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• Silverlight: and Windows Azure

  In my last article I was discussing Silverlight and Amazon's new CloudFront service. I wanted now to discuss what the options with Azure are? Hosting your Silverlight application in Azure You can obviously host your Silverlight Application by hosting... Posted Nov 19 2008, 04:47 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0, Azure, Windows Azure

• Silverlight: Are sockets only suitable in intranets?

  There was a big push by the community at large for Silverlight Sockets to which Microsoft responded by providing said functionality. However can you really use such a feature in an Internet application? Sockets allow high performance real time data updates... Posted Nov 15 2008, 06:23 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Silverlight: (and non Silverlight) PDC Podcast and Interviews

  So I was at the PDC this year, and we (myself and John McLoughlin ) recorded a podcast and a bunch of interviews for NxtGenUG We have some of the biggest names being interviewed: Dan Fernandez Brian Keller Martin Gudge Chris Andersen Don Box Go check... Posted Nov 10 2008, 05:32 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0, NxtGenUG, Oslo, Windows Azure

• Silverlight: Spectrum Emulator is in the Community Gallery

  I've noticed that my Silverlight 2 Spectrum Emulator is in the Community Gallery now :)...( read more ) Posted Nov 03 2008, 03:01 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Silverlight Assault Course

  We are running a Silverlight Assault Course in Poole (Dorset, England) on Saturday the 26th of July. Places are limited to 20 people and we have only a few places left. At £40 a person, this is serious value for money. The day is going to be seriously... Posted Jun 27 2008, 05:41 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0, speaking

• Silverlight Encryption (Part 3)

  In part 1 , we showed an application that I built to encrypt/decrypt data. In part 2 , we discussed encryption algorithms and key management. In this final part of the series, having generated a symmetric-key to encrypt/decrypt our data we will now look... Posted Jun 22 2008, 09:20 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Silverlight Encryption (Part 2) - Generating the key

  Following on from my previous article , I will now explain some of the techniques used for encryption within Silverlight, specifically focusing on generation of the key used for encryption/decryption. AES We will be using the AES algorithm to encrypt... Posted Jun 22 2008, 08:48 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Isolated Storage (used.dat)

  Following on from my previous article where is showed you where the isolated storage quota for an application is stored , I will now explore the used.dat file (please read my previous article for this to make sense. The used.dat file lives in the same... Posted Apr 30 2008, 08:48 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Silverlight 2 - App.Xaml Events

  In Silverlight 2, we have the new App.Xaml file which we can use to store application resources (styles etc), that can be used throughout our Silverlight application. For an example of using styles within the app.xaml file in Silverlight2, see scott guthries... Posted Mar 03 2008, 10:26 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Pre Mix Envy

  I am suffering from "Pre Mix Envy", a new condition for developers who want to be in Vegas but can't. Even if someone donated me a ticket and flight, I wouldn't be able to go as I am working to some very tight project deadlines at the... Posted Feb 27 2008, 08:36 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 1.1, Silverlight 2.0

• Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2

  1MB Default Limit It looks like (via ScottGu's blog), that there will be no increase in the size of isolated storage for Silverlight 2 Beta 1, so the current 1MB limit will still apply. Since the default limit hasn't changed for the coming beta... Posted Feb 25 2008, 05:24 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 1.1, Silverlight 2.0

• Silverlight 2 and the Flash Cross Domain Policy Files

  In Silverlight 1.1 alpha (today), you cannot make cross domain network calls from within Silverlight. So for example if you deployed your Silverlight application to chrishay.com then you would not be able to make a network call (web service request, http... Posted Feb 25 2008, 07:27 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 1.1, Silverlight 2.0

• First look at Silverlight 2.0 on ScottGu's blog

  The main man of the web has done it again! Get along to his blog for indepth details of the upcoming Silverlight 2.0 beta , including an 8 part tutorial of building a silverlight digg client. Superb stuff, thanks Scott Read More......( read more ) Posted Feb 22 2008, 10:20 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Code Reuse (in Silverlight Today)

  Following on from my previous posting where I ask for some support in Visual Studio for Code Reuse with Silverlight projects. Daniel Moth (one of Microsoft UK's evangelists) kindly posted a current workaround suggestion in the comments on a workaround... Posted Feb 17 2008, 08:12 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight 1.1, Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 2.0

• Silverlight and Code Reuse with non Silverlight applications

  One of the problems we face with Silverlight is that Silverlight Projects can only reference Silverlight Class libraries, and other types of projects (such as WPF) cannot reference those Silverlight class libraries. For example if I have a common static... Posted Feb 16 2008, 11:06 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 2.0