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Our Greeting Card with Silverlight and Azure
We just deployed our corporate Silverlight Greeting Card to Windows Azure, the cloud computing service from Microsoft.
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Silverlight 4 controls by Telerik
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Silverlight 4 Training in Montreal for Christmas!
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Silverlight 4 presentation at the Montreal UG
Unfortunately we had Jesse Liberty down by H1N1, so I took care of the Silverlight 4 session with co-worker Dominic Sévigny at the Montreal .NET Community meeting. -
Silverlight 4 Right-click mouse support
Silverlight 4 (currently in beta) adds support for right-click mouse events on all UIElements: -
My Silverlight session at Microsoft TechDays Canada 2009
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Silverlight 4 Training Montreal in December
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Silverlight 4 presentation in Montreal (Qc)
Don’t miss the next Montreal .NET Community meeting which RunAtServer Consulting will be the proud sponsor. -
Silverlight 4 Text Trimming
Another feature which was in WPF but not in Silverlight 3… TextTrimming is now available in Silverlight 4! -
Silverlight 4 Clipboard access
Silverlight 4 (currently in beta) adds support for Clipboard! -
Silverlight 4 Mouse Wheel support
MouseWheel event was available in Silverlight 3 but you had to manage it yourself. -
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. -
Silverlight 4 beta released!
Silverlight 4 beta was announced by Scott Guthrie a few minutes ago during his keynote at PDC 2009. -
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.
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Silverlight Tour Halifax
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Bing Maps with Silverlight
Microsoft has released a free Bing Maps Silverlight control.
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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 from prototype to "real" app. But I was wrong and I found that many people are. -
Silverlight Tour Quebec in December
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Update Out Of Browser (OOB) Silverlight apps
Once your Silverlight application installed on the local computer what happens if there is an update ?
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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.
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Silverlight Tour Montreal in November
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BulletedList in Silverlight
Today I wanted to add a bulleted list of text items in a xaml page, as there is no BulletedList control in Silverlight, you have to do it yourself. But I don’t need a databound list, just something simple in a TextBlock, so here is what I ended with, using <LineBreak> and <Run> elements:
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Samedi.NET special Silverlight event in Montreal
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Silverlight presentation at the Quebec User Group
Yesterday I did a Silverlight presentation at the Quebec User Group and my goal was to show the new features of Silverlight 3 to help build business app, so this was not quite an intro presentation with no animation and video...
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Silverlight Tour coming to Switzerland!
I am very proud to announce that the Silverlight Tour is going to Switzerland.
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Windows 7 logon background changer
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[Book review] Silverlight 3 Jumpstart
Silverlight 3 Jumpstart by David Yack, Microsoft Silverlight MVP, is a small book designed to get you started with Silverlight. I think it was the first Silverlight 3 book available.
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Microsoft "All-In-One Code Framework" for Silverlight
"All-In-One Code Framework" delineates the framework and skeleton of most Microsoft development techniques using typical examples in different programming languages.
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Silverlight 3 Activity control
The Activity control is an async/background activity indicator: it shows a progress bar while data is being loaded or work is being done in the background.
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[french] Montreal User Group special Silverlight event!
For anyone near Montreal don’t miss this user group special event in less than 30 days:
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Free e-learning on XAML
Microsoft Learning has just released an online course "Introduction to XAML" which is free.
To access the course follow this link:
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Silverlight 4 feature suggestions
Worried about what’s coming in the next version of Silverlight ?
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Tutorial: create a custom Silverlight Splash Screen
The first time a user visit the page which holds your Silverlight app, the browser needs to download the XAP file first, but sometimes this file can become large, so Silverlight automatically displays its default “loading screen”, also called a “Splash Screen”:
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Silverlight Tour Quebec in September
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Migrate from Silverlight 2 to 3
Just a quick note on this as I still found people stuck with this error:
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Silverlight Tour Paris in September
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Silverlight EnableFramerateCounter parameter
EnableFramerateCounter is a parameter you can activate on the Silverlight Plug-in object. (For a comprehensive list of Silverlight param, see my previous post).
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Provide startup parameters to Silverlight with InitParams
I have been giving Silverlight trainings for a while now, and I found this to be a little known feature: the ability to provide Silverlight startup parameters with InitParams.
