March 2008 - Posts
If you are looking for some great Silverlight 2 charts and graphs for data presentation (not interactivity at this point), check out what the people at VISIfire have come up with . Besides being a great example of what one can do with vector drawing,
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The webcast recording is now online. To view the recording, register for the livemeeting and then click the view online or download links. Enjoy! Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Some of the questions that came out of the Silverlight for Business Applications webcast I did on Wednesday centered around how to handle "global variables" and how to handle state. I'll address both of those here as they are very common
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Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday's webcast. In the past, I've used slideshare for uploading slides, but if you use non-standard fonts, the processing munges it. This time, I've posted PDF and XPS versions of the slides. The XPS version is a bit
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I'll post a link to the recording once I have that. In the mean time, here are some of the links mentioned in today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications webcast: Silverlight 2 Woodgrove Bank Sample Application Source Code for same (also includes
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Just prior to MIX, I posted about the new Silverlight 2 Blueprints for SharePoint. Those have been very popular both inside my own company and out there in general. However, many people have struggled with how to get all the beta, ctp, preview etc. bits
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In preparation for my Silverlight for Business Applications webcast today, I decided to look more deeply into how Silverlight works with services. I originally concentrated a lot on security, and had a much larger post on how to secure your services,
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Silverlight 1.0 didn't have much in the way of accessibility - essentially the equivalent of alt tags. Silverlight 2 will change that by exposing a full accessibility tree to accessibility tools in builds post Beta 1. In this video Mark Rideout from the
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A recent post on Silverlight.net led me to revisit something I haven't played with in quite some time: DPI. If you wonder why you sometimes drag those pngs or other images onto the design surface in blend, and they come out the wrong size, there are
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If you read my article on xap and saw the bit about how to set the splash/loading screen for your silverlight app, you may have been left wondering how you handle that without resorting to the old createSilverlight script. Cameron Albert has come up with
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How paths are resolved in Silverlight 2 can be somewhat confusing. This has come up a lot in the Silverlight.net forums and elsewhere, so I thought I'd take a stab at putting it all down here. For additional information on Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and how
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I'm still adjusting to the 3 hour time change plus 1 hour daylight savings time (why do they even bother with that any more?) However, here are some useful sites and links that came out of MIX08: First, of course, is the Microsoft Silverlight Community
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So I'm trying to complete registration at this site today, and I noticed that there is no textbox next to state. I figured maybe they pulled the state from the zip code. So, I fill everything else in and submit, and get this wonderful screen telling me
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The registration link for my March 19 Silverlight 2 webcast is now on-line. If you're interested in developing LOB applications in Silverlight, or want to learn more about what Silverlight 2 Beta 1 brings to the table, be sure to register . This is
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In Part 1 , I discussed the new Silverlight 2 packaging model (xap). In Part 2 below, I cover the new application model and startup sequence, as well as how to show your own splash screen while loading your Silverlight app. Keep in mind that since this
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This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 1 focuses on the new packaging model. Part 2 focuses on application startup and loading. One of the nicest changes in Silverlight 2 is the addition of the new packaging model for managed code applications. While
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The first real demo I did for Silverlight 1.1a was the Silverlight Balloons demo . I ended up building upon it a bit over time, as my son (now two years old) absolutely loved seeing the balloons float up the screen. Well, since Silverlight 1.1a code no
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Looks like Nokia has signed up with Microsoft to include Silverlight in its S60 and S40 mobile phones as well as Nokia internet tablets. The Register mentions (despite the unnecessary jabs at Nokia and backhand at Microsoft) that this will be demo'd
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Ok, I've imbibed more Microsoft Kool-aid than most people. I love working with Microsoft tools and with Microsoft employees. However, Windows Live ID (Passport) is starting to really get on my nerves. The other day, right before I was to demo a Silverlight
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Thanks to Tad at AIS for bringing this one to my attention. We have some early experience in combining Silverlight and SharePoint, based on the 1.1 alpha work we did back in July as well as some 1.0 work since then. We did only the most basic integration
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