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• Managed Html Controls source code

  In early October I blogged about the managed wrapper for client-side HTML controls that we use in the Silverlight unit test framework. If you were intrigued by it, you’ll be happy to know that the source code is published and part of the Silverlight... Posted Nov 20 2008, 07:41 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development

• Build a highlighting AutoCompleteBox (like IE8 and Firefox 3) in 5 minutes

  The auto complete functionality that IE and Firefox provide in the URL address bar is nice: both these browsers (and many other auto complete implementations) highlight the text that you’ve typed, inside the results display. If you use the Silverlight... Posted Nov 18 2008, 02:54 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, popular

• Toolkit posts: "Silverlight in Style," dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight, and TreeView expansion

  The Silverlight Toolkit site is a great starting point, but a lot of the important conversations that we’re having with customers are happening elsewhere: on blogs. I thought I’d take a moment to share some important resources to show you... Posted Nov 14 2008, 02:22 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, General, Software Development

• Silverlight 2 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion

  If you’re looking for a great overview of all things Silverlight 2, Laurent Bugnion’s Silverlight 2 Unleashed book is a great introductory book for web developers, designers, and folks new to the Microsoft web/client platform. Amazon delivered... Posted Nov 07 2008, 02:34 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, web, web development

• Editable Silverlight ComboBox

  Tim Heuer posted today about using the AutoCompleteBox control (Silverlight Toolkit) to enable editable ComboBox scenarios in Silverlight apps. This was originally one of the more complex samples that we included in the toolkit sample project, and Tim... Posted Nov 05 2008, 08:37 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development

• Silverlight Unit Test Framework source code released

  A week ago, we gave the world the first release of the Silverlight Toolkit. Shawn Burke told you that we’re agile, and that we have a neat release model. The fun continues! Today, the source code to the Silverlight Unit Test Framework is available... Posted Nov 04 2008, 04:18 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, testing, popular

• Unblocking downloaded CHM documentation files on Windows Vista

  If you’ve ever downloaded a CHM documentation file and received a "Navigation to the webpage was canceled" message, you need to ‘Unblock’ the CHM file before opening it. This was a security improvement in Windows Vista, and there’s... Posted Nov 03 2008, 03:27 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development

• Getting Expression Encoder 2 SP1’s media player template to work with CDNs and cross-domain embedding

  The new Silverlight 2 media player that Expression Encoder 2 SP1 ships with is great. You can encode video and output Silverlight content in minutes. With SP1, when you select one of the new templates, the only bits generated are your video asset + thumbnail... Posted Nov 03 2008, 03:44 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Video, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development

• Successful .Xap deployment with your CDN: Set the application/x-silverlight-app MIME type

  If you host XAP files on a CDN or other host (such as Amazon S3), you need to have the server configured with the new Silverlight MIME type. You can find out specifics in the breaking changes reference. When you do not need to configure the MIME type... Posted Nov 01 2008, 07:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, web, web development, web servers

• Introducing the AutoCompleteBox

  The Silverlight AutoCompleteBox is now available. This guide covers the control’s properties, usage, and demonstrates how to hook it up to a JSON web service. Note: This post contains live Silverlight content that your news reader may not be able... Posted Oct 30 2008, 11:43 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, web, c#, web development

• AutoCompleteBox: Video introduction

  A video introduction to the AutoCompleteBox control that shipped with the Silverlight Toolkit. This is a 720p HD video. I’m also publishing an introductory guide to the control that can be read here. Duration: 12m:55s Description: This video walks... Posted Oct 30 2008, 11:31 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Video, Microsoft, Software Development, c#

• AutoCompleteBox: The 5 things you need to know

  AutoCompleteBox works great with collections. You don’t have to connect it to a sophisticated web service. We named this control the AutoCompleteBox, not AutoComplete. Its different. It is a rich control that provides a set of suggestions... Posted Oct 30 2008, 05:51 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development

• Sorry boss, I just released the new Silverlight Controls source code to the world.

  Last night, I signed on to the CodePlex site and checked in the source code to all the Silverlight controls we’ve been working on night-and-day. Like an open source ninja! On just about any other team at Microsoft, I might have some major explaining... Posted Oct 28 2008, 05:28 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, web, c#, web development

• Download reference docs for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework

  The API reference documentation for the unit test framework is now available. Developers looking to take complete advantage of the more intricate features and presentation framework-specific functionality in the unsupported test framework should take... Posted Oct 26 2008, 02:09 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development, testing

• Silverlight unit testing templates updated

  Getting into the habit of unit testing your Silverlight applications is a little easier now. I posted updated templates for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework on the MSDN Code Gallery site. There are project and item templates for Visual C# as well as... Posted Oct 24 2008, 11:42 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development, testing