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Method ~ of ~ failed, July 5, 2008
I ran into an interesting situation last weekthe desire to access some of my Amazon S3 services from within a Silverlight application. Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3) is a pay service provided...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, July 4, 2008
In response to your feedback, a couple minor changes to the schedule 1. I will enhance the presentation on July 9 on Data binding with the material originally scheduled for July 23 (Data Templates)...
EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, July 4, 2008
For this exercise we put aside our Quotations database work: We'll use the DataContractSerializer to serialize a Generic List of type Note. The serialized List will then be compressed with SharpZipLib...
Method ~ of ~ failed, July 3, 2008
Im hoping this post will help explain a few things with regard to Silverlight detection scripts that some sites may be using. This is related to the silverlight.js Javascript file that was deployed wi...
JohnPapa.net, July 3, 2008
Its really semantics, but the title of my book has been changed slightly to now be called Data Services with Silverlight 2. Titles are not super important to me, but it became clear to me as the boo...
K. Scott Allen, July 3, 2008
Salmon swim upstream, and look at what happens Every developer is familiar with the work around. These are the extra bits of extra code we write to overcome limitations ...
Method ~ of ~ failed, July 3, 2008
Im hoping this post will help explain a few things with regard to Silverlight detection scripts that some sites may be using. This is related to the silverlight.js Javascript file that was deployed wi...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, July 3, 2008
Another in a series of ruminations about how to Present Silverlight. One of the brighter Silverlight coders and MVPs asked me tonight what is all this about your changing how you present at conferen...
the telerik blogs, July 1, 2008
Silverlight platform is getting more mature, the adoptionrate is constantly raising andat the same timePage Brooks and Dave Campbell,togetherwithsome of the Silverlight community leaders and Microsoft...
The Code Project Latest Articles, July 1, 2008
How to communicate from javascript/html page to Silverlight application using password form...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, July 1, 2008
David Silverlight (isnt that the second best name youve ever heard?) runs Community Credit whose slogan is We give stupid prizes to smart people. The idea is to recognize and reward...
Brad Abrams, July 1, 2008
I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there. User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User g...
Federal Developer Weblog, July 1, 2008
At MIX 08, Chris Pendleton announced that the Virtual Earth team is working on a Silverlight 2 control. The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Ear...
Method ~ of ~ failed, July 1, 2008
One of probably the coolest casual games Ive ever seen is Line Rider. Its a fun game, but really gets exciting when you have an artist behind it. Basically its a blank canvas for you to draw a route f...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 30, 2008
I suspect well be seeing more of these efforts for Silverlight and I love it. In fact, INETA will be sponsoring the 2008 INETA Silverlight Challenge soon, so you should sign up for more information ab...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 30, 2008
I suspect well be seeing more of these efforts for Silverlight and I love it. In fact, INETA will be sponsoring the 2008 INETA Silverlight Challenge soon, so you should sign up for more information ab...
JohnPapa.net, June 30, 2008
I set out to write a book on data access, services, and Silverlight 2 and stick to those topics faithfully. I have a sticky note on my desk that shows the main topics and the word thin as a reminder t...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 29, 2008
Wow it is hard to respond to a community that you cant see or poll and that is shifting by the day. Take this question, just for a moment: at what level should we be targeting our web-cast presentatio...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 29, 2008
Do you have fits of interest? I go through bursts of reading fiction and Ill find myself reading everything I can get by suddenly favorite authors (lately it has been Ian McEwan, and Cormac McC...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 28, 2008
SilverlightShow is featuring a brilliant Twitter tool written by Emil Stoychev that you can download here you can grab the HTML or you can download the source. If you just get the HTML and plop it i...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 27, 2008
Some new videos just got posted to the Silverlight community site. Topics included: IsolatedStorage usage HTML DOM Integration Dynamic Assembly/XAP loading Working with Syndica...
