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The Silverlight team today posted some information about what the future holds for rich Internet apps and where we have come with SIlverlight, where we see HTML5 playing a role and how Silverlight will be a part of the future of this next evolution of...
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09-02-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, Web, blend, expression, tech stuff, ux, ria, xaml, developer, riaservices, html5
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Today we released an update to Silverlight 4 (update build is 4.0.50826.0) along with an updated SDK. We appreciate our customers’ patience on working with us to help identify and verify necessary updates to this service release. You can find all the...
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In talking with a friend about some Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight stuff recently. He was giving me some great feedback about a few things (all of which I’ve passed along). One of the things was what I felt was a common task that might exist in the mobile...
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08-17-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, expression, tech stuff, ria, xaml, developer, media, riaservices, mp3, wp7dev, wp7, windows-phone, mediastreamsource
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Suppose you use Firefox as your default web browser and you are a Silverlight developer using Visual Studio. You may have been frustrated at times in being able to get the debugger to attach to your breakpoints. You’ve triple-checked that you are in debug...
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One of the biggest discussions I started getting into when Windows Phone development was announced to the world was sparked with this single question I posed to our internal Windows Phone developer teams: What is the use case for when you would want to...
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08-14-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, Design, expression, ux, ria, xaml, developer, wp7dev, windows phone, wp7, windows-phone, windows phone 7
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I recently got a note about a nagging issue in using StringFormat in XAML binding expressions and how it doesn’t honor the current user’s culture settings. This is true that there is an issue in that it doesn’t in WPF or Silverlight . If you don’t know...
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08-12-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, Web, expression, tech stuff, ux, ria, xaml, developer, riaservices, localization, currentculture, stringformat
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So it appears we’ll be having a Professional Developer’s Conference after all this year. Today we announced the PDC10. Unlike previous ones in ‘conference cities’ this one will be held at the source of the information, on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond...
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Last week or so the PivotViewer control was released, which is from the Microsoft LiveLabs team. It’s a Silverlight control that enables you to visualize data information in a DeepZoom type experience. Be sure to check out the PivotViewer learning section...
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Yesterday (7-Jul-2010), the Silverlight Media Framework v2 was released on Codeplex (yeah, it’s Open Source). If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a Silverlight framework encapsulating the best practices for media playback for Silverlight applications...
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SilverlightShow.net is one of those great community sites providing information, tutorials and general developer information around Silverlight . They’ve done a great job providing a spectrum of beginner to advanced topics on Silverlight development....
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07-07-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, expression, tech stuff, ux, ria, xaml, developer, community, riaservices, expression blend, Books, silverlightshow
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Each quarter, new MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) candidates are awarded. January 2010 is the first awards of the year and so I present the new/moved/re-awarded Silverlight specific MVPs : Alex Knight ( @agkdesign ) – started SilverZine and...
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A while back I had sent out an update on Twitter that I was sitting in a meeting reviewing some “top issues” for Silverlight as reported through various channels (official support, forums, social media outlets, blogs, incoming emails, etc.). It really...
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As I write this in my hotel room now on the eve of me leaving the state of Arizona, I am left with mixed emotions. Most of them frankly are deeply personal which I’ll spare you the details. However, it is here – specifically in the Phoenix metro area...
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I just got back from speaking/attending the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway. It was a great time and a well run conference. Like many other conferences I found myself looking for two things I wanted on my mobile: the schedule and a map...
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06-21-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, Mix, Mobile, tech stuff, developer, community, rants and stuff, iPhone, metro, mix10, conference, guide, carsonified, chrisntr
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In the Silverlight world, there are two types of “cross-domain” things that may leave some banging their head against a wall for a while. The first involves making network-based calls (WebClient, HttpWebRequest, etc) to services hosted on a domain other...