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• When Will the Floppy Disk Die as a Save Icon?

  I was snagging some icons to go into a comp of a Silverlight LOB application today when I realized that some of the metaphors used in the software we’re refacing (Silverlight front-end to an existing LOB application), just don’t hold anymore. While it... Posted Nov 18 2008, 01:28 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, User Experience (UX), Silverlight Business Applications

• 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

• 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/.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

• 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

• Got Duplex? (Silverlight 2 and WCF Duplex Communications)

  Eugene Osovetsky made a pretty exciting announcement yesterday regarding pushing data to Silverlight in Beta 2. Beta 2 will likely include a new WCF capability for duplex services based on DuplexReceiver<T>. IMHO, this helps eliminate socket coding... Posted Apr 23 2008, 09:27 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight Business Applications, WCF

• HLS DevCon

  The Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Evangelism Team have put together a great free event in NJ with Silverlight, SQL Server, Surface, Silverlight Mobile, WPF, AJAX and lots more. April 22 - April 24 2008 Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel... Posted Apr 02 2008, 03:42 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, AJAX, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications, Events, SOA, Silverlight Mobile

• Silverlight Charts and Graphs - with Source Code

  If you are looking for some great Silverlight 2 charts and graphs for data presentation (not interactivity at this point), check out what the people at VISIfire have come up with . Besides being a great example of what one can do with vector drawing,... Posted Mar 31 2008, 05:46 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

• Silverlight 2 for Business Applications Webcast Download

  The webcast recording is now online. To view the recording, register for the livemeeting and then click the view online or download links. Enjoy! Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...( read more ) Posted Mar 27 2008, 02:16 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications, Events

• State Management and Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2 Beta 1

  Some of the questions that came out of the Silverlight for Business Applications webcast I did on Wednesday centered around how to handle "global variables" and how to handle state. I'll address both of those here as they are very common... Posted Mar 22 2008, 12:07 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

• Slides from Silverlight for Business Applications Webcast

  Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday's webcast. In the past, I've used slideshare for uploading slides, but if you use non-standard fonts, the processing munges it. This time, I've posted PDF and XPS versions of the slides. The XPS version... Posted Mar 20 2008, 05:03 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications

• 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

• WCF Integration in Silverlight 2 Beta 1

  In preparation for my Silverlight for Business Applications webcast today, I decided to look more deeply into how Silverlight works with services. I originally concentrated a lot on security, and had a much larger post on how to secure your services,... Posted Mar 19 2008, 10:44 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications, Security, WCF

• Using Silverlight Isolated Storage for Local State Backup

  A recurring problem that both Silverlight and Flash developers have to deal with is the volatility of the browser. One place where this can really hurt you is if, for example, you want to pop up a donation page or other straight browser content at the... Posted Feb 26 2008, 10:55 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

• Upcoming Silverlight 2 Talks and Webcasts

  I hope you're as excited about Silverlight 2 as I am! If you haven't checked it out yet, Scott Guthrie just posted a great article and a huge multi-part tutorial for building a Silverlight 2 application to pull Digg results back via REST. He shows... Posted Feb 22 2008, 07:25 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, MIX08, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Events, Microsoft DPE