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My Latest Silverlight Articles by dwahlin

Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here . I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0 and 2. Each...

Introduction to Layout Controls in Silverlight 2 by dwahlin

Arranging controls on a user interface in a flexible manner is key to building successful applications.   Silverlight 2 provides three main controls that can be used for layout management: · Canvas Control · StackPanel Control · Grid Control In this...
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Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with a WCF Duplex Service – Part II by dwahlin

In Part 1 of this series on pushing data to a Silverlight client with a WCF polling duplex service I demonstrated how service contracts and operations can be defined on the server.  WCF has built-in support for duplex communication (two-way communication...
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Creating a Silverlight 2 Client Access Policy Socket Server by dwahlin

Silverlight 2 provides built-in support for sockets which allows servers to push data to Silverlight clients. By using this feature clients can avoid polling the server on a timed basis to ensure that clients are kept up-to-date. If you're new to the...
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New Features in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 by dwahlin

Bill Gates and S. Somasegar announced several new features at TechEd for Silverlight Beta 2 that are great additions to the existing functionality.  Here's a list of the highlights in Beta 2: UI Framework: Beta 2 includes improvements in animation...
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Desert Code Camp Is This Saturday (May 31st) by dwahlin

Arizona's Desert Code Camp is this Saturday (May 31st) at the University of Advanced Computing building.  Here's the address: University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road ( map ) Tempe, Arizona 85283 It looks like there are a lot of great...

Free eBook - Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET by dwahlin

I wrote a few articles for the Simple Talk Website (run by RedGate Software ) over the past year and was honored to be included in the "Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET" eBook they just released.  The book is a free PDF that covers a lot of...

Carl, Richard and Myself on .NET Rocks Talking About Silverlight 2 by dwahlin

I recently had the chance to sit down with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell at DevConnections Orlando to record a session of .NET Rocks about Silverlight 2 .  They're both a lot of fun to talk with and could probably talk all day without realizing...

Update To Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released by dwahlin

Microsoft just released an update to the Deep Zoom Composer that works with Silverlight 2 Beta 1. If you're unfamiliar with the "deep zoom" technology it provides a way to zoom in and out of images. When I say "zoom in" I mean zoom way in. Check out the...
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Silverlight - The Song by dwahlin

About 6 months ago my good friend Spike Xavier and I got together on a Saturday to work on a new song since we like to get away from programming now and then and mess around with music for fun. It'd been awhile since we released our last song titled No...
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