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In what may be a first (at least for me) I've secured agreement with the very generous folks I work for here and at O'Reilly to loosely join the tutorials and the chapters of our forthcoming book Programming Silverlight (co-authored by Tim...
In my new video I demonstrate how you can create controls dynamically at run time. The technique is very straight forward, everything you can create declaratively in XAML you can also create dynamically in C#. xaml <Button x:Name="Button1"...
As of today, I will attempt to add a brief Tip of the Day to the Silverlight Microblog every day. If you would like to contribute (and I hope you will) please send your tips following the directions listed here . Thanks! -jesse
First, a quick note that I'm rapidly posting tutorials and videos and as soon as they are through our production process, I'll turn my blog to announcing them and expanding upon them. I do want, however, to mention one of my favorite utilities...
In 1993 I was given this brilliant cartoon - and I'd love to find out who created it... Best Personal/ Small Business Offsite Solution I've Found While I have you, one of the better, less expensive solutions I've found for solving my own off...
The Tip of the Day occasionally will delve deep into code (other days it will just provide a bit of useful information, or a tip, etc.) When code is examined, however, I'll try to provide a complete working example, and to get us started, I've...
Mix is fast upon us, and to be perfectly honest, I'm preparing frantically. That means that I've been behind in my Tip of the Day. Rather than closing it down, I want to take the three weeks between now and Mix and really focus on some areas of...
Thanks to the work of Kelly White you can now have the Silverlight Tip of the Day appear in your Vista Sidebar as a Gadget . Kelly has graciously made the script available here . Just unzip the file and place it in your gadgets folder, all explained in...
In a great blog listing today, Tim Sneath discusses Infragistics just released NetAdvantage control set for WPF. In his excellent write up, Tim links to this incredible screenshot from Infragistics of an app that they "very quickly" build...
Adam Kinney has worked with Dave Campbell to feed Silverlight Cream to Twitter . You can subscribe here . In addition, Adam has created a script for placing this news into his (or your!) web log and formatting it. You can download the script here...
In what I honestly believe is a stunning announcement, Scott Guthrie blogged moments ago that we have released the source code for the following .NET Framework libraries for browsing and debugging, with more to come: .NET Base Class Libraries (including...
In both Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2.0 it is possible to create Silverlight objects programmatically, in the former using JavaScript and in the latter using, for example, C#. Creating objects programmatically in Silverlight 1.0 is non-trivial, as...
A very patient reader wrote in a couple months ago asking when to use Expression Web and when to use Silverlight. Others have written asking about the difference between Expression Web and Expression Blend, or between Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 1...