Silverlight

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

Dave Campbell — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:45:18 GMT

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 there!

The Silverlight Team Blog posted a new Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3

Timmy Kokke has his code and slides up from Dutch Code Camp 2009

Michael Wolf has a Tim Sneath Interview on Silverlight 4 and WPF up on his blog.

Check out Joe Stegman's Channel 9 video: Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 - Out of Browser Evolves

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 Video Tutorials: So much for quality control, I had African Geeks' link messed up last night, but it's correct now. Yes I know this is the same link for all of African Geek's postings, but they're in his scrolling video menu... he's got two new ones in there (on the left) that are the first two of a 4-parter on Silverlight 4. Both using the right-click menu and printing... cool!
Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 4: Geometries: Alan Mendelevich continues with part 4 of a series on writing code that's compatible to WPF and Silverlight. This time out he's talking about geometry... and there are differences... check out his post for the details.
Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools: Jeff Wilcox blogs about the new features in the Toolkit drop and gives a walkthrough of installing the toolkit and Creating a Silverlight class library with unit testing.
Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight: CorrinaB hits a homerun again with a mapping to Windows System colors ... check out the project to download... and provide feedback! ... this is great stuff...
Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration: Tim Heuer comes to our rescue as usual with a solution to the problem of not being able to 'open in Expression Blend' in VS2010... be sure to read Tim's warning as well!
(Not) Doing Back Flips with DomainDataSource [SubmitChanges sends user to first page]: Jeff Handley reports on a change that was made to resolve a (possible) problem with paging after SubmitChanges() that actually ended up being pretty 'heavy handed' (their words)... read about it and the bug they've turned in on it, and how to make it NOT do what the change is trying to do.
SilverBullet #13 - System.Threading.SynchronizationContext: Timmy Kokke has his Silver Bullet #13 up on the site, discussing System.Threading.SynchronizationContext with sample code to demonstrate.
Silverlight Tile Map using WriteableBitmap: Cameron Albert took some WriteableBitmap code that Bill Reiss produced and turned it into a tiled map creator for his game... check it out... it's too cool!
Silverlight Style: GlassBorderStyle: Antoni Dol has an awesome glass button up on their new Silverlight & Expression Insiders site ... real quick drop-in :)
WCF RIA Services and DTO with association: Fredrik Normén has a post up about WCF RIA Services and DTO... specifically addressing sending an object graph that includes an association to other objects.

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Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 -- #742

Dave Campbell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:38:55 GMT

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 also has posted a Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up... I'm adding this to the Silverlight Links in the WynApse.com outlookbar.

Don't forget that Loek van den Ouweland and Fons Sonnemans have SilverlightXP up and running full of resources... They'd like submissions and suggestions!

Joe Stegman posted his TrustedApp Sample from PDC 2009

From SilverlightCream.com:

EdgeCam Shots - Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG: Rene Schulte extended his Silverlight 4 webcam and edge detection shader sample to save webcam snapshots as JPEG files and discusses some limitations of Silverlight's built-in CaptureSource.AsyncCaptureImage snapshot method. Furthermore he gives some ideas on how to build a Silverlight 4 video chat / conference application on top of the JPEG capturing and encoding code.
Ria Services under the hood Part 1 – Service Operations: Michael Washington pointed me at Jason Harper, and he's got a good series going on RIA Services. I decided to start with his part 1 and work my way out. This is a bit of a different slant because he's going 'under the hood'... thanks for the link, Michael!
RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service – Add Service Reference: Brad Abrams has a link to his PDC09 talk, then goes on to explain his statement that a DomainService is a WCF Service. He then shows how to consume a DomainService from a WinForms app ... I know, don't hate me for that, but it's WCF goodness, ok??
10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching: Trying to debug a Silverlight 4B OOB app and having problems figuring out how to do it? John Papa has a 10-step solution for you that doesn't involve attaching, and don't worry, it won't interfere with your 12-step program :)
Getting Silverlight Applications Ready for the Real World: Jeremy Likness has a great post up for anyone building a Real-World application. He's discussing things from his experience that we should all address.
Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial: Jeff Wilcox posts about the new OOB Control browser sample in the Toolkit, then goes on with a tutorial on how to do a first-class OOB experience for your own app.
How to create a Module based Silverlight application (Part 1): Fredrik Normén is doing a bunch of blogging lately, but don't skip his post on modularizing your Silverlight. This is the first of a series and he says the next one is going to be using MEF so stay tuned to his blog!
Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications: Tim Heuer has a post up about 'toast' ... no not *that* kind of toast! ... the NotificationWindow kind :) Good article, a link to a video about it on Silverlight.net and all the source.
Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight: Shawn Wildermuth's latest is an app demonstrating capturing images from a webcam using Silverlight 4B... with source! I guess my only comment would be to use it only for good :)
Detecting duplicate instances of a running Silverlight application: If you've got a Silverlight app that you want to limit to one instance running what do you do? Well... go read Andrej Tozon's post and see how to get the job done... that's what I'd do :)

