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Thursday, September 02, 2010

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Leaders in Silverlight

by John Papa via JohnPapa.net on 9/2/2010 9:52:00 PM

There are some great people with Silverlight and many of them are sharing a ton with the community through blogs, twitter, forums, videos, articles, books, training, and speaking engagements. Different folk tend like different mediums, so it is great that we have so many options to share information on Silverlight. Years ago I used to read books to find my information. Then as the web grew, I started reading a ton of articles. That grew into blog reading for me, and in the past few years watchin ...

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Applying Animations and States to your Silverlight Application

by John Papa via JohnPapa.net on 9/2/2010 4:00:00 PM

John Stockton demonstrates on Silverlight TV how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations. Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv    ...

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Silverlight, HTML5 and the future

by Tim Heuer via Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer on 9/2/2010 4:34:20 AM

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 rich Internet apps. Brad Becker, Director of Product Management, provides some information behind the value of Silverlight in a world where HTML5 will also co-exist: Expect to see more from Silverlight in these areas especially in our focus sc ...

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

New Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0

by John Papa via JohnPapa.net on 9/1/2010 5:59:00 PM

Today we released a new update to for Silverlight 4 (4.0.50826.0) and a new SDK to go along with it.  Tim Heuer posted a summary here and you can check out the full details at KB2164913. I summarized the key elements below. Here are the relevant highlights: SDK feature to enable Add New Row capabilities in DataGrid control Improving startup performance of Silverlight applications Adding mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applications on the Mac platform Various media-re ...

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Silverlight 4 service release (September 2010)

by Tim Heuer via Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer on 9/1/2010 5:44:36 PM

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 details in KB2164913.  Here are the relevant highlights: SDK feature to enable Add New Row capabilities in DataGrid control Improving startup performance of Silverlight applications Adding mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applicati ...

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

MVVM in Windows Forms

by einar@dolittle.com (Einar Ingebrigtsen) via Einar Ingebrigtsen on 8/31/2010 10:17:44 AM

Not everyone has the luxury of jumping on new technologies, it can be historical reasons, don't have time to learn, deployment reasons - or flat out you simply don't like anything new :) .Anyways, I was doing a codereview on a project last week, which was written in Windows Forms. The developers had some pain, Windows Forms being one of them - and a constant feeling that they were barking up the wrong tree when using Windows Forms. Its been a couple of years since my last Windows Forms project, ...

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Monday, August 30, 2010

PivotViewer – Custom Actions

by Timmy Kokke via Timmy Kokke on 8/30/2010 9:01:11 PM

PivotViewer series Building your first PivotViewer application Runtime PivotViewer collection creation PivotViewer - Working with Facets Handling PivotViewer events PivotViewer - Custom actions PivotViewer and MVVM . . . Intro In this tutorial about the Silverlight PivotViewer control I would like to explain how to make use of Custom Actions. Small labels are placed on top of items in the viewer and clicking them will trigger an event. --> The only downside of th ...

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Handling PivotViewer events

by Timmy Kokke via Timmy Kokke on 8/27/2010 8:39:11 PM

PivotViewer series Building your first PivotViewer application Runtime PivotViewer collection creation PivotViewer - Working with Facets Handling PivotViewer events PivotViewer - Custom actions PivotViewer and MVVM . . . Intro Today I would like to go into a little detail about the events used in the PivotViewer control for Silverlight. If you haven’t worked with the PivotViewer yet you might want to read the getting started tutorial I wrote earlier first. Collect ...

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Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes

by John Papa via JohnPapa.net on 8/27/2010 1:47:00 AM

Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on Silverlight TV to announce the new Silverlight themes that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The new themes include: Jet Pack Cosmopolitan Windows 7 AccentColor She also takes a deep look at the cosmopolitan theme and shows how you can customize it, if need be. Tsitsi wraps up by demonstrating some tip ...

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Extending the Music + Video Hub on Windows Phone 7

by vbandi via VBandi's blog on 8/24/2010 2:00:47 PM

Microsoft has been saying that the Music and Video Hub will be extendable on Windows Phone 7. But so far, it has been fairly unknown what this extension means and how one would go around to implement it. I was lead to the right path by reading the new Windows Phone Marketplace policies document. It has an entire section dedicated to policies regarding a Music + Video Hub application, and states, that “An Application that calls the Microsoft.Devices.MediaHistory or Microsoft.Devices.MediaHistor ...

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