PDC05: Developer Powered, June 27, 2008
PDC2008 is building lots of opportunties to network during the event, but the doors to the LA Convention Center do close nightly. Where will you debrief from the news of Windows 7, Live Mesh, cloud se...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 27, 2008
Some new videos just got posted to the Silverlight community site. Topics included: IsolatedStorage usage HTML DOM Integration Dynamic Assembly/XAP loading Working with Syndica...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 26, 2008
Every day (honest) I am asked for a path through the learning material, even though the Getting Started page offers an explicit path. And that is not surprising. We all have our own way of learnin...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 26, 2008
SilverlightShow is featuring a brilliant Twitter tool written by Emil Stoychev that you can download here you can grab the HTML or you can download the source. If you just get the HTML and plop it i...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 25, 2008
I presented the first of a new series of live web casts today in which a number of resources were mentioned. As promised, here are links to all of them
Silverlight.net
Getting Started...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 25, 2008
Today I had the pleasure (and technical glitch frustration) of delivering the first in a new series of webcasts. Im trying a number of new things in response to changes Ive observed in the las...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 24, 2008
Over the past few months Joel and I have been back-and-forthing modifications to his original great idea and goal build a re-sizable video player using no custom user controls, but instead leveraging ...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 24, 2008
The Silverlight Streaming service has been upgraded to support Silverlight 2 beta 2 applications. As a note to customers who were previously hosting Beta 1 applications for test purposes, as beta 1 i...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 24, 2008
Over the past few months Joel and I have been back-and-forthing modifications to his original great idea and goal build a re-sizable video player using no custom user controls, but instead leveraging ...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 24, 2008
The Silverlight Streaming service has been upgraded to support Silverlight 2 beta 2 applications. As a note to customers who were previously hosting Beta 1 applications for test purposes, as beta 1 i...
Brad Abrams, June 24, 2008
One breaking change you may have noticed between Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and Beta 2 is that WatermarkedTextBox is no longer available in the Silverlight SDK (System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll). ...
JohnPapa.net, June 24, 2008
I am notorious for letting my thoughts get ahead of my typing. Ill start typing something and the words will come flying out. usually Ill start typing the next word before I finish with the previous w...
JohnPapa.net, June 23, 2008
Heres a tony little nugget form my upcoming book. There are always concepts that are just natively drilled into me yet they dont flow smoothly when I try to explain them. For example take the Silverli...
Hannes Preishuber, June 23, 2008
No, I do not miss a particular control or class. I am thinking about principle design issues. Search Engines The extension for Silverlight applications is xap. The content is kind of binary. A...
Brad Abrams, June 23, 2008
A reader recently asked me to expand on the ASP.NET Authentication + Silverlight concept I started.. Specifically they wanted to do know how they can have a web service that returns different results ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 22, 2008
I have been trying to consolidate. Most of my work is here, in this blog, and for this site, but I also have a Blog for OReilly and a political Blog, and a page where I list the bo...
EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, June 22, 2008
This is the second in a series of articles focusing on working with Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Each article in this series focuses on a simple "task" in an easy-to-understand pr...
DevX: Latest XML Articles, June 20, 2008
With Silverlight 2 now having a go-live license, you can begin to take advantage of all of its managed code features. In this application and walkthrough we show you how to utilize both a database and...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 20, 2008
That is, dont believe anything I say when you ask me about Silverlight vs. some other technology such as well the one people keep asking about is Flash (or Flex).
Heres why.
1. On...
Peter Brombergs UnBlog, June 19, 2008
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Thomas Jones Ive downloaded very simple one page zipped or rar-ed Silverlight demos that were 1MB and larger. If you remove all the .dll and .pdb fil...
Brad Abrams, June 19, 2008
I had a little time while traveling to South Africa so I thought I'd update my Silverlight FlickR demo to Beta2. Download the full solution read the full writeup (note: in ...
JohnPapa.net, June 19, 2008
I am sitting down writing about WCF interaction with Silverlight, cross domain issues, and other fun communication stuff. As I am drumming through these examples for the book and for some articles a...
JohnPapa.net, June 18, 2008
Im putting together some samples for an article for my Data Points column in MSDN Magazine on writing a line of business application with Silverlight communicating with WCF, and I ran into a few iss...
EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, June 18, 2008
Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been out for a while, we thought it would be appropriate to solicit developers' ideas about it with this simple poll. read moreBy Peter Bromberg ...
EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, June 18, 2008
Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been out for a while, we thought it would be appropriate to solicit developers' ideas about it with this simple poll. read moreBy Peter Bromberg ...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 17, 2008
Well today (17 JUN 2008) will be the release of Firefox 3, a seemingly much anticipated browser update. I checked out an earlier build (I think beta 2) and it was a nice browser. Im not a browser zeal...
Method ~ of ~ failed, June 17, 2008
Well today (17 JUN 2008) will be the release of Firefox 3, a seemingly much anticipated browser update. I checked out an earlier build (I think beta 2) and it was a nice browser. Im not a browser zeal...
Steven Smith, June 17, 2008
I went to throw a small Silverlight sample application up on a web site to show to a client yesterday and found out the hard way that although it is primarily a client-side technology, it doesn't "ju...
Nikhil Kotharis Weblog, June 17, 2008
The MVC pattern is quite widespread, and lots has been written about it. Clearly, it is a popular addition to ASP.NET. MVC works especially well for request/response style web apps as well as in navig...