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Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 -- #741

Dave Campbell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:18 GMT

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 work on inline hyperlinks now in Silverlight 4B where the task becomes much simpler. He includes samples and code.
MVVM with WPF, Silverlight, and… Windows Forms: It appears that Andrej Tozon's blog slipped off my list... sorry Adrej, but point being, if you don't see your work here, send me a note! Catching back up with Andrej is his latest post on MVVM, Silverlight, and WPF... oh, and also WinForms, and codesharing... all the code is there and a good write-up as well.
SL4: DataGrid and contextmenu: Lee has a quick Silverlight 4 Beta post up on adding a context menu to the DataGrid... pretty cool! ... oh yeah, there's code included :)
CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta: Adam Kinney shows off the new CompositeTransform class that makes coding up transforms much simpler. Read his note about Blend for .NET 4 Preview at the bottom.
Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I: Karl Shifflett is beginning a new series on Silverlight and WPF Design-time code sharing, and it's targetting Silverlight 3 and 4... so there's not excuse not to read it!
Sharing Blend Workspace Settings: Andy Beaulieu has a post up about Blend 3 and Workspaces, specifically on sharing them... not something native to Blend, but do-able nevertheless.
Silverlight 4 - Using the webcam: Rob Houweling has a post up on using the webcam in Silverlight 4B... great walk-thru of what you need to do to get started, including all the source!

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

Dave Campbell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:43:28 GMT

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.com:

Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 4 Beta: Jeremy Likness' latest is on some of the new features in Silverlight 4B such as IDataErrorInfo, Data Annotations, Implicit Styles, and a lot more all with links out to descriptive posts... great overview posting!
Implementing a ContextMenu in Silverlight 4 Beta: Jesse Bishop shows off the new Silverlight 4B context menu in his latest posting.
Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs: Deborah Kurata has some great UI ideas for presentation. Not a lot of work but wow the result is very cool... check it out for yourself!
Hidden Object: Episode 13 – Give me a Hint: Mark Tucker has episode 13 of his Hidden Object game in Silverlight up. This one is involved with the hint system, as in "Ok I can't figure it out, gimme a hint" :) ... of course this involves animations to provide the hint.
Silverlight 4 Commanding enables ViewModels: Fredrik Normén discusses Commanding in Silverlight 4B in terms of MVVM... with code to explain his text.
Check if running in Out of Browser - Silverlight: Corey Schuman has a really fast post up about checking for OOB, with code :)
NotificationWindow – Silverlight 4: Corey Schuman posted an article about the new NotificationWindow in Silverlight 4B, including code and some Q/A.
Silverlight 4 Implicity Styling: Laurent Duveau has a quick post up walking through Explicit Styling in SL4B ... with some external links of his own.
BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release: Jeff Wilcox blogs about the addition of David Poll's ActivityControl in the Silverlight Toolkit
Silverlight 4 Podcast Pack with Tim Heuer: Erik Mork at Sparkling Client has an 8-pack of Silverlight 4 Podcasts for our listening pleasure.

