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One month in... Well, it's been a month on the new site now. I guess at first I thought everyone would just start following the new feed and the traffic would magically appear at WDN, but I still saw a lot of folks hitting GWB, presumably looking for good Silverlight links. So I announced my postings at GWB to not leave anyone out of the loop. And now I find that's annoyed some people... sorry about that! I can't see cross-posting the posts completely, so you'll just have to go to the new site to...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for December 12 - 18 , 2011
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for their Top 5 News for December 5 - 11 , 2011
The top 5 list for last week at SilverlightShow is up at WindowsDevNews
Sorry the link was broken earlier:The top 5 list for last week at SilverlightShow is (finally) up at WindowsDevNews
A little bit of everything... The heading above got changed a bunch during writing and I finally settled on that because this has become a 'stream of consciousness' post... or maybe a stream of UNconsciousness :) If you've noticed, my blogging has been a tad slow this fall. There's been a lot going on personally. But then again, I haven't skipped anybody either. Rather than go through ALL the blogs I have aggregated, and take a week to get to the bottom, at some point in the last year, I had moved...
In this Issue: Matt Eland, Parag Joshi, Jerrel Blankenship, and Joost van Schaik. Above the Fold: WP7: "Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors" Joost van Schaik Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up From SilverlightCream.com:31 Days of Mango | Day #22: App ConnectMatt Eland takes the reigns of Jeff's blog for Day 22 and is talking about App Connect... App Connect allows apps to...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Manas Patnaik, Jeff Blankenburg, Doug Mair, Jon Galloway, Richard Bartholomew, Peter Bromberg, Joel Reyes, Zeben Chen, Navneet Gupta, and Cathy Sullivan. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using ASP.NET PageMethods With Silverlight" Peter Bromberg WP7: "Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango)" Jon Galloway Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator" Cathy Sullivan LightSwitch: "LightSwitch: It Is About The Money (It...
In this Issue: Michael Collier, Samidip Basu, Jesse Liberty, Dhananjay Kumar, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: WP7: "31 Days of Mango | Day #16: Isolated Storage Explorer" Samidip Basu Metro/WinRT/W8: "1360x768x32 Resolution in Windows 8 in VirtualBox" Michael Crump Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up Alex Golesh releases a Silverlight 5-friendly version of his external map manifest file tool: Utility:...
In this Thanksgiving Day Issue: Andrea Boschin, Samidip Basu, Ollie Riches, WindowsPhoneGeek, Sumit Dutta, Dhananjay Kumar, Daniel Egan, Doug Mair, Chris Woodruff, and Debal Saha.Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight CommandBinding with Simple MVVM Toolkit" Debal Saha WP7: "How many pins can Bing Maps handle in a WP7 app - part 3" Ollie Riches Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch...
In this Issue: XAMLGeek, WindowsPhoneGeek, Nigel Sampson, Jesse Liberty, Sumit Dutta(-2-), Dave Bost, Jared Bienz, Joost van Schaik, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 7 of 10)" Michael Crump WP7: "Using MVVMLight, ItemsControl, Blend and behaviors to make a ‘heads up compass’" Joost van Schaik Metro/WinRT/W8: "“Badevand” for Windows 8" XAMLGeek Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for November 14 - 20, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Why Adobe had to Kill Flash Player for Mobile; and Silverlight, Flex, HTML5 parallels PhoneGap on Windows Phone Tips 10 tips about porting Silverlight apps to WinRT/Metro style apps (Part 1) Microsoft reportedly rolling out 7740 OS update for Windows Phone The WinRT Genome Project Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Sumit Dutta, Morten Nielsen, Jesse Liberty, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Brian Noyes, and Tony Champion. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "PV Basics : Client-side Collections" Tony Champion WP7: "Pushpin Clustering with the Windows Phone 7 Bing Map control" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up From SilverlightCream.com:Pushpin Clustering with the Windows Phone 7...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Oliver Fuh, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, Jesse Liberty, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Handling Extremely Large Data Sets in Silverlight" Jeremy Likness WP7: "31 Days of Mango | Day #8: Contacts API" Jeff Blankenburg LightSwitch: "LightSwitch Chat Application Using A Data Source Extension" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Michael Crump, Michael Sync, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: WP7: "Silver VNC 1.0 for Windows Phone "Mango"" Andrea Boschin Metro/WinRT/W8: "Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Source" Derik Whittaker LightSwitch: "Using the Save and Query Pipeline to “Archive” Deleted Records" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Lazar Nikolov, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Peter Kuhn, Derik Whittaker, Chris Koenig, and Jeff Blankenburg(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Facebook Graph API and Silverlight Part 2 – Publishing data" Lazar Nikolov WP7: "Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control" Colin Eberhardt Metro/WinRT/W8: "Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#)" Derik Whittaker Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert...
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Andrea Boschin, Michael Sync, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Antoni Dol, Walter Ferrari, and Jeff Blankenburg(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10)" Michael Crump WP7: "31 Days of Mango | Day #2: Device Status" Jeff Blankenburg Metro/WinRT/W8: "Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target" Derik Whittaker Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for November 07 - 13, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Will there be a Silverlight 6 (and does it matter)? Silverlight 5 - the end of the line Microsoft confirms move to align Windows & Windows Phone JavaScript, MVVM and Silverlight - Papa's Perspective How TO: Virtualizing WrapPanel .NET Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ...
In this Issue: Pontus Wittenmark, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, Charles Petzold, Dhananjay Kumar, Igor, Beth Massi, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, XAMLNinja, and Peter Kuhn(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Page Navigation Framework - Learn about UriMapper" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "31 Days of Mango" Jeff Blankenburg WinRT/Metro/W8: "An Introduction to Semantic Zoom in Windows 8 Metro" Colin Eberhardt LightSwitch: "Common Validation Rules in LightSwitch Business Applications"...
In this Issue: Brian Noyes, Michael Crump, WindowsPhoneGeek, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, Kunal Chowdhury, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started" Brian Noyes WP7: "Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit Tile Control" WindowsPhoneGeek LightSwitch: "How to Connect to and Diagram your SQL Express Database in Visual Studio LightSwitch" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 31 - November 06, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight Best Practices: Data-Centric Applications Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for October, 2011 Do LOB Applications Require Good Usability? Silverlight Navigation Framework tip: using the XAML escape sequence Silverlight Skills Carry Over to Windows 8 'Metro Style' Apps Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, Charles Petzold, Peter Kuhn, and Ollie Riches. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Display Total Records After Applying PagedCollectionView Filter" Asim Sajjad WP7: "Announcing: Phone as a Remote Control" Peter Kuhn Metro/WinRT: "Asynchronous Processing in Windows 8" Charles Petzold Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's...
Yikes... left off all my information last night! In this Issue: Jay Kimble, Charles Petzold, Peter Kuhn, Adam Kinney, Ollie Riches, Abhinaba Basu, Mike Taulty, Erik Mork, Kunal Chowdhury, Cheryl Simmons, Beth Massi, Joost van Schaik, Timmy Kokke, David Catuhe, Igor, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "New version of Babylon engine for Silverlight 5 and Silverlight 5 Toolkit" David Catuhe WP7: "A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background" Joost van Schaik Beth Massi:...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Jounce Navigation to Create OOB Child Windows in Silverlight 5" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Video on How to work with WCF Services in Windows Phone 7" Dhananjay Kumar Metro/WinRT/WIndows 8: "Development Tip – Tab Control" Avi Pilosof LightSwitch: "Connecting To A .CSV or Excel File...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Mark Monster, Antoni Dol, Chaitanya Venneti, Erik Arthur and Jeffrey Ferman, David Kelley, Jose Fajardo(-2-), Andy Beaulieu, Rudi Grobler, Chad Campbell, and Andrej Tozon. Above the Fold: VS2011: "Visual Studio XAML Designer: New Grid Features" WP7: "Statistics for your Windows Phone application (Google Analytics)" Mark Monster Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Physics Games: Multi-targeting Windows 8 + Windows Phone 7" Andy Beaulieu Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert...
In this all-submittal post-"GoLive" 3 week marathon Issue: Vikas, Rene Schulte, Ollie Riches, Alex van Beek, Kevin Dockx, Michael Crump(-2-), Michael Washington, Antoni Dol, Colin Eberhardt(-2-, -3-), and Lazar Nikolov. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Paging Data from the Server with Silverlight" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Tessellating shapes on top of Bing Maps in a WP7 app" Ollie Riches LightSwitch: "Creating a Minimal LightSwitch Shell" Michael Washington Metro/WinRT: "Photoshop in METRO style" Antoni...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for October 24 - 30, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Photoshop in METRO style Nokia giving away 25,000 Lumia 800 Windows Phones to developers Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Using pInvoke Nokia’s First Two Windows Phones Are Here. And They’re Awesome Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Kevin Dockx, Ollie Riches, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, Colin Eberhardt, Tony Champion, David Catuhe, Igor, Jeremy Likness, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "SL5 PivotViewer Custom DetailPaneStyle" Tony Champion WP7: "Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed" Joost van Schaik LightSwitch: "“I Command You!” - LightSwitch Screen Commands Tips & Tricks" Beth Massi Metro/WinRT/Windows8:...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Ollie Riches, Jesse Liberty, Peter Torr, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, WindowsPhoneGeek, Morten Nielsen, Michael Crump, Asim Sajjad, Andrej Tozon, Dhananjay Kumar, Laurent Bugnion, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Background Agents" Jesse Liberty Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications." Michael Crump Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Using The Silverlight...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 10 - 16, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8 Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2011 CTP for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 Five things you'll love about Windows Phone 7.5 Mango WP7.5 Mango: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 5 ways to wring more revenue out of your mobile apps Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow....
Sorry for the tardiness of this post, but I was out of state on family business. If you are looking for Silverlight Developers, I am in contact with developers looking for work, so I can make the introductions for you. In this All-Submittal Issue: Oscar Agreda, Michael Washington(-2-), Gill Cleeren(-2-), goldytech, Michael Crump, Ollie Riches, Colin Eberhardt, and David Catuhe. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Toolkit (September 2011) for Silverlight 5–What’s new?" David Catuhe WP7: "How...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 03 - 09, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight Toolkit (September 2011) for Silverlight 5–What’s new? Installing Mango on Samsung Omnia 7 Get Ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 With Our Brand New Ebook! [Silverlight 5] Getting started with PivotViewer “Active” Federation with Silverlight, WCF, and WIF Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Dave Campbell, Laurent Bugnion, Pete Brown, Asim Sajjad, Daniel Egan, Kunal Chowdhury, Joost van Shaik, Jeff Wilcox, Cristian Merighi, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 in Action Book Excerpt: Using the Accelerometer from Silverlight 5 via Native Extensions" Pete Brown WP7: "A note about remote URIs in Windows Phone secondary tiles" Jeff Wilcox Metro/WinRT/Windows 8: "Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8 /...
This app isn't much to brag about but it sets the stage and underpinnings for apps to follow by getting some of the 'plumbing' in hand. Along the way I used Scott Hanselman's awesome VHD instructions and then explained some of the controls using the mouse and keyboard on a non-touch system. Read On to see the kind of trouble fun I got myself into coding as if it were a Silverlight app. This is the first of hopefully many...
In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Andrea Boschin, Colin Eberhardt, Anoop Madhusudanan, Lee, Laurent Bugnion, Rudi Grobler, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, XAMLNinja, and Kunal Chowdhury. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Develop a Flexible 2.5D Scene Editor Targeting Silverlight RPG Games - Part 2" Xianzhong Zhu WP7: "A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example" Colin Eberhardt Metro/WinRT/Windows 8: "Consuming WCF Service in Windows 8 XAML/C# metro application" AfricanGeek...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 26 - October 02, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications Recording of yesterday's webinar 'WCF RIA POCO Domain Services' available online Developers get MORE with Windows Phone 7.5 Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap Silverlight 5 P-Invoke: Using Kinect SDK from Silverlight Visit and bookmark...
In this Issue: Justin Angel, Kunal Chowdhury, Lazar Nikolov, Laurent Bugnion, Rudi Grobler, Asim Sajjad, Nikola, and Igor. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 4 - Adding sound effects" Lazar Nikolov WP7: "The Fastest Way to Switch Free/Paid and NoDo/Mango App Build in Visual Studio" Nikola Metro/WinRT/Windows 8: "Reverse Engineering and Modifying Windows 8 Apps" Justin Angel Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest...
First a big congratulations to all the new and renewed MVPs (October 1)! In this Issue: Rogier van der Hee, Laurent Bugnion, Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, Xianzhong Zhu, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, Charles Petzold, Nikola, XAMLNinja, and Ollie Riches. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Connecting to FTDI devices using Silverlight 5 RC" Rogier van der Hee WP7: "Removing poly line from Bing Maps on WP7" Ollie Riches Metro/WinRT/Win8: "Metro Controls – Jump Viewer"...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Dennis Doomen, Lazar Nikolov, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 - Adding wind effect" Lazar Nikolov WP7: "Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap" Colin Eberhardt LightSwitch: "LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–September" Beth Massi Metro: "Lighting up your C# Metro...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 19 - 25, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Why John Papa is leaving Microsoft? The future of Silverlight The MVVM Dashboard Good News about Silverlight and WPF for a Change Win8, Metro Apps and Silverlight Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Pete Brown, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, Alexandra Rusina, Mohamed Mosallem, and Stephen Forte. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework" Alexandra Rusina WP7: "Geo-location on WP7 - don't trust the first value returned" Ollie Riches Metro: "Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express" Stephen Forte Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's...
In this Issue: Nguyen Pham, Nigel Sampson, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Setting SelectedValue for ComboBox" Asim Sajjad WP7: "Mango ‘Augmented Reality’ 101: showing a video background" Joost van Shaik Windows8: "Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 1" Derik Whittaker LightSwitch: "Fun with the Office Integration Pack Extension for...
In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Scott Hanselman, David Anson, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Rajat Jaiswal, MIke Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How To Use DataTriggers In Silverlight DataGrid" Dhananjay Kumar WP7: "Windows Phone eBook 1st Edition Published" MIke Ormond LightSwitch: "Filtering Lookup Lists with Large Amounts of Data on Data Entry Screens" Beth Massi Windows...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Enumerating MIDI Interfaces using Silverlight 5 PInvoke" Pete Brown WP7: "Migrating PushBox Game from Android to Windows Phone 7 - Part 5" Xianzhong Zhu Windows8: "Windows 8: What you Need to Know" Jeremy Likness LightSwitch: "How To Create a LightSwitch Command...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Ollie Riches, Oscar Agreda, Samidip Basu, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, Andy Beaulieu(-2-), Michael Sync(-2-), Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The MVVM Dashboard" Oscar Agreda WP7: "SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control" András Velvárt Windows 8: "Why I’m Excited About Windows 8" Dan Wahlin LightSwitch: "Creating LightSwitch Custom Controls" Michael Washington Shoutouts:...
In this Issue: Eric Jensen, Andrea Boschin, Gill Cleeren, Rene Schulte, Colin Eberhardt(-2-), Mark Tucker(-2-), Mark Monster, Walter Ferrari, and Michael Washington(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Welcome to Zombieland, the Metro Style Land of WinRT and the Undead" Rene Schulte WP7: "Adding Tactile Feedback to your app the easy way" Mark Monster LightSwitch: "A Random Walk Through The LightSwitch Data Model" Michael Washington Windows8: "TweetSearch – A Cross platform Metro UI WinRT and Silverlight...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 12 - 18, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Build 2011: What Is WinRT, and Is Silverlight Dead? Top 10 Moments from BUILD Day 1 Keynote and what wasn't said If Silverlight is Dead... Doug Seven's thoughts on the future of existing Microsoft technologies WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 1 - XML Namespace Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
I'm back... what did I miss?? Oh wait... you're expecting info from me about my week I guess :) I had an awesome time: Met tons of people that I didn't already know. Renewed friendships with another ton of people I only see a couple times a year Went to Billy Hollis' PreCon and learned a lot of cool design information that I have yet to transcribe or assimilate entirely Went to Tim Huckaby's party and was "B8 ed" ... although that looked better on the girl wearing the TShirt when I got there Didn't...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, David Anson, Cheryl Simmons, Ryan Alford, Peter Kuhn, Ollie Riches, Mike Hole, Allen Lee, WindowsPhoneGeek, Mike Taulty, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, and Vikram Pendse. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 PInvoke fun - System Font Dialog" Peter Kuhn WP7: "Adding a map image to a secondary live tile" Mike Hole Expression Blend: "Silverlight 4 – Custom Busy Indicator Using PathListBox" Ryan Alford Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain...
In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Tony Champion, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Justin Angel, and Shawn Wildermuth(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating a Multi-Click Event in Silverlight 5" Tony Champion WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics" Justin Angel Shoutouts: SilverlightShow has posted their top 5 for last week: SilverlightShow for August 29 - Sept 04, 2011 Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 29 - Sept 04, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Windows Phone 7 MVVM ViewModel ideas Silverlight 5 Release Candidate Available 29 ways to make your WP7 app killer and make money Top 5 Most Read SilverlightShow Ebooks for August, 2011 Installing Mango on Samsung Omnia 7 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tony Champion, Ollie Riches, Gill Cleeren, Koen Zwikstra(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Xianzhong Zhu, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Sumit Dutta(-2-), Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar(-2-), Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Spy September 2011 Update" Koen Zwikstra WP7: "Windows Phone 7 on-demand training available" Peter Kuhn LightSwitch: "Quick And Easy Data Management With LightSwitch" Michael Washington PivotViewer: "Extending your CXML Trading Cards in Silverlight 5" Tony...
In this Issue: Lee, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, XamlNinja, Ollie Riches, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown(-2-, -3-), Dhananjay Kumar, Sumit Dutta, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using PInvoke in SL5 to show MessageBox" Lee WP7: "WP7Contrib: Dialling the phone number shown in a text block" Ollie Riches Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up Laurent Bugnion has some good news...
In this Issue: Tony Champion, Kevin Hoffman, Pete Brown(-2-), Mike Gold, Jeremy Likness, Xpert360, Den Delimarsky, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Vikram Pendse, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5: Remote control and MediaCommand Support" Pete Brown WP7: "Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango" Michael Crump PivotViewer: "To CXML or not to CXML" Tony Champion Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-), Andrea Boschin, Peter Kuhn, Shawn Wildermuth, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Pete Vickers, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Chad Campbell, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, and David Kelley. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 : Low-Latency Sound Effects" Vikram Pendse WP7: "Windows Phone codenamed "Mango" Training Course" Alex Golesh Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up My friends at SilverlightShow posted their top 5 for...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 22 - 28, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Who says Silverlight can’t run on a tablet Papa's Perspective: Fundamental MVVM apps portal – a Silverlight based app store Tablet Development with Microsoft Silverlight Free SilverlightShow Webinar: WCF RIA POCO Domain Services Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Gill Cleeren, Shawn Wildermuth, WindowsPhoneGeek, Erno de Weerd, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Post Comments Using Silverlight" Asim Sajjad WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Navigation" Erno de Weerd LightSwitch: "Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch - Part 4: To query or to code, that is the question!" Gill Cleeren Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up From SilverlightCream.com: Developing real-world applications...
In this Issue: Asim Sajjad, Thomas Martinsen, Johan Danforth, Kunal Chowdhury, Loek van den Ouweland, XAMLNinja, WindowsPhoneGeek, Erno de Weerd, Sumit Dutta, and David Yack. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Update XAP file" Thomas Martinsen WP7: "WP7 Ad Control and OutOfMemoryException" David Yack Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Den Delimarsky is working on an 'alternative non-approval based Marketplace for Windows Phone': [Weekend coding] MetroPack – desktop Cydia...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, Loek van den Ouweland, XAMLNinja, Ollie Riches(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Den Delimarsky, and Sumit Dutta. Above the Fold: WP7: "Fun With New Live Tile API" Shawn Wildermuth Expression Blend: "Icons or other visuals with XAML instead of bitmaps" Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Gill Cleeren posted his SilverlightShow Advanced Silverlight 5 webinar files From SilverlightCream.com:...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 14 - 21, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: The Top 5 WPF and Silverlight Gotchas Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? The LOB Chronicles - Exploring User Experience (UX) Slides for our upcoming 'Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE' webinar Mango Baby Steps: Unit Testing your WP7 app Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Kunal Chowdhury, Todd Brix, MIke Ormond, XAMLNinja, Ollie Riches(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Morten Nielsen, and Gill Cleeren. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "apps portal – a silverlight based app store" Sigurd Snørteland WP7: "Windows Phone: Adding Mango features to a 7.0 WinPhone App" Morten Nielsen Expression Blend: "Expression Blend Drawing Tips" John Papa LightSwitch: "Cleaning a LightSwitch solution" Gill Cleeren Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Gill Cleeren, Chris Koenig, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Ryan Alford, and Shawn Wildermuth(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Relative Source Binding in Silverlight" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Maintaining a Project with Two Windows Phone Versions" Shawn Wildermuth LightSwitch: "Tree Control: Hierarchical Data with LightSwitch" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's got his latest Desert Mountain Developers up From SilverlightCream.com: Tree Control: Hierarchical Data...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Beth Massi, Ryan Alford, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jeremy Likness, John Papa(-2-), Jeff Wilcox, Mike Ormond, Ollie Riches(-2-), and Mijail Cisneros. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Windows Phone Mango Custom application Theme Step by Step" WindowsPhoneGeek LightSwitch: "How to Allow Adding of Data to an Auto-Complete Drop-down Box in LightSwitch" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Mike Ormond posted about the next...
In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Dhananjay Kumar, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, John Papa, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Andrej Tozon(-2-), and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Papa's Perspective: Fundamental MVVM" John Papa WP7: "Connecting Windows Phone 7, Zune, a Proxy Server and an Intranet Web Service" Erno de Weerd LightSwitch: "Using WCF RIA Services With LightSwitch: I Know You're Scared, I Understand" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael Crump is...
In this All Submittal Issue: Michael Washington, SilverlightShow(-2-), Mark Monster(-2-), Oren Gal, Andrea Boschin, Sigurd Snørteland, Peter Kuhn, Mijail Cisneros, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Gill Cleeren Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Why Visual Studio Debugger is not working for my Silverlight Application?" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Cache as Fallback using Reactive Extensions" Mark Monster LightSwitch: "Using WCF RIA Services In LightSwitch To Simplify Your Application UI" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 8 - 14, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Understanding the Microsoft Shift on Silverlight and HTML5 Building a CRM Demo using RadControls for Silverlight and OpenAccess ORM Create PDF in Silverlight New book coming soon: Real World .NET 4 and C# Mango RTMs! Now what? Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Michael Crump, Nigel Sampson, Ben Gracewood, Jeremy Likness, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, Morten Nielsen(-2-), and Alex Sorokoletov. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Attribute Validation in Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Example" Jeremy Likness WP7: "SurfCube on Mango Part 3–Share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn" András Velvárt LightSwitch: "How To Create a Simple Control Extension (Or How To Make LightSwitch Controls You Can...
In this Issue: Mike Taulty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Oscar Agreda, and Morten Nielsen(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx" Mike Taulty WP7: "New Video – Windows Phone 7 Guide – Part 7 – Unlock apps in a locked emulator" Den Delimarsky Shoutouts: Michael Palermo has the latest up: Desert Mountain Developers for August 11 From SilverlightCream.com: FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx Mike Taulty posted a live demo and write-up on a FlickR search...
In this Issue: Morten Nielsen(-2-), Mike Gold, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, and Oscar Agreda. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight MVVM Code Smith Templates" Oscar Agreda WP7: "Working with a simple ViewModelLocator from MVVM-Light" Mike Gold From SilverlightCream.com: WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 4 - Animations Part 4 of Morten Nielsen's WPF and Silverlight comparison yeields this post on Animations... the launching thereof to be exact WPF vs. Silverlight -...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Rajat Jaiswal, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, and Oscar Agreda. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to Close Browser Window from Silverlight Application?" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image)" Den Delimarsky LightSwitch: "Getting Started with the LightSwitch Starter Kits" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's Desert...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Ollie Riches, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Mike Taulty, Den Delimarsky, Derik Whittaker, Oscar Agreda, Austin Andrews, Manas Patnaik, and Jesse Liberty(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Conditional CellTemplete controls at Runtime in Silverlight DataGrid" Manas Patnaik WP7: "Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two" Colin Eberhardt Expression Design: "Tutorial: Creating an Icon" Austin Andrews Shoutouts: SilverlightShow has their top 5 from last week listed:...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 1 - 7, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE Silverlight Menu4U 7 reasons to be a Windows Phone 7 Developer WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) - And Updated NuGet Packages KinectSDK + Windows Phone 7 Mango Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), Derik Whittaker, Peter Kuhn, Michael James, XamlNinja, Adam Kinney, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Alex Sorokoletov(-2-), and Den Delimarsky. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 1 - Custom Controls Theme" Morten Nielsen WP7: "New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series" Adam Kinney LightSwitch: "The LightSwitch Control Extension Makers Dilemma" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael Palermo has his latest Desert Mountain Developers...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Mike Talbot, Michael Washington, Davide Zordan, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Pete Brown, Dhananjay Kumar, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Peter Torr, Derik Whittaker, and MIchael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor" Pete Brown WP7: "Page State–Step by Step" Jesse Liberty LightSwitch: "Using the Telerik Rich Text Editor In Visual Studio LightSwitch" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Laurent Bugnion...
In this Issue: Oren Gal, Oscar Agreda(-2-), Michael Washington, Mike Gold, John Papa, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty(-2-), András Velvárt, and Derik Whittaker. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "here is a Complete Silverlight Business Application using MVVM" Oscar Agreda WP7: "SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray" András Velvárt LightSwitch: "WCF RIA Service: Combining Two Tables" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael Crump's articles on OData at Silverlight show have been pulled into an eBook: My eBook...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for July 25 - 31, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: LightSwitch: We Now Have Our 'Killer App' Fujitsu Toshiba announces au IS12T, the world's first Mango phone (hands-on!) "The Validation Story in Silverlight" - new e-book by Gill Cleeren Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit Tower Defense Game Engine for Windows Phone 7 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), XAMLNinja, Jonathan Marbutt, Rob Eisenberg, Jeremy Likness, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Derik Whittaker. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Reflection, Lambda, and Expression Magic" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them" Derik Whittaker LightSwitch: "Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Released - Download the Final Version Now" Kunal Chowdhury Shoutouts: Beth Massi has a link post up for lots of good LightSwitch resources:...
In this Issue: Mike Talbot, Michael Crump, Kunal Chowdhury, Cheryl Simmons, Joost van Schaik(-2-), Shantimohan Elchuri, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Peter Torr, Pete Vickers, Derik Whittaker, and Den Delimarsky. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Wordle Like Tag Cloud for Silverlight" Mike Talbot WP7: "Speed and distance calculation extension methods for Windows Phone 7" Joost van Schaik Shoutouts: Check out Pete Brown's interview on .NET Rocks: My .NET Rocks Interview Koen Zwikstra announced a July update: Silverlight...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Ollie Riches, Derik Whittaker, John Garland, WindowsPhoneGeek, Manas Patnaik, Xianzhong Zhu, John Papa, Dhananjay Kumar, Jesse Liberty, Peter Torr, Gill Cleeren, and Jonas Follesø. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Multiple MonthView DatePicker Control in Silverlight" Manas Patnaik WP7: "Silverlight TV 79: Data Binding Debugging" John Papa From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone (Mango) DB Engines Performance Testing Max Paulousky's latest post is on performance testing...
In this Issue: XamlNinja(-2-), Ollie Riches(-2-), Michael Washington, Bart Czernicki, Chris Craft, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, Jasim Schluter, Pete Vickers, Samuel Jack, and Mike Ormond. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating Inner Shadow Effects for WPF and Silverlight" Samuel Jack WP7: "WP7Contrib: Transient caching with In Memory Cache Provider" Ollie Riches LightSwitch: "Using OLAP for LightSwitchUsing OLAP for LightSwitch" Michael Washington Shoutouts: The folks at SilverlightShow have...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for July 18 - 24, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight 5 for Line of Business Applications – Jeremy Likness 100+ articles in SilverlightShow new "Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506" eBook Microsoft has 3 months to make or break Windows Phone – Part 1 Building Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with HTML5 and Mango LINQ Pad vs. Visual Studio for Learning...
In this Issue: Gill Cleeren, Adam Kinney, Peter Torr, John Garland, Kunal Chowdhury, Telerik, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Showing the Onscreen Keyboard in Silverlight OOB Applications" John Garland WP7: "Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer" Adam Kinney LightSwitch: "The Visual Studio LightSwitch Economy" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Pete Brown announced a sweet deal on his next book: My Next Book: Silverlight...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Xianzhong Zhu, John Papa, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series)" John Papa WP7: "Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Kunal Chowdhury gave a "MVVM from Scratch using Silverlight" session at Pune User Group's (PUG) Monthly meet, and has posted his material: Recalling...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for July 11 - 17, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tutorials You Must Read Screencast: Modular WPF with MEF & MVVM Tutorial Part 1 The Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 is now available Consumerization of IT and Silverlight Line of Business Only on SilverlightShow: Brand New Windows Phone 7 eBook by the 4-time Silverlight MVP András Velvárt Visit and bookmark...
In this All Submittal Issue: Michael Washington(-2-), András Velvárt(-2-), Gill Cleeren, and Kunal Chowdhury(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Tip: Network change events in Silverlight" Gill Cleeren WP7: "Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight Developers: Portrait and Landscape & Themes" András Velvárt LightSwitch: "Creating Visual Studio LightSwitch Custom Controls (Beginner to Intermediate)" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: Creating Visual Studio LightSwitch Custom Controls (Beginner...
In this Issue: Rudi Grobler, Roy Dallal, Hannah Watkins, AfricanGeek, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Beth Massi, Mohamed Mosallem, Michael Crump, and Jesse Liberty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Communicating between two local Silverlight Applications" Michael Crump WP7: "Designing for Steam Achievements, a Windows Phone 7 app" Hannah Watkins LightSwitch: "Relating and Editing Data from Multiple Data Sources on the Same Screen" Beth Massi Shoutouts: My Friends at SilverlightShow have their top 5 posts from...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for July 4 - 10, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Strange times in the world of Microsoft developers New eBook released 'Silverlight in the Azure cloud' by Gill Cleeren Getting Started with Node.js and Mango How to Create a Circular Loader using XAML Update Your Windows Phone to Mango Today Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Kevin Hoffman, Pontus Wittenmark, Peter Kuhn, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Nigel Sampson, Stephen Price. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Color FromArgb using hex values" Stephen Price WP7: "SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test" András Velvárt Shoutouts: Pete Brown posted about the redesign of the Silverlight.net site... I like it ... check it out for yourself: he New and Improved Silverlight.net Site Michael Washington...
In this All-Submittal (but not all current submittals) Issue: Rod Falanga, Colin Eberhardt, and Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-). Above the Fold: Silverlight/VS2010: "Creating Silverlight Application on network share : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site" Rod Falanga WP7: "Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 22 - Local Database Support, Create DataContext" Kunal Chowdhury Just plain interesting:: "From Silverlight To HTML5" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: The SilverlightShow folks announced some training...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for June 27 - July 03, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: WCF RIA Services series now available as a fully offline resource Download Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 (Mango) - Web and Offline Installer Telerik XAML controls Q2 2011 Beta Release Using the Task Parallel Library (TPL) for Events Developers Get Goody Basket Full of Mangos Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the...
Phoenix Silverlight User Group Meeting July 6 featuring Dave Campbell Come out to Interface Technical Training tomorrow (July 7, 2011) in Phoenix to see me struggle through explaining how to use Jeremy Likness' Sterling No SQL database in your Silverlight applications. As always, pizza and greet-up starts at 6PM, followed at 6:30 or whenever everybody rounds up by the meeting which runs until 8PM. If you're anywhere in the area, come on down... I use Sterling all day in an enterprise app, so hopefully...
In this Issue: SLMPerf, Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Mike Taulty, Beth Massi, Andrea Boschin, and Alex Golesh. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Reactive Extensions RTW" Mike Taulty WP7: "Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 21 - Small Demo of Accelerometer Application" Kunal Chowdhury Training: "Using SharePoint Data in your LightSwitch Applications" Beth Massi Shoutouts: My friends at SilverlightShow released their list of the top 5 posts on SilverlightShow for June 20 - 26,...
I was included in a very happy group of developers that yesterday was awarded (or re-awarded -- is that a word?) Microsoft MVP in their area of expertise. In my case, it was a re-award. My first was in 2007, so this is my 4th re-award. I'd like to take space in my blog to personally thank my Lead, Allen Li, and the folks on the Silverlight team for once again including me in the list with the cool kids. Also the Silverlight team for their steadfast support of the MVPs by keeping us in the loop. Re-awards...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for June 20 - 26, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Metro UI for RadControls for Silverlight and WPF Nokia's first Windows Phone: images and video, codenamed 'Sea Ray' List of standard icons for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Is Adobe’s new HTML5 Edge tool Expression Blends replacement? The Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Mike Taulty, Erno de Weerd, Stephen Price, Chris Rouw, Peter Kuhn, Damian Schenkelman, Michael Washington, and Manas Patnaik. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Binding to View Model properties in Data Templates. The RootBinding Markup Extension" Damian Schenkelman WP7: "Storing Files in SQL Server using WCF RIA Services and Silverlight – Part 3" Chris Rouw LightSwitch: "Saving Files To File System With LightSwitch (Uploading Files)" Michael Washington Shoutouts:...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Mike Taulty, Xpert360, and Erno de Weerd. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps" Mike Taulty WP7: "Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 18 - Know about various Phone Tasks" Kunal Chowdhury LightSwitch: "How to Create a Simple Audit Trail (Change Log) in LightSwitch" Beth Massi From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 18 - Know about various Phone Tasks Kunal Chowdhury has number 18...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Peter Kuhn(-2-, -3-), Mike Gold, WindowsPhoneGeek, Nigel Sampson, Paul Sheriff, Dhananjay Kumar, and Erno de Weerd. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Debug Helper" Peter Kuhn3 WP7: "Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Check out the Top 5 from my friends at SilverlightShow from last week: SilverlightShow for June 13 - 19, 2011 From SilverlightCream.com: Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for June 13 - 19, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Panorama "Windows 8" template for Silverlight Premature cries of Silverlight / WPF skill loss. Windows 8 supports all programming models HTML 5 & Silverlight 5 10 Silverlight 5 Demos Recording of recent SilverlightShow webinar 'Blend for Silverlight Developers' now available online Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Oren Gal, Rudi Grobler, Stephen Price, Erno de Weerd, Joost van Schaik, WindowsPhoneGeek, Andrea Boschin, and Vikram Pendse. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Multiple Page Printing in Silverlight4 - Part 3 - Printing Driving Directions" Oren Gal WP7: "Prototyping Windows Phone 7 Applications using SketchFlow" Vikram Pendse Shoutouts: Not Silverlight, but darned cool... Michael Crump has just what you need to get going with Kinect: The busy developers guide to the...
In this Issue: René Schulte, Rajat Jaiswal(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Beth Massi, Michael Crump, Daniel Vaughan, Chris Rouw, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jesse Liberty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Cubelicious - Silverlight 5 + Balder + Physics + SLARToolkit Augmented Reality = Triple Win!" René Schulte WP7: "Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML" Daniel Vaughan LightSwitch: "Adding Static Images and Text on a LightSwitch Screen" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Laurent Bugnion is...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Stephen Price, Mark Heath, Oren Gal, Jesse Liberty, and Laurent Duveau. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Implicit Data Template in Silverlight 5" Laurent Duveau WP7: "Fast Application Switching Made Easy" Jesse Liberty XAML: "StringFormat for TimeSpan" Stephen Price Shoutouts: Rudi Grobler has a post up of all the WP7 competitions he has found... Windows Phone 7 Competitions Bill Reiss has a similar post up, with contests and even a way to get your $99 reimbursed! Windows...
In this Issue: Vikram Pendse(-2-), Christian Schormann, Pete Brown, Kunal Chowdhury, Andrea Boschin, SLMPerf, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5: Vector and Bitmap Printing for Reports and more" Pete Brown WP7: "New SketchFlow Template for WP7" Christian Schormann LightSwitch: "Integrating Visual Studio LightSwitch Application Into An Existing Website using IFrames" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Laurent Duveau presented on LightSwitch...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for June 6-12, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Why Silverlight/WPF developers are reaping the fruit of their bad choices Silverlight isn’t dead, it’s the heart of Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox New iOS 5 features compared to Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone Silverlight, HTML5 & Windows 8 : Where we are heading to? New SilverlightShow - Summary of Features and Improvements...
In this Issue: Rob Eisenberg, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Pavan Podila, Beth Massi, Andrea Boschin(-2-), David Kelley, Dhananjay Kumar, SLMPerf, Jaime Rodriguez, and Vikram Pendse(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "TIP: Routed events in Silverlight" Andrea Boschin WP7: "Useful Mango Developer Resources" Jaime Rodriguez HTML5/WP7: "Building an HTML/HTML5... Based Application for Phone 7" David Kelley Shoutouts: Mark this one just for fun... Rudi Grobler has a WP7 app of Duke Nuken Sound clips: Duke...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Michael Crump(-2-), Xpert360, Jesse Liberty(-2-), John Papa, Vikram Pendse, and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta” Demos" Michael Crump WP7: "Silverlight TV 76: Animations on Windows Phone in the Bird Hunt Game" John Papa Training: "I Want To Make Cars Not Car Engines" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Jeremy Likness has a post up about the Telerik controls for WP7... not only does Telerik utilize Jeremy's...
In this Issue: Rudi Grobler, Roy Dallal, Chris Rouw, Sean Nolan, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Mike Taulty, Paul Sheriff, Xpert360, and Vikram Pendse. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Storing Files in SQL Server using WCF RIA Services and Silverlight – Part 1" Chris Rouw WP7: "XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 12 - Mango (1)" Peter Kuhn From SilverlightCream.com: Slide-out keyboard support on Windows Phone Rudi Grobler has a quick post up discussing the slide-out keyboard...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Xpert360, and Vikram Pendse. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 : Multiple Click Support aka ClickCount" Vikram Pendse WP7: "Metro In Motion Part #6 – Rolling List Location Indicator" Colin Eberhardt PivotViewer: "PivotViewer Shorts Part 2: Hide View and SortBy Buttons" Xpert360 Shoutouts: Check out the recently redesigned (and looking good) SilverlightShow, and their top 5 for last week: SilverlightShow...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 30 - June 05, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Windows 8 apps going html/js HTML5? Ok, so let’s also deploy Microsoft Silverlight onto Android then Windows Phone 7 SQL CE – DataContext Tables Telerik Announces Support for Windows Phone 7 Mango, Ships the Fastest WP7 Chart Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow....
In this Issue: Rudi Grobler, Oren Gal, Michael Washington, Vikram Pendse, Kunal Chowdhury, Jesse Liberty, Xpert360, Jaana Metsamaa, Charles Petzold, and Peter Kuhn. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Getting Driving Directions in a Silverlight Application - Part 2 - Advanced Features" Oren Gal WP7: "Windows Phone Screen Shots" Charles Petzold LightSwitch: "How to Create A LightSwitch Popup" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Congratulations go out to my buddy András Velvárt for SurfCube Wins Microsoft Innovation...
It's June 4th, and it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules I pick what posts are on the blog Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for December 1, 2010 through May 31, 2011: It is my intention to post a new list sometime...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Teppo Kotirinta, Loek van den Ouweland, Daniel Vaughan, Adam Kinney, Peter Torr, Morten Nielsen, John Garland, Jaime Rodriguez(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Xpert360. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 4" Xpert360 WP7: "Windows Phone 7 for Designers — Cheat Sheet" Teppo Kotirinta LightSwitch: "LightSwitch Concurrency Checking" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Timmy Kokke gave a presentation at DevDays in the Netherlands and...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Nitya Ravi, Beth Massi, Xpert360, Andrea Boschin, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and John Papa. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Managing Resources with Reactive Extensions" Jesse Liberty WP7: "New Addition to Windows Phone Quickstarts- Pivot and Panorama Controls" Nitya Ravi Jesse Liberty Shoutouts: Jeremy Likness has his materials posted for his CodeStock Presentation: Silverlight 5 for Line of Business Applications Koen Zwikstra has an update to his excellent...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Khawar Yunus, Alex van Beek, David Kelley, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), Valentin Stoychev, Dhananjay Kumar, and Jesse Liberty(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Silverlight and Server Push to build a better means of debugging production applications" Khawar Yunus WP7: "Monetizing Phone 7 Application Methods and Approaches" David Kelley Shoutouts: Joe McBride has his materials up for the presentation he did: Push Notifications and Tiles – Slides & Demos Damian Schenkelman...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Walter Ferrari, Kunal Chowdhury, Rob Eisenberg, Michael Crump(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Nigel Sampson. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The ABC of streaming in Silverlight" Walter Ferrari WP7: "Switching between Windows Phone 7.1 Mango and 7.0 RTW developer tools and vice versa" WindowsPhoneGeek From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Profiler” - Part 9 of 8) Alex Golesh risks overlowing his buffer with this Mango - What's New...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 23-29, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON A Simple Physics Game using Silverlight and Farseer Engine Windows Phone 7 Mango - Sockets Using IIS Express to Secure Silverlight and WCF Applications Windows Phone 7 Mango - Silverlight and XNA integration Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Roy Dallal, Jim Wightman, Kevin Hoffman, Levente Mihály, Peter Kuhn(-2-, -3-), René Schulte, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), John Papa. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Reactive Extensions–FromAsync" Jesse Liberty WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Mango - Sockets" Peter Kuhn Shoutouts: Kunal Chowdhury has a list up of all the Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) Features From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango - 1 - Creating a Hello World Application Kunal Chowdhury...
In this Issue: Alex van Beek, René Schulte(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-, -4-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Nigel Sampson, Jeremy Likness, and Paul Sheriff. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Silverlight/XNA Interoperability” - Part 7 of 8)" Alex Golesh LINQ: "LINQ Deferred Execution–Oops!" Jesse Liberty Shoutouts: My friends at...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 16-22, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: More good times for app developers? Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow Spying Silverlight app with SilverlightSpy - a must have tool C# Html Sanitizer for Windows Phone and Silverlight What’s New in Silverlight 5 – Performance and Other Improvements Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
Looks like bloggers figured out I'd post the submittals first, because today I got hammered with posts. In this 2nd in a row Submittal-only Issue: Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), René Schulte, Alex van Beek, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Rudi Grobler. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 Multiple Window Support" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Augmented Mango - SLARToolkit for Windows Phone" René Schulte WP7: "Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“New Sensors & Tooling Enhancements” - Part 3 of 8)" Alex Golesh...
In this all submittal Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Michael Washington(-2-, -3-, -4-), Victor Gaudioso. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to create a Rotating Banner" Victor Gaudioso WP7: "A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example" Colin Eberhardt Training: "Two Ways To Call LightSwitch From a Custom Silverlight Control" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example This is probably the best way to learn...
In this Issue: Rudi Grobler(-2-), Michael Washington, Ashish Patil, Oren Gal(-2-), Andrea Boschin, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, John Papa, Mike Taulty, and Paul Sheriff. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Getting Driving Directions in a Silverlight Application" Oren Gal WP7: "Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation" WindowsPhoneGeek LightSwitch: "Using The Document Toolkit for LightSwitch" Michael Washington Shoutouts: SilverlightShow posted their top 5 articles...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 9-15, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide… Why Windows Phone Will Beat Android Babylon Toolkit : a toolbox for developing 3D applications with Silverlight 5 Why Windows Phone 7 Mango really matters What Daniela Panfili learned designing her first Windows Phone 7 app Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Joost van Schaik, Xpert360, Tony Champion, Paul Sheriff, Vangos Pterneas, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Debugging Windows Phone 7 device network access with just a laptop" Joost van Schaik Training: "MVPs Chat It Up on Twitter - Tony Champion's Pivot of the results" Tony Champion From SilverlightCream.com: Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight...
In this Issue: David Catuhe, Andrea Boschin, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, Mike Ormond, Doug Rathbone, John Garland, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty, and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "ItemsControl from scratch to your own controls" Andrea Boschin WP7: "Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Alan Cruz sent me a link to his Social Network site he's developed in Silverlight... this is another 'sign yourself up' thing... I did it, nothing bad happened :) ... Alan...
It's already the 15th of May, and it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules I pick what posts are on the blog Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for November 1, 2010 through April 30, 2011: It is my intention to post a...
Sorry for the repost and also hosing over the results a while ago, but since it's been so long that I did one of these, I pooted the query. Original post: Wow...it's quite a bit past the first of May, and I realized I had not done the 'top posted' list for April. When I went to update the sproc that runs that code I realized I had not done the list for February either :( ... so let's do that one first... it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream for the...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury, Mick Norman, Mike Hole, John Garland, Jeff Prosise, Jobi Joy, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Nigel Sampson, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Enhanced Touch Manipulations for Silverlight and Windows Phone" John Garland WP7: "Tile Maker" Mike Hole LightSwitch: "This Is How LightSwitch Does MVVM" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: This Is How LightSwitch Does MVVM Michael Washington's latest LightSwitch post...
If you're in Seattle or will be in Seattle, well ok ... actually Redmond, the 2nd week of June, and you've got some time and money to invest in your career, Alex Golesh announced a great opportunity. Alex is a Silverlight MVP, and way back in February of 2010, I saw the WP7 emulator running on his laptop at the MVP Summit... that means he's been involved since before they told all of us at the Summit that we were now WP7 devs! Lots (maybe all, for all I know) of the WP7 training you'll find at at...
In this Issue: Morten Nielsen, Kunal Chowdhury, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Custom Cursors in Silverlight" Morten Nielsen WP7: "Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE" Jesse Liberty Silverlight 5 Beta: "Silverlight 5: Using the SoundEffect Class for Low-Latency Sound (and play WAV files in Silverlight)" Pete Brown Shoutouts: Khawar Yunus sent me this link to his app... I'm not going to tell you to make a login, but I did.. and the app is a pretty...
In this Issue: Chris Rouw, Kevin Dockx(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Telerik Phone Team, Mike Taulty(-2-), Pete Brown, and András Velvárt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Locking and Unlocking controls in a Silverlight LOB Application" Chris Rouw WP7: "WP7 ToDo Lists App Built with RadControls" Telerik Phone Team Just too cool not to list: "Kinect + Bing Maps–the gestures" András Velvárt Shoutouts: The SilverlightShow folks sent me their top 5 from last week: SilverlightShow...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 2-8, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: How to Create a To-Do App for Windows Phone 7 Join a 3-day Online XNA Training for free! WP7 app designed for the ladies: Woman Calendar Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes – The Third Dimension Silverlight MVVM, WCF RIA Services Simple Sample Application Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this almost entirely submittals Issue: Andrea Boschin, Manas Patnaik, Alex van Beek, Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Michael Crump, Richard Waddell, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Alexandra Rusina, and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight 5 Beta: "Silverlight 5: Debugging Bindings with Xaml Breakpoints" Pete Brown Silverlight: "Dynamic Types to Simplify Property Change Notification in Silverlight 4 and 5" Jeremy Likness LightSwitch: "Using The LightSwitch Filter Extension" Michael...
In this Issue: Pete Brown, Victor Gaudioso, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, John Papa, David Anson, Mike Taulty(-2-), Lazar Nikolov, Alex Knight, Deborah Kurata, and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 2 - Optimization" Lazar Nikolov WP7: "Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Implementation and Best Practices" WindowsPhoneGeek Lightswitch: "LightSwitch: 10 Times As Many Silverlight Developers As Today" Michael Washington...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, David Anson, Rob Tiffany, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Performance Optimization of Silverlight Applications using Visual Studio 2010 SP1" Jeremy Likness WP7: "The Reactive Snake for Windows Phone 7" Andrea Boschin From SilverlightCream.com: Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataType in Silverlight 5 Beta Kunal Chowdhury has a good tutorial up on Silverlight 5 Beta's ImplicitDataType...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Roy Dallal, Colin Eberhardt, Deborah Kurata, David Anson, Mike Taulty(-2-), Jesse Liberty, and Jeremy Likness. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications" David Anson WP7: "Metro In Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: John Papa has a 3rd part up on his blog conversion to Orchard CMS: Walking Through the Orchard Part 3 -...
In this Issue: René Schulte(-2-), John Papa(-2-), Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andy Beaulieu, Arik Poznanski, Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata(-2-), Microsoft, and Jesse Liberty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet" René Schulte WP7: "Windows Phone Developer Resources" Microsoft Shoutouts: SilverlightShow posted their top 5 from last week: SilverlightShow for April 25-May 01, 2011 Koen Zwikstra has announced an update of Silverlight Spy... read his note about Silverlight 5 Beta... Silverlight...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 25 - May 1, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course MIX11 videos mass download tool Best of FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7 ViewModel INotifyPropertyChanged Code Generation MIX11 Silverlight Bootcamp Slides and MVVM Demo Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: David Catuhe, Paul Sheriff, Bill Steele, Den Delimarsky, Bill Burrows, Doug Rathbone, Matthias Shapiro, Jason Alderman, Jessica Fosler, John Garland, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, and Jeff Prosise. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5’s New and Improved Threading Architecture" Jeff Prosise WP7: "Silverlight Game Development webcasts" Bill Steele Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty has a short post up describing some of the features we can expect with the Tooling in Mango From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Michael Crump(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Peter Kuhn, John Papa(-2-), Nigel Sampson, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Application Events in Silverlight" Gill Cleeren WP7: "Creating a delete animation using Expression Blend" Nigel Sampson Lightswitch: "It Is Easy To Display Counts And Percentages In LightSwitch" Michael Washington Shoutouts: John Papa has a 2-part series up on rebuilding his blog in Orchard... Part 1: Walking Through...
In this Issue: Tony Champion, Oren Gal, David Catuhe, Anuj Seth, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Prosise(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), and Jesse Liberty(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Reverse geocoding in a Silverlight application" Oren Gal WP7: "Phoney Tools 1.0 Released!" Shawn Wildermuth Shoutouts: My friends at SilverlightShow made their top 5 from last week available: SilverlightShow for April 18 - 24, 2011 From SilverlightCream.com: PivotViewer Lessons Update Tony Champion added a new lesson to...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 18-24, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: New SilverlightShow Webinar: Getting started with the Silverlight 5 Beta Silverlight 5 – Elevated Trust In-Browser Windows Phone 7 and WCF Don’t Play Nicely Silverlight 5’s New and Improved Threading Architecture Using Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Harold Martinez, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Martin Krüger, and Xianzhong Zhu. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Multithread Programming in Silverlight 4" Xianzhong Zhu WP7: "Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #8" Jeff Prosise XNA: "Basic XNA" Harold Martinez From SilverlightCream.com: Adding Runtime Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Application Derik Whittaker has a post up that all the WP7 devs should be interested...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Morten Nielsen, John Garland, Bil Simser, Adam Nathan, András Velvárt, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Martin Krüger, Damon Payne, and Xianzhong Zhu. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5" Damon Payne WP7: "Hardware Back Button + Marketplace Certification" Adam Nathan Lightswitch: "Deploy Your LightSwitch Application As A DotNetNuke Module" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: Deploy Your LightSwitch Application...
In this Issue: Dave Davis, Oren Gal, Colin Eberhardt, Dan Wahlin, Jeff Prosise(-2-), @yuriylsh, Bill Reiss, Richard Waddell, Andrea Boschin(-2-), András Velvárt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Working with User Names and Roles in Silverlight Applications" Dan Wahlin WP7: "Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #7" Jeff Prosise MIX11: "MIX11 Mass Download Tool" @yuriylsh From SilverlightCream.com: Controlling Silverlight Child Windows Using MVVM Dave Davis has a post up that revisits a subject...
In this all submittal Issue: Manas Patnaik, Walter Ferrari, Kevin Hoffman, Joost van Schaik, Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-, -4-), Dave Davis, Tony Champion, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Rudi Grobler, Colin Eberhardt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Safe event detachment ‘pattern’ for behaviors" Joost van Schaik WP7: "A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control" Colin Eberhardt From SilverlightCream.com: Implicit DataTemplates in Silverlight 5, With practical case study Manas Patnaik's latest post is a Silverlight...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 11-17, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight 5 Beta Released! HTML5 & Business Apps: Back To Reality Shawn Wildermuth's Take on the Silverlight 5 Part of the MIX 11 Keynote Silverlight 5: 3D Physics Demo Silverlight Status Report Also... at 10 AM PST today, SilverlightShow has a Lightswitch webinar going on: Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: 'Switch or no switch: Can I build my business...
In this 2nd Post-MIX11 Submittal Issue: John Papa, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Bart Czernicki, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Kevin Dockx, Manas Patnaik, Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight 5 Beta: "Announcing the Silverlight 5 Beta Release and the Silverlight.net Redesign" Pete Brown and "Silverlight 5 Beta–A guide to the new features" Tim Heuer WP7: "Getting started with Windows Phone 7 and Azure" Michael Crump From SilverlightCream.com: Lightning Strikes at MIX11! UX Lightning, That Is John Papa...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 4 - 10, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for week before last: Silverlight 5 Beta Here, HTML 5, Sterling Feedback and More HTML vs. Silverlight vs. WPF Silverlight 5 beta to debut at MIX and a few Windows Phone numbers that matter 'Do you twig?' Silverlight App – Full source code available Performance tips for RIA Service with Silverlight 4 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Michael Washington, Benjamin Gavin, Joost van Schaik, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to access Control Template parts from Code Behind?" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Bing Maps control with MVVMLight on Windows Phone 7" Joost van Schaik Lightswitch: "LightSwitch Procedural Operations: “Do This, Then Do That”" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Colin Eberhardt has a post up visualizing data from a Gartner mobile smartphone sales prediction report: Gartner...
In this Issue: Viktor Larsson, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Manas Patnaik, Joost van Schaik, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth(-2-), Xianzhong Zhu, Nigel Sampson. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to design a Custom Control by editing the Part Template?" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Wp7nl utilities" Joost van Schaik Shoutouts: If you're one of the ones that camps out on the forums looking in vain for a question to answer, you may be in luck with Aximus' MS Community Forums RSS Reader that'll get you forum posts...
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Jeremy Likness, Matthew Delisle, Xianzhong Zhu, Nigel Sampson, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Andrea Boschin, Mike Ormond, Jeff Wilcox, and Bil Simser. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Scaling and Anti-Aliasing Issues" Jeremy Likness WP7: "AgFx Windows Phone App and Data Caching Framework" Jeff Wilcox Shoutouts: The tool Mike Ormond discussed in a post listed below is WP7 Screenshot Tool by Cory Smith DiscountASP.NET has a post up about the latest SQL Injection attack going...
Yes tomorrow really is the first Wednesday of the month! and Yes, we are having our normally scheduled meeting. The Silverlight User Group meeting will be from 6PM to 8PM at Interface Technical Training (NW corner of Central & Thomas) -- check PhoenixSilverlight.net for a map. Come out for Pizza and networking at 6 then hang around because Ryan Plemons of Terralever is returning to speak on Smooth Streaming: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for March 28-April 3, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Force the NoDo update on the Samsung Omnia 7 and other Windows Phone 7 devices New Book: Developer's Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 How Copy/Paste Works on WP7-Nodo MVVM# Episode 1 Daily News Digest 03/28/2011 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Kevin Hoffman, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Michael Washington, WindowsPhoneGeek, Nigel Sampson, Jeff Prosise(-2-), and Andrea Boschin(-2-, -3-, -4-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight?" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Metro In Motion #3 – Flying Titles!" Colin Eberhardt Lightswitch: "A LightSwitch Home Page" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Normally you wouldn't see me listing something like this, but hey, it's on Silverlight.net:...
In this Issue: John Papa, Rudi Grobler, Michael Washington, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Xianzhong Zhu, Nigel Sampson, Martin Krüger, WindowsPhoneGeek, Vinit Yadav, András Velvárt, and Alex Sorokoletov. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Response.MVVM is now available via NuGet!" András Velvárt WP7: "BounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic" Vinit Yadav Lightswitch: "LightSwitch Online Ordering System" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Cigdem Patlak has a post up about the ROCK! event beginning next weekend in LA: Microsoft...
In this Issue: Roy Dallal, Rudi Grobler, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Morten Nielsen, Derik Whittaker, Peter Torr, Xianzhong Zhu, and Adam Kinney. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight: Adding Google Streets View" Roy Dallal WP7: "Using the accelerometer to control planar transforms on Windows Phone 7" Morten Nielsen Shoutouts: Andy Wigley posted this today from appamundi: Want a FREE Windows Phone?? From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight: Adding Google Streets View Roy Dallal posted an...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for March 21-27, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight 4 MVVM Validation using INotifyDataErrorInfo A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough 7Metro: Silverlight Theme Authentication against custom Table In Silverlight 4 Using RIA Service Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Michael Crump, Alex Knight, Benjamin Roux, Nigel Sampson, and Jeff Prosise(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "[Silverlight] How to watermark a WriteableBitmap with a text" Benjamin Roux WP7: "My 10 tips for designing phone apps" Alex Knight Lightswitch: "LightSwitch and HTML" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: LightSwitch and HTML Michael Washington's latest Lightswitch post is up on CodeProject... and he's creating an ASP.NET page that communicates...
In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, Benjamin Roux, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Jeff Prosise(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Useful Value Converters" Nigel Sampson WP7: "A Smarter TextBlock Control for WP7" Michael Wolf More WP7: "Metro In Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations" Colin Eberhardt From SilverlightCream.com: A Smarter TextBlock Control for WP7 Michael Wolf's latest post is about a "Smart" textbox for WP7, meaning if it looks like a phone...
In this Issue: Pontus Wittenmark, Vikram Pendse, Paul Sheriff, Nokola, Peter Kuhn, Jesse Liberty, and WindowsPhoneGeek. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "That Time App" Pontus Wittenmark WP7: "New Fantasia Painter, Windows Phone 7 Source Code Pack 1, New License" Nokola Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty announced that he is Keynoting at Pre-Mix ROCK in SoCal ... check out that link and you'll find other folks there as well :) Karl Shifflett announced New Book Available: Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4...
In this Issue: Roy Dallal, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Chris Koenig, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, Chris Rouw, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough" Jeremy Likness WP7: "WP7 Insights #3: Storing User State - Activating and Deactivating" Chris Rouw Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth announced a new version of his "Phoney Tools": Phone Tools v0.6 Released - Breaking Change! ... breaking changes and some new stuff too. Takeshi Eto at DiscountASP.NET...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, XamlNinja, Andrea Boschin, Michael Washington, Michael Crump, Alex Knight, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Damon Payne. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "7Metro: Silverlight Theme" Alex Knight WP7: "Metro In Motion – Fluid List Animation" Colin Eberhardt Lightswitch: "LightSwitch Online Ordering System" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Laurent Bugion announced MVVM Light V4 preview 2 (BL0015) #mvvmlight Max Paulousky posts that The Prism Team Needs Your Help From SilverlightCream.com:...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for March 14-20, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Microsoft's Response to the "Why I'm Close to Giving Up on WP7" blog post Windows Phone 7 Icon Set : metro second edition Kinect and WPF: Complete body tracking How to work with the Silverlight BusyIndicator MIX11 Windows Phone 7 Sessions Announced Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Damon Payne(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Beth Massi, Michael Crump, Mike Taulty(-2-), Jorge Peraza, and Peter Kuhn(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Delay Binding Updates within a certain Context" Damon Payne Blend: "Phone Tools reaches Beta!" Shawn Wildermuth Blend: "Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies" Mike Taulty Shoutouts: If you're in the UK, Mike Ormond announced a new set of WP7 Workshops: New Windows Phone 7 Workshops I met Gregor...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for March 7-13, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: SilverlightShow EcoContest Grand Prize Winner and First Runner-up Selected WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Visual Studio 2010 enhancements Upcoming Silverlight Show Webinar: Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight 30+ Projects Will be at Open Source Fest at MIX11 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Emil Stoychev, Viktor Larsson(-2-), Kevin Hoffman, Rudi Grobler, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Martin Krüger. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Image comparison using a GridSplitter" Martin Krüger WP7: "Using WP7 accent color effectively" Viktor Larsson XNA: "XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 7 - Collision detection" Peter Kuhn From SilverlightCream.com: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 7 - Collision detection Peter Kuhn has part 7 of his XNA for Silverlight...
In this Issue: Lazar Nikolov, Rudi Grobler, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Pete Brown, Jessica Foster, Chris Rouw, Andy Beaulieu, and Colin Eberhardt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A Silverlight Resizable TextBlock (and other resizable things)" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Retrofitting the Trial API" Jessica Foster Shoutouts: Rudi Grobler has a post up that's not Silverlight, but it's cool stuff you may be interested in: WPF Themes now available on NuGet From SilverlightCream.com: Simulating rain in Silverlight...
In this Issue: András Velvárt, WIndowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Victor Gaudioso, Kunal Chowdhury, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States" András Velvárt Shoutouts: Joe McBride gave a MEF Head User Group presentation and has posted How to Become a MEF Head – Slides & Code From SilverlightCream.com: Handling WP7 orientation changes...
In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Martin Krüger, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Karl Shifflett, and Colin Eberhardt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics" John Papa WP7: "Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Telerik announced a special sale on their RadControls for WP7... check it out: RadControls for Windows Phone 7 - on Sale from March 16th at a Special Promo Price! From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Dennis Doomen, Peter Kuhn, Michael Crump, Joe McBride, Martin Krüger, Jeremy Likness, Manas Patnaik, Jesse Liberty(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A highlighting AutoCompleteBox in Silverlight" Peter Kuhn WP7: "WP7 WatermarkedTextBox custom control" WindowsPhoneGeek Training: "" Shoutouts: Karl Shifflett announced that he and Josh Smith have heard the developers and released a demo: Mole 2010 Demo Released This is a somewhat older post, but the material is...
In this Issue: Joost van Schaik, Manas Patnaik, Kevin Hoffman, Jesse Liberty, Deborah Kurata, Dhananjay Kumar, Dennis Delimarsky, Samuel Jack, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jfo. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How I let the trees grow" Peter Kuhn WP7: "Simple Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight drag/flick behavior" Joost van Schaik Shoutouts: SilverlightShow has their top 5 from last week posted, plus the ECOContest is ready to be voted on: SilverlightShow for Feb 28 - March 06, 2011 Drew DeVault is...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2011. While you're at it, check out the ECO Contest site, and vote for your favorites before midnight PST on March 10. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: SilverlightShow Bookshelf now released as Open Source CRUD Operation on Relational Data (Multiple table) using RIA and Silverlight 4 A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 3 Daily News Digest 03/02/2011...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Chris Rouw, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Simon Guindon, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Faster Databinding in WPF and Silverlight using OptimizedObservableCollection" Simon Guindon WP7: "Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library)" Shawn Wildermuth From SilverlightCream.com: Problems With Sharing Windows Phone 7 Applications Within A Large Group Of Beta Testers Max Paulousky has a post up discussing the issues surrounding beta testing...
In this Back from the Summit Issue, I am overloaded with posts to choose from. Submittals go first, but I'll eventually catch up... hopefully by MIX :) : Ollie Riches(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Martin Krüger, Joost van Schaik, Karl Shifflett, Michael Crump, Georgi Stoyanov, Yochay Kiriaty, Page Brooks, and Deborah Kurata. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "ClassifiedCabinet: A Quick Start" Georgi Stoyanov WP7: "Easy access to WMAppManifest.xml App properties like version and title"...
It's a bit past the first of March, and it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules I pick what posts are on the blog Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for September 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011: It is my intention...
In this all-sumbittal (while I was at MVP11) Issue: Michael Washington(-2-), goldytech, JFo, Andrea Boschin, Jonathan Marbutt, Gregor Biswanger, Michael Wolf, and Peter Kuhn. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A Simple Bindable CheckboxList Control" Jonathan Marbutt WP7: "Struggles with the Panorama Control" JFo Lightswitch: "HTML (including HTML 5) and LightSwitch at the same time?" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: LightSwitch vs HTML 5 ? In his first post-MVP11 post, Michael Washington...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Feb 21 - 27, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: An Interview with Jeff Wilcox about his work with Silverlight and the Silverlight Toolkit Free SilverlightShow Webinar - Building LOB Apps with Silverlight and WCF Data Services ReSharper C# snippet for MVVM ViewModel Property creation Silverlight 4: Creating useful base classes for your views and viewmodels with PRISM 4 Free SilverlightShow Webinar: WCF RIA...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Gill Cleeren, Pencho Popadiyn, Kevin Dockx, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Arik Poznanski(-2-), Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata, Mike Snow, Alfred Astort, Samuel Jack, XAMLNinja, and Shawn Wildermuth. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx" Jesse Liberty WP7: "Phoney Windows Phone 7 Project Now Available!" Shawn Wildermuth MVVM: "Validating our ViewModel" Mark Monster Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth has a video up of his FadingMessage...
