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  • Silverlight and Security Documentation


    Recently, there was an article in EWeek about the various platforms for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development, including Silverlight. It was an interesting article but one thing I found a bit worrisome is the author’s conclusion that Adobe has put...( read more )...(read more)
  • Introducing the Inside Windows Phone Show in Channel 9



    Today, we are announcing a new Channel 9 show dedicated to Developing Windows Phone applications..   image

    The Inside Windows Phone show, homed at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Inside+Windows+Phone/ will bring an insiders’ scoop into Windows Phone.  Yochay Kiriaty and I will be doing our best to bring you geeky, transparent interviews from within the Windows Phone team…    

    Episodes for the show will be released every Friday. One show per week (at a minimum).

    You can watch our first 3 episodes today:

    Of course, we will also have external guests and guest hosts on the show; thanks in advance to all those that have and/or will contribute to it..

    Feedback and suggestions for the show are very welcome..  please also help us promote it..

  • Book reivew: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development


    As the authors Frank LaVigne and Cameron Albert say this beginner’s guide in Silverlight 4 Business Application Development walks you through the wow factors of creating interactive RIAs and quickly start building business applications. The examples in...( read more )...(read more)
  • Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook


    Are looking how to build great user interfaces using the Silverlight 4? Do you need professional UX guidance for that? What about step-by-step instructions with code when you need it? I'm introducing you Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook. This is...( read more )...(read more)
  • SilverlightShow Interview with Webinar Presenter Gill Cleeren


    Gill Cleeren , who is Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for ASP.NET, has recently delivered a really successful webinar on Data Binding for SilverlightShow . Following the active participation of attendees in the Q&A session, and the positive feedback...( read more )...(read more)
  • Upcoming Webinar with Gill Cleeren: 10 things you didn't know about Silverlight 4


    Free SilverlightShow Webinar: 10 things you didn't know about Silverlight 4

    October 27th, 2010, 10 am - 11 am PDT (see your local time)

    Register for this webinar

    Silverlight has since its birth about 3 years ago grown substantially. It's now a enterprise-ready platform. Just like the full .NET framework, there's a lot to be discovered. In this session, Gill Cleeren makes this daunting task a bit easier, by showing you 10 things you didn't know in Silverlight!
      
    Main topics to be covered:

    Not announced :) Gill will keep the agenda a secret, but is sure all attendees will learn new stuff! There will be something for every Silverlight developer in this session!

    About the speaker:
    Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider.

    He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF at conferences including TechDays Belgium, DevDays Netherlands, NDC Norway, SQL Server Saturday Switzerland, Spring Conference UK, etc. He’s also the author of many articles in various developer magazines and organizes the yearly Community Day event in Belgium.

    Gill also leads Visug (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. He recently published his first book: “Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook” (Packt Publishing). You can find his blog at www.snowball.be.

    Who is this webinar appropriate for:
    Silverlight developers willing to learn more about Silverlight in general.

    Duration:
    60 minutes, including Q&A

    Technical Requirements:
    Internet connection and computer speakers for audio.

    Want to see more scheduled webinars? Check SilverlightShow Webinars page.

     

  • Upcoming Webinar with Gill Cleeren: Let's MEF: Overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4


    Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Let's MEF: Overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4
     

    October 14th, 2010, 10 am - 11 am PDT (see your local time)

    Register for this webinar

    MEF (aka Managed Extensibility Framework) allows building dynamic applications. An implementation of MEF is available for Silverlight developers. MEF allows us to build loosely coupled applications that are composed at runtime. Also, MEF is a great way to add extra functionality to an application on the fly by downloading components as they are needed. In this webinar, we'll look at how MEF works and how we can put it to our use. 
      
    Main topics to be covered:

    • MEF introduction
    • Parts
    • Learning about Import, Export and Composition
    • Being Lazy with MEF
    • Catalogs
    • Recomposition
    • Using MEF in MVVM scenarios

    About the speaker:
    Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider.

    He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF at conferences including TechDays Belgium, DevDays Netherlands, NDC Norway, SQL Server Saturday Switzerland, Spring Conference UK, etc. He’s also the author of many articles in various developer magazines and organizes the yearly Community Day event in Belgium.

    Gill also leads Visug (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. He recently published his first book: “Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook” (Packt Publishing). You can find his blog at www.snowball.be.

    Who is this webinar appropriate for:
    Developers wanting to build dynamic applications
    Developers that build larger Silverlight applications that benefit from a download-on-demand scenario
    Silverlight developers willing to learn more about MEF within Silverlight

    Duration:
    60 minutes, including Q&A

    Technical Requirements:
    Internet connection and computer speakers for audio.

