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by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 2/8/2010 10:31:00 AM
Note: I know this topic is controversial, so I want to preface that this article is meant to be a conversation. If you don't agree with something or I have information incorrect, please add a comment or e-mail me. As the HTML 5 spec evolves, I will update this article. HTML 5 is the next update to the HTML standard that powers the web. There are many new exciting features being added like the the canvas element, local offline storage, drag and drop and video playback su ...
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by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 12/6/2009 12:29:00 PM
I have been learning, absorbing and playing with F# for several months now. I worked primarily with C# since 2002. I figured I would write some .NET and developer concepts that one should be familiar with before trying to learn F#. Hopefully, the list compiled below will help you determine if you are ready to learn F#. If you are not familiar with most or any of these items below, it doesn't mean you can't learn (or shouldn't learn) F#. However, in my o ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 11/15/2009 4:27:00 PM
Goal: This blog post aims to show you the new solution composition feature in the "Windows Azure Cloud Service" project type. In addition, I posted some additional thoughts on how this could be expanded as a very useful starting point for all projects. The new "Cloud Service" project template includes a new feature (This is my name until Microsoft officially names it) "solution composition". In Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (if you install the Windows Azu ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 11/4/2009 4:16:00 PM
The goal of this blog post is to make you aware of F# support in Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010. In addition, this blog post shows an example why F# is going to be very important for Silverlight architects and developers. Note: This is NOT an intro to F#. Demo and Visual Studio 2010 source code are provided with this article. In Visual Studio 2010, F# is a first-class language. Over the last several months, the language has been "productized." It ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 9/20/2009 1:44:00 PM
I have been excited about Silverlight since Silverlight 1.1 Alpha was announced in early 2007. I have seen tremendous potential in the RIA technology from its inception. Being through the .NET 1.0 release in 2002 and seeing how Microsoft can make a powerful framework that can integrate with across their products made me feel secure that Silverlight was going to get full integration support by Microsoft. Fast forward to 2009 and we are in the third release ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 7/9/2009 8:38:00 AM
Silverlight 3 has been released here are some of the released links: Silverlight 3 Runtime http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx Blend 3 with Sketchflow http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=92e1db7a-5d36-449b-8c6b-d25f078f3609 SDK http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2050e580-f1d5-4040-bb09-e6185591b6b5 VS 2008 Tools http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9 ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 3/29/2009 12:13:00 PM
Update 2/18/2010: Silverlight Mobile is coming in beta form during the MIX 2010 conference in March 2010. This will include a Silverlight SDK for the new Windows Phone 7 platform. Look for Silverlight mobile to be announced for Symbian, BlackBerry and Droid in the near future as well. This article was written March 2009...what is funny is how I was right that Silverlight mobile would be around the Visual Studio 2010 CTP/RTM. Go me :) During MIX 2009, Microsoft announced m ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 3/23/2009 4:26:00 PM
Everyone that is interested in Silverlight 3 Beta development has probably checked out all of the core items in the release: Silverlight 3 SDK, Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008, Blend 3 Preview, Silverlight Control Toolkit (March 2009 version). There have been several other releases that are related to Silverlight 3 you may have missed and are a little less obvious if you are new to Silverlight development. This blog post deals with the items that are a little less obvious ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 3/22/2009 12:13:00 PM
Update 07/08/2009: Silverlight 3 RTW has been released. Please visit my blog post here for all the download links: http://silverlighthack.com/post/2009/07/09/Silverlight-3-Relase-and-Download-Links.aspx Update 05/28/2009: Scott Guthrie during his online talk yesterday mentioned that Silverlight 3 is close to being finished up and will be released "soon". I remember when he mentioned that during Silverlight 2 Beta 2/RC0 and Silverlight 2 RTW was out within a few weeks.& ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 3/1/2009 4:47:00 PM
Summary Windows Server 2008 Web Edition is not the Web Edition we knew from the Sever 2003 platform. Microsoft has removed the big limitation of installing some enterprise applications on the OS (i.e., SQL Server). Furthermore, IIS 7.0 is now the core web server and it can take advantage of hardware specs similar to Standard Edition. With these changes and more, Windows Server 2008 Web Edition is now a viable/affordable upgrade path from Windows Server 2003 Standard. Are you getting ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 2/7/2009 11:11:00 AM
Quick Summary Pros: Excellent book for anyone getting into Silverlight 2 Detailed step-by-step exercises cover the core of Silverlight Code is simple and easy to follow. Does not introduce unecessary syntax sugar/advanced techniques that could confuse a beginner reader Well organized. This resource is a perfect example why a Silverlight novice should bye a book and not try to read from blog articles (which can contain misleading information) Code exmamples work (I did n ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 12/30/2008 7:47:00 AM
Silverlight 3 Platform Stack - Part 3 Part 1 - Silverlight 3 Announced Enhacements Part 2 - Silverlight 3 Development Stack Part 3 - Silverlight 3 Integration with the Microsoft OS and Platform Stack Part 4 - Silverlight 3 vs Flash and the iPhone In Part 1 of this short series, I looked at what we know so far about Silverlight 3 from what has been announced by Microsoft. In Part 2 of this series, I take some educated guesses as to what and how Silverlight 3 will b ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 12/12/2008 3:09:00 PM