In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, Kevin Hoffman, Kunal Chowdhury, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata(-2-), and Paul Sheriff. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Building a Radar Control in Silverlight–Part 2" Page Brooks WP7: "Reactive Drag and Drop Part 2" Jesse Liberty Expression Blend: "Simple RadioButtonList and / or CheckBoxList in Silverlight Using a Behavior" Ian T. Lackey Shoutouts: Kunal Chowdhury delivered a full day session on Silverlight at the Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship event...
In this Issue: Robby Ingebretsen, Victor Gaudioso, Andrea Boschin(-2-), Rudi Grobler(-2-), Michael Crump, Deborah Kurata, Dennis Delimarsky, Pete Vickers, Yochay Kiriaty, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jesse Liberty(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Simple MVVM Printing" Deborah Kurata WP7: "Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask" WindowsPhoneGeek Tools: "KAXAML v1.8" Robby Ingebretsen Shoutouts: Peter Foot posted Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit–Feb 2011 Rudi Grobler...
In this Issue: Rob Eisenberg(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Colin Eberhardt, Alex van Beek, Ishai Hachlili, Ollie Riches, Kevin Dockx, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), and John Papa. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 4: Creating useful base classes for your views and viewmodels with PRISM 4" Alex van Beek WP7: "Google Sky on Windows Phone 7" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: My friends at SilverlightShow have their top 5 for last week posted: SilverlightShow for Feb 14 - 20, 2011 From SilverlightCream.com:...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Feb 14 - 20, 2011. Way ahead of all other news for the week, in terms of popularity, is the news on the latest Silverlight 4 runtime update. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight 4.0.60129.0 GRD3 Runtime update KB2495644 FloatingWindow v1.2 — multi-windows interface for Silverlight 4 Silverlight MVVM Commanding II Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: 'Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?'...
In this Issue: Oren Gal, Andrea Boschin(-2-), Kevin Hoffman, Rudi Grobler(-2-, -3-), Michael Crump, Yochay Kiriaty, Peter Kuhn, Loek van den Ouweland, Jeremy Likness, Jesse Liberty, and WindowsPhoneGeek. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Multiple page printing in Silverlight4 - Part 2 - preview before printing" Oren Gal WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning with MVVM and Sterling" Jeremy Likness XNA: "XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 4 - Animation (frame-based)" Peter Kuhn From SilverlightCream.com:...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Feb 7-13, 2011. Here's SilverlightShow top 5 news for last week: Data Binding in Silverlight with RIA and EntityFramework - Part 1 (Displaying Data) Simple Silverlight MVVM Base Class This Thursday: Free Windows Phone 7 Webinar by Telerik A Circular ProgressBar Style using an Attached ViewModel Using SilverLight 4 Line Of Business Application Development Template (LOB) Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Mohamed Mosallem, Tony Champion, Gill Cleeren, Laurent Bugnion, Deborah Kurata, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Tim Heuer, Mike Taulty, John Papa, Martin Krüger, and Jeremy Likness. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight : A Gotcha" Tony Champion WP7: "An Ultra Light Windows Phone 7 MVVM Framework" Jeremy Likness Shoutouts: Steve Wortham has a post up discussing Silverlight 5, HTML5, and what the future may bring From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (12...
It's *way* past the first of February, and it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules I pick what posts are on the blog Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for August 1, 2010 through January 31, 2011: It is my intention...
In this Issue: Loek van den Ouweland, Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Joost van Schaik, Mike Taulty(-2-, -3-), Deborah Kurata, David Kelley, Peter Foot, Samuel Jack(-2-), and WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Simple MVVM Commanding" Deborah Kurata WP7: "WP7 CustomInputPrompt control with Cancel button" WindowsPhoneGeek Expression Blend: "Silverlight Templated Image Button with two images" Loek van den Ouweland Shoutouts: Dave Campbell posted a write-up about the project...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Jaime Rodriguez, Mark Hopkins, WindowsPhoneGeek, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Martin Krüger(-2-), Beth Massi, Joost van Schaik, Laurent Bugnion, and Arik Poznanski. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Parsing the Visual Tree with LINQ" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Silverlight-ready PNG encoder implementation shows one way to use .NET IEnumerables effectively" David Anson Lightswitch: "How to Send Automated Appointments from a LightSwitch Application" Beth Massi Shoutouts:...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Jan 31- Feb 06, 2011. Here's SilverlightShow top 5 news for last week: Free ebook: Silverlight for Windows Phone Deploying Silverlight with WCF Services Localize a Silverlight 4 Application WCF - Silverlight debugging tips Kinect and WPF: Getting the raw and depth image using OpenNI Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Vikas, Tony Champion, Peter Kuhn, Ollie Riches, Rich Griffin, Rob Eisenberg, Andrea Boschin, Rudi Grobler(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Dan Wahlin, Roberto Sonnino, Deborah Kurata. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight double click event" Vikas WP7: "Logging in Silverlight and WP7 with MVVM Light" Tony Champion XNA: "XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 3 - Animation (transforms)" Peter Kuhn Shoutouts: Vikas deserves congratulations for passing the beta Silverlight 4 exam, but in the process...
In this Issue: Roy Dallal, Kevin Dockx, Gill Cleeren, Oren Gal, Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jeremy Likness, Martin Krüger(-2-), Beth Massi, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A Circular ProgressBar Style using an Attached ViewModel" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Isolated Storage" Jesse Liberty Lightswitch: "How To Create Outlook Appointments from a LightSwitch Application" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Gergely Orosz has a summary of his 4-part...
In this Issue: Mike Taulty, Timmy Kokke, Laurent Bugnion, Arik Poznanski, Deyan Ginev, Deborah Kurata(-2-), Johnny Tordgeman, Roy Dallal, Jaime Rodriguez, Samuel Jack(-2-), James Ashley. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Customizing Silverlight properties for Visual Designers" Timmy Kokke WP7: "Back button press when using webbrowser control in WP7" Jaime Rodriguez Expression Blend: "Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator…" Mike Taulty From SilverlightCream.com: Blend Bits 21–Importing...
In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Mike Ormond(-2-, -3-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Daniel N. Egan, Phil Middlemiss(-2-), Max Paulousky, Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Designing for Browser-Zoom: Part 2" Phil Middlemiss WP7: "Talking about Converters in WP7 | Coding4fun toolkit converters in depth" WindowsPhoneGeek Lightswitch: "LightSwitch: Can We Handle The Truth?" Michael Washington Shoutouts: András Velvárt has a video up of some awesome changes he has planned for SurfCube, check it out: SurfCube...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Mike Wolf, Matt Casto, Levente Mihály, Roy Dallal, Mark Monster, Andrea Boschin, and Oren Gal. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Accept and Cancel Buttons Behavior in Silverlight" Matt Casto WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Runtime Debugging" Mike Wolf Shoutouts: Al Pascual announced a get-together if you're going to be in Phoenix on February 10 (next Thursday)... I just can't tell what time it is from the page: Phoenix Dev Meet-Up From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Tony Champion, Gill Cleeren, Alex van Beek, Michael James, Ollie Riches, Peter Kuhn, Mike Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Daniel N. Egan, Loek Van Den Ouweland, and Paul Thurott. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using the AutoCompleteBox" Peter Kuhn WP7: "Windows Phone Image Button" Loek Van Den Ouweland Training: "New WP7 Virtual Labs" Daniel N. Egan Shoutouts: SilverlightShow has their top 5 most popular news articles up: SilverlightShow for Jan 24-30, 2011 Rudi Grobler posted answers...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Jan 24-30, 2011. Most visited news for last week is Rudi Grobler's series on free WPF/Silverlight controls, followed by the 10 things Michael Crump suggests to be improved in Silverlight. Here's SilverlightShow top 5 news for last week: Some Free WPF/Silverlight Controls 10 things that can be improved in Silverlight Building a personal website using Silverlight Using Visual Studio LightSwitch Applications with WCF RIA Services XAP File...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Renuka Prasad, Ollie Riches, Jesse Liberty(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), Medusa M, John Papa, Beth Massi, and Joost van Schaik. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Stop What You Are Doing And Learn About Reactive Programming" Jesse Liberty WP7: "Windows Phone Looping Selector for Digits " Max Paulousky Lightswitch: "How To Send HTML Email from a LightSwitch Application" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuch has niether GooNews for users of his cool WP7 app or or for the WP7 Marketplace...
In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Colin Eberhardt, Andrej Tozon, Arik Poznanski, Deborah Kurata(-2-), Jay Kimble, Yochay Kiriaty, Peter Kuhn, Mike Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), and Matthias Shapiro. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Missing Chart Legend" Deborah Kurata WP7: "XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 - Text rendering" Peter Kuhn Shoutouts: Timmy Kokke has a post up discussing What’s new in the Expression Design January 2011 preview? From SilverlightCream.com: WP7Contrib: Thread safe ObservableCollection<T>...
In this all-submittal Issue: XamlNinja, Kevin Dockx, Steve Wortham, Andrea Boschin, Mick Norman, Colin Eberhardt, and Rudi Grobler(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Getting an invalid cross-thread exception in Silverlight?" Kevin Dockx WP7: "WP7 Contrib – the last messenger" XamlNinja ISO: "How many files are too many files for isolated storage?" Mick Norman Shoutouts: Telerik announced a free WP7 Webinars series that you probably don't want to miss: Join Us for the Special Free...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Jan 17-23, 2011. Jesse Liberty's list of a dozen of absolutely essential utilities for programmers grabbed the first place in last week's SilverlightShow top news. Among the most visited news is also the collection of top picks from the "Above the Fold" list on SilverlightCream. Here's SilverlightShow top 5 news for last week: 12 Essential Utilities For Programmers 10 things that can be improved in Silverlight A Silverlight Sample Built...
In this Issue: Steve Wortham, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Martin Krüger, Joe McBride, Dan Wahlin, Walter Ferrari, Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata, WindowsPhoneGeek, Andrew Byrne, and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Clipping to Bounds with Geometries and Attached Behaviors" Page Brooks WP7: "Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22" Jesse Liberty Expression Blend: "Remove Transformation from shapes in Blend" Andrea Boschin From SilverlightCream.com: XAP File Optimization Techniques...
In this short all-submittal Issue: András Velvárt, Daniel Vaughan, and Rudi Grobler. Above the Fold: WP7: "Notifyting the ViewModel when a WP7 PivotItem is displayed" András Velvárt WP7: "Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7" Daniel Vaughan Shoutouts: Max Paulousky has had an HTC HD7 since December, and has blogged his impresseions: Ownership of HTC HD7 (Windows Phone 7) and My Impressions From SilverlightCream.com: Notifyting the ViewModel when a WP7 PivotItem...
In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Rich Griffin, Andrew Tokeley, WindowsPhoneGeek, Daniel Egan, Beth Massi, Joost van Schaik, Michael Crump, Xpert360, Deborah Kurata(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 4 – Simple Configuration Manager" Andrew Tokeley WP7: "WP7 Contrib – Customising the DateTime Picker" Rich Griffin Lightswitch: "Tips and Tricks on Controlling Screen Layouts in Visual Studio LightSwitch" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Scott Guthrie is doing another online LIDNUG session tomorrow, Jan...
In this Issue: Michael James(-2-), Joost van Schaik, Colin Eberhardt, Jesse Liberty, John Papa, Levente Mihály(-2-), Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Daniel Egan. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating Packs from the Silverlight Application Themes" Peter Kuhn WP7: "A Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Mike Ormond gave a Tech Days virtual confernece session on Thursday, and posted his material and links: Links from my “Silverlight for Windows Phone” session From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Loek van den Ouweland, Andrea Boschin, Jeff Prosise, Jeff Brand, Frank LaVigne, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, and Haruhiro Isowa. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Pop Up Behavior, now works with your Popup" Haruhiro Isowa WP7: "WP7 working with VisualStates: How to make a ToggleSwitch from CheckBox" WindowsPhoneGeek Entity Frameworks: "Six Free Entity Framework 4 Video Tutorials" Frank LaVigne Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty posted about 12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities...
In this Issue: Mohamed Mosallem, Fons Sonnemans, Peter Kuhn, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), Jeff Fansler, Gill Cleeren, Johnny Tordgeman, Jesse Liberty, Jeff Blankenburg, Walt Ritscher, WindowsPhoneGeek, Daniel Egan, and Matthias Shapiro(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (11 of N): Roulette Behavior" Mohamed Mosallem WP7: "Working with ControlTemplates in Silverlight for WP7" WindowsPhoneGeek Training: "WP7 Unleashed–Session II Hands On Labs" Daniel Egan Shoutouts: Mike Ormond...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Jan 10-16, 2011. The news on the upcoming two SilverlightShow webinars in February topped the weekly SilverlightShow news ranking. Dan Moyer's post on Visual Studio LightSwitch, just like SilverlightShow article series on LightSwitch, also got quite a lot of interest. Here's SilverlightShow top 5 news for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Querying and Updating Data From Silverlight Clients with WCF RIA Services Free SilverlightShow...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jesse Liberty, Deborah Kurata(-2-, -3-, -4-), Sergey Barskiy(-2-), Miroslav Nedyalkov, Jeff Prosise, and Matthias Shapiro(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Building a Multi-Page Silverlight LOB Application" Deborah Kurata WP7: "Windows Phone 7 [Controls] Project" Sergey Barskiy Sketchflow: "Sketchflow To Final" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: Sketchflow To Final Check out this post by Michael Washington detailing the Sketchflow he did of his app,...
Note to #1024 Swag Winners: I'm sending emails to the vendors Sunday night, thanks for your patience (a few of you have not contacted me yet) In this Issue: Ezequiel Jadib, Daniel Egan(-2-), Page Brooks, Jason Zander, Andrej Tozon, Marlon Grech, Jonathan van de Veen, Walt Ritscher, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Sacha Barber, William E. Burrows, and WindowsPhoneGeek. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Building a Radar Control in Silverlight - Part 1" Page Brooks WP7: "Tutorial: Dynamic Tile Push Notification...
In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Yochay Kiriaty, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury, Martin Krüger(-2-), Jonathan Cardy. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Image Viewer using a GridSplitter control" Martin Krüger WP7: "Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part1" WindowsPhoneGeek VS2010 Templates: "MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010" Jonathan Cardy From SilverlightCream.com: BabySmash7 - a WP7 children's game (source code included) Sigurd Snørteland...
In this Issue: András Velvárt, Tony Champion, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Michael Crump, Sacha Barber, Alex Knight, Peter Kuhn, Senthil Kumar, Mike Hole, and WindowsPhoneGeek. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Create Custom Speech Bubbles in Silverlight." Michael Crump WP7: "Architecting WP7 - Part 9 of 10: Threading" Shawn Wildermuth Expression Blend: "PathListBox: Text on the path" Alex Knight From SilverlightCream.com: Behaviors for accessing the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace...
In this Issue: Amyo Kabir, Rob Eisenberg, Doug Rathbone, John Papa, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Mike Taulty, Peter Kuhn, Laurent Bugnion, Vangos Pterneas, and Senthil Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Popup sample" Amyo Kabir WP7: "Navigation in a #WP7 application with MVVM Light" Laurent Bugnion XNA: "XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 - Why should I care?" Peter Kuhn Shoutouts: Mohamed Mosallem posted a video of an Expression Blend demo he gave recently: Expression Blend Demo Rob...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Jan 3-9, 2011. SilverlightShow's review of their top 10 visited articles in 2010 got most hits last week. MicrosoftFeed's review of the Facebook application Picturize.me got the second place. Among the top5 is also an interesting review of the top Silverlight books for 2010 by Michael Crump. Here is SilverlightShow's weekly top 5: Top 10 SilverlightShow Articles for Year 2010 Picturize.me - a Silverlight Based Facebook application Face...
1,000 blogposts is quite a few, but to die-hard geeks, 1000 isn't the number... 1K is the number, and today is my 1K blogpost! I've been working up to this for at least 11 months. Way back at MIX10, I approached some vendors about an idea I had. A month ago I contacted them and others, and everyone I contacted was very generous and supportive of my idea. My idea was not to run a contest, but blog as normal, and whoever ended up on my 1K post would get some swag... and I set a cut-off at 13 posts....
It's past the first of January, and it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules I pick what posts are on the blog Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010: It is my intention to post...
In this Heavy and yet incomplete Issue: Mike Wolf, Walter Ferrari, Colin Eberhardt, Mathew Charles, Don Burnett, Senthil Kumar, cherylws, Rob Miles, Derik Whittaker, Thomas Martinsen(-2-), Jason Ginchereau, Vishal Nayan, and WindowsPhoneGeek. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight)" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Windows Phone Blue Book Pdf" Rob Miles Sharepoint/Silverlight: "Discover Sharepoint with Silverlight - Part 1" Walter Ferrari Shoutouts:...
In this Issue: Dennis Doomen, Doug Holland, Kunal Chowdhury, Sacha Barber, Paul Sheriff, Mike Snow(-2-), Peter Kuhn(-2-), and Mike Ormond. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight: Fixing the BookShelf Sample" Peter Kuhn WP7: "Searching the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Programmatically" Doug Holland Prism/Cinch: "PRISM 4 Custom Transitioning Region" Sacha Barber Shoutouts: Sacha Barber the author of Cinch asks for some advice from users: Cinch V2 : Question For The Reader Michael Crump introduces...
Today's Review (alphabetic order): GooNews, Grocery Shopping List, Need for Speed, SurfCube, and United Nations News. I'm a day late if these are going to be 'Monday' posts, but there are lots of apps, lots of goodness, and lots of email, so I might try to do 2 a week, we'll see. So once again I've got a small review of 5 apps that are either on my phone or have been. Disclaimers at the end. In this Issue: GooNews is a very cool app from Shawn Wildermuth (AgiliTrain). I don't know if he uses this...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Dec 27-Jan 2, 2011. The most visited news for last week is Mahesh Sabnis's post on how to use Prism in Silverlight 4. Among the top 5 news is also the announcement for SilverlightShow December Newsletter that you can now read online. Here is SilverlightShow's weekly top 5: Using Prism with Silverlight 4 "What's new in Silverlight 4 demo" app Cinch - A Rich Full Featured WPF/SL MVVM Framework SilverlightShow December Newsletter Now Online...
In this all-Submittal Issue: Gill Cleeren(-2-), Brian Noyes, Brian Genisio, René Schulte, and Andy Schwam(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The INavigationContentLoader interface in Silverlight 4" Gill Cleeren WP7: "Sending Windows Phone Screenshots in an Email" René Schulte WCF RIA Services: "WCF RIA Services Part 10 - Exposing Domain Services To Other Clients" Brian Noyes Shoutouts: Want to know what it takes to be an MVP? Check out René Schulte's recap of 2010: Goodbye 2010 - Hello 2011 ...
In this short New Year's Day 2011 Issue, 3 Mikes: Mike Taulty, Mike Snow, and Mike Ormond. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL)?" Mike Taulty WP7: "Monitoring Memory Usage on Windows Phone 7" Mike Ormond From SilverlightCream.com: Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL)? Mike Taulty has a really good write-up on Native Extensions for Silverlight... he describes what that project is about and gives guidance on best practices. Win7 Mobile: Uniquely Identifying a Device...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Thomas Martinsen, Mike Ormond, William E. Burrows(-2-), Vangos Pterneas, Jesse Liberty, Diptimaya Patra, and Jeff Blankenburg(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Drag from Multiple Source In Silverlight 4" Diptimaya Patra WP7: "What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 12" Jeff Blankenburg Shoutouts: Paul Thurrott posted a great phone comparison chart: Great Windows Phone comparison chart Kunal Chowdhury announced his new Silverlight Site: Welcome to Silverlight-Zone - Site...
In this Issue: Arik Poznanski, Derik Whittaker(-2-), Alex Knight, Maurice de Beijer, Jesse Liberty, Jason Ginchereau, Jeff Blankenburg, Mike Snow, and Peter Kuhn. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight: Reading from a File Contained in your XAP" Mike Snow WP7: "A ReorderListBox for Windows Phone 7" Jason Ginchereau Expression Blend: "PathListBox: making rockin' animations" Alex Knight From SilverlightCream.com: Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution Arik Poznanski sent me the link...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan, Alex Golesh, Michael S. Scherotter, Andrej Tozon, Alex Knight, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and Laurent Bugnion. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 demo” app" Andrej Tozon WP7: "Taking a screenshot from within a Silverlight #WP7 application" Laurent Bugnion Expression Blend: "PathListBox: getting started" Alex Knight Shoutouts: If you haven't seen this SurfCube app demo on YouTube yet... check it out now: SurfCube V1.0 Windows Phone...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for last week (20 - 26 Dec 2010). The most popular news for last week is Ryan Alford's solution on handling an error in Silverlight 4 when using Entity Framework 4, followed by Jeremy Likness' video on building an RSS Feed Reader in Silverlight. Here is SilverlightShow's weekly top 5: Silverlight 4 - Productivity Power Tools and EF4 A Silverlight MVVM Feed Reader from Scratch in 30 Minutes Resizable Grid Using Thumb Controls A Simplified...
In this Issue: Sacha Barber, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Martin Krüger, Ryan Alford(-2-), Michael Crump, Peter Kuhn(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Part 4 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers" Michael Crump WP7: "Navigating with the WebBrowser Control on WP7" Shawn Wildermuth Shoutouts: John Papa posted that the open call is up for MIX11 presenters: Your Chance to Speak at MIX11 From SilverlightCream.com: Aspect Examples (INotifyPropertyChanged...
I'm going to try something here... if it seems useful, I'll continue, if it doesn't, I'll stop... so give me feedback! There are *lots* of Apps in the WP7 Marketplace, and heaven help me, but the Marketplace sucks for finding stuff. I won't rehash what's already been said in the blogs, but I agree with one and all. I went out last Saturday to find 2 apps that I knew were released, and couldn't do so on my device. Even in the Zune app, it took quite a while to find them... ok, I'll back off a bit,...
In this all-submittal Issue: Michael Washington(-2-), Ian T. Lackey(-2-, -3-), Sandrino Di Mattia, Colin Eberhardt(-2-), and Antoni Dol. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A Style for the Silverlight CoverFlow Control Slider" Antoni Dol WP7: "Getting the right behaviors in your Phone 7 App – Part 1 Phone Home" (and the other two parts) Ian T. Lackey Silverlight/WPF: "A Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Dennis Doomen has updated his Coding Guidelines and provided...
I still haven't updated my friends at SilverlightShow, but I have their list from last week. Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for last week (13 - 19 Dec 2010). First place for the past week takes the post about Mahesh Sabnis' sample Line-Of-Business app using Silverlight 4. A lot of clicks and downloads got also the recording of SilverlightShow webinar 'Building an end-to-end Silverlight 4 Application' presented by Gill Cleeren on Dec 15th. Here is SilverlightShow's weekly...
In this 4-days loss to a sinus infection and all-submittal Issue.... and this only catches me up on submittals through last Sunday: Mark Monster, Sacha Barber, Rénald Nollet, Georgi Atanasov, and András Velvárt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight with Facebook - a practical guide to integration" András Velvárt WP7: "RadDateSelector for Windows Phone 7 – Loaded within a standard in-browser Silverlight application" Georgi Atanasov MVVM: "Cinch - A Rich Full Featured WPF/SL MVVM Framework" Sacha...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Pete Brown, Robby Ingebretsen, Bill Reiss, Jordan Knight, Mike Taulty, Justin Angel, Jeff Blankenburg. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating the Silverlight View Model (MVVM) Control: Calendar Icon" Michael Washington WP7: "United Nations News for Windows Phone 7" Justin Angel Silverlight, WP7/WPF: "CameraPanel: A Parallax Panel for Silverlight, WP7 or WPF" Robby Ingebretsen Shoutouts: Michael Scherotter produced a Silverlight Webcam photo app that he's providing...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Kevin Dockx, Jeremy Likness(-2-,-3-), Timmy Kokke, Den Delimarsky, Mike Snow, Samuel Jack(-2-), and Renuka Prasad(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Trigger a Storyboard on ViewModel changes" Mark Monster WP7: "Microsoft Push Notification in Windows Phone 7" Renuka Prasad Shoutouts: SilverlightGal sent me the link to The Silverlight Dossier ... I think it's a pretty good start... additions I'd like to see are ways to submit to the various areas. Michael Crump put up...
In this Issue: John Papa, Tim Heuer, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-, -3-), Jesse Liberty, Jay Kimble, Wei-Meng Lee, Paul Sheriff, Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), Samuel Jack, James Ashley, and Peter Kuhn. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Animation Texture Creator" Peter Kuhn WP7: "dows Phone from Scratch #13 — Custom Behaviors Part II: ActionTrigger" Jesse Liberty Shoutouts: Awesome blog post by Jesse Liberty about writing in general: Ten Requirements For Tutorials, Videos, Demos and White Papers That Don’t Suck From SilverlightCream.com:...
In an effort to get some synergy in the Silverlight community, the SilverlightShow folks and I have decided to share some information. As always, I'm running a bit behind, so I get to post first with the material they provided to me :) Check out the five most popular news at SilverlightShow for last week (06 - 12 Dec 2010). The news that hit the top is the announcement for the upcoming SilverlightShow webinar with Gill Cleeren [which I posted about a couple weeks ago] (check other webinars Gill delivered...
In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Benjamin Gavin, Dennis Doomen, Tim Greenfield, Mike Taulty, Jeff Blankenburg, Michael Crump, Laurent Duveau, Dragos Manolescu, KeyboardP, Yochay Kiriaty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight RIA Services and Basic, Anonymous Authentication" Benjamin Gavin WP7: "lving Circular Navigation in Windows Phone Silverlight Applications" Yochay Kiriaty SQL Azure: "SQL Azure Database Manager – Part 1 : How to connect to your SQL Azure DB" Rénald Nollet Shoutouts: Yochay Kiriaty...
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Domagoj Pavlešic, Peter Kuhn, James Ashley, Sara Summers, Morten Nielsen, Peter Torr, and Tau Sick. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 4 – Coded UI Framework Video Tutorial" Michael Crump WP7: "Windows Phone From Scratch #12–Custom Behaviors (Part I)" Jesse Liberty From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4 – Coded UI Framework Video Tutorial Michael Crump posted a video tutorial today on the Coded UI Test Framework that we got with...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Samuel Jack, Alfred Astort(-2-), Nokola(-2-), Avi Pilosof, Chris Klug, Pete Brown, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), and Jaime Rodriguez(-2-, -3-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Sharing resources and styles between projects in Silverlight" Chris Klug WP7: "Windows Phone Application Performance at Silverlight Firestarter" Jaime Rodriguez Training: "Silverlight View Model (MVVM) - A Play In One Act" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra announced the availability of the...
In this Issue: Mike Wolf, Colin Eberhardt, Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), David Kelley(-2-, -3-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Erik Mork, Jeff Blankenburg, Laurent Duveau, and Jeremy Likness(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The definitive guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4" Laurent Duveau WP7: "Making the MS Adcontrol REALLY work on phone 7" David Kelley Silverlight 5: "Silverlight 5: In the Trenches" Mike Wolf From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 5: In the Trenches How many people can discuss Silverlight...
In this Issue: Adam Kinney, Jonathan van de Veen, René Schulte(-2-), Vikas, Chad Campbell, Chris Koenig, John Papa, and Martin Krüger. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight TV #54: Introducing 11 Brand New Labs" John Papa WP7: "Gestures in Windows Phone 7" Chris Koenig Training: "New Windows Phone 7 tutorials for Designers on toolbox!" Adam Kinney Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty posted ways to get help when you get stuck: Top 10 Tips To Getting Help With Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: New Windows...
In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty(-2-, -3-), Kunal Chowdhury, Jeremy Likness, Martin Krüger, Beth Massi(-2-, -3-)/ Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 1)" Mike Taulty WP7: "WP7: Glossy text block custom control" Martin Krüger Lightswitch: "How to Create a Screen with Multiple Search Parameters in LightSwitch" Beth Massi From SilverlightCream.com: Requirements of and pitfalls in Windows Phone 7 serialization Peter Kuhn...
In this Issue: András Velvárt, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), AvraShow, Gill Cleeren, Ian T. Lackey, Richard Waddell, Joe McBride, Michael Crump, Xpert360, keyboardP, and Pete Vickers(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Phone 7 Back Button and the ListPicker control" Ian T. Lackey Shoutouts: Colin Eberhardt has some Silverlight 5 Adoption Predictions you may want to check out. Michael Crump has a post up showing lots...
In this (Almost) All-Submittal Issue: John Papa(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Tim Heuer, Dan Wahlin, Markus Egger, Phil Middlemiss, Coding4Fun, Michael Washington, Gill Cleeren, MichaelD!, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, and Rabeeh Abla. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Two-Way Binding on TreeView.SelectedItem" Phil Middlemiss WP7: "Taking Screen Shots of Windows Phone 7 Panorama Apps" Markus Egger Training: "Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part - 4)" Kunal Chowdhury Shoutouts: Don't let the...
It's just past the first of December, but I've been busy and it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules I pick what posts are on the blog Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for June 1, 2010 through November 30, 2010: It...
A few metrics that of course got out of hand, but some may find interesting: 1/2 My share of the MVP of the Year award in February of 2009 with Laurent Bugnion 2 Number of degrees I hold: B.S., M.S. Electrical Engineering 3 Number of years in the U.S. Army 3.5 Number of years SilverlighCream has been posted 4 Number of times awarded MVP 6 Number of professional positions I've worked: Antenna Rigger, Boilermaker, Musician, Electronic Technician, Hardware Engineer, Software Engineer 16 Number of companies...
In this Issue: Paul Juenger, Dimaz Pramudya, Johan Dahlbäck, Judah Himango, Andy Wigley, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, Mike Taulty, Kevin Dockx, and Paul Sheriff. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Build a Pandora clone with Silverlight 4" Judah Himango WP7: "Using Isolated Storage on Windows Phone" Paul Sheriff Blend: "Blend Bits 19–Transformations" Mike Taulty Shoutouts: Karl Shifflett has posted Updated In the Box MVVM Training Colin Eberhardt posted a preview of what he's currently...
In this Issue: Jonathan Marbutt, Peter Kuhn, Jesse Liberty, David Kelley, Phil Middlemiss, Jaime Rodriguez, Ramesh Sringeri, Sigurd Snørteland, and Jesse Bishop. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A Behavior for Remembering Settings" Phil Middlemiss WP7: "Attribute-based transient Tombstoning" Peter Kuhn Expression Blend: "Using the Visual State Manager" David Kelley Shoutouts: Gavin Wignall has a very cool Pivot app up: Silverlight Pivot experiement using the American Presidents Thanks everyone for the...
In this Issue: goldytech, Rob Eisenberg. Chris Rouw, Denis Gladkikh(-2-), Mike Taulty, Mohamed Mosallem, Mike Ormond, and Vuyiswa Maseko(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight basics. Validation. Part 1. DataAnnotations & ValidatesOnExceptions" Denis Gladkikh WP7: "Live Tiles on a Schedule" Mike Ormond Blend: "Blend Bits 18–Sample Data" Mike Taulty Shoutouts: Rob Eisenberg has a contest going... check it out: Caliburn.Micro Contest Braulio Diez & Sebastian Stehle have a great-looking...
Phoenix Silverlight User Group Meeting December 1 featuring Joel Neubeck! Come out to Interface Technical Training on December 1 in Phoenix to get some great Windows Phone 7 discussion from Joel Neubeck. As always, pizza and greet-up starts at 6PM, followed at 6:30 or whenever everybody rounds up by the meeting which runs until 8PM. I've got a bunch of WP7 swag I need to get to the facility before I get out of here on Tuesday, and yes I'm going to miss the meeting :( If you're anywhere in the area,...
You don't have to come to Redmond to drink the Kool-Aid, you can mix up your own batch at home! The entire Firestarter is streamed online... so curl up in front of your monitor, or find another bunch of like-minded geeks and have pizza delivered! In all likelihood, unless you live in the sticks, somewhere nearby might be a UserGroup having a Firestarter day event. However you attend, I've been told I can say that you shouldn't miss this event! If, however, you are going to be there in person, ping...
In this Issue: Brad Tutterow, Kevin Dockx, Richard Waddell, Roberto Sonnino, Dustin Horne, Tim Greenfield, Rod Paddock, Timmy Kokke, Tim Heuer, Manuel Felício, Mike Taulty, and Brian Noyes. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Visual States in custom controls in Silverlight" Timmy Kokke WP7: "Leveraging the Silverlight ecosystem with Windows Phone 7" Tim Greenfield Silverlight/JS: "JavaScript Can't Do Math - SilverlightCalculator A New Silverlight OSS Project" Rod Paddock Shoutouts: Telerik announced...
In this Issue: Gill Cleeren, Peter Kuhn, Erik Mork, Jesse Liberty, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Michael Crump, Brad Tutterow, Jay Kimble(-2-), and Rob Tiffany. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Part 1 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers" Michael Crump WP7: "Using the Pivot Control" Kirupa Chinnathambi Shoutouts: The SilverlightShow folks have a good webinar series going. The next one is December 15th: Building a Silverlight 4 Application End-to-end with Gill Cleeren. From SilverlightCream.com: Using...
In this Issue: Dan Wahlin(-2-), Kirupa, Jeff Handley(-2-), Mike Snow, Robby Ingebretsen, David J. Kelley, Jonathan van de Veen, Lee, and Walt Ritscher(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Prism 4 – Silverlight and Custom Commands" Lee WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Themed Videos" Kirupa Expression Blend: "Building and Using Expression Blend Behaviors" David J. Kelley Shoutouts: The Studio 6 Software Blog folks have updated their ComboBox... check out the demo, and grab the code: Silverlight ComboBox Updated...
In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Martin Krüger(-2-), Beth Massi, Karl Shifflett, Joe McBride, Ryan Alford, Mike Taulty, Kunal Chowdhury, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to: Create a nonrectangular ChildWindow - part 2" Martin Krüger WP7: "loud tweets -- a "twitter-do-speak" wp7 app" Sigurd Snørteland Lightswitch: "LightSwitch Team “How To” Articles and New Developer Center Content" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Sincorde has the beginnings of a nice-looking Silverlight Library up on CodePlex:...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, John Papa, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Den Delimarsky, Paul Sheriff, Charles Petzold, Brad Tutterow(-2-), Alexander Viken. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using ValueConverter to Show/Hide Element in Silverlight (MVVM)" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Playing Music Files on WP7" Charles Petzold Shoutouts: Rob Tiffany has been kind enough to aggregate some (all?) of the Windows Phone 7 Demo Fest Tech Ed Video From SilverlightCream.com: Using ValueConverter to Show/Hide Element in Silverlight...
In this Issue: Martin Krüger, Vikas, Kevin Dockx, Brian Noyes, Kunal Chowdhury, Gergely Orosz, Garry McGlennon, René Schulte, Matias Bonaventura, Bart Czernicki, and Dennis Doomen. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to: create a nonrectangular ChildWindow - part 1" Martin Krüger Prism: "Prism Training Kit: Updated to Prism 4.0" Matias Bonaventura Shoutouts: Component Ways has a releast of their xamlDataGrid for Silverlight... might be worth a look ... check out the feature set and download the eval....
In this Issue: Justin Angel, Colin Eberhardt, Kellabyte, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Ryan Alford, and Brad Tutterow. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using a Grid as the Panel for an ItemsControl" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki V0.1" Justin Angel MVVM: "Jounce Part 7: Validation and Save/Confirm/Cancel Operations" Jeremy Likness Shoutouts: If you're in Portland and ya wanna go to the Firestarter... Erik Mork & Co. scored a bus: Silverlight Firestarter Bus...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Fons Sonnemans, Jeff Wilcox, Alfred Astort, Den Delimarsky(-2-), Peter Bromberg, Sigurd Snørteland, and Xpert360(-2-, -3-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Super Tabs Interface (using View Model / MVVM)" Michael Washington WP7: "WP7 Panorama: Smoothly fading the background (and enabling fading when changing, too)" Jeff Wilcox Shoutouts: With all the phones out there right now, how about a review of one from a WP7 author: Review of my Windows Phone 7 (HTC...
In this Issue: Brian Genisio, goldytech, Martin Krüger, Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Kunal Chowdhury, Michael Washington, Joost van Schaik, Karl Shifflett, Joe McBride, Bruno Terkaly, Xpert360(-2-, -3-), and Brad Tutterow. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners (The parts you care about)" Michael Washington Training: "In the Box – MVVM Training" Karl Shifflett Shoutouts: bspann...
In this Issue: David Anson, Bart Czernicki, Jesse Liberty(-2-, -3-), Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jeremy Likness, and Martin Krüger. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "New SetterValueBindingHelper sample demonstrates its usefulness on Windows Phone 7 (and Silverlight 4)" David Anson WP7: "Windows Phone From Scratch #6 – Data Binding (Really)" Jesse Liberty MVVM: "Jounce Part 6: Visual States and Multiple Views per ViewModel" Jeremy Likness Shoutouts: Yesterday I mentioned Mindscape's control suite release but...
In this Issue: Katka Vaughan, Jesse Liberty, Kunal Chowdhury, Karsten Januszewski, Michael Crump, Mike Taulty, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: WP7: "Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 - Part 2" Katka Vaughan LightSwitch: "Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part–3)" Kunal Chowdhury Shoutouts: Mindscape announced the release of Silverlight Elements 2.0.. great set of Silverlight controls. Check out their post and their Limited time offer: Silverlight Elements 2.0 is here! From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Justin Angel, siqaodb news, Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Mohamed Mosallem, Einar Ingebrigtsen, William J. Steele, Dragos Manolescu(-2-, -3-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Visiblox Charts vs. Silverlight Toolkit Charts – a test of Performance" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Neurons App goes open source!" Justin Angel Holy Crap Category: "Rubik’s Cube for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 using Balder" Einar Ingebrigtsen From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone 7 Neurons App...
In this Issue: Ryan Alford(-2-), Joe McBride, Rob Tiffany, Pete Brown, Charles Petzold(-2-), Alfred Astort, Mark Hopkins, Nokola, Chris Klug, Gergely Orosz, and Adam Barney. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating a Metro UI Style Control" Joe McBride WP7: "Ready for take-off? Top 10 things to check when you think you are done with your application" Alfred Astort Shoutouts: Adam Barney posted his "Introduction to the MVVM UI Pattern": Slides and Demo from Iowa Code Camp Damon Payne gave a WP7 presentation...
It's past the first of November, and time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for May 1, 2010 through October 31, 2010: It is my intention to post a new list sometime shortly after the 1st of...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Peter Kuhn, Bill Reiss, Lee, Walt Ritscher, John Papa, Kunal Chowdhury, cherylws, Jeremy Likness, Martin Krüger(-2-), Michael Crump, and Brad Tutterow. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "I know what you downloaded last summer" Peter Kuhn WP7: "Free fonts for commercial game development" Bill Reiss Training: "A couple of more data-related Silverlight Quickstarts for you" cherylws Shoutouts: Martin Krüger has an accordian style published in Expression Gallery: New accordion...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Sigurd Snørteland, Mark Monster, David Anson, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Mike Taulty(-2-), Brad Tutterow(-2-, -3-, -4-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Attendance Demo using Sterling Silverlight Database" Michael Washington WP7: "How I made the ‘myChannel9' wp7 app (source code included) – Part 1" Sigurd Snørteland From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Attendance Demo using Sterling Silverlight Database Michael Washington has a great tutorial up on Code Project...
In this Issue: René Schulte, Walter Ferrari, Amyo Kabir, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty, Erik Mork, Jeremy Likness, and Joost van Schaik. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Swapping two elements in a bound ObservableCollection" Joost van Schaik WP7: "Tracking Sales Statistics with the Silverlight Analytics Framework for Windows Phone" René Schulte Sharepoint: "how to build a small Silverlight 4 utility to upload files in a List or Library of Sharepoint" Walter Ferrari Shoutouts: Mike Taulty blogged...
Anyone reading this knows I go by the AKA "WynApse". I've used it since Windows was a puppy, we still had "DOS Apps" and "Win Apps", and I needed a business name for selling my shareware. I only re-state that obvious because I want to make it clear that you're only going to see me on a forum with that name. That being said, you may or may not have not noticed, but I don't visit the forums. I don't because there are folks that seem to camp out there that are way better suited to answer questions than...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Paul Sheriff, Andrew Tokeley, Sharker Khaleed Mahmud, Joe McBride, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Jeff Blankenburg, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Richard Waddell(-2-), and Manuel Felício(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 4 Borderless Windows" Andrew Tokeley WP7: "Windows Phone List Box with Images" Paul Sheriff Special Mention for all the effort for the community of WP7 devs: "31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #31: Charting Data" - and the entire series Jeff Blankenburg From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Joe McBride, Ben Gracewood, Michael S. Scherotter, Adam Kinney, Todd Brix, Nokola, Avi Pilosof, WCF Data Services Team Blog, Brad Tutterow, and Matthias Shapiro. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Filtering Data using CollectionViewSource" Joe McBride WP7: "Adding Windows Phone Capability Detection to your Build Process" Michael S. Scherotter Shoutouts: Einar Ingebrigtsen has a post up about his decisions on Balder - licensing From SilverlightCream.com: Filtering Data using CollectionViewSource...
In this Issue: Michael Crump, XAMLCast, Sigurd Snørteland, Brad Tutterow(-2-), Manuel Felício(-2-), Mohamed Mosallem, Lee(-2-), Walt Ritscher, Chris Koenig, and Jeff Blankenburg. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Architecting Silverlight LOB applications – Part 1" Manuel Felício WP7: "OData v2 and Windows Phone 7" Chris Koenig New: "Visual Studio Async CTP for the rest of us…" Michael Crump Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth posted an interesting discussion: A Week with WP7 from an Android User's Perspective...
In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Senthil Kumar, Jason, John Papa, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-, -3-), Jeremy Likness, Richard Waddell(-2-), Karsten Januszewski, Brad Tutterow(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Isolating the C# Code in Silverlight Class Library Projects" Richard Waddell WP7: "31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #29: Animations" Jeff Blankenburg Training: "More training videos of Windows Phone 7 for Developers" Senthil Kumar "Windows Phone 7 How-To Index" Karsten Januszewski Shoutouts: Lots of Silverlight...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Dennis Doomen, Mark Monster, Brian Genisio, Jeff Blankenburg, and Colin Melia. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "My Silverlight 4 Reference Architecture: ViewModels, Coroutines and Binding Conventions" Dennis Doomen WP7: "A Step-by-Step Guide to Building and Deploying your Windows Phone 7 Applications" Colin Melia Lightswitch: "Printing Sql Server Reports (.rdlc) With LightSwitch" Michael Washington Short list tonight after a long day... From SilverlightCream.com: Printing...
In this Issue: Eric Willeke, Mark Monster(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Mike Snow, Jeff Blankenburg, and Gabor Dolhai. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Tip of the Day #36 – Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks" Mike Snow WP7: "Resume the User’s music after MediaPlay" Gabor Dolhai Lightswitch: "Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part - 2)" Kunal Chowdhury Training: "Exam Preparation–Silverlight 4, Development–70-506–Part 1" Mark Monster From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jeff Blankenburg, Richard Waddell, Eric Willeke, Gabor Dolhai, Ariel Ben Horesh(-2-, -3-), and Alex Golesh Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight AutoCompleteBox and MVVM" Eric Willeke WP7: "31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #24: Embedding Fonts" Jeff Blankenburg Blend: "Blend For Beginners: Grid to Canvas to StackPanel" Richard Waddell Shoutouts: Dave Campbell has another post up for finding alternate uses for on-board toys: A Set of WP7 flashlights for Free (and...
This is another of those posts taken from the wanderings of a mind put in neutral too long... maybe I need to get back to work :) Since my previous phone was a razor, I've not had the opportunity or need to browse 'app stores' to view all the fun things you can spend your hard-earned pocket change on... like a fart machine... why back in my day, a metal washer with a rubberband through it wound up tight and anchored on both ends by a loop of a heavy paperclip worked pretty good! Or as I noted the...
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Derik Whittaker(-2-), James Ashley, Mike Taulty, Jeff Blankenburg, Kunal Chowdhury, Richard Waddell, and Jeremy Likness. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Choose the way to Create a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Application" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Why Deactivated is not the same as Tombstoned" James Ashley Blend: "More Simple Blend Layout Techniques and Quirks" Richard Waddell Shoutouts: This is clever and I just couldn't pass up mentioning it from Dean and Ying's Blog: iPhone...
The WP7 app market is going to be hot (IMHO), and as a developer, you want to get good reviews. Or said another way, you don''t need bad reviews. A Silverlight MVP friend of mine, René Schulte, is deeply involved in graphics work and has released to the marketplace a photo manipulation application called "Pictures Lab". You can see his excellent discussion, pictures, and explanation on his blog. Read on to see my personal review of the app...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Peter Kuhn, Alex Golesh, Jonathan Marbutt, Karsten Januszewski(-2-, -3-, -4-), Erik Mork, Jeff Blankenburg, Martin Krüger, and Colin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Programmatic Silverlight Tree View Control Node Expansion using View Model (MVVM)" Michael Washington WP7: "Conditional Logic During Start Up of a Windows Phone App" Karsten Januszewski From SilverlightCream.com: Programmatic Silverlight Tree View Control Node Expansion using View Model (MVVM) Michael...
In this Issue: John Papa, Andy Beaulieu, Joost van Schaik, and DevComponents. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Physics Helper 4 Released" Andy Beaulieu WP7: "Showing Open Source maps on Windows Phone 7 with the Bing Maps Control" Joost van Schaik Tools: "DotNetBar for Silverlight controls with Ribbon, Scheduling, and more..." DevComponents Short list today because it's been a long one... finally finished about 8:30, took a break and came in here to do an SC post. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight...
In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Colin Eberhardt, Andrea Boschin, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Andrew Tokeley, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), and Martin Krüger. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Better Silverlight 4.0 Installation and Upgrade Experience" Andrew Tokeley "Developing a Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control (part 2)" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone" Jeff Blankenburg Lightswitch: "Beginners Guide to Visual Studio...
In this Issue: Walter Ferrari, Wei-Meng Lee, Rob Eisenberg, Timmy Kokke, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, Jeff Blankenburg, Jeremy Likness, and Victor Gaudioso(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight (and Sharepoint): "Silverlight and Sharepoint 2010: Getting Started" Walter Ferrari WP7: "Windows Phone 7 – Animation and Games (Part 2)" Jesse Liberty WP7 (2): "31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #19: Push Notifications" Jeff Blankenburg Shoutouts: Tim Sneath has some (not messy) pumpkin-carving fun to share...
In this Issue: Roberto Sonnino, Jonathan Marbutt, Jonathan van de Veen, René Schulte, Vikram Pendse, Andrej Tozon(-2-, -3-, -4-), Andrea Boschin(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Jeff Blankenburg, and Team XNA. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Layout States with Reactive Extensions" Andrej Tozon WP7: "WP7 Fast Tips: Load (decode) and Save (encode) Jpeg files" Andrea Boschin XNA on WP7: "New WP7 Games Educational Content on App Hub: Performance!" Team XNA Shoutouts: Joost van Schaik has instructions on...
In this Issue: Nokola, John Papa, Shawn Wildermuth, Avi Pilosof, Brendan Enrick, Slobodan Pavkov, Karl Shifflett, jbaird, and Jeff Blankenburg. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework and Prism to create MVVM Applications – Introduction" Slobodan Pavkov WP7: "Anti-aliased Lines And Optimizing Code for Windows Phone 7–First Look" Nokola Training: "Silverlight TV 49: Creating Rich Interactive Prototypes with Sketchflow - Part 2" John Papa and Janete Perez Shoutouts:...
In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Katka Vaughan, Jay Kimble, Mike Taulty, Thomas Martinsen, Silverlight for WP7 Performance Team blog, Chris Koenig, Beth Massi(-2-), Jeff Blankenburg, and Jesse Liberty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Memory Leak in PanelDragDropTarget" Emiel Jongerius WP7: "Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 - Part 1" Katka Vaughan Lightswitch: "New How Do I Video Released Today on LightSwitch Access Control" Beth Massi Expression Blend: "Windows Phone Tutorial: Why Windows Phone Developers...
In this Issue: Martin Krüger, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth(-2-), Dave Relyea, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Peter Kellner, David Anson, Andy Beaulieu, Pete Vickers, and Peter Foot. Above the Fold: Expression Blend: "Creating a Simple Action" Kirupa Chinnathambi WP7: "Architecting WP7 - Part 4 of 10: Client-side Data" Shawn Wildermuth Lightswitch: "Building Job Ads Management Module With LightSwitch Beta 1 For Silicon Valley Code Camp" Peter Kellner Shoutouts: Congrats go out to Jonathan van de...
Light up your Silverlight skills with the all-new Global Silverlight Firestarter! December 2, 2010 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm pacific time — It's completely free! What is the Silverlight Firestarter? An Event. A one day, global, live streamed and on demand event keynoted by Scott Guthrie. Training. New self-paced labs and walk through videos. Interactive. Watch live and ask the Silverlight product team questions during the event. Why Silverlight? Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating...
In this Issue: Dennis Doomen(-2-), Felix Corke, Kunal Chowdhury, Michael Bach, Jeff Blankenburg, Shawn Wildermuth(-2-), Jeff Handley, David Anson, and Colin Eberhardt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight as an alternative to PowerPoint" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Architecting WP7 - Part 1 of 10: Navigation Framework" Shawn Wildermuth Themes: "Silverlight 4 theme brush packs" Felix Corke Shoutouts: Robby Ingebretsen never wastes our time, so check out his latest post: The New “App” Sara Summers has...
In this Issue: Martin Krüger, Viktor Larsson, Peter Brady, Colin Eberhardt, Jeremy Likness, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), and Jesse Liberty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Quick Fix for Silverlight HyperlinkButton Rendering" Peter Brady WP7: "iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – XNA, Animation and Games" Jesse Liberty Blend: "Expression blend 4 Add-in for access to a Silverlight XAML source code 4 project" Martin Krüger Shoutouts: My buddy András Velvárt posted a link to one of his company's latest creations... a...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Alex Knight, Walt Ritscher(-2-), Glenn Block, Robert Garfoot(-2-), Michael Klucher, Silverlight WP7 Performance Team, Mike Ormond, and James Ashley(-2-), Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using The Silverlight Data Pager Control With View Model / MVVM" Michael Washington WP7: "Simulated Push Notifications on Windows Phone 7" Robert Garfoot Blend: "How to: design a Windows Phone 7 listbox" Alex Knight Shoutouts: Mike Ormond posted his material that he used for some presentations...
In this Issue: Jeff Handley, Jeff Blankenburg, Kunal Chowdhury, Abhijit Jana, Larry Schoeneman(-2-), Michael Crump, Kevin Marshall, Derik Whittaker, Victor Gaudioso(-2-), and Mohamed Mosallem. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (9 of N): Using the WebCam as a Barcode Scanner" Mohamed Mosallem WP7: "Profile your Windows Phone 7 Application for Free" Michael Crump MEF: "Fun with the Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework Part 1" Larry Schoeneman Shoutouts: I've mentioned Shan...
In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Sharker Khaleed Mahmud, Dragos Manolescu, Peter Kuhn, Victor Gaudioso, John Papa, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Ning Zhang, Paul Seriff, Dennis Doomen, and Martin Krüger. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "My Silverlight 4 Reference Architecture: Commanding" Dennis Doomen WP7: "Windows Phone 7 RTM charting using the Silverlight Control Toolkit" Bart Czernicki Sketchflow: "Silverlight TV 48: Creating Rich Interactive Prototypes with Sketchflow - Part 1 " John Papa Now pulling Silverlight...
In this Issue: Joost van Schaik, Rudi Grobler, AfricanGeek, Mike Talbot, Jeff Blankenburg, Shawn Wildermuth, and Victor Gaudioso. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Automatic Grid Layout for Silverlight" Mike Talbot WP7: "On Design Paradigms for Windows Phone 7" Shawn Wildermuth Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso has posted Video of my two day Sharing in the Light Silverilght/Blend/Visual Studio Course in Dallas Jesse Liberty posted his latest Yet Another Podcast Show #4 – iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Development...
In this Issue: Khawar Yunus, Ning Zhang(-2-), blender, Michael Crump, and Jeff Blankenburg(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Animation Class Diagram" Ning Zhang WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Design Templates" blender Shoutouts: The McObject folks have posted an update to Perst, including very nice pricing for WP7 folks: McObject’s New Perst Embedded Database Licensing Promotes Silverlight & Windows Phone 7 Development A short list today because I need to post a couple of these and I need...
Yes tomorrow really is the first Wednesday of the month! and Yes, we are having our normally scheduled meeting. The Silverlight User Group meeting will be from 6PM to 8PM at Interface Technical Training (NW corner of Central & Thomas) -- check PhoenixSilverlight.net for a map. Come out for Pizza and networking at 6 then hang around because Ryan Plemons of Terralever is returning to speak on the Windows Phone...
In this Issue: David Anson, Jeff Blankenburg, Walt Ritscher(-2-, -3-, -4-), Dan Wahlin, xprblog, and Jeff Prosise. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Sizeable, yet square, content control" Walt Ritscher WP7: "Creating Windows Phone 7 Application and Marketplace Icons" xprblog MVVM: "Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern" Dan Wahlin Shoutouts: Scott Hanselman brokered a deal for 2 lucky winners: WIN a FREE Phone with like NO effort and attend the Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Michael Crump posted a...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Richard Waddell, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-, -3-), Dejan Jakovic, Peter Kuhn, Domagoj Pavlešic, Thomas Martinsen, Jesse Liberty, and Joost van Schaik(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Unsaved Data Detection " Michael Washington WP7: "Extension methods for tomb stoning the Windows Phone 7 model" Joost van Schaik Expression Blend: "Simple Layout Techniques In Blend " Richard Waddell Shoutouts: Mark your calendars, because Beth Massi announced MSDN Radio on...
It's past the first of October, and time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for April 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010: It is my intention to post a new list sometime shortly after the 1st...
In this Issue: Rudi Grobler, Paul Patterson, Dragos Manolescu, Rob Tiffany, Mike Snow, Gergely Orosz, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Kirupa Chinnathambi, Alex Knight, and Nigel Sampson. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Yet Another Podcast Show #3 – John Papa on MVVM and Patterns" Jesse Liberty WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service" Rob Tiffany Training: "Microsoft Lightswitch - A Data Driven Approach" Paul Patterson Shoutouts: Tim Heuer attempts to help in your Understanding...
In this Issue: Sandrino Di Mattia, Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli(-2-), Mike Snow, David Anson, Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, Paul Sheriff(-2-), Markus Egger, Johan Danforth, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Change Templates Dynamically in Silverlight" Paul Sheriff WP7: "Silverlight On Mobile : InputScope in Windows Phone 7" Vikram Pendse MEF: "MEF in the Wild: A Retrospective " Jeremy Likness Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test #6 From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Dragos Manolescu, Jeff Fansler, Andy Beaulieu, John McFetridge, Kunal Chowdhury, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Mike Taulty(-2-, -3-), and Peter Bromberg. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using ASP.NET Session with Silverlight and WCF Services " Peter Bromberg WP7: "Collision Detection on Windows Phone 7 " Andy Beaulieu Shoutouts: Just in case you missed Koen Zwikstra's Document Toolkit screencast, never fear... it's available online! Document Toolkit screencast (2) Tim Heuer announced some deep...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jeff Wilcox, Erik Mork(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Morten Nielsen, Josh Smith, Mohamed Mosallem, and Jose Fajardo. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Consuming resources from external assemblies in Silverlight 4 " Josh Smith WP7: "Using an image as a mask so that WP7 theme’s are honoured " Jose Fajardo Shoutouts: Jeremy Likness has posted his Intro to MVVM: Slides and Sample Code from his presentation at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup group. Mark Tucker has a video up...
In this Issue: John Papa, John McFetridge, Andy Schwam, Tim Heuer, Nigel Sampson(-2-, -3-), Shawn Wildermuth, Dave Relyea, Jesse Liberty, and Sigurd Snørteland. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 4: Drag and Drop DataGrids with Access to the Data Being Dropped" Andy Schwam WP7: "Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle " Jesse Liberty Shoutouts: Ian Griffiths announced free Silverlight Printing Video training at PluralSight until Sunday. From SilverlightCream.com: What’s Wrong...
In this Issue: Brett Balmer, Kirupa Chinnathambi, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Mohamed Mosallem, René Schulte, Mahesh Sabnis, Aaron Stannard(-2-), Rudi Grobler(-2-), and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Reading Excel File in Silverlight 4.0 - COM Programming " Mahesh Sabnis WP7: "Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit " David Anson Training: "Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit "...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Paul Patterson, Gergely Orosz, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Kirupa Chinnathambi, SilverLaw(-2-), Sergey Barskiy, Jeremy Likness, and Sigurd Snørteland. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "CodeBox - Syntax Highlighting In Silverlight For Any Programming Language " SilverLaw WP7: "Back to Windows Phone 7 Database " Sergey Barskiy Lightswitch: "LightSwitch Student Information System (Part 2): Business Rules and Screen Permissions " Michael Washington Shoutouts: Karl Shifflett...
In this Issue: cherylws, Wolf Schmidt, Einar Ingebrigtsen, priozersk, James Ashley, Paul Patterson, Sharker Khaleed Mahmud, Beth Massi, Dave Relyea(-2-), and Mike Taulty(-2-, -3-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Just another ViewModelBase class" James Ashley WP7: "Panorama Tricks – How to eliminate blending seams in the background " Dave Relyea Lightswitch: "New LightSwitch “How Do I” Videos Released" Beth Massi From SilverlightCream.com: Content or Resource Files?…Another way to load a static XML...
In this Issue: Johan Danforth, Michael S. Scherotter, Xianzhong Zhu(-2-), Michael B. McLaughlin, Mike Taulty, Michael Crump, Jobi Joy, Brad Tutterow(-2-), Roger Gullhaug, Tim Heuer, and Walter Ferrari. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight, Out-Of-Browser and Multiple Windows" Mike Taulty WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Developer Tips and Tricks" Jeff Wilcox via Tim Heuer Training: "Windows Phone Training Kit for Developers – RTM Refresh" Yochay Kiriaty Shoutouts: Available in the Microsoft Download Center:...
In this Issue: John Papa, Tau Sick, Rudi Grobler, David Anson, Tim Heuer, Pete Brown, Jesse Liberty, Brandon Watson, Scott Guthrie, and Miro Miroslavov. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "5+ Ways to Reduce your .Xap Size" Miro Miroslavov WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Released " Scott Guthrie Shoutouts: Crocus Girl posted this contest from SilverlightShow: Announcing SilverlightShow 5-day Windows Phone 7 Quiz! John Papa posted the materials that went along with his OOB brown-bag last week: Silverlight...
In this Issue: Michael Washington(-2-), Brian Noyes, Michael Ossou, Sharker Khaleed Mahmud, Mike Taulty, Jeremy Likness, Brad Tutterow(-2-), and András Velvárt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Best Practices for Themes in Modular Silverlight Applications " Jeremy Likness WP7: "Being theme aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps" András Velvárt Lightswitch: "LightSwitch Student Information System" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Erik Mork & Crew have their latest podcast up: Show 106: Jetpack themes...
It's been a while since I mentioned this, but on the Right-hand sidebar of WynApse.com is an 'Outlook Bar' of headings such as 'Code Reference', 'Cheat Sheets', 'WP7', etc. If you click one of the headings, it opens up a list of web links to reference material I've squirreled away. I recently filled out the WP7 and Lightswitch sections with some links. For instance here is what is in the WP7 section right now: Feel free to use that bar as a resource, there's lots of good stuff in there, and if you...
In this Issue: Titan, Brad Tutterow, Paul Patterson, Ryan Alford, James Ashley, priozersk(-2-), Jay Kimble, Rishi, Harry Fairhead, Dave Campbell, Chris Rouw, and Jesse Liberty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Lists and Details " Jesse Liberty WP7: "Implementing Picker Box functionality on WP7 " priozersk Lightswitch: "Microsoft LightSwitch – Send an Email from LightSwitch" Paul Patterson Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty announced The Great Silverlight Competency Test – #4 Dan Wahlin...
I can't pass up passing this along even though it's not Silverlight or WP7 or Lightswitch or ... One thing I've been dealing with is the 'Edit top 200' rows thing in SQL Server 2008, and have just been dealing with it for a few weeks since I uninstalled everything else in favor of this full-up. Well, Senthil Kumar has instructions on how to modify that sucker... I didn't even *think* to look around... figured it was baked in... awesome post, Senthil! SQL Server 2008 – Change Edit Top 200 Rows and...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Mike Talbot, Kunal Chowdhury, Nigel Sampson, Shawn Wildermuth, Andy Beaulieu, Beth Massi, Joost van Schaik, Beat Kiener(-2-), and priozersk. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Flip Control – page flipping without the performance problems " Mike Talbot WP7: "An animated swipe-enabled title control for Windows Phone 7 " Joost van Schaik Lightswitch: "Deploy and Update a LightSwitch (Beta 1) 3-tier Application" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: Deploy...
In discussion with some folks over the last few days, we have talked about ways to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Arguably, the results begin a little skewed since I choose what to post, but that’s where we start. As with the ‘Skim’ page, I’m only looking at posts that go into the database, so ‘Shoutouts’ are not aggregated for this count. Another stipulation decided upon was that to be eligible for ranking, the author had to have posted something in at least...
In this Issue: Szilárd Szakács, Michael Washington, Mike Taulty(-2-), Chris Koenig, Tim Heuer, Kranthi Kiran Gullapalli, David Anson, Mohamed Mosallem, Michael Crump, Dan Wahlin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "MVVM so easy a n00b can do it (Silverlight4) " Michael Crump WP7: "DeferredLoadListBox (and StackPanel) help Windows Phone 7 lists scroll smoothly and consistently " David Anson Lightswitch: "A LightSwitch Home Page " Michael Washington Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty has a ** DRAFT ** Community Comment...
In this Issue: Ben Wintringham, XNA Creators Club(-2-), Sony Arouje, John Papa, Mike Ormond, Microsoft(-2-), Jaana Metsamaa(-2-), Todd Knudsen, Jeremy Likness. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Design-Time Friendly ViewModels with MEF " Jeremy Likness WP7: "XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Saving Pictures " Mike Ormond Training: "Create Games for Windows Phone 7 " XNA Creators Club Shoutouts: Charles Petzold will be presenting on WP7 in New York on October: Author news: Charles Petzold presenting...
In this Issue: Tony Champion, Tim H, Roger Gullhaug, Jeremy Likness, Brad Tutterow, Derik Whittaker, Paul Patterson, Sam Judson, SilverLaw, Dave Edson, Silverlight Team, and Sergey Barskiy. I'm test-driving something new today... I'm listing 'my' pick(s) from the list of things I'm discussing in each of the various categories I've posted on... which will change daily. Today I'm highlighting a Silverlight post, a WP7 post, and a training one. I'm listing these as "Above the Fold" because they will...
I've made a couple changes today to the SilverlightCream site and to my blog, after a discussion last night with a cohort. I'm displaying (hopefully obviously) an RSS image that now goes out to Feedburner. The big take-away for me for that is that the feed is now displayed as a 'feed' and not as XML. The take-away for you is that you can now subscribe via Feedburner. I also modified the Search Results page at SilverlightCream.com to tell you how many results were returned. And, did you know you can...
In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, PostVision, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Laurent Duveau, Phil Middlemiss, Xianzhong Zhu, pauliom, Sudhindra Kovalam(-2-), and Alexander Viken. Shoutouts: The Silverlight Blog announced the release of a new WCF RIA Services (Silverlight QuickStart) John Papacreated a stir yesterday with his Top 10 Silverlight Blogs ... thanks for the shoutout John!! Jesse Liberty posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 3 From SilverlightCream.com: Datagrid: support for grouping...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, SilverLaw, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Mohamed Mosallem, Vikram Pendse, Ward Bell, Gill Cleeren, Jag Reehal, and Enrico Gebauer. Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso announces a Texas-sized event: Sharing in the Light – I dive into Silverlight Development with Blend – Two day event in Dallas Sept. 25 & 26 From SilverlightCream.com: Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM) Michael Washington has a cool app up using ViewModel/MVVM that allows users to query a collection...
In this Issue: Peter Bromberg, Derik Whittaker(-2-), Paul Patterson, Michael Crump(-2-), Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx, Gergely Orosz, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Jaime Rodriguez, and Georgi Atanasov. Shoutouts: My friend Koen Zwikstra poses the question How can we improve Silverlight Spy?... log into the forum and give him ideas. SilverlightShow announced Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Sketchflow in Real Scenarios Senthil Kumar announced Microsoft Patterns & Practices – Windows Phone 7 Developer...