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

Dave Campbell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:11:38 GMT

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 Silverlight Session, and while you're at it, here's the video: Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC

Jeff Weber posted that a New Silverlight 3 Book Uses Farseer Physics

Joe Stegman posted the slide deck for his PDC 2009 Out Of Browser Session

András Velvárt announced My Teched Online talk: “Why Take User Experience Seriously?” is online

Christian Schormann posted his Sample Project from PDC09 Talk - and Many Links on Behaviors and then he posted an Updated PDC Demo Project

Alan Mendelevich announced amCharts Stock Chart for Silverlight Released

From SilverlightCream.com:

Getting started with multi-touch development in Silverlight 3, using Windows 7 and an iPod: Gather together Windows 7, your iPod Touch, and Silverlight 3, and Chris Klug will get you going on Multi-touch.
Optimizing Silverlight with Enable Redraw Regions: Gavin Wignall breaks silence after his long October sequence with a post on Animation and how to optimize your animations.
Building ContosoSales - The RIA Services Keynote Demo: Jeff Handley starts with what you need on your machine and where to get it to build the Ria Service Keynote application: Contoso Sales... oh yeah, and then walks completely through it!
Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta!: Brad Abrams has a good intro to WCF Ria Services beta on his site... good info about what's included, links to get it, and a call to action.
Simplifying our n-tier development platform: making 3 things 1 thing: Mike Flasko of the ADO.NET Data Services Team Blog posts about the WCF RIA Services and has some Q/A from folks.
Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF: As Karl Shifflett said, if you need any more convincing to go with VS2010 B2 ... you can share your SL3 and 4 library assemblies with .NET 4.0 apps... no really!
Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit: Jeff Wilcox explains Application Library caching backed into the latest toolkit... read that as Silverlight 3, and also in the 4B!
RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development: Nikhil Kothari posted a great Silverlight 4B RIA Services run-up... lots of links and good information.
PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010: Missed Brad Abrams's PDC presentation on VS2010, RIA Services, and VS2010? He's got all the info up on this blog... walkthru, code, slides... I printed this to PDF to read at work, and it's 33 pages..woohoo!
Undocumented DomainService Wizard change in WCF RIA Services: Colin Blair reports on a DomainService wizard issue that wasn't in the early documentation, but apparently is going to be in the Breaking Changes list soon.

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Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 -- #738

Dave Campbell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:05:44 GMT

In this All Submittal Issue: Andrew Veresov, ITLackey, Damian Schenkelman, René Schulte, Michael Wolf(2), Shawn Wildermuth

Shoutout:

Check out Shawn Wildermuth's schedule and see if you're anywhere near one of his classes because Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 4!

If you're into games and haven't yet checked out the Silver Games Project, now might be a good time.

Sorry I'm running behind, but B.B.King was in Phoenix last night, and I can't miss him!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 3 Validation Workaround: Andrew Veresov provides a SL3 workaround to validation throwing an error during databinding... and another blog to watch. That's what... number 398?
Using RIA Services with the ASP.Net Web Site Project (WSP) template: ITLackey has a great tutorial up for anyone wanting to jump all the way from a WSP Template produced website into .NET RIA Services... yikes!
Prism 2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) migrated to Silverlight 4 Beta: Damian Schenkelman's been working with Prism and Silverlight, and hasn't wasted any time moving into SL4B... read his migration issues post.
EdgeCam - Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader: René Schulte didn't waste any time after SL4B hit to be working up another great post ... this one is a real-time webcam effect!
Silverlight 4 Drag from desktop: Michael Wolf discusses drag and drop in Silverlight 4B, and not just that, but dragging from the desktop... too cool!
Silverlight 4 dials in skype: Michael Wolf also has a post up about Silverlight 4B and Skype... something he worked on while on the plane back from PDC ... can it be as easy as he says? ... give it a shot :)
Data Binding Changes in Silverlight 4: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up on the DataBinding changes to Silverlight 4 ... I'm sure we're all interested in those!

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Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 -- #737

Dave Campbell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:03 GMT

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 laptop this weekend!

The Microsoft Expression Blog has a great tutorial upon the use of Panels in Expression Web.

Don't forget, I have all Silverlight 4B articles tagged at WynApse.com, along with lots (>7600 posts) of other stuff :)

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support: WebCam support ... well... now that SL4B has it, wonder what everyone will be screaming for :) .. Michael Wolf has a post up describing it's use. He has a video on the post that's actually pretty cool showing the user experience.
A guide to new features of WCF RIA Services: Colin Blair has a post up showing the differences you should know in the transition from .NET RIA Services to WCF RIA Services in Silverlight 4.
Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo: John Papa has a short article and code up explaining the use of IDataErrorInfo in Silverlight 4.
Silverlight Clipboard API: Find out what Clipboard support in Silverlight 4 really means. Ning Zhang explains what we've got and how to use it. Yikes... lots of moving parts to worry about!
Silverlight 4 Beta, RIA Services... and Beer!: Ready for a long Friday morning Silverlight 4 RIA application tutorial? Andy Beaulieu has a great one up... lots of details and hints... required reading!
Pub/sub sample with WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4: Tomasz Janczuk continues with discussion of net.tcp and describes the conversion of a previous sample from HTTP Polling Duplex to the new WCF net.tcp protocol.

