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• 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

• Silverlight Beta 2 Releasing Today?

  A lot of people are waiting expectantly for the release of beta 2 of Silverlight 2.0. Dave, for instance, is watching a number of blogs and twitter. However, I just saw on Barak Cohen's Silverlight News blog that it is available today . He doesn't... Posted Jun 06 2008, 08:44 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight

• 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

• Integrating MVC with Silverlight (Part 2)

  Ok, so in my first post on Integrating MVC with Silverlight I didn't actually get to the Silverlight part. I only laid out the navigation and set it up so that it would work with Silverlight when I did add it in. So while on the flight from Orlando... Posted Jun 05 2008, 11:41 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.Net/Web Services, MVC

• 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

• Integrating MVC with Silverlight

  Ok, so before I go any farther I want to spell out a couple of things. First, my sample code doesn't have any Silverlight in it yet . Since I didn't have a whole lot of time and beta 2 is only a day or so away I didn't think it was worth the... Posted Jun 04 2008, 08:53 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.Net/Web Services

• 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 and WPF/E CS Modules Updated

  Saw that Jesse Liberty ( via WynApse ) has a nice post on creating Silverlight streaming applications in minutes: Three are many details to creating a Silverlight Streaming application, but in this post I'm going to try to boil them down to a recipe... Posted Jan 28 2008, 07:13 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, community server

• Consuming Astoria from Silverlight

  Michael Sync wrote a great tutorial on how to consume ADO.Net Data Services (Astoria) from Silverlight . I just demoed Silverlight on top of Astoria at code camp and wanted to add one comment to Michael's post: Create the class like below. (Note:... Posted Jan 28 2008, 01:28 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services

• 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

• Everywhere Microsoft Silverlight

  To prepare my laptop for the next weeks I reinstalled my last image to get rid of all the beta software I tried the last months. Oh, I have to install Silverlight to be able to develop and show some demos. While visiting some web sites from Microsoft... Posted Jan 06 2008, 10:52 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Media, WPFE, UI, Web 2.0

• 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