In this Issue: Sergey Barskiy, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Patrick Cauldwell, David Anson, Michael Sync, Jeremy Likness, Victor Gaudioso, René Schulte, John Papa, and Todd Knudsen. Shoutouts: Telerik's Premium Collection for .NET wins Jolt Product Excellence Awards: App Libraries and Frameworks SilverlightShow announced a Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Running Silverlight Outside the Browser and with Elevated Trust... see you there... I'll be the one in shorts with no shoes :) John Papa has a two-part...
In this Issue: Anton Polimenov, Paul Patterson, Beth Massi(-2-), Derik Whittaker, Dinesh Sodani, jbaird, priozersk, Kyle McClellan(-2-), Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, and Matthias Shapiro. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra amazingly enough has the latest Silverlight already in Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.13 ... get the download SilverLaw has a cool Silverlight game up: SilvAir Strike - A Silverlight 4 Game The Silverlight Team Blog posted this article: The Future of Silverlight Peter Torr posted his Sample code...
In this Issue: Benjamin Gavin, Haruhiro Isowa, Scott Fletcher, Georgi Atanasov, Timmy Kokke, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Anoop Madhusudanan, Mike James, Beat Kiener, Rudi Grobler, Lightswitch Tutorial, Jeff Brand, Manfred Pohler, Indrajit, Levente Mihály, and Erik Klimczak. Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty has posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test [2] Michael S. Scherotter posted BALL Watch Silverlight Contest Winners Announced ... and wow... do those look great!! ... congratulations everyone! Max Paulousky...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Erik Klimczak(-2-), Kevin Marshall, Mike Ormond, Chris Anderson, Derik Whittaker, Michael Crump, Peter Torr(-2-), Ryan Alford, Amyo Kabir, and Kunal Chowdhury. Shoutout: Emiel Jongerius announced he has Update postings on Datagrid for a couple of his recent posts. From SilverlightCream.com: A DotNetNuke Silverlight Expense Report Module Michael Washington is back on ViewModel code, and also DNN with this end-to-end expense report module sporting Silverlight inside...
In this Issue: Benjamin Gavin, Richard Waddell, Kunal Chowdhury, Chris Koenig, Timmy Kokke, cherylws, David Anson, Jeremy Likness, David Kelley, Andy Beaulieu, and Walt Ritscher. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight TreeView Case Study - FAQ Maintenance - Part 1 Benjamin Gavin is pulling together the posts he's recently done and producing an updatable FAQ file app -- something I find useful -- and this is part 1 ... good stuff! Extending Central Silverlight Business Rules to Client and Server Side...
In this Issue: John Papa, Beth Massi, Simon Jackson, Rob Miles, Pete Brown(-2-), Senthil Kumar, Don Burnett(-2-), and Brian Noyes. From SilverlightCream.com: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes Tsitsi Gora joins John Papa on the latest Silverlight TV to discuss the new Silverlight themes -- did you know about them? -- how about tips on customizing them from one of the devs?? cool stuff. Visual Studio LightSwitch How Do I Videos 5 Lightswitch training videos from Beth Massi ... and more...
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss Justin Angel, Kunal Chowdhury, Emiel Jongerius, Microsoft, Channel 9, András Velvárt, Timmy Kokke, Microsoft Expression Blog, Jesse Liberty, and Jeremy Likness. Shoutouts: Jeff Weber announced Farseer Physics Engine 3.0 RELEASED, has a link to it and information about it. Jesse Liberty has posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test – Part 1 Chris Koenig announced Sharing the Light – Silverlight Development with Expression Blend... DFW Silverlight training with Victor...
In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Michael Washington, Kevin Dockx, Alex van Beek, and Alex Golesh. Sorry for being silent, but dealing with an imploding contract and training my replacement is sucking the energy out of me. Here is a Submittal only post... From SilverlightCream.com: Postponing actions Emiel Jongerius has a new post up on a utility class that can be used to limit the calls to internal synchronization methods of objects... think DeferRefresh. Dynamically Loading Silverlight Video Players...
In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Michael Washington, Mingfei Yan, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Roger Peters, Rob Eisenberg, and Microsoft. From SilverlightCream.com: Use the ASP.NET Authentication Service with Windows Phone 7 Rénald Nollet has a cool post up combining the ASP.NET Security Service with WP7... this was getting a lot of play on twitter last night... Printing With LightSwitch Michael Washington's latest Lightswitch post is a tutorial on printing from Lightswitch culminating in a very professional-looking...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Timmy Kokke(-2-), Jeremy Likness, Chris Koenig, Rob Miles(-2-), Bob Caswell, and Alex Yakhnin(-2-). Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth adds a video to go along with his last post Developing for the Windows Phone 7 - Part 4: Tombstoning Scott Hanselman talks to Jeff Wilcox about WP7 performance: Hanselminutes Podcast 228 - Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 Indrajit AKA indifromoz is keeping a page of WP7 resources you may want to bookmark: Windows Phone 7 Resources...
In this Issue: Anton Polimenov, Shawn Wildermuth, Gergely Orosz, Chris Koenig, Tim Heuer(-2-), Tim Greenfield, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Shawn Oster, and John Papa. Shoutouts: Telerik has announced The Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour is Coming... ... check out the cities and don't miss it! Erik Mork and company have my buddy Walt Ritscher on this week: Show 103: Windows Phone 7 Development Hardware with Walt Ritscher From SilverlightCream.com: WP7: Screen Considerations for Developers Anton Polimenov...
In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Rui Marinho, Johnny Tordgeman, and Colin Eberhardt. Shoutout: Arnie Rowland has a very worthy effort going on: Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes ... ... read it and if you need the support, give it a shot. Bart Czernicki has a fun announcement: Announcing my new book: Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software In this all-submittal Issue -- From SilverlightCream.com: Synchronizing group row headers with column headers in Silverlight DataGrid Did you know you can...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Brian Noyes, Rudi Grobler, Benjamin Gavin, Walter Ferrari, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Wilcox(-2-), David Anson, Jeremy Likness, and Manuel Felício. Shoutout: Cigdem Patlak announced a SilverlightShow Webinar: Data binding in action by Gill Cleeren... check out Cigdem's post and sign up... it's tomorrow, August 19th! Shawn Wildermuth shares What I learned about Windows Phone 7 from Android From SilverlightCream.com: The First Hour With Lightswitch –BETA- Curious about...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Michael Crump, Don Burnett, John Papa, Jeremy Alles, Rob Miles(-2-), and David Gadd. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Open File Dialog Behavior (MVVM) Michael Washington has a cool post up on building a Behavior in Blend to produce an Open File Dialog. “Fade in” Screen in Silverlight 4 Michael Crump responds to some questions about a 'fade-in' screen effect built with Expression Blend, and has a tutorial up on that and a demo page. Windows Phone Design Days...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Alex Yakhnin(-2-), Vikram Pendse, Kunal Chowdhury, Braulio Diez, Antoni Dol, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Tim Heuer, and Jeff Wilcox. Shoutout: Erik Mork & Co. have their latest podcast up: Show 102: Windows Phone 7 Development Heats Up Einar Ingebrigtsen has a demo before and after of Balder - vertex colors From SilverlightCream.com: A Simple DataGrid Delete Button Using View Model / MVVM Michael Washington has another post up discussing the DataGrid Delete Button,...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Mickael Chambaud, Colin Eberhardt, Jeff Wilcox, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Karsten Januszewski, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), and Tim Heuer. Shoutout: David Anson posted his Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF/Windows Phone Data Visualization resources! From SilverlightCream.com: Using the “Hisowa Simple PopUp Behavior” in a DataGrid Michael Washington has a tutorial up showing how to use the "Hisowa simple popup Behavior" that he assisted on getting to codeproject...
In this Issue: René Schulte, Haruhiro Isowa, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Shawn Wildermuth, Evan Hutnick, Don Burne, Mark Tucker, On Ali Tinwala, Derik Whittaker, and Mark Arteaga. Shoutouts: Chris Cavanagh has converted his Soft Body Physics Demo to WP7: JelloPhone for Windows Phone 7 Joe Healy has his list of 7 Steps to Get You Going on Windows Phone 7 Dev ... I might add a couple more links to item 5, but I'm prejudiced :) If you're in the mood for purchasing a WP7 Toolkit for building apps,...
In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Xianzhong Zhu, Joost van Schaik, Dan Wahlin, and Sergey Barskiy. Shoutouts: Jason Zander posted a Sample Update: Windows Phone 7 Example Application for Beta Tools Jesse Liberty has a great post up this morning: Ten Rules For Moving Your Blog Without Falling Off The Edge Of The Web A handfull of postings left over from last night, but I know I'll not get any added on during the day today, so I'm pushing these out early. From SilverlightCream.com: Sharepoint 2010 SilverXplorer...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jeff Fansler, Jeff Wilcox, Rob Eisenburg, Vikram Pendse, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Simon Jackson, and Nick Ohrn. Shoutout: I'm pretty sure I found this link via @brian_henderson: Creating High Performance Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone New and untried: Can't find the link I got this from, but it looks interesting for wp7dev XNA: Helium From SilverlightCream.com: Deleting A Silverlight DataGrid Row With A Button On The Row Michael Washington...
In this Issue: Viktor Larsson, Roger Peters, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Kyle McClellan, Jag Reehal, Dinesh Sodani, David Rousset, Jeff Fansler, Paul Sheriff, Jeremy Likness, Mohamed Mosallem, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: The Visual Web Developer Team Blog posted Hot Fix Released for the Issue of Visual Studio 2010 Crashing When Switching to the Design View From SilverlightCream.com: Snipping databound properties Viktor Larsson has discussion of code snippets up in his latest post. He's specifically...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Jeff Fansler, Xianzhong Zhu(-2-), Anton Polimenov, Braulio Díez Botella, Alex Yakhnin, Willem Meints, Shawn Hargreaves, John Papa, and Roger Peters. Shoutout: I found this via Mike Taulty, and it's pretty darn cool: zoom.it from LiveLabs, and I did one of my blog From SilverlightCream.com: Visual Studio Solution Pivot Viewer. Add-on for VS2010 to Visualize Code Structure Max Paulousky has a post up about a VS2010 add-in that uses just too much of the goodness we all...
In this Issue: Jeff Fansler, Chris Klug, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Mike Taulty, David Anson, Florent Pajani, Kunal Chowdhury, Mike Snow, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: The Swiss Team Blog announced Hands-on Lab: Silverlight 4 Line of Business Application using WCF RIA Services Now updated to reflect RTM changes Dan Wahlin posted his Silverlight 4 Code Demos from the Microsoft TechReady Workshop From SilverlightCream.com: The Windows Phone 7 Application Bar Jeff Fansler has another WP7 post up and is talking...
In this Issue: Brian Noyes, Jeff Fansler, Pencho Popadiyn, Eugene Chaikin, Jeff Wilcox, Peter Torr, Michael B. McLaughlin, and Tim Greenfield. Shoutout: Charles Petzold has an update to his eBook : Free ebook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) Wow... take 1 day off and *everybody* posts something! These are without even hitting my Big List-O'-Blogs TM From SilverlightCream.com: WCF RIA Services Part 4 - Integrating with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern Brian Noyes has part...
In this Issue: African Geek, Michael Washington, Sl.ayer, David Rousset, Einar Ingebrigtsen, Rob Miles, Ben Gracewood, jbaird, Davide Zordan, Shawn Wildermuth, Vikram Pendse, Xianzhong Zhu, and Mohamed Mosallem. Shoutout: Jesse Liberty has a great post up of his 12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers From SilverlightCream.com: WP7 Fluid Move Behaviors African Geek has been away from blogging for a bit, but he's back with some fluid Movement behaviors in WP7 ... check out the...
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Al Pascual, Joost van Schaik, Timmy Kokke, Tau Sick, David Rousset, Dinesh Sodani, Einar Ingebrigtsen, Ben Gracewood, Kunal Chowdhury, and Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios. Shoutouts: Chris Koenig has his material from Tech Ready or Dallas TechFest up: MVVM in Windows Phone 7 Lester has a post up: Announcing CTP of XAML Toolkit From SilverlightCream.com: A Dial (User) Control Wow... file this in the HolyCrap category... check out the dial control Phil Middlemiss built...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Benjamin Gavin Braulio Diez, Jeff Wilcox, Silverlaw, Mike Taulty(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Gergely Orosz, and John Papa. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight: Why I feel “Design Is The Most Important Thing” Michael Washington has a great post up on Design that says it much better than my normal comment: "No amount of pretty is going to make people wanna use a crappy app" :) Silverlight TreeView - Drag & Drop with MVVM Benjamin Gavin posted...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Ezequiel Jadib, Kunal Chowdhury, Ernesto Herrera, Levente Mihály, Rob Davis, Sergey Barskiy, Jeremy Likness, Victor Gaudioso, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: Right on cue, Erik Mork and company posted This Week In Silverlight 7.23.2010 – Early Windows Phone 7 Reviews From SilverlightCream.com: Using The Silverlight DataGrid with View Model / MVVM Michael Washington has posted a tutorial on a pretty-much all-singing, all-dancing DataGrid (i.e. inline edits, button...
In this Issue: Anton Polimenov, Gill Cleeren, Jeff Fansler, Hannah Watkins, paulio, Michael S. Scherotter, Mohamed Mosallem, and Xianzhong Zhu. From SilverlightCream.com: WP7: UI Concepts of Windows Phone 7 With hardware descriptions behind him, Anton Polimenov continues his 10-part series at SilverlightShow on WP7 with this one on UI Concepts The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 - Part 3: Using Net.Tcp Gill Cleeren has part 3 of his tutorial series on Polling Duplex...
In this Issue: Paul Sheriff, jbaird, Michael Washington, Shawn Wildermuth, Ben Gracewood, Mohamed Mosallem, Jesse Liberty, Nigel Sampson, Kunal Chowdhury, Vikram Pendse, and Frank LaVigne. Shoutout: I don't know who these Commentsys devs are but they've got a boatload of Silverlight and WP7 tutorials From SilverlightCream.com: Use CollectionViewSource in Silverlight to Sort Data Paul Sheriff has two posts on using the CollectionViewSource to sort your data. This first one is in XAML and the second...
In this Issue: Tony Champion, David Poll, Ben Gracewood, Ryan Alford, Willem Meints, Nokola(-2-), and Deborah Kurata. Shoutouts: This is pretty cool-- 10 years of MSDN Magazine in a Silverlight Pivot Found this via Catherine Russell -- MSDN Virtual Labs Just for those that haven't seen it already, there's a page up on MSDN containing Code Samples for Windows Phone From SilverlightCream.com: Messaging in Silverlight with MVVM Light Tony Champion sings the praises of Laurent Bugnion's MVVM Light, and...
In this Issue: Tony Champion, Vikas, Larry Larsen, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Gergely Orosz, András Velvárt, Rishi, John Papa, David Rousset, David Anson, and Ozymandias. Shoutout: The Swiss MSDN Team Blog announced “Building a Newsreader Application using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7” Hands-On Lab – Now updated for July BETA Developer Tools Laurent Bugnion posted an MVVM Light Hotfix for Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta Fons Sonnemans posted a video of his WP7 game Sudoku for WP7 on YouTube...
In this Issue: Ian Walker, Delordson Kallon, Anton Polimenov, Gill Cleeren, Tau Sick, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, Jag Reehal, Rob Eisenberg, Shawn Wildermuth, Alex Yakhnin, Slobodan Pavkov, and Deborah Kurata. Shoutouts: Jeremy Alles has an MVVM comparison chart up that's very complete: MVVM Frameworks Explorer updated be sure to let him know if something is missing No discussion or code, but this demo code shares between Silverlight and WP7: Shove HalfPenny (Shove Ha'penny) New and untested:...
In this Issue: jbaird, Sl.ayer(-2-), Yochay Kiriaty, and René Schulte. Shoutouts: Silverzine announced a contest to get an MSDN subscription: Competition Time!!!! Michael Washington and a crew of other folks have another giveaway going: Get a Free MSDN Ultimate subscription SilverlightCream has a wp7dev page up that just lists the wp7dev posts tagged: wp7dev Tagged Articles ... this is the same as searching for wp7dev, but you can just save the link... you probably won't need this in a couple weeks,...
In this Issue: Kirupa Chinnathambi, Sergey Barskiy, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, Djonatas Tenfen, Yochay Kiriaty(-2-), Jason Zander. Shoutouts: Jeremy Likness follows up his Silverlight Profiling post with this one: Silverlight Profiling Part 2: The Easy Way Jeremy Likness also announced a release: Sterling OODB v0.1 Alpha Released! The Silverlight Team Blog announced Ooyala and Silverlight Bring the Beach Volleyball Open to You, Live! From SilverlightCream.com: Optimizing the On-Screen...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Kunal Chowdhury, Mark Arteaga(-2-), Shawn Hargreaves(-2-), Steve Strong, JOSUEYERAY, and Kyle McClellan. Shoutouts: Mason Brown has a post up that's a great read: Thoughts on User Exerience Yochay Kiriaty announced Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – Beta Refresh From SilverlightCream.com: Understanding control customization with templates: part #2 Andrea Boschin has the 2nd of his tutorial series on writing a templated control up on SilverlightShow How to Create...
In this Issue: Charles Petzold, Nick Gravelyn, Andrea Boschin, John Papa, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Timmy Kokke, and Jeremy Likness. Shoutouts: Erik Mork and Co. have had this week's post up for a bit: This Week In Silverlight – Phones are here! Einar Ingebrigtsen announced the result of some of his vacation tim: Balder on Windows Phone 7 Very useful app if you're doing anything Pivot, Andrew Cox has A tool to help diagnose problems setting up your PivotViewer app PhaniRajuYN blogged that the Windows...
In this Issue: Jim Jackson(-2-), Alex Golesh, Dustin Horne, Sl.ayer, xprblog, Mike James, and David Anson. Shoutouts: John Papa is on Deep Fried Bytes: Silverlight 4 Tools and RIA Services as Heard on Deep Fried Bytes Jaime Rodriguez has some help up for those that are having problems moving from the CTP to Beta bits: Tips for uninstalling the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTPs and moving to beta Koen Zwikstra reports an update: Document Toolkit 2 Release Candidate ... check out the feature list...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andrea Boschin, Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-), Jaime Rodriguez, Brandon Watson, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Scott Guthrie. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher announced a new Shazzam is shipping today, but haven't seen a notice yet. As a teas, here's a post from Walt: Oh, shiny! Animated Mandelbrot shader effect If you plan on any wp7dev work, check out this training: Windows Phone 7 Jump Start: Session One - Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight ... this is a...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Sl.ayer, András Velvárt, Jag Reehal(-2-), Einar Ingebrigtsen, Robby Ingebretsen, Shawn Wildermuth, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer(-2-), Rob Eisenberg(-2-), Roger Peters, snoutholder, Wolf Schmidt, Kyle McClellan Shoutouts: Davide Zordan lists the Slides and Code from my Silverlight 4 – MEF webcast I have an Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers discussing possible broken links at SilverlightCream.com From SilverlightCream.com: Basic Silverlight View Model Validation...
While doing that 900th Silverlight Cream post last night, I found some dead links in the database. With close to 6,000 links, there is absolutely no way I can test them all and make sure they are (still) correct. Two of the cases I know are because of blog reorganizations where the bloggers did not preserve the previous links. I know it’s not easy to do that. Early on I made some changes at WynApse.com, but I kept both sets alive in my URL-Rewriting file. Since I was already rewriting my URLs, it...
For Issue 900, I wanted to do another "best of" and it's a little tricky. I can't do best of from 800 to 900 because it will be heavily weighted to the early posts. So what I did was best of for 2010 so far. I also did best of 2009 to put that one to bed. In the lists, Number 01 is the top hit, and they go on from there. Just a note to bloggers... if you reorganize your blog, don't break your links! ... there are a couple on these two lists that I had to go find, and that means that other links on...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jim Lynn, Martin Duffy(-2-, -3-), Jonas Follesø, Ofir Shemesh, Karl Shifflett, Sergey Barskiy, Chris Klug Shoutouts: Chris Koenig posted an announcement for a WebCast next week: XNA Game Development for Windows Phone 7 ... I'm registered, are you? Erik Mork and crew have their latest Weekly podcast up: This Week In Silverlight – Kin RIP and Welcome new MVPs Manning Press has pushed an excerpt from Pete Brown's upcoming book: Silverlight out of the browser From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Timmy Kokke, Damon Payne, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Giorgetti Alessandro, Dinesh Sodani, David Anson, Kunal Chowdhury, haruhiro isowa, Max Paulousky, Rénald Nollet, and Rob Tiffany. Shoutouts: Cigdem Patlak interviews Daron Yondem Part 1: Istanbul Yazgelistir Summit – Daron Yondem on Silverlight activities in MEA, Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 Series Cigdem Patlak interviews Daron Yondem Part 2: Istanbul Yazgelistir Summit – Daron Yondem on upcoming Silverlight releases, the Silverlight...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan, Alex van Beek, Michael Washington, Jag Reehal, Gill Cleeren, Rob Eisenberg, and Laurent Bugnion. Shoutouts: András Velvárt has a video of an awesome demo of his MIX10 Zoomery app running on WP7: Windows Phone 7 - Mix App John Papa posted all this material from the Tamp Silverlight User Group meeting: Blend, PathListBox, OOB Samples and More from Silverlight Night at Tampa SLUG It wasn't clear from his email, but Rudi Grobler's Mahhala looks like something on-going, so...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Phil Middlemiss, Jag Reehal, Senthil Kumar, Andrew Marshall, Chris Koenig, Jimmy, Lee, Pete Brown, Brian, Mike Taulty, and Jeremy Likness(-2-). From SilverlightCream.com: Prism Training Kit: Beta Version Available Damian Schenkelman announced the release of a Prism Training Kit he and Matias Bonaventura have put together. Read his description on the post, then go download the kit. Create a Custom Control - Inheriting from TextBox Phil Middlemiss has another great...
In this Issue: Sl.ayer, Emiel Jongerius, Andrea Boschin, KunalChowdhury, Charles Petzold, Kathleen Dollard, Jag Reehal, Saschac, Versant, Karl Shifflett, and John Papa. Shoutouts: Michael S. Scherotter reported an update: Word to XAML Converter Updated for Word 2010, WPF4 and Silverlight 4 The Silverlight Team Blog announced Microsoft, NVIDIA and iStreamPlanet Stream NASCAR in 3D The Silverlight Team Blog also announced Silverlight and Wimbledon. Game, Set and Match SilverlightShow has announced...
I'm sure the twitter-verse is congested with all this, but since I can't get on twitter from this place, I had to wait until someone else posted a list. Here's a list of all the folks awarded/reawarded Silverlight MVP today by Mamta If you know any of these folks personally, send them an email of congratulations... this is the end-product of a LOT of work for everyone...
In this Issue: Ben Hodson, Marcel du Preez, Karl Shifflett(-2-), Rishi, Chris Koenig, Adam Kinney, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeremy Likness, and CrocusGirl. Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso posted an inteview: Checkout my Interview with Bytes on MSDN (Microsoft) The Silverlight Web Services Team poses this question: How can we make WCF support in Silverlight better? ... read and give feedback in the comments. Timmy Kokke has announced the opening of a new XAML resource site to bookmark: XamlResource.com Chris Bowen...
After I blogged about Andy Wigley's port of the Perst database last night, I got email from the folks at McObject.com who are the developers of Perst. Needless to say, they are all pretty pumped about the port, and have actually rolled Andy's port into their distributed codebase, so I would think Andy and APPA Mundi are also pretty pumped. They sent me a press release that pretty much matches this page on their site. Ratting around, I found a note about writing them to ask about a commercial license...
In this Issue: Joseph Cooney, Matthias Shapiro, Ramani Sandeep, Andy Wigley(-2-), Chris Rouw, Michael Washington, Brian Noyes, Roger Peters, Sergey Barskiy, Timmy Kokke, and Phil Middlemiss. Shoutout: Koen Zwikstra announced Document Toolkit 2 Beta 2 available Rob Eisenberg announced Caliburn v1.1 Released! I missed this post by Andy Wigley of his material from TechEd: Programming Silverlight for Windows Embedded from .NET I hope you didn't miss the release of the Silverlight PivotViewer Control...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Teresa Burger, Kunal Chowdhury, Jeff Prosise, Yavor Georgiev, and Jeremy Likness. From SilverlightCream.com: RIATasks: A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example (using View Model and Rx Extensions) Michael Washington has a tutorial up on ViewModel style programming, check out Michael's code and and let him show you how to write less code using ViewModel... and grab the source while you're at it. TextBox with Strikethrough in Silverlight by modifying the TextBox template...
In this Issue: Mike Taulty, Joshua Holt, and Timmy Kokke. Shoutout: Jesse Liberty has a post up that should be required reading for anyone blogging or thinking about starting one: Creating A Silverlight Blog That Doesn’t Suck From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (4 – RIA Services Libraries) The 4th part of Mike Taulty's RIA Services series is a nice tutorial on the RIA Service Class Library... what it is, how to build one and how to use it. Debugging Silverlight with Firefox...
In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Richard Waddell Marcel du Preez, Rudi Grobler, Shawn Wildermuth, David Anson, and John Papa. Shoutout: Michael Scherotter announced Recording Available from LiveMeeting on Creating an Entry for the Ball Watch Silverlight Contest From SilverlightCream.com: INotifyPropertyChanged implementations: An Overview Emiel Jongerius has a very nice compilation of various INotifyPropertyChanged implementations, with hints and tricks about each. Physics Helper for Silverlight 4...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Brian Noyes, Michael Klucher, i-programmer, and Mike Snow. From SilverlightCream.com: Capture usage information of a Windows Phone 7 application using Google Analytics Google Analytics with WP7? ... Mark Monster leverages his experience in this area to to work out a way to get to a web page to track analytics ... pretty clever Mark, and all the code is there for us! WCF RIA Services Part 2: Querying Data Brian Noyes has part 2 of his RIA Services series up at SilverlightShow....
In this Issue: Martin Naughton(-2-), Antoni Dol, SilverLaw, Jeff Handley, Pete Brown, and Ozymandias. Shoutout: snoutholder at the Silverlight SDK announced Get Started with Silverlight (New QuickStart Articles) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Business Application Themes - ErrorWindow Issues Martin Naughton has a post up discussing Themes in RIA Services and problems with the new themes. He has those problems fixed and zipped up, plus a fix for binding to text resources and a change for the...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Anton Polimenov, Michael Washington, Phil Middlemiss, Sergey Barskiy, Damon Payne, Jeff Prosise, and Mike Snow. Shoutout: Laurent Bugnion is looking for beta testers for WP7: Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior: beta testers needed (#wp7dev)! Erik Mork and they crew have a new podcast up: This Week in Silverlight – Windows Phone 7 and Bus Tracking IdeaBlade has a video tutorial series up: The Developers Tour of DevForce Silverlight ... download the walkthrough and code...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, Victor Gaudioso, Joe Gershgorin, Nick Gravelyn, Teresa Burger, Kyle McClellan, Karl Shifflett, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutout: Check out Pete Brown's interview with Jeff Handley, Deepesh Mohnani, and Dinesh Kulkarni: Pete at Microsoft: WCF RIA Services Team Interview Andy Beaulieu has a sneak preview video up: Boss Launch 2: Zombie Attack for WP7 Matt Hidinger has a preview video up about his WP7 app as well: BusTrack Windows Phone 7 App From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Antoni Dol, Jeff Prosise, David Anson, and John Papa. Shoutouts: Rob Davis has a World Cup Football Stadium tour in Silverlight, Azure, and Bing Maps up: The World Cup Map... cruise around this... tons of features. The Silverlight Team Blog reports that NBC sports is streaming the US Open in Silverlight Adam Kinney announced Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available From SilverlightCream.com: Data Driven Applications with MVVM Part III: Validation, Bringing...
In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Emiel Jongerius, Charles Petzold, Adam Kinney, Deepesh Mohnani, Timmy Kokke, and Damon Payne. Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu reported his Coding4Fun: Shuffleboard Game for WP7 has been posted -- Big ol' Tutorial and 6 videos of WP7 goodness Karl Shifflett announced Three New WPF and Silverlight Designer Videos Posted Charles Petzold has a cool Flip-Number Clock in Silverlight posted... cool demo, and the source. From SilverlightCream.com: Data Driven Applications with MVVM...
In this Issue: Vibor Cipan, Chris Klug, Pete Brown, Kirupa, and Xianzhong Zhu. Shoutouts (thought I gave up on them, didn't you?): Jesse Liberty has the companion video to his WP7 OData post up: New Video: Master/Detail in WinPhone 7 with oData Michael Scherotter who made the first Ball Watch SL1 app back in the day, has a Virtual Event: Creating an Entry for the BALL Watch Silverlight Contest... sounds like the thing to do if you want in on this :) Even if you don't speak Portuguese, you can check...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt Zoltan Arvai, Marcel du Preez, Mark Tucker, John Papa, Phil Middlemiss, Andy Beaulieu, and Chad Campbell. From SilverlightCream.com: Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive Colin Eberhardt sent me this link to his latest at Scott Logic... about how to throttle Silverlight -- no not that, you'd have to go to one of the *other* blogs for that :) ... this is throttling the mouse, particularly the mouse wheel to keep the UI from freezing up ... check...
In this Issue: Mark Monster. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney has moved his blog, and his first post there is to announce New tutorials on .toolbox on PathListBox and Fluid UI Awesome graphics for the MEF'ed Video Player by Alan Beasley: New MEF Video Player Controls (1st Draft – Article to follow…) It must be a slow relaxing summer weekend, because I only found one post... and Mark submitted this one to me :) From SilverlightCream.com: How to improve the Windows Phone 7 Licensing development experience? Mark...
A while back I mentioned that I had a couple books on my desktop that I’ve been “shooting holes” in … in other words, reading pieces that are interesting at the time, or looking something up rather than starting at the front and heading for the back. The book I want to mention today is Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook : by Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx. As opposed to the authors of the last book I reviewed, I don’t personally know Gill or Kevin, but I’ve blogged a lot of their articles…...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Diego Poza, Viktor Larsson, Brian Noyes, Charles Petzold, Laurent Bugnion, Anjaiah Keesari, David Anson, and Jeremy Likness. From SilverlightCream.com: My MEF Rant Read Michael Washington's discussion about MEF from someone that's got some experience, but not enough to remember the pain points... how it works, and what he'd like to see. Prism 4: What’s new and what’s next Diego Poza Why Office Hub is important for WP7 Viktor Larsson has another WP7 post up and he's...
In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Nokola, Christian Schormann, Tim Heuer, David Poll, Mike Snow(-2-), John Papa, and Charles Petzold. Shoutout: Viktor Larsson has a frank look at WP7 based on information from MIX10 and what was said this week in his post: Licking Windows Phone 7... yeah licking, not liking :) .. my guess is even that didn't allow him to keep it! If you haven't already noticed, the CodeProject reader's choice awards are out this week and Telerik won for their RadColorPicker and RadCalendar...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Emiel Jongerius, Anton Polimenov, Andrew Veresov, SilverLaw, RoboBlob, Brandon Watson, and Charlie Kindel. From SilverlightCream.com: Implementing network protocol easily with a generic SocketClient Andrea Boschin has a post up at SilverlightShow about the SocketClient class and how to use it to implement a POP3 client ... source project included Passing parameters to a Silverlight XAP application Emiel Jongerius describes the two ways to pass parameters to your Silverlight...
In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov, Chris Klug, Beau, Christian Schormann(-2-), Dan Wahlin, Pete Brown, Michael S. Scherotter, Philipp Sumi, Andy Wigley, and Phil Middlemiss. Shoutouts: Mark Tucker set about learning Caliburn, and in the process is writing a Caliburn Book: Chapters 1-3 Jesse Liberty has a great link-laden post up about why we should all be learning/using Blend: Why Developers Should, Must, Do Care About The New Expression Blend be sure to read what he says about WP7 development,...
In this Issue: Brian Genisio, Michael Washington, Fons Sonnemans , Don Burnett, Xianzhong Zhu, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Victor Gaudioso, David Kelley(-2-), and Matias Bonaventura . Shoutout: Anoop has a good post up: MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework and Lazy – Being Lazy with MEF, Custom Export Attributes etc Jesse Liberty's got a good post up if you are just Getting Started With Silverlight: A Path Through The Learning Material John Papa reports Updates and New Home for Sticky Plugin Tim...
In this Issue: Ben Hodson, Fons Sonnemans, SilverLaw, Mike Snow, John Papa, René Schulte, Walt Ritscher, and David Anson. Shoutouts: René Schulte announced a whole batch of new features for WriteableBitmap that are now available: Filled To The Bursting Point - WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.5.0 Check out John Papa's Sticky Seesmic Desktop Plugin ... download it, play with it... he's going to blog about building plugins later Tim Heuer reported a Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010 Erik Mork and Crew have...
Yes it really is the first Wednesday of the month! and Yes, we are having our normally scheduled meeting tonight. Everyone should be back from any Memorial Day festivities, dragging your collective drawers at work and looking for somethign interesting. Voila!... the Silverlight User Group meeting from 6PM to 8PM at Interface Technical Training (NW corner of Central & Thomas) -- check PhoenixSilverlight.net for a map. Come out for Pizza and networking at 6 then hang around because Les Brown of...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Alan Beasley and Michael Washington, Miroslav Miroslavov, Max Paulousky, Teresa and Ronald Burger, Laurent Duveau, Tim Heuer, Jeff Brand, Mike Snow, and John Papa. Shoutouts: To pay homage to the Advanced Options button in Expression Blend, Adam Kinney posted: Expression Blend Advanced Options square wallpaper SilverLaw stood his drag and drop ripple on it's head for this one: Silver Soccer - A Case Study for the Flexible Surface Effect (Silverlight 4) From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Matthias Shapiro, Colin Blair(-2-), Mike Snow, Marlon Grech, Victor Gaudioso. Shoutout: If you're going to be anywhere near Mission Viejo, California on June 19th, set your calendar for this Victor Gaudioso event: New Speaking Event: Microsoft Book Signing/Silverlight 4 Presentation SilverLaw has another example of his Flexible surface app up: Drag & Drop Flexible Surface - Silverlight 4 From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4 Binding and StringFormat in XAML Matthias Shapiro...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Chris Koenig, Kunal Chowdhury, SilverLaw, Shayne Burgess, Ian T. Lackey, Alan Beasley, Marlon Grech. Shoutouts: Ozymandias has a post up that's not Silverlight necessarily, but it's pretty cool: Typeface Selection Flowchart Damian Schenkelman posted about the latest: Prism 2.2 Release available. Get it at Codeplex. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions Michael Washington continues with this OData and Rx post using the View Model...
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Max Paulousky, Jeff Wilcox, David Anson, René Schulte, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeff Handley, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, and Marlon Grech. Shoutouts: SilverLaw has a great demo at the Expression Gallery, and we're all going to look forward to the blog post explaining it: Flexible Surface Effect SilverLaw> has another use for the above in this text morphing Effect: Morphing Text Effect Matthias Shapiro contributed a chapter for a book on Visualization and it's available as...
In this Issue: Kirupa, Matthias Shapiro(-2-, -3-), Giorgetti Alessandro, Kunal Chowdhury, Mike Snow, and Jason Zander. Shoutout: This looks like a really nice WP7 app done by a team of folks for Imagine Cup 2010: Ahead ... I hope to see some blog posts and code on this! From SilverlightCream.com, and remember you can send me a link to your post or submit at SilverlightCream.com: Control Storyboards Easily using Behaviors Kirupa is following through on a promise to discuss the Behaviors that come...
I had reason to meet up with someone I don't see very often a bit ago. In the course of the conversation, he told me he bought an iPad. I don't know if I was expected to ooh and ahh, but I didn't. After he finished saying how cool it was and how much he and his wife liked it, I commented "no Flash and no Silverlight" after which followed this: Him: "You don't need it, HTML5 can do everything Flash and Silverlight does" Me: "Wait... you're telling me that the iPad converts existing Flash content into...
In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov, Victor Gaudioso, Phil Middlemiss, Jonathan van de Veen, Lee, and Domagoj Pavlešic. From SilverlightCream.com: Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader On the new CompleteIT site, did you know the page-folding was done using PixelShaders? I hadn't put much thought into it, but that's pretty cool, and Miroslav Miroslavov has a blog post up discussing it, and the code behind it. New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to create a Slider with a ToolTip that shows the Value...
In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso, Weidong Shen, SilverLaw, Alnur Ismail, Damon Payne, and Karl Erickson. Shoutout: Tim Greenfield posted his slides and materials (not the padlock yet) from Portland Code Camp: Rx for Silverlight at Portland CodeCamp András Velvárt posted his material from his User Group talk: 20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file From SilverlightCream.com: New Silverilght Video Tutotial: How to Build Your Very Own Tutorial Cam Do you like the video Victor Gaudioso has of himself in...
A while back I mentioned that I had a couple books on my desktop that I’ve been “shooting holes” in … in other words, reading pieces that are interesting at the time, or looking something up rather than starting at the front and heading for the back. The book I want to mention today is Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook : by Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx. As opposed to the authors of the last book I reviewed, I don’t personally know Gill or Kevin, but I’ve blogged a lot of their articles…...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Xianzhong Zhu, Jim Lynn, Laurent Bugnion, and Kyle McClellan. A ton of Shoutouts this time: Cigdem Patlak (CrocusGirl) is interviewed about Silverlight 4 on Channel 9: Silverlight discussion with Cigdem Patlak Timmy Kokke has material up from a presentation he did, and check out the SilverAmp project he's got going: Code & Slides – SDE – What’s new in Silverlight 4 Graham Odds at ScottLogic has an interesting post up: Contextual cues in user interface design...
In this Issue: Mike Snow, Victor Gaudioso, Ola Karlsson, Josh Twist(-2-), Yavor Georgiev, Jeff Wilcox, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: Frank LaVigne has an interesting observation on his site: The Big Take-Away from MIX10 Rishi has updated all his work including a release of nRoute to the latest bits: nRoute Samples Revisited Looks like I posted one of Erik Mork's links two days in a row :) ... that's because I meant to post this one: Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform Just in case...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Mike Snow(-2-), Justin Angel(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and David Kelley. Shoutout: Erik Mork and crew have their latest up: Silverlight Week – Silverlight Android? From SilverlightCream.com: Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions Michael Washington has a follow-on tutorial up on ViewModel, Rx, and lashed up to OData... good detailed tutorial with external links for more information. Silverlight Tip of the Day #21 – Animation Easing Mike Snow has...
In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Chris Koenig, Kyle McClellan, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Tim Heuer, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: René Schulte has posted a SLARToolkit Beginner's Guide Erik Mork and the Sparkling Podcast crew posted Silverlight Week – Silverlight Android? John Papa opens up a dialog: Ask the Experts on Silverlight TV ... get your questions answered! From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Programmers Jesse Liberty's starting a series on WP7, so you obviously don't...
In this Issue: Christian Schormann, Vladimir Bodurov, Pete Brown, Justin Angel, John Papa(-2-), Fons Sonnemans, Miroslav Miroslavov, and Jeremy Likness. Shoutouts: Jeff Brand has been doing WP7 presentations and posted Windows Phone 7 Presentation and Sample Code Mark Tucker posted about his Windows Phone 7 Presentation at Desert Code Camp 2010 John Allwright discusses 4 New case Studies on Silverlight at the Winter Olympics From SilverlightCream.com: New Video by Jon Harris: Blend 4 for Windows...
Happy 3rd Birthday! Yesterday (May 16) was the 'Birthday' of SilverlightCream, which started just after MIX in 2007 with a post "Interesting Silverlight posts today: Silverlight Control & Silverlight Pad". Too many good posts flying around led me to want to archive them, particularly since I was being aggregated at a new site Silverlight.net, and I could give some of that 'reach' to the community. Saturday's post was number 862, and as of that post, there were 5697 blog posts archived in the...
In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso, Antoni Dol(-2-), Brian Genisio, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Snow, Phil Middlemiss, Pete Brown, Kirupa, Dan Wahlin, Glenn Block, Jeff Prosise, Anoop Madhusudanan, and Adam Kinney. Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso would like you to Checkout my Interview with Microsoft’s Murray Gordon at MIX 10 Pete Brown announced: Connected Show Podcast #29 With … Me! From SilverlightCream.com: New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Create Fast Forward for the MediaElement Victor Gaudioso's latest...
In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Jeff Prosise, DaveDev, Joe Zhou, Chris Eargle, John Papa(-2-, -3-), and David Anson(-2-). Shoutouts: In with the links I've listed below, Sigurd Snørteland also sent a link to this app he's working on which is actually pretty cool to see: ZuneLight. The code is not yet available. He also has a no-code demo of a Silverlight Media Center Pieter Voloshyn, Luiz Thadeu, and Jhun Iti have a very nice Silverlight image editor up: Thumba From SilverlightCream.com: WP7 -...
In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov(-2-), Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), Paul Sheriff, Fadi Abdelqader, Jeremy Likness, Marlon Grech, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu has a cool WP7 game up and is looking for opinions/comments: Droppy Pop: A Windows Phone 7 Game Karl Shifflett has code and video tutorials up for the app he wrote for the WPF LOB tour he just did: Stuff – WPF Line of Business Using MVVM Video Tutorial From SilverlightCream.com: Flipping panels I had missed this 3rd part of the CompleteIT...
In this All Submittal Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Ken Johnson, Alan Beasley, Pencho Popadiyn, Phil Middlemiss, Khawar(-2-), Levente Mihály, Alex van Beek, Bart Czernicki, Michael Washington, and Mark Monster. Shoutout: Not Silverlight necessarily, but definitely VS2010, read what Brett Balmer has to say In Defense of Portrait Mode From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight MultiBinding solution for Silverlight 4 Colin Eberhardt updated his Silverlight Multibinding solution to Silverlight 4. Great article...
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Jaime Rodriguez, Senthil Kumar, Mike Snow, DaveDev, Gergely Orosz, Kirupa, Cheryl Simmons, András Velvárt, Dan Wahlin, Michael D. Brown, and Ben Rush. Shoutouts: Erik Mork and crew have their latest up: This Week In Silverlight – Where’s the Tablet? Chris Rouw has a good link post and instructions on WCF RIA services: Deploying and Configuring Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services From SilverlightCream.com: Quick and Easy Sscalable Rounded Bevels Phil Middlemiss duplicates...
In this Issue: Alan Beasley, Josh Twist, Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), John Papa(-2-), David Kelley, and David Anson(-2-). Shoutout: John Papa posted a question: Do You Want be on Silverlight TV? From SilverlightCream.com: ListBox Styling (Part 3 - Additional Templates) in Expression Blend & Silverlight Alan Beasley has part 3 of his ListBox styling tutorial in Expression Blend up... another great tutorial and all the code. Securing Your Silverlight Applications Josh Twist has a nice long post up on Securing...
In this Issue: Jeremy Alles(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury, anand iyer, Yochay Kiriaty(-2-, -3-), Max Paulousky, David Kelley, smartyP, Tim Heuer, and Dan Wahlin. Shoutout: Tim Heuer provides links for all the Ways to give feedback on Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: [WP7] Bug when using NavigationService in Windows Phone 7 Jeremy Alles has blogged about a bug he found using the Navigation service in WP7. He gives the steps to reproduce and a couple possible workarounds. [WP7] Using the camera in the...
In this Issue: John Papa, Adam Kinney, Mike Taulty, Kirupa, Gunnar Peipman, Mike Snow(-2-, -3-), Jesse Liberty, and Lee. Shoutout: Jeff Wilcox announced Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New version in the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight TV 23: MVP Q&A with WWW (Wildermuth, Wahlin and Ward) John Papa has Silverlight 23 up which is a panel discussion between Shawn Wildermuth, Dan Wahlin, Ward Bell and John... wow... what a crew! Design-time Resources in Expression...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jason Young(-2-, -3-), Phil Middlemiss, Jeremy Likness, Victor Gaudioso, Kunal Chowdhury, Antoni Dol, and Jacek Ciereszko(-2-). Shoutout: Victor Gaudioso has aggregated All of My Silverlight Video Tutorials in One Place (revised again 05.02.10) From SilverlightCream.com: Unit Testing A Silverlight 'Simplified MVVM' Modal Popup Michael Washington's latest 'Simplified MVVM' post is published at The Code Project and is on Unit Testing with MVVM. Input Localization...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Rob Eisenberg, Sergey Barskiy, Victor Gaudioso, CorrinaB, Mike Snow, and Adam Kinney. From SilverlightCream.com: Prism’s future: Trying to summarize things Damian Schenkelman collected links to the latest Prism information to provide a reference post, including discussing WP7. MVVM Study - Interlude Rob Eisenberg discusses MVVM - it's beginnings and links out to all the major players old and new. Windows Phone 7 Database Here we go... Sergey Barskiy converted his...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tim Greenfield, Jaime Rodriguez, and The WP7 Team. Shoutouts: Mike Taulty has a pretty complete set of links up for information about VS2010, Silverlight, Blend, Phone 7 Upgrade Christian Schormann announced Blend for Windows Phone: Update Available, and has other links up as well. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Simplified MVVM Modal Popup Michael Washington is demonstrating a modal popup in MVVM and also shows the implementation of a value converter XPath...
In this Issue: Carlos Figueira(-2-), Subodh Pushpak, Gergely Orosz, John Papa, Mike Snow(-2-), Rishi, Tim Heuer, Stefan Olson, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Josh Holmes blogged about a cool app the City of Miami has up: Miami 311: Built on Windows Azure Gergely Orosz reports on the state of a bug he found pre SL4: Silverlight 4 still displays large elements incorrectly Laura Foy and Charlie Kindel discuss WP7 on Channel 9: Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Refresh Announced Charlie Kindel has an announcement,...
In this Issue: Giorgetti Alessandro, Alexander Strauss, Mahesh Sabnis, Andrea Boschin, Maxim Goldin, Peter Torr, Wolf Schmidt, and Marlon Grech. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra announced a SL4 update: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.11 Adam Kinney posted a WTF Step by Step guide to installing Silverlight Tools David Makogon posted his materials from a presentation: RockNUG April 2010 Materials: Silverlight 4 From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 4 Giorgetti Alessandro isn't wasting any...
In this Issue: Mike Snow, Kunal Chowdhury, Giorgetti Alessandro, Alexander Strauss, Corey Schuman, Kirupa, John Papa, Miro Miroslavov, Michael Washington, and Jeremy Likness. Shoutouts: Erik Mork and crew have posted their latest This Week In Silverlight April 23 2010 The Silverlight Team announced Microsoft releases Silverlight-powered Windows Intune beta Jesse Liberty has posted his UK and Ireland Slides and Links The Expression Blend and Design Blog reports a Minor Update to The Expression Blend...
In this Issue: Viktor Larsson, Mike Snow(-2-), Jeff Brand, Marlon Grech(-2-, -3-), Jonathan van de Veen, Phil Middlemiss. Shoutout: Justin Angel wants everyone to know he is Joining the Vertigo Team!... congratulations, Justin! From SilverlightCream.com: Learning Silverlight – Advanced Color Animations Viktor Larsson is demonstrating small pieces of Silverlight he's picked upon in the course of his work project. This first one is on ColorAnimations using KeyFrames Silverlight Tip of the Day #4 –...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, David Poll, Andrea Boschin, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Lee, and Chad Campbell. Shoutout: Not at all Silverlight, but Kirupa has a great article up about Elastic Collisions From SilverlightCream.com: Easily decouple your MVVM ViewModel from your Model using RX Extensions Michael Washington continues with his Simplified MVVM and uses Rx to allow him to put web service methods in the model and call them from the ViewModel. A “refreshing” Authentication/Authorization experience...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Timmy Kokke, Pete Brown, Paul Yanez, Emil Stoychev, Jeremy Likness, and Pavan Podila. Shoutouts: If you've got some time to spend, the User Experience Kit is packed with info: User Experience Kit, and just plain fun to navigate ... thanks Scott Barnes for reminding me about it! Jesse Liberty is looking for some help organizing and cataloging posts for a new project he's got going: Help Wanted Emil Stoychev posted Slides and demos from my talk on Silverlight 4 From...
In this Issue: Jason Allor, Bill Reiss, Mike Snow, Tim Heuer, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, and Dave Campbell. Shoutouts: You saw it at MIX10 and DevConnections... now you can give it a dance, John Papa announced eBay Simple Lister Beta Now Available Mike Snow posted some info about and a link to his new Flickr/Bing/Google High End Image Viewer and he's looking for feedback From SilverlightCream.com: Hierarchical Data Trees With A Custom DataSource Jason Allor is rounding out a series here in his new...
In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov, David Anson, Mike Snow, Jason Alderman, Denis Gladkikh, John Papa, Adam Kinney, and CrocusGirl. Shoutout: Mike Snow is moving his blog to Silverlight Tips of The Day... his first is a repeat of number 110 of the last list, but you'll want to bookmark the page. Falling in the 'too cool not to mention' category... Pete Brown posted another MIX10 interview: New Channel 9 Video: Josh Blake on NaturalShow Multi-touch in WPF Adam Kinney announced that the Upgrade to...
In this Issue: Alan Beasley, Roboblob, SilverLaw, Mike Snow, and Chris Koenig. Shoutouts: Ozymandias has a discussion up: The Three Pillars of Xbox Live on Windows Phone John Papa announced that Silverlight 4 is now on WebPI: Get Silverlight 4 – Simplified! Dan Wahlin posted the code and material from DevConnections: Code from my DevConnections Talks and Workshop Tim Heuer has a good deal posted from GoDaddy: Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Svetla Stoycheva, Alexey Zakharov, Chris Rouw, David Anson(-2-), Bill Reiss, John Papa and Adam Kinney, Chris Klug, CorrinaB, and Mike Snow. Shoutouts: Pete Brown interviewed David Kelley at MIX10: Pete at MIX10: David Kelley on the Prototype WPF and Silverlight Retail Experience Pete Brown also interviewed Emil Stoychev at MIX10: Pete at MIX10: Emil Stoychev on the CompletIT Silverlight Site SilverlightShow has a MIX10 Review by SilverlightShow Live Reporter Cigdem Patlak...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jeremy Likness, Giorgetti Alessandro, Antoni Dol, Mike Taulty, and Braulio Diez. Shoutout: Bart Czernicki lists compelling reasons to use Silverlight 4 for LOB apps: Silverlight 4 - What is New for Business Intelligence Scenarios From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Advanced MVVM Video Player After the initial posting on his Simple MVVM Video player, Michael Washington got some feedback and decided to do a part 2 demonstrating exactly how easy it is to customize...
In this Issue: CrocusGirl, Giorgetti Alessandro(-2-), smartyP, Pete Brown, David Poll, David Anson, and Bill Reiss. Shoutouts: Yasser Makram has a post up discussing Human Centered ALM with Telerik TeamPulse and Team Foundation Server. I saw this demo'd at DevConnnections and it definitely deserves a look. Shawn Wildermuth posted his materials from DevConnections all on one post: Back from DevConnections with SourceCode Shawn Wildermuth also posted an Updated RIA Services + MVVM Example Laurent Bugnion...
In this Issue: ITLackey, SilverLaw, Max Paulousky, Alex Yakhnin, Paul Sheriff, Douglas, Jeremy Likness, Tomasz Janczuk, Anoop Madhusudanan, Adam Kinney, and Ashish Shetty. Shoutout: If you haven't already seen it, CrocusGirl did a great job of summarizing Day 2 of DevConnections with her Silverlight 4 Launch Notes From SilverlightCream.com: RIA Services - IIS6 Virtual Directory Deployment ITLackey has a post up building on his previous post on Windows Authentication with RIA Services and discusses...
In this Issue: Alan Beasley(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), Brian, Rishi, Pete Brown, Yavor Georgiev, and David Anson. Shoutouts: As usual, Tim Heuer has all the scoop on all the hot-off-the-presses releases: Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement. He covers all the main parts of interest. Tim Heuer also discusses Backward Compatibility with Silverlight 4 applications And before you ask, Tim Heuer announced the Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 release If you're having...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Joe McBride, Kirupa, Maurice de Beijer, Brad Abrams, Phil Middlemiss, and CorrinaB. Shoutout: Charlie Kindel has a post up about the incompatibility between VS2010RTM and what we currently have for WP7: Visual Studio 2010 RTM and the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP and if you want to be notified when that changes, submit your email here. Erik Mork and Co. have their latest This Week in Silverlight 4.9.2010 posted. From SilverlightCream.com: Simplified MVVM: Silverlight...
In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Roboblob, Laurent Bugnion, Timmy Kokke, Michael Sync(-2-), Victor Gaudioso, and Bill Reiss. Brought to you from a tiny table in my no-tell-motelTM in 'Vegas AKA "cheaper than anywhere else" and the WiFi is free and smokin'... From SilverlightCream.com: Sync your Silverlight out-of-browser application data without service but with Dropbox Rénald Nollet is in good company (Walt Ritscher) because he's demo'ing synching OOB apps with dropbox. Unit Testable WCF Web Services...
I'm going to be in 'Vegas for the Launch on Monday, I'm not sure what time I'm getting in on Sunday, but I'm staying over Monday night as well, so if you're going to be around in that time-frame, send me an email! Bummer to not be there for Silverlight on Tuesday, but hey... watching Scott Guthrie is always worth the drive :)...
In this Issue: Tim Heuer, smartyP, and Kevin Moore. From SilverlightCream.com: Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications Tim Heuer has a post up using XNA on WP7 to hook up sound to a 'normal' Silverlight WP7 app... so there ya go! Example Pivot Control for Windows Phone 7 smartyP acknowledges that he said he was done with the Pivot control for WP7 and yes he realizes we're most likely going to get one from Microsoft, but just like the rest of us, he just couldn't leave...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Phil Middlemiss, Yochay Kiriaty, Giorgetti Alessandro, Mike Snow, John Papa, SilverLaw, smartyP, and Pete Brown. Shoutouts: Steve Wortham sent me a link to his RegEx tool that is written in Silverlight... definitely worth a look: Introducing Code Hinting for Regular Expressions Joshua Blake posted his MIX10 materials: MIX10 NUI session sample code From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight MVVM: An (Overly) Simplified Explanation Michael Washington has a tutorial up...
Last night's Silverlight User Group meeting in Phoenix went really well. We had about 15 in attendance, and everyone seemed engaged with Joel Neubeck's great Windows Phone 7 presentation. When it was over, we gave away a couple copies of Windows 7 Ultimate, one copy of the Expression Suite, an Arc Mouse, a web cam, a bunch of books, other assorted software and some TShirts. All-in-all I think it was a good time had by all. Thanks to Joel Neubeck for the time and presentation and to Joe's mom for...
In this Issue: Alan Mendelevich, Siyamand Ayubi, Rudi Grobler(-2-), Josh Smith, VinitYadav, and Dave Campbell. Shoutouts: Jordan Knight has a demo up of a project he did for DigiGirlz: DigiGirlz, Deep Zoom and Azure, hopefully we'll get source later :) Jeremy Likness has a must-read post on his Ten Reasons to use the Managed Extensibility Framework I put this on another post earlier, but if you want some desktop bling for WP7, Ozymandias has some: I Love Windows Phone Wallpaper If you're not going...
In an industry segment that nobody is ever 'asleep', I suppose no time is a good time to take SQL Server down for upgrades, and I had forgotten that my host was going to be doing that. Last night about 9pm (Arizona), in the middle of working on a blog post, things started going wonky and I finally realized everything was ok except for SQL Server. I turned in a ticket on it and was reminded about the maintenance schedule... guess I file those away in memory and just assume they'll happen while I'm...
In this Issue: Alex van Beek, Gill Cleeren, SilverlightShow, Michael Sync, Rénald Nollet, Charles Petzold, The-Oliver, and Max Paulousky. Shoutouts: Denislav Savkov of SilverlightShow ported his Slider control to WP7: Windows Phone 7 Series Sample Image Viewer SilverlightShow interview: The Silverlight Tour - what, where and why. Interview with one of the Tour organizers Laurent Duveau From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4: using the VisualStateManager for state animations with MVVM Alex van Beek...
In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Davide Zordan(-2-, -3-), Scott Barnes, Kirupa, Christian Schormann, Tim Heuer, Yavor Georgiev, and Bea Stollnitz. Shoutouts: Yavor Georgiev posted the material for his MIX 2010 talk: what’s new in WCF in Silverlight 4 Erik Mork and crew posted their This Week in Silverlight 4.1.2010 Tim Huckaby and MSDN Bytes interviewed Erik Mork: Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview From SilverlightCream.com: Home Loan Application for Windows Phone Rénald Nollet has a...
The next regularly-scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group is Wednesday April 7. We meet at Interface Technical Training at roughly Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix beginning with pizza and socializing at 6PM meeting after and running until 8PM. This month Joel Neubeck will be presenting on Windows Phone 7 development, and yes -- had you heard that they dropped the word 'Series' from the end?? Get another great presentation from someone actually using Silverlight during the...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Hassan, David Anson, Jeff Wilcox, UK Application Development Consulting, Davide Zordan, Victor Gaudioso, Anoop Madhusudanan, Phil Middlemiss, and Laurent Bugnion. Shoutouts: Josh Smith has a good-read post up: Design-time data is still data Shawn Hargreaves reported his MIX demo released From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight MVVM: Enabling Design-Time Data in Expression Blend When Using Web Services Michael Washington has a tutorial up on MVVM and using a web service...
In this Issue: Scott Marlowe, Nokola, SilverLaw, Brad Abrams, Jeff Wilcox, Jesse Liberty, Alexey Zakharov, ondrejsv, Ward Bell, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Bart Czernicki has a post up about the latest with HTML5: HTML 5 is Born Old - Quake in HTML 5 I was sent a link to shoebox360 a while back and had to sign up to see the Silverlight use, but it does work very nice. I like the panoramic carousel in the viewer: shoebox360 Jeff Handley has a post up on RIA Services - Documentation Guidance and Community...
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Robert Kozak, Kathleen Dollard, Avi Pilosof, Nokola, Jeff Wilcox, David Anson, Timmy Kokke, Tim Greenfield, and Josh Smith. Shoutout: SmartyP has additional info up on his WP7 Pivot app: Preview of My Current Windows Phone 7 Pivot Work From SilverlightCream.com: A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part I Phil Middlemiss is starting a tutorial series on building a new theme for Silverlight, in this first one we define some gradients and color resources... good stuff Phil Intercepting...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Hassan, Viktor Larsson, Fons Sonnemans, Jim McCurdy, Scott Marlowe, Mike Taulty, Brad Abrams, Jesse Liberty, Scott Barnes, Christopher Bennage, and John Papa and Ward Bell. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer posted a survey: What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight?... have you responded yet? Don't want to miss this discussion: Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer - Perspectives on Design Bookmark this... Jesse Liberty has moved his site: Silverlight...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Radenko Zec, Andrej Tozon, Bobby Diaz, Brad Abrams, Wolf Schmidt, Colin Eberhardt, Anand Iyer, Matthias Shapiro, Jaime Rodriguez, Bill Reiss, and Lee. Shoutouts: Cigdem has a post up about here MIX10 Interviewing experiences: MIX10 SilverlightShow Interviews Ian T. Lackey has his material up from his talk Silverlight SEO at the St. Louis .Net Users Group Not Silverlight but definitely WP7 cool, Michael Klucher reports that there are New Windows Phone Samples on Creators...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Tim Greenfield, Tim Heuer, ondrejsv, XAML Ninja, Nikhil Kothari, Sergey Barskiy, Shawn Oster, smartyP, Christian Schormann(-2-), and John Papa And Glenn Block. Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso produced a RefCard for DZone: Getting Started with Silverlight and Expression Blend Way to go Victor... it looks great! Gavin Wignall announced Metia launch FourSquare and Bing maps mash up – called Near.me Cheryl Simmons talks about VS2010 and the design surface: Changing Templates...
In this Issue: smartyP(-2-), Al Pascual, Mike Taulty, Shawn Burke(-2-), Vikram Pendse, Tomasz Janczuk, Lee, and Alexey Zakharov. Shoutouts: Jeff Weber announced New Silverlight Game “Snow Spill” by Nick Avery of Liserd Arts Games John Papa summarized links to all the Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Sessions from MIX 10 Tim Heuer has a post up about OData and the MIX10 feed: MIX10: Yet another way to view video content sessions using their OData feed From SilverlightCream.com: Creating a Windows Phone...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andy Beaulieu, Bill Reiss, jocelyn, Shawn Wildermuth, Cameron Albert, Shawn Oster, Alex Yakhnin, ondrejsv, Giorgetti Alessandro, Jeff Handley, SilverLaw, deepm, and Kyle McClellan. Shoutouts: If I've listed this before, it's worth another... Introduction to Prototyping with SketchFlow (twelve video series) and on the same page is Creating a Beehive Game with Behaviors in Blend 3 (ten video series) Shawn Oster announced his Slides + Code + Video from ‘An Introduction...
In this Issue: MSDN, Bill Reiss, Charlie Kindel(-2-), SilverLaw, Scott Marlowe, Kenny Young, Andrea Boschin, Mike Taulty, Damon Payne, and Jeff Handley(-2-). Shoutouts: Scott Morrison has his material up for his talk at MIX 10: Silverlight 4 Business Applications Matthias Shapiro posted his MIX10 “Information Visualization in Silverlight” Slides and Code for MIX10 Information Visualization Talk Demos Dan Wahlin has his MIX10 material all posted as well: Syncing Audio, Video and Animations in Silverlight...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Christian Schormann, John Papa, Phani Raj, David Anson(-2-, -3-), Brad Abrams(-2-), and Jeff Wilcox(-2-, -3-). Shoutouts: Jeff Wilcox posted his material from mix and some preview TestFramework bits: Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now online At MIX10, Jeff Wilcox demo'd an app called "Peppermint"... here's the bleeding edge demo: “Peppermint” MIX demo sources Erik Mork and Co. have put out their weekly This Week In Silverlight 3.25.2010...
In this Issue: René Schulte, Jeremy Likness, Hassan, Victor Gaudioso, SilverLaw, Mike Taulty, Phani Raj, Tim Heuer, Christian Schormann, Brad Abrams, David Anson, Diptimaya Patra, and Daniel Vaughan. Shoutouts: Last week, Koen Zwikstra announced Silverlight Spy at MIX10 Anand Iyer announced this for students on the Windows Team Blog: Be a Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” Justin Angel blogged that Silverlight Isn't Fully Cross-Platform ... let him know if you think it's a yawn or important. On behalf of...
In this Issue: Nokola, Tim Heuer, Christian Schormann, Brad Abrams, David Kelley, Phil Middlemiss, Michael Klucher, Brandon Watson, Kunal Chowdhury, Jacek Ciereszko, and Unni. Shoutouts: Michael Klucher has a short post up For Love of the Game (Development)…, where he's looking for some input from the developer community. Shawn Hargreaves has a link post up of all the Windows Phone MIX10 presentations Chris Cavanagh has a Soft-Body Physics for Windows Phone 7 post up that goes along with one he did...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Jeremy Likness, Mark Tucker, Christian Schormann, Page Brooks, Brad Abrams(-2-), Jeff Wilcox, Unnir, Bea Stollnitz, John Papa and Adam Kinney, and Bill Reiss(-2-). Shoutouts: Ashish Shetty posted his material from his MIX10 presentation: Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4 Not Silverlight, but dang useful, Karl Shifflett posted a Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension Yavor Georgiev posted his MIX10 material: Two samples from today's...
In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Tim Greenfield, Andrea Boschin(-2-), AfricanGeek, Fredrik Normén, Ian Griffiths, Christian Schormann, Pete Brown, Jeff Handley, Brad Abrams, and Tim Heuer. Shoutout: At the beginning of MIX10, Brad Abrams reported Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW From SilverlightCream.com: Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7 Bart Czernicki has a very cool BingMaps and WP7 tutorial up... you're going to want to bookmark this one...
With a big dose of reality, I walked into this place this morning and found out "yeah, I really do write .NET web apps and MS Access for a living" :( ... but it pays the bills and I've gotten *way* used to eating 3 times a day :) MIX10 was great, although the buzz didn't seem as big as MIX09, and I'm not sure why. It also seemed like a different crowd and other folks I talked to agreed with that. Of course now I can outwardly admit that the "Windows Phone 7 Series" is programmed with Silverlight...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, John Papa(-2-, -3-, -4-), Jonas Follesø, David Anson, Scott Guthrie, Andrej Tozon, Bill Reiss(-2-), Pete Blois, and Lee. Shoutouts: Frank LaVigne has a Mix10 Session Downloader for us all to use... thanks Frank! Read what Ward Bell has to say about MVVM, Josh Smith’s Way ... it's all good. Robby Ingebretsen posts on his 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight Mike Harsh posted Slides and Demos from my MIX10 Session . The download link at...