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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 - 2 -- #736

Dave Campbell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:28:15 GMT

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 in Silverlight 4 Beta ... all good stuff, and hmm... I'm not following their new site, so that brings the total up to 397 :)
Silverlight Bridge - A Silverlight 4 File Manager: Access your local file system and drag-and-drop, and OOB in Silverlight? --- wow, check out the work Michael Washington's been up to!
Silverlight 4 beta released leaving Flex behind: Colin Eberhardt goes so far as to say Silverlight has now left Flex behind... check it out and see if you agree... don't ask me, I drank the Kool-Aid :) -- and thanks for the shoutout, Colin!
Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09: I held back Laurent Bugnion's post about Silverlight 4 this morning because he discusses what's on many people's mind, and that's "what does this mean for WPF?"
WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4: Tomasz Janczuk discusses the new WCF service capability in Silverlight 4 Beta using net.tcp
Dynamic Module Loading with Silverlight Navigation using Prism: Jeremy Likness has a post up on Prism and Silverlight, Dynamic Modules, and Navigation. This is a farily involved tutorial, so give yourself time to read.
Silverlight 4 Beta: Implicit Styles: Andy Beaulieu has a post up talking about the new Implicit Styles in Silverlight 4 Beta with code examples and Blend examples.

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Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 -- #735

Dave Campbell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:26:49 GMT

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 I'll get out later today and then I'll start catching up with everyone as the days go on... I've tagged 63 posts so far! -- oh, and I added a "4 Beta" tag on Silverlight Cream, so that's ready to roll

For now, here is the (SL4ß Overview) end-result of looking at 396 blogs at varying times since 5:30 this morning:

Andy Beaulieu has a post up: Silverlight 4 Beta Summary with links out to his and other posts

Adam Kinney reports a Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs with lots of goodies

David Anson discusses SL4: Silverlight 4 Beta is out - and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!]

Stefan Olson already has a list up of Bugs fixed (or not) in Silverlight 4 Beta

Ning Zhang reports and demonstrates that Silverlight 4 Adds Arabic Support

John Papa has some good information and links: Silverlight 4 Beta Announced at PDC09: Great Learning Material Too!

Chris Anderson posted this one from watching the keynote: PDC09 News

Nikhil Kothari has a great overview of and links to the PDC demos: Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09

Shawn Wildermuth's post I mentioned yesterday in my mad dash to post: Silverlight 4 Beta Announced!

Koen Zwikstra is nothing if not efficient... he's got a Silverlight 4 Beta version of SilverlightSpy up already: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.5

And if you thought the Expression Blend and Design folks were napping: Download Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4

Tim Heuer's great post of yesterday referenced by *everyone*: Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features

Andrea Boschin has a post and some sample code up: Silverlight 4.0 beta released

András Velvárt has a good list of what's new: Discovering Silverlight 4 – What is new?

The Silverlight SDK has a couple good posts up. First the obligatorey Silverlight 4 Beta Released! with a ton of links, then Silverlight 4 Beta Bugs

Katrien De Graeve has a good post up with links: Silverlight 4 Beta – Overview of the new features

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Silverlight 4 Beta is Out!

Dave Campbell — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:43:26 GMT

Silverlight 4 Beta is out!

Yes boys and girls, you heard that right!! This morning at PDC, Scott Guthrie announced the news.

And I was so interested in posting this, I had a bad link for Shawn's site -- that's now fixed -- sorry Shawn!!

Go to Silverlight 4 Beta Information to get all the information, and download the bits.

All the usual suspects have posts up alread as well:

Tim Heuer has a great long post up about it on his site: Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features

Shawn Wildermuth as one: Silverlight 4 Beta Announced!

Have fun, watch for lots more posts and

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