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PETA and AIS just completed a great Silverlight 2 application for the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign. Almost exactly two years ago, in time for the 7/7/7 Live Earth event, AIS created the first Silverlight managed code application ever to go live....
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One reason I’ve been so quiet over the past couple months, is I have been scrambling to update Chad Campbell and John Stockton’s excellent Manning Silverlight 2 in Action book to Silverlight 3, under the title Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition (the Amazon...
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It has been many years since I rolled a d10, but this is fun :) D&D Home Page - What Class Are You? - Build A Character - D&D Compendium "I am in the arcane, and the arcane is in me." The sorcerer is the arcane antithesis of the wizard....
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Join Frank LaVigne on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM for a great BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) Hands-on-Lab session. If you can’t find time to play with the bits at work, or all that pesky summer outdoor stuff is cramping your geek time, this will...
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I managed to score a trial code for the new Bing service from Microsoft. I was a bit skeptical, but thought I’d give it a try. I really like lots of things that come from Microsoft, but I never cared for Live Search, and the name “Bing” is just, umm,...
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Our world-famous DE, Andrew Duthie, (aka the .NET DEvHammer, twitter @devhammer) just pointed out to me that we have a great set of roadshows coming to the area next week (Reston and Richmond). If you want to get the skinny on developing for Windows 7...
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Join us on May 19 at the Microsoft office in Pittsburgh for a double-dose of Silverlight 3: First we’ll talk about all the great new things coming out with Silverlight 3, then we’ll take a quick lap around the Silverlight 3 Commodore 64 emulator I wrote...
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Reminder to come join us at Lehigh Valley .NET for an INETA Sponsored Event: A Programmer’s Introduction to Silverlight 2 and 3, with a focus on the basics of two, and all the new interesting things coming out in Silverlight 3. Lehigh Valley .NET See...
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Did you know that the WPF Effects Library on CodePlex has been updated for Silverlight 3? If not, hurry up and check it out: http://wpffx.codeplex.com Here’s a Channel 9 video demonstrating the effects (in WPF). Below are two effect screen shots, and...
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Feel free to ignore this post. I’m toying around with changing the code on my blog to use the syntax highlighting made possible via: Syntax Highlighter from Alex Gorbatchev Syntax Highlighter plugin for Windows Live Writer Rather than the rather bloated...
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When I first became an MVP in January 2008 there was some questions as to what bucket Silverlight would fit into. After all, it was brand new; the only versions people were using publicly were Silverlight 1 and the Silverlight 1.1 alpha – it would be...
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Thanks again to Marc Schweigert for hosting last night’s DevDinner in Reston. My blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog and you can follow me on twitter , or message me on twitter via @pete_brown. Below are demos I used and links I mentioned or wanted...
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Two weeks back, on the way to speak at the .NET Valley user group up in Wilkes-Barre, PA (on Silverlight 3, of course), I realized I had an uninvited guest, or at least what was left of their home, in my 2005 Honda Pilot. (As an aside, the user group...
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Here are the upcoming public events where I’ll be speaking on Silverlight topics: Tuesday April 21, 2009 12:00pm (TODAY!) INETA Live Webcast INETA Event Online A Lap Around Silverlight 3 We’ll do a whirlwind tour of the new features in Silverlight 3,...
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I’ve officially embarked on writing the second edition of Manning’s Silverlight 2 in Action . The first edition was written by Chad Campbell and John Stockton and is considered by many to be one of the best Silverlight 2 books available. With Chad taking...
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[ Note: this was written using Silverlight 3 Beta and the Silverlight 3 version of the Silverlight Toolkit , but the concepts should work with Silverlight 2 ] First, a shout out to David Anson and Jafar Husain at Microsoft for helping me through a few...
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I’m excited to be speaking on Silverlight at a number of upcoming user groups and code camps over the next two months. If you’re local, or want to make the trip, please join us! .NET Valley User Group April 16, 2009 Pennsylvania INETA Event A lap around...
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This is something I’ve been doing since we first got LayoutRoot, and it has saved me aggravation a number of times. This works in Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 (the drop shadow effect in the example below only works in Silverlight 2 ). Simply put: I...
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(this should work in SL2 as well) All network calls in Silverlight are asynchronous. The proliferation of event handling functions this can cause just makes for really cluttered code. Using lambda expressions seems to make my code a bit cleaner. (You...
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At and around MIX I managed to get into a couple shows to talk about my work in Silverlight 3. Hanselminutes Podcast 155 Scott and I sat down in a side room at mix09 and talked about the Silverlight 3 C64 emulator for a bit. And yes, 1mhz is 1 million...
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Creating sound from raw bits is, believe it or not, slightly more involved than creating video from raw bits in Silverlight 3. Getting samples to Silverlight is an interesting task. Your code will respond to Silverlight’s request for a sample with a buffer...
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When an application needs to display a dialog, there needs to be something to make the user immediately focus on that dialog, even when there are lots of other elements on the screen Most AJAX applications dim the screen behind a dialog by using a semi-transparent...
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At this year’s MIX, for the first time, I submitted a ShowOff video. The topic was my Silverlight 3 C64 emulator. Given the nature of the topic, I couldn’t release the video until after the Silverlight 3 announcements. Here’s a small version of the showoff...
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One of the most commonly requested features for Silverlight is some sort of 3d support. Within that, what many folks have expressed real interest in is the ability to do a perspective / non-affine transform of objects in space. Well, the Silverlight team...
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Silverlight 3 introduces the new Bitmap API useful for accomplishing three primary goals: Creation of a bitmap completely from scratch, pixel-by-pixel Client-side manipulation of an image loaded from your server or the local machine Rendering of a portion...
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