November 2009 - Posts

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Drag-N-Drop, Right-Click Save As – Silverlight 4 by nmarun

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...
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Local file access - Silverlight 4 by nmarun

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...
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ASP.NET MVC ViewData.Eval() method by nmarun

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. This method gives the user a way to search through the ViewData’s object graph. So in order...
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Silverlight – a progressive journey by nmarun

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 by nmarun

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 by nmarun

Here’s what I wanted to do: A Silverlight project User logs in A service runs and displays data upon successful login Quite simple right? In ‘pure’ Silverlight, one could probably do this in like 15 minutes, but I wanted to do this using Prism following...
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Windows 7 – Clock messed up? by nmarun

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: See the hour-hand...
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