Silverlight 3 Development Stack - Part 2 Part 1 - Silverlight 3 Announced Enhacements Part 2 - Silverlight 3 Development Stack Part 3 - Silverlight 3 Integration with the Microsoft OS and Platform Stack Part 4 - Silverlight 3 vs Flash and the iPhone Series Update: In Part 2 of the series, I decided to look at the Silverlight 3 Development stack and Part 3 will look at the Silverlight 3 platform/OS stack (I added another part in the series.) In Part 1 of this short series, I looked ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 12/11/2008 2:21:00 PM
Silverlight 2 has been released a couple of months ago and just like any MS product, Microsoft has already been working on the next release :) Silverlight 3 is going to build on top of the Silverlight 2 runtime and add a lot of exciting enhancements. However, it also needs to improve on a lot of the existing shortfalls when compared to the current leading RIA technology (Flash/Flex). So what do we know is coming in Silverlight 3? Part 1 - Silverlight 3 Announced ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 12/10/2008 4:27:00 PM
Overview WCF includes a variety of security settings and design options. One of the security options the service architect has to worry about is transfer security. Transfer security deals with ensuring safe and secure communication between a client and service host. Transfer security is very important for several reasons. Even the best authorization and authentication service design means nothing if the messages are not secure. Unsecure messages can lead t ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 12/4/2008 3:37:00 PM
Silverlight-enabled WCF Service Template Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with the Silverlight Tools includes a new template that makes creating a WCF service that can be consumed with Silverlight very easy. Once you you have the Silverlight Tools installed, you can use the template when adding a new item: Adding a WCF service based on this template does several things for us: Like any other WCF Service template, this adds the refrences to all the necessary System.ServiceModel asse ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 11/8/2008 3:32:00 PM
I decided to move this article up the chain in my backlog of articles as I have come across this scenario numerous times on the http://silverlight.net/ forums. This article will give some basic information that has been covered on numerous other sites and times and give some additional insight on how to handle cross-domain issues in enterprise Silverlight service deployments. Note: This article is pretty long and doesn't really fit well into a blog format (which ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 10/29/2008 1:09:00 PM
PDC (Professional Developers Conference) 2008 is over and there was a lot of information released over the course of the 4 days. You probably have heard some of it if not all of it. I wanted to write a post to summarize the information pertaining to Silverlight either directly or not directly that was released last week. Over the course of the week, Silverlight developers were bombarded with information that was coming out and this post's goal is t ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 10/28/2008 7:37:00 PM
Silverlight 2 for Mobiles was announced at the PDC. I wasn't there, but I read about it on Chris Hayuk's blog here. The real cool part of the announcement is what they announced that there will be no changes required to your code. So, this is not some Silverlight-type Compact Framework step child subset of .NET. To quote Chris exactly: "YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO MAKE YOUR SILVERLIGHT APPLICATION TO MAKE IT WORK ON THE MOBILE, NO RECOMPILING, ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 10/23/2008 7:51:00 AM
Silverlight 2 RTW has been out for a couple of weeks now and it is already being compared to ASP.NET MVC which is an evolutionary way to design web applications using ASP.NET. I read a concise summary (pros and cons) of ASP.NET MVC from Jason Young. His article can be read here: http://www.ytechie.com/2008/10/aspnet-mvc-pros-and-cons.html I decided to compare Silverlight in a similar way to what Jason did when he compared ASP.NET MVC vs. Web Forms. Here are the items he listed ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 10/21/2008 11:05:00 AM
10/23/2008 Update: Updated the code (rendering and MaxFrameRate) and some notes below GUIMark Background Silverlight has had a few iterations since the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Days. We started at Silverlight 1.1 Alpha in 2007. This year we had two beta releases and RC0 before Silverlight 2 RTW was released. Silverlight and JavaFX are two new RIA technologies that were introduced this year competing with Adobe's Flash/Flex. ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 10/19/2008 4:03:00 PM
Silverlight: Feature Complete Silverlight 2 released and the feature set has been locked down for a while now. Many RIA experts, bloggers and developers have chimed in on forums or blogs on what features they would like to see in Silverlight and the direction it should take. Opinions vary greatly on this and by doing a simple search online you can see the vast differences. While I definitely agree this needs to be discussed, I feel that there is so much that Silverlig ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 10/13/2008 10:21:00 AM
Microsoft has released Silverlight 2 and will be making the Silverlight 2 RTM plug-in available to the masses. What does this mean? Any Silverlight version (Beta 1 and Beta 2) will be automatically upgraded to Silverlight 2 probably this week. Silverlight Beta 2 compiled assemblies will NOT WORK with Silverlight 2 RTM. This will most likely be fine for most people that simply were learning the Silverlight product. However, if you have a Beta 2 application in any fo ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 9/29/2008 7:02:00 PM
If you are utilizing the dynamic loading of assemblies (component based architecture inside Silverlight) in Beta 2, you will be in for a nasty surprise when upgrading to RC0. Apparently, the way the Deployment class is utilized using a Singleton, it breaks some code you may have seen on several Microsoft blogs. Specifically this line of code will fail with an InvalidOperationException ("Use the Current property to access the Deployment instance"). Below is a screen shot ...
by bartczernicki.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Bart Czernicki) via Silverlight Hack on 9/26/2008 12:04:00 PM
Silverlight 2 RC0 is released to the public. Yay! With this release, there are a lot of changes to the way Microsoft is doing things and behind the scenes (if you read into some of the posts) how things are going to shape up for the RTM release. So after reading a lot of information and playing with RC0, I decided to write a small article on what is important in this release for developers. I am not trying to rehash what other posts said, but focus on the main & ...
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