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• Caliburn Progress

  Some of you may be wondering about the status of Caliburn.  I'm presently working on the new version and am having great success making it compatible with both WPF and Silverlight.  It hasn't been easy, but it is going to work. ... Posted Sep 18 2008, 03:25 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, RIA, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, .NET 3.0, Featured

• 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

• Prism and Caliburn's Future

  First I'd like to say that I'm stoked about the work the Prism team has been doing.  I have to admit that when they started out in January to deliver a set of guidance for building composite WPF applications, I was skeptical.  ... Posted Jun 06 2008, 09:24 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, .NET 3.0, Featured

• Caliburn Tutorial Part 2

  Hadi has just posted part 2 of his tutorial on building composite applications with Caliburn. In this post he covers basic usage of the EventBroker, ActionMessages and shows one way of putting the pieces together by using the PresenterHost control. Great... Posted Jun 05 2008, 10:42 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding, .NET 3.0, Tutorial

• Off to the Printers!

  The WPF book Christopher and I wrote earlier this year is finally off to the printers! It's 480 pages of full color goodness. We were pretty excited to have the opportunity to talk about things like SoC/SRP, DI, MVP, etc within the context of building... Posted Jun 04 2008, 04:13 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, Animation, 3D, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding, .NET 3.0, Control Templates

• Caliburn Feature Profile

  I've just put together a document briefly describing the current set of features that Caliburn supports.  I've added it to the official documentation and copied it below.  If you are new to Caliburn, this should give you a good idea... Posted May 27 2008, 09:34 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding, .NET 3.0, Featured

• Links and Code from my Code Camp Session

  Thanks to everyone who came to my session , hope you enjoyed it. First off, instead of slides I used WPF based on the example by Beatriz Costa: How can I replace PowerPoint with WPF in my presentations? Next I demoed exporting the Xaml created by the... Posted Jan 28 2008, 01:26 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, WPF, Astoria, XBAP

• Speaking at SoCal Code Camp this Weekend

  I'll be speaking on this coming Sunday at the SoCal Code Camp at Cal State Fullerton. My session is at 9:00 AM on Sunday and is titled Bridging the Desktop/Web Divide with WPF and Silverlight . I'm hoping to demo (still working on my code) a simple... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:11 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, SharePoint, WPF, SoCal Code Camp

• Silverlight Rectangles, Paths and Line Comparison

  More than half a year ago Dave Campbell , Luis Abreu and I had a discussion about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF . A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and using an anti-alias effect: The example above is built... Posted Jan 04 2008, 02:53 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, WPF, WPFE, UI, Design

• Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)

  I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing . Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing... Posted Dec 21 2007, 09:11 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WPF, Media, WPFE, AJAX, .NET, Design, Controls, Mobile

• Nintendo Wii and Silverlight: Tracking Your Fingers

  While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers . The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii console, simple the controller and a bluetooth... Posted Dec 20 2007, 06:52 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, WPF, Media, WPFE, .NET, Source Code, UI, Controls, Mobile

• Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List

  Well, the year 2007 is nearly at the end and I have my short wish list for Microsoft Silverlight . The following (maybe not complete) unsorted list would be nice to see in 2008 with the next CTP or final version: When building Silverlight 2.0 Web applications... Posted Dec 20 2007, 02:21 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, WPF, Media, WPFE, DLR, .NET, Flash, UI, Blend, Expression Studio, Controls, Pocket PC, Mobile

• New Silverlight Links

  The last weeks I was a little bit busy because of some projects and other work I had to do at home. But today I will publish some new links about Silverlight: New Visual Studio Version for Silverlight (2nd beta) How Silverlight Update works , (my old... Posted Jul 30 2007, 05:47 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WPF, Media, WPFE, Source Code

• [de] Silverlight Get Together

  (English: I will start new workshops about Ajax, ASP.NET and Silverlight in the next months, first will start on Thursday about Silverlight.) Am kommenden Donnersten, den 26. Juli 2007, veranstalten wir einen kleinen, kostenfreien Workshop zum Thema Microsoft... Posted Jul 23 2007, 03:02 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WPF, Media, WPFE, AJAX, DLR, .NET, Source Code, Ajax.NET, UG Meeting, Web 2.0, Atlas