Community Blogs

Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2008 -- #357

2008-08-27T22:34:21Z

Michael Washington with Desktop Instances in SilverlightDesktop, and Mike Snow scaling his entire app to the browser. Bill Reiss reports that Silverlight Sports Game Contest Registration and Submission now live ... and with the dollar value of the prizes Read More......(read more)

Atlanta Geek Dinner - September 18th, 2008

2008-08-27T12:18:01Z

URL : http://www.geekdinners.com/DinnerInstance.aspx?... With Labor Day stealing a valued Atlanta User Group this month, we've decided to have another Geek Dinner on September 18th, 2008. We will be having it in our normal Perimeter location (5 Seasons Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2008 -- #356

2008-08-27T00:02:48Z

Scott Barnes on Submitting SL Bugs, Shawn Wildermuth on SL Firestarter in NYC, Jason Cooke Templatinging the Calendar, Jonas Follesø on SL2 apps using WCF, and Mike Snow on detecting alt-***-control-windows and apple keys, delcaring a User Control from Read More......(read more)

Other Places I Hang Out Online

2008-08-26T03:52:00Z

There are a number of other places I hang out where we can have two-way conversations rather than just a publish-subscribe relationship. Follow me on Twitter . Twitter is a fun place to hang out and get the news before folks have time to blog about it Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2008 -- #355

2008-08-25T22:50:14Z

Matt Serbinski on SL and Drupal and RSS, Mark Monster Updating his Tag Cloud, Christian Schormann Cutting Shapes, Jeff Wilcox resizing the plugin to zero, and Page Brooks introducing SilverlightContrib. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight and Drupal Read More......(read more)

Preorder my Silverlight book on Amazon

2008-08-25T22:24:31Z

Wow. That's an incredible feeling, seeing my name on Amazon :) The book is in pre-order!! I'd better get back to editing it then :) Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Silverlight (A Vision - Part 2 - Validators)

2008-08-25T11:36:00Z

So in my last article , I outlined my vision (own personal opinion, not any inside knowledge) of where I think ASP.NET might be heading. In this article I discuss how existing controls (validators in particular) could be modified to support Silverlight Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 2 Firestarter in the Big Apple!

2008-08-25T11:05:23Z

URL : http://blogs.msdn.com/peterlau/archive/2008/08/... Microsoft is hosting a full day event to help people get up to speed on Silverlight 2 . Peter Laudati and I will be doing the Keynote for the event, so if you live in the New York area, its a great Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Silverlight (A vision - Part 1)

2008-08-25T08:39:00Z

At the moment ASP.NET and Silverlight are two different sets of technology. If you want to build an ASP.NET application you would use an ASP.NET Project, if you want to build a Silverlight application you would use a Silverlight project and integrate Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2008 -- #354

2008-08-23T23:01:26Z

Chris Cavenagh with source for his WPF Photo Print, Rob Houweling on Authentication in SL, Anna Wrochna with a SL 'Tree', Cameron Albert with Farseer Physics Geom Visual Helper Method, Mike Ormond's MultiScaleTileSource Demo code, Dynamically Read More......(read more)

I’ve joined Facebook

2008-08-22T12:04:00Z

I am an early adopter in many areas, unfortunately Facebook is not one of those areas. I’ve decided to join Facebook so if you want to connect with me that would be very cool (link is below): http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1421300085 This is probably Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2008 -- #353

2008-08-22T06:04:06Z

Page Brooks with CoolMenu and Custom Collections for Controls, Bill Reiss on Calling WCF on local server, Mike Snow on Fast Sprite Animation, Tom Fischer on getting a color or brush from a string, Shawn Wildermuth on User Controls Base Classes, Tim Heuer Read More......(read more)

Sams Teach Yourself Silverlight in 24 Hours, Table of Contents

2008-08-21T13:38:59Z

I've been working since September 2007 (more or less) on an upcoming Silverlight book titled "Teach Yourself Silverlight in 24 Hours" at Sams. This book will be aimed at beginners with the technology (and maybe even beginners in programming Read More......(read more)

Base Classes for User Controls

2008-08-21T11:33:43Z

I am still working with Siebrand Dijkstra and his people at School Master, BV and they've opened my eyes to another interesting development. In looking at their code, I convinced them that their interface might be better as an Abstract class that Read More......(read more)

Silvelright Cream for August 20, 2008 -- #352

2008-08-21T04:59:59Z

Alex Knight on custom fonts, Adam Kinney with WPF demos, Shawn Wildermuth on Container Editing in Blend, Tim Heuer with Troubleshooting Webcast, Chris Koenig reports Silverlight on Skyfire Richard Costall and Pete McGann with Silverlight Manic Miner Game Read More......(read more)