In this Issue: Andy Beaulieu(-2-, -3-), Alex Golesh, Damian Schenkelman, Adam Kinney(-2-), Jeremy Likness, Laurent Bugnion, and John Papa. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney has a good summary up of where to go for all the tools and toys: Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone Developer tools from MIX10 ... tons of links Laurent Bugnion had a few announcements at MIX10: MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10, and he followed that with What’s new in MVVM Light V3 ... now for Windows...
In this Issue: Tim Heuer(-2-), René Schulte(-2-), Bart Czernicki, Mark Monster, Pencho Popadiyn, Alex Golesh, Phil Middlemiss, and Yochay Kiriaty. Shoutouts: Check out the new themes, and Tim Heuer's poetry skills: SNEAK PEEK: New Silverlight application themes I learned to program Windows 3.1 from reading Charles Petzold's book, and here we are again: Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series (DRAFT Preview) Here's a blog you're going to want to watch, and first up on the blog tonight is links...
In this Issue: András Velvárt, Bobby Diaz, John Papa/Laurent Bugnion, Jesse Liberty, Christopher Bennage, Tim Greenfield, and Cameron Albert. Shoutouts: Svetla Stoycheva of SilverlightShow has an Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest Grand Prize Winner Daniel James Svetla Stoycheva of SilverlightShow also has an Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest Community Vote Winner Cigdem Patlak File this under #DoesHeEverSleep, Nokola has an EasyPainter Source Pack 1 Refresh And another filing in...
Well it's the Friday before MIX10, and I'm officially of no use to anybody. I'll be driving up to 'Vegas Sunday ... hopefully rolling in mid-late afternoon, checking in at my $31.50/night (including WiFi) Motel, and getting registered then hanging out around registration to see who is there. First organized thing to do is 9PM, so I'm open to suggestions Sunday evening... maybe we can get a gang together for dinner ?? Monday is the Keynote ... I'm addicted to the buzz in the ballroom the first day,...
In this Issue: Walter Ferrari, Viktor Larsson, Bill Reiss(-2-, -3-, -4-), Jonathan van de Veen, Walt Ritscher, Jobi Joy, Pete Brown, Mike Taulty, and Mark Miller. Shoutouts: Going to MIX10? John Papa announced Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 Pete Brown listed The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox From SilverlightCream.com: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 2 In this second and final tutorial, Walter Ferrari adds elevation...
In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Phil Middlemiss, Damon Payne, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Jobi Joy(-2-), Fredrik Normén, Bobby Diaz, and Mike Taulty(-2-). Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth blogged that they posted My "What's New in Silverlight 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall Shawn Wildermuth also has a post up for his loyal followers: Where to See Me At MIX10 Jonas Follesø has presentation materials up as well: MVVM presentation from NDC2009 on Vimeo Adam Kinney updated his Favorite Tool and...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andrew Veresov, Nokola, SilverLaw, Gill Cleeren, Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness, Viktor Larsson(-2-), and Walter Ferrari. Shoutouts: Viktor Larsson has a post up about Silverlight Market Penetration ... hope to meet you at MIX10, Viktor! Gergely Orosz has posted the Slides and code for the presentation “An Introduction to Silverlight” It appears that if I miss a day, I can pretty much do an all-submittal post :) From SilverlightCream.com: Writing...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tim Greenfield, Bobby Diaz(-2-), Glenn Block(-2-), Nikhil Kothari, Jianqiang Bao(-2-), and Christopher Bennage. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney announced a Big update for the Project Rosetta site today Arpit Gupta has opened a new blog with a great logo: I think therefore I am dangerous :) From SilverlightCream.com: DotNetNuke Silverlight Traffic Module If it's DNN and Silverlight, it has to be my buddy Michael Washington :) ... Michael has combined those stunning gauges...
In this Issue: András Velvárt, felix corke, Colin Eberhardt, Christopher Bennage, Gergely Orosz, Entity Spaces Team Blog, Mike Taulty(-2-), Jit Ghosh, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: Jeremy Likness expands on the Silverlight Team's post Vancouver Olympics - How'd We Do That? Gavin Wignall has a post up Creating a 360 photograph of an object with Silverlight Photosynth From SilverlightCream.com: Transforming an Ugly Duckling into a Graceful Swan With Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part 2 Intro Animation...
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss(-2-, -3-), Pencho Popadiyn, John Papa(-2-, -3-), Jim Lynn, and SilverLaw(-2-). Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher has added more shaders and features: Shazzam 1.2 – Feature Overview I hope you're getting as excited as I am about MIX10. You should be reading MIX10 News and checking out the sessions and the directory of attendees. From SilverlightCream.com: Watermarked TextBox Part I Phil Middlemiss's Orb Radio Button hit number two in the Silverlight Cream Skim page, in 2 days...
Maybe this concept is simpler for me because of all the jobs I've been on over the years requiring security clearances. I've signed quite a few NDA forms. Some for big companies, some for small, but the meaning of "NDA" remains constant: Non-Disclosure Agreement. To me, that takes no further explanation, but apparently it's confusing to some people, and I don't understand how you can be confused. The papers I signed with the U.S. Army in 1970 read "10 years and $10,000" for a violation... can't imagine...
We had a great Silverlight User Group Meeting in Phoenix last night! Before I go any farther I want to say thanks again to David Silverlight and Kim Schmidt for coming to talk to us! And not to forget Victor Gaudioso over the wire :) David, Kim, and Victor talked to us about the Silverlight User Group Starter Kit they are working on with an extended stellar list of talented developers. Don't bypass looking at this by thinking it's only for a User Group... this is a solid community-supported full-up...
In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Jim Wightman, Jeremy Likness, Ross Wozniak, SilverLaw(-2-), XAMLNinja, Victor Gaudioso(-2-), Sergey Barskiy, and Jeff Handley. Shoutouts: Chris Klug posted The CommandManager that never dies…and ends up on Codeplex… Mike Swanson posted All About MIX10 From SilverlightCream.com: A Scalable Orb Radio Button Holy crap ... if you don't like this tutorial by Phil Middlemiss... just go back to programming DOS :) ... this is great... keep it coming, Phil! Using Silverlight...
In this Issue: Mike Hodnick, Jeremy Likness(-2-, -3-), Bobby Diaz, Jianqiang Bao(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), Chris Klug, Nokola, Peter Bromberg, Nigel Sampson, Shawn Wildermuth, and Kirupa. Shoutouts: Chris Woodruff composed a PDF of the MEF Programming Wiki Gavin Wignall has a post up on how to Create a 360 panorama using Microsoft Silverlight Photosynth Chris Klug posted an Update to the multi-touch development intro From SilverlightCream.com: SilverSynth - Digital Audio Synthesis for Silverlight Mike...
In this Issue: Jianqiang Bao(-2-, -3-), Kevin Dockx, SilverLaw, Xianzhong Zhu(-2-), Nokola(-2-), John Papa, David Anson, and Ning Zhang. Koen Zwikstra (SilverlightSpy) announced that you can now follow SilverlightSpy on Twitter Check out Erik Mork's new Sparkling Client Podcast What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (4)Implement the spirit’s 2D animation (Part I) Jianqiang Bao has more of hs RPG game up... you're looking...
In this Issue: Tim Greenfield, Rene Schulte, Jianqiang Bao(-2-, -3-), Alex Knight, Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa and Adam Kinney, Josh Twist, Ning Zhang, John Stockton, and David Anson. Shoutout: Mike Taulty has added to his list of Silverlight 4 Beta Networking Videos, bringing the total to 11. I've got something like 50 posts to review, but some of you have figured out if you submit, you bump up in the queue. I'll get to everything, just thought I'd mention that :) From SilverlightCream.com: SuperStackPanel...
In this Issue: Rik Robinson, Jeremy Likness, Ryan Lee, EQATEC, Rui Marinho, Victor Gaudioso(-2-), Steve Strong and Deb Walker, and Martin Duffy. Shoutout: Adam Kinney posted Carbon Counter and EcoLight win the Silverlight Eco Contest! Adam also posted a big list of Silverlight and Expression Blend tutorials I’ve worked on recently. -- dang, Adam, you've been busy! Congratulations also go out to CrocusGirl for being the Eco Contest Community winner with My SilverlightShow Eco Contest Entry Joshua...
In this all-submittal Issue: AfricanGeek(2), Michael Washington, Roberto Lopez, Brett Balmer, Rui Marinho, and Alex van Beek. Shoutout: Austin Avrashow has an interesting demo up of Mark Twain's Travels Just digging my way out from under being inundated with information for a week. Be patient, I'll catch up! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Video Tutorial #13 AfricanGeek has 2 new video tutorials up on his site. This first one adds a Slider control to the Media Player and edits the Slider template...
I've been home since Saturday, but today (Monday) is my first day back in the 'real world' after spending time breathing the rarified air shared amongst the attendees of the 2010 MVP Summit. Very simply put, the Summit brings together the MVPs and the Product Team members for the area of competency in which you're involved. There's some picking of brains both ways, and a bit of roadmap discusion. Beyond that, it's a world-wide networking opportunity to see all those folks you only see once or twice...
For Issue 800, Brian Henderson (@brian_henderson) suggested I do a best of, so I used the tagging that Michael Washington and I put in a year ago here at the Summit, and have produced a 'Top 25'. From SilverlightCream.com: Number 01, Julien Frelat: Quake in Silverlight 3.0 available with full GPL source code! Number 02, Timmy Kokke: A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight Number 03, Gavin Wignall: Silverlight Rain Effect - Playing with Random Number 04, Tim Heuer: Using Silverlight for workflow creation...
In this Issue: SilverLaw, Mike Taulty, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutout: John Papa announced SL TV 8: Silverlight Client for Facebook From SilverlightCream.com: Since I'm at #MVP10, I'm going to be running behind, but I had a few things tagged that I thought I'd post. Easing ToolTip Styling Example SilverLaw has a great Tooltip with easing available for all our use.... run the demo, you know you'll want it. Silverlight 4 Beta Networking Screencasts Mike Taulty has a collection of Silverlight 4 Networking...
In this Issue: Karl Shifflett, Rishi, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso has updated his video archive page: All of My Silverlight Video Tutorials in One Place (revised again 02.10.10) Michael Sync posted his materials from his Silverlight 4 User Group talk: SG SLUG – What’s new in Silverlight 4? Presentation and Demo András Velvárt is looking for feedback on the Blend series he started at SilverlightShow New Expression Blend screencast series Gavin Wignall has apparently *WAY* too much...
In this Issue: András Velvárt, Michael Washington, Frodeh, Damon Serji, Andy Beaulieu, Timmy Kokke, Jeff Wilcox, Jesse Liberty, and Michael Ceranski. Shoutout: John Papa and Glenn Block on Silverlight TV 7: When and Where to Use MEF Have you seen this at SilverlightShow? SilverlightShow with Brand New Book Shelf ... very nice job on that! Matthias Shapiro blogged an Introduction to User Experience (UX) Design Spinning out a new Show format and a new show, Erik Mork hosts This Week in Silverlight...
In this Issue: Jonathan van de Veen, Michael Ceranski, nokola(2, 3), Tim Heuer, Gavin Wignall(2), and Jeff Prosise. Shoutout: Tim Heuer has a Quick FAQ on Visual Studio 2010 RC release (February 2010) and Silverlight development From SilverlightCream.com: Building an interactive spider in Silverlight Jonathan van de Veen has a tutorial up at SilverlightShow showing how to create a Spider in Silverlight to load web pages and extract links ... lots of goodness in this post... grab the source, read...
In this Issue: Bruce Abernethy(2), Laurent Bugnion, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: Robby Ingebretsen blogged Kaxaml Update + Downloads + A Request Shawn Wildermuth is getting ready to write a Silverlight book and is asking all of us to Help Me Figure Out What to Write Scott Guthrie posted this night before last: VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate ... but if you're developing with Silverlight 4B, don't grab it... check out Scott's comments Doing a post of what I have in an effort to get it squeezed...
In this Issue: Fons Sonnemans, Mark Monster, Karl Shifflett, Einar Ingebrigtsen(2), Jeremy Likness, Emil Stoychev, Andrew Veresov, Sergey Barskiy(2), and Tim Heuer. Shoutout: Karl Shifflett announced Karl Now Using Vimeo for Videos... check it out, thank Karl, and create an acount. From SilverlightCream.com: Keyboard selection on Silverlight ListBox and ComboBox Fons Sonnemans explains and provides a behavior that allows keyboard selection on a ListBox or ComboBox. MeXperience – Step 3 – Architecture,...
In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, James Bacon, Jeremy Likness, John Stockton, Fredrik Normén, Subodh Pushpak, Alexander Golesh, PhaniRajuYN, Victor Gaudioso, and Syed Mehroz Alam. Shoutouts: Michael Sync posted the material for his My WPF MVVM Session at Consistel Michael also posted an interesting post Rules of MVVM?? Andrew Marshall reported to me that he now has the code posted for his Silverlight and CUDA interop article.. thanks Andrew! John Papa isn't wasting any time with Silverlight TV ... he's...
In this Issue: Nokola, Braulio Díez Botella, Gavin Wignall, David Poll, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Bruce Abernethy(2), and Kathleen McGrath. Shoutouts: John Bruin has a fun Silverlight app up on his site: Silverlight Circle Twist ... with source. Pixel in Gene posted a Quick tip about changing SketchFlow’s startup page name (Silverlight) From SilverlightCream.com: EasyPainter Beta: Top Secret Online Image Editor Announced Nokola posted information about and a link to his EasyPainter Beta,...
In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, Alex van Beek, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jim McCurdy, Dave Britton, Laurent Bugnion, Brendan Enrick, Robby Ingebretsen, David Burela, and Lee. Shoutouts: Michael Sync put up a post about 3 new websites for Silverlight Community... good ones to aggregate I think :) John Papa announced a new episode up: Silverlight TV Episode 005 – Using Metadata with MEF I don't want to advertise this guy, but there is a site silverlight-travel dot com that is scraping Silverlight sites such...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, David Burela(2), Paulio, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, and Brett Balmer. Shoutout: Jeremy Alles has a Minor update to the Silverlight MVVM frameworks explorer Seema Ramchandani posted his materials PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4 Gavin Wignall blogged about Metia launch Silverlight banner with Deepzoom and Smooth Streaming! Andrew Myhre posted about his Silverlight Preloader Project on Google Code Jim Lynn has a post up about...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, René Schulte, Damon Serji, Shawn Wildermuth, Rishi, Gavin Wignall(2), and roboblob. Shoutouts: David Anson reports that Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!] Robbe Morris announced EggHeadCafe Chat Chaos in Silverlight Released Today ... this looks great, I'm surprised there's not a ton of people on there slinging code around! Check out what Rishi's been doing in his spare time: Outing my inner iTablet From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell, Scott Barnes, Bob Bartholomay, Alex van Beek, Sergey Barskiy, Chris Klug, Microsoft Expression Blog Shoutout: All U.S. MVPs going to the Summit note that Suzanna Moran, my MVP lead, highly suggests the session at 1:30 on Tuesday "Developer & Platform Evangelism"... nudge, nudge :) John Papa is a very busy guy... Silverlight TV number 4 is up: 3 Steps to MEF (MEF Part 1) – Silverlight TV Episode 4 The Silverlight Team Blog announced Jordan Brand Leverages Silverlight...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, and Walter Ferrari Shoutouts: Scott Guthrie has a great post up: About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular) SilverlightShow has Featured Author: Interview with Silverlight MVP Andrea Boschin SilverlightShow reports Silverlight MVP András Velvárt tells the story behind the creation of his portal www.response.hu, and two of his award-winning projects SilverlightShow also has an Interview with Telerik Silverlight Unit Manager...
In this Issue: Fredrik Normén(2), Antoni Dol, Alex van Beek, Rishi, Mike Taulty, Giorgetti Alessandro, Michael S. Scherotter, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, and Anoop Madhusudanan. Shoutouts David Kelley announces a podcast: Lunch With Interact - MVVM For Tards I don't keep a close eye on it, but sometime in the last two days, @SilverlightNews has hit 4000 followers... thanks to all the readers! From SilverlightCream.com: Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 5 of X – New Repository...
In this Issue: Deborah Kurata, and Praveen. Shoutouts: David Anson announced: Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output Jeff Handley reports My Stretch Goal: To Ship RIA Services Source Code ... give him some feedback Laurent Bugnioin posted The MVVM landscape at MIX10 ... I hope to see them all :) Benjamin Roux posted this: The Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life in Silverlight, and there are other manuscripts on the site as well. It turns out I had...
In this Issue: Brett Balmer, Shawn Wildermuth, Tim Greenfield, Anoop Madhusudanan, Victor Gaudioso, David Kelley Shotouts: Jeremy Likness posted New Silverlight 3 Version Released (3.0.50106.0) Koen Zwikstra is always out there working :) Check out his PDF for Silverlight Preview From SilverlightCream.com: Hosting Silverlight Accessible WCF Services in an Azure WebRole Brett Balmer posted a solution to a problem lashing up to WCF while running Silverlight in Azure, and I added an Azure tag, Brett...
In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Justin Angel, Karl Shifflett(2, 3), András Velvárt, Bryant Likes, and Nigel Sampson. Shoutouts: John Papa posted a note: Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta Shawn Wildermuth poses the question Are ORMs Solving Anything? From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4 FileSystemWatcher ... no strings attached Michael Wolf returns with a second pass at his FileWatcher this time having a background thread doing the checking. Video of it in...
In this Issue: Rene Schulte, Jim Wightman, Michael Wolf, Karl Shifflett, Braulio Diez, Walt Ritscher, Mike Taulty, and Deborah Kurata. Shoutouts: Karl Erickson posted at the Silverlight SDK that Source viewer added to the Silverlight SDK sample browser Karl Shifflett announced WPF & Silverlight Designer Team – New Blog... last I looked there were 5 articles up there! If you haven't seen this yet from John Papa: Silverlight TV Episode 2: Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight... I just pointed...
In this Issue: Jim Wightman, Richard Waddell, Fredrik Normén(2), Einar Ingebrigtsen, Sergey Barskiy, Chris Klug, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, and Jonas Follesø. Shoutouts: You saw the beginning of Silverlight TV ... now John Papa announces Get Your Questions Answered on Silverlight TV Mark Monster is discussing the architecture of his MeXperience application: MeXperience – Step 2 – Architecture and more From SilverlightCream.com: Another brief Silverlight in WinPE post Jim Wightman has another video...
In this Issue: Justin Angel, Brett Balmer, and Fredrik Normén(2). Shoutouts: The Silverlight Team Blog announced IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released John Papa opens up Silverlight TV with Keith Smith on Premier of Silverlight TV Jeff Barnes announced ARCast.TV Special - An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 From SilverlightCream.com: AutoMagically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged Geez... how do you discuss one of Justin Angel's posts in a couple sentences or less?...
In this Issue: Andrej Tozon, Victor Gaudioso, David Kelley, Lee, Adam Kinney, and Karl Shifflett. Adam Kinney announced The second edition of the Flash to Silverlight Guide has been posted! Don't forget today is the last day to get MIX10 for $795 ... I'll be doing that today myself... hope to see you all there! From SilverlightCream.com: Add version 4 components to your Silverlight 3 application with MEF Andrej Tozon has a downright useful feature implemented ... he's using MEF for Silverlight 3...
In this Issue: Andrew Marshall, Jim Wightman, Matthias Shapiro, Alan Mendelevich, David Anson, Mike Taulty, Fredrik Normén(2), Jeremiah Morrill, and Benjamin Roux. Shoutouts: John Stockton has an interesting post up on The Illusion of Performance Scott Barnes discusses How do I get started in User Experience? Laurent Bugnion posted a Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and CUDA interop Andrew Marshall is posting about lashing up Silverlight and...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell, Benjamin Roux, Sergey Barskiy, Alex Knight, Chris Klug(2), András Velvárt, Brian Genisio, Jeff Prosise, Matthias Shapiro, and Mike Taulty. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney is taking Blend training on the road: Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour... keep checking back, and find one close to home! New Silverlight MVP Koen Zwikstra announced Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.7 From SilverlightCream.com: The Seeker: Sidebar 2 – Blendable Seeker via ControlTemplate Richard...
In this all-submittal Issue: Richard Waddell, John McFetridge, and Andrej Tozon. Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty details his configuration for his Silverlight Hypervideo Platform: Severely Decoupled Configuration With a post I am sharing with my "Programming Concepts" students at UOP, René Schulte has declared Goodbye GPL From SilverlightCream.com: The Seeker: ooNaverse sidebar 1 – Replacing interfaces with Base Classes that inherit from UserControl Richard Waddell continues developing his ooNaverse and...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Justin Angel, Pete Blois, Adam Kinney, and Victor Gaudioso. From SilverlightCream.com: Auto-Discoverable Views using Fluent PRISM in Silverlight Jeremy Likness has a follow-on to his Fluent Prism in Silverlight posts and is auto-discovering Views and tagging them so they appear in a target region. Silverlight Weblog Features Overview Leave it to Justin Angel to write his own Blog... but bonus for us, it's in Silverlight, MVVM, WCF RIA Services, Prism, etc. and etc....
In this Issue: Michael Washington, and Fredrik Normén(2, 3). Shoutout: You know who Jeff Prosise is, or you should! ... check out the Tech Focus Series he's got advertised... I signed up! Wintellect's Free Tech Focus Series From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Message Board using the CloudDB.com 'cloud' database Michael Washington cranked up a subscription to CloudDB and produced a MessageBoard in Silverlight 3... Silverlight - Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink Fredrik Normén responds...
In this Issue: Bob Bartholomay, Crick Waters, Jim O'Neil, Bill Reiss(2), Katrien De Graeve, smartyP, and Rishi(2, 3). From SilverlightCream.com: Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior With a very cool example, Bob Bartholomay demonstrates his RotateRefresh Behavior to give users a visual that something can be refreshed and is being refreshed. Ribbit for Silverlight - Overview In this Channel 9 presentation, Crick Waters of BT/Ribbit discusses Ribbit for Silverlight... the first controls...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Colin Eberhardt, Andy Beaulieu, Stephen Price, Tim Heuer, Vibor Cipan, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Prosise, Dan Wahlin, and David Poll. Shoutouts: I know I've congratulated a few of the new and re-awarded MVPs for January 1st, but Tim Heuer has the big list on his site, so I'll just give a link to Tim: January 2010 Silverlight MVPs Jeff Blankenburg had a contest up on January 1st... obviously it's over, but it was fun to work through: Click The Button - The Contest Jesse Liberty...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan, Andrej Tozon(2), Anoop Madhusudanan, David Kelley, and Walt Ritscher. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher posted this Mesmerizing 3D shapes as GIF files and wow, mesmerizing is right.... check out the link of others as well! From SilverlightCream.com: A Silverlight / Expression Blend behavior to add Multi-Touch Manipulation and Inertia Davide Zordan posted an update to the behavior in the Expression Community Gallery to add Multi-Touch manipulation and Inertia. He then has an example...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Bob Bartholomay, Richard Waddell, Damian Schenkelman, and Shawn Wildermuth(2). Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty announced Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! ... on schedule and exceeds the promise. Jesse also posted a great picture Worth A Thousand Words to clarify the recent HVP posts. Be sure to click on the image to get it full-size. Shawn Wildermuth is asking you to Vote for My Sessions at MIX '10... you may want to check out the other sessions while you're voting...
In this 01022010 Issue: Michael Washington, nmarun, Andrea Boschin, John Papa, Victor Gaudioso, and Jesse Liberty. From SilverlightCream.com: Closed Captioning with Silverlight (using MVVM) Michael Washington explains his 'closed captioning' Silverlight 3 solution, but take note, it's also MVVM... good long article and code too! COM Automation with OpenOffice – Silverlight 4 Here's a cool Silverlight 4 B demo... nmarun is doing COM Automation with OpenOffice... with all the code as well. Writing...
Happy New Year 2010 from SilverlightCream! In this Issue: Fredrik Normén, Damon Serji, Gavin Wignall, András Velvárt, Vibor Cipan, and CrocusGirl. Shoutouts: The Silverlight Team Blog has an interactive customizable New Year's card up for your use: Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year from the Silverlight team I've added a WebCam/Mic tag to Silverlight Cream, and tagged 13 prior posts, so you can now search for them on the search page. From SilverlightCream.com: WCF RIA Services – Dynamically...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, René Schulte, Mike Taulty(2), Kirupa, David Kelley(2), and Jeff Blankenburg(2, 3, 4). Shoutout: Alex Golesh posted his material for Silverlight 4 Tutorial @SDP From SilverlightCream.com: PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 2 of 3: Making PRISM MEF Friendly Jeremy Likness has Part 2 of his sequence on making Prism friendly with MEF, and we're talking Silverlight 3 here. Ye Olde Kamera - Silverlight 4 Webcam & Old Movie Shader René Schulte wasn't satisfied to just use the webcam...
In this Issue: John McFetridge, Fredrik Normén(2, 3), Jeff Blankenburg, Rishi, and Expression Blog. Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty reports a Silverlight HVP Design Update Michael S. Scherotter announced Maximum.TV Launches Spanish Language Silverlight TV Site From SilverlightCream.com: Developing Business Applications with Silverlight 3 ,Prism and Ria Services John McFetridge has a great tutorial PDF up on Prism, Silverlight 3, and RIA Services. Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell, Michael Washington, Shawn Wildermuth, Vikram Pendse, and Jeff Blankenburg(2). Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth announced not only Silverlight Tour Announces Three New Cities, but they're now including Silverlight 4! Not Silverlight, but close to most of our hearts, Scott Marlowe has a post up about The IIS SEO Toolkit From SilverlightCream.com: This Seeker Behaves Richard Waddell returned with another 'Seeker' post, this one attaches a Silverlight Behavior to his Seeker...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell, and Jeff Blankenburg. Shoutouts: Now on DotNetRocks! Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! Wow... this is like the old days, two posts :) From SilverlightCream.com: The Seeker – Version 3: The Rise of ooBer After a short Game of Life excursion, Richard Waddell is back to 'Seeker' now in Part 3 where the Seekers are getting a lot smarter :) Day #26: Silverlight Data Grid Jeff Blankenburg continues on toward 31 Days of Silverlight by focusing today's post on the DataGrid...
Merry Christmas from Silverlight Cream! In this Christmas Eve in Phoenix Issue: Cristian Merighi, Jeff Blankenburg, András Velvárt, Jeff Prosise, Micah, Sean Blakemore, Expression Blog, Andrej Tozon, CrocusGirl, Adam Kinney, Jordan Knight, and Jonas Follesø(2). Shoutouts: It appears Adam Kinney had access to a few more Silverlight Christmas cards than I did: Silverlight Christmas Cards for 2009 Martin Grayson announced Blacklight v4.3(Dec09) released Jafar Husain has two entries at Channel 9 on Silverlight...
In this Christmas Eve in Phoenix Issue: Richard Waddell, Kirupa, Douglas Starnes, Nigel Sampson, cherylws, Colin Blair, Yavor Georgiev, John Papa, Jeff Blankenburg, and Gill Cleeren. Shoutouts: For all you bloggers out there, David Anson posted: Blogging code samples stays easy [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code for Visual Studio 2010!] Colin Blair has an interesting discussion up as Thoughts on Modular WCF RIA Services If you haven't seen it yet, Scott Guthrie announced...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Alexey Zakharov, Jeremy Likness, John Bruin, Andrej Tozon, Fons Sonnemans, Adam Kinney, Andrea Boschin, Al Pascual, Giorgetti Alessandro, Rob Eisenberg, Gill Cleeren, and Jeff Blankenburg. Shoutouts: Gavin Wignall has announced the Launch of the MSUK Partner Festive Game If you're in the UK, Tesco has this technology working: Silverlight-powered Virtual DVD now available from Tesco András Velvárt announced an interview by Karen Young when he was in Berlin: Another...
In this Issue: Jeff Prosise(2), Chris Klug(2), Laurent Bugnion, Jeff Blankenburg(2, 3), Gill Cleeren(2, 3, 4), Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: Alan Mendelevich announced Stock Chart for WPF & Silverlight 1.1 Released ... free WPF and Silverlight charting control. Just for fun: SnowCrystals.com From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 4's New Local File System Support Jeff Prosise has a post up on accessing the local file system with Silverlight 4B. Remember this is only with elevated permissions. Silverlight's...
In this Issue: Richard Waddell(2), Jeremy Likness, AfricanGeek, Michael Washington, Colin Eberhardt, clearbreeze(2), Tim Heuer, Allan Muller, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, Brad Abrams, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutouts: I'm sure you all aggregate Scott Guthrie, but just in case: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Shawn Wildermuth posted links to his XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Fons Sonnemans posted his Silverlight Christmas Card... using behaviors he already discussed...
In this Issue: René Schulte, Mike Hodnick, ITLackey, Glenn Block, David Anson, ChristophDotNet, Micah, Adam Kinney, Joel Cochran, Andrei Alecu, Jesse Liberty, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutout: Jeff Paries shared the 2009 Silverlight Christmas Card from Waggener Edstrom ... pretty cool, thanks Jeff! From SilverlightCream.com: World# - Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight Please note coments made here are sometimes made to be humorous or poike fun at myself, as I tried to do with this one....
In this Issue: Andrej Tozon, nmarun, AmazedSaint, Shawn Wildermuth, Fredrik Normén, Damon Payne, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness(2), Alan Mendelevich, Dan Wahlin, Lee(2), Expression Blog, Andy Beaulieu, and Gill Cleeren. Shoutouts: Scott Guthrie Tweeted about Template Monster now having Silverlight Intro Templates and Silverlight Templates Einar Ingebrigtsen announced Balder 0.8.8.5 Release is out Victor Gaudioso has a list of all his videos: All of my Silverlight Video Tutorials in One Place: (Revisited)...
In this Issue: Corrado Cavalli, Davide Zordan, Braulio Diez, David Anson, Jeff Prosise, Jesse Liberty, Koen Zwikstra, Giorgetti Alessandro, John Bruin, Colin Blair, Radenko Zec, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutouts: Have you seen this for Visual Studio? Visual Studio Theme Generator .. very nice! Jeff Barnes has his slide deck and projects up for a Silverlight presentation he gave: Silverlight 4 – Presentation and Code Samples My Advent Candle seems to have a problem, but could answer why I'm having trouble...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Rudi Grobler, Nick Kramer, Fredrik Normén, Mike Taulty, Deborah Kurata, Shayne Burgess, Glenn Block(2), and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutout: Did you know MIX10 registration was open? Register by Jan 15th and get in for $795!! MIX10 From SilverlightCream.com: Unit Tests for ViewModels AND Views in Silverlight Confused about Unit Testing Silverlight apps in MVVM? Jeremy Likness isn't... and he shows us how! Blend 3 Tip: Filter resources by selected element Rudi Grobler has...
In this Issue: Joel Neubeck, Tim Heuer, Gill Cleeren, Cameron Albert, Damon Serji, Matthew Casperson, Corey Miller, Pete Brown, Aashish, David Poll, and Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: Brad Abrams reported an interview: Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010 Nikhil Kothari has a set of links for RIA Services: RIA Services Link Listing #1 From SilverlightCream.com: Capturing the Webcam in Silverlight 4 Joel Neubeck has a post up at SilverlightShow...
In this Issue: Gill Cleeren, Chris Klug, Expression Blog, James, nmarun, Deborah Kurata, cherylws, Jeremy Likness, David Kelley, Lee, and Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen's latest post is on time management and setting goals: Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #30 ChristophDotNet reports on a Silverlight 3 / Expression Lab Posted From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 9th: Element-to-element bindings in Silverlight 3 Gill Cleeren's...
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, AfricanGeek, Davide Zordan(2), raelango, Rene Schulte, Brad Abrams, Colin Blair, CorrinaB, Deborah Kurata, Gill Cleeren(2), Fredrik Normén, and amazedsaint. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra has an update for Document Toolkit 1.1.0.4 Shawn Wildermuth announced My Interview about Silverlight at Sweden's OreDev Doug Blackmore wrote to say his blog has moved, and to kick it off he reports his Silverlight ComboBox Updated From SilverlightCream.com: Developing applications gets easy...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Zoltan Arvai, Deborah Kurata, David Poll, Fredrik Normén, Victor Gaudioso(2), Adam Kinney(2, 3), Karl Shifflett, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutout: Jeremy Likness has a great post describing how to Host WCF as Windows Service without Installing Bea Stollnitz announced her new site/venture: Zag Studio’s web site... good luck Bea, and I hope you keep blogging good stuff! From SilverlightCream.com: Will Silverlight 4 ICommand support simplify using commands in Prism? Damian...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan(2), Fredrik Normén, Nick Kramer, Gill Cleeren(2), Jeff Prosise, CorrinaB, Al Pascual(2), Nigel Sampson, and Kirupa. Shoutout: Pete Brown has posted his list of 10 Must-See PDC 09 Sessions ... but it's 11 :) From SilverlightCream.com: Experiments using MEF, MVVM and Silverlight 4 Beta – Part 2: Custom attributes Davide Zordan has post 2 of his MVVM, MEF, and Silverlight 4B series up talking about custom attributes Experiments using MEF, MVVM and Silverlight 4 Beta – Part...
In this Issue: Rob Eisenberg, Gill Cleeren(2), AfricanGeek, Brett Balmer, Tim Heuer, Alex Knight, Kirupa, Jeff Prosise(2), nmarun, Brad Abrams, Shayne Burgess, Michael Wolf, Micah Shoutouts: John Papa has a Silverlight MVP Twitter list up: Silverlight MVP List on Twitter, and a Silverlight Team Twitter List also ... if those don't give you enough Silverlight in Twitter, I'm not sure what to say :) Koen Zwikstra has a maintenance release of Silverlight Spy up: Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.6 Here's a link...
In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, CLR Team Blog, Deborah Kurata, Tim Heuer, Ning Zhang, Jeff Prosise, Fredrik Normén, Antoni Dol, Adam Kinney, Jordan Knight, Andy Beaulieu, Kevin Dockx, and Al Pascual. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen discusses the problems of upgrading to the beta in Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #29 Victor Gaudioso has the materials up from My Silverlight 4 Presentation at LA C# Usergroup in Manhatten Beach, CA (12.01.09) including a Drop Demo...
In this Issue: Pete Brown, Davide Zordan(2), René Schulte(2), David Anson, Ning Zhang, Jeff Prosise, Antoni Dol, nmarun, Deborah Kurata(2), and Fredrik Normén. Shoutouts: John Papa announced the availability of his "What's new in Silverlight 4" whitepaper: What’s New in Silverlight 4 – Download and Run! The Expression Team Blog has a post up about Expression Blend: What's new Koen Zwikstra is reacting to Silverlight 4B along with everyone else with a Document Toolkit Roadmap Check out Pete Blois'...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Andrej Tozon, Mark Monster, AfricanGeek, Allan Muller, nmarun, David Anson, Jesse Bishop, Fredrik Normén, Alan Mendelevich, and Laurent Duveau. Shoutout: The Thirsty Developer posted a new PodCast last week: Thirsty Developer 79: Tim Heuer on Silverlight 4 If you've got something good posted and haven't seen it yet, kick my tires. With the new bits hitting just before I was gone for 4 days, I just counted and have 52 tagged posts queued up... I'll get there, it's...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Beth Massi, Fredrik Normén, Deborah Kurata, Jesse Bishop, Laurent Duveau(2), David Yack, Tim Heuer, and Jeff Handley. Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu has a beta of a new game up: Froggy Math. He's looking for comments, so have at it! For all you 3D junkies out there, Einar Ingebrigtsen announced Balder 0.8.8.0 Release is out SilverlightGirl announced New achievements and contests on Mashooo ... and check out their website... wow... how cool! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight...
In this all-submittal Issue: ITLackey, AfricanGeek, Yasser Makram, Rob Houweling, James Bacon, Max Paulousky, Andrea Boschin, Andrew Veresov, Michael Washington, Corey Schuman, Mark Tucker, Fons Sonnemans, Pencho Popadiyn Thanks for all the submittals! Very glad *that* holiday is behind us... let's get back to posting! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Metronome ITLackey has built a very cool Silverlight metronome with lots of features. If you're a musician, bonus! If you're not a musician think...
Please note a link change for AfricanGeek in my last SC post. For some reason that I'll have to figure out later, my code didn't form the link correctly because I Ileft off "http://" But it's correct now, so check it out... Silverlight 4 video tutorials! I'm going to be dark for a couple days celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope everyone does the same and has a great Thanksgiving... even if you aren't in the U.S. :) Stay in the 'Light...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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,...
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...
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...
In this Issue: Andrej Tozon, Deborah Kurata, Avi Pilosof, Andrea Boschin, Andy Beaulieu, Damian Schenkelman, smartyP, Kirupa, Alexey Zakharov, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutout: Yikes... if you haven't seen this yet... GO THERE NOW: My Christmas Catalog For all you 3D enthusiasts, Einar Ingebretsen has announced an Upcoming Balder release From SilverlightCream.com: Exploring Silverlight behaviors: look Ma, no code! Andrej Tozon built a Halloween sound player using Expression Blend and Behaviors ... then...
In this Issue: Avi Pilosof, Bill Reiss, Jeff Handley, Bea Stollnitz, Peter Bromberg, Deborah Kurata, Jesse Liberty, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Interview with Bob Muglia and Steve Gillmor: Bob Muglia on Azure, Silverlight, and Realtime From the Microsoft Expression Blog: Modify the SketchFlow project settings Christian Schormann gives a list of SketchFlow and Blend at PDC ‘09 Iwan van Ee sent a link to me to his Application to view photos posted on panoramio.com. This is pretty cool, and he's...
In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Brian Genisio, Loek van den Ouweland, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness, CrocusGirl, Walt Ritscher, Rob Eisenberg, Andrea Boschin, Alan Mendelevich, and nmarun. Shoutout: The Microsoft Expression blog has a quick tip up: Paste or move a keyframe Adam Kinney gives us a Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09 See the post below about Walt Ritscher's new ShaderGallery Add-in for Expression Blend, but he's also Seeking WPF pixel shader effects samples for ShaderGallery From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Rick Barraza, AfricanGeek, Laurent Duveau, Scott Marlowe, Mason Brown, Rishi, Radenko Zec, Alex van Beek, and Anoop. Shoutout: Here's the announcement from the Bing Community site: Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released Laurence Moroney has a good article up on Web 2.0 – What’s it all about? Tim Heuer reports on Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook Tim Greenfield posts about his winning Component Art Silverlight Contest entry PuzzleTouch wins the ComponentArt...
In this Issue: Jim Lynn(2), Vikram Pendse, CrocusGirl, and Kevin Dockx. From SilverlightCream.com: Ordnance Survey maps in Bing Maps Silverlight control Jim Lynn has a post up about using Ordnance Survey maps in the Bing Maps Silverlight Control. This involved some digging and code from a previous project, but it's all here and works great!Binding to a Silverlight Chart Series gives a null reference exception Jim Lynn also has a quick post up to help keep you from losing hair (by pulling it out)...
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Expression Blend and Deisgn Blog, Alan Mendelevich, Gergely Orosz, Jeff Handley, Chris Klug, Rishi, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: First off, on this Veteran's Day. If you served or are serving in the military, thank you for your service! ComponentArt has posted their contest results and Tim Greenfield won! Congratulations Tim! And the Winner is.. If you want to find all of Victor Gaudioso's video tutorials, you can either search at SilverlightCream.com, or check out...
In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Jesse Bishop, XAMLNinja, Andrea Boschin, Jeff Prosise, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Michael Washington's reported that the Open Light Group's DotNetNuke SketchFlow Viewer featured on Channel 9 Mark Tucker has been doing the Casual game series on Shazaml! Mark presented on the topic at Desert Code Camp last weekend, and is sharing the video: Video: Creating a Silverlight 3 Casual Game using Blend 3 and Triggers, Actions, and Behaviors To prove that he really still...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Jit Ghosh, Jeff Prosise, Jesse Liberty, Victor Gaudioso, and René Schulte Shoutouts: If you can get to Twitter during the day (lucky you), check out Jesse Liberty's Subscribe to 62 Silverlight Twitter’ers.... there's a stellar list of devs on there! Adding to the burgeoning list of sites to check every day, Brad Abrams announced http://silverlight.net/rias... is Live! Timmy Kokke has gathered together links to all the current Silverlight and Expression Tools...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be Wednesday October 7 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner). The graphic above is a link to a map. This month we are going to do something a bit different. If this works, then I won't be so stressed when I have trouble arranging a speaker. We're going to have a round-table discussion (or two). Come prepared to ask your questions and to answer others. We've got at least...
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...
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...
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...
This isn't necessarily Silverlight, but it's important to bloggers, so I'm using that tag. If you're not using Grafitti and don't care to read my rant, just delete! I was using the free version of Grafitti for our Phoenix Silverlight User Group. I really didn't feel I had the time or inclination to write yet another site, and nobody was jumping up and down asking to do it for me :) Notice I said 'was'. During the Silverlight FireStarter yesterday, I wanted to Twitter that we also have a User Group...
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...
In this Issue: Rick Barraza, David Kelley, Kevin Dockx, Al Pascual(2), Victor Gaudioso, and Jim Lynn. Shoutout: Chris Cavanagh announced YouCube 3.0 (Chromium WebBrowser) - Source Code From SilverlightCream.com: Rendering Vector Fields in Silverlight Rick Barraza has part 3 of 3 in his fluid dynamics series. The fluid dynamics simulation demo'd in part 1 requires two technqiues; writing particles to writeableBitmaps in real time and vector fields. Part 2 demonstrated how to dynamically generate writeableBitmaps,...
In this Issue: Matthias Shapiro, Nigel Sampson, Shawn Wildermuth, and Brad Abrams. Lots of Shoutouts Today: Jesse Liberty expounds on CodeRush and the advantages it gives him while coding: Mini-Review of Code Rush Jesse also posted this one: Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 ... so go to Silverlight.net and check them out. I skipped mentioning this yesterday, but Ben Waggoner not only is blogging about it, but he's involved in it: Tesco and Silverlight delivering the full disc experience without...
In this Issue: Allan Muller, Brad Abrams, Timmy Kokke, JFo, Stefan Olson, and Katrien De Graeve. Shoutouts: The Silverlight Blog has this announement: Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience – Without the Disk! ... very cool! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight: Change Background Colour programatically using C# This older post from Allan Muller at SilverlightTutorials is a quick post on changing background color on a Silverlight app... or hopefully only on a section thereof... Business...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Damian Schenkelman, Allan Muller, Katrien De Graeve, Rob Eisenburg, András Velvárt, Andrew Duthie, Terence Tsang, Imran Shaik, and John Papa. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher is back to his "Reflection on Design" series with Reflecting on Design #17– Kinetic Animation of Blink 182 ... he has a link to all of them or you can find them at SilverlightCream.com using the search page. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Bridge - A Silverlight File Manager Wow ... check out...
In this Issue: Katrien De Graeve, Laurent Duveau, Colin Blair, Christian Schormann, Damon Payne, Brad Abrams, Davide Zordan, Jesse Liberty, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen responds to Tim Heuer's query with his post Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #21 Koen Zwikstra has announced Document Toolkit 1.1 RTW... and there's an fully-funtional evaluation available. Laurent Bugnion has announced a new release of MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1: What’s new?...
In this Issue: Laurent Bugnion, Sergey Barskiy, Victor Gaudioso From SilverlightCream.com: Detecting design time mode in WPF and Silverlight Laurent Bugnion digs hard into the design-time issue of the designer actually being able to see what is being built which ripples back into how do we know we're running in design vs run-time.ElementName Binding in Silverlight 3 Sergey Barskiy is blogging about Element Name Binding, and the example he uses is the classic two combo boxes problem where a change...
In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso, Al Pascual, Colin Blair, Giovanni Montrone, and David Kelley. Shoutout: Best wishes go out from SilverlightCream to Justin Angel. I'm sure everyone's heard the news by now. I'm pretty well positive that his energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge is going to be missed in the inner circles. As soon as he gets back to blogging, you'll see his name here. From SilverlightCream.com: New Silverlight Video Tutorial: Creating Morphing Vector Path Storyboards in Blend Victor Gaudioso...
I suppose in the back of my mind I wondered how long that would last… I just noticed tonight there’s a banner that says it’s shutting down October 1. Following the rule of not putting all your eggs into one basket… or at least a basket you don’t own, I’ve never stopped stuffing tagged links into my tag cloud at WynApse.com. Every Silverlight link goes out on the @SilverlightNews twitter feed, and then gets posted in my SilverlightCream blog posts. Those links are aggregated and tagged multiple ways...
In this Issue: Timmy Kokke, Expression Blend and Design, and Peter Gerritsen. Shoutouts: Before I forget again, again... check out SilverlightXP.net, a collaboration between Loek van den Ouweland and Fons Sonnemans. It's not been up long and there's lots of good stuff out there already... check it out! Colin Blair has a response to Jeff Handleys' query about DomainDataSource: The Problem with the DomainDataSource Tim Heuer asks the question How you chose and learned Silverlight ... take a few minutes...
In this Issue: David Justice, Tim Heuer, Christian Schormann, Shawn Wildermuth, Matthias Shapiro, and Colin Blair. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth reports that his Silverlight Data Examples Have Been Updated! From SilverlightCream.com: XAML Default Button Want a default button on your Silverlight or WPF page? Have you tried? Well, David Justice has, and he's got one working, and you can too with the attached property code he's provided.Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight How about builging your own...
In this Issue: Tim Heuer, Matthias Shapiro, Laurent Duveau, Janete, Shawn Oster, Adam Kinney, Expression Library, and Colin Blair. Shoutouts: Lee announced that his Extended AutoCompleteBox sample updated to Silverlight 3 Shawn Wildermuth announces that My SketchFlow .NET Rocks TV Episode is up (DNR-TV) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight minor update released today If you haven't heard yet... Tim Heuer announced a minor Silverlight update today. Bottom-line... if you're a developer, you need...
In this Issue: Rick Barraza, Colin Blair, Joe Stagner, Chris Klug, Andrea Boschin, Laurent Bugnion, and Al Pascual. Shoutout: Blendables announced a New Desklighter Build in Labs , but I can't seem to get the link to open for me... give it a shot and see how it looks :) From SilverlightCream.com: Advanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmaps If you ever wanted to wipe that smirk off the Mona Lisa, now's your chance... I thoughtRick Barraza's last post was fun to play with but wow is this cool...
The next regularly-scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group is Wednesday September 2. We meet at Interface Technical Training at roughly Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix beginning with pizza and socializing at 6PM meeting after and running until 8PM. This month Les Brown, a consultant at Sogeti, will be presenting "The differences of (WCF, ADO Data Service, and RIA) in relation to data binding and use Silverlight toolkit controls as a primer". Get another great presentation from...
In this Issue: CorrinaB, UXPassion, and Nikhil Kothari Shoutouts: Frank La Vigne cracked open the SketchFlow Feedback File Format using my favorite editor :) ... oh you just know we're going to see toys dealing with that! Walt Ritscher's Shazzam is getting some legs: Shazzam – as Seen in Silverlight 3 Programmers Reference ... congrats Walt! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 Application Themes Unless you've not been around Silverlight, you know CorrinaB is the genius behind all the great themes,...
In this Issue: Kirupa, Brian Genisio, Nikhil Kothari, and Al Pascual From SilverlightCream.com: Using Behaviors - Page 1 Kirupa has a great 3 page tutorial up on Behaviors... great example too!Adventures in MVVM – Binding Commands to ANY Event Brian Genisio is still dealing with boilerplate pain of wiring up commands to events in MVVM, and this time comes up with a solution that requires a few caveats, but beyond that it's golden... and he provides code :)BouncingPlane Behavior for Silverlight Nikhil...
In this Issue: Faisal Khan, Dan Wahlin, Nick Josevski, Lee, Al Pascual, and Pencho Popadiyn. Shoutout: This is too late for tonight, but hey, we got Silverlight tomorrow night too! UFC 102 Live Weigh-In Tonight – Powered by Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: Creating RIA Services With Silverlight 3 Part-2 In this part 2 of his series and in a break from lots of other posts, Faisal Khan demonstrates binding data declaratively in xaml.Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using...
In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Christian Schormann, Tim Heuer, Jeff Kelly, Jeff Prosise, Jeff Wilcox(2), and Alex Golesh. Lots of Shoutouts today: David Anson has been getting lots of feedback on his HTML5 canvas post, so he's Following up on some of the attention [Live sample posted and a *very* small tweak to the Html5Canvas source code!] I know there was some discussion about this on the Insiders list, but Ben Anderson announced a Popfly Parting Present ... no not the PopFly source, but the Game...
In this Issue: Jonathan van de Veen, Erik Mork, Chris Klug, Robbe Morris, Nick Josevski, Nigel Sampson, Vikram Pendse, and Matthias Shapiro Shoutouts: András Velvárt poses the question Can I jump to Silverlight 3 now? What do the stats say? ... lots of responses... what do you say? Shawn Wildermuth reminds us of A Plethora of Silverlight Behaviors/Triggers courtesy of the Expression Team. Chris Cavanagh has been busy working on A Real WPF WebBrowser... check it out... and even the source :) ... yeah...
In this Issue: Peter Bromberg, Brad Abrams, Shawn Wildermuth, Page Brooks, Terence Tsang, Vikram Pendse, David Anson, Dan Wahlin, Joel Cochran, and Matthias Shapiro. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight IsolatedStorage Compressed Object Cache I'm trying to imagine something you'd want to do with Isolated Storage that Peter Bromberg didn't cover in this post ... great blog post! Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures Brad Abrams's...
In this Issue: Pencho Popadiyn, Andy Beaulieu, Vikram Pendse, Erik Mork, Gavin Wignall, John Bruin, Brian Genisio, Dan Wahlin, Tomasz Janczuk, and Matthias Shapiro. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth posted PHP toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services...And My XBox Demo... how cool is that? Tim Heuer posted that he uploaded More Silverlight application themes and fixes to the Expression Gallery... you HAVE been watching that, right? From SilverlightCream.com: Accessing the full range of colors in procedural code...
In this Issue: Paulio, Jesse Liberty, René Schulte, Pete Blois, Benjamin Roux, UXPassion, Pencho Popadiyn, Kris Meeusen, Scott Marlowe, and Matthias Shapiro Shoutouts: The UXConnection has this interesting Expression Design post up: [Mini-Tutorial] Working with Images in Expression Design I got a link sent to me for SilverBoom - Public Beta to Convert Adobe Flash files to Microsoft Silverlight/WPF From SilverlightCream.com: Using Blend to set the colour of the text in a button If you've tried to...
In this catching-up Issue: Brad Abrams, Matthias Shapiro, Jesse Liberty, Walt Ritscher, Erik Mork, Gavin Wignall, Tim Heuer, Rob Zelt, Jeff Prosise, and Dan Wahlin. Shoutouts: The Expression Blend and Design blog reports All Expression Blend Samples Posted to the Expression Gallery! Rob Zelt reminds us to Remember the Silverlight Toolkit! In case you missed this one, it's huge: Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight congrats to all involved with that one!! From SilverlightCream.com: Business...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Fons Sonnemans, Matthias Shapiro, Brad Abrams, Rick Barraza, Terence Tsang, Carlos Figueira, Joel Neubeck, Gerard Leblanc, John Papa, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutout: Adam Kinney reports that there are 4 Expression Studio 3 Starter Kits available for download. Adam also reports that MediaPlayer control included in Silverlight 3 Randi Relander sent me a link to his Silver Games site ... all Silverlight 3 and looks great. From SilverlightCream.com: SketchFlow: Making...
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Danijel Stulic, Jonathan van de Veen, Corey Schuman, Jesse Liberty, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Karen Corby announced: Updated FlickrViewr for Silverlight 3 I saw this first at Frank LaVigne's site, but others have it posted as well... the Seattle Silverlight 3 FireStarter will be streamed if you can't get to Seattle. Sounds like a vacation day for me! From SilverlightCream.com: Declarative Dependency Property Definition with T4 + DTE Colin Eberhardt revisits a previous...
In this Submittal-only Issue: Davide Zordan, Michael Washington, Charlie Robbins, Alex Golesh(2), Pencho Popadiyn, and Danijel Stulic From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 behaviors for enabling Multi-touch gestures Davide Zordan provides two Behaviors for gestures with a Multi-Touch device. Don't miss Tim Heuer's article he references, and if you're a WPFer, he also has a companion post A WPF custom control for enabling Windows 7 Multi-touch gestures Silverlight 3 Drag and Drop...
Sorry for the absence from the blog and no Silverlight Cream. I took a week away from everything. The 'main' road to the area I like to camp looks like this (and it was in pretty good condition compared to years past). The turn-off to head North to the lake looks like this (looking South). and this (looking North). From that road, you can see we were pretty well back in there, and notice no neighbors! The payoff is the lake. From my favorite spot facing South about 7 AM, and turning around facing...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Scott Marlowe, Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Vibor Cipan, Joel Neubeck, Gerard Leblanc, and Lee. Shoutouts Terence Tsang reports more updates: Silvelright Resources Directory Update (11 Aug) Kevin Wolf has a multi-touch game up if you're so equipped: Introducing Crazy Coins – a Silverlight 3.0 Multi-Touch Application In a very cool turn of events, Koen Zwikstra has announced Aspose and First Floor Software announce collaboration to enable Word document display in Silverlight...
In this Issue: Jeff Handley, John Papa, and Pete Blois. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra announced Document Toolkit 1.1 Beta 2 available Brian Genisio has a Adventures in MVVM – MVVM Interview with him and David Giard. From SilverlightCream.com: Not Breaking on ValidationException (take 2)Jeff Handley reworks a post based on a reader's comment and great addition to his ValidationException post. Swivel Behavior in Silverlight 3John Papa turns a swivel effect into a Behavior, gives some props to Joel Neubeck...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Colin Eberhardt, and Brad Abrams. Shoutouts: It seems every day Terence Tsang has more to show in his Silverlight Resources Directory... bookmark Terence's Blog for updates! If you're not going to be busy on August 19th at 12pm Pacific time, David Kelley is doing a MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Composite Application Development (Level 200) ... sign up now so you don't forget ! Sorry for the link issues... I'm pretty sure how I did that... hope I don't do it again :) From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Faisal, Jose Fajardo, IRhetoric, Brad Abrams(2), and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutouts: Inspired by Tim Heuer, Jobi Joy has a demo of him using his HP Touch machine with an application he provides: Silverlight 3 Multi-Touch with Windows 7 and HP Touch Smart René Schulte has a follow-up to his very cool WriteableBitmap Performance program where he adds in 2 more tests: Silverlight 3 WriteableBitmap Performance Follow-Up Jonathan van de Veen has a patch up for his CodeEmbed4Web...
In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey(2), Shawn Wildermuth, David Anson, Jesse Liberty(2), Scott Marlowe, Gavin Wignall, Brad Abrams, and Robby Ingebretsen. Shoutouts: John Papa's latest article is available in MSDN Magazine: Binary Encoding and Handling Faults in Silverlight 3 Stefan Olson has his own version of: Bugs fixed (or not) in Silverlight 3 RTW David Kelley has announced an MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Composite Application Development (Level 200) András Velvárt gave me this link which is a promo for...
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be tonight, Wednesday August 5 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner). The graphic above is a link to a map :) Adam Wolf is going to be giving the perfect followup to Steele Price's presentation last month by giving the inside scoop on Prism! I can't be there tonight, so Steele will be officiating, and if history proves correct, we should blow the walls out... for some...
In this Issue: Chris Klug, Alex Knight, John Papa, and Alexey Zakharov. Shoutout: David Kelley is working on a Designer/Developer project and they're looking for folks to fill out 2 parts of a survey: Designer Developer Communication and Interaction As an example of Designer/Developer interaction, David also has up a post: Simon a case study part 1 - designer developer work flow Terence Tsang has 40 of his Samples up in his Silverlight 3 Resources. There are new ones and you can upload your own!...
In this Issue: Karl Shifflett, Jafar Husain, Hannes Preishuber, Tim Heuer, Deep Zoom Blog, Joel Neubeck(2), and Gerard Leblanc. Shoutout: The Expression Blend and Design Blog have reported: Deep Zoom Composer Updated to Fix an Export Related Bug ... and they're saying it was a serious bug. From SilverlightCream.com: Updated – INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code SmellKarl Shifflett discusses up-coming goodness he worked on during his Alaskan cruise (!) and then shows...
In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, Brad Abrams(2), Naughton(2, 3), Sergey Barskly, René Schulte, Jobi Joy, and Jafar Husain(2). Shoutout: Funny, I was a couple days away from writing Jeff Paries asking if he was ok and yesterday he popped up: We now return to our regularly scheduled program…. ... he's been updating his book... and that's great news! If you read blogs like I do sometimes, you may miss some of the goodness on Jesse Liberty's blog yesterday/today... He is turning up the heat on the new Open...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, András Velvárt, Don Burnett, Dan Wahlin, Brad Abrams, Imran Shaik, and Andrew Myhre. Shoutout: Terence Tsang has the alpha of his Resource Directory running and I think it looks great: Silverlight Resource Directory - alpha From SilverlightCream.com: MEF and Silverlight Erik Mork's latest SparklingClient podcast is up and he's talking MEF with none other than the man you'd want to... Glenn Block! Discovering Silverlight 3 – Deep Dive into GPU Acceleration András Velvárt...
In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Scott Marlowe, Adam Kinney, Andrew Marshall, and Brad Abrams. Shoutouts: Attribution error: Alan Mendelevich wrote me this morning to thank me for posting a link to his post Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight. Unfortunately I had attributed it to someone else :( Go check this out its some pretty cool code! If you're into 3D, you'll want to check out this post by Pavan Podila: Source code of Simple 3D Engine, now part of FluidKit. From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Charlie Robbins, Julien Frelat, Lee, Jonathan van de Veen, Faisal, Karim, Brad Abrams, David Anson, and Hanu Kommalapati. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up that he's looking for input on: RIA Services - Still Not Baked Yet From SilverlightCream.com: Quake in Silverlight 3.0 available with full GPL source code! If this is the same post from the other day, I thought it was just a demo but Julien Frelat has all the code up for QuakeLight... yowzer... and the demo...
In this Issue: Rui Marinho, Danijel Stulic, Jesse Liberty, Bill Reiss, Evgeny, Chris Klug, Brad Abrams, and Page Brooks. Shoutout: Mike Harsh reports Slidentity Updated for Silverlight 3 RTW ... if you haven't seen this, now is a good time... very cool! Terence Tsang is getting overrun with XAML snippets [no wonder :) ] and is working on an idea for an app to help him organize his resources: Silverlight Resources Directory. He's also looking for input for you! From SilverlightCream.com: Data Visualization...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Koen Zwikstra, Shawn Wildermuth, Bea Stollnitz, Jesse Liberty, Ashish Shetty, Kevin Dockx, and Eugenio Estrada. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up on Windows 7 - "XP Mode" Walkthrough Koen Zwikstra has announced Silverlight Spy 3 Beta (see below), and he's also saying Win a free Silverlight Spy 3 license From SilverlightCream.com: DotNetNuke Silverlight 3.0 Hello World TutorialMichael Washington has a very complete tutorial from getting the files all the...
In this Issue: Danijel Stulic, Corey Schuman, Erik Mork, Evgeny, Brad Abrams, René Schulte, Kevin Dockx, and Alexey Zakharov. Shoutouts: Steve Strong details a positive experience: Learning RIA Services: It's Great to be a Silverlight Developer Nikhil Kothari gives a 'Twitter Pitch' for .NET RIA Services: .NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch Shawn Wildermuth is on DNR TV with Carl Franklin: See Carl and I Talk about Behaviors on DNR-TV! Walt Ritscher has a good article up at Dev 102: Changing Brush Brightness...
In this Issue: Rabeeh Abla, Laurent Duveau, Jesse Liberty, Davide Zordan, Brad Abrams, Scott Marlowe, and Jafar Husain. Shoutouts: New today from Silverlight SDK: Expression Blend 3 released!. Go get your 60-day trial! Shawn Wildermuth posted his My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts and Snippets. Others have taken him up on the "what are yours" question, so this could become a good reference post. Corey Schuman followed his SketchFlow Controls screenshot up with a Silverlight 3 app: SketchFlow Control...
In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Brad Abrams, Tim Heuer, Nigel Sampson, Timmy Kokke, and Christian Schormann. Shoutouts: The Expression Encoder blog has an announcement that may be of interest to some of you: Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 is available for download The Silverlight SDK has a list of the new controls in SL3 and links out to the MSDN page for each: New controls in Silverlight 3 From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Out of Browser deep dive Michael Wolf takes you through a very thorough...
In this Issue: Andy Beaulieu, Danijel Stulic, Ward Bell, Ryan Shelby, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, and Jesse Liberty(2). Shoutouts: Jeff Handley is looking for input from all of you with regards to DomainDataSource.DataView. The SilverlightSDK has announced Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released! From SilverlightCream.com: Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! Andy Beaulieu has released Physics Helper 3 to CodePlex which has a collection of Physics Behaviors [wow, maybe I can finally understand this stuff...
In this Issue: Ryan Shelby, Silverlight SDK, David Poll, Jesse Liberty(2), Scott Marlowe, Brad Abrams(2), and Katrien De Graeve(2). Shoutouts: Hannes Preishuber shows how to find the Silverlight 2 Design surface in VS2008: Silverlight 3 Visual Studio 2008 Designer Preview . Josh Santangelo was involved in Project Tuva and he has a bunch of good info up: Project Tuva Post-Mortem. On July 30th, Brad Abrams is going to give a Virtual talk at the Linked .NET User's Group on all the goodness he's been...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Qixing Zheng, Amy Dullard, Andrea Boschin, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Stefan Olson, Katrien De Graeve(2), and Brad Abrams. From SilverlightCream.com: Prism's Plugin Architecture Shawn Wildermuth used the IModuleManager interface in Prism to ultimately implement his own downloader to intercept the XAP file. And as usual, he's got all the code out there. um.. is it just me or does Shawn's new picture on his blog seem to follow you :) Plenty of Color Resource for Expression...
In this Issue: Gavin Wignall, Alex Knight, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Katrien De Graeve(2), Brad Abrams(2), René Schulte, SilverLemma, Jonathan van de Veen, and Jobi Joy. From SilverlightCream.com: Accessing the WPF pixel shaders in Silverlight 3Wow... check this out... Gavin Wignall brought a bunch of pixel shaders into Silverlight from WPF... very cool demo and Gavin... your email is full :)... and I added a Pixel Shaders tag!Make Controls From Scratch - Toggle ButtonAnother awesome tutorial from Alex...
In this Issue: Microsoft Expression Blend, Robbe Morris, Peter Bromberg, Jeff Prosise, David Poll, Jesse Liberty(2), Robby Ingebretsen, Katrien De Graeve(2), and Brad Abrams(2). From SilverlightCream.com: Expression Blend Samples Michael Washington clued me into this CodePlex project by some Microsoft Expression Blend folks with a bunch of Expression Blend goodies to download... thanks Michael and Microsoft! Silverlight Modal Dialog With Custom User Controls Robbe Morris has built a class that allows...
In this Issue: Sergey Barskiy, Michael Washington, Katrien De Graeve, Brad Abrams, Chris Klug, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Tim Heuer, Koen Zwikstra, John Papa, David Anson, and Jeff Blankenburg(2). Shoutout: Chris Bernard and Sara Summers have announced Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend ... this should be good! In this Issue: From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Isolated Storage DatabaseSergey Barskiy has an Isolated Storage Database for Silverlight 3 out on CodePlex. It is Object...
In this Issue: Nikhil Kothari, Christian Schormann, Damon Payne, Jeff Blankenburg(2), Scott Marlowe(2), David Poll, Alex Golesh, John Papa, Janete, and Alex Knight. Shoutouts: For all you bloggers, check out Jonathan van de Veen's CodeEmbed4Web Beta 1 Release. Sergey Barskly sent me this link for a Webinar on reporting in Silverlight on July 28th... you've still got time to register :) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3Nikhil Kothari announces a new release of Silverlight.FX,...
In this Issue: David Anson, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Scott Marlowe(2), Michael Washington, Soul Solutions, Gavin Wignall, Bill Reiss, Timmy Kokke(2), and Jeff Blankenburg(2). Shoutout: The Swiss MSDN Team blog has a post: Welcome to SurfaceTwitter, a multi-touch Twitter client for the Microsoft Surface! ... wow would that be cool to have... but hmm ... hard to carry around :) For those of you that mentioned it, I not only added a SketchFlow tag, but I retagged all the older SketchFlow articles...
