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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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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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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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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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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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