support material... thanks Karl! Brad Abrams chats: HanselMinutes Interview on RIA Services From SilverlightCream.com: Hidden Object:...
In this Issue: Mark Tucker, Michael Washington, Allan Muller, Martha Rotter Clarity Consulting posted Introducing Gadfly, The Silverlight Twitter Client (with Out of Browser support) András Velvárt has part 3 of his UX Thoughts series up with some good observations: UX thoughts – Learning Phase Tools III From SilverlightCream.com: Hidden Object: Episode 1 – Create the Project & Picture Mark Tucker starts off his Hidden Object game by setting up the project and generating the intro picture in...
At last i got some time to work on long pending “project: i have thought of. This one is about listing all twitter friends in a connected graph and see their statuses. It uses Twitter API and WCF service to feed the silverlight. WCF acts as an adapter to twitter service. The idea is to connect to other services like “orkut”, “facebook”, “Mayspace” etc in future. It uses SL 3.0; so you must have it installed to run this: Here are the snapshots of the running application.(Running in flock)!! You may...
Someone asked me about cloud computing and Azure platform and then asked me the future of MEWA in light of Silverlight 3 offline application. While i have my own thoughts on them and both do target different application segments, i will first like to demo on a Silverlight MEWA ; then SL 3 offline – online thing and of course the difference… (along with similarities) Here is step by step procedure: 1. Down load Live services… 2. Make a new project in Live services .. choose Silverlight template 2....
Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Mindmap Here is the example of Mind map which i created. If you are interested in the source code, please contact me or drop a comment. It supports adding a node, editing and deleting it too…. http://s-pushpak.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DB22CDDC0BCAF16E!549.entry?&_c02_vws=1...
Databinding in SL and WPF are interesting concepts and once mastered really solves many a issues with cleaner code. In XAML everything is dataaware. Elements can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML. In this post we will discuss about Simple CLR Object binding using code Simple CLR Binding using XAML only – Demo value converters Control Binding – Slider and textbox Implementing IValueConverter Validation Update Source Trigger...
MVVM == Model View ViewModel Pattern is a MUST follow pattern in Silverlight (WPF). here is why… Problems it solves: •Tight coupling of layers (ex a query in the UI) •Unit testing is hard/impossible, only functional testing is possible •Assures codes still works correct after a change •ViewModel •Provides View with data model and behavior •View will bind to ViewModel •Wraps data access entirely In light of new technologies like RIA services (which provides CRUD) operations out of the box it is imperative...
Dependency properties is one concept which i always marvel. As programmer / developer i always like the concept, as by just introducing DP, so many stuff now is so easy(Read Template programming in XAML). DP is called a BEAST (in Silverlight and WPF) for reasons of complexity involved in understanding them. Also, of course, because they are so powerful language paradigm. I sometimes do think DP did not actually got their due. I mean, so many efforts is gone into explaining Lambda expressions, LINQ,...
In this Issue: Bob Bartholomay, Mark Tucker, Chris Klug, Damon Payne, Phani Raj, John Papa, Victor Gaudioso, Jonathan van de Veen, Tomasz Janczuk, and Fredrik Normén. Shoutout: Chad Campbell has the material up from his Silverlight – An Out of Browser Experience Presentation Laurent Duveau announced Free e-learning on XAML from Microsoft From SilverlightCream.com: Graphical Skinning Comes to Silverlight I blogged Pete Blois' 9 Grids post, and Bob Bartholomay is reiterating that with some explanation...
In this Issue: Bob Bartholomay, Ryan Shelby, Fredrik Normén, Allan Muller, Steve White, Terence Tsang, Vikram Pendse, Victor Gaudioso, and Andy Beaulieu. Shoutout: I blogged that Koen Zwikstra had released Silverlight Spy... but Ward Bell did a great post about it: Silverlight Spy 3 – First Look From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight: Build Actions Bob Bartholomay has a good post with external links to more assistance for describing the BuildAction values for Silverlight files.Exporting Data From...
In this Issue: Danijel Stulic, Ryan Shelby, Mark J. Miller, Chris Klug, Erik Mork, Joe Stegman, and Matthias Shapiro. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra announced Silverlight Spy 3 RTW ... this is just 2 years from a blog post to RTW... very cool, Koen, and congratulations! Everyone else... go download it! David Anson posted A preview of upcoming Charting changes [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 1] David Poll posted a short Update 2: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA...
This is a great week to be in Seattle... and no I'm not... but hey, keep reading! As announced by Tim Heuer: It’s Silverlight week in Seattle beginning tonight at the .NET DA User Group meeting with none-other than the illustrious Silverlight Geek TM himself, Jesse Liberty presenting on .NET RIA Services! Tomorrow is a Silverlight Nerd Dinner where you can feel right at home with others that don't have a clue about what fork to use, or why doesn't all food come either rolled up or flat and easy to...
In this Issue: Allan Muller, Mark Monster, Kirupa, Shawn Wildermuth, Nikhil Kothari, John Papa, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Terence Tsang, Microsoft Expresson Product Site, and Matthias Shapiro. Shoutout: Randi Relander posted another new game on his SilverGames site: Silver Games Checkers: 0.0.1 Released I mentioned Silverlight.XP from Fons Sonnemans and Loek van den Ouweland when it first went live, but I thought I'd mention it again since it's starting to get some traction: Silverlight.XP...