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Silverlight Tour in Quebec (french)
After Montreal and Vancouver, the Silverlight Tour is coming to Québec city next week!
I’ll do this 3 days of intensive Silverlight 3 training in French, if you are interested act quickly as it is coming fast!! -
[Cool tool] Silverlight Spy
Silverlight Spy is a
free(*) tool that allows you to inspect any online Silverlight app. -
Silverlight Tour Vancouver next week!
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Expression Studio 3 available online
Final version of Expression Studio 3 is now available online as free 60 days trial. -
Silverlight 3 object tag param list (aka Where is my asp:Silverlight control?)
As you know Silverlight 3 is released, among the new features, one of the first things you’ll notice is the disappearance of the asp:Silverlight control. This server control was available with Silverlight 2 to help you insert Silverlight app in ASP.NET pages. This asp:Silverlight control is no longer part of Silverlight 3 tools or SDK, the recommended way is to use the html Object tag or Silverlight.js approach. Note that if you have an existing Silverlight 2 application, you can continue to use the asp:Silverlight control, even if you migrate it to Silverlight 3 (you get it from the referenced System.Web.Silverlight.dll assembly, this is the one that is not part of Silverlight 3 anymore).
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See the Light…
… very soon.
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Microsoft TechDays Canada 2009
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Silverlight Tour coming to Vancouver in July
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Bing.com – new “decision engine” by Microsoft
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My Silverlight presentations at Code Camp Montreal
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Make Web Not War
Here is a teaser from Microsoft regarding the new Web Platform Installer… featuring Scott Guthrie and Soma:
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So what is Windows Azure?
Everybody asked me this question last week at TechEd Los Angeles, even at customs before my flight, and at registration, hotel, … (I wore an Azure Tshirt).
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Get ready for Code Camp Montreal
Code Camp Montreal will take place on Saturday, May 30th 2009.
It is free but you need to sign up on the website: www.codecampmontreal.com
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Silverlight Tour on Facebook
The Silverlight Tour has now its own page on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/The-Silverlight-Tour/83006391011
Not here to replace the official website, but to add a “social flavour”... become a fan! -
Windows 7 - Link your Online IDs
Windows 7 allows you to link your online ID with your Windows user account. This will pre-populate your credentials (username/password) each time you use a connected software. Any standards-compliant ID can hook into this feature. For now, only Windows Live ID works.
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Windows Azure videos
Want to learn more on Windows Azure?
Microsoft has a nice “How do I?” videos series:
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Microsoft Expert at TechEd in the Azure Track
I have been selected as a Microsoft Expert for the Azure Track at TechEd North America 2009.
Not Silverlight? Anyway, LA, here I come! -
Silverlight Contrib to Merge with Silverlight Extensions
Good news, 2 very good Silverlight Community Projects I mentioned before have merged: Silverlight Extensions and Silverlight Contrib.
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Silverlight presentation at the Microsoft Architects Forum
This week I had the opportunity to present Silverlight on a business perspective at the Microsoft Architects Forum in Montreal.
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Silverlight Tour Paris in june
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MVP Silverlight!
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Silverlight 3 ebook preview
While at MIX09 we were given a free print preview of the next book of Laurence Moroney (First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3 – MS Press) with a chapter on some of the new Silverlight 3 features.
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Silverlight – Get Color from Hex
What if you want to get a Color from its hexa value (#FFBBCC88) ?
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Silverlight 3 - Create a nice Navigation Flip
Here is a sample we made at RunAtServer using Silverlight 3 Perspective 3D feature and the new Navigation API to create a nice navigation flip!
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Silverlight 3 – The amazing Bouncing Plane demo
The source code of the demo showed by Scott Guthrie during the Keynote at MIX09 is available thanks to Henry Hahn. This impressive demo shows several Silverlight 3 new graphics features : Pixel Shader effects, Perspective 3d and the new Easing Functions.
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Prevent a Silverlight animation from running twice
By default in Silverlight a user can launch the same animation several times, even if the animation is not finished. Side effects: the animation starts again and your code (if any) runs twice. Sometimes this can be annoying.
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Empty iframe purpose in Silverlight html test page?
As you may have noticed while creating a Silverlight project, the default html test page generated by Visual Studio 2008 contains the object tag + an empty invisible iframe with no id.
