Contents tagged with Silverlight
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Silverlight 3 / Expression Lab Posted
Arturo was kind enough to post a hands-on lab I created for a training event in Dallas.
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Silverlight 3 – How to access peripherals
The previous post on Silverlight 3 for kiosk apps outlined some architecture options how you can build Silverlight applications with access to peripherals. This follow up post goes into more detail on the implementation.
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Silverlight 3 for Kiosk Apps? Of Course!
Several of the customers I work with are looking to build kiosk or point-of-sale applications with Silverlight. The ease of deployment with browser-based Silverlight applications is definitely appealing. Sharing applications or components between customers’ kiosks and web sites is another appealing reasons to go with Silverlight. This post outlines the architecture decisions between Silverlight and WPF and presents architecture options for Silverlight based solutions. A follow up post will discuss the Silverlight implementation details.
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Presentation Canvas - Not Your Average PowerPoint
If you've seen my "interactive deck" from TechEd or the some recent Bill Gates demos then or the cool TouchWall demo for example, both showed the concept of a single canvas that you explore during a presentation instead of flipping from one slide to the next.
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Innovation - Explore the Interactive Deck from TechEd 2008
As promised at my TechEd 2008 chalk talk Innovation 101: Tips & Tricks for Architects & Developers to Drive Innovation, here's a slightly evolved version of my interactive deck. I had thought that a talk on innovation should innovate on the presentation tools and technique and here's what came out.
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WPF UI Update from Background Threads
I'm trying to do my apps in any type of XAML these days since I finally think I "got it". I wish I could claim that I will break free from the limitations of HTML and my new found liberty will result in fantastic looking apps -- but in reality, I still lack the design skills to come up with something that looks really cool.
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Silverlight 2.0 App Not Starting - Fix IIS
Silverlight 2.0 introduces a new application model. Assets for Silverlight applications, i.e. code and resources are packaged up in a .xap file. When you install the latest version of the The Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25144C27-6514-4AD4-8BCB-E2E051416E03&displaylang=en), you'll find that Silverlight projects automatically create the .xap packages when you check the Silverlight tab of the project properties:
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Popfly blocks with Visual Studio 2008
Finally, the Popfly beta is available to the general public! What's Popfly, you ask? It's the mashup tool for the Silverlight generation and a community site to go with it.
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How Silverlight Update Works
Silverlight is designed to make the update experience as seamless as possible, but its designers also considered security awareness as well as enabling user or enterprise managed overrides.