In this Issue: Pete Blois, Lee, Andrej Tozon(2), Jeff Blankenburg(2), Expression Blend and Design Blog, Terence Tsang, SmartyP, Colin Eberhardt, Timmy Kokke, and Tim Greenfield. Shoutout: I believe I hit all these, but just in case, Tess Fernandez has Design tips for Developers Walt Ritscher has a good post and links up about Hatching Effect Shader - WPF or Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: house of mirrors: Explode! Pete BloisPete Blois ... I don't think I'll be using that her in this factory...
In this Issue: Pete Brown(2, 3), SmartyP, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Corey Schuman, Andrej Tozon(2), and Jeff Blankenburg(2). Shoutout: Christian Schormann reports that there is a First Book on SketchFlow: A Chapter Available for Download. And the blog he points to looks good as well. Corey Schuman announced his First InsideRIA post!!... very cool Corey, congratulations! From SilverlightCream.com: Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight Pete Brown has a detailed post up on sharing entity...
In this Issue: Jacek Ciereszko, Unni, Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Bea Stolnitz, John Papa, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Andrej Tozon, Christian Schormann, and Jeff Blankenburg(2). From SilverlightCream.com: How to connect from html to Silverlight and from Silverlight to html Jacek Ciereszko provides a down-right clever little app demonstrating what his article is all about. And if you can read Polish, he has a link out to his blog! Introducing sample data for Developers Did you know you could design...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Alex Golesh(2), Andrej Tozon, Somasegar, David Anson, Christian Schormann, Expression Blend and Design Blog, and Jeff Blankenburg(2). From SilverlightCream.com: Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight (Prism-v2) Reference Implementation using Silverlight 3 Validation I just blogged Damian Schenkelman's previous post, and he sent this one which is concentrating on Validation and how he replaced RI's validation with SL3... good stuff! Silverlight...
Yep, it's been an entire week of SlickEdit 2009 here at my desk. The only time I opened version 7 was to compare a macro. And, I've not had to change a macro for 4 workdays. Things I've had to learn: Stop backspacing over things you want to remove... word left and nuke to end of line avoids whatever the template editing is doing. Jumping to a bookmark no longer takes an enter key. Ctrl-J followed by the number or name and you're there Make friends with the file open tab and the search tab. I actually...
2009 Silverlight Control Builder Contest is live! Remember last year Page Brooks invited me to help with his Control Builder Contest? I didn't do much, and this year with Silverlight Contrib and Silverlight MVP under his belt, he's off to the races with the 2009 version of the contest all on his own. There's a big difference though, because last year the contest, like many others, was U.S.-only. If you've been reading this blog long enough, you'll remember I was particularly miffed at the lack of...
In this Issue: Corey Schuman(2, 3), Andy Beaulieu(2), Jafar Husain, Jonathan van de Veen, Ashish Shetty, Walt Ritscher, and Celso Gomes. Shoutout: Andy Beaulieu has some new SL3 posts below, but also has updated some old ones: Silverlight 3 Released! Jeff Handley and his crew are looking for feedback on the DomainDataSource in the new .NET RIA Services release: DomainDataSource – Defining Its Limits From SilverlightCream.com: Editing a ToolTip Style in Blend 3 Corey Schuman has up a great tutorial...
In this Issue: Modesty Zhang, Damian Schenkelman, Michael Wolf(2, 3), Andrea Boschin(2, 3, 4, 5). Shoutout Bill Reiss reported an update to SilverSprite on Codeplex. If you're doing games with Silverlight and you haven't checked this out, now is a good time! From SilverlightCream.com, another all-submittal all-submittal post: Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Azure Table Storage Modesty Zhang has combined .NET RIA Services, Azure, Silverlight3. Starting with a discussion...
In this Issue: Steve Strong(2), Christian Schormann, Gavin Wignall, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Laurent Bugnion, Expression Blend and Design Blog, and Brad Abrams. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra answers questions about Silverlight Spy and Silverlight 3 RTW Laurent Bugnion also answers similar questions about Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and the MVVM Light Toolkit ... see the link below for installing MVVM Light From SilverlightCream.com: Bing Maps Silverlight Control Part 4: Drawing Circles To Scale Somewhere along...
In this Issue: Rob Houweling, Michael Washington, Mark Monster, and Alex Golesh(2, 3, 4). From SilverlightCream.com another all-submittal post: TextBox with automatically resizing of the fontsize Rob Houweling pulls off a resizing font in a textbox... this is very cool because last time I recompiled one of my legacy win32 articles, the native desktop code wouldn't do this without some finagling... thanks, Rob!Silverlight 3 Drag and Drop example Michael Washington took some time and got Tim Heuer's...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh(2, 3), Joseph Ghassan, Jeff Handley(2), and Mark Monster. From SilverlightCream.com... an all-submittal 'Cream: Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Analytics Did you know SL3 could give you analytics about your app? Alex Goleshgives us a walk-through of the features available. Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Animation Easing and VSM Alex Golesh demonstrates setting the easing functions from XAML and CodeBehind.Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Native Mouse Wheel Support When Alex Golesh says this...
In this Silverlight 3 is RTW Issue: Pete Brown(2). Pete is the only one that's submitted any SL3 links to me, so I thought I'd give him the 'Cream post and list all the announcement and resource posts and get them out of my system :) I have tagged everything in my cloud at WynApse.com as "Silverlight 3", and everything going to my MSDN Social bookmarks is the same. Silverlight Cream already has a tag for version 3, so it's all good! There are a potful of SL3 posts out there already and I'll get to...
For those of you that have been asleep for the last few weeks, today is "Silverlight 3 Day". Scott Guthrie just posted Silverlight 3 Released . I won't repeat his info about the highlights because I know you're already gone and reading his post :) Give all the guys a chance to get their material up on their blogs and I'll start playing catch-up with them. Hopefully it won't be as bad as post-MIX09 was :) Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Milind Soman, Jordan Knight, Jeff Blankenburg(2), Qixing Zheng, Faisal, and Expression Blend and Design Blog. From SilverlightCream.com: Right aligned stack panel in Silverlight Milind Soman sent me this and it's a great Blend Tutorial on the StackPanel. Hope to see more from him... keep sending them in, Milind! Eventr – Your Flexible DeepZoom Reference App The Jordan Knight half of the Knight brothers has initiated a great Deep Zoom project ... for all of you (like me) that want to...
In this Issue: Tim Heuer, Qixing Zheng, Faisal, Davide Zordan, and Jeff Blankenburg(2). Shoutout: Microsoft started a very cool site called Thrive to help all of us keep up and retool. I'm adding this to the sidebar of WynApse.com so I can find it quickly. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight FloatableWindow update: start position and resizable Tim Heuer has enhanced his FloatableWindow with input received from Karl Shifflett and others after the post hit. [Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: Visual Data Binding...
In this Issue: Bob Bartholomay, The Silverlight Blog, Expression Blend and Design Blog, and Dan Wahlin. From SilverlightCream.com: Clickable Hyperlinks in a Silverlight TextBlock Bob Bartholomay sent me this link this morning ... and wow... he's got a bunch of SL goodness on his site! ... check out this hyperlink in a TextBlock... it looks and works great... and the source is right there ... thanks Bob! Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design This is the kind of designer stuff that is just...
In this Issue: Thierry Fierens, Shawn Wildermuth, Page Brooks, Faisal, Qixing Zheng, and Chris Klug. Shoutout Pete Brown posted an article about an application AIS did in Silverlight 2 for PETA: Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts András Velvárt has another part of his UX Thoughts sequence up and definitely worth a read: UX Thoughts – Learning Phase Tools II I know the Skim page at SilverlightCream was a problem. I've got a band-aid on it, and we need to tune the query ... seems...
In this Issue: SmartyP, Mark Monster, Nigel Sampson, Manish Dalal, Steve Commisso, and Kevin Dockx. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen has a screenshot of his CodeEmbed4Web project up: The birth of CodeEmbed4Web part #2 and he's looking for opinions... I like the UI. Jim Lynn did a Deep Zoom image of a mosaic novelist Neil Gaiman did with pix sent by his twitter followers: A Deep Zoom celebration From SilverlightCream.com: IPhone Style Drag and Push Panel in Silverlight SmartyP has an excellent IPhone-style...
In this Issue: Andrej Tozon(2), Walt Ritscher, Chris Klug, Timmy Kokke(2), Koen Zwikstra, and Dan Wahlin. From SilverlightCream.com: Countdown to Silverlight 3 #6: System colors Andrej Tozon continues his Countdown discussing the ability to get to system colors with Silverlight 3B. Countdown to Silverlight 3 #7: Navigation In his latest, Andrej Tozon discusses the Silverlight Navigation aspects of Silverlight 3B and a quick walk-through of it's use. Disable Autoplay on Silverlight Video in Expression...
In this Issue: Erik Mork(2), Michael Washington, Faisal(2), Andrej Tozon(2), and Jose Fajardo. I feel like I went through a time-warp or something because there is a flurry of SL out there right now. And a couple of folks are just flooding me! Hopefully I can catch up this weekend. From SilverlightCream.com: Downloading Prism Prism apparently is not straightforward to get up on your machine (oops, kinda lets you know I'm not running it eh?) oh well..Erik Mork has a great tutorial links and all, no...
In this Issue: Cristian Merighi, Walt Ritscher, Al Pascual, Vijay, and Faisal(2). Shoutouts: The Mashooo folks have the winning entries up for their S Prize contest. I'd like to thank them for the honor of participating as a judge. I didn't look at any of the games prior to going through the 10 finalists because I didn't want to be swayed. Since I was a judge I won't comment on the winners, but I will say I'm not disappointed :) Check them out ... the other 7 are all winners also! Mashooo S Prize...
First congratulations to everyone else that got awarded or re-awarded today! The only one I'm aware of so far is John Stockton -- a first-time awardee in Silverlight -- very cool John! I'm sure Twitter is alive with all the info, but I can't get to it from here. Just after getting to work, I got my re-award email and it made the muggy gray day here in Phoenix much brighter :) Thanks to everyone involved... I know it's a tough thankless job sifting through all the information and there are so many...
In this Issue: Davide Zordan, Erik Mork(2), Walt Ritscher, Peter Bromberg, and Lee. Shoutouts: Are you up for showing off?? Tim Heuer has announced a Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! ... and check that list of judges... wow :) Remember Chris Klug's FlickR ViewR? Well, check out the problems he had putting it on the blog: And then Firefox does it differently…reloading the Silverlight control when the css changes…. From SilverlightCream.com: Multi Touch enabling your WPF application...
In this Issue: Andrej Tozon(2, 3), Jonathan van de Veen, Corey Schuman, and Al Pascual. Shoutouts: I'm with Jesse on this one: So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! Remember when Mike Snow said he was writing a book on Silverlight Game Programming? Have you noticed his blog has slowed down? Well... the book is NOW: Game Programming with Silverlight. Shawn Wildermuth announces that My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! -- in MSDN Magazine... very cool, Shawn! What a weekend... essentially...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Colin Eberhardt, Nigel Sampson, and Alex Golesh. Shoutouts: Pavan Podila has a post up about a great-looking TreeMap he's done. He may post source later, I'll watch for it. Meanwhile read the post and watch the video. A SilverLight TreeMap control From SilverlightCream.com: Commanding in PrismErik Mork interviews P&P members Bob Brumfield and David Hill along with Shawn Wildermuth all discussing Commanding in Prism ... another great Prism Podcast Erik!Silverlight MultiBindings,...
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be next Wednesday, July 1 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner). Steele Price will follow-up last month's excellent presentation with a full LOB presentation this time around. He showed us a little of this last time, but come prepared to learn all about it on Wednesday. Hope to see you there! Phoenix Silverlight User Group...
In this Issue: Corey Schuman, and Pete Brown. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen is working on a new project: The birth of CodeEmbed4Web. I'm looking forward to the post saying it's ready :) From SilverlightCream.com: ToggleButton Command for Prism Are you working with Prism and chafing that you don't have Checked and Unchecked commands for a ToggleButton? Well, Corey Schuman has resolved that and along the way gives us insight into how to perform that magic, along with all the code. From Silverlight...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Fons Sonnemans, Ian Blackburn, Lee, and Timmy Kokke. From SilverlightCream.com: Commanding and Adding Commands in Prism Erik Mork has his latest Prism Hypervideo up ... this one is on Commands and commanding ... great job on all these, Erik! ImageSlider in Silverlight 2.0 Fons Sonnemans came across a blog of cool JQuery tutorials and decided to give one of them a shot in Silverlight ... looks like he stuck the dismount to me ... keep them coming, Fons! Pushing Data From...
In this Issue: Erno de Weerd, Colin Eberhardt, Thanigainathan Siranjeevi, Stefan Olson(2), Dan Wahlin, Chris Klug, and Alex Golesh. Shoutouts: Tim Greenfield has entered the NewCloudApp Windows Azure contest with a Silverlight app and asks us to Look what Silverlight can do... for now he has his submittal, a cool jigsaw puzzle, but he promises to write all about it. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight, Windows Live Writer and WordPress Erno de Weerd blogged this and it's been picked up by others....
In this Issue: Brian Genisio, Cristian Merighi, Terence Tsang, Gavin Wignall, and Alex Golesh(2), Shoutouts: The Expression Blend and Design blog announced Deep Zoom Composer - June 2009 Preview! Unni posted a set of links on Blend 3 Databinding From SilverlightCream.com: Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM Brian Genisio discusses a demo he's doing of the contrast between a messy untested app and a good componentized one all of which is a twitter search app in WPF. Parametric Shader Effect...
In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, and Al Pascual. Shoutouts: Don't forget it is Time to rate the Silverlight games on the Mashooo S Prize From SilverlightCream.com: DotNetNuke Silverlight Chat v2 – Gravatar Support Ian T. Lackey approaches adding Gravatar support to a Silverlight application with a perspective of if it's not there, make it so... read his code and comments. IIS Security Settings for Silverlight 2.0 Al Pascual walks us through some of the problems we might encounter with Silverlight accessing...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Nigel Sampson, Jonathan van de Veen, Steve Strong, and Kevin Dockx. From SilverlightCream.com: Which comes first the View or the ViewModel?Erik Mork and Shawn Wildermuth attempt to unravel the chicken/egg debate as it relates to MVVM... what, you didn't think Shawn had an opinion on that one ?? :)Attaching Silverlight 3 Behaviors in C#If you're not familiar with Microsoft.Expression.Intera... or dealing with Attached Behaviors in your C#, then Nigel Sampson...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Chris Klug(2), Gavin Wignall, Peter Bromberg, and Al Pascual. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth is on Deep Fried Bytes: Listen to me on Deep Fried Bytes!... listen to him discuss OSLO and DSLs in general. Updated with Chris Klug's real last name... sorry Chris! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 applications: a day after Silverlight 3 releaseAlex Golesh puts himself in the position of being 1 day after the release of Silverlight 3 and what we all need to do with out code...
In this Issue: Nigel Sampson, Kevin Dockx, Al Pascual, John Papa, Timmy Kokke, Arturo Toledo, Alexey Zakharov, and David Anson. Shoutouts: James Bacon and SilverlightGirl have announced the end of their "Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Game Contest". Now it's your turn to go rate the entries (until the 21st), and then the top 10 rated go to the judges. Read their posts: Mashooo S Prize Silverlight Game Contest Rating Period and Time to rate the Silverlight games on the Mashooo S Prize . I posted yesterday...
In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Alex Knight, Terence Tsang, Gavin Wignall, Laurent Bugnion, Michael Sync, Mike Taulty(2, 3, 4, 5, 6), and Jordan Knight. Shoutout: Rob Eisenberg has announced that he released Caliburn v1 Release Candidate... this is definitely worth a look, he's been fine tuning it for a while. Michael S. Scherotter has announced the New York Times Silverlight Kit version 1.0.7 Released Well, I didn't do two yesterday and chances of doing a second today are probably slim, so I just...
In this Issue: Brian Genisio, Steve Strong, Andrew Myhre, John Papa, and Corey Schuman. Shoutout: Jordan Knight is working on a presentation for Remix Australia and has posted the code he's using throughout his talk: Remix Australia 09 – Silverlight 3 Super Session Demo!, with more info to follow. Life has been hectic, so this is part 1 of 2 today... From SilverlightCream.com: Adventures in MVVM – Slides and Demo AppBrian Genisio gave an MVVM talk and has his deck and code up for our perusal. The...
In this Issue: Patrick Cauldwell, Erik Mork, Dan Wahlin, David Poll, Peter Bromberg, Steve Strong, Jonathan van de Veen, Michael C. Neel, and Jafar Husain. Shoutouts: Pete Blois reports that he has Updated Rooler ... if you haven't used this, go get it now! From SilverlightCream.com -- 9 items since some folks got delayed a day: Default button semantics in Silverlight revisited Patrick Cauldwell revisited his Default button code I blogged a couple days ago and has made it Prism-friendly. It depends...
In this Issue: Gavin Wignall, Timmy Kokke, Robbe Morris, Michael S. Sherotter, and Michael Sync. Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu is the first guest on the Coding4Fun Show - Physics Helper ... check it out! Shawn Wildermuth is holding forth at DevTeach and has his first set of material up: DevTeach Silverlight+MVVM=Easy Demo If you missed the Reston Silverlight Firestarter, Andrew Duthie has posted the Silverlight Firestarter Deck and Links I didn't notice this is Issue 611 and being posted on 6/11 until...
In this Issue: Andy Beaulieu, Brian Mains, Patrick Cauldwell, Timmy Kokke, Karl Shifflett, Silverlight Web Services Team, and John Papa. Buncha Shoutouts today. I've got more, but they can wait: Tim Heuer has a post up on the NET RIA Services roadmap update. Unni has an interesting post in case you're having trouble with flyout menus in Blend: TabletPC and the Blend menus Jaime Rodriguez points out that Wintellect just released Programming differences between WPF and SIlverlight, a WHitePaper Shawn...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Patrick Cauldwell(2), Kirupa Chinnathambi, and Nigel Sampson. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer has some great advice up for anyone trying to get ready for the SL2/SL3 switch: Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3. I know we all have seen pages that want us to install SL 1 or 1.1 still, so follow Tim's instructions to not be one of those! Despite 3 years of French in High School, I do NOT speak or read French (it's been too long ago!), but I can look at...
In this Issue: Steve Strong, Al Pascual, Stefan Olson(2), and Robby Ingebretsen. Shoutouts: First a big Congratulations to András Velvárt and the Zoomery folks! -- Zoomery wins Microsoft Innovation Award! -- well deserved, my friend! Koen Zwikstra is giving some information out about Silverlight Spy 3 -- I think the free/Pro idea is great! From SilverlightCream.com: Using the Virtual Earth Silverlight Control - Part One Steve Strong discusses his application he used with his travel he recently did...
We had a great Phoenix Silverlight User Group meeting last night. Steele Price hosted a roundtable-type discussion on Navigation and MVVM plus gave us a hint of what his Desert Code Camp talk will be about. He has also agreed to repeat the Code Camp talk at our July 1 meeting, so put that on your calendar now! Thanks to Steele, Simon Allardice for babysitting us, and Interface Technical Training for hosting us as usual! If you are not a member of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group Yahoo mailing list,...
In this Issue: Karl Shifflett, Jaime Rodriguez, and David Anson. Shoutouts: I didn't realize it until I put in the "In this Issue" list above, but Karl and Jaime are the first two, and I will see them at a NerDinner tomorrow night, and be one of the recipient's of their WPF LOB training in Phoenix on Friday and Saturday ... see you guys tomorrow :) Mike Taulty did as he threatened in yesterday's post and produced WPF: Pong From SilverlightCream.com: Troubleshooting Silverlight 3 Broken Bindings Karl...
In this Issue: Sergey Zwezdin, Steve Berry, Colin Eberhardt, and Mike Taulty. Shoutout: Tom is posting his Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 1 and is looking for others working in the same space. From SilverlightCream.com: Cross domain access policy in Silverlight applications Sergey Zwezdin has a good post up at ASPAlliance on the Cross-domain policy... what it is, why it is, why you should use it, etc... all good stuff!Silverlight 3 Based on Styles Steve Berry gives a quick...
In this Issue: David Hill, Jesse Liberty, Gabriel Shenker and Ray Houston, Nikhil Kothari, and Krish Shoutouts: The Expression Team Blog has a great post up on SketchFlow, and links out to other good sources as well: SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works From SilverlightCream.com: Prism Quick Start KitDavid Hill has put together a "Quick Start Kit" for Prism. Where to get it, how to install it, and what to push/press/whatever to get something cooking.What’s New In Silverlight 3Jesse Liberty has...
In this Issue: Brian Genisio, Bob Bartholomay, Seema Ramchandani, and Nigel Sampson. Shoutouts: First, congratulations to Andy Beaulieu for winning the ServerQuest contest with Boss Launch: Boss Launch wins Server Quest Contest!! The Expression Web team gives us a sneak peek at Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding From SilverlightCream.com: Adventures in MVVM – Commanding with List Boxes Brian Genisio continues his MVVM discussion with this post on reacting to...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Alexey Zakharov, René Schulte, Gavin Wignall, Koen Zwikstra, David Anson, and Lee. Shoutouts: MVP Vikram Pendse has produced an 8-part series on Silverlight 3, that could easily serve as a Silverlight 3 primer! He is showcased in the MVP Award Program Blog Unni, who I just started watching yesterday has a post up today on how the latest version of Blend was made better by suggestions in Connect: Connect and Blend 3 From SilverlightCream.com: When to use Prism Erik Mork continues...
In this Issue: Brian Genisio, Davide Zordan(2), Paul Chapman, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Brad Abrams, Jordan Knight, and Unni. From SilverlightCream.com: Adventures in MVVM – A Testing Story Brian Genisio submitted this just under the wire tonight... and it's a good discussion of how he got started in MVVM and testing Silverlight.Silverlight 3 Beta and Binary message encoding Davide Zordan has two posts up today. This one gives a quick example of binary message encoding on the client side, and...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Boyan Mihaylov, Tim Heuer, Jesse Liberty, Jonathan van de Veen, Al Pascual, and Jafar Husain. Shoutout: If you're interested in Azure and haven't taken the plunge yet (like me), Chris Hay is going to come to our rescue! He's announced My new Azure Book ... congratulations Chris! I'm a little backed up from all the AZGroups festivities over the last couple days. Since I have a couple submittals, I decided to post them this morning and cut the total I have queued up in half....
In this Issue: Thanigainathan Siranjeevi, Rene Schulte, Brian Genisio, Rishi, Shawn Wildermuth, and Joel Neubeck. Shoutout: Rene Schulte who has a post listed below also has a new version of his site up all in Silverlight. I'm not a big fan of sites that move around like this, but it is pretty cool and he has lots of good links: HomeLight I didn't make a second post yesterday, but enjoy this Number 600 from Silverlight Cream! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 with Ria Authentication service...
In this Issue: Stephen Price, and John Bruin. These are both from yesterday. I'll do another post later. From SilverlightCream.com: How to Create Sample Data in Blend 3Alex Knight turned the reigns of SilverZine over to Stephen Price for this tutorial for putting in automatic data using Expression Blend 3.I Love StickersJohn Bruin has this post up where he did a retro I Love xyz sticker in Silverlight. When he first posted it, I thought it was interesting, but didn't blog it. Now John has the source...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Peter Bromberg, and Corey Schuman. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer has a good post up for those of you that are taking VS2010 out for a spin: Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 From SilverlightCream.com: Moonlight Preview 3, a new Test Run. Mark Monster is investigating Moonlight preview 3. Everyone was real quiet on preview 2 :)Silverlight Multipurpose WebRequest Proxy Peter Bromberg has worked out a way to allow us to transparently make requests using our Silverlight apps...
In this Issue: Nigel Sampson, Jonathan van de Veen, Rod Paddock, Alex Knight, Arturo Toledo, Tim Heuer, Justin Angel, Lee, and David Anson. Shoutouts: There are probably more by now, but at last look, both Jesse Liberty and Alex Golesh had not only dowloaded and installed VS2010, but they're also building Silverlight apps out there... sweet! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 Navigation and Google Analytics Nigel Sampson pinged me on this post. I blew right past it two days in a row! Nigel...
In this Issue: Marek Latuskiewicz, Cristian Merighi, Kevin Dockx, Jayaram Krishnaswamy, Gavin Wignall, Stefan Olson(2), and Jason Cooke. Shoutouts: Jeff Weber tells us that there is a New Place To Upload Your Silverlight Games: Game Jolt Tim Heuer gave us a heads-up about .NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template From SilverlightCream.com: Animate anything anywhere with behaviors in Silverlight 3 (and 2!) (Animations part II) Marek Latuskiewicz has part 2 of his animate anything...
You read it correctly...TypeMock is giving out free licenses... well not to everyone, but hey... you can try. I'm posting this in hopes I get some licenses that I can hand out to readers... and that would be all of you :) I'll let you know how it goes :) Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy. Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. The ASP.NET...
If you missed yesterday's event at the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Phoenix, you missed a great event. I know those events cost money and the soft drinks and swag isn't free either, so a big Thank You from me to all involved... that includes the time volunteered by the presenters in addition to the funding by Microsoft and Interface Technical Training who gave away discount coupons to everyone and one lucky winner got a free class! Tim Heuer gave a great Silverlight 3 presentation highlighting...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Mark Monster, Steve Strong, Rishi, Kirupa Chinnathambi(2), Timmy Kokke, Shawn Wildermuth(2), Page Brooks, and Alex Golesh. Shoutouts: This was a bad weekend for me... I spent most of Saturday in bed and didn't feel much like blogging on Sunday, so this set of posts is everything from Friday evening to Monday morning. Shawn Wildermuth has posted his Sample Code from GGMUG Talk Michael S. Sherotter says that he Need Help with my Chroma Key Pixel Shader Algorithm, which I blogged...
In this Issue: James Bacon, SmartyP, Peter Gerritsen(2), Vasanthakumar D, Peter Bromberg, and John Papa(2). Shoutout: Pete Brown elaborates on the Pixel Shader Effects available for Silverlight in the WPF effects library on Codeplex that I discussed yesterday, and shows some screenshots too: More Pixel Shader Effects for Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: How to add Silverlight version detection to Google Analytics James Bacon shows how to add Silverlight version info to your Google Analytics...
Happy 2nd Birthday SilverlightCream! May 15th, 2007 I blogged the first SilverlightCream post. Yesterday afternoon I blogged number 593, so that's something like 296/year over both years which is almost 6 days a week! Looking back at May 15, 2008, it appears there were 274 SC posts the first year, making year number two 317 posts... which is just over 6 days a week... cool! Thanks to all the readers... to be honest, I'd do it just for me, but knowing folks are reading and looking forward to the next...
In this Issue: Modesty Zhang(2), Marek Latuskiewicz, Junnark Vicencio, Brian Mains, Rishi, Koen Zwikstra, Nikhil Kothari, Michael S. Scherotter, and Lee. Shoutouts: If you're not up on WPF yet, Laurence Moroney's book at Apress is the $10 eBook of the day deal today: Foundations of WPF: An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation. Even if you are up on WPF, it's only $10 ... I'm just sayin'... Michael S. Scherotter has a post up that the New York Times Silverlight Kit Now Open Source If you've...
In this Issue: Peter Bromberg, David Poll, Jose Fajardo, Terence Tsang, and David Anson. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 RIA Services: DataForm, Validation Peter Bromberg digs into Validation and Navigation for us and is very code-heavy on a great article/explanation of a a Silverlight app using both those concepts. Logging Navigation in the Silverlight 3 Beta David Poll is also looking at Navigation, but at the same time is trying out ways to get logging and statistics for deep links...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Scott Davis, Colin Eberhardt, Silverlight Girl, Tim Heuer, Koen Zwikstra, Ning Zhang, and Ben Waggoner. Shoutouts: András Velvárt sent me this link via Twitter the other day... Sorry András but I'm not on Twitter much, so this is late :( ... but it's sweet! ... He has done a 'Zoomery' of all the MIX sessions! ... this is awesome... all the slide decks and videos are there! WOW!! This is going on the sidebar of WynApse for sure: mix.zoomery.com... thanks my friend! Brad...
Don't get this confused with the Scott Guthrie event and then be mad at yourself for missing it! On May 18th there is a FREE half-day Best of MIX Event in downtown Phoenix. Did I mention it is FREE? Come out to see Tim Heuer present on Silverlight 3, Dan Wahlin on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and Web Forms, and Rob Bagby on Windows Azure. These are all 3 great presenters and great topics. You were going to celebrate Victoria Day anyway, so come out for an afternoon with 3 Phoenix "Rockstars" and get warmed up...
In this Issue: SmartyP, Andrea Boschin, Mike Taulty(2), Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth(2), Jordan Knight, Steve Strong, Ashish Shetty, and Kevin Dockx. It was a busy weekend, beginning with Friday, so SC's been pretty quiet. Lucikly everyone else has been as well, so the list isn't overly long today :) From SilverlightCream.com: Create Circular Rotating Text in Expression Blend SmartyP has an artle up on Alex Knight's site... he's demonstrating wrapping text around a button this time... and a very nice-looking...
In this Issue: Chris Cavanagh, Alex Knight, Steve Strong, Jory Schossau, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty has a hysterical post up about using Newton or Jott. I tried Jott during the beta maybe that's why I liked Jesse's post so much :) This is a note that I’m Cindy To Buy Chocolate Rob Zelt demo'd Silverlight 3 at TRINUG Web Apps Sig and posted his material... good for us :) Did you hear NBC Olympics Wins an Emmy with Silverlight?? Check it out... Silverlight was the "behind-the-scenes...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, Peter Bromberg, Expression Blend and Design, Michael S. Scherotter, and Steve Strong. Just a note that the Silverlight Skim Pages are out to 6 pages now, and Jeff Prosise has not only the top entry, but the top 2 :) Simon Guest is in there with 2 as well at 4 and 5. Others in the top 10 are: Al Pascual, Pete Blois, Matthias Shapiro, Mahesh Chand, Peter Bromber, and Josh Holmes. And remember... that list is only for the last 7 days! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight...
In this Issue: Matthias Shapiro, David Anson, and Steve Strong. From SilverlightCream.com: INotifyPropertyChanged Snippets (And Why You Should Use These Instead of DependencyProperties) Matthias Shapiro discusses INotifyPropertyChanged and shares some code snippets with us and advice on when and why to use them. Going "extreme" with Silverlight 3 [Sharing the source code for a real-world sample application] David Anson shares the code he produced during an app building exercise last week... how cool...
In this Issue: Jeff Prosise, Shawn Wildermuth, Michael Sync, Jesse Liberty, Al Pascual, Frank La Vigne, and Mahesh Chand. Shoutout: Koen Zwikstra at First Floor has announced that his Document Toolkit v1 available for puchase ... it's the only tool like it, check it out! From SilverlightCream.com: Radial Layout in Silverlight Jeff Prosise has a very cool post on laying out items radially in Silverlight reminiscent of the control in the MIX09 keynote! More Validation Fun - But Not Done Yet Shawn Wildermuth...
As you know if you've been reading my blog for long, I've been writing software for a while. It seems I always gravitated to the user interface side although it took me a while to realize that. I visited my family in October of 2008 and my Mother's boyfriend asked what the 'payoff' was for writing software. He is a long-time woodworker and the payoff for him is holding something in his hands or seeing it put to use. My response to him was to ask about running an application an pushing 'buttons'....
In this Issue: Alex Knight, Radenko Zec, Peter Bromberg, Page Brooks, Pete Blois, and Frank La Vigne(2). From SilverlightCream.com: Getting the most out of the Vector tools in Expression Design. Alex Knight posted this on Twitter just as I was getting ready to fire off this 'Cream post ... another great Design post from him... this one out in Expression Design and working with Vectors... great :) Integrating silverlight 3 polling duplex with unity container Radenko Zec has a sample chat application...
In this Issue: Simon Guest(2), Al Pascual, Jeff Prosise, Andrew Duthie, Nikhil Kothari, Alex Golesh, Ning Zhang, Jesse Liberty, and SilverLemma. Shoutouts: Jeff Wilcox is asking Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox’s DropDownOpening and Closing events? Cameron Albert has a blog post up about his Perenthia World Builder in Silverlight Pete Brown posted his Silverlight 3 Links from the Reston DevDinner From SilverlightCream.com: Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes Simon Guest sent me a...
In this Issue: Jeff Prosise, Josh Holmes, Thanigainathan Siranjeevi, Mike Taulty, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Mike Taulty reports some “Getting Started with Silverlight” on the Expression site. The Team.Silverlight.net blog has a post talking about Microsoft Previews Great WPF and Silverlight Apps with Facebook OpenStreams API From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3's New Child Windows Jeff Prosise provides assistance for folks like me coming from the Win32 area and wanting modal dialogs ... he...
In this Issue: Thanigainathan Siranjeevi, Ashish Shetty, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Mike Taulty(2), and Andrew Duthie. Shoutouts: Scott Guthrie announced: Free ASP.NET MVC “NerdDinner” Tutorial Now in HTML -- note 'Free' -- 12 parts to this Tutorial! Shawn Wildermuth announces I am on .NET Rocks! .. no not ME... Shawn! :) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 Navigation API Thanigainathan Siranjeevi put up a nice tutorial at SilverlightShow on the NAV API in Silverlight 3B. Silverlight out-of-browser...
If you live in Phoenix, Arizona or anywhere near, or have the ability to get here at will, May and June are going to be great months for developers! I'm writing this post as much for my own memory as to get everyone else on-board! Team System Big Event May 7, 2009 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM This “break through” event will not only provide you with best practices around development and testing, but will demonstrate key capabilities of both Visual Studio Team System 2008 and the upcoming 2010 release. It’s...
In this Issue: Maurice de Beijer, Ruurd Boeke, Shawn Wildermuth, and Michael Wolf. Shoutouts: Brad Abrams reports that the ScottGu Mix Keynote coding demo posted The Silverlight Blog reports 13th Annual Webby Awards powered by Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: Paging with the Silverlight RIA services DomainDataSource Maurice de Beijer demonstrates using the DomainDataSource in the .NET RIA Services app and discusses PageSize, LoadSize, and Progressive loading. Slideshow using DomainUpDown and...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh and Somasegar. Shoutouts: If you haven't been to the Team Silverlight blog, you should. Scott Barnes has done an awesome job on the UI for the blog... and they've got good stuff going and some coming up! Josh Santangelo sent me this link to a visualization they did for Microsoft: Microsoft Local Impact Map Kevin Dockx has announced an update: Silverlight Drag and Drop Manager v1.1 released! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Quick Tip: How to resize window from Silverlight...
In this Issue: Al Pascual, Eric Mork, Martin Duffy, Boyan Mihaylov, Andrew Marshall, Tim Greenfield, James Bacon, Page Brooks, Jesse Liberty, and Rob Houweling. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth has had some good articles up on DSL and Oslo. If this is in your area of interest, check out Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! Chad Campbell lists his essential Twitter accounts: Silverlight - 7 Twitter Accounts I Follow (and have found valuable) -- thanks for the shoutout, Chad! Bob Thomson at...
In this Issue: Ashish Shetty, SilverLemma, Vladimir Bodurov, Alex Knight, Ofir Shemesh, Cameron Albert, Corey Schuman, Ning Zhang, and Jose Fajardo. Shoutouts: Brunce Abernethy has his material up from his Silverlight 101 Presentation: Silverlight 101 Presentation and Files from .NET University West Michigan 2009 David Anson updated his link of posts about charting: My new home page, extended [Updated collection of great Silverlight and WPF Charting resources!] From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight...
6 words: Scott Guthrie May 26 Phoenix Free Do I need to say anything else?? Oh ok, here's the rest of the info: ASP.NET MVC Presented By Scott Guthrie (ScottGu) We’ll walkthrough building an application from scratch using the recent ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release. You’ll learn what ASP.NET MVC is, the design decisions behind it, and how to build a real application with it. We’ll cover topics ranging from the basics of application creation through to concepts like unit testing and dependency injection. Silverlight...
In this Issue: Ashish Shetty, Al Pascual, Fredrik Normén, Stephen P. Anderson, András Velvárt, Colin Eberhardt, Mike Taulty, and Jose Fajardo Shoutouts: Mario Meir-Huber wrote me that he has updated his Silverlight Photo Album on CodePlex to now have 3 different album controls! Sorry I didn't blog this sooner. Ben Waggoner has a nice post up on the NAB release: NAB Day 1: Smooth Streaming released, Partners, 1080p in SL3, new VC-1 Jonas Follesø is on .NET Rocks! Listen to him discuss Silverlight,...
In this Issue: Erik and Monica Mork, Guillaume André, Mike Taulty(2), Cameron Albert, Manish Dalal, and Michael Wolf. Shoutouts: Bob Thomson of Colaab and StormID.com sent me this link of a visualization they've done showing statistics for water quality in Scottland: Drinking Water Quality Regulator Bob said that mapping this many polygons with JS just grinds eveything to a stop, but Silvelright... well, check it out! Peter Dungan wrote that he has a new version up on CodePlex of AutoScroller for...
In this Issue: Al Pascual, Alex Knight, Jose Fajardo, and Chris Hay. Shoutout: Just in case you've been asleep for a while, Bill Reiss has been working on "a community dedicated to free online games built on the Silverlight platform". Check it out: SilverArcade... I just saw a tweet that it is officially launching later this week, so they're calling this a 'pre-launch' ... it looks great, Bill! Also... I forgot to mention this yesterday, but I made some intrusive changes under the covers on SilverlightCream.com...
In this Issue: Fredrik Normén, Alex Knight, Peter Bromberg, and Al Pascual. Shoutout: Want $295? ok, not exactly... do you want the equivalent of $295? ... ok ok, how would you like to have what many others paid $295 for?? Well you can.. I just did! Robby Ingebretsen gave a Pre-MIX09 Workshop and not only did it get recorded, but you can watch it free: MIX09 Workship is Online Now . I'm no expert, but to the best of my knowledge this is the first time a workshop has been available like this... sweet!...
In this Issue: Erik Mork, Rishi, Colin Eberhardt, Expression Blend and Design, and Mike Snow. Shoutouts: Erik Mork wrote that in addition to the podcast below... you may notice it's hosted at a development-video site he's hosting: Development Guides which looks very interesting... watch his or others and upload yours... very cool, Erik! I'd seen the info from Karl and Jamie about the WPF LOB classes they're doing and since they weren't in Phoenix I soundly ignored them, but Tim Heuer posted today:...
In this Issue: Rich Griffin, Mike Taulty, Fons Sonnemans, and Jordan Knight. Shoutouts: In the on-going "Is Silverlight ready for business" series at SilverlightShow, Ken Azuma responds I found this link to DeepZoomPix 'technology demonstration' that I thought was pretty cool: DeepZoomPix From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3.0 - 3D Flip Action using Plane ProjectionRich Griffin sent me this link this morning... he's created a 3D Flip Action that can be applied to any UI Element ... for now only...
In this Issue: Chris Anderson, Jesse Liberty, Al Pascual, and dzineblog. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth is doing an MSDN GeekSpeak on Silverlight 3: MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: What's New in Silverlight 3 From SilverlightCream.com: Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Styling Part 7.2Chris Anderson has his latest LOB installment up at SilverlightShow. He's talking Design today and has lots of external links.ViKi Version 0.0.01Jesse Liberty has a jump-start up for what he's now calling "ViKi"...
In this pre-tax-day-issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Martin Mihaylov, and Al Pascual. Shoutout: Jeff Weber has a Krashlander Character and Landscape Preview up on his site. Thanks to everyone for taking it easy blogging while I'm procrastinating doing my taxes :) or maybe all of you are doing the same! In any case, from SilverlightCream.com: For Now, Don't Use SynchronizationContext in Silverlight 2 or 3 Shawn Wildermuth found himself a problem with SynchronizationContext. Read his post for how he worked...
In this Issue: Ashish Shetty, Nikhil Kothari, Chris Cavanagh, Rishi, Nigel Sampson, Tim Heuer, Ruurd Boeke, Alex Golesh, Lee, and Pete Blois. Shoutouts: Pete Brown is asking for input for the book he's gearing up for: Silverlight 3 Book – Tell me what you want ... good luck with that Pete! Koen Zwikstra has an evaluation of his Document Toolkit available: Document Toolkit Evaluation... very cool, Koen! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight out-of-browser apps: The Install Ashish Shetty has the first...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Shawn Wildermuth, Pete Brown, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Mike Taulty(2), David Anson, and Al Pascual. From SilverlightCream.com: DNN Silverlight ChatMichael Washington has a cool DNN module with a Silverlight Chat up on his site... I created a login and it works just great... it looks like it's dead simple to setup on a site too!Should Silverlight 3's Out of Browser be Full-Trust?Shawn Wildermuth poses a question that he's looking for discussion about... should the OOB...
In this Issue: Mark Monster, SilverLemma, Al Pascual, Silverlight SDK(2), Tim Heuer, Expression Blend and Design, Silverlight Web Services Team, Corey Schuman, Michael Sync, and Jesse Liberty(2). From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 and RIA Service – Creating a Proxy for Cross Domain HttpRequestsMark Monster sent me this link about the .NET RIA Service and creating proxies for Cross Domain requests... dang... are all the easy topics taken :)Creating Pie Charts with C# and Silverlight SilverLemma...
In this Issue: David Kelley, Rockford Lhotka, Rishi(2,3), Andrea Boschin, Jeff Prosise(2), Andrej Tozon, Joel Neubeck, David Anson, and Jobi Joy. Shoutout: Koen Zwikstra's interview on Channel 9 is up ... very cool, Koen!!! Silverlight Spy @ Channel9 From SilverlightCream.com: David Kelley on "Is Silverlight 3 ready for business"Ivan and the guys at SilverlightShow are starting an initiative to get opinions on various aspects of Silverlight 3 and LOB apps to get a handle on the viability of the (perceived?)...
In this Issue: Chris Cavanagh, Brownie Points, Silverlight Web Services Team, Gavin Wignall, Maurice de Beijer, Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Snow, Andrej Tozon, Lee, Al Pascual, and Chris Hay. Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty is getting ready to start a big new long-term project ... looks like it's going to be a great one to play along with: VideoWiki – A Open-Book Design-To-Delivery Silverlight 3 Project. This is the intro... I'll be blogging the pieces as Jesse posts them. Jeff Wilcox...
In this Issue: Damon Carr, Rishi(2), Mike Taulty, Jeff Prosise, Laurent Bugnion, Ruurd Boeke, and Walt Ritscher. Shoutout: Andy Beaulieu has released his latest game: Boss Launch ... go have some fun with that :) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 Beta Player for Adobe Video Formats Damon Wilder Carr sent me this link on HD and streaming. Might be good to read some of the comments he's gotten also. nRoute: Comes complete with a full set of behavioural teeth Rishi is posting bunches of info...
In this Issue: Mark Monster(2), Michael Wolf, Tm Heuer, Ning Zhang, and Somasegar. Shoutout: Bill Reiss posted about yet another game contest, this one by Dr. Dobbs: Dr. Dobbs Challenge Silverlight Game Contest From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 and RIA Services – The basics Mark Monster has a two-parter up on the .NET RIA Services. This first tutorial starts off with the basics. Silverlight 3 and RIA Services – The advanced things Mark Monster's second tutorial in the series steps up to the...
In this Issue: Giovanni Montrone, Rishi(2, 3), Jeff Wilcox, Christian Schormann, Fredrik Normén, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, and Ashish Shetty. Shoutouts: I want to give a good shoutout to some great guys I met at #MIX09... they're the guys from UltraLearn. Watch the demo... it's in flash, but trust me, the app is in Silverlight and it's very cool. I got some up-close-and-personal demonstrations of building and using this, and if you're doing any sort of training or teaching videos that you're...
These are both uniquely different things, but both worthy causes to make certain everyone is aware of. StirTrek Stir Trek is an opportunity to learn about the key announcements from the Mix 09 conference, at a location that is a little closer to home (if you live in Ohio or will be there on May 8, 2009), and in the comfort of a movie theater. There will be 10 sessions, in two tracks, so you'll be able to pick the content that interests you the most. In addition, the day will include lunch, a raffle...
In this Issue: Nikolay Raychev(2), Martin Mihaylov, Andrea Boschin, Giovanni Montrone, Alex Golesh, Mike Taulty, Timmy Kokke, Shawn Wildermuth(2), Jeff Handley, Mike Snow, and Jeff Paries. Shoutouts: Just before leaving on a well-needed vacation, Adam Kinney reported: Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit is now available. Gavin Wignall has a wonderful demo up of the app his company is working on: Metia launch Silverlight eMagazine platform... maybe I'm a sucker, but I love changing the car color...
In this issue: Colin Eberhardt, Sparkling Client Podcast, Brad Abrams, Paul Chapman, Page Brooks, and Ning Zhang. Shoutouts: First, sorry Bill Reiss, but you've got company out there with 4 more Silverlight MVPs (so far) ... my buddy Michael Washington, Daron Yondem, Jose Fajardo, and Michael Sync ... congratulations guys!!! I'm on record as being officially jealous :) ... and I'll have to change my signature block now! You can see the list on the MVP Awardees Site. Koen Zwikstra exposed a hint of...
In this Issue: Richard Griffin, Martin Mihaylov, Pete Brown(2), Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jon Galloway, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Page Brooks, Michael S. Scherotter, and Chris Hay. From SilverlightCream.com: Behaviors, Actions and View Models in Silverlight Richard Griffin dug into Behaviours for his latest post, and demonstrates creating in Expression Blend, then creating the Action... good stuff! The Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework Martin Mihaylov has a nice tutorial up on the Navigation...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Corey Schuman, Gavin Wignall, Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, Ruurd Boeke, and Alex Golesh(2). Shoutouts: Julien Frelat reports that there is an Online Demo of Quake in Silverlight 3 Beta up. This features GPU Acceleration and WriteableBitmaps, but the game is not playable yet, GPL coming shortly! From SilverlightCream.com: Quick 3-d Update Jesse Liberty references Jeff Paries and gives a modification to the storyboard xaml of his previous post. Folding animation in Silverlight...
In this all-submittal issue: Mark Monster, Rob Houweling, Bart Czernicki, and Jan Jelinek. Shoutouts: Corrina Black has her material up from #MIX09 and links out to other great presentations: ux musings : Mix 09' Was Amazing! Andy Beaulieu presented at Code Camp 11 and has all his material up if you were there or not :) Whats New in Silverlight 3 Graphics: Slides + Demos Jeff Paries, Animation Guru, has his #MIX09 material up as well: MIX’09 Presentation Projects From SilverlightCream.com: In memory...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Gerard Leblanc, Seema Ramchandani, Kurt Brockett, Jeff Prosise(2), Public Sector DPE Team, Giovanni Montrone, and Jonathan van de Veen. This finishes the #MIX09 flood! Todays post has some old links and some very new links and the last of the ones that I attribute to #MIX09. With the links here, I've added 182 posts to the database since #MIX09. There are some interesting collaborations coming up that will make the 3179 database entries more accessible to you... so keep...
In this issue: Jeff Wilcox(2), Chris Hay(2), Lutz Gerhard, Ed Maia(2), Peter Bromberg, Jaime Rodriguez, Swiss MSDN Team, Lee, Amy Dullard, Mike Snow, Jeff Prosise, Brad Abrams, András Velvárt, Christian Schormann, and Ruurd Boeke. Shoutout: Pete Brown was busy at MIX ... not only the Hanselminutes I blogged yesterday, but also Some of the Shows I did at or around MIX – Hanselminutes, Continuum From SilverlightCream.com: What’s new with the Silverlight AutoCompleteBoxJeff Wilcox blogs about the AutoCompleteBox...
In this Issue: Jeff Prosise, Michael S. Scherotter, Kirupa Chinnathambi(2), Bryant Likes(2, 3), Pete Brown(2), Tim Heuer, Nigel Sampson, Al Pascual, Anna Wrochna, Rishi, Chris Cavanagh(2), Lee, Gavin Wignall, Chris Anderson, and Bill Reiss. Shoutouts: The Expression Blend Team has a Round-Up of Blog Posts (and other Activities) by the Expression Blend Team! David Anson reports on his post of yesterday: Supporting the unsupported [Two fixes for the unofficial WPF Charting assembly!] From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this Issue: Pete Brown(2), Lee, Jeff Prosise, Andrea Boschin, Terence Tsang, Mike Taulty(2), Chris Hay(2), Chris Koenig, Laurence Moroney, Julien Frelat, Andy Beaulieu(2, 3), Joel Neubeck, Gavin Wignall, Jan Jelinek, and Ruurd Boeke. Shoutouts: Congratulations go out to Andy Beaulieu who reports Physics Helper gets 1st Place at MIX09 Show Off! Dan Wahlin spoke at DevConnections in Orlando and reported DevConnections Orlando Talks on Silverlight and LINQ/Entity Framework Brad Abrams gives a link...
In this General Silverlight 2/Silverlight 3Beta Issue: Emil Stoychev(2), Gill Cleeren, Rick Barraza, Mike Snow, Michael Sync, Tim Heuer, Bart Czernicki(2), Matt Casto, Chris Cavanagh, Mike Taulty(2), Azret Botash, Nikolay Raychev(2), András Velvárt, Pete Brown, Jeff Wilcox, and Amy Dullard. Shoutouts: Mike Swanson is keeping up a list of all sorts of goodness about the MIX09 Sessions Laurent Bugnion has reported that he has Posting the source code for my #mix09 talk From SilverlightCream.com: XAML...
In this WriteableBitmap, Perspective3D, and MIX09 issue: Karen Corby, Mike Harsh, Joe Stegman(2, 3, 4, 5), Jeff Prosise(2), Nikolay Raychev, Andy Beaulieu(2), Corey Schuman(2), Mike Taulty, Jeff Paries, Pete Brown(2, 3), Chris Hay, and Alex Golesh. Shoutouts: If you weren't at MIX09, or didn't get a copy of Laurence Moroney's book, he has blogged: Free Silverlight 3 Book Preview Now available ... even if you got it... get the eBook :) Koen Zwikstra, who I had the pleasure of meeting at MIX09 has...
In this Toolkit one-post issue: David Poll As with other posts in the past, I could not get David's link to work in the previous post, not sure why, so this one is going out solo. From SilverlightCream.com: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application David Poll is a new name to me, and I've added him to my big list-o-blogsTM. In this post he explains and offers up the Activity control that is not in the Toolkit ... ready, set, hey... where did everyone go??? :) Stay in the 'Light!...
In this Toolkit and .NET RIA Service issue: Martin Mihaylov(3), Dinesh Kulkarni, Shawn Wildermuth, Lee(3), Brad Abrams(3), Ruurd Boeke(2), Jeff Wilcox, Jafar Husain, Ning Zhang, Shawn Burke, and David Anson(2) Shoutout: Overwhelmed by all the resources yet? Yeah, me too :) ... I've put 74 entries in the SC database since MIX09. I've got a spreadsheet going with 137 records of data, but that doesn't count todays offerings, but it looks like I AM making headway. I think the idea of doing it on topics...
In this MIX09, WebServices, PixelShaders, OOB, and ISM Issue: Mark Monster, Silverlight Web Services Team, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Taulty, Laurent Bugnion, Pete Brown, Mike Harsh, Joe Stegman, Brad Abrams, Andy Beaulieu, Chris Hay(2), Michael Wolf, and Jafar Husain. From SilverlightCream.com, and picks up some I missed earlier today: Silverlight 3 – WebClient, WebRequest and WCF calls using Credentials? Mark Monster has posted about credentials use with WebRequest, WebClient, or WCF call in SL3B....
In this Styles, PixelShaders, Easing, and Blend issue: Emil Stoychev(2), Paulio, Mike Taulty(2), Pete Brown(2), Rui Marinho, Alex Golesh, Shawn Wildermuth, Christian Schormann(2), and Expression Blend and Design Blog. From SilverlightCream.com: Tip: Cascading Styles in Silverlight 3 Emil Stoychev demonstrates something we were wanting a while back ... cascading styles ... woo hoo! Merged Resource Dictionaries in Silverlight 3 Emil Stoychev demonstrates freely splitting style definitions and other...
In this OOB Issue: Nikolay Raychev, Shawn Wildermuth, Tim Heuer, Chris Hay(3), Mike Taulty, Mark Monster, Pete Brown, Chris Koenig, Alex Golesh, and Alex Knight From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications) Nikolay Raychev details out what all you need to get your app to have an OOB experience. Enabling Out-of-Browser Support in Silverlight 3 Shawn Wildermuth demonstrates the user experience of OOB then shows the code changes to get it and a detach...
In this SL3B General issue: Emil Stoychev, Shawn Wildermuth, Tim Heuer(2), Chris Hay, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty(4), Michael Sync, Pete Brown, Kathy Kam, and Alex Golesh. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth Announced that The Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 3! From SilverlightCream.com, and in no particular order: What's New in Silverlight 3?Emil Stoychev has a great feature list post up on the beta ... check it out if you haven't done so already!Silverlight 3 Announced!Shawn Wildermuth...
As you all know, I’ve been at MIX09 this week, and when I checked my big list-o-blogsTM on Wednesday morning, I had about 50 tagged to blog. I was afraid to look at the list until now, and counting submittals and some non-SL3B posts, my list count is sitting at 117 – yikes! So what to do?? I kicked this around with a few folks at MIX, such as Pete Brown, CigDem, and Shawn Wildermuth, and I’ve decided that rather than try to post them by author or some other method, I’m going to try to group them...
My numbering of the days makes sense until I get too large a number, so I just said “Last Day” … :) I’m soooo bad with names and there’s so much people and information overload… I think I need to start doing what Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer were doing, and that’s taking a picture of everyone they collected a business card from…. or take notes :) I realized after I posted earlier that I had spent some time waiting for that first event on Thursday night talking with Rob Burke.We had some great conversation...
Yeah, yeah… I’m late… the farther I got into MIX the slower everything else became :) And I’m going to track the last two days just for me so I know where my time all went! I finally got to the Venetian about 9:30 on Thursday. I was kinda/sorta trying to decide if I just wanted to go to third place or Seema’s talk when I ran into Ivan from SilverlightShow and we had never really had ‘that talk’ we wanted to do. We did that, and I know I still left some open spaces in the continuum, but we’re trying...
Wow… it’s at Day 3 that I usually start to fade fast, and this one’s no exception. Yesterday was awesome… It began with a Silverlight breakfast meetup with an ever expanding contracting group of folks to name a few: Tim Heuer, Laruent Bugnion (thanks for signing my book and the kind words!), John Papa (again thanks for signing my book and the kind words!), Matthias Shapiro, Bryant Likes (finally met you), Pete Brown, Frank LaVigne, Walt Ritscher, and wow, memory loss on the rest of the people. Laurent...
Check out John Papa’s blog for much more detail and camera work… I’m just doing highlights. Web… Each of the tools can be used independently or integrate with each other or open source tools Expression Web 3: Standards based web authoring, Multi-laguage, Secure FTP, CSS Diagnostics, SuperPreview Erik Saltwell demoing Expression Web 3 SuperPreview – split screen or full, and can pick the browser to view it in, also can side-by-side the various browsers, or layering them one over the other to see problems....
Really Day 1 for me, since I wasn’t in any of the workshops, but I won’t confuse that :) Up sort of late blogging, and woke up at 4:20 … couldn’t go back to sleep. I think maybe it was the ‘Light shining in my eyes :) So much goodness to be announced today! If you thought last year was good, this year will blow you away… I’m just sayin’… More than one person has written to me that they’ve found the new bits already online. I can’t blog about that here, but I’d say user beware… it may be new, it may...
The Mashooo folks have started something! ... a contest... and it's not just a U.S. contest either. No holds barred. You write a game of whatever you want from wherever you live, and you're in the running. Check out the announcement page and then get your game on! Tons of prizes that total out to a LOT of money from lots of places, an interesting choice of judges :), and you're off and running. Give it a shot, you know you want to :) Technorati Tags: Silverlight...
In this MIX09 Day 1 issue: Timmy Kokke and Radenko Zec. Shoutouts: Ola Karlsson blogs about the problem we all received on March 9th: Can’t view pages from the Web Development Server (Cassini) Posting from MIX09 on Day 1... Got up here, got registered and then spent over an hour meeting and talking with lots of people. Some old friends, some new... gotta love MIX! Breaking news: Scott Barnes *just* posted a link to this on twitter: The Official Silverlight Blog -- definitely a blog to read! For those...
In this issue: Bob Thomson(2), Colin M, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Alex Knight, Gavin Wignall, Chris Cavanagh(2), Rishi, and Tess Fernandez. Shoutout: Jeff Weber announed Introducing Krashlander (A Silverlight Game) ... this looks like it will be a fun game. From SilverlightCream.com: colaab – View large images instantly with DeepZoom integration Bob Thomson at colaab has been having way too much fun with DeepZoom and Silverlight. You can still get a free account... check out what they've...
MIX09 Minus 1 MIX07 was the first national conference I ever attended, and I felt like that kid from the sticks in NYC looking up at the buildings. MIX08 was just as cool and having some fore-knowledge, I was able to navigate my way around a bit better rather than spend all my time staring up at the buildings :) Now here I am on the outer edge of MIX09 beginning, and I'm as excited about this as I was about MIX07. I can play dumb really well when asked direct questions, but if you're involved with...
In this issue: Jan Jelinek(2), Gavin Wignall, Andrej Tozon, Damon Payne, and Radenko Zec. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher continues his Design series with Reflecting on Design #16 From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Contrib - CoolMenu Jan Jelinek is blogging about the controls in the Silverlight Contrib project ... this one is about the Cool Menu. Silverlight Contrib - ColorPicker In this second post today, Jan Jelinek blogs about the Silverlight Contrib Color Picker. Building a paint application in Silverlight...
In this issue: Gavin Wignall, Christopher Bennage, Page Brooks, Corey Schuman, and Andy Beaulieu. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Bugs v1 - Playing with RandomGavin Wignall blogged this prior to the 'rain' one I blogged yesterday. This one is using the Random command also and puts 'bugs' on the surface that move around randomly.Displaying Today’s Date with XAMLChristopher Bennage blogs a WPF post, but hey it's xaml... check it out!Silverlight Contrib to Merge with Silverlight ExtensionsPage...
In this issue: Andy Beaulieu, Matt Casto, Rob Eisernberg, Lee, John Papa, Arturo Toledo, Lutz Gerhard, Pete Brown, Gavin Wignall, and Karim Hernandez. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Design + Animation: Slides and LinksAndy Beaulieu gave a presentation and is making all the materials available ... and we can get them as well.. can you say Animation, Games, and Physics Helper??Is Blend's Cost Prohibitive to Silverlight Adoption?Matt Casto poses a good question that I'm sure lots of people are...
In this issue: Karim Hernandez, Gavin Wignall, David Anson, Corey Schuman, Terence Tsang, Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Nigel Sampson, Bryant Likes, Aurturo Toledo, and Alex Knight. Shoutout: Mike Ormond reports that Microsoft Live Labs has Seadragon Ajax... so for both of you that read this and are not using Silverlight, there ya go :) From SilverlightCream.com: radiobuttons in a datatemplate in silverlight Karim Hernandez of IdentityMine sent me this link, and I'm going to be watching his blog...
In this issue: Pencho Popadiyn, Gavin Wignall, Jesse Liberty(2), Ian Blackburn, Rishi, Andrej Tozon, and Corey Schuman. Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu has a post up about all the good Silverlight Gaming goodness: Silverlight Gaming ++, as with PCs and hardware, I also believe gaming will bring Silverlight into it's own. Tim Heuer describes his new best friend and why: Silverlight Business Application Development faster with IdeaBlade Phoenix' own Steve Commisso has an entry in the MIX09 ShowOff competition...
In this issue: Martin Duffy, Nihkil Kothari, Rishi, Nigel Sampson, Bryant Likes, Ofir Shemesh, Jeff Wilcox, Swiss MSDN Team Blog, Yasser Makram, Lee, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Mike Snow has made his book public: Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 – Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book ... very cool, Mike... I look forward to that! John Papa the Silverlight data/webservice guru is learning guitar and has combined that experience with Silverlight: Silverlight Chord Finder. Since I paid for a lot of my...
If you take the link that image is referencing, you'll find yourself at David "The Original" Silverlight's Community-Credit website. I have to admit, the first time I looked at it, I wondered why I'd bother, but since GeeksWithBlogs is rolling all my blogging up there, I thought what the heck, I'll go ahead and list other stuff too. The fact that Karl Shifflett was the one that pointed me at it was also no small impetus :) If you're doing very much in the community, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised...
In this all-submittal issue: Ian Blackburn, Colin Eberhardt(2), Chris Cavanagh(2), and Boyan Mihaylov. From SilverlightCream.com: Implementing Validation Logic in Silverlight 2 Ian Blackburn has a bunch of posts up that I haven't seen, so I'm going to try to catch up. I cherry-picked this one first on Validation in Silverlight2. He makes a good case for using this even though everyone believes validation will be available in a week, but beta... thanks for the links Ian! ElementName binding in Silverlight...
In this issue: Jobi Joy, Andy Beaulieu, Rishi, Nikhil Kothari, Pete Brown, Fredrik Normén, Tim Heuer, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Cameron Albert, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Wilcox, Terence Tsang, Andrej Tozon, and Somasegar. Shoutouts: First a big congratulations to Bill Reiss for becoming the very first official Silverlight MVP: I'm just speechless… What an honor to be the first Silverlight MVP Want a sneak peek into LOB apps by the guys on the product team? Tim Heuer gave this link: Silverlight Sneak Peek:...
SilverlightCream has been running for about 18 months and has aggregated over 2900 articles in the database. Some developers have told me that they read SilverlightCream or my blog and don't bother trying to aggregate links anymore. That may or may not be a good idea because it's through the network of readers that I find lots of blogs that I end up following. While at the MVP Summit last week my room-mate, Michael Washington of Silverlight Desktop fame, was discussing possible enhancements to the...
Absolutely nothing technical or Silverlight-related so feel free to pass on this one... I truly agree with the adage that "You're only as old as you feel", but hey, today I feel about 110. I'm sore head to foot and have come to the realization that I'm too old be to crawling around in the attic all afternoon :( Almost 20 years ago I ran two new circuits and installed two identical light/fan kits in the two bathrooms at the house. The master bath gets all the use and the fan in there is starting to...
In this issue: Nikhil Kothari, Alex Knight(2), Lutz Gerhard, Nigel Sampson, Ofir Shemesh, Tim Heuer, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Wilcox, Tess Fernandez(6), and Corey Miller. Shoutouts: Corey Schuman has a big list-o-Silverlight 2 books on his site: The State of Silverlight 2 books .. thanks for the shoutout, Corey! Martin Grayson announced that Blacklight v3.0 (Mar09) released! ... check out his post for all the goodness involved in this! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight.FX and Silverlight Store Sample...
I'M A PC AND I'M A MVP If you were in Seattle this week for #mvp09 (the 2009 Microsoft MVP Summit), then you either skipped the Wednesday Keynotes or you know what I'm talking about. For everyone else, we had to sign waivers because they filmed all of us yelling that. Then Steve Ballmer started his keynote by having us yell that as well! But just like all other good things, #mvp09 is in my rear-view mirror. I took the badge off and climbed on the shuttle to the airport about 1:45pm on Wednesday,...
In this issue: Al Pascual, Jobi Joy, Alexei Prokudin, Michael Washington, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Jason Cooke, Lee, and David Anson. Shoutouts: James Bacon has announced a "It is an open "no holds barred" style competition, meaning that people from around the world are free to participate and there are no theme limitations" game competition at Mashooo: Mashooo S Prize - Silverlight game competition , and along with that, Silverlight Girl announced that Mashooo accepts OpenID and layout improvement...
In this issue: Velvart Andras, Corey Miller, Alex Knight, and Terence Tsang. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth has comments about and a link to ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Coming! From SilverlightCream.com: Zoomery Summitr I spent my bus ride from the Sheraton to Microsoft for #mvp09 talking to Andras Velvart about Silverlight... always a subject I enjoy :) Andras told me they have a new app up on the Zoomery site that allows you to upload your MVP Summit pix ... check this out... I love the circular 'globe'...
In this issue: Mark Monster, Jesse Liberty, Eric Mork, Mike Snow, Jeff Weber, Bob Brumfield and Erwin van der Valk, and Dave Campbell. Shoutout: Looks like I'm in good company with regard to thoughts on Silverlight and Games, Adam Kinney posted Silverlight-based Gaming is about to explode From SilverlightCream.com: Integration of browser’s unloading with Silverlight Mark Monster shows how to keep a user from inadvertently closing a Silverlight page ... not sure I've seen this approached before...