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Code Camp Montreal 2009
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My blog in French, or Spanish, or Chinese, or…?
Use the Microsoft Translator Widget to translate your web site!
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My Silverlight talk at Montreal .NET User Group
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The very first Silverlight 3 training in Montreal!
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My talk on MIX09 (french)
As last year, I was invited at the Visual Studio Talk Show, a Quebec .NET podcast, to talk (in french...) about all the announcements (mainly Silverlight 3) made at MIX this year, so in case you need a recap... -
Silverlight 3 - Playing with Perspective 3D
Silverlight 3 allows you to apply 3D transformation to XAML elements.
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MIX09: ScottGu crazy keynote intro!!!
You have to watch this, direct answer to the red polo buzz…
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Silverlight Physics Helper won at MIX09 Show Off!
Wow my buddy Andy won first place at the MIX09 Show Off contest with an awesome video featuring his Physics Helper Library in Silverlight.
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MIX10 announced - save the date
MIX will come back in 2010, same city but different venue…
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Silverlight Tour in Quebec city
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Silverlight EnableFrameRateCounter not displayed in IE status bar
As you may know you can set the EnableFrameRateCounter="true" property of the <asp:Silverlight> control to display the actual Silverlight framerate in the status bar of the browser.
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Silverlight 3 new business app features
This has just been announced at MIX09 keynote, Silverlight 3 is available in beta and comes with new features very much business application oriented (as well as media and graphics improvements). Concerning application development improvements Silverlight 3 adds:
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Silverlight and SEO
Did you know that silverlight.net has some interesting whitepapers ?
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Silverlight Tour in Paris early April
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Get Silverlight xap and hosting page URL
Very simple but I am often asked this during trainings:
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[Fun] ScottGu Red Polo petition
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RIAstats.com shows Silverlight adoption
There has been lot’s of buzz those days around Silverlight adoption and RIA plug-in deployments.
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Silverlight Tour featured at the MVP Summit 2009
That was just before the Keynote in the big room!
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Microsoft MVP Summit 2009
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I’M A PC video during MVP Summit
I’M A PC video with MVPs from all around the world… done.
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Silverlight Release History
This document contains information on each public release of Silverlight: enhancements, new features, also from there you can download previous releases: -
[New] ScottGu with no polo!
…but with a white shirt!
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Create a nice Silverlight game, win $5000
Microsoft is organizing a Silverlight contest: create a cool game with Silverlight 2 for the Server Quest Contest 2009 and you could win $5000 cash.
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Silverlight Tour resource links
Each time I teach the Silverlight Tour Workshop I use some links to show interesting stuffs related to each topic I present, so I think it will be interesting to list them here, grouped by interest:
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The TechEd 2008 North America DVD fix you’ve been waiting for!
I made a little tool to fix the TechEd 2008 North America DVD player because it was built for Silverlight 2 beta 2, no more working now.
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Windows 7 and the betta fish ;-)
Windows 7 beta comes with this default wallpaper: a fish, but not any kind of fish… it’s a betta fish…
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Windows 7 beta - Fix nVidia drivers and Aero
Since I installed Windows 7 beta on my Dell D830 laptop I was not able to get Aero glass as my current driver only support 16-bit color. Moreover the nVidia beta drivers for Windows 7 available on Windows Update refuse to install for me.
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Windows 7 – Fun with Aero
Windows 7 introduces some mouse gestures features: Aero Shake and Aero Snap.
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Windows 7 first impressions
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MIX09 sessions
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Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: ASP.NET 3.5
Back from vacation I’ve just received an email to say I earn my Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: ASP.NET Developer 3.5 certification (70-564), which I took in beta back in November 08. As an MCT that gives me the opportunity to teach more Microsoft courses (MOC).
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Silverlight Showcase entry
Our Silverlight DeepZoom Wishes Card is featured in the official Silverlight Showcase, how cool is that!
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DevTeach Vancouver 50% coupon (June 8-12,2009)
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[Cool Tool] ZoomIt gets an update!
ZoomIt is a must have free tool for speakers and presenters!
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Silverlight Wishes card!
This year at RunAtServer Consulting we made our wishes card with Silverlight and DeepZoom!
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Zune 30 frozen day
I thought it was just a problem with my Zune, I was wrong. -
Third time's a charm (MVP award)
