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Listen to the Show! My week spent in Orlando at TechEd 2008 was time well spent. Tradeshows like these are a great opportunity to meet smart people who are often delivered by the plane-load. One of the highlights of the show was being able to see Bill Gates give his final keynote address. Before his talk they ran an updated version of his famous "last day at Microsoft" video. In case you haven’t seen it yet I have included it here for you. Silverlight Ingenuity After the keynote was over I setup my machine in the wifi area and started to chat with the guy who happened to be standing next to me. It turns out that guy was David Kelly of Identity Mine head of the implementation team for Crossfader . Watch the Crossfader demo from the...
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The quickest way for me to learn something is by watching an expert demonstrating it. If you're ready to do Silverlight or WPF development or just want to be ready for when you need these technologies, I'd recommend checking out these resources. Dino Esposito, MSDN magazine contributor and author, has a new training course on Silverlight 2 from AppDev training company. There are 10 hours of video training on CDs or one DVD where he demos all the features of Silverlight 2 and supporting technologies such as WPF, LINQ and WCF. He's a solid technical expert, and delivers the info with obvious enthusiasm for the technology. For .NET developers, a plus is he uses Visual Studio (instead of Blend) to do all his Silverlight examples. It's...
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I am proud to announce that I and a couple other guys are starting User Group that revolves around User Experience (or UX) in the MS tools eco-system. The other guys are Shawn Cady, Perry Panagopoulos, and Bill Reiss (MVP) [Bill always gets his MVP props]. I could give you all their backgrounds, but I'll make them do it at the first meeting. I'm sure Papa Fish (aka www.devfish.net ) the local MS Dev Evangelist (my Blog Father) Joe Healy will be around (at least for the first meeting). TUX' Focus Our focus will be on the "now" of Ajax and how it integrates with ASP.NET (in all its various forms), and the "future" of Silverlight2, and anything in between (like adding Silverlight2 controls to Ajax sites, etc); we'll...
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In my last post Michael Schwarz noticed that search engine spiders can theoretically index xap files. Silverlight 2.0 creates a xap file where dll’s, images, videos and xml are included. First step is to search in web for files with xap extension and download it. Then uncompress it with unzip algorithm ( eg rename to zip). You will find a dll with the logic inside and several dll’s with librarys and a manifest file. The you ca use (good old) reflector to disassemble the dll. The most interesting fact is that the original XAML file is included as resource. You can then export ( save) the silder.xaml and open it with eg Expression Blend. Logic can be also taken from reflector which have the option to show it in VB.NET or C#. Back to my beginning...
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Version 6.1.1 came out earlier this week. It includes numerous bug fix and new features. Here are the breaking changes and features in that version. Extensions. Extensions are libraries which extend the basic behavior of Visual WebGui and provide more capabilities over the standard library. Most of these extensions will be offered under a commercial license in a reasonable price. Some controls like Navigation Tabs (outlook tabs) and schedulebox have been moved to these extensions. While these controls...( read more ) Read More...
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Since yesterday there is an update available for Silverlight 2 . This update improves stability, media streaming, and the auto-update component. This update also improves support for Firefox 3 . Microsoft Support kb955011 More details on Silverlight and Firefox 3 for Web developers: Silverlight 2 and Firefox 3… so happy together (Jon Galloway) Firefox 3 and Silverlight (Tim Heuer) Updating silverlight.js and Firefox 3 When visiting download Web page of Silverlight I get the message that the latest Silverlight 2 plugin is installed (version 2.0.30523.6). After installing the Silverlight update using update.microsoft.com I have version 2.0.30523.8, now. Read More...
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The Silverlight Tour now have some dates in Quebec! My company RunAtServer Consulting will manage this training for this part of Canada. The Silverlight Tour Workshop is a high quality three-day course on Silverlight 2. It divides the content into three distinct areas: Design, Development and the Server-Side. Students should be able to develop Silverlight 2 applications once attending the workshop. The Workshop is structured with a mix of didactic lessons, demonstrations and hands-on labs. Each student will leave the workshop having created several small Silverlight 2 applications. This variety of learning techniques will ensure that all students become proficient in the technology quickly and in an exciting way. Dates and locations for the...
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The web works better when web sites are tailored to the capabilities of the platform. That's a given, as far as I am concerned. I have avoiding dealing with this issue in the past in terms of mobile devices in the hopes that the browsers mobile phones will eventually mature to point of approaching desktop capabilities. Also, I am sure that there is some amount of push back to browser quirkiness following the Netscape/IE browser quirk wars of the past decades. But now, as I await delivery of an iPhone 3G, I wonder if I might be doing more to push development for the mobile platform in general. For example, I have used the Opera 9.5 browser (a leaked beta :) on my HTC TyTN for the past few months and I am amazed by how fluidly...
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Visual WebGui, for the first time, enables Silverlight development for enterprises, utilizing Windows Forms-like RAD development and a more powerful and secured GUI. Tel Aviv, Israel —July 16, 2008 — Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform, today announced the release of a fully functional beta version of its Visual WebGui (VWG) with support for Microsoft Silverlight. For the first time VWG enables Silverlight for enterprise applications by providing a RAD like Windows Forms development...( read more ) Read More...
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What is Silverlight Silverlight is a new Web presentation technology that is created to run on a variety of platforms. It enables the creation of rich, visually stunning and interactive experiences that can run everywhere within browsers and on multiple devices and desktop operating systems. In consistency with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), the presentation technology in Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (the Windows programming infrastructure), XAML (e X tensible A pplication M arkup L anguage...( read more ) Read More...
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