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I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been awarded the 2009 Microsoft MVP in Client Application Development (primarily for Silverlight ). I was awarded for the first time in 2008, and went through a few different leads before being assigned to Suzanna Moran....
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I was adding a splash screen to my Silverlight project and ran into a sudden compile problem with the ASP.NET web site. The compile error was: Project file must include the .NET Framework assembly 'WindowsBase, PresentationCore, PresentationFramework'...
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We’re coming up to the end of the year, and for the first time in a very long time, I decided to set some real personal goals for myself for 2009 (outside of the usual eat better, lose weight, spend less, save more type goals) I’ve always been pretty...
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First, hats off to Mehdi for digging up the root solution to this and to Jafar Husain for bringing it to my attention. The default styles for the charts in Silverlight look pretty good. However, one thing that was driving me nuts is the way the gradients...
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There’s a glaring issue with this dialog from the Amazon MP3 Downloader. What is it? For comparison, here’s another dialog in Windows And a third I won’t fault you if you don’t happen to see the problem. In fact, you really need to have the mouse in your...
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I was snagging some icons to go into a comp of a Silverlight LOB application today when I realized that some of the metaphors used in the software we’re refacing (Silverlight front-end to an existing LOB application), just don’t hold anymore. While it...
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Jan 16, 2009 - Save the date! I’ll be speaking at the Washington DC stop of the MSDN Developer Conference on January 16, 2009. The topic is Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight...
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From OWA spell-check dialog:...
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Just for grins, I thought it would be fun to put together a list of the games I found most enjoyable or memorable. It should be 20, but at the end count, it was only 19. :) I haven't had a chance to play any games in a few years (coincidentally around...
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Shortly after the release of the first rev of the Silverlight Toolkit I made a first attempt at styling the chart controls included in the release. Shawn Burke just turned me on to this excellent article and flowchart from a member of his team,...
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The Facebook Developer Toolkit has hit an important milestone: 2.0 RTW. I’m upgrading the MSDN East Coast News Silverlight application to this version this weekend, so we’ll see how complete it is this time :) In addition, Steve’s Facebook Developer Toolkit...
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In a previous post, I introduced the Chart control from the Silverlight Toolkit . In this post, let’s cover how to make the charts look more interesting. First, we’re going to create a simple label/value class to hold the data for the chart. In the previous...
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The Silverlight Toolkit is now available! Here’s a rundown of what’s included: Chart TreeView AutoCompleteBox DockPanel WrapPanel Label Expander HeaderedItemControl HeaderedContentControl NumericUpDown ViewBox ButtonSpinner ImplicitStyleManager...
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I’m watching the PDC keynote via Silverlight , and keeping up with the backchannel on Twitter . Given the comments about azure screens of death, robotic speakers, red shoes, dart-throwing motions, and seasickness, I can’t help but think that this might...
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For those of you not going to the PDC, be sure to join us at TechDays at the Sheraton National Hotel in in Arlington, VA next week. This is a pretty big event with lots of great content. Oct. 28th – WebDev Fundamentals – Moving Beyond ASP.NET Topic...
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When I was in high school a million years ago, I made a red light-up middle finger out of a box, some red cellophane, two long wires and the bulb from the cabin light in my car. I attached the wires to the overhead light in my seafoam green 1980 Honda...
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Be sure to join me, Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie on October 22 for our MSDN geekSpeak . We’ll be covering building facebook applications using Silverlight 2 . Title: MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and Facebook with Pete Brown (Level 200)...
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In Part 1 , we created a Facebook application using ASP.NET. Now, in Part 2, we’ll cover how to add Silverlight into the mix. I’ll assume you have the Part 1 solution working. If not, go to that blog post and download the project files linked at the end...
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I’m about to embark on some very different Silverlight application development projects (primary around data-driven UI, and one potential one even about kiosk/digital sign work). Before I do that, I wanted to give you all a brain-dump primer from my last...
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This is the second birth I’ve been privileged to witness this month, and if I made any more comparison than that, my wife would surely kill me ;) As of October 14, Silverlight 2 has now hit that most important of milestones: RTW (or RTM if you would...
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Here is one that was worth waiting for :) Abigail Noelle Brown, born October 4, 2008 1:14am. 8lbs 12 3/4oz, 22” long. Due date was September 24, so we were waiting a little longer than expected. At 4” taller than Ben when he was born, I sense she’s going...
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I’d love to dig into the code and see what he’s doing to get that kind of FPS. The key part of the pipeline to understand would be the creation of the per-frame bitmaps and the subsequent blitting on the screen. I’ve seen dynamic PNG creation, but that...
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This has been a crazy summer, but since our daughter has decided not to show up on her due date (which was September 24). I finally got some time to sit down and read a pre-release of Manning’s Silverlight 2 in Action . I know the two authors who wrote...
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The registration link for the MSDN geekSpeak I’ll be doing with Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie is now up. Register for the event here . The event is 12:00 Pacific (3:00pm eastern) time on Wednesday October 22, 2008. I’ll be covering how to build Facebook...
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While promised early on, this one seemingly snuck in under the radar :) Silverlight 2 now has the CompositionTarget.Rendering event. So now, if you want to do something each frame, this is one place where you can do it. You’ll want to do some testing...
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