October 2008 - Posts
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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