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Webcast Follow-up - CreateFromXAML
Today's Webcast focused on factoring out repeated creation of objects in XAML (and their manipulation in the code behind) by creating objects dynamically using CreateFromXaml (This will be available for viewing as soon as the recording is processed...
Adam Kinney's Too Great To Miss Tutorial on Making a Chart In 1.0
Do not miss Adam Kinney's excellent tutorial on creating a bar chart in Silverlight 1.0; it is brilliant, and it is a great staring point on working with XAML, JavaScript, JSON data and many other interesting aspects of Silverlight . Also, while I...
Tips of the Day: Setting properties in custom controls in 1.0
Got a nice international email today that said in part... ...things get more interesting it is a common scenario to write custom controls....I need to specify the parameters in code behind. Can I create custom xaml tags which are connected to the code...
Did You Know... How to create XAML objects in Javascript?
I have had a very strong positive reaction to focusing on the Javascript in code behind for Silverlight 1.0, and so will devote not only today's Tip of the Day to a bit more on the topic, but will make sure that I do so on a frequent basis for a while...
Did You Know That... The Code Behind is Just... Code?
A very insightful reader sent me email that I'm going to respond to here. To protect his identity let's call him Bob. I'm going to excerpt Bob's email and rephrase a bit so that this becomes a more general discussion. I find that a lot...
Did You Know... You Can Create A Silverlight Streaming Application 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 for fast success. 1. Create an account for yourself on the Silverlight Wiidows Live (alpaha) site . 4GB hosting...
Greetings from Ajax World where Silverlight is King! (Or at least royalty)
I'm here at Ajax World in Santa Clara and interest in Silverlight is very high. Folks want to know what it is, how it works, how it fits in with Ajax, and how they can get started with it. One thing that is very clear from talking with folks here...
Yes, but is it valuable?
The discussion on "is it really (strongly) typed" has degenerated into one of semantics and definition, and is losing sight of the original intent of my first post. So, once more unto the breach... assume what I'm saying (that Justin's...
Does Intellisense really show that Javascript is typed (see previous post)?
A good buddy (and great ( Flex [Shhhh!!] programmer) wrote to me offline (to spare me embarassment) and asked, among other questions answered by Justin in his comment at the end of the previous blog entry, the following: "I also didn't understand...
Writing typed, object-oriented javascript, with the JavaScript Intellisense project
Slightly hidden among the Silverlight videos is a gem with implications I didn't notice at first. If you navigate to the video page of our site, and scroll down within the 1.0 videos to video #26 and click on the link, you will find the landing page...