After some discussion about having a meeting or not, Tim Heuer kindly offered to host a Q/A session and talk about whatever Silverlight-related issues or questions anyone has. Don't miss another opportunity to meet with Tim! Pizza will be at or close to 6:00 as usual with the meeting to follow. Many of the 'usual suspects' are out of town for the meeting, so someone take good notes and tell me how much you learned! A similar message was posted on the User Group Website. Please bookmark that because...
In this issue: Chris Cavanagh, David Anson, Walt Ritscher, and Kevin Dockx. Note: The next few days may be a little slow blogging. I'll be heading to Seattle tomorrow for the 2009 MVP Summit that runs Sunday through Wednesday. I just looked at my schedule and it's going to be a fun/busy time. I'm looking forward to seeing people I haven't seen in a year and in general being able to soak up all the goodness I can. From SilverlightCream.com: ElementRecycler for Silverlight and WPF Chris Cavanagh has...
In this issue: Matt Watson, Bryant Likes, Tim Heuer, Radenko Zec, Matthias Shapiro(2), Terence Tsang, Justing Angel, and Lee. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth made the announcement that he will be Speaking at DevTeach in June ... way to go, Shawn ... there were lots of contenders for those speaking slots! Joel Neubeck will be speaking in a breakout session at MIX09: Mix09 - Creating Web Applications on the Internet Explorer 8 Platform ... should be a good one, Joel! The SilverlightShow guys sent me this...
If you're not (yet) excited about MIX09, maybe this will help! Jeff Paries has been around Silverlight for a long time and animation for a lot longer. He's the author of the book shown above, and will be Speaking at MIX09!! If you want a glimpse into what is in Jeff's book, check out his blog (linked above), or do a search for his name at SilverlightCream. He put out a lot of short videos to pump up the book prior to it's release. If you want to take my word about it... this is another "must have"...
In this issue: Maurice de Beijer, Corey Schuman, Ben Waggoner, and Bryant Likes. Shoutouts: Bill Reiss announced Help us pick a logo for new Silverlight game site SilverArcade.com ... and there's some nice-looking logos out there! John Stockton joins the exalted ranks of those that can say I’m Speaking at Mix09!... congrats John! From SilverlightCream.com: SilverUnit - Unit testing framework for Silverlight Maurice de Beijer reports on Roy Osherove's "SilverUnit" UnitTesting framework for Silverlight...
If you're working with Silverlight and you don't have a copy of John Papa's Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2, you're spending too much time somewhere. When I finished Chapter 2 and thought I was done... wow what a bunch of stuff still remained! REST, WCF, JSON, LINQ, Entities, and on and on. Lots of detail, and lots of code on the pages (for those of us that think better that way). I'm thinking about buying the eBook version just so this one doesn't get as ragged as Petzold's "Programming...
In this issue: Jeff Weber. Shoutouts (wow... more shoutouts than postings!): Tim Heuer announces his MIX09 ticket winners, and congratulations, Matthias... you saw his entry posted here a couple days ago! Near the bottom of that post, Tim also blogged about something I keep forgetting: ServerQuest Silverlight Contest... and this one could net you $5,000! Oh... it's US-only, and I'm not involved in this one, so .... I'm just sayin'... Adam Kinney has announced The official unofficial MIX09 Tweetup....
In this issue: Fredrik Normén(2), Timmy Kokke, Shemesh, Manish Dalal, Terence Tsang, Michael S. Scherotter, Corey Schuman, and Pete Ohanlon. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher has a nice Shoutout to Page Brooks: SilverlightContrib - Nice Open Source Library, and thanks for the shoutout back to me, Walt :) John Papa got the nod for his presentation at MIX09: Heading to MIX 09 and Presenting Too ... way-to-go John!! From SilverlightCream.com: How the Presentation Model could look like when using Silverlight...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, and Matthias Shapiro. From SilverlightCream.com: More About the Layout System Jesse Liberty revisits the layout system that he's got two videos available on. He's responding to reader questions and elaborating on the code... all good stuff! My Silverlight MVVM Article is Live! Shawn Wildermuth not only has an MVVM article up, but the article is in MSDN Magazine ... how cool is that! InfoViz Project For Tim Heuer - Presidential Candidate Tracker Matthias...
In this issue: ScrumWall, Mike Snow, Joel Neubeck, WorkSight Blog, Robby Ingebretsen, and Bill Reiss. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher has Reflecting on Design #15 up. Laurent Bugnion announed today: Talking at MIX09: Las Vegas and the continuum... congratulations, Laurent! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight scrumwall agileServ has a complete Silverlight application up that is a visual "Scrum Wall" ... you need a login to see it, but it's nicely done. Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 – The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE...
In this issue: Kirupa Chinnathambi, Sheo Narayan, Alex Knight, Katrien De Graeve, Maurice de Beijer, Page Brooks, Mike Snow, and Jeff Paries. Shoutouts: Pete Brown reports on My Favorite MIX09 10k Challenge Entries Jesse Liberty's Carousel videos are now up -- remember the carousel? ... cool stuff.. now you can see the videos: Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 From SilverlightCream.com: CLR Properties vs. Dependency Properties Kirupa Chinnathambi has a good article up and I'm going to start keeping...
In this issue: Ed Silverton, Tim Sneath, Shawn Wildermuth, Koen Zwikstra, Tim Heuer, Ken Cox, Robby Ingebretsen, Terence Tsang, Jonathan van de Veen, and the Epxression Blend and Design Blog Shoutouts: Laurent Bugnion announed early this morning MIX10K contest: The choice is made Walt Ritscher has his latest post up - Reflecting on Design #13 ... that waterdrops one is pretty cool :) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight for Flash Developers Talk Ed Silverton did a presentation for a group called...
In this issue: Tim Greenfield, Adam Kinney, Shawn Wildermuth, Alex Knight, and Joel Neubeck. Shoutout: The Swiss MSDN Team Blog has a bonus for all you wanna-be WPF'ers out there: Windows Presentation Foundation – Line of Business Hands-On-Lab Material From SilverlightCream.com: Speed up your app by compressing WCF service responses Tim Greenfield shows how to setup IIS to get your WCF services compressed during transit. Just for drill, I checked my shared hosting and I don't have that sort of granular...
In this issue: Maurice de Beijer, Terence Tsang, Christopher Bennage, Lee, and Dave Campbell Shoutouts: The MIX09 blog reports $200 Hosting Credit for MIX09 Attendees in case you can sweet-talk your manager with that :) David Anson has a bug fix up on his Hashing code: Ambiguous contract is ambiguous [Minor bug fix for CRC32 and MD5Managed HashAlgorithm implementations] Walt Ritscher has Reflecting on Design #12 up, and this one makes my head hurt just to think about trying to do it ... definitely...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Gerard Leblanc, and Jamie Rodriguez. Shoutouts: The MIX09 blog reports the Last Chance to Save on MIX Cameron Albert is going to start publishing some articles about Multi-Player games in Silverlight based on his experience with Parenthia: Silverlight for Multi-Player Games Walt Ritscher has Reflecting on Design #11 up, and this one is pretty interesting, for all you movie buffs :) From SilverlightCream.com: Putting the Silverlight Layout System to Work Jesse Liberty...
In this issue: Yasser Makram, Mark Monster, Jesse Liberty, Peter McGrattan, Nigel Sampson, and Radenko Zec. Shoutouts: Crocusgirl has posted A list of my Silverlight Video Player Notes to share. If you've got an issue with the Silverlight Toolkit, Jeff Wilcox reports The Silverlight Toolkit team is on top of your feedback The Expression Blend and Design Team asks What Would you Like to See in Future Releases of Deep Zoom Composer? Koen Zwikstra reports that Silverlight Spy updated (2.0.0.41) From...
In this issue: Michael Washington, Laurent Bugnion, Andy Beaulieu, and Dave Campbell. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Gantt Chart Michael Washington sent me a preview of this Gantt chart last week and it's very cool... and not so much that it's a Gantt chart necessarily, but the visualization and data representation, not to mention he gave up the source :) Simulating IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem in Silverlight (part 1) Laurent Bugnion has part 1 of a two-parter on simulating IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem...
You had me from WPF/E If you've spent much time at WynApse.com, it doesn't take long to realize that I'm not only a Silverlight Fanatic, but I've been at it since WPF/E. I've been out of blogging my own material for a while and have a strong desire to get back at it. I like helping folks learn how much fun and how simple it is to get started with Silverlight, and once they get comfortable with the concepts they can go start reading some of the many advanced blog posts out there. I kicked this idea...
In this issue: Umesh Patel, Eylon Yogev, and Shawn Wildermuth(2). Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher has Reflecting on Design #10 up ... and thse are very cool. Then in this post: Feel the Power of WPF ListBox Templates, Walt has a link out to US Map in Listbox - WPF Mike Ormond collected some Demos - Catching Up on Rich Clients Part 1 Shawn Wildermuth gave a shoutout to John Papa, and let everyone else know about a discount on John's book: Get John Papa's Excellent Silverlight Data Service Book for 40 Percent...
In This issue: Jim Lynn, Pencho Popadiyn, Tim Heuer, Scott Guthrie, Mike Snow, Maurice de Beijer, and Dean Chalk. Shoutouts: Tim Sneath responds to Adobe's latest salvo: Silverlight is FIZZING, Not Fizzling Walt Ritscher has Reflecting on Design #9 up, and the 'light graffiti' stuff is pretty cool :) Azret Botash reports an update on the free Silverlght datagrid from Devexpress: Free Silverlight DataGrid is Fast! If you think you're up to it, Laurence Moroney says Solve the riddle, and get a free...
In this issue: Rob Houweling, Jonathan van de Veen, Peter Bromberg, Jeff Weber, Mike Snow, Jordan Knight, and Andrej Tozon. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher has two Design reflections up: Reflecting on Design #7 ... dang hate to admit I remember ASCII art on wide-carriage green-bar paper :) Walt's second: Reflecting on Design #8 was just cool enough until he showed the anamorphic illusion view -- wow! I saw this on a couple other blogs, but Walt has some good info up about it: Win $5000 for best Silverlight...
In this issue: Maurice de Beijer, Jesse Liberty(2), Corey Schuman, Mike Snow, Tim Heuer, and Radenko Zec. Shoutouts: Andras Velvart sent me a link to a stunning commercial application using Silverlight and DeepZoom... don't take my word for it, try it out: Zoomery. If you're interested in 3D in Silverlight, check out what Telerik has going on: 3D in Silverlight from Telerik Dan Wahlin has his My Latest Silverlight Articles post up. From SilverlightCream.com: Using Ninject with Silverlight to make...
In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Radenko Zec, Terence Tsang, Mike Snow, and Shawn Wildermuth. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher has his latest Reflecting on Design #6 up and these not only are very cool, but are the winning entries in the Worldwide Packaging Design Award Competition (link on Walt's page). From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Metronome Martin Mihaylov has an awesome metronome up in Silverlight ... yikes... I have to admit, I would NOT have thought to have used a slider for the pendulum...
In this issue: Tim Greenfield, Bart Czernicki, and Michael Wolf. From SilverlightCream.com: MIX 10K contest entry: MyPadlock Tim Greenfield entered the MIX09 10K challenge and has a cool password manager... it's too late to enter, but not too late to vote, but it's getting really close! Beginning Silverlight 2 From Novice to Professsional - Book Review Bart Czernicki does a very complete review of Robert Lair's book. Very first voip + silverlight demo Michael Wolf discusses his involvement in Phizzpop...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty and Nigel Sampson. Shoutout: Adam Kinney has a post up about all the Microsoft product groups on Twitter: Microsoft teams and products on Twitter, and thanks for the shoutout, Adam :) From SilverlightCream.com: Background: Extension Methods, Silverlight & Linq Jesse Liberty has a blog post up that digs into extension methods. Even if you're already familiar with them, this would be a good read to make sure you're not missing something! He also has links out to a couple...
In this issue: Ken Cox, Damon Payne, Dean Chalk, Colin Eberhardt, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: David Anson has the ultimate collection of articles on Silverlight Charts on his site, unless you search SilverlightCream that is :) My new home page, expanded [Updated collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!] Walt Ritscher has two new entries up in his Reflecting on Design series: Reflecting on Design #4 and Reflecting on Design #5... not to mention Walt's excellent header for his page ...
In this issue: Ken Cox, Shawn Oster, Andy Beaulieu, Dean Chalk, Matthias Shapiro, Nikola, Arturo Toledo, and Michael S. Scherotter. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher (spelled right first try today) has Reflecting on Design #3 up to give us something to think about. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 8: Client Storage Ken Cox has episode 8 of his series up and he's working on number 9. Number 9 is intended to be a bugfix screencast, so if you've got issues, get them to Ken! Adding...
In this issue: Corey Schuman, Alex Golesh, Jordan Knight, Jesse Liberty, and David Anson. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and VOIP Corey Schuman blogged about this, and he has enough written, I didn't just bypass him to the source, but TringMe (linked on Corey's site) has a VOIP demo using Flash for the parts that Silverlight can't do yet ... and you can go grab all the source if you want! Silverlight 2 Developer Day – a minute after Alex Golesh spoke at Silverlight 2 Developer Day in Israel...
In this issue: Rob Houweling, Mike Taulty, Andrej Tozon, Kevin Dockx, and Jobi Joy. Shoutouts (and wow... there are more than SL postings!): First off, Tim Greenfield has a very nice Azure post up about issues in building and running in general. Not sure how many of you SL Devs are also doing Azure, but I'm keeping my eye on it. Tim's post is a good one to read if you're heading that way: Windows Azure Hosting impressions and debugging hurdles Andy Beaulieu has a video hosted on his site of someone...
In this issue: Boyan Mihaylov, Matthias Shapiro, Page Brooks, Dave Britton, Jesse Liberty, and Jobi Joy. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher is starting a series on Design... from an interesting angle: Reflecting on Design - #1 Adam kinney expounds on Robby Ingebretsen, Kaxaml and MIX09: Robby Ingebretsen on Kaxaml and MIX09 Steve Commisso has his own post up about his talk at Phoenix Silverlight User Group From SilverlightCream.com: Creating a Questionnaire. The RadioList Control Boyan Mihaylov of SilverlightShow...
In this issue: Ken Cox, The Thirsty Developer, Dean Chalk, Nigel Sampson, Dr. WPF, John Papa, David Anson and Al Pascual. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 7: Adding Some Style Ken Cox is up to his 7th episode now, this one discussing styles and making use of the AutoCompleteBox. The Thirsty Developer 49: Silverlight + Twitter Looks like I missed this earlier this week, but The Thirsty Developer has a podcast up with Steve Holstad about a Silverlight frontend for Twitter....
In this issue: Shawn Wildermuth and Andrej Tozon. Shoutouts: Chad Campbell does a SL2 review and discusses SL3: Silverlight 2 in Review and Silverlight 3 (yes Three) in Action Discussion Adam Kinney remarks that MIX09 10k has come to a close, now its time to vote From SilverlightCream.com: Building AgiliTrain: Part 2 - MVC in Action Shawn Wildermuth has part 2 of his MVC activity detailed on his site... definitely one to read! Design a Vista-like account display picture for Silverlight application...
In this issue: Fredrik Normén, Michael S. Scherotter(2), Gerard Leblanc, Lee, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney has his latest TCSWeekly up: TCSWeekly Episode 003 - Silverlight, Moonlight, Kaxaml, Facebook, Multi-touch. Devin has a page up listing WPF and SL developers using Twitter, and a form to add yourself. Pete Brown discusses My Favorite MIX09 10k Challenge Entries . From SilverlightCream.com: How the Presentation Model could look like when using Silverlight 2.0 Fredrik Normén gives...
Get your Geek On! Come out to Interface Technical Training near Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday evening February 4, 2009 at 6pm. Steve Commisso of Zleek.com and http://bragosphere.blogspot... will be speaking on "Using Silverlight and WCF to create a RESTful File Upload Utility". Don't try to tell me there's nothing in that quartet of topics that interests you! Come ready to learn, and meet other Silverlight geeks in the area. See you there...
In this issue: Andy Nogueira, Ken Cox, Alex Knight, Charles Petzold, Fredrik Normén, Page Brooks, Michael S. Scherotter, and Peter McGrattan. Shoutouts: My Phoenix buddy Dan Wahlin had part in a Silverlight book that just hit the street: Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers Released ... very cool, Dan! Daniel Calbet wrote to me with the following two links. They are WPF, they're MVVM, and they're well-done, so definitely worth checking out: Using the Viewmodel pattern to provide Undo...
In this issue: Fabrice Marguerie, Tim Heuer, and Andrej Tozon. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth is taking his Silverlight Tour to Seattle next month, and it's not too late to use a discount coupon on his site: Shameless Plug for the Silverlight Tour. Shawn has also announced a new venture: Announcing AgiliTrain!... this looks like good stuff, so if you or your organization can afford it... I think Shawn can teach it to you! Tim Sneath takes a look at some of his favorite entries in the MIX 10K contest:...
In this issue: Thiago Felix, Thomas Kirchmair, Ken Cox, Jeff Paries, Daniel Crenna, Bryant Likes, Mike Snow(2), David Anson, and Chris Carper. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Screencast - Amazon - Part 3 Thiago Felix sent me this link about part 3 of his Silverlight Screencasts on "developing a silverlight application that use amazon webservice"... if you're having trouble understanding the webcast, don't bother with more coffee... it's in Portuguese :) .. thanks Thiago! The invisible Silverlight...
In this issue: Richard Griffin, Scott Barnes, Jesse Liberty(2), Nigel Sampson, Jeff Weber, SilverlightShow, Jeff Brand Andrej Tozon, Somasegar, Dean Chalk, and Jeff Wilcox. Shoutouts: Jesse Libery has a post up on Why I'm Going To MIX, and that goes for me too :) Bryant Likes reports that he has Twilight Source Code Published. Ken Cox has the Episode 3 - Pasted Code from his video up. From SilverlightCream.com: Designer Developer Workflow Part III Richard Griffin has the third installment of his...
In this issue: Grant Archibald, Rob Houweling, Andrej Tozon, Dean Chalk, Ken Cox, Daniel Crenna, Bryant Likes, Mike Snow, Joe Engalan, and Ning Zhang. From SilverlightCream.com: Spin and Win Grant Archibald has created a one-armed-bandit for his MIX09 10K challenge... it looks and works great... give it a shot! Creating a ColorFill toy in Silverlight - part 1 Rob Houweling takes on a challenge from Terence Tsang on his blog and builds a ColorFill toy in Silverlight ... check out the references. Silverlight...
In this issue: Jonathan van de Veen, David Justice, Andrej Tozon, Patrick Keating, Timmy Kokke, Shawn Wildermuth, Alex, Golesh, and Mike Snow. Shoutouts: Robby Ingebretsen has a new version of Kaxaml out: New Version of Kaxaml with Support for Silverlight 2 RTW ... if you don't know what it is, you owe it to yourself to go look! If you ever sit around and wonder "what is Corey Schuman up to?" :) ... never fear, he's involved in lots of things, for instance: HSN.tv video player and Video slider control...
In this issue: Russell Greenspan, Andrej Tozon, Patrick Keating, Timmy Kokke, csharpsean, John Stockton, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Ning Zhang, and Lee. From SilverlightCream.com: Microphone access in Silverlight via Flash and JavaScript Russell Greenspan shows us how to get past the no microphone in Silverlight thing by going through Flash or Java along the way.... great idea and since I've never coded Flash, good info... thanks Russell! Silverlight TreeView: MVVM and editing [1] Andrej Tozon was...
In this issue: Pete Brown, Anna Wrochna, James Bacon, Ken Cox, Tiago Andrade e Silva, John Bruin, Dean Chalk, Tim Heuer, Joel Neubeck, and Gerard Leblanc. Shoutouts: Falling into the WPF category is this outstanding post by Jaime Rodriguez: Styling Microsoft’s WPF datagrid Karsten has this one, which is also WPF: Getting WPF Expander and Listbox Alignment Happy Koen Zwikstra announed a follow-on to his XPS posting: Silverlight XPS: Source code Adam Kinney has posted a second edition of TCS Weekly:...
This is very goofy, but Jeff at GWB debugged around enough to figure out that the following entry is what was killing my 'Cream post for the last two days :( I'm going to try to put this out as a single and see if it flies. Walt Ritscher reports on Sothink Quicker for Silverlight -- an animation editor. Seems this was mentioned in the last week somewhere, but I couldn't find it real quick. This definitely looks like something worth checking into though! Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SLNews | Join me...
In this issue: Tiago Andrade e Silva, John Bruin, Tim Greenfield, Jeff Wilcox, Michael S. Scherotter, and Terence Tsang. Shoutouts: Michael S. Scherotter reports: Deep Discounts on Microsoft Expression until January 31, and shows off some of his great Silverlight. Tim Heuer blogged about Scott Cate's new venture: Visual Studio tricks in video form... looks great, Scott! This was supposed to go out on the 20th, but I had some problems posting to GWB. Consequently, the APress eBook deal of the day...
Not sure what's going on, and the folks at GWB are looking at it with me, but I can't post. And it's not this facility although I'd be more than happy to bitch complain about it. I had the latest 'Cream ready last night and wasn't able to send from either machine, and not this morning, and not now. I don't know if this will go through either. I started having really bad feelings about my location when I tried to go to Karen Corby's site this morning and it failed. I thought maybe they were blocking...
In this issue: Bob Thomson, Michael Washington, Ken Cox, Shawn Wildermuth(2), Matthias Shapiro, Page Brooks, and Jeff Wilcox. Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty reports As promised, here is the .NET Rocks recorded panel on RIA at Code Mash. It was a blast and got a great reception. Jeff Weber has a followup on his Silverlight Install Enticement video: Enticing People To Install Silverlight (Follow Up) Brad Abrams has his shoutout to MIX09: Getting Ready for Mix09 From SilverlightCream.com: colaab - Silverlight...
In this issue: Dean Chalk(2), Alex Golesh(2), Nigel Sampson, and Jesse Liberty(2). Shoutouts: CigDem reports Experience Silverlight in Eclipse Robby Ingebretsen is spending a lot of time at MIX09 speaking and says Help Me with MIX09 From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight ‘Loading’ Spin Icon in XAML Dean Chalk submitted a couple links, and I've added him to my watch list. This first one is a 'how-to' on a 'loading' Icon all done up in XAML and ready to roll! ObservableCollection Base Class With Expression...
This 'Cream post is strictly about MIX09 and all the posts that have been posted about it. Hopefully something someone says will be enough to convince you (or your boss) that you should go... Silverlight Tip of the Day #83 – Go to MIX09 Mike Snow dedicated his TOD #83 to MIX09, and has a great list of the sessions we now know about Silverlight 3 Sessions at MIX09 announced Alex Golesh reiterates the Silverlight 3 sessions that have been announced Speaking at MIX09! From all the folks I know that...
In this issue: Jim Lynn, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Weber, and Terence Tsang. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher reported on an interesting Web Design judging site: CommandShift3 - You be the judge of good Web Design. Scott Barnes reports that Silverlight is all over The Moment..... looks like lots of Silverlight involved in the inauguration! From SilverlightCream.com: Funky Popups using Tweener Jim Lynn sent me this one, and I've added Jim to my big list... he is using the Tweener class from Silverlight Contrib...
In this issue: John Stockton, Adam Kinney, Koen Zwikstra, Matthias Shapiro, Swiss MSDN Team Blog, Jordan Knight, Scott Barnes, Tim Heuer(2), and Mike Snow. Shoutouts: Terence Tsang suggests Let’s Join Mix 09 - 10K challenge!!... can't wait to see his entry :) Laurence Moroney is plugging MIX09: MIX09 – Why YOU should be there., and Adam Kinney says there will be another discount available tomorrow! From SilverlightCream.com: CodePlex, now with Silverlight John Stockton pinged me on his new post about...
Today is January 15th. Today you can still get into MIX09 for $1195 USD, but tomorrow the price goes up to $1395 USD! In December, they announced some discounts that brought the price to $795 USD. The last I heard of one of those codes being used was right at the end of the year, so it's worth a try! I'm going to be at MIX09, so I hope to see you there! Technorati Tags: Silverlight MIX09...
In this issue: Quadra Silverlight Outsourcing, Denis Dollfus, Karsten Januszewski, Tim Greenfield, Alex Golesh, Jeff Wilcox, Jaime Rodriguez, Mike Snow, and the Swiss MSDN Team Blog. Laurence Moroney gives a reference to Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :) From SilverlightCream.com: Dialog Control Quadra Silverlight Outsourcing sent in another link, and this one for a very nice-looking Dialog Control. Keep this stuff coming guys... it's all good :) Silverlight : Sealver Algea...
In this issue, the missing entries from earlier: Andy Beaulieu, Anna Wrochna, and Jonathan van de Veen. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight for Interactive CD/DVD Andy Beaulieu demonstrates how to put Silverlight on a CD or DVD to play it interactively. He gives a couple options and explains the one he's used... very cool, Andy! Silverlight and localization Anna Wrochna laments being tasked with doing some localization and the issues surrounding that in Silverlight Adventures while building a...
\In this issue: Boyan Mihaylov, Thiago Felix, Bart Czernicki, Daomon Payne, Nigel Sampson, Jeff Weber, Tim Heueer, Arturo Toledo, John Papa, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: I've got posts queud up from Jonathan van de Veen, Anna Wrochna, and Andy Beaulieu, but either I screwed up loading things into Thumbtack this morning, or it needs a little more help because instead of retaining the original post locations, it retained the blog home. However, it might be me :) So... there WILL be a Cream 2 today....
In this issue: David Betz, Shawn Wildermuth, and Terence Tsang From SilverlightCream.com: Setting a Silverlight 2 Startup Breakpoint using WinDBG David Betz continues discussing debugging Silverlight using WinDBG. It looks like direct questions might get answered, so if you have 'em, post 'em! See my Silverlight Data Access Talk from DevReach If you weren't at DevReach in Bulgaria, Shawn Wildermuth has a link to the video of his Silverlight Data Access talk. This is LINQ, ASMX, WCF, REST, Astoria,...
In this issue: Fons Sonnemans, Eric Oszakiewski, Tim Heuer, and Bill Reiss. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2.0 Sudoku Fons Sonnemans posted a real-live working Sudoku board... very cool, considering I'm a Sudoku junkie. Works great Fons... keep me updated with enhancements! 10K CONTEST SUBMISSION Eric Oszakiewski brings the tally up to 3 Phoenix Silverlight User's Group members that have entered the 10K challenge... wow... wonder what the metrics on that from other User Groups are :) ...
In this issue: Michael Washington, Pete Brown(2), Shawn Wildermuth(2), Jesse Liberty, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, and Gerard Leblanc. From SilverlightCream.com: DotNetNuke Silverlight FileUploader Michael Washington submitted code for a DNN Module that is a wrapper around the Silverlight file upload... for all you DNN folks out there :) .. thanks Michael! Creating a Silverlight Control that Stays Square Pete Brown resolves a problem for us of having a silverlight control maintain it's aspect ratio....
In this issue: Mike Ormond, Koen Zwikstra, Andrew Duthie, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, and Corey Schuman. From SilverlightCream.com: Expression Encoder SL 2 MediaPlayer Templates and SL Streaming Mike Ormond bails us out on Expression Encoder "Please re-encode" errors ... explains why we're getting them and how to make it stop. Tetris in 10K Koen Zwikstra decided to jump into the 10K challenge. I have to admit I'm an old Tetris player, and played Koen's for quite a while without any problems... great...
Note the GeekSpeak today at 12:00 PST by John Papa. In this issue: Seema Ramchandani, Jeff Wilcox, John Papa, Pete Brown, and Lee. Shoutouts: I had to look up "Otaku", but then thought my granddaughter might like Laurence Moroney's Silverlight and Otaku – A match made in heaven :)... plus it's DeepZoom, so what's not to like! Yeah, Laurent... it's sort of SilverlightCream with a steaming helping of WPF on the side :) ... and here's a WPF link from Adam Kinney: PhotoSuru, an innovative photo-viewing...
In this issue: Quadra Silverlight Outsourcing, John Papa, Tim Heuer, Laurence Moroney, Terence Tsang, and Robby Ingebretsen. Shoutouts: For those of you not up on it yet, Laurence Moroney has a post up about Silverlight and Windows Live. Barak has a couple cool New Year's Cards up. I liked the video on the Ascentium one, but the comments on the Razorfish are pretty good, such as "Seattle grunge band discovers a fifth chord" :) From SilverlightCream.com: Quadra Silverlight Image Carousel Quadra Silverlight...
In this issue: James Bacon, Chris Anderson, Jesse Liberty, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Laurent Bugnion, John Stockton, Alex Golesh, Gerard Leblanc, Lee, Andy Beaulieu, Jonathan van de Veen(3), Jobi Joy, and Damon Payne. I think everybody was working on stuff over the holidays and dumped it onto the interweb last night! Shoutouts: Jeff Wilcox has aggregated A bunch of AutoCompleteBox posts... save you some search time. Jeff also asks Using the Silverlight Toolkit? Let us know!. Here's your chance...
It's a new year, so why not make getting on with learning and writing about Silverlight one of your resolutions, and what better way to kick it off than to enter the contest the guys at SilverlightShow are running? Just click the logo above, and check out all the cool prizes they have waiting. Pay no attention to the other entries... you know you've got it in you, just go for it :) ok... I've repaired the link... sheesh... nobody told me it didn't go anywhere! You've got until January 31, 2009 to...
I've not been to the Vancouver event, but I did attend and speak at the Montreal event in December, and I have to say I liked it! The venue and gang was smaller, so sessions were smaller and more shall I say intimate? It fostered more of a conversational-style than presentations you'll find at MIX. The speaker list isn't up yet, but they plan on 136 sessions and if you look at the list of speakers that talked in Montreal, you'll get an idea. 17 are Silverlight! If you want a reason to plan a vacation...
In this issue: Quadra ODC Silverlight Outsourcing, Jeff Paries, Terence Tsang, and Damon Payne. From SilverlightCream.com: Quadra Silverlight Flipbook Control Quadra ODC Silverlight Outsourcing has some samples up to 'strut their stuff', and this page-turning control works very nicely! I'll work my way through their other examples and have them on my big list now... thanks! Shrinking XAP Size Jeff Paries posted this article about shrinking the XAP and I thought... wow another one?... but ... Jeff...
In this issue: Steve Commisso, Jobi Joy, and Damon Payne. From SilverlightCream.com: Run time is design time for AGT [15] In the latest Damon Payne entry (from October 30, 2008), Damon is taking on property editing ... properties of the objects he's moving around... good stuff! Mix 10K smart coding challenge Jobi Joy has an entry for the MIX09 10K challenge, and considering the size limitations, he did a LOT! MIX09 10K Smart Coding Challenge Steve Commisso is another Phoenix Silverlight User's Group...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Terence Tsang, Hannes Preishuber, Tim Heuer, and Damon Payne. Shoutouts: Michael Washington discusses the upcoming enhancements for the Silverlight Desktop. Mike Snow takes a step back and give us a Silverlight Tips of the Day - Summary Outline. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel Jesse Liberty takes a side-excursion from HyperVideo and gives a great tutorial on the wrap panel in the toolkit... good stuff, Jesse! Silverlight vs Flash: Driving Game...
Happy New Year everyone, from SilverlightCream! I hadn't decided if I was going to do a retrospective post this year, I've done a couple, and if you haven't read them, they shouldn't be hard to find on my blog :) Going through my blog list, however, I came across a year-ender by Chris Alcock of "The Morning Brew", and taking his lead, I thought I'd put out some metrics on SilverlightCream. I have a list of 210 blogs I scan every day. This is an ever-growing list. As someone submits something to the...
In this issue: Laurent Bugnion, Jeff Paries, Robby Ingebretsen, and Damon Payne. Shoutout: If you have a 30G Zune and you haven't turned it on today, don't (for now) as reported by Guy Barrette : Zune Y2K9. From SilverlightCream.com: New Year's Greetings and Silverlight Greeting Card Laurent Bugnion sent me the link to this earlier today, and wow... what a bunch of work... very cool slideshow, Laurent... awesome pictures and remembrances! Seattle Waterfront 1907-2002 Jeff Paries has a cool post up...
In this issue: Guy Ellis, Jonathan van de Veen, Jesse Liberty, Beatriz Stollnitz, Justin Angel, Manish Dalal, and Damon Payne. Shoutout: Earlier today I left out a shoutout to Laurence Moroney because he announced the availability of his Silverlight 2 Book – In Russian/u>! From SilverlightCream.com: BMI Calculator Guy Ellis is one of Phoenix' own, and decided to enter the MIX09 10K competition. He has a very clever BMI calculator with and expanding/contracting person showing... pretty clever,...
In this issue: Pete Brown, Damon Payne, Agata Staniak, Justin Angel, and David Anson. Shoutout: John Papa responded to some of the Silverlight security posts lately: Security and Silverlight. From SilverlightCream.com: Dealing with the “Project file must include the .NET Framework assembly …” Error I missed this one from just before Christmas by Pete Brown detailing how to resolve the error in the title... pretty simple, actually! Run time is design time for AGT [11] Episode 11 of Damon Payne's coding...
In this issue: Steve Commisso, Damon Payne, and Tim Greenfield(2). Shoutout: Koen Zwikstra has uploaded a new (signed) version of SilverlightSpy. You'll have to uninstall the previous version to install this one, but don't think about it... just go get it... you'll like it! Silverlight Spy 2.0.0.39 available. From SilverlightCream.com: Consuming RESTful Web Services in Silverlight Steve Commisso gives credit to Rob Bagby for the foundation for this post, and extends it... good stuff, Steve, thanks!...
In this issue: Maurice de Beijer, Damon Payne, Expression Blend and Design BLog, Bart Czernicki, Ning Zhang, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutout: If you haven't seen Silverlight Solution Center, check it out: Microsoft Help and Support From SilverlightCream.com: Unit testing in Silverlight part 1 Maurice de Beijer sent me this link to part one of a series he's doing on Silverlight Unit Testing. I'll catch up with him, but if you're more interested, you can read ahead on his blog :) Run time is design time...
In this issue: Al Pascual, Damon Payne, Laurent Bugnion, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, and Jobi Joy. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth has announced that Silverlight Tour Now includes Coverage of the Silverlight Toolkit. From SilverlightCream.com: Vote NO on the crossdomain.xml file, use the cloud to bypass errors. Al Pascual opens up a way to cause himself and everyone else some problems with Cross-Domain issues, but I looked at his post of combining his Azure proxy with Silverlight as being more interesting...
In this issue: Brad Abrams, Justin Angel, Damon Payne, David Betz, and Adam Kinney. From SilverlightCream.com: Resolution Randomizer Brad Abrams has a link to this New Year's Resolution site in Silverlight. I can't see who the author is, but there's some fun resolutions come out of it :) Custom VSM VisualStateManagers in Silverlight 2.0 Justin Angel has a seriously interesting article up on building a custom VSM... no, really... I told you it was seriously interesting! Run time is design time for...
In this issue: Jim Lynn, Silverlight Girl, Microsoft Natal, Damon Payne, Lutz Gerhard, Tamir Khason, Imran Shaik, Ning Zhang, and Joe Stegman. Shoutout: Cameron Albert is almost to the Alpha stage on Parenthia. Check it out: Almost Alpha Time! From SilverlightCream.com: Christmas in Silverlight Jim Lynn sent me this admittedly no-code Christmas card. Cool Deep Zoom demo though... I like it :) Create shadow effect in Expression Blend - Part 2 Silverlight Girl Continues with her Expression Blend Shadow...
I was asked this question (subject) by a friend last week, and have been so busy, I haven't taken the time to respond.. sorry Josh! I figured others may ask this question as well, and having it in a post might be the way to go. So if you're just getting ready to attack SIlverlight, where to start? Obviously Silverlight.net "Getting Started" is the first place. Follow the steps under "Get Started Building Silverlight 2 Applications". You might leave off the Deep Zoom composer at this time, but I'd...
In this issue: Damon Payne, Bryant Likes, Expression Blend and Design BLog, Jesse Liberty, and Kevin Dockx. Shoutouts, and almost as many of these as Silverlight posts: This isn't Silverlight, but the Shoutouts aren't necessarily :) ... Bill Reiss announed that Dr. Popper now on Xbox Live Community Games... very cool, Bill! Joe Stegman has an Update on Silverlight and Opera from yesterday's post... if you're using Opera and Sivlerlight, give this a read. Jeff Paries has entered the MIX 10K Challenge...
In this issue: Mark Monster, Daniel Crenna, Damon Payne, Expression Blend and Design BLog, Joe Stegman(2), and Jonas Follesø. Shoutout: Andy Beaulieu is entering the MIX 10k Smart Coding Contest, and is shamelessly asking for our votes. From SilverlightCream.com: Restarting the Silverlight Object with different initParams from within Silverlight Mark Monster shows us how to restart our SL app with different init parameters, and he's doing it from either JS or the app itself.. cool stuff, Mark, thanks!...
In this issue: Steve Commisso, Silverlight Girl, Tim Greenfield, Damon Payne, and Agata Staniak(2). Shoutout: Adam Kinney reported on Twitter that the SilverlightNews Twitter feed has been getting a lot of new followers lately. Welcome aboard, and tell a friend :) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Extenders Steve Commisso is a local (Phoenix) developer and sent me this link to some extenders he has done that are very cool. Dragging, rotating, resizing, etc... very useful and I look forward to...
In this issue: Nikhil Kothari, David Wynne, Damon Payne, Laurent Bugnion, Terence Tsang, Scott Morrison, John Papa, Ning Zhang, Jesse Liberty, and Lee Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra, has promised, has uploaded the Slideshow 2 Source Code If you want to go to MIX and you haven't registered yet, at least as of sometime yesterday Special Offer Still Open – Save 40% on MIX09 Registration ... best $795 you'll spend! Falling in the 'oh crap' category... Sara Ford has announced: Did you know that today’s tip...
In this issue: David Wynne, Damon Payne, Nigel Sampson, Jeff Prosise, Ning Zhang, and Terence Tsang. Shoutouts: John Papa's book is out... I haven't seen it, but it's one I'm going to have to get... all the info I've seen says it's a keeper: Now Available: Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2!. Martin Grayson has announced an update to the Patient Journey Demonstrator with lots of screenshots and a video demo: Patient Journey Demonstrator December 2008 Released . Keep an eye on Jeff Weber's blog...
I'm not sure how long twilert has been alive, and can't remember where I saw it, but someone was tweeting about it the other night. With twilert, you can set some search parameters, and get a daily email of any mention in the titterverse of those items. You probably wouldn't want to use a common word as a parameter unless you like scrolling through really long email, but if you're very specific, it works quite well. Since I can't get to twitter during the day, I know I've missed some replies or queries...
In this issue: John O'Brien(Deep Earth), SilverlightShow, Jesse Liberty, Dan Wahlin, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Wilcox, and Terence Tsang. Shoutout: Adam Kinney reports that XboxFriendsWatch Gamercard v2 has arrived! From SilverlightCream.com: Deep Earth John O'Brien sent me this link to Deep Earth on CodePlex. He also has a great demo up at Soul Solutions... thanks for the links and demo John! Happy Christmas Tree SilverlightShow put up a very cool site ... you go there, log in and get a Christmas tree....
In this issue: Pencho Popadiyn, Infragistics, Damon Payne, David Betz, Koen Zwikstra, Jaime Rodriguez, Jeff Wilcox(2), Karl Shifflett, and Jonathan van de Veen(2). From SilverlightCream.com: Exploring the Model – View – Controller (MVC) pattern Pencho Popadiyn at SilverlightShow has (I think) the first entry for the Write & Win Contest up .. this one is on MVC in Silverlight ... good-looking tutorial. Infragistic's Holiday Gift Infragistics sent out an email yesterday. If you aren't on the list,...
The guys at SilverlightShow are running another Write & Win contest... this one ends on January 31, 2009, and they've enlisted folks from the Silverlight community to help judge this time. Check out the site and all the prizes they have lined up ... what can it hurt to post your article to them?? Do ya feel lucky, well do ya? Stay in the 'Light! Technorati Tags: Silverlight...
In this issue: Rob Houweling, Damon Payne, Bart Czernicki, Timmy Kokke, James Bacon, Katrien De Graeve, Adam Kinney, Alex Golesh, Terence Tsang, John Papa, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: I thought this Overnight Website Challenge - Looking for Developer Teams now! looked like it would be fun... if you're in the area consider it! Adam Kinney reports a flash of Silverlight on Zune.net: mixview on Zune.net in Silverlight. From SilverlightCream.com: Merry Christmas Rob Houweling has a very cool Christmas...
In this issue: Boyan Mihaylov, Jeff Prosise, Tim Heuer, Bryant Likes, Page Brooks, Michael Wolf, Jeff Wilcox, Swiss MSDN Team Blog, Robby Ingebretsen, Anna Wrochna, and Andy Beaulieu. Shoutouts: If ya wanna go to MIX09, and particularly if you're self-funded, I don't know if there's any left, but they're giving away 200 seats at $795... go there fast then come back :) Act Now! Limited Number of MIX09 Conference Passes Available for $795. I also want to say +1 for Thumbtack ... this is filling in...
In this issue: Michael Washington & Jeff Paries, Lutz Gerhard, Jeff Wilcox, and David Anson. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth tells us Don't Forget the MSDN Developers Conference in Atlanta . If you're in that area... don't miss it! Shawn is going to be speaking on Oslo... say hi to him for me! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Dashboard Michael Washington & Jeff Paries have collaborated once more... this time they took Jeff's awesome graphics and put them into a Silverlight app ... it's about...
In this issue: Kevin Dockx, Mike Ormond, Nigel Sampson, Terence Tsang, and Chris Hay. Shoutout: Koen Zwikstra at First Floor Software is striking out on his own: So, what's all the fuzz about? .. and best of luck, Koen! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight: Easily Reading Application Settings from Configuration File (web.config) Kevin Dockx came up with a clever way of being able to store SL-related info in the web.config file and reading it with a web service. Along the way he also makes use of...
In this issue: Bart Czernicki, Alexey Zakharov, Martin Grayson, Ning Zhang, Jesse Liberty, and Kevin Dockx. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 - What we Know So Far & What We Can Predict (Part 1 of 2) I'm not big on fortelling the future, but Bart Czernicki is willing to take a shot at Silverlight 3 ... check out what he has to say about it! Silverlight Tip: Splash screen issues. Alexey Zakharov was working on a splash screen for his new site (a link included), and has some tips from the...
In this issue: Silverlight SDK, Shawn Oster, Jeff Wilcox, Bart Czernicki, David Anson, Jonathan van de Veen, and Kevin Dockx. Shoutouts Adam Kinney has a link out to NEC Biglobe’s Deep Zoom multi-layered photo viewer, and they've done some cool effects on it. From SilverlightCream.com: Advertising with Silverlight The Silverlight SDK has a post about Advertising with Silverlight, and a link out to a guide for doing so. Working with Units of Measure in a NumericUpDown Shawn Oster takes on the NumericUpDown...
I'm not sure if it is a temporary thing, or if the IT folks here have blocked GWB... time will tell.At least for now, I want to try to see what it will take to get a nicely-formatted post out with BlogMailr since I haven't used it in a while.Try pasting a link to SilverlightCreamThat looks fine in email, push the button, see what GWB gets :)[sent from newly generated BlogMailr address]...
In this issue: Kevin Dockx, Jeff Wilcox, Karsten Januszewski, and the Library of Congress... really! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight: Scale from sender-popup animation Kevin Dockx sent me this yesterday... and it works great... it's modal popups flying out to the center of the app from the point of button push... which, realistically, could be anywhere... good job, Kevin.. thanks! Silverlight Charting: Creating rich data point tooltips Jeff Wilcox takes tooltips in the Charts to a new level...
In this issue: Michael Washington, Ruurd Boeke, Jeff Wilcox, and David Anson. From SilverlightCream.com: Implementing "Drag and Drop" in SilverlightDesktop.net Michael Washington sent me this yesterday and I forgot it on my list :( ... he has implemented Drag and Drop in SilverlightDesktop... don't ignore this... he's dragging and dropping between modules! Check out what Michael is up to... Silverlight controls toolkit december released Ruurd Boeke discusses the December Toolkit deployment... and...
In this issue: Russell Greenspan, Chris Anderson, and Rob Zelt. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney posted about a new open source project by Microsoft: Oh, Oxite, we love this open source .NET blog software, and he has links to other folks that are early blogging. Bill Reiss has a cool post up on converting C# to VB using Reflector: Converting C# samples to VB.NET. From SilverlightCream.com: How-To #11: Build a Silverlight ToolbarButton user control Russell Greenspan builds a toolbar button User Control... huh...
In this issue: Page Brooks, Jeff Wilcox, Jesse Liberty, Robby Ingebretsen, Rob Zelt, and Jonas Follesø. Shoutouts: Jeff Weber is giving some sneak peeks at a new game: Introducing Tire Storm (Sneak Peek). Shemesh has updated his Grid splitter: Silverlight: GridSplitter with a collapse button (V2). From SilverlightCream.com: Building a Resizable Silverlight Control Page Brooks has a nice tutorial on building a resizable control... why you may need to do that and how... cool stuff, Page! Creating a...
In this issue: Bill Reiss(3), Mark Monster(2), and Nigel Sampson. From SilverlightCream.com: Embedding a F# class library in a Silverlight 2 Application Bill Reiss has three new posts up this first one is on F#, the other two are on game development. The F# one is interesting because he produced a template for us that produces a C# SL app and an F# class library... good stuff! A simple Silverlight game particle system Bill also has added a particle system inherited fro CenteredSprite that gives you...
In this issue: Pete Brown, Tim Greenfield, Boyan Nikolov, Jesse Liberty, Mike Ormond, David Justice, Tim Heuer, Chris Szurgot, Matthias Shapiro, Budi Kurniawan, Mike Snow, Martin Grayson, and Azret Botash Busy folks... I've still got a backlog and I was only slow a couple days :) From SilverlightCream.com: Pie Chart Styling in the Silverlight Toolkit - Cross-Slice Gradients Pete Brown gives us the benefit of his excursions in the chart control plus his conversation with team members, and he ends...
In this issue: Alex Golesh, Bart Czernicki, Matthias Shapiro(3), Michael WOlf, Swiss MSDN Team Blog, Michael S. Scherotter, Jesse Liberty, Chris Carper, Bill Reiss, Jonathan van de Veen, and Jobi. Shoutout: Adam Kinney reports that Project Rosetta turns into a MIX09 workshop From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Tip: How to Inject and Execute JavaScript Function(s) on-the-fly from Silverlight Alex Golesh has a post up on injecting JavaScript Functions from Silverlight. He has a nice text-entry front...
In this issue: Jobi, Russell Greenspan(5), Mike Ormond, Tim Heuer, Matthias Shapiro(2), Terence Tsang, Gerard Leblanc, Azret Botash, Jesse Liberty, and Jonathan van de Veen. From SilverlightCream.com: Interactive Silverlight Greeting Card Jobi posted this one to me and I forgot it the last time... sorry Jobi, because it's the first Silverlight Christmas Card of the season (AFAIK), and it is very cool... also check out the header on his blog :)... nice work, Jobi.... oh, and he gives up the source...
Wow.. what a week... by the third day of a conference, I find I'm just totally maxxed on information and tired, and this one is no exception. My first presentation was yesterday just before lunch and I got some nice comments which was cool... also had some negatives, but I think it was from folks that were expecting more meat. Yesterday I spoke on styling controls with static resources, then moved on to the toolkit themes, ImplicitStyleManager,and then moved the app.xaml resources into a Resource...
Chris Anderson, Tim Heuer, Michael S. Scherotter, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: If you don't read Scott Guthrie's blog, shame on you :) ... he posted his latest aggregation today: Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/WPF . From SilverlightCream.com: Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Part 4 Chris Anderson over at SilverlightShow put up the fourth part of his LOB series ... definitely a keeper. Silverlight install...
In this issue: Alex Golesh, Silverlight SDK, John Stockton, Page Brooks(2), Mike Snow(2), Terence Tsang(2), Adam Kinney, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney has some good comments about a much-viewed Surface video: Extending the Surface experience in the BMW app. Jesse Liberty waxes poetical about divElements, and it looks like with good reason :) SandDock for Silverlight – Commercial floating windows Corey Schuman is going to be on GeekSpeak on the 10th:...
In this issue: Hannes Preishuber, Tim Greenfield, Peter Bromberg, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: Adan Kinney has announed a Windows FireStarter, free event on Dec 12th... if you're in the area, it looks like it will be an interesting day! From SilverlightCream.com: B# and Silverlight Isolated Storage Hannes Preishuber has a good post up on Isolated Storage, and he's using B# to do it. Animate collapsing a Grid column or row in Silverlight Tim Greenfield discusses and demonstrates collapsing...
In this issue: Michael Washington, Adam Kinney, Arturo Toledo(2), Hannes Preishuber, Tim Greenfield, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: Bill Reiss has an announcement on his blog that I keep forgetting to mention: Silverlight Games 101 Blog moved and new content... you don't want to lose track of Bill! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Desktop 01.90.00 Released Michael Washington has been posting new Silverlight Desktop posts the last couple days and I was going to give him a shoutout today,...
Please join a group of Silverlight fanatics at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix from 6 to 8 pm. Steele Price will be giving a talk on the Silverlight Toolkit and the goodness surrounding that. Be there at 6pm for pizza, soft drinks, and networking, then watch and learn from Steele. Remember we will not have a January meeting, so this is the last opportunity until February to meet with all your Silverlight buds! I also need suggestions for talks in the new year and also presentors,...
In this issue: Timmy Kokke, Martin Mihaylov(2), CASON Engineering Plc., Bryant Likes(2), and Stefan Olson. Since I had seven submittals, I decided to do them first today and post my web-scrapings later :) From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Without XAML I'm not sure Timmy Kokke has a blog... if he does, send it to me, I'd like to track this. He has ripped page.xaml and app.xaml out of the project and is building his app in code behind ... interesting. My OutlookBar is pretty close to that... all...
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Tim Heuer, Katrien De Graeve, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Ruurd Boeke, Mike Snow(4), Jeff Wilcox, Michael S. Scherotter, Terence Tsang, and Corey Schuman. Also: Michael S. Scherotter has started a Silverlight Jobs Feed, and that sounds like a great idea! Jeff Prosise reports Silverlight Enigma Simulator Updated (and a Lesson on Internationalization) . CrocusGirl has two updates going: Crocusgirl’s Silverlight 2 Updates and Silverlight...
In this issue: Jonathan van de Veen, Bart Czernicki, Tim Greenfield, Ben Waggoner, Ning Zhang, Jesse Liberty, Jonas Follesø, Jafar Husain, Expression Team Blog, Adam Kinney, and Gerard Leblanc. Also: Jose R. Guay Paz reports Enter the Manning Free Ebook a Day giveaway... free is a definite good deal! Jeff Weber details that the Popfly Game Creator Updating to Silverlight 2. If you want to see what can be done with Popfly, check out the MSDN team blog roll on my blog page. Matthias Shapiro has updated...
In this issue: Hannes Preishuber, David Justice, Dan Wahlin, Terence Tsang, and Chris Carper. From SilverlightCream.com: Input Validation with Silverlight Hannes Preishuber posted this entry about Input Validation... that seems to be coming up more lately... and yikes I must have lost Hannes' blog address somewhere... I'm watching now and will catch up! Silverlight 2 XAML Binding and Custom / Core Dependency Properties David Justice blogs about responding to a spanking from Justin Angel and discusses...
In this issue: Silverlight SDK, Nikhil Kothari, Ruurd Boeke, and David Betz. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help The Silverlight SDK has a good post up on why we're seeing weirdness with the F1 help since installing the Toolkit. And for those that never need help, check it out anyway :) In-Place Editing for Silverlight using Styles and Templates Nikhil Kothari has a code-laden post up about editing elements at run-time without popping another box or something... very nice user...
In this issue: Jeff Wolfer, Matt Watson, and Jesse Liberty. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Attached/Dependency Properties code snippet update Jeff Wolfer has replacement code snippets for a couple of the ones in VS2008... propdp and propa are continuing to use UIPropertyMetadata, and I just checked on my laptop and there it was... Jeff's replacement fixes that... Silverlight Validator and Input Toolkit Matt Watson and Jeff Wolfer have a toolkit out on CodePlex for Input and validation...
In this issue: Joseph Ghassan, Jeff Wilcox, Peter McGrattan, Kathy Kam, and Lee. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 User Controls Communication Joseph Ghassan has a very complete tutorial up on communication between user controls. Managed Html Controls source code Jeff Wilcox reports that the managed wrapper used for client-side HTML controls used in the Unit Test Framework were actually delivered with the Silverlight Unit Test framework's source! Silverlight 2 WCF Polling Duplex Support -...
In this issue: Andrew Myhre, Silverlight Girl, webgui, Tim Greenfield, Shawn Wildermuth, Manish Dalal, Arturo Toledo, Ruurd Boeke, Joel Neubeck, Ning Zhang, and Chris Hay. Yikes... another 12 today! From SilverlightCream.com: Digital Wall - redux Andrew Myhre sent me an email about this app this morning, and I have to admit I didn't 'get it' at first ... but after some reading on his site, this is pretty darn cool.. you log in, and draw on top of whatever is there already, and you're seeing a display...
In this issue: Bart Czernicki, Martin Mihaylov, Katrien De Graeve, Silverlight SDK, Arturo Toledo, crocusgirl, John Papa, Andy Beaulieu, Jeff Wilcox, Justin Angel, Corey Schuman, and Jesse Liberty. Wow -- I did NOT miss yesterday and I have 12 solid links for today... everyone's been *really* busy :) Also: David Anson reports an update to his LayoutTransformControl: An unexceptional layout improvement [Two LayoutTransformControl fixes for Silverlight 2!], and you can now set both ScaleX and ScaleY...
I probably would not have posted this if the problem only existed on my XP workstation, but when I had the same problem yesterday on my Vista laptop and had to dig the same post up again to find out the solution, I decided I needed to mention it. After the Silverlight Toolkit was released, there was a post about adding the tools to the Toolbox. I re-blogged it in case anyone needed it, but I figured I didn't ... I mean I've been around Visual Studio since it was "Visual C++" Beta, so what's the big...
In this issue: Justin Angel, Shemesh, Albert Eyal, Steve, Ruurd Boeke, Mike Snow, Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Gerard Leblanc, and Jesse Liberty. Also: Steve Smith has opened up a couple new 'feeds' sites that are of note: Azure Feeds and Silverlight Feeds. He has others that you can find info about on these sites but the main idea is to go to Silverlight Feeds and submit your material. I'm mentioning this in good faith that you will also submit to Silverlight Cream of course :) ... yet another source...
In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Ivan Dragoev, Jesse Liberty, Scott Guthrie, Laurent Bugnion, Ning Zhang, and Jonas Follesø. Brad Abrams posts a question to all of us: What Does that .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.*... give him some feedback! Boyan Nikolov reports The Number class and the Calculator app updated after his calculator got some prime time. Corey Schuman gives us a hint why he's been relatively quiet lately: Microsoft Expression Blend Visual Quickstart Guide is almost here!...
In this issue: Boyan Nikolov, Ning Zhang, Jeff Paries, Chris Hay, Jeff Handley, and Mike Snow. Terence Tsang has announed a new site that has nothing to do with Silverlight but looks pretty cool: Pencake Ecard (Facebook Application). Cameron Albert has announced Some New Perenthia Screen Shots. From SilverlightCream.com: Calculator for Silverlight Boyan Nikolov has a Silverlight calculator that's built as a custom control... howcool is that? Expander Control in Silverlight Toolkit Ning Zhang's blog...
In this issue: Ivan Dragoev, Beatriz Stollnitz, Laurent Duveau, Matthew Casperson, Mike Ormond, Adam Kinney, Scott Guthrie, and Ruurd Boeke. I saw this post by Jeff Wilcox: Toolkit posts: "Silverlight in Style," dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight, and TreeView expansion, and thought "cool -- I've got all that covered :)" ... but WAIT... check this out... all the Toolkit bloggers have their own blog now! I'll be watching this for you, but go ahead and keep an eye on it too in case I miss...
In this issue: Pencho Popadiyn, Dan Wahlin, Lee, Karl Erickson, Larent Bugnion, Manish Dalal, and Adam Kinney. Jeff Prosise has updated his Enigma Machine: Silverlight Enigma Simulator Updated. Shawn Wildermuth reports he has Updated My Silverlight 2/Astoria MSDN Article. Jesse Liberty is going to be Speaking at Code Mash 2009. David Anson reports he is Shamelessly benefitting from the work of others [Links to Silverlight Airlines and Surface samples for RTW!]... cool ports to SL2. From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this issue: Silverlight Girl, Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, David Anson, Cheryl, Justin Angel, Kathy Kam, Shawn Burke, and Jafar Husain. John Papa hada Teaser Chapter up for his book the other day and I forgot to mention it, so here it is: Free Teaser Chapter for Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Loader Animation Silverlight Girl discusses her loader animation created in Blend, then turns around before I got that posted and gives up Source code for the...
In this issue: Matthew Casperson, Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Tim Heuer, Dan Wahlin, Dave Britton, Jordan Knight, Gerard Leblanc, Azret Botash, and Lee. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Game Programming Tutorial - Input and Adding Game Elements Matthew Casperson had two more posts earlier, but I wanted to get the 'Cream post out and was heavy already so I saved Parts 2 and 3. This one is on creating the objects and getting them moving around then Part 3 is Silverlight Game Programming Tutorial...
In this issue: Ian Griffiths, Matthew Casperson, Chris Anderson, IDV Solutions, Nikhil Kothari, Dave Burke, Anna Wrochna, Chris Hay, Jesse Liberty, and Robby Ingebretsen. David Anson has collected all the Charting blog links on one page... a good reference: My new home page [A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!]. Jaime Rodriguez reports that the NY Times has a free version of it's WPF reader: NY Times ReaDER Free Edition.. ... now I just need to be someplace I can run WPF :) From...
In this issue: Joseph Ghassan, Boyan Nikolov, James Bacom, David Justice, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, and Michael Sync. Tim Heuer has an update you should pay attention to: Flickr4Writer Service Pack update. Joel Neubeck updated his RatingControl with Theme support>... it was cool seeing that in action Wednesday night, so great to see him update it so fast... thanks Joel! A couple loyal subjects, Scott Hanselman and Scott Stanfield put together a DeepZoom of Obama Headlines... it seems to...
After seeing David Kelley at MIX 08 with T-Shirts on with his website URL on the back, I decided that for DevTeach Montreal, and MIX 09, I was going to do some of that. I searched around and apparently didn't ask everyone because Bill Reiss told me after the fact that he also used zazzle. zazzle.com is +1! I ordered 3 shirts on Saturday November 1, and they were delivered yesterday, Thursday November 6! ... wow... Not only that, but they look great,and are pre-shrunk 100% cotton good quality shirts....
In this issue: David Miles, Shawn Oster, Jeff Weber, Justin Angel, and Nikola Mihaylov. I stand corrected in that the Kongregate tutorials referenced in the Jeff Weber link below are being ported to Silverlight ... the tutorials, NOT Kongregate... sorry for any confusion! The subject was correct, my commentary wrong :( David Anson has made some changes to his ChartBuilder... check out his post: Improving ChartBuilder's cultural sensitivity [ChartBuilder app/source updated!] I've read a bunch here...
In this issue: Boyan Nikolov, Scott Hanselman, Page Brooks, Justin Angel, and John Papa. If you haven't heard it yet, Mike Ormond has a post: MIX 09 Announced. I hope to see lots of old and new friends in 'Vegas this year! From SilverlightCream.com: A Silverlight Minesweeper Boyan Nikolov sent me this MineSweeper post this morning. I didn't have a chance to look at the code before running out the door, but I did quickly lose the game twice :) ... it looks like a good start, and since Boyan is providing...
Last night Ten of us gathered at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix last night to eat pizza, network, and hear Joel Neubeck talk about his Templated Silverlight Rating Control. First off, a big Thanks to Interface Technical Training for providing facilities for us and providing pizza and soft drinks. Joel answered a question and gave us a bit of the background on Terralever, and how they came to be involved in Silverlight games. He then walked us carefully through the Rating Control...
In this issue: Rich Griffin, Nikolay Raychev, David Anson, Manish Dalal, and Terence Tsang. I apologize for not posting this on Monday, but Scott Barnes is asking for everyone's assistance on a poll: Calling all Silverlight/WPF Developers & Designers. Then today Tim Heuer posted this: Hey Startups – get some BizSpark ... wow... if you're a startup, check that out! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight themes 101 - Resource Dictionary Visual Studio Item Template Rich Griffin posted an item template...
In this issue: Rich Griffin, Martin Mihaylov, Tim Heuer, Jafar Husain, Jeff Prosise, Mike Snow, Jeff Wilcox, Ben Waggoner, Jeff Paries, Jesse Liberty, and Jeff Putz. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Themes 101 Rich Griffin sent me this post about Themes ... very nice tutorial... have it on my list of stuff to read closer ... thanks Rich! Using the DockPanel in Silverlight 2 Martin Mihaylov posted a tutorial in his style we've grown to expect on using the DockPanel... check this out! Using Encoder...
In this issue: Jeff Paries, Rob Houweling, Bart Czernicki, Jeff Wilcox, Dan Wahlin, Peter Bromberg, Gerard Leblanc, and Dave Burke. From SilverlightCream.com: Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation Jeff Paries wrote that his book is out... how cool is that?? If all the videos he and Rob Houweling have posted aren't enough incentive for you, he has a chapter available to be read: Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation... and this is Simulating 3D in 2D ... fun stuff :) ... awesome job, Jeff! Another one on...
In this issue: Joseph Ghassan, Bill Reiss, Jordan Knight, Jesse Liberty, Karen Corby, niravi, and Pete Brown. Bill Reiss reports that Silverlight Streaming updated to Silverlight 2 RTW (Finally), and he has his Stack Attack game running there. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2.0 Dependency Properties And Routed Events Joseph Ghassan sent me this extremely detailed blog post on Dependency Properties and Routed Events ... this is like a treatise on the subjects or something... I think that one...
In this issue: John Stockton, Pierlag, Mel Lota, Ning Zhang, Carole Snyder, Martin Grayson, Jesse Liberty, Public Sector DPE Team, Mike Ormond, Andy Beaulieu, and Arturo Toledo. Somasegar has an Application Architecture Guide 2.0 referenced on his site that bears reading. The Swiss MSDN Team Blog invites you to Try out the DeepZoom app on our Shape Website ... and this is very nicely done... Dan Wahlin reports his Amazon.com AlbumViewer Application for Silverlight 2 Released . From SilverlightCream.com:...
In this issue: Jeff Wilcox, Jordan Knight, Justin Angel, Imran Shaik, Corey Schuman, Jeff Paries, and Jafar Husain. I stopped at these 9 entries for now just to get them out. I've got 9 queued up behind these and that's just from me running my big list-o-blogs about 10:30 last night and what's been submitted since! ... a very prolific bunch you are :) From SilverlightCream.com: AutoCompleteBox: The 5 things you need to know Jeff Wilcox has a trilogy about the AutoComplete box. This first is exactly...
Please join me at Interface Technical Training at Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix next Wednesday, November 5th at 6pm for our next regularly scheduled Phoenix Silverlight User's Group Meeting. Joel Neubeck of Terralever is going to be speaking to us on his rating control and "demonstrate how to use vsm, control templates, depedency properties, etc." This should be a great presentation! As a warm-up to Joel's material, check out his article on the Microsoft Expression newsletter site: Article...
I just realized than Monday started year 3 of me blogging at GeeksWithBlogs, and kudos to Jeff and everyone at GWB for great service! What began as an experiment in blogging on my own site expanded into something with a LOT more reach at GWB just in time for WPF/E in December of '06. Then after Mix '07, I began what is now the SilverlightCream posts, and anything else I may have to say is drowned out by that! I've been watching the blogger list at GWB, and although I began later than some, I'm now...
In this issue: Pencho Popadiyn and Lee. Enjoy a small post... if history holds, when everyone returns from PDC there will be a flood! From SilverlightCream.com: Developing Silverlight Analog Clock - pattern oriented approach Pencho Popadiyn assigned himself a task using MVC to get up to speed on various technologies and he produced an awesome analog clock... tons of informaion in this post... love it! Changing Treeview Template Lee shows how to change the Toolkit TreeView by going in through the...
