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• MSDN Developer Conference (MDC) – Washington DC

  Jan 16, 2009 - Save the date! I’ll be speaking at the Washington DC stop of the MSDN Developer Conference on January 16, 2009. The topic is Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight... Posted Nov 17 2008, 07:59 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications, Events

• Encrypt your AJAX traffic using Microsoft Silverlight and Ajax.NET Professional

  Some of you maybe remember that I had added some security related features in Ajax.NET Professional . It is possible to put an AJAX token or to simple encrypt the data that gets over the lines. With Silverlight we get the System.Security.Cryptography... Posted Nov 13 2008, 10:27 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, ASP.NET, JSON, JavaScript, AJAX, .NET, Source Code, Ajax.NET

• More (and Better) Detail on Styling Silverlight Charts

  Shortly after the release of the first rev of the Silverlight Toolkit   I made a first attempt at styling the chart controls included in the release. Shawn Burke just turned me on to this excellent article and flowchart from a member of his team... Posted Nov 10 2008, 10:43 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

• Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 and Starter Kit Released

  The Facebook Developer Toolkit has hit an important milestone: 2.0 RTW. I’m upgrading the MSDN East Coast News Silverlight application to this version this weekend, so we’ll see how complete it is this time :) In addition, Steve’s Facebook Developer Toolkit... Posted Nov 08 2008, 10:55 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Facebook

• Styling the Charts in the Silverlight Toolkit

  In a previous post, I introduced the Chart control from the Silverlight Toolkit . In this post, let’s cover how to make the charts look more interesting. First, we’re going to create a simple label/value class to hold the data for the chart. In the previous... Posted Oct 31 2008, 04:32 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications

• Silverlight Toolkit (Silverlight 2 Control Pack) - Charting

  The Silverlight Toolkit is now available! Here’s a rundown of what’s included: Chart TreeView AutoCompleteBox DockPanel WrapPanel Label Expander HeaderedItemControl HeaderedContentControl NumericUpDown ViewBox ButtonSpinner ImplicitStyleManager... Posted Oct 28 2008, 12:45 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

• TechDays DC This Week - AJAX, Silverlight, REST, WCF, MVC and More

  For those of you not going to the PDC, be sure to join us at TechDays at the Sheraton National Hotel in  in Arlington, VA next week. This is a pretty big event with lots of great content. Oct. 28th – WebDev Fundamentals – Moving Beyond ASP.NET Topic... Posted Oct 27 2008, 03:21 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events

• MSDN geekSpeak October 22 : Silverlight and Facebook

  Be sure to join me, Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie on October 22 for our MSDN geekSpeak . We’ll be covering building facebook applications using Silverlight 2 . Title:   MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and Facebook with Pete Brown (Level 200... Posted Oct 17 2008, 12:47 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, MSDN geekSpeak

• How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 2 of 2

  In Part 1 , we created a Facebook application using ASP.NET. Now, in Part 2, we’ll cover how to add Silverlight into the mix. I’ll assume you have the Part 1 solution working. If not, go to that blog post and download the project files linked at the end... Posted Oct 16 2008, 11:46 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, WCF, Facebook

• How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 1 of 2

  I’m about to embark on some very different Silverlight application development projects (primary around data-driven UI, and one potential one even about kiosk/digital sign work). Before I do that, I wanted to give you all a brain-dump primer from my last... Posted Oct 16 2008, 12:27 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Facebook

• Welcome Silverlight 2 RTW!

  This is the second birth I’ve been privileged to witness this month, and if I made any more comparison than that, my wife would surely kill me ;) As of October 14, Silverlight 2 has now hit that most important of milestones: RTW (or RTM if you would... Posted Oct 13 2008, 01:46 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

• 3d Rendering with Texture Mapping in Silverlight - Quake

  I’d love to dig into the code and see what he’s doing to get that kind of FPS. The key part of the pipeline to understand would be the creation of the per-frame bitmaps and the subsequent blitting on the screen. I’ve seen dynamic PNG creation, but that... Posted Sep 30 2008, 12:47 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

• MSDN geekSpeak : Building Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2

  The registration link for the MSDN geekSpeak I’ll be doing with Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie is now up. Register for the event here . The event is 12:00 Pacific (3:00pm eastern) time on Wednesday October 22, 2008. I’ll be covering how to build Facebook... Posted Sep 29 2008, 03:58 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Andrew Duthie

• Silverlight 2 Per-Frame Rendering Callback – CompositionTarget.Rendering Event

  While promised early on, this one seemingly snuck in under the radar :) Silverlight 2 now has the CompositionTarget.Rendering event. So now, if you want to do something each frame, this is one place where you can do it. You’ll want to do some testing... Posted Sep 29 2008, 01:32 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET

• Silverlight RC0 Debugging Tip – Check your VSM Styles

  This tip is somewhat buried at the end of my RC0 introductory post . However, I can’t emphasis enough that the main reason you get initialization errors or the WSOD (White Screen of Death) in Silverlight 2 is problems in your visual states. There are... Posted Sep 26 2008, 02:16 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET