August 2009 Entries
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...
Yes I know it's been a while since I blogged about my *favorite* development tool... but that's only because I haven't had to touch it! That smooth series of events was shattered yesterday with me experiencing the Thrill of Victory and Agony of Defeat in multiple cycles... and as you can guess it involved Crystal Reports. So here's the deal... I'm working inside what a fellow developer called a 'Draconian' environment. .NET 2.0 is the 'standard' although I installed 3.5 SP1 on this box (and either...
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...