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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

• 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

• 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

• Renaming Xap to Zip is dead. Long live renaming Xap to Zip!

  Teach Windows to treat Xap files as first class compressed folders with this simple registry entry. After applying, you’ll be able to open .Xap files and view their contents, and get the same shell experience as Zips have: If you’ve ever had... Posted Nov 01 2008, 09:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Software Development, Vista, windows, 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: 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

• Awesome controls are coming for the Silverlight platform

  Now that the wait is over and Silverlight 2 is out there in the wild, there’s very little excuse not to be using this awesome Microsoft platform. Easy-to-use controls make fast, easy development possible, and there is a clear roadmap out there now... Posted Oct 23 2008, 04:22 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, web, web development, conferences

• Client-side HTML controls for Silverlight 2

  What if you could use and create ASP.NET-like web controls that are 100% client-side, powered by the Silverlight 2 runtime? What if ViewState was a thing of the past? Would you like to cut your web application’s load on your servers from 50 pageviews... Posted Oct 05 2008, 05:51 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, JavaScript, Software Development, web, c#, web development

• Silverlight Unit Test Framework: Breaking changes from Beta 1 to Release Candidate

  Update your test projects to the first Silverlight Unit Test Framework update in half a year, it should take two minutes to update and get the awesome new features and functionality. The improvements and changes made to the surface area of the test framework... Posted Sep 29 2008, 11:09 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development, testing

• If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it in managed Silverlight .NET code

  Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should do something. Just because you can get Quake to run on your iPhone doesn’t mean that’s the best way to do things. But it’s pretty cool! Now that we’re clear on... Posted Sep 28 2008, 07:23 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, JavaScript, Software Development, web, c#, web development