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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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The feedback from the Silverlight 4 application themes released and the latest in process have been overwhelmingly toward the positive. We appreciate the feedback and hopefully you appreciate the transparency in the process. As a developer I want my fellow...
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06-05-2010
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Building on the positive feedback of the previous Silverlight application themes released last month (Cosmopolitan, Accent Color, and Windows) the design team is working on another theme targeting business application developers. We don’t yet have an...
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06-02-2010
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This morning we published the final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio and WCF RIA Services . In April, when Silverlight 4 was released, the tools were still in “RC” status. Today, they are no longer and are officially released. There...
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05-18-2010
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And the offers keep coming in! Another one of our key partners for testing XAP signing for trusted applications was Thawte. Their group helped provide us with valid certificates to verify their process and signing worked as expected (and verified) for...
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A while back I posted a sneak peek preview of 3 new themes that we were working on for Silverlight 4 applications. Our team wanted to do more than just the overall base theme and provide the themes for the core, SDK and some Silverlight Toolkit controls...
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05-04-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, expression, tech stuff, ux, ria, xaml, developer, toolkit, Controls, riaservices, Templates, expression blend, themes, theming, styles
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A little bit of hidden gem in the Silverlight 4 release is the ability to modify the Authorization header in network calls. For most, the sheer ability to leverage network credentials in the networking stack will be enough. But there are times when you...
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One of the new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to sign your XAP applications so that your out-of-browser trusted applications look more friendly (trusted) to your users, they come from a verified publisher, and they can take advantage of the...
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04-22-2010
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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, expression, tech stuff, ria, xaml, XAP, developer, riaservices, expression blend, xapsign, godaddy, clickonce, authenticode
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Each release of Silverlight it is the goal to make sure existing Silverlight applications continue to work. Since I think what this means causes some confusion I’m going to do my best to explain what we mean by this. Silverlight 3 application working...