Archives
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Xap Reflector – Silverlight 4
I’ve always wanted to write a program that ‘opens-up’ a .xap file and go through its contents, kinda like Red-Gates’ Reflector, only that this one does it for .xap files… this marks the birth of a XapReflector. Here are the features of the application:
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WebBrowser and its “gotcha's” – Silverlight 4
Alright, here’s what I learnt tonight while playing with the WebBrowser control in SL4. I built a basic app that looks like this:
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Moving back to India
Yep, we’re moving back to India; yea, it’s that time. Although this is not a technical article, I just wanted to share with you the time spent in the US of A. Below are some of the highlights:
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Using ICommand – Silverlight 4
Another article in the ‘- Silverlight 4’ series (read the first two here: DragNDrop, Right-Click Save As and Local File Access). In this one we’ll talk about using the ICommand feature, now implemented in Silverlight. Read the announcement in Tim Heuer’s own words here.
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Drag-N-Drop, Right-Click Save As – Silverlight 4
It’s me again. I’ve made this small application where a user can drag-n-drop a few .jpg files on the Silverlight application and they’ll show up on a wrap panel. Then the user can right-click on any of the images and save them as .png on the disk. To make the blog writing more modular, I’ll divide the topic into three segments:
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Local file access - Silverlight 4
I was successful in setting up my first virtual machine and install Visual Studio 2010 on it. I know I can run VS2010 side-by-side with VS2008, but I wanted to be absolutely sure I don’t corrupt/change any of my projects/solutions. Here’s the first of the ‘- Silverlight 4’ series and I hope to be doing more of these.
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ASP.NET MVC ViewData.Eval() method
While digging deeper into MVC Views, I stumbled on this method – ViewData.Eval(). Found it interesting and researched and played with some code around this method.
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Silverlight – a progressive journey
I’m sure you’ve all heard of Silverlight 4 beta release at the PDC09. The announcement took me by surprise as I upgraded my projects to Silverlight 3 a couple of months back and then MS announces the next version… huh?. Here’s the release story of Silverlight.
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Prism - MVVM - Silverlight gotcha's
This is an extension to my previous blog where I showed my first application using Prism and Silverlight. As for this article, I just want to share the "gotcha's" I learned through a slightly more complex and a real-world (ish) application.
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Programming Silverlight with MVVM pattern using Prism
Here’s what I wanted to do:
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Windows 7 – Clock messed up?
It was just before 6p and I was working on some Silverlight-PRISM thingi (technical jargon), when I clicked on the clock instead of the ‘Show Desktop’ icon on my Windows 7 machine. I was extremely surprised to see the clock like this:
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VS 2010 ASP.NET 4.0 RedirectPermanent does a 301 and not 302
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Essential Silverlight 3 – a must read
Hats off to the author Ashraf Michail for his book Essential Silverlight 3. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to delve into Silverlight programming.
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…more Visual Studio shortcuts
Bumped into some shortcut keys while playing with Silverlight.
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Custom 404 when no route matches
Playing with MVC gets interesting every time.
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Silverlight + MVC = coolness
Two blogs – one from Tim Heuer and the other from Joe Wardell inspired me to change my website to an MVC site.
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Multiple postbacks in an MVC page
With my limited (but growing) experience in MVC, I’ve come up with a way to handle multiple postbacks to the same page in MVC. Here’s a simple application:
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Image pre-fetch using Silverlight
Alright, this is my first blog, although I’ve been a developer for quite some time now… yeah I’m sorry for not following the ‘we share we improve’ policy. So I’ve created my blog site – ‘IBloggable – implemented’, and now.. off I go.