In Silverlight Samurai Skills , I emphasized that even though I’m primarily a developer, I use Expression Blend almost exclusively to perform design-oriented tasks for WPF and Silverlight projects.
Blend’s design surface is significantly more advanced than its VS2008 equivalent, and because Blend is a very visual, designer-oriented application, it saves you time by keeping you in &#...... [Show More]
In this issue: Joseph Ghassan, Bill Reiss, Jordan Knight, Jesse Liberty, Karen Corby, niravi, and Pete Brown.
Bill Reiss reports that Silverlight Streaming updated to Silverlight 2 RTW (Finally) , and he has his Stack Attack game running there.
From Silverligh tCream.com : Silverlight 2.0 Dependency Properties And Routed Events Joseph Ghassan sent me thi...... [Show More]
I attended the Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles Convention Center this week, and here's a recap of various statements, quotes and sessions that I found interesting.
WCF Preconference notes
It looks like a class,
it feels like a class, it smells like a class, it works like a class – but it’s
a service!
This was a full day seminar on Windows Co...... [Show More]
Between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 & Silverlight 2 RTW, there were a few changes and additions. Here’s a brief rundown on the areas I directly worked on. The overall breaking change list can be found here. Control Model Silverlight 2 RTW Updates generic.xa ml...( read more )...... [Show More]
Thank you to everyone who made it to my talk on Thursday! As promised, some links: Session deck Session samples Session recording Also, if you haven’t already, please take the time to fill out the online evaluation. Your comments help me be a better speaker...( read more )...... [Show More]
Thanks to everyone who came out to my Silverlight Samurai Skills presentations this morning in Toronto, and to Microsoft Canada for inviting me to present at this event. When the Canadian team does events, they do them really big - and really well!
I hope you found the sessions useful and engaging. They certainly provided a lap around a whole lot of the core features in Silverlight 2. I prom...... [Show More]
In this issue: Mike Snow, Jeff Handley, James Bacon, and Alex Knight.
If you are NOTAtPDC , a few people have lists of the posts you may be interested in. Most notably is Silverlight @ PDC! by Karen Corby, and for general information Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 Virtual Pressroom . I have been collecting links to PDC2008 sessions in my MSDN Social Bookmarks ...... [Show More]
Good news for WPF developers, the WPF Control Toolkit is evolving rapidly. The kit is available from the WPF codeplex site ( http://www .codeplex. com/wpf ). There’s a brand new release available with v1 of the DataGrid. There’s also a DatePicker/Calendar control and a preview of VisualStateManager (VSM&# 41;. If you are not familiar with VSM, then have a look ...... [Show More]
silverlight pdc Post Source: scorbs.com Posted: Oct 27 2008 17:18:30
Here are some of the Silverlight-focused PDC sessions. Hope to see you there! Session Time Speaker Expression Blend: Tips and Tricks Mon 10/2712:45-1:30pm Pete Blois,Douglas Olson Silverlight, WPF, and the .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code Mon 10...( read more )...... [Show More]
silverlight 2 released Post Source: www.technologyquestions.com Posted: Oct 21 2008 02:10:14
Silverlight 2 Released : ScottGu’s Blog
Oct 14, 2008, 10:07AM Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2.* You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it, here.Cross Platform / Cross Browser .NET Developmen tSilverlig ht 2 is a cross-platform...
Linking: Public Sector Developer Weblog , Scott Hanselman’s Compu...... [Show More]
In this issue: Tim Heuer, Scott Morrison, Corey Schuman, and Jesse Liberty
A whole bunch of folks are updating their blogs and work to the latest bits. I’m going to give them links up here.
Karen Corby has a good Silverlight 2 has SHIPPED! post up with info about Expression blend and links.
Cameron Albert has updated his game code, Andy Beaulieu has been a busy ...... [Show More]
It’s official - we’ve shipped Silverlight 2! ScottGu, our VP, has a great release blog post, which is worth a read. You can get all the new SL2 downloads here: Install Silverlight 2 runtime. Install Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Install...( read more )...... [Show More]
wpf screen saver Post Source: sachabarber.net Posted: Oct 12 2008 12:58:04
...ges, and displays one of these every n-seconds on a 3d Cube.
Here is a screen shot of the finished article
This uses a nice WPF screen saver template which is available at http://sco rbs.com/20 06/12/21/w pf-screen- saver-temp late
I recommend having a go at creating your own WPF screen saver it really is quite fun. If you want to know more about this one that I have made, you can read about it over at the codeproject.com link, which is http://www .codeproje ct.com/KB/ WPF/WPFScr eenSaver.a spx
Enjoy...... [Show More]
any one a dev Post Source: www.mx6.com Posted: Sep 05 2008 03:50:31
... else and it needs to show case this application for this fake company.
Files: Woodgrove Finance Application
There are the source files.
I need to compiled into an .Xbap
http://sco rbs.com/wo rkapps/woo dgrove...p lication.x bap
Ive tried Visual Web Developer 2005 and 2008 with no luck....... [Show More]
An Early Look - VisualStateManager for WPF : Microsoft Silverlight content
Aug 8, 2008, 11:19PM John Gossman, one of the awesome Silverlight and WPF architects, just blogged a prototype of VisualStateManager for WPF. VisualStateManager will be added in to a future release of the .NET Framework. For those of you who want an early look, you can now...
Linking: WynApse , Sam Gentile , Alvin A...... [Show More]
I’ve been working on a Silverlight tutorial involving reading an RSS feed. Silverlight has a SyndicationFeed class which is meant to make this easy – as Microsoft’s Scott Barnes enthuses here . It is handy, but I discovered that the Quickstart Barnes refers to does not work in Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The Quickstart section on Silverlight.net needs some work. Even ...... [Show More]
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