Tim Heuer

Write Silverlight, win XBOX

Method ~ of ~ failed — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:11:19 GMT

Want a Silverlight -branded XBOX console? Yeah, me too, that would be cool. Well, there isn’t one of those, but there is a chance for you to show your Silverlight prowess and win some cool stuff. The RIA development portal at DevX is currently running...(read more)

New and great Silverlight examples

Method ~ of ~ failed — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:37:12 GMT

There are some really great application concepts emerging using Silverlight . I cam across two that I feel are really demonstrating great use of the technology, both in the code as well as attention to detail in the user interface. Both of these examples...(read more)

Making use of your JSON data in Silverlight

Method ~ of ~ failed — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:40:14 GMT

Wait! Don’t throw out your JSON services! The Situation You’ve made an investment in exposing some services for client script consumption. Most likely if you did it in the past 2 years, that involved exposing your data as JSON formatted objects. What...(read more)

Skinning an embeddable Silverlight 2 media player

Method ~ of ~ failed — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:38:36 GMT

While Silverlight 2 brings us great capabilities as .NET developers and opens many opportunities for creating rich clients in the browser, it still supports strong media features that have been available since the initial release of Silverlight. The ability...(read more)

Silverlight and Media Encoding

Method ~ of ~ failed — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:39:51 GMT

While you may not personally work with a lot of media solutions in your Silverlight application, it is nice to know the quality is there when you need it. Silverlight supports the VC-1 codec for media which provides a standards implementation for high...(read more)

Rich Text Editor for Silverlight 2

Method ~ of ~ failed — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:18:47 GMT

For Silverlight 2, we finally have some native controls to leverage. Most of them are to aid in input scenarios. The text input, however, is currently scoped to be plain text input. Some have desired a richer input control. You knew it wouldn’t be long...(read more)

Silverlight gets Familiar

Method ~ of ~ failed — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:18:33 GMT

Another geek musician, Bob Familiar, has decided to start working with Silverlight to revamp how he displays some of his compositions on his web site. Bob just posted a multi-part series where he sets out to demonstrate some features of: resolution (size...(read more)

The Silverlight Song

Method ~ of ~ failed — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:04:23 GMT

From the recording studios who brought you No More DLL Hell , Dan Wahlin and Spike Xavier (seriously, you have to meet this guy…you’ll get a contact high from his energy just standing next to him), they’ve collaborated their geek music skillz again and...(read more)

New Silverlight videos posted

Method ~ of ~ failed — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:57:00 GMT

The first of my Silverlight videos have posted which cover some networking stuff that I’ve been blogging about already. If you want to see a walk through of things you might have already read, please take a look at them: Cross domain policy files with...(read more)

An awesome Silverlight Digg mashup

Method ~ of ~ failed — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:17:40 GMT

I know ScottGu already did a good sample showing integration with Digg and Silverlight , but check out what Jose did ! Jose does a great job explaining each of the components here and what he is doing to develop this application. A good experience demonstration...(read more)

My Silverlight application cannot access my service!

Method ~ of ~ failed — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:32:01 GMT

I’ve started a dialog with a few of you about getting Silverlight and service integration working, specifically with ASP.NET web services (and even WCF ones). A few have downloaded some of my samples, but others have started from scratch. A few have reported...(read more)

Cross domain in Silverlight Streaming

Method ~ of ~ failed — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:39:25 GMT

In my previous post about cross-domain policy files I received some comments about whether or not cross-domain access is allowed on Silverlight Streaming . I think really this is two questions that I'll try to clarify here. What is Silverlight Streaming...(read more)

Ik kom naar België voor MIX Essentials!

Method ~ of ~ failed — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:54:23 GMT

Je viens en Belgique pour MIX! In one of my previous posts I made reference to the MIX Essentials event happening in Belgium later this month (24 APR). Well, it turns out that I will be there! I'll be speaking on Silverlight 2 and creating rich applications...(read more)

Anaheim Silverlight presentation

Method ~ of ~ failed — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:48:33 GMT

Firs, thank you for all that came to the presentation in Anaheim. The room was full, and hopefully you learned something while there (and hopefully it was along the lines that video in text boxes might not be good design, but is doable :-)). I got a bunch...(read more)

Silverlight cross domain policy file helpers

Method ~ of ~ failed — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:23:08 GMT

If you are starting to get into integrating web services with Silverlight , you'll notice that you have to have a cross domain policy file in place on the target server, that is to say, the server hosting the service you want to implement. There are...(read more)