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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...
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: 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: 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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 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 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: 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: 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: 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...
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...