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Top 10 posts of 2010 by nmarun

I quote one of my professors when I say: “We Share – We Improve”. It is through blogging that I’ve learned quite a bit. The ‘R&D’ done to learn and perfect a technology and the comments by other experts adds towards skill-set building. Below are some...

COM Automation with OpenOffice – Silverlight 4 by nmarun

Another article in the ‘– Silverlight 4’ series. I don’t have an extra license for Office suite, but I did want to play with COM Automation feature in Silverlight 4. I said to myself ‘lemme try OpenOffice ’. This is a close match to Microsoft’s Office...
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Xap Reflector – Silverlight 4 by nmarun

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 by nmarun

Alright, here’s what I learnt tonight while playing with the WebBrowser control in SL4. I built a basic app that looks like this: You can type the address and click the navigate button or select one of the items in the ‘Fav Links’ listbox to go to the...
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Using ICommand – Silverlight 4 by nmarun

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...
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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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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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