June 2008 - Posts
In the previous two parts of this article (I had planned only 2 parts total, but this ended up a three-part article), I explained how to use Pub/Sub and the EventBus for chaining service calls in Silverlight 2 applications. You can access those articles
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Andrew Duthie just published my second DevNuggets episode. In this installment, titled Styling 101, I cover the basics of styling Silverlight controls. The videos are intended to be quick, short installments following a theme starting from the very basics
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The Silverlight Control Builder Contest ‘08 has started! Build a compelling Silverlight 2 control and win some cool stuff! This is a great contest to see what you developers in the community can kick out in Silverlight 2. Even if you can’t
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For the WPF /VE fans in the house, Marc Schweigert has a post and demo showing how to use the new web browser control in .NET 3.5 SP1 to host Virtual Earth. Web meets desktop. Marc's post is here .
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In my previous post , I discussed how to chain service calls. One question I received on that was how to do the opposite: take an action after all the calls (or by extension, some logical groups of calls) have completed. This is one of the challenges
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The Publish and Subscribe pattern (which uses the Observer Pattern in .NET - more info here ) is one of those patterns we use all the time while thinking nothing of it. In .NET, we get the concrete implementation via events and delegates. By abstracting
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Fellow Silverlight enthusiast (and great author) Chad Campbell called me out on this , so now it's my turn :) How old were you when you first started programming? That was either 6th grade or 7th grade, so I was around 12. I often question the people
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For the Facebook Silverlight 2 Beta 2 application I'm writing, I need to be able to process a number of RSS feeds. In Silverlight 2 Beta 2, processing RSS is, well, really simple :) Here's a class and associated event and exception classes I wrote to
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Sometimes I hear about something for the first time and figure I must live under a rock. I make a point of keeping up on a number of new things, but it's hard to keep track of all the cool services and technologies available to you these days. Tim Heuer
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I like to mess around with computers. Every primary computer I've owned since my first 486 has been built by me (my previous computers, a 286 and a Commodore 128 were purchased). I also run a moderately complex network at my house which I realize I have
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The three of us (me, Melissa and Ben) all went to the National Air and Space Museum - Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA (not the one in DC) this weekend. This is where the Smithsonian keeps all the really big things like the Concorde, the Enola Gay,
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In response to a question at last Friday's Silverlight TechFest event, I said that I believed Beta 2 was supported even on Visual Studio Express. I was incorrect. XNA supports Visual Studio Express (and I had been reading about XNA the night before),
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Silverlight DevNuggets #1 is up on Andrew Duthie's blog. Starting out simple, I put together a short screencast covering the concept of a content control in Silverlight 2. The idea behind DevNuggets is to present very short videos on digestible topics.
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At the Silverlight TechFest on Friday, I'll cover the following topics in my afternoon session on Connecting Silverlight: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Networking Overview WCF Sockets and/or WCF Duplex Communications ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and how I used
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If you have Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Installed and enabled, you will not be able to upload videos to Silverlight streaming. That's because the upload component is written in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and has not yet been upgraded to Beta 2. The problem manifests
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If you know Silverlight or WPF, the job market for those skills is really on the rise. Same for Adobe Flex. Found via Twitter (thanks to whomever tweeted it!) "adobe flex", silverlight, javafx, openlaszlo, wpf Job Trends "adobe flex"
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Cool! I made it on the Tech-Ed Bloggers Daily Highlight for today. Thanks to Kathy and the folks at Tech Ed Online for recommending me and and for mashing up all the info on my sites to create a great bio.
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This one almost slipped past me. Lots of folks have asked about ways to automate encoding videos for Silverlight applications both on the client and on the server. Ben Waggoner just announced that Expression Encoder 2 includes a .NET object model for
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Was looking for hand tools from places other than my usual suppliers (like the always excellent LeeValley ) just to look around. Did a search and this sponsored ad came up: When you get there, this is what is on the front page, above the fold: You either
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Fello AIS er and Silverlight/WPF guru Frank LaVigne will be doing a great webcast tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon eastern time. He's going to help demystify basic Silverlight / WPF UI design, and the Expression tools, for developers. This will be much more
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Announced at Tech Ed today: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is coming this week, right on time according to the information from the MIX08 sessions (Beta 1 plus 1q = this week). There are tons of new things in Silverlight 2 Beta 2, but here are a few of the ones
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I was just installing some beta bits and it required removing some files from my temp folder %temp%. I didn't realize until this weekend that you could type a path variable, like %temp% into the Vista address bar and it will just work. I never tried that
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