Silverlight

Silverlight Visualization Application: NFL Free Agency Movement

Community Blogs — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:02:00 GMT

My colleague at AIS , Tad VanFleet , just created a cool Silverlight 2 application for tracking NFL Free Agent movement. Tad is on our BI/Data Visualization team, and has shown a strong interest in, and skill with, Silverlight 2. One of the earliest demos...( read more )...(read more)

May 14, 2008 SlickEdit 2008 Testing Update

Community Blogs — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:51:27 GMT

In my last post I discussed how HTML was being completed weirdly, and I posted that to the SlickEdit forum. I got a response back that I needed to pick up a couple patches... so that was cool... I hadn't thought of that, I'm sensitized to checking...( read more )...(read more)

WPF 3.5 SP1: Don't let the SP moniker fool you

Blogs — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Yesterday the WPF team shipped some major horsepower features in the vastly understated preview Service Pack to .NET Framework 3.5. It is an exception to the rule for an SP release to have features, and not just bug fixes. In the mold of Windows XP SP2...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2008 -- #274

Community Blogs — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:18:33 GMT

Joel Neubeck animates user controls, Tim Rule on Scale 9 Images, and Tamir Khason On manipulating ObservableCollection objects. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight Circular Motion Animation This is one of the cooler effects I've seen since the...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 2 ListBox Abuse

Community Blogs — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:52:28 GMT

During all my Silverlight and WPF talks, one point I try to make is that in those technologies, the important aspect of an out-of-the-box control is not its particular display properties, but its model and its ability to be customized. Back when we used...( read more )...(read more)

SlickEdit 2008 Second Glance

Community Blogs — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:36:09 GMT

I tried to use SlickEdit 2008 this morning for formatting my SilverlightCream post, and had problems. The posts are formatted as html and then I paste them into the GeeksWithBlogs edit area. Works grreat, I've done it enough I don't have to think...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 - 2 -- # 273

Community Blogs — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:56:51 GMT

Nikolay Raychev with a couple articles about SL2 buttons, DanWahlin continuing his SL 1.0 series, and Todd Anglin on SL2 UI Controls in general. I've had 4 emails about running SilverlightCream.com really wide and having the CSS cause problems, but...( read more )...(read more)

Silvelright Cream for May 11, 2008 -- #272

Community Blogs — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:00:28 GMT

Michael Washington with Silverlight Desktop and SL Resizable, Draggable WIndows, Lee on Changing Itemtemplate to show details, BBC SL Zoom and WOW, and Jeff Paries Timeline Infographic. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight Desktop Michael Washington...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Unplugged (Bristol)

Community Blogs — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:37:00 GMT

I am in Bristol tomorrow at the .NET Developer Network (DotNetDevNet) User Group presenting Silverlight 2 Unplugged . Anyways, I think it's going to be a fun night and I hope to see you there...( read more )...(read more)

SlickEdit 2008 at first Glance

Community Blogs — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:03:03 GMT

This is somewhat mildly embarrasing, but I just went from version 7.02 of SlickEdit to SlickEdit 2008 which is version 13.0 -- wow...6 versions behind! I've been using SlickEdit since (I think) version 1.0 when Brief took a dump in Windows 98 Beta...( read more )...(read more)

BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

Blogs — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:54:39 GMT

Apparently Radio 1's Big Weekend is a big thing in England, and to launch the festivities they've made The Big Zoomy Photo Thing a central piece of the action (as you may guess, this is Silverlight/Zoom incognito). (picture cropped to save room...( read more )...(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 26 - LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in Javascript

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Silverlight — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:57:20 GMT

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-sixth ( half a year! ) in a infinite Read More......(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 26 - LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in Javascript

Blogs — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:57:20 GMT

Silverlight 2 TechFest Coming to Reston - Learn Cool Stuff and Win an XBOX 360

Community Blogs — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:31:00 GMT

On June 13, 2008 in the Microsoft Reston Technology Center, join AIS, Cynergy and Microsoft for the first Silverlight TechFest. This is a full day event focusing on Silverlight and Expression. We'll build a full application showing key parts of the...( read more )...(read more)

Tag-Specific Feeds at GWB (or any SubText Site)

Community Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:43:59 GMT

Tim Heuer wrote and asked if there was a feed from my blog *just* for Silverlight. I didn't know you could do it, but Tim showed me I could. So, for those of you that don't want to be bothered by my non-Silverlight blather, you can just switch...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2008 -- #271

Community Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:28:48 GMT

Michael Sync with Styling the DataGrid and LeeOnTech Scrolling in the ItemsControl. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight 2 (beta1): Styling the Datagrid & Formating Datagrid Date Column Michael Sync adds some styling to the DataGrid, and has the...( read more )...(read more)

Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part VIII -- Load Report Failed

Community Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:10:24 GMT

Ok I've visited this one before, but now I'm just a tad scared, because first I had the VS2003 .NET 1.1 bits working on the server, then I went through the whole IIS and VS2005 .NET 2.0 CR bits. Now this morning I got email from a user that one...( read more )...(read more)

Linked Resource Dictionaries in Loose XAML

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:50:02 GMT

Something cool that I didn't know "just worked" - linked resource dictionaries in Loose XAML! In this sample: dictionary.xaml contains a ResourceDictionary page.xaml just links to dictionary.xaml. See how it looks when you navigate to page...( read more )...(read more)

Loose XAML, XBAPs & Hyperlink Images

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:58 GMT

As Mark Alaczar points out in his WPF sandbox whitepaper, sandboxed top level navigation requires user initiation. Some definitions to help this make sense: Top level navigation: Navigations that target the hosting web browser. For instance, navigating...( read more )...(read more)

FontPlayer XBAP

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:56 GMT

I thought it would be fun to update the UI (and some functionality) for the FontPlayer SDK sample. This app lets you to play with the fonts installed on your the machine. It also shows off the OpenType features of specific fonts. Some of the interesting...( read more )...(read more)

Vista & Glass

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:54 GMT

I really like glass - it's just so clean & elegant. The only thing I don't like is the default "color" - it comes out way too blue. I know the hue is subtle, but it just clashes with everything else on the desktop. My recommendation...( read more )...(read more)

WPF Overview talk @ TechEd Southeast Asia

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:52 GMT

Thanks again to everyone who attended the WPF overview talk today! Some links: WPF Community Site (the patient monitoring source code will be posted here soon) Microsoft Expression ZAM 3D by Electric Rain World population app - source code With 3D Without...( read more )...(read more)

Updated Samples for RC1

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:50 GMT

FYI: I’ve posted RC1 versions of most of my samples: Woodgrove XBAP FontPlayer XBAP XBAP: On Demand & ClickOnce Photostore: Standalone & XBAP Note: all my loose XAML posts still work on RC1 :-)...( read more )...(read more)

Dynamic Styling - Detecting ResourceDictionaries at Site of Origin

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:48 GMT

Here's an XBAP that dynamically grabs the "styles" available to it from site of origin. Note: By "styles," I mean distinct look & feels defined in different ResourceDictionary files, not simply the class. You could also call...( read more )...(read more)

http://www.clearification.com

Blogs — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:46 GMT

Check it out! Hilarious new site called Clearification from comedian Demetri Martin. It's in collaboration with Microsoft. The site's first episode is already posted. :-)...( read more )...(read more)