Contents tagged with Silverlight
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I’m a Windows Phone 7 Game Publisher!
Windows Phone 7 isn’t widely available yet, but you can already buy quite a few apps for it. I’m proud to say that my little game, Classic Hits, has just been published in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.
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Visual Studio Lightswitch - Welcome Advanced Amateurs
There are a lot of people in business who are wizards with tools like Excel, even though their primary job isn’t software development. Sometimes their apps become essential to the business process.
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MIX10 Big Announcements Speculation
What’s your speculation on the big announcements to come from MIX10? A date for VS 2010 availability on MSDN? A release candidate for Silverlight 4 on the desktop? An SDK for Silverlight on Windows Mobile 7? A CTP of Internet Explorer 9? Something (anything!) new on Windows Live ID development? More JQuery in ASP.NET?
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On Being Blow Away by Technology
While watching Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brian Goldfarb demonstrate Silverlight 4, I had a range of reactions:
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Silverlight 3 Tools Available on Downloads
The MIX 09 avalanche is hitting Microsoft Downloads:
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Predictions for MIX 09 Announcements
Everybody is heading to MIX 09 except me! Poor me. I'm working on a nice ASP.NET 3.5 contract.
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Silverlight 2 Update - Get the Developer Version
The latest Silverlight 2 update (Silverlight 2 GDR 1 (2.0.40115.0)) failed to install on my machine because it detected that I already had the developer version.
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Source Code for Creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form Released
I've release the source code from my screencast series on Creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form at the MSDN Code Gallery. On the Downloads tab, you'll find several files for VB and C# projects. The basic source code is the same, but the large downloads include the Northwind database and (even larger) binaries that would be a pain for people who have restricted-bandwidth.
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Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 8: Client Storage
In Episode 8, we continue working with the AutoCompleteBox control that we implemented in Episode 7. This time, we fetch a long list of country names as XML from a third-party Web service, cache the file on the client using isolated storage, and harness LINQ to XML to retrieve the country names. One of the considerations is checking Silverlight's access to the remote data. Finally, you learn how to use (and re-use) a static resource within XAML markup.
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A Better Way to do Silverlight Databinding
The guys at Intersoft Solutions are ahead of the curve again with their Intersoft Data Source control for Silverlight. The CTP includes the AstoriaDataSource that connects cleanly to an ADO.NET Data service.