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• Are You Using WPF as Well? Let Me Know!

  For those of you working with Silverlight 2 , are you also working on WPF projects? If so, what types of things are you building in WPF? Are you sharing source and/or team talent across the two technologies? What about readers doing only one or the other... Posted Jul 01 2008, 01:46 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET

• 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

• RIA Job Openings on the Rise

  If you know Silverlight or WPF, the job market for those skills is really on the rise. Same for Adobe Flex. Found via Twitter (thanks to whomever tweeted it!) "adobe flex", silverlight, javafx, openlaszlo, wpf Job Trends "adobe flex"... Posted Jun 09 2008, 07:25 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, Consulting

• Expression Encoder SDK Now Available

  This one almost slipped past me. Lots of folks have asked about ways to automate encoding videos for Silverlight applications both on the client and on the server. Ben Waggoner just announced that Expression Encoder 2 includes a .NET object model for... Posted Jun 06 2008, 10:57 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, Expression Encoder

• 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

• Silverlight 2 ListBox Abuse

  During all my Silverlight and WPF talks, one point I try to make is that in those technologies, the important aspect of an out-of-the-box control is not its particular display properties, but its model and its ability to be customized. Back when we used... Posted May 13 2008, 03:52 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, User Experience (UX)

• 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 2, Images,... running on .NET Micro Framework Web Server

  The next beta of Silverlight 2 is available online since yesterday. Another announcement appeared in the news is that Silverlight (maybe only version 1.0 for now) will be available on Windows Mobile 6  and Nokia S60 and S40. Last evening I could... Posted Mar 06 2008, 12:43 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, UI, .NET Micro Framework

• 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

• 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