Friday, May 16, 2008 #

Silverlight Cream for May 16, 2008 -- #276

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 cooler, is he has the source on the page :)
VS Live Orlando "Introduction to Silverlight programming"
BradleyB did a VSLive show in Orlando and has posted all his "Introduction to Silverlight Programming" materials on his blog... definitely worth a look!
Uploading and Silverlight
I was going to try to break these out, but Shawn describes them so good, I'll leave it. He has two great links to Uploading blog posts in this small post of his... check out both!
Getting User Context in Silverlight 2
John Evdemon has a nicely done article about getting User info in SL2. We've seen some of this, so bonus... we can compare and get even better info... never can have too much source code to look at!
Dan Wahlin on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF
Dan Wahlin joins the DNR folks at DevConnections and puts on a SL2 and WPF show in a way that only Carl and Richard can do! ... good drive-home material!

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posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 4:42 PM | Feedback (0)

Playing "Stump the Band" with SlickEdit

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 as watching the band. Hey... I'm a musician, what can I tell ya?

So what does this have to do with SlickEdit? Well, I'm playing 'Stump the Band' with them :)

Up to now, I've given them a macro to play, and they've offered up aliases sort of like Doc and the band, only in this case, Aliases are the real deal.

I had stripped the macro giving me fits down to it's fundamental piece, and as such it kinda/sorta looks like that's all I'm trying to do, and if it were, then an Alias would be *EXACTLY* the right fit, and thanks for reminding me about them ScottW!

An alias allows me to define a piece of *something* that I can replay back quickly by name. I've tried to see if I can attach it to a button and it doesn't seem obvious, if possible.

A good use for an alias might be a method header that has just boilerplate in it. I'm going to assume I could insert a live date. My header builder gets my input though, and does some interface layout for me, so not sure I'm going to be changing that.

Then another user jumped in and said that in his opinion, recording and playing back macros was really low on the priority list, and "gets vanishingly little use".

Dunno... I find myself doing quick little one-offs all the time that act against sometimes huge lists of data, so the record/playback is as important to me as anything else and a true deal-breaker.

Yeah, template editing is great, and I think how it worked in V7 was fine, and apparently what they were doing in V7 wasn't breaking the record/playback either.

So, until we're done playing Stump the Band, I'm using V7 and using they heck out of my "vanishingly little use" F7 macros :)

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posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 9:44 AM | Feedback (0)

Happy Birthday Silverlight Cream

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 audience and decided aggregating the links into a database might be a good idea, so on August 19, 2007 SilverlightCream.com opened to the public. It hasn't changed much since then although it needs to :) I've added more links to the home page, displaying the last 3 days worth, and the search engine appears to be good enough since nobody's complained.

January 11, 2008 I wired up the database postings to also update Adam Kinney's SilverlightNews twitter feed, and there are 215 people following that as of this morning.

Silverlight Cream has exposed me to lots of very creative people, many of whom I've had the pleasure of meeting. So what started out as a lonely little blog post has become something I've not tired of posting, and I hope you're all not tired of reading!

Thank you for all the Submittals and for continuing to read.

Comments and suggestions are always accepted... I even do some of them :)

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posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 6:52 AM | Feedback (2)
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