February 2010 Entries
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...
...because you might get it... Today I finally got Office 2007 installed on this machine at my client's facility. They even installed OneNote for me. But I made one small teensy error... I neglected to consider what all I am supporting here, and of course the IT's install policy which involves tromping all over the PC with muddy boots. Office 2003 was uninstalled, which under normal circumstances would have been a nice surprise, but then I started thinking about the 4 large MS Access applications...
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...