January 2009 - Posts

Thank goodness for reference implementations [Low-overhead .NET MD5 implementation (source code and tests) works great on Silverlight!] by Delay's Blog

In yesterday's post announcing ComputeFileHashes's new support for MD5 on Silverlight , I promised to share some details about my experience getting an MD5 HashAlgorithm implementation for Silverlight. Recall that an MD5 class is available in...
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available by ScottGu's Blog

Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC).  Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh).  It works with both Visual Studio 2008...
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Silverlight and the 2009 Presidential Inauguration by ScottGu's Blog

Tomorrow’s presidential inauguration of Barack Obama will be a truly historic event. Silverlight is being used as an enabling technology on several sites that will allow those of us who can’t be there in person to share the experience online...
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Strangely Hypnotic Silverlight App by Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

I just got this in my email from Denis Dollfus , and had to share it. It’s an extremely odd, and strangely hypnotic app. Would make a great screensaver :)...( read more ) Read More...

DomainDataSource Server Control: LINQ + Code Generation by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

We have LinqDataSource in ASP.NET. However, the fact that I have to break up my LINQ statement into individual string properties (as shown below) has bugged me ever since the feature existed. < asp:LinqDataSource id ="ds1" runat ="server"...
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Source Code for Silverlight 2 Controls by scorbs » work

For those of you who didn’t see, Seema Ramchandani (a fellow PM on the Silverlight team) blogged that we released source code for the Silverlight 2 controls. Check it out here! Read More...
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Balsamiq: mockup design tool for dummies like me by Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

If you are a product officer or somehow related to software development and find it really hard to make quick wireframes of your application, look no further. Balsamiq Mockups is probably the best out there. This scratchpad like Adobe AIR application...
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MIX09 – Why YOU should be there. by Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

Ok, so we turn on the news and we see economic crisis everywhere, we hear of layoffs and cost cutting and rumors of depression. Well, I’m a rose-tinted-glasses kind of guy, and I firmly believe that it is at times like this that the smarter investor sows...
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Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :) by Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

A few new Silverlight Apps from our friends in the Netherlands are definitely worth checking out. First up is Monteverdi.tv, a portal for classical music events, built in PHP, but which delivers Silverlight: http://live.monteverdi.tv/rco/view.php It allows...
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SoThink Quicker for Silverlight! by Silverlight SDK

SoThink Quicker is a Silverlight Animation tool created by SourceTec Software Co. You can use SoThink Quicker to create animations that can be played on the Silverlight platform, import the elements of SWF, such as image, shape, sound, etc. into Quicker...

Source code for the Silverlight controls? You betcha! by Silverlight SDK

It's a new year here at Microsoft and we've published the source code for the Silverlight runtime and SDK controls that are implemented in managed code. Get the source here . The control list is extensive: ButtonBase Button HyperlinkButton CheckBox...

Silverlight 2 Controls Source & Unit Test available! by Kathy Kam

Many of you have been asking us where you can get the source and unit test of all the Silverlight 2 controls. It is now available on Microsoft Download. Enjoy! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=EB83ED4C-AC85-4DE9-8395-285628EE2254&displaylang...
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Silverlight and Otaku – A match made in heaven :) by Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m an Otaku and I’m happy that I work in a job that allows me to visit Otaku heaven (Akihabara) once or twice a year. Anyway, it was only a matter of time before someone used Silverlight to build a site for Otaku like me...
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Silverlight and Windows Live by Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

For those of you who have been asking about Silverlight and Windows Live, I’m now pleased to announce that Windows Live downloads will include Silverlight in the installation. If you haven’t already tried the Windows Live applications, I thoroughly recommend...
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Silverlight 2 Update for BiDirectional Text in Hebrew and Arabic by Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

In its early days, Silverlight concentrated on being Web friendly with its text, meaning that the number of fonts were constrained to those that would be available on most computers. On this blog I listed a number of workarounds for languages such as...
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