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Caliburn Alpha for WPF AND Silverlight is Here!

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Caliburn is a framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications. It implements a variety of UI patterns that are geared towards solving problems encountered in real-world scenarios. It's goals are: Support building WPF...

Silverlight Cream for October 12, 2008 -- #394

Sunday, October 12, 2008

In this issue: Tim Heuer, Silverlight SDK, Page Brooks, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, and Bill Reiss Bill Reiss has updated his XNA games to the XNA 3.0 Beta, and has created a PDC badge: Find me at PDC for a Dr. Popper badge and maybe win a book . From SilverlightCream...

Significant Silverlight Announcement on Monday

Sunday, October 12, 2008

So the real question is, is it the release of Silverlight 2, I guess we will find out tomorrow. It certainly looks like it though: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-10GuthrieSilverlightMA.mspx So my next question is what will we find...

Silverlight Cream for October 11, 2008 -- #393

SDN Conference - Demo Code

Silverlight Cream for October 09, 2008 -- #392

Data Binding – Data Conversion

9 hours, 22 minutes ago by jesseliberty

One of the more interesting topics that arise in Data-binding is that of Data Conversion. So much can be accomplished without explicit conversion that it is easy to overlook… until you hit the real world...

Data Binding – Margin Notes

Custom Controls – The Dénouement

Hey, who took my Chiron?

2 days, 14 hours ago by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

If you’ve been playing around with Silverlight 2 for a bit now, you may have heard about/used the tool chiron.exe. It was a tool in the SDK that shipped in Beta 2 that was responsible (for among other...

Hey, who took my Chiron?

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