November 2008 - Posts

Erasing Ink in Silverlight 2 by Stefan Wick's Weblog - Development with Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC

Another frequently asked question around inking in Silverlight is about erasing Ink strokes after they have been collected or loaded. Unlike WPF or the Tablet SDK for COM & Winforms, Silverlight does not come with controls that have built-in eraser...
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Accessing .chm files in Vista by Silverlight SDK

The other day I downloaded the Silverlight Toolkit controls and was attempting to view the accompanying help file when I ran into the same problem I had the first time I used the Silverlight .chm file ; the contents of the help file wouldn't display...

New ASP.NET Charting Control: <asp:chart runat="server"/> by ScottGu's Blog

Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support...
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Silverlight design time extensibility by Silverlight SDK

Justin Angel has an exhaustive blog post on Silverlight design time extensibility. You can get it here . Nitya. Read More...
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Silverlight Tools for VS and F1 Help by Silverlight SDK

If you've installed the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 , you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected. You'll see this with types and members that are "shared"...
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In-Place Editing for Silverlight using Styles and Templates by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

A long while back, I wrote an Ajax InPlaceEdit behavior that you could attach to input controls to enable in-place editing experiences in HTML. I was thinking of doing the same in Silverlight using the behavior framework in Silverlight.FX that I used...
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jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 by ScottGu's Blog

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery .  Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express...
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Silverlight Movies (Silverlight + Live Search) by Kathy Kam

In my last post , I said I have been working on a demo project that I had to wait to till PubCon's announcement of Live Search 2.0 API ! So without further ado... here is a preview of Silverlight Movies . This is a movie showtime search driven by...

WUX 203: Introduction to the Silverlight Controls Framework by Kathy Kam

Sorry it took me a little longer to post everything, but here is my deck and my demo .  Please note that the demo is provided under the Microsoft Public License , and I provide it "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or...

CallQueue: Implementing a Sequential Web Service Call Queue for AJAX application by Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

In AJAX based applications its common that user might end up breaking your AJAX calls by clicking on numerous places in very short interval of time. Let us assume there is a page where there are several of hyperlinks which make WebService calls and do...
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My eye friendly Visual Studio dark theme by Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

I am not sure about how you guys feel about your IDE look & feel. First few years it was alright for me. However the more I used Visual Studio, the more I experienced problem with my eyes as well as monotony of the same old white background IDE. So...
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Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 by ScottGu's Blog

We shipped Silverlight 2 last month.  Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines.  It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via...
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Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2 by ScottGu's Blog

Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.  One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects.  Developers...
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Client Perspective of Windows Azure Services Platform by Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

Windows Azure was announced on PDC 2008 (Oct 27) and will hopefully be released mid next year. You probably already know about Azure by this time. If no, I would like to quote some from www.azure.com as intro: The Azure Services Platform is an internet...
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Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud by Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? I have recently written an article on Windows Azure which guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which can be leveraged by existing application to link to...
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