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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:50 PM

Silverlight 4 Implicit Styling

One of the cool new features of Silverlight 4 is Implicit Styling: you can now theme your application without resorting to the ImplicitStyleManager from the toolkit. For that you just create Styles in resource and do not specify x:keys (just the TargetType...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:22 PM

Silverlight 4 beta released!

Silverlight 4 beta was announced by Scott Guthrie a few minutes ago during his keynote at PDC 2009 . So only 4 months after Silverlight 3 released, we have a new version to play with!! Silverlight 4 brings several interesting features: Webcam/mic support...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:41 PM

Skin your Silverlight 3 app with Implicit Style Manager

Silverlight 3 do not have implicit style like WPF or a Theming feature like ASP.NET which means you can’t [automatically] apply a Style to every Button of the app like in ASP.NET for example. In Silverlight 3 you need to explicitly set styles on every...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 7:08 PM

Silverlight Tour Halifax

The Silverlight Tour is visiting Halifax (NS) , so get ready to enlighten your RIA app with this top Silverlight 3 training!! When: November 23-25 Where: Halifax, NS, Canada Registration: http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx If you are...
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Friday, November 13, 2009 9:51 PM

Bing Maps with Silverlight

Microsoft has released a free Bing Maps Silverlight control . I gave it a try and I must say I'm really impressed by the quality and level of features of this control. The UX is very nice, it uses DeepZoom, animation and is highly customizable!! To try...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:34 PM

Blend SketchFlow project: from prototype to real screens?

I have been doing many demos of Blend SketchFlow , but never tried the process to go from sketch to real screens when prototyping is finished. After MIX09, my first understanding was that one of the goals of SketchFlow was being able to easily switch...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:51 AM

Silverlight Tour Quebec in December

  The Silverlight Tour is visiting Québec city (Qc) again, so get ready to enlighten your RIA app with this top Silverlight 3 training!! When: December 14-16 Where: Québec, Qc Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:36 AM

Update Out Of Browser (OOB) Silverlight apps

Once your Silverlight application installed on the local computer what happens if there is an update ? The local application is not updated automatically but you can check that in your code. The CheckAndDownloadUpdateAsync() method downloads the updated...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:11 AM

Debug Out Of Browser (OOB) Silverlight apps

An installed (OOB) Silverlight application is supposed to run the same as in browser, but sometimes you might want to debug it. First you could attach VS to the sllauncher.exe process, but there is easier: Run your application in the browser and install...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:51 PM

Silverlight Tour Montreal in November

The Silverlight Tour is coming back to Montreal next week. When: November 02-04 Where: Montreal, Qc Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is...
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