November 2007 - Posts
Man, I have to install this. My father forwards me all sorts of junk in email, like how to boycott gas companies , the origin of golf , and the color of coke . Even better are the pages of Worth1000 photochops (w1k watermark clipped off, of course) passed
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I'll be doing the keynote and one of the follow-up sessions at the Silverlight Fire Starter event in Malvern PA (near Philadelphia) on Saturday December 15. It looks to be an exciting day and a great way to avoid Christmas shopping for your family
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As is often the case with Silverlight 1.1 news, it's the little things said in other contexts that clue us in to what to expect with upcoming releases. I hate to pull out the tea leaves, but I can't help it this time :) In this post by Mke Harsh,
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Assem in this thread on Silverlight.net pointed out that the downloader object isn't required to get assemblies down to the local machine in Silveright 1.1 (September alpha). I didn't believe that, so I did a test. Guess what? He's absolutely
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In a break from some of my previous Silverlight talks, today at the NoVA Code Camp, I did a mostly slideless open-topic dicussion on Silverlight. The topics covered were the instantiation of the Silverlight plugin, some general Silverlight background
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I'll be doing a mostly-demo Silverlight talk at tomorrow's NoVA code camp at 10:30 am. I'm finalizing the content, but the fact that there is going to be an excellent 9:00 "Silverlight for beginners" session frees me up to do some
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Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I have fond memories of the "TV Special". You know, the holiday specials that were preceeded by the funky drum and horns intro with the swirled-in "special" text (note: you can find just about anything
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Why can't Adobe Acrobat Reader, arguably one of the most essential pieces of software out there, just play nice with the rest of my systems? Through several browser versions on three different systems, over several system rebuilds, running three different
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I made some updates to the panel and treeview controls described in this post . Changed the name from AnimatedWrapPanel to AnimatedFlowPanel to be more consistent with established panel names Added Vertical layout to the AnimatedFlowPanel Tweaked the
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The Silverlight preloader example on the silverlight.net quickstarts site shows how to use unmanaged code to swap in a new page over an old one once the content is loaded. In the carbon calculator, that was the approach I took, as it was the only one
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One of the most annoying developments over recent years has been the "Click here to active this control" message you get whenever visiting sites that use Flash or other browser plugin technology. The worst is when it is used in a menu or some
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At the end of the day on Saturday's Silverlight Dev Camp, I gave an ad-hoc talk on controls and silverlight. The conversation quickly turned to a lot of Q&A on how the Silverlight control and content is loaded. I covered that there, but for those
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I spoke about extension methods in C# 3.0 and VB9 tonight at CMAP . Here are the links I promised: This VB9-oriented article does a great job covering the basics (sorry <g>) of extension methods. Here is my brief article on the same topic. Share
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I was over at ExpressionBlend.com and saw this article that rants about the boring old UIs being developed using windows-forms type developers working in WPF. This is a great example of the clash that is starting to happen as the worlds of RIA and traditional
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Here are a couple shots from my two talks at the Silverlight Dev Camp this past weekend at Microsoft in Reston, VA. Thanks again to Frank La Vigne for setting this whole event up and bringing Silverlight to the east coast, and for taking and posting the
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Here are the slides from my morning presentation at the dev camp in Reston, VA. Slideshare really munged the fonts and formatting when converting, and didn't honor hidden slides staying hidden, but the content should still be good. Especially odd
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If you attended today's Silverlight Dev Camp, thanks! If you hung around to the end and lasted through my ad-hoc deep-dive at the last hour, thanks even more :) I hope you enjoyed attending as much as I enjoyed presenting. A bunch of questions came
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Frank has posted some photos from today's Silverlight Dev Camp DC. Thanks again to Frank for setting this up! http://franksworld.com/blog/archive/2007/11/03/4985.aspx Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Over the past couple nights, I've had a few hours to work on a wallpaper viewer for my site. As part of that development, I need a panel that I can use to display image thumbnails. For grins, I also decided to build a very simple treeview. While each
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