September 2008 - Posts
The following is a step by step walkthrough of designing a simple Balloon shooting silverlight game. Hope you enjoy it. Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 1/4, Design Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 2/4, Create Silverlight project, add balloon user control Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 3/4, add BalloonAction.cs Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 4/4, modify the main control Page.xaml Xinyang Qiu SDET II Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...
The following link is how to reference an ADO.Net Data Service Service referencing ADO.Net Data Service Xinyang Qiu SDET II Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...
Recently my team has been working on the Managed Extensions Framework (MEF)... I have gotten a chance to explain the concept to folks and I think I have discovered a way to talk about MEF that folks can easily get. So I thought I'd spend a little time walking through a *very* simple MEF example as a way to introduce folks to the power of extensible applications in general, and MEF in particular. BTW, you can download the current MEF CTP and the final working sample . Background Let's start with the most simple example: Hello World! 1: using System; 2: 3: class Program 4: { 5: public void Run() 6: { 7: Console.WriteLine( "Hello World!" ); 8: Console.ReadKey(); 9: } 10: static void Main( string [] args) 11: { 12: Program p =...
You may have read that from John Resig or Scott Guthrie . I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft has decided to ship, adopt and support using jQuery on top of ASP.NET. This may come as a surprise to some of you but I hope you’ll agree with me that it makes total sense. jQuery is a fantastic JavaScript library that focuses on DOM querying and manipulation, whereas the Microsoft Ajax Library focuses on building reusable components and interacting with ASP.NET web services. A lot has been written already on this new partnership so I’ll just go ahead and show some code that hopefully will show how great jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX work together. As my first piece of code using both frameworks, I’ve built a very simple plug-in for jQuery that instantiates...
I have heard many customers ask about building business applications on Silverlight... the union of a great .NET programming model web-style deployment\update and rich user experience makes Silverlight an attractive option. Rockford Lhotka recently released an update of his very popular business application framework CLSA.NET for Silverlight 2! You can read the over view here: Overview of CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and Silverlight While we are at it, the Patterns and Practices folks are also working on Prism for Silverlight ... another great resource for you! Enjoy! Read More...
Here is the updated control sample for RC0. Just a few changes from Beta 2 - RCO: generic.xaml needs to now be in a folder called "themes" (case sensitive) rather than in the root of your project. In VSM transition declarations "Duration" has been renamed to "GeneratedDuration" So porting was easy. If you want to play with this, definitely load it up in Blend and check out the great new VSM support as well. It make re-templating MUCH easier and I had some fun creating weird collapse effects (not included). Read More...
jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code. jQuery supports this via a nice "selector" API that allows developers to query for HTML elements, and then apply "commands" to them. One of the characteristics of jQuery commands is that they can be "chained" together - so that the result of one command can feed into another. jQuery also includes a built-in set of animation APIs that can be used as commands. The combination...
This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2. There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship. We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to update their existing Silverlight Beta2 applications so that they'll work the day the final release ships, as well as to enable developers to report any last minute showstopper issues that we haven't found internally (please report any of these on the www.silverlight.net forums). Important: We are releasing only the Silverlight Developer Runtime edition (as well as the VS and Blend tools to support it) today, and are not releasing the regular end-user edition of Silverlight. This...
Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2 –> Release before the final release of the runtime is out. Also, included below is a link to a patch that will upgrade Blend. Visual Studio 2008 Tools RC0: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129043 Expression Blend SP1 RC0: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prerelease Windows Silverlight 2 Dev Runtime RC0: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=129011 For more details please read my blog here: http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/09/25/silverlight-version-2-rc0-released.aspx Thank you...
Silverlight Tip of the Day #46 Title: Font Support in Silverlight Silverlight Tip of the Day #45: Title: Text Formatting with the TextBlock control Silverlight Tip of the Day #44: Title: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services. Silverlight Tip of the Day #43 Title: Making it Snow in Silverlight. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Snowfall/iframe.html (Note that beta 2 is required ) Silverlight Tip of the Day #42 Title: How to Create a Web Service for your Silverlight App. Silverlight Tip of the Day #41 Title: Using Bookmarks in your Silverlight Application. Silverlight Tip of the Day #40 Title: 1.05 != 1.05 - Peril with Floating Point Comparisons. See them all at: http://www.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow...
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