     

     

  • Telerik Legal Dashboard


    The Telerik Legal Dashboard demo application provides rich and interactive data display.  This application shows how you can slice and dice data with RadDataFilter and get instant results in both RadGridView and RadChart.

    Launch the Telerik Legal Dashboard demo

    See other Telerik Silverlight online demos

  • LowProfileImageLoader and Windows Phone 7


    In this post, Jesse Liberty demonstrates how the LowProfileImageLoader class helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background.

    Source: Jesse Liberty's Blog

    In this first post, I'll be demonstrating the use of the LowProfileImageLoader class. (A future post will explore the DeferredLoadListBox class which is also part of the sample download - but for now I don't want to get into what that's all about.) LowProfileImageLoader is meant to address a very specific scenario: loading lots of images from the web at the same time. This turns out to be more common than you might expect - just think about all the social media scenarios where every user has a little picture alongside their content.

  • MEF and Silverlight


    Jeremy Likness has published another quickstart which this time is about creating a MEF "part" in Silverlight.

    Source: MEFContrib

    The purpose of this quick start is to familiarize you with the Managed Extensibility Framework by composing a "part" in Silverlight.
    Getting started with MEF is easy, once you understand the concept of parts. Because the purpose of this quick star is to get you up and running quickly, we'll start with a brief explanation and dive deeper in other tutorials. A part contains a contract, imports, and exports. One way to think of this is as an item in a store.

  • Modular Silverlight Development, App.xaml, Blend and Resources


    Sergey Barskiy encountered a small problem with his new project and Blend but luckily managed to find a solution.

    Source: Sergey Barskiy's Blog

    I can use styles from MyResourceDictionary.xaml, but Blend generates an error for me – it cannot find my resources. Here is an easy way to overcome this issue. You have to add the same dictionary into the resources of each screen: In the example below I am showing resources area for a user control called MySampleView from MyApp module.

  • Applying Animations and States to Your Application


    John Stockton demonstrates on Silverlight TV how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend.

    Source: Channel 9

    He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations.

  • WCF RIA Services (Silverlight QuickStart)


    There is a new WCF RIA Services QuickStar with lots of screenshots and code.

    Source: Silverlight.NET

    WCF RIA Services simplifies the development of n-tier solutions for Silverlight applications by enabling you to coordinate application logic between the server project and the client project. RIA Services provides framework components, tools, and services that make the application logic on the server available to the client without requiring you to manually duplicate that programming logic. This QuickStart shows you how to add a domain service to the server project and read from that service in the Silverlight client. Next, it shows how to restrict data modifications to authenticated users. Finally, it shows how to add validation logic in the server project that is automatically enforced in the client application.

  • WPF DataGrid Control – Insert New Rows in Database


    In this article, Mahesh Sabnis explains how to perform an Insert operation in WPF with DataGrid control.

    Source: DotNetCurry.com

    In my previous article WPF DataGrid Control - Performing Update and Delete Operations, I explained Update and Delete operations in a WPF DataGrid control. In this article I will explain how to perform an Insert operation in WPF with DataGrid control. In this article I have used following events of the WPF DataGrid:

    ·         CellEditEnding.
    ·         SelectionChanged.
    ·         RowEditEnding.
  • Silverlight Cream for September 02, 2010 -- #939


    In this Issue: Sergey Barskiy , Tim Heuer , Shawn Wildermuth , Patrick Cauldwell , David Anson , Michael Sync , Jeremy Likness , Victor Gaudioso , René Schulte , John Papa , and Todd Knudsen . Shoutouts: Telerik's Premium Collection for .NET wins Jolt...( read more )...(read more)
  • Leaders in Silverlight


    There are some great people with Silverlight and many of them are sharing a ton with the community through blogs, twitter, forums, videos, articles, books, training, and speaking engagements. Different folk tend like different mediums, so it is great...( read more )...(read more)
  • New WCF RIA Services QuickStart


    Hot off the press QuickStart on WCF RIA Services . Lots of screenshots and code. Should be pretty tasty....( read more )...(read more)
  • Keep a low profile [LowProfileImageLoader helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background]


    When writing applications for small, resource-constrained scenarios, it's not always easy to balance the demands of an attractive UI with the requirements of fast, functional design. Ideally, coding things the natural way will "just work" (the so-called...( read more )...(read more)