In this issue: Jeff Handley, David Anson, Jafar Husain, Justin Angel, Beatriz Stollnitz, Scott Barnes, Chris Anderson, Dave Burke, Bart Czernicki, Terence Tsang, Ben Waggoner, The Silverlight SDK, Joe Stegman, and Lee... whew! Hang in there with me, this is quite a few, especially considering it's the third post today... I'm getting slammed by all the toolkit stuff, and I'm picking through trying not to really list content, trust me! Karl Shifflett reports that XAML Power Toys 3.5 Released Updated...
In this issue: Justin Angel, Ruurd Boerke, Jeff Wilcox, Pete Brown, and Tim Heuer. This is the 3rd post that's pretty well dedicated to the Silverlight Toolkit release. This catches me up with all the ones I've been sent, but I'm sure I'll find more for later... so come back for more! A few people had some good introductory posts that I only thought fair to mention because they'll be back with more content later: Shawn Wildermuth posted Silverlight 2 Toolkit, Shawn Oster posted The Silverlight Toolkit...
In this issue: Chad Campbell, Jonas Follesø, and Bill Reiss. This is more of the early posters about yesterday's release of the Silverlight Toolkit. These are my 'home boys' ... sites I can't get to from work, so I have to do them from home :) These are ready to post so they're going even though I have more. In an email from a PM on the Toolkit team, I received a list of 24 links. I felt pretty good, because including this post, I'd already blogged about 14 of them and of the remaining 10, 5 are...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Michael Sync, Shawn Burke, David Anson, Andy Beaulieu, Dan Wahlin, Laurent Bugnion, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Lee, and Mike Snow Kathy Kam reports that Silverlight 2 has RTW! (a week ago) , and her controls sample is updated... she also hints she is working on another sample... I'm guessing it's with the Toolkit :) From SilverlightCream.com: Toolkit release & Themes Jess Liberty posted about the Toolkit and Themes release today, with a bunch of screenshots...
In this issue: Mike Snow, Jeff Handley, James Bacon, and Alex Knight. If you are NOTAtPDC, a few people have lists of the posts you may be interested in. Most notably is Silverlight @ PDC! by Karen Corby, and for general information Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 Virtual Pressroom. I have been collecting links to PDC2008 sessions in my MSDN Social Bookmarks and also my personal bookmarks. Devexpress has a timely Silverlight Controls Preview, and they've got some coolness going...
In this issue: Walt Ritscher, Shawn Wildermuth, Dave Burke, Terence Tsang, and Gerard Leblanc. In addition to all the festivities surrounding PDC2008, for those of use NOT at PDC2008, a twitter feed has opened of the name NotATPDC, a NotAtPDC website, and there are going to be sessions given ... this is very cool.... now we need something for people NOT At PDC and unable to be on Twitter... lol. From SilverlightCream.com: Shazzam Tool Walt Ritscher announced this yesterday on Twitter as he was leaving...
In this issue: Pedro Anuarbe Cortes, pierlag, Joseph Ghassan, Jeff Wilcox, Silverlight SDK, Jeff Prosise, Dave Burke, and Michael S. Scherotter. Karl Shifflett reports All New XAML Power Toys Videos Published... and when he says videos... yikes, he's been busy! Koen Zwikstra has an update to Silverlight Spy: Silverlight Spy 2.0.0.33 with some very nice upgrades. From SilverlightCream.com: SpecNix - ZX Spectrum Emulator Pedro Anuarbe Cortes is the dev that sent me the very nice Tetris game last week....
Yes, I know this isn't Silverlight, but it's close! I had given up for a bit trying to get the latest Silverlight installed on this machine. I thought maybe it was all the beta bits giving me a fit or who knows what. Essentially I gave up, and just worked off my laptop, but I need to spend some concentrated time working on some things over the next few weeks and I'm just more comfortable doing that on the workstation. So today, instead of being productive, I finally figured out what was going on....
In this issue: Jeff Handley, Dan Wahlin, Matthias Shapiro, Peter McGrattan, and Imran Shaik. You might want to take a look at Somesegar's post: Inspiring through Innovation - DevLabs. I've seen another post about the "Small Basic" compiler... Corey Schuman reports he has Updated examples to RTM. From SilverlightCream.com: ViewModel Pattern Jeff Handley has a bit of an overview article on the ViewModel Pattern. This applies to both WPF and Silverlight, so would be a good read. Adding Style to Silverlight...
In this issue: Cote, Ivan Dragoev, Hannah Watkins, Fons Sonnemans, Bart Czernicki, Jeff Prosise, Dave Burke, Adam Kinney, Manish Dalal, Mike Snow, Jeff Wilcox, Karl Shifflett, Terence Tsang, and Imran Shaik Laurence Moroney announces <3 your web, Vegas style, it’s MIX time again – MIX09 now open for registration…. Jeff Prosise announced his Deep Zoom Demo Updated for RTW . Matt Casto Announced Cleveland Silverlight Firestarter From SilverlightCream.com: RIA Weekly #27 - Silverlight 2.0 with Brad...
In this issue: Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, Jeff Weber, and Jesse Liberty. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 Watermarked TextBox Control Tim Heuer brings back the Watermarked Textbox and has everything you need downloadable under MS-Pl Cool Silverlight Trick #3 Jeff Prosise is probably up to Number 4, but it was 3 when I stopped yesterday... this is about loading assemblies on demand and he's taken the demo no MSDN and made it work in a more general case... very useful! New Farseer Physics Water...
In this issue: Erik & Monica Mork, Bart Czernicki, Joseph Ghassan, Laurence Moroney, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Snow, and Imran Shaik. Peter McGrattan reports his Silverlight 2 Samples Updated, so go revisit them. Matt Casto reports of a Cleveland Silverlight Firestarter on November 1... looks like a great list of people and topics! From SilverlightCream.com: Logging Client Side Events Erik and Monica Mork have a new Podcast up on logging client-side events. If you're not plugged into the Sparkling...
In this issue: Rob Zelt, Page Brooks, Chad Campbell, Jeff Prosise, Mike Snow, Jordan Knight, and Silverlight Web Services Team. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 Timeline Panel Rob Zelt sent me this post this evening... and it's pretty cool that items placed get rearranged according to date. I'm sure this should spark ideas in some folks... thanks Rob! Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 – Alpha 2 Released! Page Brooks is making a big hit with his Silverlight Contrib project. Page, Koen Zwikstra,...
In this issue: Paulio and Jeff Prosise Tim Heuer blogged about changes on Silverlight.net: Silverlight.net updated code samples From SilverlightCream.com: Progressive Enhancement with Silverlight Paulio sent me this earlier today. I haven't had a chance to check out his blog, but I will. This post is dealing with HTML Tables and Silverlight... interesting reading... thanks, Paulio. Cool Silverlight Trick #1 Jeff Prosise is beginning a series of "Cool Silverlight Tricks"... and begins today. He says...
In this issue: Bart Czernicki, Pedro Cortes, Ken Cox, Koen Zwikstra, and Terence Tsang. Karl Shifflett reports that XAML Power Toys 3.4 Released... and he has a list of updates he's done to it on the page. Matt sent me a link to his site for downloading free eBooks on various tech subjects... It looks like it is worth a longer look: Free eBooks Download From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and the Enterprise Bart Czernicki has a good article up on talking about how well suited Silverlight really...
In this issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Laurence Moroney, Dave Relyea, Mike Taulty, Andy Beaulieu, Brad Abrams/Tim Heuer, and David Anson Michael Washington reported a new Silverlight 2 release of Silverlight Desktop and discusses an issue he found along the way in SilverlightDesktop.net updated to the release version of Silverlight 2. Jeff Paries reports his Project Updates for Silverlight 2, as does Terence Tsang with his Silverlight 2 Upgrade: 3D Text Space. Martin Grason has been Silverlight 2 busy...
In this issue: Tim Heuer, Pete Brown, Mike Taulty, NikhilKothari, Dan Wahlin, Laurence Moroney, Arturo Toledo, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang and Corey Schuman. In addition to the posts below, I found some other hints and posts from devs that have been busy updating previously blogged material... The Silverlight SDK site has an article on Silverlight Tools versioning, and one on help titled Where is the Silverlight content?. John Papa has exposed his book TOC in Data and Services with Silverlight 2 - Table...
In this issue: Tim Heuer, Scott Morrison, Corey Schuman, and Jesse Liberty A whole bunch of folks are updating their blogs and work to the latest bits. I'm going to give them links up here. Karen Corby has a good Silverlight 2 has SHIPPED! post up with info about Expression blend and links. Cameron Albert has updated his game code, Andy Beaulieu has been a busy boy and updated dang near everything :), Joel Neubeck reports that Zero Gravity is updated, Arturo Toledo has a general SL2 note and info...
In This Issue: Bart Czernicki, Rob Houweling, Scott Guthrie, Tim Heuer, Jesse Liberty, Laurence Moroney, and Karl Shifflett. I should call this my Silverlight 2 Release post, because looking at it, there are only 3 posts that are not directly related. I'm not going to list out in detail everyone that has a link blog (like me), but I do have the major, fact-filled, entries below, and will give shout-outs to posts by Tim Sneath, Somasegar, and Scott Hanselman -- I think that's a first :) Adam Kinney...
Because I own the Phoenix Silverlight User's Group, I got an email this morning from O'Reilly about a survey they're doing. The intent was to get it to the User Groups, of which O'Reilly is very supportive. <Side Note> If you run a user group and are NOT in contact with O'Reilly, you should do so! </Side Note> I've cleared the blogging of this with them, and will do the same thing I did with the User Group. I'll post the body of the message and if you decide to go there or not, it's your...
In this issue: Jesse Liberty, Denislav Savkov, Shawn Wildermuth, Gerard Leblanc, and Jonas Follesø. From SilverlightCream.com: Data Binding – Data Conversion Jesse Liberty has a very nice post on Data Conversion in DataBinding ... timely for me since I was just looking at that last night :) ... good job on this, Jesse! The ComboBox control in Silverlight 2 RC0 Denislav Savkov continues the control excursion in RC0 by tackling the Combobox this time in the complete manner that we've grown accustomed...
I tried to dial in to the teleconference, but kept getting an invalid number. <Update:> Nathan Brouwer was able to get into the press conference and wrote up a nice transcript as it was going. He has posted that on his blog here: Silverlight 2 Final (RTW) Available ... thanks for the email and note-taking, Nathan! </Update> I refreshed the Press Release page at 9:00, and there it was! It will be available on October 14, and current Silverlight users will be updated. Here is a bit of information...
In this issue: Tim Heuer, Silverlight SDK, Page Brooks, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, and Bill Reiss Bill Reiss has updated his XNA games to the XNA 3.0 Beta, and has created a PDC badge: Find me at PDC for a Dr. Popper badge and maybe win a book. From SilverlightCream.com: Hey, who took my Chiron? Responding to a question, Tim Heuer discusses what happened to Chiron.exe in the RC0 delivery (and beyond, I suppose). Silverlight Breaking Changes Between Beta 2 and Release (Updated Document) The folks at...
In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Dave Relyea, Manish Dalal, Karl Shifflett, Terence Tsang, David Anson has been busy with his updates and reports: Just a little too eager with the clicking... [Updated binaries and source for MouseButtonClicker]. Corey Schuman posted about an Update for his Video Slider Karl Shifflett has a Cool Usage Tip For XAML Power Toys Adam Kinney has a blog post and set of demo videos on the WPF Effects and Transitions Library Applied Laurence Moroney reports he has updates...
In this issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeff Handley, Mike Snow, Laurence Moroney, Terence Tsang, and Jesse Liberty. John Papa has Updated Sep 2008 MSDN Article Code for Silverlight 2 RC0. Devexpress announced their AgDataGrid supports RC0 Alex Golesh reported Silverlight TreeView and String-To-PathGeometry Converter projects updated to RC0 syntax, plus he has some updates in them... this tree is very cool! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Library 1.0 Andrea Boschin has a project up on CodePlex called...
In this issue: Tim Heuer, Mike Snow, Peter Bromberg, Jeff Handley, Terence Tsang, Corey Schuman, and Jonas Follesø. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight in SharePoint web parts Tim Heuer discusses Silverlight in Sharepoint with a group of links out to good information. How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control Mike Snow explains how to dynamically load a Silverlight Control into an existing Silverlight App... Silverlight: Dynamically add "favorites" bookmark...
In this issue: Write & Win Contest Winners, Jeff Paries, Erik & Monica Mork with John Papa, Martin Mihaylov, Dave Crawford, Tim Heuer, Laurence Moroney, Peter Bromberg, and Terence Tsang. I received this yesterday and it fell through the cracks in the interweb, but SilverlightShow has announed The Winners! of their latest Write and Win contest... check it out, and congratulations to the winners! Jeff Paries has posted Silverlight 2 Animation Book Cover, and has snuck a couple more video examples...
In This Issue: Dhiraj Gupta, Peter Brombert, Bill Reiss, Jesse Liberty, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Lee, Karl Shifflett, and Tamir Khason. Karl Shifflett reports a very long weekend and an update to XAML Power Toys: XAML Power Toys 3.1.0.2 Has Silverlight 2 Support!. Tamir Khason reports Silverlight Bidi Controls Library RC0 and movement from Beta 2 to RC0 , and everything is on CodePlex! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Min-Map Dhiraj Gupta has the beginnings of a mind-mapping tool... tak a...
In this issue: Jonas Follesø, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Wilcox, Andy Beaulieu, Jaime Rodriguez, James Bacon, Terence Tsang, and Chris Hay Jonas Follesø has been busy and reports that YouCard, DiveLog and WebcamPOC updated for Silverlight 2 RC0. Jaime Rodriguez reports that We just published a codeplex project with source for > 25 Pixel Shader effects and ~35 Transition effects.. for WPF. Koen Zwikstra reports that Silverlight Spy for RC0 available. From SilverlightCream.com: Client-side HTML controls...
In this issue: Denislav Savkov, Martin Mihaylov, Matthias Shapiro, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Jesse Liberty, and Bill Reiss From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight rendering performance in different browsers Denislav Savkov of SilverlightShow has done some SL Performance across various browsers... interesting data and results DataGrid and row details in Silverlight 2 Martin Mihaylov, also of SilverlightShow, Continues with the next installation of the DataGrid exploration in Silverlight 2, and has...
In this issue: Jeff Paries, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Terence Tsang, Bill Reiss, and Eugene Osovetsky. From SilverlightCream.com: Filmstrip Gallery Jeff Paries sent me a note this morning that he has a new post up about a Filmstrip Gallery that began life as a work project ... it looks pretty darn cool... he has all the code and a live project example listed... thanks Jeff! Silverlight and Web Service Errors Tim Heuer touches once again on troubleshooting webservice issues,...
I'd be lying if I said I was happy with last night's turn-out to hear Tim Heuer speak, but on the up-side, not one person left with any questions un-asked or un-answered! Counting Simon Allardice that popped in late, there were 10-1/2 of us there, the 1/2 being one minor member :) Tim talked and demonstrated RC0, and brought some VS2008 Pro copies to had out. One of the things he talked about was the new controls: Password, ComboBox, and Progress. I thought I'd give a link to Mike Snow's Blog. He's...
In this issue: Laurence Moroney, Corrina Barber, Adam Kinney, Matthias Shapiro, Terence Tsang, Chris Hay, Martin Grayson, and Pete Brown. Martin Grayson reports that he has Blacklight updated for Silverlight 2 RC0... if you haven't checked this out yet... go there now, I'll still be here when you get back :) From SilverlightCream.com: How to use Silverlight RC0 -- and some code updates for my Silverlight 2 book. Laurence Morony has some words of wisdom about RC0 and some links to resources, and advertises...
In this post: Mike Snow, Bill Reiss, Jesse Liberty, Harsh Bardhan, Tim Heuer, Matthias Shapiro, and Jeff Wilcox Bill Reiss has posted Silverlight Sports Game Contest Results... I blogged Andy Beaulieu's win yesterday, but go look at the others! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Tip of the Day #47 – How to Implement a Password Box I've heard the term 'dog days', but in Mike Snow's case, it's like dog years... folks, we've just gone through 7 Tips of the Day in 24 hours! ... and that doesn't count...
Chris Cavanagh with Actionscript layout library, Martin Mihaylov with Voting control, Bart Czernicki on Dynamic Assembly loading, Peter McGrattan on Duplex Polling, Terence Tsang with FPS Meter, Gerard Leblanc Turning the Page, Robby Ingebretsen on Blend Modes, Greg Schechter on Shader Effects, and Jonas Follesø with an Expression Add-In for Color. Wow... busy day, is it because of the RC0, or the phase of the moon? I've got 10 plus 2 in this post and another 11 or 12 for this evening, not counting...
Wednesday October 1, 2008 is our next regularly scheduled Phoenix Silverlight User's Group meeting, and I'm proud to announce that Tim Heuer will be talking to us about RC0 and other things he is up to, and take your questions or lead about topics as well. I believe this is the first time he's talked at our group since he became a Program Manager on the Silverlight Team, so don't miss this opportunity to interact with not only one of our Phoenix Rock Stars, but a person that has direct knowledge...
Boyan Mihaylov on SL/Amazon, David Hyde with SL Stock Portfolio, Chris Anderson with SL LOB app, Jesse Liberty on Content Presenter and Isolated Storage, Shawn Burke on ExpandoHeaderControl, Brad Abrams on CSLA and SL, Matthias Shapiro on ListView Styles, Manish Dalal on Combobox in DataGrid, Jeff Wilcox on SL & JS, David Anson on LayoutTransform, Terence Tsang with a simple text effect, and Lee with Combobox in DataGrid The SilverlightShow Write and Win Contest is ready for your votes! Three...
Bart Czernicki on RC0, Bill Reiss on RC0 Text, Shawn Wildermuth on WebClient, Expression Blend Team with DZ Templates, Matthias Shapiro on Generic.xaml, Jeff Handley on Property Changed Events, Terence Tsang with Laser Orbit, and Jesse Liberty on Skinnable Custom Controls. If you know Chad Campbell, or know him by way of Twitter or some other social means, you'll also know he's been laboring over his book for over a year. John Stockton has assisted on this, and now reports that the electronic version...
Jeff Handley on Binding to Nullable Values, Matthias Shapiro Styling ScrollViewer, Andy Beaulieu with SL2 RC0 Crash, Shawn Wildermuth on WebClient vs. WebRequest, Bill Reiss on Fonts in RC0, and Terence Tsang with Dancing Polygons. Shawn Wildermuth has an RC0 post up that is worth a read: Silverlight 2 Tools Release Candidate Now Available. Michael S. Scherotter has been porting to RC0 and has a blog post up also: First Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to RC0 Porting Success. From SilverlightCream.com: Binding...
Jeff Handley on Layout Cycle and ContentPresenter gotchas, Pete Brown on VSM Styles and SL2 RTM, Bill Reiss with Cleaner Game Loop, Matthias Shapiro with Zooming Buttons and Color Picker, Expression Blend Team with Blend 2 SP1, Jeff Wilcox on RC0 Unit Test, Terence Tsang with Resilience Rectangle and Grid Transition Rotator, and Gerard Leblanc rotating images. Yowzer... you can certainly tell something was released! David Anson reports: Preserving access to Silverlight 2's generic.xaml resources...
Ed Silverton with 3D Flickr Photo, A gaggle of Silverlight Developers blogging about RC0, and Bill Reiss with a fix for RC0 not working. Unless you've been sleeping behind the door, or you're not overly interested in chasing the technology, you already know that last night Scott Guthrie announced Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available. For both of you that have just awakened and are reading this, let me be the first to announce it... for everyone else, I've tried to cull the more informative...
Tim Heuer on Isolated Storage, Dan Wahlin Animating Clipping Paths, Mike Snow on Fonts and TextBlocks, Terence Tsang with "Stray Sheep", and Lee on MouseWheel in ScrollViewer and DataTemplate controls. Adam Kinney blogged PDC Badges, I've got one already... looks like fun! From SilverlightCream.com: IsolatedStorage as a Silverlight object cache Tim Heuer discusses and demonstrates using Isolated storage as a caching mechanism instead of Browser cache... now tell me that's not cool :) Author: Tim...
Matthieu Laban with 3D graphics, Denis opens "SilverlightBooks", Tim Heuer on the mouse wheel, Koen Zwikstra on Custom Controls, Manish Dalal on Attached Properties, Terence Tsang with Random Moving Rotator, Jordan Knight on Snapshotting your data, and Gerard Leblanc with more Image Effects. Emil Stoychev a SilverlightShow reports that LinkLabel control is now live on CodePlex!. I posted about the control, but now it's on CodePlex, so go have at it... others already are! From SilverlightCream.com:...
Hannah Watkins on Creating Graphics for a SL Game, Mohammad Dayyan with WPF clock, Jesse Liberty with a Podcast on Templating, ux.artu.tv on DeepZoom stitching, Mike Snow on WCF vs ASMX, and making it snow, Terence Tsang with fireworks, Joel Neubeck begins a Casual Games series, Corey Schuman with another 3D example, Doug Blackmore with a closeable tab item, Bill Reiss with Dogs Photomosaic and troubleshooting Data Access. Tim Sneath reports on What You’ll Hear at PDC2008... sounds like a good time...
Rob Houweling with a Jeff Paries Sneak Preview, Devin Rose with "Mountain Pass Tower Defense", Shawn Wildermuth's "Dirty Little Secrets", Pete Brown's SL/Facebook application, Mike Taulty on Drawing outside the Control, SL/WPF Sharing Libraries, Remix UK Code, Andy Beaulieu presentation demos and slides, Terence Tsang with Advanced Image Carousel, Michael S. Scherotter updates his Ball watch to SL2, Jesse Liberty with a common starter app, Lee with Select All Checkbox, and Gerard Leblanc with more...
Martin Mihaylov on the DataGrid, Bill Reis with Text, Scott Barnes Introduces Project Nexus, Jose Fajardo on Expression Design, Terence Tsang with an Image Carousel, and Adam Kinney on Shidonni. Adam Kinney blogged about posting at least once a day to PDC, and Bill Reiss took up that challenge as well, so expect to see some good stuff from the both of them! Oh, and thanks for the shout-out, Bill! On another note, Bill has his RSS feed now provided by FeedBurner, so you need to swap your URI. Steve...
Joseph Ghassan on SL Full Screen, Adam Cooper on ListBox bug, Gerard Leblanc on image visual effects, Manish Dalal on IEditableobject, Mike Snow on WebServices and SL, Martin Grayson with Blacklight, and Terence Tsang on Mathematical Locus. Jeff Paries breaks loose with Two more projects from Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation ... these are seriously cool! ... the book's going to be a killer :) We're all coming up with colorrefs all the time, check out the post Pull Down The Shades: A Color Sidebar...
Chris Cavenagh has his YouCube interactive, Jesse Liberty on Custom Controls, Pete Brown with SL TechFest session recordings, Adam Cooper with SL2 MouseWheel Support, Beth Massi building a WPF Grid, and Terence Tsang's Water Effect. Cameron Albert has an article up on Game Scripting in Iron Python that might be of interest to some. From SilverlightCream.com: YouCube 2.0 - Interactive! This post by Chris Cavanagh is not Silverlight, but it's seriously fun, and it's close... it's WPF, and it's source,...
Jeff Weber released "Diver", Mike Snow on Bookmarks and Terence Tsang on 3D Image Space. Want to know what controls are coming down the Silverlight Trail? Checkout Shawn Burke's Control Freak article... and check out the team members, too! Corey Schuman has an intrigueing app of images in 3D space floating around. He says he's going to work on zooming in and out. Check out what he has now. Jonas Follesø reports that Developer Build of Chrome (1251) fixes Silverlight 2 bugs, and check out the updates...
Martin Mihaylov continues with DataGrid, Rabeeh Abla with a Mesh Viewer, Gerard Leblanc on animations, Dan Wahlin on Input Controls, Jeff Wilcox on SL Unit Test, Michael S. Scherotter on high DPI issues, Terence Tsang with Flip Rotator, Sandy Place with Dynamic WCF Client Proxy, and Jeff Paries on SL/Twitter a new way. Karl Shifflett has released an updated version of XAML Power Toys V2... this is of use to those WPFers and Silverlighters alike. Page Brooks at SilverlightContrib has some information...
Martin Mihaylov on the DataGrid, Bart Czernicki on Game Concepts, James Bacon on an update to Mashooo, Joseph Ghassan on Number to Text Presentation, Andy Beaulieu with a Physics Helper for Blend and SL, Scott Barnes on Inner Glows with Blend, Mike Snow on Floating Point comparisons, Terence Tsang with Kaleidoscopes, and Jesse Liberty with a simple application. Laurent Bugnion reports that the Table of Contents for his Silverlight 2 Unleashed book is ready... cool, Laurent! From SilverlightCream.com:...
Nikolay Raychev on SL and Localization, Chris Koenig on Style, WPF and SL, ux.artu.tv with developer training, Andy Beaulieu on finding Media Elements, Michael S. Scherotter with SL2 text to Word2XAML, Terence Tsang with Waving Text, Joel Neubeck with a SL Rating Control, Jesse Liberty begins a Custom Control series, and Jonas Follesø on WCF Authentication. Somasegar blogged about the new Social Bookmarking platform. I've created an account on MSDN, using the name "Dave [WynApse]" and I'm archiving...
First today as a USArmy veteran (1970-1973), I think I would be remiss in not remembering 9-11-01. Roger Guess deployed his new game "Defend Stuff", Martin Mihaylov on the DataGrid, Inkubook's new Photobook software, Jonas Follesø with SL2 navigation, Mike Snow on the Install and creating a Zoom Toolbar, and Terence Tsang parsing XML. Doug Blackmore's Silverlight 2 Combobox that I blogged about last week is up on the Write and Win! Contest at SilverlightShow, and I might also add, they're still getting...
Bart Czernicki on MultiThreading, Cigdem with HangRobot, Corey Schuman with a video slider, Terence Tsang with Random Expand Rotator, Mike Snow Dynamically Loading SL Apps, Manish Dalal with a SL Business App, and Tim Heuer on SL Effects Libraries. Lots of side comments today, so be sure to read this stuff as well! Jeff Paries posted that he has almost 190 'projects' in his new Silverlight book... wow! ... I referenced before having seen some of this, and Jeff has now posted a few words about the...
As it turns out, my client has a piece of software running on a server called "Freeloader" ... it's written in VB, has very bad resolution for some reason, but they're quite proud of it... picture of the guy responsible and listing of all the folks that helped in the About box. Freeloader is a list of all sorts of free software that's been vetted by the IT department for use inside the company. You select what you want, and it downloads the software to your system so you can install it. It will optionally...
Alex Golesh altering style dynamically, Tim Heuer revisits the Install, Mike Taulty on Async Events and Binding Images to URIs, Expression Blend blog on Deep Zoom Resources, Adam Kinney on Project Rosetta, and Terence Tsang on Simple Drawing If you are in NYC on 9/13, Tim Heuer has announced Silverlight in the Big Apple. Koen Zwikstra has announed A Minor SilverlightSpy Bugfix. Chris Carper, on his Business of Silverlight blog has a post about Sunday Night Football on NBC. Anna Wrochna has posted...
If you read my blog much, you'll know I can't run Live Mesh at the office, so what's the point, eh? Well, to get ready for my presentations at Dev Teach Montreal, I got myself a new(er) laptop... one with bigger cajones, and I can run Live Mesh on it. It may seem silly since when it's on the network I can just attach a folder from the other machine, but then I'm always having to be sure to remember where I changed files last, so why not let Live Mesh deal with it? So I got it all wired up, and things...
Jordan Knight hooking up the Browser back/forward buttons, Cameron Albert with "Joust", Andy Beaulieu with "Hook Shot", Jonas Follesø's TechEd ANZ Presentation, Azret Botash on SL & XPO, and John Papa on Event Declaration. Tim Heuer announed a webcast tomorrow (September 9) on Troubleshooting Data Services in Silverlight.... looks like it might be one not to miss! From SilverlightCream.com: Control Silverlight by Using Browser Back and Foward Buttons Jordan Knight sent me this link about controlling...
Michael Washington on Silverlight Desktop for DNN, Corey Schuman with Play/Paus button, Shawn Wildermuth on Project Rosetta, Koen Zwikstra on disposing of objects, Mike Snow on Full-screen mode and creating shadows, and Ken with XAML on demand. Shawn Wildermuth uploaded a new version of the code for his SL2/Data Services article on MSDN. Shawn also announed the addition of my friend Erik Mork to the staff of Silverlight Tour... now that's advantageous for all involved, and congratulations to both...
I can understand my client's IT department blocking MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. I might not like it that Twitter is blocked, but I do understand. I don't understand if they work so hard keeping their employees off Internet sites, then why they allow them to use IM on the Intranet, but hey... that's why I write software, not set policy I guess. So today's exercise in useless time is spent getting ready for a software audit. Now, of course, I'm not dumb enough to be running a cracked copy...
Chris Cavanagh with YouCube, Bart Czernicki with a Multithreading control, Doug Blackmore with a SL2 Combobox, SilverlightShow with a 'glow' effect, SilverlightGirl on making a text appear and disappear, Peter McGrattan with a 3-part series on WCF Polling Duplex Support, IdentityMine with Desklighter, Shawn Wildermuth on the new build of DataServices library, Jonas Follesø with presentation material, and Chris Hay with Manic Miner on Spectrum Emulator. Yeah... I know I've got a couple database fixups...
Koen Zwikstra with Silverlight Spy, John Papa on UserControl from Popup Control, Shawn Wildermuth on his SL2 Data Services Article, Pete Brown with an install experience, Jonas Follesø on Presentation Model and HTML Bridge, and Martin Grayson with Parts 2 and 3 of his Dragging, Docking, Expanding Panels and His Media Player. From SilverlightCream.com: New Spy: HTTP Monitor and Install improvements Koen just keeps making SilverlightSpy better and better ... lots of good improvements in this latest...
Erik Mork interviews Bill Reiss, Terence Tsang with Flash & Sl 3D Text Space, Shawn Wildermuth's ADO.NET & SL2 article in MSDN Magazine, Silverlight SDK reports on tutorials on their site, Christ Hay with a SL2 Spectrum Emulator, Mike Snow on centering your app, and Jesse Liberty on PodCast-a-rama! Rob Bagby has announced MSDN Events in Colorado, Albuquerque, Phoenix and Las Vegas in September and October 2008 ... I've signed up for the one in Phoenix, so come on down! From SilverlightCream.com:...
Anna Wrochna on justifying/aligning text, and Ronnie Saurenmann on WCF without a web server. If you find yourself in Austrailia, take a look at DevSTA Challenge 2008... it hasn't started yet, but it looks cool, and great prizes! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and text-align:justify. Anna takes a pretty good shot at getting text justified on a page... her results are very nice, but wow... what a bunch of work! Serving Silverlight applications on client PCs without a web server using WCF 3.5...
I've resolved an issue that has plagued my home workstation for a while. How long is 'a while'? ... I'm not sure, but I'm thinking since Silverlight 2 Beta 2. I'm not blaming Silverlight... I think it's a synergy of some sort between what I've been doing on my MasterPage with Silverlight, and something associated with my slightly older Dell. All I know is after I stopped the Silverlight Logo from continually animating, the problem with my workstation has gone away... It's been over a week since I...
Michael Washington with Desktop Instances in SilverlightDesktop, and Mike Snow scaling his entire app to the browser. Bill Reiss reports that Silverlight Sports Game Contest Registration and Submission now live... and with the dollar value of the prizes, it looks like definitely a worthy goal! From SilverlightCream.com: SilverlightDesktop 01.60.00 released. Now features "Desktop Instances" Michael Washington has been busy with his SilverlightDesktop project. This enhancement features Desktop Instances...
Scott Barnes on Submitting SL Bugs, Shawn Wildermuth on SL Firestarter in NYC, Jason Cooke Templatinging the Calendar, Jonas Follesø on SL2 apps using WCF, and Mike Snow on detecting alt-shitshift-control-windows and apple keys, delcaring a User Control from a XAML Page, and Creating Smooth Tile Transitions. Don't forget about the Silverlight Write and Win Contest at SilverlightShow. Ivan reported to me this morning that one of the articles in my SC posts from yesterday was entered in the contest...
This one is going to be mid-rant because I can't even find anyone else that has hinted at having this problem...arggghhh! The problem: The current problem is when a couple of my reports print, they want to print 5,572 pages which is about 5,568 too many! I've got some pretty complex reports in some legacy packages that I support, i.e. I didn't write it, I just need to keep it running and add onto it. The reports look fine great, but at the top of the report is a button with the text: "Printable Version"....
Matt Serbinski on SL and Drupal and RSS, Mark Monster Updating his Tag Cloud, Christian Schormann Cutting Shapes, Jeff Wilcox resizing the plugin to zero, and Page Brooks introducing SilverlightContrib. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight and Drupal: Syndication Matt Serbinski is going to replicate his Drupal site in Silverlight over a period of blog posts. In this first one, he deals with syndication in Silverlight, but still using Drupal for the data. The advantage of the TagCloud Mark Monster...
Chris Cavenagh with source for his WPF Photo Print, Rob Houweling on Authentication in SL, Anna Wrochna with a SL 'Tree', Cameron Albert with Farseer Physics Geom Visual Helper Method, Mike Ormond's MultiScaleTileSource Demo code, Dynamically loading ListView Templates again, and DZ and Mandelbrot. From SilverlightCream.com: WPF Photo Print - Source code Not Silverlight, but it's WPF code... so that's close :) ... Chris Cavanagh posted the code to his WPF Photo Print utility... and code is ALWAYS...
Page Brooks with CoolMenu and Custom Collections for Controls, Bill Reiss on Calling WCF on local server, Mike Snow on Fast Sprite Animation, Tom Fischer on getting a color or brush from a string, Shawn Wildermuth on User Controls Base Classes, Tim Heuer on MS CRM, and Jesse Liberty on Getting Started with SL. From SilverlightCream.com: CoolMenu: A Silverlight Menu Control Page Brooks posted a very nice menu... I'd call it a Toolbar, but in this SL2B2 create-your-own-paradigm world, it is what it...
Alex Knight on custom fonts, Adam Kinney with WPF demos, Shawn Wildermuth on Container Editing in Blend, Tim Heuer with Troubleshooting Webcast, Chris Koenig reports Silverlight on Skyfire Richard Costall and Pete McGann with Silverlight Manic Miner Game. Mike Taulty discusses the new controls from Intersoft and Telerik. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight custom fonts - How to and issues. Alex Knight discusses adding a font to your Silverlight project and then talks about a problem with it, and...
Going through my morning paper (about 160 blogs) looking for Silverlight to distribute, and one of the sites I aggregate gave this error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. It just struck me as funny and thought I'd share... sorta like getting slapped after you're already on the floor :)...
I had trouble with someone's Silverlight site... I dropped my buddy Tim Heuer an email and asked him if it was me or what... he said it was me... sigh... I still disagree, but as this progressed, Tim offered up that there is a problem folks are reporting that I appeared to be on the edge of... so I figured what the heck, let's help! After an email exchange last night, we realized I needed .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.. oops... so I tried that and it pooted...hmmm Tim says "Oh if you have VS2008 on there,...
Martin Mihaylov on Resizing the SL Object, Dan Wahlin on the Grid and a Flyout StackPanel, Robby Ingebretsen with a Particle Generator, Mike Snow on Terrain Part 2, Custom Mouse Cursor, and Transparent Draggable dialog, Mike Taulty with MessageBox(), Shawn Wildermuth's Part 2 on Deep Fried Bytes, and Pete Brown on SL vs Flash/Flex. In addition to the two new postings in this edition, Dan Wahlin has updated his My Latest Silverlight post as well. From SilverlightCream.com: Tip: Resizing the Silverlight...
Koen Zwikstra updated SLSpy with Reflector, Alan Cobb on sizing the NBCOlympics videos, Page Brooks on a great carousel, Jeff Wilcox with a Unit Testing primer, Jonas Follesø with updated SL/WebCam and Sliding puzzle, Jesse Liberty compares animation types. I've exchanged email with CrocusGirl a couple times about this... she used the Andrea Mosaic tool to create a DeepZoom to celebrate her One year of California adventure. Another great example of this technology... From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight...
Breaking with a year and a half tradition, my WynApse.com site has been pretty quiet lately. I have kept up with the Silverlight Cream blog posts, but I always feel bad when I don't have much of my own product out there. After MIX this year, Bill Reiss asked me to do a couple chapters in his book for Manning Press. It's called Hello! Silverlight 2, and I only agreed because I had read the original proposal and thought it would be a good book. Little did I know at the time that I would be involved!...
Bill Reiss announced a SL Game contest, Matt Berseth with Custom DataGrid icons, Palard Julien provides password control, Sean Blakemore on IOC and Moq, Somesegar describes the olympics process, Laurence Moroney with a fun app, Scott Barnes on RSS, Tim Heuer announces hands-on labs, and Expression Blog on animating a line [WPF]. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Game Contest rules and FAQ now online Bill announced this the other day and I held off until I could exchange email with him... looks...
SilverlightShow hosts another Contest, Anna Wrochna investigates overlaying, Denislav Savkov with Part 3 of the Weather control, and Shawn Wildermuth on VS2008SP1, SL2B2, and ADO.NET Data Services. From SilverlightCream.com: Ivan Dragoev and the SilverlightShow guys didn't want to stop at one Write and Win contest that Michael Sync hosted... they want to continually run them... and based on the turnout they had with the last one... that seems like a good idea. Anything that gets the community fired...
SilverlightOnly Panorama Viewer, Alex Golesh on Isolated Storage, Mike Snow on moving the XAP, Changing the XAP name, and Changing the cursor, Corey Schuman on Drag and Drop, and Jeff Paries animation book. If you're also into WPF, checkout the 3-part series Jaime Rodriguez did on the WPF datagrid. From SilverlightCream.com: 360° Panorama Viewer 2D The team at SilverlightOnly sent this to me this morning just as I was leaving and I was jammed up all day. This is a very cool viewer! I haven't investigated...
Bart Czernicki comparing Silverlight to Flash, Jesse Liberty with 3 videos, and Dan Wahlin on Layout Controls. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight advantages over Flash Bart Czernicki takes a hard swing at comparing Silverlight to Flash. Definitely an interesting read and goes in some directions you may not expect. 3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of my To-do List Jesse Liberty blogged about 3 new videos posted at Silverlight.net: Graphics and Brushes, Multiple Pages Part 2, and In-State Animation...
Bill Reiss on Embedding fonts, .net Curry on hosting SL Content, Corrina Barber updated another SL2 skin, Lutz Gerhard on Zooming with constraints, Scott Barnes on offline storage, Tim Heuer on Simple properties, DeepZoom app and general posts. From SilverlightCream.com: Be careful when embedding fonts in Silverlight XAP file Bill Reiss discusses issues surrounding straying from the standard font set, and gets some info from Tim Heuer in the process. Hosting Silverlight Content in ASP.NET 3.5 If...
Yes, color... I took a quick look through Google to get an idea of colors vs moods, and just grabbed the first site that popped up. The site isn't important, but I wanted to give credit. I was more interested in the correlation such as: Blue: Calm, harmony Black: Formality, elegance Green: Nature, Jealousy Purple: Royalty Red: Love, danger (whoa... interesting juxtaposition) White: Reverence, Innocence Yellow: Joy, Optimism And why did I go on this search? ... I was looking to see if I could find...
Emil Stoychev on async data, Bart Czernicki on VS and SLTools updates, Denislav Savkov with Part 2 of his weather control, Bill Reiss on Fiddler and SL vs Flash, Page Brooks with a Gauge Control and Polling Control, Matt Berseth with angled DataGrid column headers, and Alex Knight with a Splash screen. I feel like a wedding planner with this one... something old, something new :) ... of course the old ones are only a few days, leftover from while I was gone. I have one more set of those unless I...
Sigh... I guess it was predictable coming off of a vacation away from code, but the post last night about fixing the problems with my GlyphMap Utility was incomplete. Yes I did fix the interaction with the OutlookBar code, but there remained a problem with closing the slide-out menu panels. I had seen the problem earlier and thought it was related. When I tested, I did the 'tunnel-vision' test and only looked at the problem I had repaired rather than the app as a whole, and left the slide-in problem...
Either folks are hesitant to write, or nobody is playing with the stuff on my site, because apparently my GlyphMap Utility has been broken since I got the OutlookBar code running I was getting some links together for someone, and finally decided to jump into that code. I knew it was an interaction because if I tried to select a font, the OutlookBar went away. Turns out I had "MainCanvas" defined in both... makes sense since all my V1.0 SL starts with the same XML. So I renamed the GlyphMap Utility...
Michael Washington with an add-on for SL Desktop already, Mike Snow beginning Terrain tutorials and applying a XAML template to a class, Michael S. Scherotter on SL and Code Analysis and add-on support to paging demo, Ashish Shetty on distinguishing SL and .Net assemblies, Peter McGrattan with updated Pie Chart, and Joel Neubeck on updated VideoPlayer and confined collisions From SilverlightCream.com: Send Emails from SilverlightDesktop Michael Washington reports that a Silverlight Desktop user has...
Michael Washington released the latest Silverlight Desktop, Anna Wrochna has three good short SL posts: How to Learn SL, What you can/can't do, displaying rich text, Michael Sync with Unity, Jesse Liberty on Templated Buttons and webcast post about multi-page apps, Ola Karlsson with SL panel on HTML, Robby Ingebretsen on Intellisense in Blend and 5 parts of SL ThoughtBox. Trying to catch up, plus a new submittal from Michael Washington. CrocusGirl has updated all her work to B2. Karen Corby Reports...
Mark Monster on DynamicProxy and Function Pointers, Emil Stoychev with OlympicShow, Denislav Savkov with weather forecast control, Azret Botash with a MessageBox dialog, Rich Griffin with a Tag Cloud and Dependency Injection, Rob Houweling with SharpZipLib, Alex Golesh on dynamic creation/destroying SL objects, Mario Meir-Huber with a SL blog in German, and James Bacon on Downloading SL errors. I'm back from vacation... no trout, but lots of fish and cool air. This first SC Blog post after vacation...
On Vacation Even Silverlight fanatics take time off, so to celebrate the anniversary of my birth 60 years ago on the 2nd of August, and my wedding anniversary 36 years ago on the 5th, I am going to be unavailable by any normal means. I will be nowhere near electricity, running water, the internet, cellphones, etc. I will, however, be near a lake and trout: That is a link to a full image and is a picture I took myself at 7:30am on August 22, 2004. It is taken from my fishing spot facing south. Here...
Denislav Savkov with a selection helper class, Mark Monster with SL Tag Cloud, Mike Taulty on asmx web services, Jesse Liberty on Page switching and his new SL book with Tim Heuer, and Martin Grayson on panels. From SilverlightCream.com: Tip: Easy/Reusable selection with ISelectable and SelectionManager Denislav Savkov submitted this quick tip of a helper class, to assist in selection process. All the code plus examples on the blog! Creating a Silverlight TagCloud UserControl I guess it's my own...
Bart Czernicki with Part 4 of his Silverlight Master Series, Brian Finnerty Editorializes on Silverlight, Nikhil Kothari on Effects and Transitions in SL, Mike Taulty on SL2 and HTML5 and On/Off-line, MParsons with show/hide border, Jesse Liberty with a new DataBinding Tutorial, and Tim Heuer on Databinding. From SilverlightCream.com: Concepts To Become A Silverlight Master (Series Part 4 - Security) Bart Czernicki has Part 4 to his Silverlight Master Series ready to go already! In this one, he focuses...
Mark Monster on cross-comain-scripting issues, Page Brooks on his treadmill, Mike Snow on the Mouse Wheel, Michael Scherotter with a URI Property, Laurence Moroney using XPS to read, and Chris Hay with a SL Desktop App Launcher. Don't forget: August 11th is the deadline for entries in the Silverlight Control Builder Contest '08... I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing... I want to see some great entries!! Koen Zwikstra is having some issues with SilverlightSpy on x64 platforms and has...
Mark Monster on Mocking SL and Networking, Denislav Savkov inheriting from ItemsControl, Alex Golesh on SL Events in JS and vice verse, Edward Silverton with a SL Portfolio site, Dave Relyea on Templating, Page Brooks Controlling his Treadmill, Lee on TabStrip and vertical text, Robby Ingebretsen surveying SL and 3D, Expression Team Blog with Resource links, and Jesse Liberty with four Twitter Blogs. Congratulations To The Winners of Silverlight 2 “Write and Win” Contest ... Somewhere along the line,...
Jesse Liberty with In-State Animation, and Koen Zwiklstra is validating Cross-domain policy files in SilverlightSpy. From SilverlightCream.com: In-State Animation In A Nutshell Jesse Liberty Tackles In-State animation in a single post rather than a video because in his words it "is so straight forward". Check out the nice tutorial on his blog... even if you're out of state! ... and if you don't know the difference, don't worry, Jesse explains that as well :) Validating Cross-domain Access Policy...
Vlad Filyakov on Devexpress' Layout Control, Bart Czernicki with Part 3 of his Silverlight Master Series, Dave Relyea with Part 2 of his Layout Fundamentals, and Mike Snow on adding sound effects and video. Adam Kinney has a post up about Silverlight Games today and more on the way that is a great reference if you're looking for any games. He also has links out to just about everyone I can think of that is producing them... great list... check it out! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Layout...
Ola Karlsson with Silverlight FlyoutPanel, Vlad Filyakov on SL Layout Controls, Martin Mihaylov continuing with MultiscaleImage, Chris Hay with 2-parts on SL on the Desktop, Jonas Follesø on Dependency Injection and SL, Matt Serbinski on Drupal and SL, and Jesse Liberty with resources from webcast. Koen Zwikstra is reacting to email and has released a new version of SilverlightSpy. If you haven't looked at this, you should! Corrina Barber blogged that all her code from the article yesterday is now...
Mark Monster on Networking, Rich Griffen on Tweening and Baby Smash, Matt Perdick using WrapPanel, Bart Czernicki on SL and Multi-touch panels, Corinna Barber with 3 videos on Designer/Developer, Dan Wahlin on layouts, Laurence Moroney's SL2 book is out, and Bill Reiss on developing games for SL and XNA, and a SL Game contest. I didn't get this out on Wednesday because I was doing a presentation for a bigshot from my client's East Coast office, and oh... he didn't show, and he didn't call, and he...
There's 20 days left until the August 11th deadline for entries in the Silverlight Control Builder Contest! Don't get caught short on the deadline... there are some amazing prizes... the printed list is too long to fit on my browser page here at work... and that's just 1st prize! To see all the prizes including graphics, I have to hit scroll down 7 times... yikes... I'm anxiously awaiting the entries so I can see what everyone's working on. If you haven't been there lately, Page has added a checkbox...
Alex Golesh With Quick tip on an error msg, Martin Mihaylov rearraning SubImages, Koen Zwikstra with Silverlight Spy update, Corrina Barber updated Bubbly skin, Lee on Dynamic Styles (2), and Robby Ingebretson with an awesome animated layout. Special notice about a new Learn Page at Silverlight.net blogged about by Jesse Liberty -- check it out! From SilverlightCream.com: InitializeError #2103 - Invalid or malformed application what is it and how to deal with it? Alex Golesh unravels any mystery...
Martin Mihaylov on the MultiscaleImage control, Alan Cobb on changing Silverlight properties dynamically, and Mike Taulty with Parts 3 and 4 of his Photo Control From SilverlightCream.com: The MultiscaleImage control and the SubImages collection Martin Mihaylov posted the first of a series on the MultiscaleImage control and goes into depth on SubImages and selecting an individual image from it... and lots of code :) Changing Silverlight properties dynamically with a "binding-relay" object Alan Cobb...
Bill Reiss on uploading large files to Streaming and Storing an object in a Tag Property, David Anson updated SilverlightDefaultStyleBrow... Bart Czernicki with Part 2 of becoming a SL Master, Page Brooks on protecting Secrets, and Dave Relyea on Layouts. Jesse Liberty has a page up devoted to his future webcasts... there's one coming up on Wednesday on Templates and VSM, so take a look at his page, and maybe keep the bookmark handy... I'll see you in the webcasts... I'll be the little green square...
Alex Golesh on Streaming Media, Michael Washington importing content, Joel Neubeck with Closed Captioning, Antoni Dol with 10 SL2 Gotchas Resolved, Michael Sync on Balder 3D Engine and SL2B2, Mike Taulty building a Photo Control, Andy Beaulieu on Polygon Physics, Expression Blog animating between states, Shawn Wildermuth animating brushes, Tim Heuer on startup parameters, Frank LaVigne with updates to Community Megaphone Map, and Jesse Liberty on new videos. This falls into the "No good deed goes...
This isn't quite a Silverlight thing, but it came to 'light while debugging a problem that ultimately began with Silverlight. Many of us are using WebServices with Silverlight, and what starts out small has a tendency to grow up on us... and that's what happened to my OutlookBar code. Read the article to see how to resolve the "Maximum Length Exceeded" error. Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SLNews | Join me @ SilverlightCream | SL Web Articles | SL2 Web Articles | My Articles | My Tutorials | My Tooltips...
Tamir Khason on bidirectional support, Page Brooks with a Save File Dialog, Mike Snow on Increasing Isolated Storage, Dave Relyea with an Animatable WrapPanel, and Karen Corby using Dave Relyea's WrapPanel. Adam Kinney has a blog post on the Yosemite DeepZoom project being live and has some great pictures. I've not successfully opened the page, but maybe they're getting hammered because the video they had up last week was awesome... wait it out and keep checking... it'll be worth it... there's currently...
Denislav Savkov on VSM, Mino with a SL PhotoGallery, Alex Golesh on app performance, Avi Pilosof with "War on Terrier", Michael Schwarz reports SL2B2 update, Alex Knight on VSM, Peter McGrattan on initialization via SL server control, Lee on DataGrids and ListBoxes, and David Anson on shrinking XAPs. Open notice to Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, and Karen Corby just to name a few ... you should send email to xclusivesalman at yahoo dot com (Mashook Talpur - 26-167 cantt bazar, Karachi Sind, Pakistan) because...
Corrina Barber updated Red & Black skins, Mike Snow on Isolated Storage, Tim Heuer on S3 and SL2B2 and making Video Encoder Templates, Azret Botash with IM/Chat client and server, Emil Stoychev with Pivot Table, Bart Czernicki Master Series, Part 1, and Alex Golesh: Isolated Storage, StringToPathGeometry Converter, Init Params, Communication between two objects, Treeview Control and reflecting ScriptObject content. I want to point out to all the bloggers that there's a new blog-scraper in town....
Mark Monster on SL Networking (2), Andy Beaulieu on finding XAML elements, chrishayuk with SL2 Wee Mee, and Mike Snow Animating a rotating image and setting browser cookies with SL. If you don't know who Chad Campbell is, shame on you... and a big hint --- he's NOT my son! Chad's been working on a great Silverlight 2 book for quite a while and soon we're all going to benefit from his undertaking. Moving in that direction, Chad is going to have a Halo 3 discussion of his book, feedback, and discussion...
Fons Sonnemans with RollMenu, Frank LaVigne with Community Megaphone SL Map, Martin Mihaylov on LINQ to XML in SL2, John Stockton with What is Silverlight, and How to Learn it, Felix Corke on Designing a SL2B2 skin, Michael Washington with Silverlight Notepad, Michael Scherotter with IE8 Forward/back in SL2, Expression Blend Team resource links for VSM, and Tamir Khason on Actual Width/Height. Yes boys and girls, this is what happens when you take a weekend off from blogging ... so I'm posting this...
Azret Botash with a series on the Devexpress Grid, Martin Mihaylov on JSON Serialization, Lee on UserControl Communication, Michael Sync on SL Unity Application block, Adam Kinney with an Animation Lab, Jesse Liberty on Blend, and Tim Heuer on debugging SL and fonts and file uploading. Karen Corby has her FlickrViewr updated for SL2B2. Page Brooks has materials up from his CDEG presentation, and while you're on his site, check out the prize list now available for the Silverlight ControlBuilders Contest...
Rajeev Goel with Silverlight Nuggets, Michael Scherotter on SL and IE8, Adam Kinney reports on Extreme Panoramic Project, Dan Wahlin on Controls (2), Expression Team on Deep Zoom Composer fix, Mike Snow on Game Loops, Shawn Burke with Updated Control Tutorial, and chrishayuk with FileOpen. From SilverlightCream.com: SilverlightNuggets Rajeev sent me this earlier this week, and I actually pushed it out to the database and twitter, but he caught me before I blogged it, so some of you may have seen...
Rich Griffin on Control Skinning, Michael Washington with 3 posts about Silverlight Desktop, Joel Newbeck Talking between to SL objects, and Alex Knight on a workaround for VSM breaking XAML. If you haven't seen this or done it before, MSDN Magazine has it's yearly post up for purchasing the previous year on DVD. Any destination worldwide, $9.95 for all 2000 through 2007 content and more. I'm due... I think my last one I bought was 2005, and it's great for searching... just have to remember you have...
Martin Mihaylov on the MultiscaleImage control, Tamir Khason on Visual Tree and thickness, Mike Snow on SL and JS, Donavon West on DeepZoom Obama, Video Player by David, Jesse Liberty's Styles and Templates Tutorial is Up, Frank LaVigne on Swift3D and SL, and Andy Beaulieu resolving Default.aspx being executed. From SilverlightCream.com: Tip: Maximal and minimal zoom level in the MultiscaleImage control Martin Mihaylov resolves a problem I've noticed in DZ apps ... that you either zoom the image...
Page Brooks has been getting lots of email about the contest from tool vendors! Check out the prize list ... very cool -- and trust me, it's not up-to-date :)... and a personal thanks goes out to all the vendors from me!! I know if I were going to be entering this contest, I'd probably not submit until the last possible moment, but as you can imagine, that is a tad nerve-wracking on those of us involved I don't know a solution to this unless you that are hard at work want to drop either Page or me...
Flipbook by Mino, and Nikhil Kothari on SL Themes From SilverlightCream.com: FlipBook First let me say I suck at freehand with a mouse, so I'm not sharin' nothin' :) ... second, I'll say this is clever... and I had fun playing with it. Be sure to use the copy to next frame feature so your image doesn't jump all over the place! Themes for Silverlight Applications Rounding up today is Nikhil Kothari with an addition to his Silverlight.FX framework (go download it!) ... this addition allows themes ...
I've kicked this idea around a bit in email with some devs. Silverlight Cream needs some updating, but it's going to have to wait until after I get done with both these book chapters... it's MUCH more effort than writing on my site! Meanwhile, in discussion with Michael Washington of Adefwebserver.com, and the fun new Silverlight Desktop, Michael graciously offered to host a SilverlightCream forum! Secretly, I think he's trying to get me to start looking at DNN, but don't tell him I said that :)...
Michael Washington on SL Security, Jesse LIberty on Styles & Templates, Koen Zwikstra on Tweening, Pete Brown on sizing SL, Peter Bromberg Part III of Data, and Tim Heuer on SL and S3. Nothing obvious to do with Silverlight, but this looks to be a great FREE eBook by Karl Seguin. Exceptionally well-done considering it's being given away, thanks Karl! Jesse Liberty has adjusted his Live From Redmond schedule... take note and take part! Updated 7/7/2008 to correct the spelling on Koen Zwikstra's...
Michael Washington on prompting for install, Peter McGrattan updated his Stock List Demo, Joel Neubeck on Timeline Markers, Alex Knight DeepZooming, David Anson on LayoutTransoform, and Tim Heuer on Silverlight.js & FF3. Christopher Bennage has an interesting WPF article on TemplateBinding that if not directly related to SL, it's close. A couple days ago I referenced the Silverlight 2 RefCard from DZone, and since then have gotten a copy of the PDF file... this is very nicely done... it has an...
We had our July, 2008 Silverlight User's Group meeting tonight at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix, and considering the heat, we had a decent showing. If I counted correctly, there were 16 there. Some of the attendees were first-time, and it's always good to see new faces. The Phoenix rock-stars were in attendance: Mike Palermo, Steele Price, Tim Heuer, and Phoenix' newest MVP: Joel Neubeck of Terralever. Steele gave a great presentation on Top Bananna focusing more on the how than...
Mike Hanson with a Silverlight Navigation Framework, Martin Mihaylov on consuming asmx web services with SL2, and Nikhil Kothari on Searching in RIAs. Please take note that Shawn Wildermuth (ADOGuy) has opened his new site: Shawn Wildermuth, he assures me the old URLs will be redirected for probably as many years as we'd need, but you'll want to pick up his feed from his new site ... and take a look the site... it looks great! Pete Brown is doing a shoutout to all the Silverlight 2 developers wanting...
16 posts today... yikes: Corrina Barber on Sparkling Client, Training CD update via Tim Heuer, Progressive Metal via Jesse Liberty, Line Rider game via Tim Heuer, Virtual Earth Wrapper for SL, Pete brown on part 3 of Pub/Sub and his DevNuggets Episode 2, Koen Swikstra with Part 2 of Declarative Tweening, Adam Kinney on building a simple Control, Page Brooks on VSM issues, Tamir Khason on accessing HTML from SL, Mike Snow on Right-click menu and Image width/height, Joel Neubeck on uploading Images,...
I'm not sure which was sweeter, getting MVP the first time, or getting re-awarded, but I got my email this morning: "Dear Dave Campbell, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! ..." In the words of my buddy Brian: Woot! Thanks to everyone involved in this effort, and all the time they put into vetting all the MVPs. And thanks to all the folks that read my ramblings because when it's all said and done, the development community is what it's all about. I know...
Koen Zwikstra on Declarative Tweening, Emil Stoychev on Data Conversion/Binding, chrishayuk on ContentPresenter, Tim Rule with WebClient and LINQ, Tamir Khason's SL presentation materials, Michael Sync on Best of SilverlightCream, SL2B2 Updates and SL2 writing contest extended, and Tim Heuer on .Net Coffee Break. From SilverlightCream.com: Declarative Tweening Koen Swikstra put together a great article on tweening and Silverlight, and goes on to define some attached dependency properties that allow...
Cristian Merighi with Triangle Texturing, Scott Barnes with a Pull-down menu, and Tamir Khason with a couple Snippets for SL. From SilverlightCream.com: Triangle Texturing, Theory and Silverlight App I left this post by Christian Merighi off my list last night, so had to post it first chance I got today... this is some serious math, so look at it at your own risk :) ... reminds me of when I look back at my Master's Thesis ... I can't read it either !! ... this post is for show, but in the post he...
Page Brooks' Controls Builder Contest, Alex Knight on Deep Zoom, Dave Relyea on Dependency Property Snippets, and Shawn Wildermuth on 3rd Party Controls. From SilverlightCream.com: 2008 Silverlight Control Builder Contest I blogged separately about this, but wanted it to go out in a 'Cream post as well. Page Brooks is putting on a Silverlight Controls contest ... check it out... even if you don't enter, this should be fun! How to get your Deep Zooms working with Blend. Alex Knight has been really...
Page Brooks has been working on this idea for a few weeks and emailed me about this on the 16th... so he's been a very busy guy rolling all this together in that amount of time! I think this will be fun! Think of the benefit to all of us developers... all the fun controls to play with... plus I'm sure we're going to see some out of the box thinking, so it will be a great way to generate some fun thought processes. I'm excited about seeing what the submissions look like, and if you want to enter...
Jaime Rodriguez on DeepZoom, Pete Brown on on Publish/Subscribe pattern in SL, Shawn Wildermuth on XAML Controls, Tim Heuer on new Videos, Bill Reiss on SLStreaming, Philip Beadle on File Uploader, Adam Kinney with updated GamerCard, Brad Abrams focused on Data, Scott Barnes on DeepZoom, SilverlightSDK on MSDN Searching, Mike Snow on SL Transparency and SL Policy Server. From SilverlightCream.com: Working with Collections in Deep Zoom. Jaime Rodriguez almost snuck this one by me, but I caught it...
Matthew Serbinski on DeepZoom, Emil Stoychev on Cross-Domain Issues, Michael Washington on Dragging between UserControls, Karen Corby Parts and States Part 4 of 4, and a new site from Microsoft: Silverlight "Art and Technology" From SilverlightCream.com: Deep Zoom: Selecting an Image Matthew sent me email asking if I might be interested in posting this and after looking at his blog, not only am I posting this, but I added his blog to SC as well. Everybody has a slightly different take on how they...
Join us for our next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User's Group at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday July 2! Meet and spend time with local like-minded developers some of whom actually do Silverlight for their day job! The discussions are always worth the drive, so I'll see you there on Wednesday...
Emil Stoychev with a Silverlight Twitter Widget, Kathy Kam on the missing WatermarkedTextBox, Adam Kinney on Tweening Equations, Mike Taulty on Dynamic DeepZoom, Tim Heuer and Joel Neueck with Open Source Media Player, Alex Knight with Photo Flip, and Piotr Puszkiewicz on SL2B2 Silverlight.js. A couple notes I've been hanging onto... Joel Neubeck reported on his blog that he and Bill Reiss will be presenting at the XNA Gamefest, so if you're going, look them up up! chrishayuk who posted some very...
Busy Day in SL2B2-Land: Chris Cavanagh with Soft-Body Physics, Emil Stoychev on Asynchronous SL, Rich Griffin on Skinning Controls, James Bacon on SL restrictions for communication, Avi Pilosof on SL Particle Physics, Jeff Paries with a SL2B2 Etch-a-Sketch, Daniel Gimenez' Vector Space: Zero, Bill Reiss on Silverlight Streaming, Alex Knight with a DeepZoom Gallery, Tamir Khason on SL Sidebar Gadgets, and Piotr Puszkiewicz on SL Object Tag and Instantiating SL. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight...
Rob Houweling with a Sketch Application (2 parts), Martin Mihaylov continuing with Shapes, Karen Corby Parts and States 3 of 4, Scott Barnes with Event Dispatcher, Shawn Wildermuth with Relative URI's, Brad Abrams on Authentication, and Dave Relyea on Pixel Snapping as an Attached Behaviour. From SilverlightCream.com: Creating a sketch application in Silverlight - Part 1, Sketching on the InkPresenter Rob Houweling submitted this sketching application using InkPresenter. Unfortunately, I can't see...
Michael Washington's Silverlight Desktop, Peter Bromberg on Data, Jesse Liberty on new interface, chirshayuk with 3-parts on encryption, Celso Gomes with Grand Piano, 360 Degree View, and Panoramic Viewer, Joel Neubeck with Media Player with Marker Support, Scott Barnes on Binding to Custom Model, and Pete Brown on SL2B2 and RSS. Karsten Januszewski has ported his samples to Beta 2. Silverlight Girl reports that she continues to find more Silverlight B2 games, and is keeping her list up-to-date...
Chad Campbell (no relation) called me out in his Meme blog post. I saw his post earlier this week, and have been waiting until I had some time, so here goes... How old were you when you first started programming? I turned my first line of code when I was a Sophomore in college in the fall of 1967, so that would make me 19 at the time. I think I got a C in the Fortran IV class because I just couldn't "get it". This was a large class and programs were done on punch cards batched overnight to some huge...
Emil Stoychev with a LinkLabel control, Rob Houweling on the browser back button, David Anson on Vertical Text, and DevExpress with AgDataGrid. Update from yesterday... I was corrected on my blog that the The .NET Coffee Break Show is organized by an Irish user group, Developers.ie and not by Microsoft Ireland... I stand formally corrected ... thanks Paschal! I also want to point out that if you haven't been attending Lindsay Rutter's Silverlight presentations this week, there are 3 more next week,...
Late Cream again today! DeepZoom ion Renault Laguna Coupé, Dan Wahlin with Part 2 of Duplex WCF, Silverlight Streaming by Rob Blackwell, and Pete Brown on Yahoo Pipes. From SilverlightCream.com: Renault Laguna Coupé For all the folks that want a REAL or Production page, here's an awesome Silverlight DeepZoom app on a Renault site. I got this via a tweet by Adam Kinney, and it's going through the twitterverse pretty fast... if you're not signed up, you should be :) ... When you open this site, go...
Karen Corby on VSM part 2, Jesse Liberty on upcoming Webcasts, a Coffee-break Webcast with Martha Rotter, Tamir Khason discusses formatting and validating a TextBox, Brad Abrams on his FlickR demo, Mark Rideout's TechEd session, Laurence Moroney's SL2 book is out, and Lee on TabItem styling. On the recurring subject of updating to SL2B2, Jeff Prosise has updated his samples to B2, if you haven't seen them, go take a look... good stuff as you'd expect from Jeff! From SilverlightCream.com: Parts &...
