February 2009 Entries
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....