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• 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

• Silverlight Problems That Affect Me

  I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not... Posted Jul 26 2008, 06:58 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, RIA, Caliburn, databinding, Featured

• What's Up With Caliburn?

  After asking some questions of the community and doing some thinking, I've finally devised a plan of action for Caliburn: I'm going to freeze the current source code where it's at.  Anyone who is using it can be assured that it's... Posted Jun 24 2008, 01:19 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, RIA, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, .NET 3.0, Featured

• Silverlight Roadmap Questions

  I came across a great post about updated Silverlight 2 roadmap . Silverlight is about 7 month old kid but it is already making such a big buzz. One of my colleague Rahul did excellent job in terms of putting up a FAQ regarding the roadmap. When exactly... Posted Apr 07 2008, 12:34 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Media, UI, RIA

• Links from Today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications Webcast

  I'll post a link to the recording once I have that. In the mean time, here are some of the links mentioned in today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications webcast: Silverlight 2 Woodgrove Bank Sample Application Source Code for same (also includes... Posted Mar 19 2008, 02:02 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, RIA, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Events

• Surface Demo - Silverlight 2 Update and DeepZoom

  Today I updated my Surface Demo (original source from Silverlight examples ). Well, there are only some small changes since last beta 1.1. So I have added a DeepZoom control ( MultiScaleImage ) to the demo : See the online demo here . Read More......... Posted Mar 18 2008, 05:26 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPFE, .NET, Source Code, UI, RIA

• DPI Matters in Blend

  A recent post on Silverlight.net led me to revisit something I haven't played with in quite some time: DPI. If you wonder why you sometimes drag those pngs or other images onto the design surface in blend, and they come out the wrong size, there are... Posted Mar 12 2008, 11:24 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, RIA, Expression

• Silverlight 2 and Sockets

  The new beta of Silverlight 2 introduces Sockets. The security model enforced by the System.Net.Sockets namespace in Silverlight 2 allows for a connection only back to the site or host of origin. So Silverlight 2 applications will be allowed to connect... Posted Mar 06 2008, 07:00 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, AJAX, Source Code, RIA, Security

• WPF and Silverlight 2 Themes - Reuxables

  WPF and Silverlight applications cover a whole spectrum of application types and richness from incredible full-screen applications incorporating 3d and video to games to good old standard (but highly usable and attractive) business applications . It's... Posted Feb 21 2008, 11:46 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, RIA, User Experience (UX), Silverlight Business Applications

• Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, Ajax - Which One is for Me?

  Early in my programming career, we had a choice to make at the beginning of each project: do we do this as a command-line/console app (prompt and response), use a DOS windowing library, or do a Windows 3 native app? Eventually, it became the norm to do... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:43 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, RIA, Business Applications, User Experience (UX), Silverlight Business Applications, Architecture

• Silverlight and Infragistics

  Infragistics is already deeply involved in Silverlight development . They are excited about the platform as the next-generation Web UI. They think there are several key wins in Silverlight for Web application development and are exploring how they can... Posted Jun 14 2007, 03:55 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Controls, RIA