Two submittals today... I'm trying to keep up here :) -- Koen Zwikstra announces Silverlight Spy for B2, and Silverlight Girl lists SL Games on Mashoo. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Spy for Beta 2 available I haven't been blogging the intermediate posts by Koen, but those of you that read his blog know he's not been absent, he's been hard at work and woohoo.. he has SilverlightSpy ready for all of us to take advantage of for all the SL2B2 goodness... that's going to be the first thing I...
Nikolay Raychev on Cookies, Martin Mihaylov on the DeepZoom composer, Adam Kinney on Procedural Animation and 3rd Party SL Controls, Corey Schuman on DIV over SL, Andy Beaulieu Ported Out, Dan Wahlin on pushing data with WCF, Tim Heuer on FF3 and SL, and Nikhil Kothari on ViewModel Pattern in SL. From SilverlightCream.com: Cookies in Silverlight Web Requests Nikolay Raychev posted this article this morning, and is a good drill-down into membership using cookies and how Silverlight is involved. He...
Mino has a SL2B2 video player drop-in, Emil Stoychev on Custom Controls, Tamir Khason on a binding bug, sly_i on localization, Peter McGrattan on B2 namespaces, Expression Encoder Team on SLS plugin, Corrina Barber updated 2 skins, Pete Brown on VS support for SL, Bill Reiss updated Dr. Popper, Andrew Brown describes building Fragmenti, Dave Relyea with Transition Effects, Peter Bromberg on Data, Shawn Wildermuth on DeepZoom, and Free Training CD from AppDev. Yikes... Doesn't look like I can take...
14 posts in the last 24 hours! -- Silverlight Girl with "Bumble Beegger", Piotr Puszkiewicz on solving the FF3 problem, Ivan Dragoev Animating ListBox items, Richard Griffin with more B1-> B2 goodness, David Anson with XPS Viewer B2, Jeff Paries with B2 Toys for Tweets, Lee with Drag/Drop Grid Rows, Florian Krüsch updated Triangle Control, Jeff Wilcox on UnitTest With SL2B2, Corey Schuman on NBC Olympics Viewer, and Dave Relyea on prettying up the Slider. I've added a couple new finds as bloggers....
Today is the day, or maybe it was yesterday, depends on how you look at it. June 13, 2005 I came off being out of work for 2-1/2 months and transitioned from being a win32/PlatformSDK/MFC Guru to being able to find my way around in .NET 1.1/C#/Crystal Reports/MS Access/Oracle. The company that hired me took somewhat of a risk that I could do what I said and when the 6 months was up, the customer bought in for another, then another, etc. and so here we are today banging on the front door of a 4th...
1,000,000 Yeah, I know tracking page hits is iffy, but I just picked one metric and went with it... it's not the one for marketing guys showing a 'page' hit for every item on the page, and it's not the most restrictive one. I was using the analog stats from December, 2005 to April, 2008, then DiscountASP.net switched me to SmarterStats and I had to find one of the metrics that closely matched what I'd been getting before. Either that or just forget the whole thing! I put WynApse.com up in December...
Karen Corby on Parts and States, James Bacon on DataGrid and Upgrading from B1 to B2, Pete Brown DevNugget WebCast, Shawn Wildermuth Podcast interview, Jesse Liberty on MouseDown issues, Ilia Iordanov on Attached Properties, Ivan Dragoev on Firing MouseLeftDown in StackPanel, Nikolay Raychev on RepeatButton, and David Anson on updated HTMLTextBlock. From SilverlightCream.com: Parts and States Model with VisualStateManager Part 1 of 4 First things first... stop reading this right now and take the...
The daily list still remains high: Peter McGrattan(3), Lee(3), Dave Relyea with a Dialog Class, Michael Sync raffling off eBooks, Karen Corby's TechEd material, Pete Brown with a streaming upload work-around, 6 Webcasts by Lindsay Rutter, and Koen Zwikstra on his P2P Library. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2.0 Unhandled Exceptions I had been tracking an old link for Peter McGrattan and had completely missed some good stuff on his site, so we're going to play catch-up: First is this short...
If you haven't seen the demos yet, go to Telerik's demo page and prepare to spend some time! I saw this back when it was a demo or maybe an early beta. I typically don't like to talk about things until they are available to everyone and this one now is. Log yourself into their site and create an account. That'll take you straight to the downloads and you can scoop up all this SL2 goodness. Remember it is a CTP, so give feedback where necessary and blog your own darn self when you've got something...
Lots of links again tonight: ToolTip Control by Martin Mihaylov, Scott Morrison(3) on DataGrid, VSM by Ian Griffiths, Lee On Tech, and Tim Heuer, SL2B2 by Karen Corby, Cross Domain Services by Tim Heuer, Yavor Georgiev on Web Services, and GetTemplateChild Issues by Lee. Bill Riess of Silverlight Games 101 has been busily updating to Beta 2 and has a quick access listing for getting to the content. From SilverlightCream.com: Using the Shape controls in Silverlight 2 Part 1 Martin Mihaylov of Silverlight...
BradleyB on SL2B2 Installation, WPFDevCon on SL2B2 Docs, Eric Hexter on Testing SL2B2, Brad Abrams on Roles and Auth with VSM, Dan Wahlin on Client Access Policy Server, and Expression Blend Team on DeepZoom Composer goodness. Page Brooks has updated everything to Beta 2, so take a look around out there. From SilverlightCream.com: Upgrading to Silverlight Tools Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta I found this by way of a blog post by Bobbi Perreault, and is an excellent resource to keep at-hand...
On the heels of yesterday's 17 links, there's 11 today, and at least one other hidden away. I've got posts by Rob Houwelng, Andrew Brown, Ashish Shetty(2), Joe Stegman, Jeff Paries, Pete Brown, LeeOnTech, Darren Mart, Adam Kinney, Koen Swikstra, and Jesse Liberty. Quite a few people have been updating their Beta 1 pages to Beta 2. Jeff Paries' Design With Silverlight site has the Bird Hunt and Tank Combat games updated including the downloadable code. From SilverlightCream.com: Fragmenti Picture...
I've got 17 links here tonight... Welcome to SL2B2.. :) ... Many are by the same folks, so I'm just going to list names: Scott Guthrie (duh), Michael Scherotter, Joel Neubeck(2), Kathy Kam, Walt Ritscher, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth(2), David Anson, Tim Heuer(4), WPFEDevCon, Mike Taulty/Mike Ormond, and Mike Snow. Wow... what a bunch of links! ... I tried not to pull all the "Silverlight 2 Beta 2" links since we're all posting that. There are a lot of people echoing the information on Silverlight.net,...
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is Released! This is almost an afterthought since people have been blogging it for the last hour. My take is that it's not over until Scott Gu posts :) ... well, that time has arrived, and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has arrived as well, along with VS2008 and Expression Blend support is available from the link above. Scott Guthrie has a blog post about it, and Shawn Wildermuth has 3 really nice posts up (so far)... he's been patiently waiting for about 3 days :) I'm sure there are many...
Some reading while waiting for B2--- John Stockton on Intranet Installations, Jesse Liberty on the Popup Control, and Mike Snow on Browser Resize and Dynamic images. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Installation on Intranet Hosted Applications John sent this to me this morning after I had already left (late) for work... so am not able to give this a dance because it's on BlogSpot. If it delivers as described, it's definitely good info for folks running inside a restrictive environment, and...
If I understand NDA's correctly, if I were in a beta program, I couldn't tell you. So... that being said, I've seen a download link for the SL2B2 chainer on someone's site this morning. My thought on that is user beware, I don't care what site it's located on. Who knows, it might be the release candidate, or it could be a few days old and someone forgot to remove it, and some enterprising person found it. There's plenty to read in the docs that apparently ARE released, and Tim, Jesse, and others...
SL2Beta2 SDK Docs in the Wild, Alex Knight with Image HotSpots, Nikolay Raychev on the ToggleButton, Mike Ormond on Streaming URLs, and Tim Heuer on the SL2B2 Tab Control. From SilverlightCream.com: Download the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK Documents In case you haven't already seen this, a few enterprising folks have found the chm file for the SL2B2 SDK already... go for it... most everyone else has :) Imger 4 - Hot spotting with Silverlight: Tutorial Alex posted this very cool application to the OZ...
We had our meeting tonight at Interface technical training and had the usual assortment of Rock Stars: Simon Allardice, Dan Wahlin, Steele Price, and Spke Xavier. The band leader, Michael Palermo used the lame excuse of being out of town :) And from what I can tell from Twitter, Tim Heuer is in Mexico City, so didn't make it either. I hope he's avoiding the local water as much as he was avoiding us :) Simon gave his great Code Camp presentation, and about half of the 16 listeners had not heard it...
Jeff Paries with a SL2 Tweemes Client, Tim Heuer on Streaming, Cross-Domain data, VSM, and Skinning, Jesse Liberty on SL2B2 Event Bubbling, Christian Schormann on VSM and Skins, and Jonas Follesø on Unit Testing SL. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Twitter Jeff Paries has a great job.... Look at what he's gone and done now!! .. this is very cool... thanks for sharing Jeff! Silverlight Streaming won’t upload my video! Tim Heuer has 4 things since I posted yesterday! ... this one is on the various...
According to Somasegar who was on-stage today at TechEd with Bill Gates, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is going to be released with a GoLive license this week. This also will include a Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and tools to VS2008. That's great news for all involved! Take the link above to see what all else was announced... Stay in the 'Light...
Attached Properties by Illa Iordanov, Animating ListBox Items by Ivan Dragoev, Programmatic DeepZoom by Jonas Follesø, Computer ArtsProject by Mike Ormond, and Ronnie Saurenmann on WCF, LINQ, CRUD, and Large DataSets. A couple editorial comments up-top: Andrew Duthie has posted a link to what looks to be a good WebCast by Frank LaVigne on "Graphic Design for Devs" today Wednesday at 12 noon Eastern... so that's pretty soon! Go to Andrew's Post for the info -- sorry for posting that it was Tuesday...
Lindsay Rutter's Silverlight Webcast series, Jesse Liberty Webcasts on Control Styles and Control Templates, plus creating a project from xaml and code-behind, Lee on Animating while scrolling, and Mike Taulty on SL Streaming Improvements. From SilverlightCream.com: Upcoming Silverlight 2 Webcast Series I found this by way of Frank LaVigne,and it appears that Lindsay, a DE from near Philadelphia is doing a series of SL2 webcasts during June. Looks like something to put on your schedule! Silverlight...
Now that Desert Code Camp is behind us, the next event up is the monthly Phoenix Silverlight User's Group Meeting on Wednesday June 4 from 6 to 8 pm. We meet at Interface Technical Training and the networking is worth the price of admission (free) Don't take my word for it, come on out and join us and see for yourself... who knows what fun stuff we may have to give away also! Stay in the 'Light...
Many thanks to Lorin Thwaits and the sponsors: Infusionsoft, Neudesic, and JumpBox, and all the volunteers and presenters at Desert Code Camp today in Phoenix. The turn-out seemed lighter to me than some of the ones in the past, but the sessions I attended were crowded with people sitting on the floor. I started the day off with Simon Allardice giving a great presentation on Silverlight Zero to Hero. High entertainment as usual, Simon... and great information and perspective! Next I was torn between...
Sitting in the computer area of UAT waiting for Simon Allardice to do his session on Silverlight at 10:10 ... Scott Cate hooked me up with a login for EasyDB.com while I was here talking to him, and I already have a database up and running on it....so watch for a post about that in a bit. But you can go to the site and watch intro videos for now. Looking forward to meeting and saying hello to lots of my Phoenix friends today. It's not too late to come down if you're in the area! Stay in the 'Light...
It was a little late the other night, trying to stuff my latest Silverlight 2 Article into the database and DTS was giving me absolute fits... I could see there were some extra characters ahead of the column name in the DTS record, but wasn't sure where they came from. I opened the file in SlickEdit, and it wouldn't let me view the file as hex ... hmmm... <pause>Then followed a series of actions that had absolutely nothing to do with what was causing the problem</pause> I finally looked...
Martin Mihaylov on the MultiscalImage Control, Jose Fajardo on DeepZoom, Dan Wahlin on Beginning SL2, Wilco Bauwer on Threading and Silverlight Components, Jonas Follesø on SL2 Cross Domain Policy and YouCard Demo, Dave Campbell on SL2 Lines, Paths, and Anti-aliasing. From SilverlightCream.com: Using the MultiscaleImage control in Silverligth2 Beta 1 Martin sent me this link this morning... it's a follow-on to his previous, this time showing how to use the image created by the composer. The future...
If this makes you feel like somebody cut the hard line, refer back to this article from April 26, 2007. Yet here we are May 28, 2008, and look what I have going in Silverlight 2: The graphic is a link to a Silverlight2 article that shows the things we had to remember in Silverlight 1.0 are still there to be remembered in Silverlight 2! Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SLNews | Join me @ SilverlightCream | SL Web Articles | SL2 Web Articles | My Articles | My Tutorials | My Tooltips | My SL2 Articles |...
Two posts on the Layout system this morning: Dave Relyea and David Anson. From SilverlightCream.com: Layout Events - SizeChanged and LayoutUpdated Dave Relyea discusses the layout events and what works/what doesn't with some good code examples ... definitely something to read! Lying to the layout system for a good cause [Bringing LayoutTransform to Silverlight 2!] David Anson discusses the Layout Transform -- oh but wait -- there IS NO Layout Transform! -- check out what David does to achieve his...
Our Fourth Desert Code Camp will be held Saturday May 31, 2008 at University of Advancing Technology, in Tempe, Arizona, and the schedule of sessions is now available! Log into the site and register to attend or present! At the time of writing there are 43 sessions in the works on all ranges of subjects -- 4 of them on Silverlight. If you've already signed up for sessions, go make sure there are no overlaps, and if you haven't signed up... now's a good time... it's in 3 days :) If you're anywhere...
Nikolay Raychev discusses the Hyperlink Control, Rob Bagby talks about Streaming, and Dave Relyea snaps objects to pixels. A couple editorial comments first... The great app that Michael Scherotter did and I blogged about last night actually had two links associated with it, and I only gave one. He has a second one associated with this that I want to point out: Ticking in Silverlight Clock + Source Code, or take the link to his Home page, look at them in series, and bookmark it! Second, I had mentioned...
Michael Scherotter provides a great SL 1.0 application. From SilverlightCream.com: Beauty with Silverlight I got this by an email from Michael himself, and couldn't wait to blog it... this is a SL 1.0 application and runs with no loops, timers, or threading. He provides an IFrame for it, and I just have to show it off here: Go ahead, 'push' some of the buttons on the watch, or the upper left-hand one toggles day/night... very cool.. thanks Michael :) Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SLNews | Join me @...
Lars Godejord rippling water with SL2. From SilverlightCream.com: Water Ripples with Silverlight 2 beta1 Lately I haven't been doing a single-post Cream, but Lars submitted this to me, and I thought the effect was pretty unique to Silverlight, and worth posting solo. He said he doesn't have the source, but he gave links to his sources he used, so I figured that was good enough for me :) Rat around on Lars blog... he's the one that did the Texturmapping I blogged about a while back... Stay in the...
No, really... this one's for real... you watch the Office 2008 Charity Demo and Microsoft coughs up a buck for the charity... Watch the demo Gosh, you'd think the Mac fan-boys would jump on this to try to break Microsoft :) Looks like it's capped at $100,000AU ... so I've done my 35 seconds worth, and we've now all watched it $2790AU worth according to the counter. The entire site is Silverlight, so it's cool to see the UI and how it all works. Check out the links in the lower left... very cool :)...
Cristian Merighi has a good-looking SL 3D engine, Michael Sync on Sending email with SL2, and Pete Brown's May 28 GeekSpeak. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3D engine Cristian submitted this to me and it looks great. He has it in WPF and Silverlight. He has some code issues so he's not posting source, but sounds like his intent is to do so... cool :) Tip/Trick- Sending Email in Silverlight 2 beta1 Michael Sync responded to a forum post about sending email using SL2, and wrote it up in a blog...
Jeff Paries explains his Timeline Infographic, Bill Reiss points us at a SL2 Games contest, and Tim Rule has a Windowing Demo. From SilverlightCream.com: Timeline Infographic Deconstructed I'll have to look to see if I tagged Jeff's Timeline Infographic post as 1.0, but it is... and it's very nice... if you haven't played with it, look at it here. In his latest post, he gives a nice run-down on the construction thereof. RIA Run Gallery Bill Reiss posted today about his game, Stack Attack, that he...
Wow.. 11 entries since about this time yesterday! - Denislav Savkov on sockets, Florian Krüsch on SL2 & Audio, Mario Meir-Huber's MVT Charts, Joel Neubeck with spherical collisions, Jeff Wilcox on storing clipboard info with SL2, Lee animating Listbox items, Pete Brown's part 2 of his Chat Client, Expression Blog on KeySpline Animation, Todd Miranda on re-using storyboards, Jesse Liberty's Intro to Blend part 3, and Daniel automating Markup in VS. From SilverlightCream.com: Sockets and their...
Our Fourth Desert Code Camp will be held Saturday May 31, 2008 at University of Advancing Technology, in Tempe, Arizona. Log into the site and register to attend or present! At the time of writing there are 40 sessions in the works on all ranges of subjects -- 4 of them on Silverlight. If you're anywhere near Tempe, Arizona on the 31st, plan come on by and join us...
Ok, say that 5 times real fast :) The things a person finds themselves involved in while trying to grub through the day and leave enough brain cells functional for Silverlight before crashing out... At my client's facility, we had a server with our web apps and other folks' apps that not only was past it's prime (aren't we all), but the lease was up. Let's not ignore the fact that we had another server with our Oracle database on it go down the same path close enough behind that we switched them...
SlickEdit - Is there anything in there than VS hasn't got? Last paragraph updated with feature demo info and 15-day trial not 30. This question came across my blog, and I put it aside to think about it a bit because it's a good question. In my opinion, a code editor is one of the more personal things a developer uses. Sure we all have Visual Studio, and in today's version you can do tons of stuff with that thing. And... if you're just starting out, and VS is all you've seen, you probably would wonder...
Andy Beaulieu with a real-world DeepZoom example, James Bacon releases a new SL2 casual game, Dave Relyea discusses the Canvas, Swiss DPE Team on Large resultsets with LINQ in SL2, and Peter McGrattan provides a SL2 Pie Chart. I just noticed we crossed the 1000-link mark in SilverlightCream. Thanks for all the submittals, everyone! From SilverlightCream.com: DeepZoom for eCommerce Andy Beaulieu has produced a very nice eCommerce site for his Father-in-Law's wood-turnings... I can't figure out which...
Rob Houweling on Controlling a Storyboard, Denislav Savkov on SL2 (graphical) Reflection, Hanu Kommalapati on XAP and DLLs, and Mario Meir-Huber with a SL2 Photo Album. From SilverlightCream.com: Manually controlling Storyboard animation Rob Houweling is back from his holiday and posting... hope you are refreshed Rob :) He brings us a nice article on manually controlling a Storyboard. I can't see the source from here, but he provided me a link that I can get to for a demo... and it appears he is...
SlickEdit 2008 Week 2 Even though there's been no disposition on the macro issue -- and it IS a big issue to code up, I'm sure -- I'm trying to use SE2008 as much as possible to get a feel for it in general. There's differences, and there's goodness, some things you just find accidentally. For instance, just now I was deleting characters using the backspace key, and was getting ready to type something uppercase, and whoa... shift-backspace puts characters back... cool... not sure if V7 did that or...
Koen Zwikstra with a Slideshow 2 Preview, Hanu Kommalapati continues with Silverlight for the Enterprise, Tim Binkley-Jones on Tags, and Tim Heuer with a SL Filckr Badge. From SilverlightCream.com: Slideshow 2 preview Koen Zwikstra gives us a preview of his Silverlight SlideShow upgraded to SL2. Check out the post for the feature list and some images. Silverlight for the Enterprises - Application Partitioning Hanu continues his Silverlight for the Enterprise series with this one on Application Partitioning...
Joel Neubeck back with more flipping tiles, BradleyB on VSLive Orlando Presentation, Shawn Wildermuth on Uploading, John Evdemon on User Context, and Dan Wahlin on DotNetRocks! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Flipping Tiles Animation Joel Neubeck wasn't satisfied with me sitting and clicking his flipping animation from the last time I posted about it... this time he has an entire page of auto-flips! Since I don't have an iPhone, I'm not familiar with this, but it's dang cool... and what's...
If you never saw Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, you're obviously much younger than me, and you missed a great TV show. He did a bit with Doc Severinsen where he'd ask audience members to name a song that they didn't think the band would know. Of course, Doc and the band would always play *something*, making up words as they went, and that was the really fun part of the bit. Then they'd turn it over to the audience member to sing their song, which was generally unusual, but not nearly as entertaining...
Happy Birthday Silverlight Cream May 16, 2007 was the first Silverlight Cream blog post, so it appears like we've made it one year. I posted number 275 yesterday, so that's better than 1 per workday all 52 weeks! I started it as a way to share posts I'd found after MIX '07. Since Silverlight.net aggregated my feed, I also thought I could use that bit of exposure to help others like me get their Silverlight apps into the hands of everyone else. By sometime in July I realized I was reaching a good-sized...
Hanu Kommalapa on Silverlight for the Enterprise, Joel Neubeck on Circular Collision Animation, O'Reilly's Up-to-Date book, Mike Taulty and Ormond with SL2 screencasts, and Tad VanFleet with an NFL Free Agent SL2 App. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight for the Enterprises - Fundamentals I came across a link to Hanu Kommalapa, and have added him as a SL Blogger. In this article, he goes through a very nice workup on what all is needed to manage Silverlight in the Enterprise. He goes into Libraries,...
Joel Neubeck animates user controls, Tim Rule on Scale 9 Images, and Tamir Khason On manipulating ObservableCollection objects. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Circular Motion Animation This is one of the cooler effects I've seen since the 'flip' control last week.. but hey... it's just me... go judge for yourself :) And he makes it sound so simple... check out the source! Scale 9 Image for Silverlight Scale 9 is apparently something used in Flash, and I've seen it before in SL1.0. Tim Rule...
I tried to use SlickEdit 2008 this morning for formatting my SilverlightCream post, and had problems. The posts are formatted as html and then I paste them into the GeeksWithBlogs edit area. Works grreat, I've done it enough I don't have to think much about the mechanics of it. I've got a macro I run that formats out my content section. My toolbars were gone, so I hooked up a new toolbar with one button, and attached it to the macro for the blog content. It didn't work... it didn't just have a problem,...
Nikolay Raychev with a couple articles about SL2 buttons, DanWahlin continuing his SL 1.0 series, and Todd Anglin on SL2 UI Controls in general. I've had 4 emails about running SilverlightCream.com really wide and having the CSS cause problems, but this morning, Henrik Sderlund wrote me about it, and after exchanging email with him, he wrote back with the CSS solution. How cool is that? Thanks Henrik! From SilverlightCream.com: Button Controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Nikolay Raychev goes through...
Michael Washington with Silverlight Desktop and SL Resizable, Draggable WIndows, Lee on Changing Itemtemplate to show details, BBC SL Zoom and WOW, and Jeff Paries Timeline Infographic. Sorry for an edit on this, I know it pushes it again. I was going to leave the date alone, but dang... I miss-typed Silverlight... lol From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Desktop Michael Washington has been busy with Silverlight 2. This was actually his second submittal. He has opened a new site named SilverlightDesktop.net...
This is somewhat mildly embarrasing, but I just went from version 7.02 of SlickEdit to SlickEdit 2008 which is version 13.0 -- wow...6 versions behind! I've been using SlickEdit since (I think) version 1.0 when Brief took a dump in Windows 98 Beta and my boss told me to order two copies of this new editor. So why haven't I upgraded? Well... SlickEdit is almost TOO good at what it does. SlickEdit is (for it's editing functions anyway) essentially a big macro editor. They ship it with a ton of macros,...
Tim Heuer wrote and asked if there was a feed from my blog *just* for Silverlight. I didn't know you could do it, but Tim showed me I could. So, for those of you that don't want to be bothered by my non-Silverlight blather, you can just switch your feed to this Silverlight-only one. This also means that for any GWB blogger or any SubText site, I would guess, you can get a content-specific feed. Find where the writer's "Post Categories" are, and when you hover over the one you want, in the status...
Michael Sync with Styling the DataGrid and LeeOnTech Scrolling in the ItemsControl. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 (beta1): Styling the Datagrid & Formating Datagrid Date Column Michael Sync adds some styling to the DataGrid, and has the code on his site. Scrolling In ItemsControl Lee Shows a way to scroll an ScrollViewer by using buttons instead of a scrollbar... I like outside-the box ideas like this because it makes people think, and pretty soon someone creates something that we...
Ok I've visited this one before, but now I'm just a tad scared, because first I had the VS2003 .NET 1.1 bits working on the server, then I went through the whole IIS and VS2005 .NET 2.0 CR bits. Now this morning I got email from a user that one of the reports is pooting... argggg... And it's the infamous "Load Report Failed" error. I tried and of course, it poots on my system as well :( ... I tried the .NET 2.0 "Merge" version and wow... that sucker just flies .. cool! So back to Google and a bunch...
Corey Schuman on Animations in Blend, Jeff Wilcox on SL Link Cloud, Expression Media Team on Web Galleries, MSCUI on Patien Journey Demonstrator, Via Tecia on My Travel Management, and Jesse Libery on Dynamic User Controls firing Events back. From SilverlightCream.com: Animations in Blend I'm not sure if what Corey is describing in this article will be good in Blend 2.5 for Silverlight 2, but I blog enough WPF things that this is all good info, and I figure eventually will be useful to us Silverlighters...
This is *way* outside what I normally have to deal with. Yeah, I've got some websites, but they're on shared hosting and I don't have admin rights to the servers, and hey, they just work ... and that's a good thing :) As I mentioned in my latest CrystalReports post, I had trouble with a new web app on a brand new state-of-our-art Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 web server. The app runs in (also state-of-our-art) VS2005 no problem, but I thought it would be nice at this point in the cycle to get it on the server,...
This one isn't a rant... surprise! ... this one is to report how I resolved the latest problem I had and some of the web resources I used for it. I've been working moving some web applications and associated Oracle databases from an old server to a new virtual one. I finally got the production applications running and had asked the IT folks to give me an alias through DNS to my test .NET 2.0 application that I want to run on the same server. First I had problems with getting 404 errors, and that'll...
Sitting in the User's Group meeting waiting for everyone to arrive... 15 people so far, so that's good... we're definitely above our core group. Right now just discussing Silverlight amongst each other and taking advantage of the fact that Tim Heuer, Steele Price, and Michael Palermo are in the room... geez... two long-term MVPs, one of whom is a Regional Director, and a Silverlight Project Manager... holy crap! Some WPF-afficianados are asking the hard questions, so that's not bad. Ended up having...
Tim Heuer on Streaming Media and Making Use of your Legacy JSON, Jesse Liberty on Dynamically creating containers, Margaret on Layout and LayoutInformation APIs, Shawn Wildermuth on executing code on the UI thread, Nikhil Kothari on autocomplete Textboxes, and Michael Sync on Commercial use of SL2. From SilverlightCream.com: Streaming media in Windows Server for Silverlight Tim Heuer takes time to answer a bunch of streaming media questions that he aggregated from his inbox... definitely worth a...
Plateaus From Bartelby.com, a Plateau is "A relatively stable level, period, or state." I learned about Plateaus early because I grew up thinking I was going to play guitar for a living. Well ok, I'm not sure how I thought I was going to balance it, but I knew I ALSO wanted to be an Engineer. But musicians as a group, I think we all know plateaus. We get to some point in our learning and seem to stall out. Forward motion stops. We don't get any worse, we just don't seem to get better. The longer...
Tamir Khason on DrawingBrush, Mike Taulty on Uploading to Silverlight Streaming, Jesse Liberty on creating controls in code, and Brad Abrams on Authentication, Profile, and Role Service. From SilverlightCream.com: DrawingBrush and deep clone in Silverlight Tamir takes off on the fact that we don't have a DrawingBrush, HatchBrush, or PatternBrush in SL, and then goes about digging into the DependencyObject with reflection and building his own wrap panel... yikes, did I actually use all those words...
Tamir Khason with a WPF article, Jon Davis on SL/Entity Spaces, Nikhil Kothari on Default Commit, Jeff Prosise on Page Turning, David Anson on IValueConverter, and Michael Sync with a Rich Text Editor Demo. I spent some time in the database yesterday clearing out dead links (that I knew about), and making sure if you selected "Blog" and hit search, you'd only get one of someone. That dropped the total number of articles by a bit, but not much -- 948 this morning, and we now have a valid blogger list...
Time Rule on Spline-Based Animation, Florian Krüsch with SilverGlobe, Expression Team Blog updates DeepZoom Composer, Jeff Paries releases Tank Combat, and John Gossman on WPF/SL. From SilverlightCream.com: Spline Based Animation Helper I was going to start working my way back in time on Tim's blog, but this is a new article from yesterday, providing a very nice-looking UI for a Spline animation Helper... I gotta tell you... his samples are pretty nice looking. There's some explanation code on the...
If you're in the Phoenix Area, please join us at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix for our next regularly scheduled Phoenix Silerlight User's Group Meeting on Wednesday May 7 from 6pm to 8pm. Our meetings follow the pattern of a short presentation followed by a break which is then followed by two sets of Open Space discussions. Anyone can sign up for an Open Space and these can be anything from "How do I ..." to "Help me finish..." or "Look what I did" There are plenty of experienced...
Michael Washington on DNN SL Users, Florian Kruesch with a Triangle control for 3D, Bill Reiss on HSL color, Jaime Rodriguez on Installing SL, Tim Rule with an Inner Glow application, Somasegar on PopFly Game Creator, and Jeff Brand on SL Streaming Content. I believe I've caught up with myself on Silverlight blogs on SilverlightCream. I haven't cleared out doubles or dead sites yet. If you are not on there and want to be, send me an email! From SilverlightCream.com: DotNetNuke Silverlight Users Michael...
Joel Neubeck with an IPhone-style flip animation, Peter Himschoot on DataBinding, Tim Heuer Skinning an embeddable SL2 media player, Mike Taulty on WCF and MaxMessageReceivedSize, Lee with a SL2 Rating control, Pete Brown on Part 1 of his Chat Demo, and Tamir Khason on a multi-platform stand-alone SL2 app. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3D flip animation Joel Neubeck is a perfect example of me not finding someone. Until Tim Heuer posted his Skinning example, below, and credited Joel, I hadn't...
Ok this is only mildly embarrasing, but I remembered I needed to add 1 person to the database with a blog. When I did so, I thought hmm... how about THIS one? ... so that started a search, and yikes... so far today I've added 25 bloggers to the database. All these names already have entries, but they weren't previously tagged as bloggers. I don't like ALSO tagging posts as blogs because then when you search by the blog tag you find a bunch of stuff by the same person and yes I know I have a few of...
Most of the people reading this will already know this invormation, I hope. For ones recently being converted to Silverlight, I'm thinking I may push out a post like this irregularly. There are lots of ways to stay connected with the world of Silverlight. The most obvious is Silverlight.net -- this is the source for the control, the SDK, etc. plus how-to videos and tons of resources. The forums there are unbelievabley busy with folks asking and answering questions. I'm not sure when some of those...
Corrina Barber on using her Red Control Skin, Jesse Liberty with a SL Debug Challenge, Shawn Wildermuth with a Pseudo Dialog, Jamie Cansdale with a SL NUnit Project, and Gill Cleeren on Data Services. From SilverlightCream.com: Sample Application Using the Red Skin Looks like Corrina Barber and I were both working with her Controls Skins... today she posted an article about using her Red Skin in Scott Guthrie's Digg Application. Plus she adds in small helper UI piece to let the developer know that...
Last weekend, I decided to take time off from what I was supposed to be doing (shh... don't tell, ok?) ... and take a whack an an idea I have for extending one of the great Silverlight 2 control skins that Corrina Barber provided for us. Not to take anything away from her work, but I'd like to use it as a jumping-off point to produce something of my own, and one of my ideas is a small rotation off one of hers. So my idea was to: 1) Get something running, and 2) Make some modifications in Blend 2.5...
Peter Matuchniak on a PodCast, Tamir on making Silverlight 'Air', Page Brooks on Disabling JS debugging, John Stockton on Textblock Mouse Event Issues, chrishayuk deeper in Isolated Storate, and Dan Wahlin/Spike Xavier with the Silverlight Song! From SilverlightCream.com: Podcast about Live Streaming Media System Peter Matuchniak from Technicolor shows off a Live Streaming Media System he's been single-handedly working on... in an interview from Infragistics. Peter's system is awesome... lots of...
ChrishayUK on Isolated Storage, Page Brooks with a Color Picker, AdamJTP with a Lightbox, Jaime Rodriguez with a Viewbox, Jonas Folles on Interactive Video, Bob Familiar on SL2 RIA, Christoph Husse with SL2 Rich Text Editor, and Ineir with a WrapPanel. Lots of goodness... controls today... Lightbox, ViewBox, WrapPanel and holy crap... a Rich Text Editor... not to count other ineresting articles, read on... From SilverlightCream.com: Isolated Storage (Quota.dat) ChrishayUK digs into Isolated Storage,...
This is a couple new posts and finally catches me up from last week when I was being catered to in Seattle and not being very 'bloggy' :) Laurent Bugnion on User Controls with Events, Laurence Moroney on Casual Game Building, Jesse Liberty on Event Handling, Eugene Osovetsky on debugging Web Services, and the SilverlightSDK on DeepZoom. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight: User Controls with events Laurent Bugnion very nicely tackles User Controls with events, good explanation and examples, all...
John Stockton with a UserControl bug, Sunil Urs with a Visifire demo, JesseLiberty with a UserControl Tutorial and Slides from Atlantic City, Brad Abrams with FlickR/SL example, Michael Palermo on unsing the MouseWheel, Mike Taulty on Getting to ListBoxItems and Video Markers, and Daniel Moth on File Dialogs. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Problem with Animations on User Controls John Stockton reported this to The Silverlight Team. Apparently he worked his way into it and couldn't...
Rob Houweling with video control, Bill Reiss on event handlers in XAML, Laurent Bugnion on stand-alone SL, Dan Wahlin on pushing data to SL Client part II, Michael Palermo on photo magnifying glass, Mike Taulty dynamically loading assemblies, Martin Mihaylov on using the DeepZoom composer, Kathy Kam on Calendar and Date Picker, and Jesse Liberty on INotifyPropertyChanged. From SilverlightCream.com: Controlling video with dragging Rob Houweling has a very interesting way of controlling video, and...
Eric Hexter is blogging about testing SL, TeamLive is using SL, Ola Karlsson on Semi-transparent SL, LeeOnTech with Drag/Drop Part 2, Karen Corby's Part 3 of SL2 Networking, Michael Palermo with a create your own SL Game video, Pete Brown on WCF Duplex Commo, and Jesse Liberty on User Controls. From SilverlightCream.com: Eric Hexter Eric Hexter has been blogging about Testing and Silverlight, and asked if I thought it was worth a mention... absolutely Eric... you guys had me when I saw the "LosTechies"...
Matt Casto with a Presentation Application and a 'Crawling Border', Nikolay Raychev on using the border control, Joe Stegman creating images dynamically, chrishayuk investigating Isolated Storage issues, and Daniel Moth on Networking. From SilverlightCream.com: PresentLight - A Silverlight Presentation Written in Silverlight Matt Casto gave a talk on Silverlight at the Central Ohio Day of .NET last Saturday. He did his presentation by using Silverlight to do it. I've seen Scott Cate do this with...
Here we are again cussing at Crystal Reports. Actually things between me and CR have been amazingly good for quite a while. I knew there was a problem coming though... I'm doing way too many weird things. I have to move these two web apps, and in doing so, they're moving to a bright, shiny, spanking new virtual server. Not sure what spanking has to do with new, but I'll let it pass. I figured there'd be some bumps in the road and of course the first one was that the new server had no clue what Crystal...
Rick Barraza on Particles, Michael C. Neel on "FlashLight" :), Jeff Prosise on SL Interop, David Anson on Buttons in a ListBox, Yavor Georgiev on DataBinding and SyndicationFeed, Todd Miranda's CodeCamp Starter Template, LeeOnTech with Tooltips on DataGridRow, and Daniel Moth on Assemblies & Namespaces. From SilverlightCream.com: Bitmaps and Particles in Silverlight Rich Barraza of CynergySystems sent me this, and I looked at it just briefly from home. When I tried to bring it up from here it...
Ola Karlsson on SL/HTML, Michael Washington with a SL2 Toolbar, Pete Brown with a Chat Client, LeeOnTech on StoryBoards in DataTemplate, Robby Ingebretsen with SL2 Kaxaml, Cheryl (SilvelrightSDK) on the Popup Control, and Frank LaVigne on Cross Domain Proxy's and his Policy File Checker Utility. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight on top of HTML Ola Karlsson sent me this one while I was at the Summit, and am finally getting to it. This is a nice step-by-step explanation of using SL over HTML....
Jeff Paries' Bird Hunt Game, Adam Kinney's 3-part series on a Gamercard app, Jose Fajardo with part 2 of his Digg Mashup, Laurent Bugnion with User Controls in separate assemblies, Karen Corby with part 2 of Networking, Kirupa with Blend/SL Hands-On Lab, Daniel Moth on getting SL2 info, and Tim Heuer with videos of his latest posts. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Games - Bird Hunt Michael Washington Demo'd this game from Jeff to me on Wednesday at the end of Scott Morrison's session but I...
I'm sensitive to the fact that not everyone is an MVP. If you're reading this, and you aren't then go back and find some of my posts that talk about my travails. 3 years ago at this very time, I was out of work and having trouble finding work. Life has some funny twists, and today ends my first MVP Summit. Because I'm taking vacation time and paying my own flight, etc.. I'm leaving tonight and will get to Phx about 11:30, and be back on the 101 heading to work tomorrow morning at 7 :) This was an...
Corey Gaudin on The Next Web, Matt Casto's Scrolling Textbox, Martin Mihaylov with an Image Control article, Nikolay Raychev with the ImageSplitter, Scott Morrison with runtime DataGrid columns, Sean Wildermuth on reading SL Embedded XAML, and Daniel Moth on Isolated Storage. From SilverlightCream.com: “The Next Web aka Web 3.0” and Silverlight's importance to it. Out of some private discussions, Corey Gaudin decided to share with us his findings/feelings about the whole AJAX/Silverlight/Air/RIA...
John Stockton brings Custom Controls vs User Controls and a Code Camp Session Scheduler, Christoph Husse brings an example of his rich text control, and Ashish Shetty on screen resolution an layout/rendering. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2: Custom Controls vs. User Controls John Stockton discusses the process of designing a Custom Control and the advice/questions asked and answered ... if I had known he was going to include twitter posts in here, I'd have responded :) Silverlight Session...
Scott Guthrie's weekly list-o-links, LeeOnTech about SL2 GroupBox and Drag/Drop, Dan Waters on DeepZoom, Dan Wahlin on SL2 Sockets, and Silverlight Streaming is updated! From SilverlightCream.com: April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight I normally don't re-blog Scott's Friday list of links because I figure if you're associated with this business in any manner, you're already reading his blog! Today's Silverlight list caught me off-guard however... thanks Scott!!...
Ola Karlsson with a 2-part animated menu article, Nikolay Raychev on Canvas and Measure/Arrange, Jesse Liberty on Sparkling Podcast, Jonathan Parker's SL2 test page, Michael Palermo video on providing SL1.0 support, Laurence Moroney on Yahoo! Japan's Search, Tim Heuer on SL2/WS issues, Dan Wahlin on SL2 networking, and Jason Zander 2-parter on SL2 Map/Datagrid demo. From SilverlightCream.com: Building a simple animated menu with Silverlight 2- Part 1 Ola Karlsson sent me these last night, and they...
Nikolay Raychev Posted about using some SL2 controls: Layout in General, then Canvas, Grid, and StackPanel, Tim Heuer posted materials for a presentation in Anaheim and another Cross Domain article, A One-page set of links to ALL SL Videos from MIX, and David Anson updated his XPSViewer. From SilverlightCream.com: Layout controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Nikolay Raychev of SilverlightShow submitted links to me for three very nice detailed tutorials on some of the fundamental controls in SL2. This...
Christoph Husse with a non-US TextBox, Jaime Rodriguez on built-in Styling, A SL2 Carousel, and URI Referencing, Dan Wahlin on ItemsControl Templates and 3rdParty SL2 controls. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 (beta1): International (Non-US) TextBox Michael Sync submitted this guest-post by Christoph Husse that is a very cool article on use of alternate keyboards or define-your-own keyboard, all with source :) built-in Styling and generic.xaml Jaime Rodriguez gives digs into the generic.xaml...
Margaret of Silverlight SDK has a great tutorial on Custom Panels, Cheryl at Silverlight SDK has a WebClient/HttpWebRequest article, Sam Landstrom at Silverlight SDK demos a SL2 Timer, Michael Sync offers up solutions to a few good questions, Jeff Paries updated his cool Drum Pad, Tim Sneath on Controlling SL Updates and new SL 1.0 Release, and Tim Heuer on Cross-domain Policies. From SilverlightCream.com: Creating a Custom Panel There are a few Silverlight SDK entries that slipped past me... the...
Michael Washington provides a Hello World SL2/DNN, Karen Corby has part 1 of 2 on SL2 and Networking, Laurent Bugnion talks about SL2/JS/Unit Testing, DeepZoom Composer Forum from Expression BLog, Andy Beaulieu's material from a SL2/Data CodeCamp talk, Adam Kinney on SL2 Sidebar Gadgets on Vista 64, and LeeOnTech with a Silverlight Wizard. From SilverlightCream.com: DotNetNuke Silverlight Hello World Michael Washington decided to start at Hello World with a DNN/Silverlight 2 series... he's been doing...
LeeOnTech blogs about a SL Modal Dialog, Scott Guthrie on Existing UI == UserControl, Chad Campbell has an update on his book, Chris Carper started blogging about the Business of SL, Adam Kinney blogged his new GamerCard, Dan Wahlin on ItemsControl Templates, Jaime Rodriguez on SL2 Instantiation, Jesse Liberty on SQL to DataGrid via WCF/LINQ, and Laurent Bugnion on a bug with skewing and opacity masks on reflections. I forgot to mention that Pete Brown of Irritated Vowel has changed his RSS feed...
Bill Reiss -- Congratulations on getting MVP once again!!! Bill is the Silverlight guy that's been posting all the game stuff... Well, ok, him and Andy Beaulieu (Hi Andy!). Bill's site is Silverlight Games 101, and he posted about his re-award here early this morning. Bill also talked a bit about what it takes to be an MVP and what it might mean. I thought about Bill's post and thought I'd take the opportunity to add onto it. There is a wide variety of MVPs as can be seen on the MVP Site. Becoming...
It's been bugging me that with all the Silverlight that's been flying around, that I am only showing the last 10 entries on the main page. I do agree with Adam Kinney that I need a grid, but yikes... 740 entries and counting is going to be some grid! I got to thinking since I have the date the entry was added into the database, why not just do a duration of 3 days, subtract it from today, and then pull all entries with DateAdded greater than that value... So I did that, and then decided to put the...
John Stockton on a small animation secured inline on a page of text, Martijn Croezen & Rob Houweling have a very nice Texture mapping applcation up, Andy Nogueira has a Silverlight Wrapper Web Part, Michael Sync helps resolve a Silverlight error, Jesse Liberty with Videos on Event Handling, Delay updates ConvertClipboardRTFToolToHTML, Shawn Wildermuth aggregates some SL2 bugs, Pete Brown on XAML Drop-Shadows, and Jaime Rodriguez with an awesome DeepZoom Primer. I didn't want to make a huge deal...
Michael Sync posted a list of SL2B1 problems, Rob Houweling produced a Motion Blur demo, LeeOnTech with a SL2 MasterPage proposal, egoZd on uploading with SL2 and asmx Web Services, Laurent Bugnion's bug tracking of the ScrollViewer, Scott Guthrie on Unit Testing, and 4 very cool articles by Karsten Januszewski. Lest I forget, everyone should go watch the Silverlight Rehab video... this is hilarious! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 (beta1) Known Issues and workarounds (if any) Michael Sync...
I was at the VS2008 "Heroes Happen Here" Launch Event in Phoenix yesterday so am somewhat backed up on everything, but before the day gets rolling, there are some congratulatory messages to pass along, and I'm going to do them alphabetically by first name: Adam Kinney -- Happy Birthday man... hope you have a great day. Great job in the movie :) Frank LaVigne -- Congratulations on getting MVP once again!!! I'll give a link, but can't test it from inside this facility, just go to FranksWorld.com and...
Mike Snow has an article about creating a new SL2 project, Bill Reiss on adding keyboard input to our game, Shawn Wildermuth's Code Camp materials, Laurence Moroney on Dynamic Languages, Jesse Liberty on his SLMicroBlog, Karen Corby and Mark Rideout on Accessibility, and Lee on Listbox Styling. From SilverlightCream.com: Mike Snow's Silverlight Blog Funny how serendipity works... I came across the next article by Mike Snow this morning, and Bill Reiss blogged about finding another Silverlight Game...
Dan Wahlin's latest articles, Cheryl at Silverlight SDK on SL2, WS, and WCF, Sam Landstrom on using one animation for multiple objects, Scott Morrison digs deep on SL2 DataGrids, Andy Beaulieu on SL2 LINQ to SQL CRUD, and Mike Taulty on passing data between plugins. From SilverlightCream.com: My Latest Silverlight Articles This is a list of the latest Silverlight articles Dan Wahlin has written for .NET Insight. Many are 1.0 but some are 2, and all are worth looking at. Just because SL2 is here,...
Jose Fajardo continues with Login UI for Messenger, Jeff Paries with very cool DrumPad, Jesse Liberty attacks "Getting Started", LeeOnTech blog is open with source, Brad McKelvie on uploading with SL2 and WCF, Bill Reiss with a Game Helper Class Library, and Mike Taulty on talking to a local WCF service. [A note from Dave] It's still March, it's only 23 days since MIX began and as of this moment, there are 77 Silverlight 2-tagged links in the database! That's over 10% of the total in just over 3...
Tim Heuer on Silverlight Deployment tactics, Koen Zwikstra has another release of Silverlight Spy, and Rob Houweling on SL2 and Embedding fonts. From SilverlightCream.com: Providing a great Silverlight deployment experience Tim Heuer does a great job on this post (as usual) of explaining all the ways we can provide a great user experience with our Silverlight... should probably keep this one bookmarked, or better yet, print it out :) Silverlight Spy 2.0.0.2 I appear to have left Koen Zwikstra's name...
Jesse Liberty on LINQ tips/tricks, and Sean Blakemore on navigating between XAML pages. From SilverlightCream.com: LINQ To SQL In preparation for a SQL article coming up, Jesse Liberty is blogging about smaller things he's finding during the creation process... digging out nuggest for us :) Silverlight 2 Navigating Between Xaml Pages Navigating between XAML pages is not something I've done yet, but it might be an option for the code I'm working on, and I've seen discussions about it. Sean seems to...
Dan Wahlin presents video Tutorials of Scott Guthrie's Silverlight 2 Tutorials and Dave Campbell on what is TextDecoration in SL2. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 Video Tutorials Dan Wahlin told me a while back he was working on these. I had forgotten about them until he sent the link tonight. I actually forgot they went with Scott Guthrie's 8 Tutorials until I started watching them! ... How cool is that?? <SL2Tooltip Number="001" Text="TextDecoration" /> I've got a bunch of things...
If you've been reading along, you've probably figured out I'm a control junkie, so I am trying to do a good job on a controls project. While ratting around in the Intellisense for Button, I came across TextDecoration... hmmm.. what's that?? Read on to follow my bread crumbs to enLightenment. Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SLNews | Join me @ SilverlightCream | SL Web Articles | SL2 Web Articles | My Articles | My Tutorials | My Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Koen Zwikstra has released his first SL2 version of Silverlight Spy ... what a hot SL tool this is! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Spy 2 is here Koen Zwikstra of FirstFloor Software has updated his SilverlightSpy to SL2! He considers this an Alpha release, and lists known limitations, but it IS very cool! ... great job, Koen :) Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SLNews | Join me @ SilverlightCream | SL Web Articles | SL2 Web Articles | My Articles | My Tutorials | My Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Christian Merighi on Tweener, Michael Cameron on Tweener, Jose Fajardo shows how to create a spiral in Expr Design, Sam Landstrom on SL2 animation and creating animation in Code, Imran Shaik with a SL2 WS tutorial in VB, and Laurence Moroney on Installation Metrics. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2.0 Tweener(Of T) Ultimate Version Christian Merighi sent me this, and when I looked at his blog, this is the third version he's posted in a few days, so when he says 'Ultimate Version' ... he's...
Michael Sync on User Control Inheritance, Expression Team provides DeepZoom collection example, Pete Brown on Isolated Storage, Shawn Burk on Templated Controls, Laurent Bugnion on Zipped files and SL2, Corrina Barber on Skinning SL2 controls and Hooking Data up to Listbox and Datagrid. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 (beta1): User Control Inheritance Michael Sync steps up to the plate with an Sl2 article on User Control Inheritance. There's some issues that he explains, and has links out...
Rob Houweling tackles unpacking ZIP files in SL2, Marlon Grech on the DataGrid in Blend, Jesse Liberty on Routing & Bubbling again and discussed SL/WPF, Delay delivers SilverlightDefaultStyleBrow... Walter Oliver on IIS and SL, Jon Galloway on DeepZoom, Shawn Wildermuth on SL2 conversion issues and his Silverlight Page and SeeqPod Player being converted to SL2. From SilverlightCream.com: Unpacking files in Silverlight 2 Rob tackles unpacking ZIP files in SL2 using ICSharpZipLib instead of using...
I look at some of the comments made on sites that I blog about, and I see the top x words of my Silverlight Cream blog post about them. I don't directly cause that to happen. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea how it happens :) so I guess that would be Thanks to GeeksWithBlogs! I see other comments also, such as "You've been kicked...". Now I know those start out life by someone 'kicking' the post at DotNetKicks, and then at their site, you can also 'Kick' a link to give it a higher rank, and...
Shawn Wildermuth creates Linkable SL Apps, Scott Morrison on Getting Started with SL2 and a walk-thru of the SL2 DataGrid, Erik Mork's MIX Podcast of Adam Kinney, Attila Hajdrik demonstrates a SL2 Custom Control, Marlon discusses XAML, Jeff Paries on DeepZoom issues, and Jesse Liberty discusses Event Bubbling and his new direction. From SilverlightCream.com: Creating Linkable Silverlight Applications Aren't you glad there's smart guys like Shawn Wildermuth out there ahead of us figuring stuff like...
John Stockton with a SL2 UserControl example and Tim Sneath on Web Server Configuration for SL2 content. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2: User Controls and Other Tips John Stockton has a very nice User Control post as his first Silverlight 2 excursion, code screenshots on the page... good stuff, thanks John :) Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content Tim Sneath details all the bits we need to know while on a customer service call with our web host to get our SL working :) ...
Tim Heuer revisits SL2 and WS, Jesse Liberty discussing how to get SL assistance, Bill Reiss on the DispatcherTimer, Pete Brown has links up for his WebCast on the 19th, Mike Taulty on SL2 sockets, Andy Beaulieu on asmx WS in SL2, Chrisshayuk on WCF and Authenticated sites in SL, "DaveDev" posted all his presentation materials and source. From SilverlightCream.com: Calling services from Silverlight 2 part 2 In a genius move, I put Tim's link as the title and not sure what went in as the link at SilverlightCream.com,...
Jesse Liberty on Getting Started with SL2, Tim Sneath on Silverlight Streaming, Michael Schwarz on SL2 breaking changes and updating his Surface demo to SL2, Delay added databinding to his HTMLTextBlock sample, Pete Brown on SL2 and WCF, Brad Abrams on the release of the SL2 Control Code, Frank Lavigne and Chrishayuk both on Cross-Domain issues, Jose Fajardo updated his Media player to SL2, and not SL, but Karen Corby gave up the source to her SnippetManager! From SilverlightCream.com: Tip of the...
Brad Abrams posted links the the SL2 poster, Shawn Wildermuth has links out to a discussion of a Cross Domain policy bug, Steven Smith gives us the link he used to resolve his SL2 install issues, Jesse Liberty takes on a JS question in SL2, Delay has HTMLTextBlock up in SL2, and Michael Sync shows how to find the DataGrid in Expression Blend 2.5 then gives us a Web Service example in SL2. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 Developer Poster Last week we had the DeepZoom version of this poster...
Jose Fajardo has a Control Contracts Diagram, Jesse Liberty binds a DataGrid to a collection, Andy Beaulieu has his 'Sort the Foobars' up to SL2, Imran Shaik takes a hard look at SL2, Pete Brown discusses Accessibility in SL2, LINQPad - 'nuff said, and Michael Washington on SL2, WS, and DNN. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Control Contracts Diagram - For Skinning Jose is out there ahead of most of us as usual, and has a Control Contracts Diagram for download ... very nicely done... thanks...
Karen Corby provides us 3 SL2 controls, Carlos Figueira details the cross-domain policy file, Jesse Liberty starts a great tutorial sequence on data in SL2, Shawn Wildermuth on a VS2008 SL2 crash and workaround plus a pointer to a DeepZoom MSLabs site, and Michael Schwarz discusses SL2 and Sockets. From SilverlightCream.com, and I think I'm caught up finally! Re-usable SL2 Controls I blogged about Karen Corby's VlikrViewr last night, but the fact that she has 3 controls that we can use all zipped...
Jeff Paries with OOJS part 2, Chrishayuk with a fix to a listbox stretch problem, Karen Corby gives up FlickrViewr, Mike Ormond details the mouse wheel, Shawn Burke discussing the SL2 controls and downloads, Cameron Albert on Multi-Threading SL, SilverlightSDK on the SL docs, and Tim Heuer on SL2 and Web Services. From SilverlightCream.com: Object-oriented Javascript Part 2 Jeff Paries comes back with part 2 in his OOJS sequence and getting into stuff I need to read too! Stretches that don't work...
Bill Reiss posted his SL2 Game Loop part 1, Pete Brown on XAP, SL2 startup, and the Uri Issue, Daniel Moth on XAP and the HTML Bridge, Mike Taulty with his QCon PPT and code, and a WPF post about future bitmap effects From SilverlightCream.com where we now have 608 links! Creating a Game Loop Part 1 Bill Reiss continues his updating of older code to SL2 and this time provides us with his Game Loop ... hope at some point I find enough time to read all his stuff :) ... oh did I mention WITH code! Xap!...
Phalanger PHP compiler for .NET on CodePlex, Jaime Rodriguez details the Financial Demonstrator, Jose Fajardo skinning buttons, and Karen Corby's PPT deck and source for her great controls talk at MIX! From SilverlightCream.com: Skinning a button - 4 different ways and counting! Some people are having entirely too much fun, and Jose is one of them... skinning buttons... great stuff...! Mix08: Creating Rich, Dynamic User Interfaces with Silverlight 2 Controls This was my favorite MIX session... gotta...
Pete Brown on DPI in Blend, Joe Stagner on SL and Security, Laurence Moroney on DeepZoom in C#, SL Developer Center at Yahoo!, Epression Team Blog posted DeepZoom Composer User's Guide and Example, Imran Shaik on URI Inconsistencies, SL2 and the DOM, and some very nice gradients in XAML. From SilverlightCream.com: DPI Matters in Blend Pete Brown discusses DPI in Blend and why that should matter to us in SL2... I'm glad someone is out there ahead of me :) Some Blog Posts on Silverlight Security Joe...
Thursday the 13th Cream :) Delay on SL2 controls, Andy Beaulieu on Collision Detection, Zhiming Xue gives a good link set for DeepZoom, IRhetoric shows us a great SL1 mashup app, Jose Fajardo gives us a SL2 Control Reference chart, and Ashish Shetty is back discussing URI references. From SilverlightCream.com: Three wacky uses for Silverlight 2's ListBox and ScrollViewer! Brought to you by Delay, who I've discussed, wrote some of these... what better insight into using them than seeing him abuse...
Jesse Liberty on where to get started in SL2, Brad Abrams exposes new SL2 control skins, Ralf Rottmann details an HTTP Post and service response in SL2, Updated File Open Dialog code from the SL SDK Team, Bill Reiss updated Dr. Popper to SL2, Pete Brown updated his Balloons animation to SL2, and a very complete list of MIX08 video links. From SilverlightCream.com: Tip of the Day: More Ways To Learn Silverlight 2 Jesse Liberty offers up a post of links to Sl2 goodness for those still searching and...
Early 'Cream: Cameron Albert on overriding the SL splashscreen, Shawn Wildermuth's learning source, Bill Reiss has two SL2 tutorials up, and Jeff Paries on OOP with JS. From SilverlightCream.com: asp:Silverlight Override I actually saw this first on Pete Brown's blog, then I saw Tim Heuer's reference, but this is straight from the author, and good stuff... the sort of thing I think we're going to be seeing more of as the .NET folks embrace SL! I'm adding Cameron to my BLogRoll, btw :) Source Code...
Adam Kinney posted an aggregation of links to great SL2 postings, Celso and Kirupa posted their WPF app from MIX, Koen Zwikstra posted SL2 code for P2P to CodePlex and updated his Reversi game as well, Joe Stegman posts a DeepZoom version of the SL2 poster we all got, and gives out the code to the DataGrid example in his session at MIX, Ashish Shetty on transcoding media files, The Epression Team Blog with a DeepZoom example using Mousewheel/Pan/Click-Zoon, and Michael Washington with a first SL2...
First off let me say this: my buddy Pete Brown of AIS is giving a Webcast on Silverlight 2 for Business Apps on Wednesday March 19th... I've messed that post up enough, I wanted to do a clean job of it for once :) And as long as I'm editorializing, I've added another link on the footer of these posts. SL2 has been so busy, I didn't want those articles lost in the clutter, so I've started another global tag on my main site for SL2, and consequently there is another link just for those. Jesse Liberty...
Pete Brown is giving a WebCast tomorrow on SL2 and LOB apps... still time to sign up then come back to read, Tim Heuer helps us understand Calling JS from SL2, Jesse Liberty weighs in on Routed Events, Andrew Duthie describes Vertigo's Hard Rock DeepZoom app, and Adam Kinney blogged about the Mix08 Mobile session. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 for Business Applications Webcast Pete Brown is giving a WebCast tomorrow March 19th at 2pm EST on SL2 and LOB... sounds like a good thing to be...
Don't even think this is all there is... this is just the surface 10%, I think it'll take me a few days to catch up with just all the SL2 stuff already published! Joe Stegman posted MIX code for his session, JoseFajardo (Liquid Boy) is reproducing Windows Live Messenger with SL2, Jesse Liberty on core presentations and cool dev tools, Chris Cavanagh's SL2-updated 2D physics demo, and Sean Blakemore's SL2 RegEx Evaluator and Blogengine.NET extension for SL2. From SilverlightCream.com: Mix08 Content...
While I was at MIX, I 'Creamed some things, but did not insert them into the database at SilverlightCream.com because of the connectivity I had there. I just completed that task, so now all that material is up and searchable. I have some things to blog about and will get them out for a first-thing-in-the-morning effort. I don't know how to reach folks that don't read my blog, but for anyone that is just stumbling upon it after MIX, here's how to get started and keep up with Silverlight: 1) Go to...
Even though some of the people I met such as Laurent Bugnion are still traveling, MIX '08 is in our taillights. What a great 3-days worth of material and people. Thanks to all who put it on and all that attended, and just thanks! I met so many people that I've blogged about or exchanged email with that I don't think I can remember them all. If you saw me and said hello and called me by name and I just said "Hi", don't think I'm rude, I'm just bad with names and overrun with information! VisitMix.com...
Needed to get some time by myself again, so took the opportunity to blog some things. Met the guys from Cynergy Systems and had lunch with some of the other folks in the WPF-Silverlight Insiders group. Great to meet all of you finally! From SilverlightCream.com: Tip of the Day: Tutorial Image Distortion and what You and I can Do Jesse Liberty gives thoughts on images in his tutorials, and to be honest, I didn't notice! ... I was interested in the content :) ... keep 'em coming, Jesse! Silverlight...
This is going to be not only BUSY... but is going to take a while on this connection. I think I'm going to blog them and then push them into SilverlightCream after the fact. There's also so much, I might do author-themed posts until I catch up :) From SilverlightCream.com: Slides and Demos From My MIX 08 Talk Great demo from Joe Stegman and Mike Harsh... all the code and slides are on Mike's blog, and it's apparently VERY busy this morning... took forever to log in! MIX08 Keynote Live Blog Maybe...
Survived an entire day... wow, and that's really only half a day's worth of sessions because of the keynote. Attended a good session right after lunch (coke and cookies) about connecting up to data with SL2. It was a tad intense just watching, lots of ws and hand waving... I'll get more out of it when I see it offline and have the code. Funny about the lunch though... since I went straight to the end of the 4th floor and logged in, I got a great connection right up until everyone got out of lunch...
Seems silly to even b log about it, since not only could you watch it streamed, but it's undoubtedly available for d/l or watching right now, but I'll highlight some things I thought were interesting to me (like THAT's new).. :) Not sure why I didn't think of it, but the Olympics is going to be doing Picture-in-Picture. Now that could get annoying for an app, but for a demo or tutorial... that could have very cool aspects, and dang... how hard is that?? Note to self to take a look at WebSlices in...
Heading to Mix '08 as soon as I push a button on this. Chrishayuk on the SL2 App.Xaml file, Jesse Liberty announced his new SL2 tutorial/tip series, Tim Sneath gives hints for non-attendees to MIX, Michael Scherotter and William Garrison on Web Analytics and Silverlight. Wow... it's been a busy few days getting things together and ready, and I went dark along with a lot of other SL folks. Hopefully that will pick back up once we all can take a breath. My next blog post will be from 'Vegas, and contrary...
4-1/2 4-1/2 Days to MIX '08 Are you aware there are 4-1/2 Hours of Free Silverlight Training at Lynda.com done by Microsoft's own Mike Harsh? Sure it's 1.0, but there's a LOT of Silverlight goodness in that 4-1/2 hours! This is all stuff you can download and play with this weekend while you're gnashing your teeth looking at the SL2 and Blend goodness Scott Guthrie has given us and wishing you could actually run some of that! My only advice would be Patience, patience :) ... do some SL 1.0 and have...
Scott Guthrie follows up his 8 SL2 Tutorials with a 9th demoing a new version of Blend, Adam Kinney gives us a forensic look at Scott's tutorial, and Denislav Savkov provides a nice image slider control for SL1.1 From SilverlightCream.com: First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2 Unless you've been unconscious all morning, you've seen Scott Guthrie's post already :) For the one or two of you that haven't ... add this onto the list of 8 he's already done... and if this code doesn't...
Koen Zwikstra on gleaning from Scott Guthrie's posts, Pete Brown on Isolated Storage, Code.Elisy.net provides a XAML rendering tool with examples, LearnWPFBlog discusses DataGrids in SL/WPF, Jeff Prosise on SL Best Practices, Jose Fajardo on lessons to learn from Flash, Michael Cameron ported an ActionScript Tweener library to C# for SL. From SilverlightCream.com: More Silverlight 2 Info Koen has been keeping track of the comments Scott Guthrie has made back to his commenters, and from that has gleaned...
6 6 Days to MIX '08 There are at this time 6 Vector Shape Elements in Silverlight (1.0 and 1.1): Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Polygon, Path, and Polyline. I don't have the book, but I found a great write-up on this from Chapter 5 of Working with Silverlight 1.1 from O'Reilly. This is a very cool page that shows the XAML and a screenshot for each of the shapes. I'll have a 'Cream post out in a bit. Twitter was being grumpy again yesterday afternoon and I couldn't get things posted. Twitter SLNews | Join...
7 7 Days to MIX '08 7 Things You May Not Know About MIX08 Maybe it's me, but I thought there was a flurry of SL over the weekend, but it's slowing down now. I expect it to be a little slower as we go while people are getting ready for head to 'Vegas. I'll be happily surprised to blog all the SL I find though! Twitter SLNews | Join me @ SilverlightCream | SL Web Articles | My Articles | My Tutorials | My Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
8 8 Days to MIX '08 8 Silverlight 2 Tutorials on Scott Guthrie's Blog I've been pouring over these in detail, and am on number 3. Trying to get my head around the things available. I hope to have all 8 done by MIX .. hey, 8 days, 8 tutorials... coincidence??? I think not!!! :) Take a look at SilverlightCream and search using the new SL2 tag ... it's getting busy... at this rate, I'll need help just keeping up after MIX ... or else when would I get to play, huh? Twitter SLNews | Join me @ SilverlightCream...