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• Silverlight Install Experience for MSDN East Coast News

  I’m putting the finishing touches on our first beta of MSDN East Coast News and decided to provide a customized install experience. The out of the box installation experience looks like this: That works, but really isn’t acceptable for this application... Posted Sep 01 2008, 11:17 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Facebook

• I’m in it for the Technology

  My annual review is coming up. This is the time when you’re encouraged to reflect on what you’ve done over the past year, and what you want to be when you grow up. While thinking through mine yesterday, and thinking about the ones from the past twelve... Posted Aug 28 2008, 12:14 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, WCF, Zune, XNA

• Silverlight/.NET vs Flash/Flex (or not) and My Silverlight Wishlist

  I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some baggage that just doesn’, and folks start picking apart the analogy and assuming it still applies to the... Posted Aug 17 2008, 05:58 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, RIA, Silverlight Business Applications

• Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 Release Candidate Now Available

  I just gave a talk at Microsoft TechReady covering how to build Facebook applications that host Silverlight content. One problem I ran into was the changing Facebook API and how the toolkit wasn’t yet synchronized with that. Well, just today, the Facebook... Posted Jul 31 2008, 11:36 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Facebook

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Update - kb955011

  Since yesterday there is an update available for Silverlight 2 . This update improves stability, media streaming, and the auto-update component. This update also improves support for Firefox 3 . Microsoft Support kb955011 More details on Silverlight and... Posted Jul 17 2008, 01:23 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, firefox

• How to Resize a Silverlight 2 App and Keep the Same Aspect Ratio

  A similar question just popped up on a list I’m on, so I thought I’d whip up a quick example on how to resize a Silverlight application while keeping the same aspect ratio and centering the content.   The key to resizing is to use a ScaleTransform... Posted Jul 04 2008, 11:28 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

• Are You Using WPF as Well? Let Me Know!

  For those of you working with Silverlight 2 , are you also working on WPF projects? If so, what types of things are you building in WPF? Are you sharing source and/or team talent across the two technologies? What about readers doing only one or the other... Posted Jul 01 2008, 01:46 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET

• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 2) Navigation

  In the previous two parts of this article (I had planned only 2 parts total, but this ended up a three-part article), I explained how to use Pub/Sub and the EventBus for chaining service calls in Silverlight 2 applications. You can access those articles... Posted Jun 30 2008, 11:26 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Patterns

• Silverlight DevNuggets Episode 2 is Now Up

  Andrew Duthie just published my second DevNuggets episode. In this installment, titled Styling 101, I cover the basics of styling Silverlight controls. The videos are intended to be quick, short installments following a theme starting from the very basics... Posted Jun 30 2008, 09:31 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, DevNuggets, Webcasts

• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1.5 of 2) More on Service Call Chaining

  In my previous post , I discussed how to chain service calls. One question I received on that was how to do the opposite: take an action after all the calls (or by extension, some logical groups of calls) have completed. This is one of the challenges... Posted Jun 27 2008, 11:05 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Architecture, Async, Patterns

• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 2) - Async Service Call Chaining

  The Publish and Subscribe pattern (which uses the Observer Pattern in .NET - more info here ) is one of those patterns we use all the time while thinking nothing of it. In .NET, we get the concrete implementation via events and delegates. By abstracting... Posted Jun 26 2008, 09:41 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Architecture

• How to Retrieve and Process an RSS Feed in Silverlight 2

  For the Facebook Silverlight 2 Beta 2 application I'm writing, I need to be able to process a number of RSS feeds. In Silverlight 2 Beta 2, processing RSS is, well, really simple :) Here's a class and associated event and exception classes I wrote... Posted Jun 20 2008, 12:21 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

• Silverlight 2 and Yahoo Pipes

  Sometimes I hear about something for the first time and figure I must live under a rock. I make a point of keeping up on a number of new things, but it's hard to keep track of all the cool services and technologies available to you these days. Tim... Posted Jun 19 2008, 05:00 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, AJAX, .NET, Microsoft DPE, Facebook, Mashup, Yahoo Pipes

• Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Supported Versions

  In response to a question at last Friday's Silverlight TechFest event, I said that I believed Beta 2 was supported even on Visual Studio Express. I was incorrect. XNA supports Visual Studio Express (and I had been reading about XNA the night before... Posted Jun 16 2008, 10:04 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events

• Silverlight DevNuggets Expisode 1 Up and Ready for Viewing

  Silverlight DevNuggets #1 is up on Andrew Duthie's blog. Starting out simple, I put together a short screencast covering the concept of a content control in Silverlight 2. The idea behind DevNuggets is to present very short videos on digestible topics... Posted Jun 12 2008, 04:09 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET