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Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days
Miguel de Icaza is writing yesterday on his blog that he wrote a Silverlight plugin for Linux: "The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same … more
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Expression Studio in German
The German trial versions of Microsoft Expression Studio are now available. The full versions will be available in about 6 weeks, Expression Web is already available. Expression Blend (Windows, 180 … more
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Silverlight and Infragistics
Infragistics is already deeply involved in Silverlight development. They are excited about the platform as the next-generation Web UI. They think there are several key wins in Silverlight for Web … more
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Balder - 3D Engine for Silverlight
The source code of the 3D engine called Balder is available on CodePlex, now. The state of the source code is not 100% yet, but people can download it for now and have a look at how you could do a … more
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[de] .NET User Group Franken am 5. Juli 2007
Die .NET User Group Franken trifft sich mal wieder, diesmal in den Räumen der evosoft GmbH (Dank geht an Igor Milovanovic). Themen Daniel Zeiss spricht zum Thema ComfortASP.NET, nachdem ich ihm ja … more
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Apple Safari for Windows and Microsoft Silverlight
Since yesterday you can download Safari 3 Plublic Beta for Windows. "The world's best browser.", "the fastest, easiest-to-use Web browser in the world" - does this really be true? After … more
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Silverlight 1.1 Plug-in installed
Well, during the weekend I added a small test to log how many visitors of my blog have installed the Silverlight plug-in already. 55% don't have the plug-in installed, 32% are using … more
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My Silverlight Weekend Summary
During the weekend I found several new examples about Silverlight. Because I'm running several Web sites that need any kind of diagrams I was happy to see these nice examples from Richard: JellyBar, … more
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VistaDB with Silverlight
Today I read on the VistaDB blog that their database engine will run on Silverlight. I'm not sure if I want to put a complete database engine in Silverlight applications. Do I have to put the … more
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New Examples and Tutorials
During the last days I have added some new tutorials and examples to my list. Dave Campbell sent me a short message that he has already a kind of Silverlight examples collection. Have a look on his … more
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Silverlight Tutorials
There are a couple of great tutorials on how to developer Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 or 1.1 Web applications: Mix 07 Silverlight Sessions Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2) … more
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How to create Silverlight Applications with Notepad
You may have read my post about how you can build Silverlight Web applications with Visual Studio .NET 2005 instead of using the next verison codename Orcas. Until this time I used always a Virtual … more
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Updated Silverlight Surface Demo
Ok, it was a very simple bug on my side with the ZIndex property. I have updated the online version and the download. If you have a slow connection you may have to wait some seconds to see the video. … more
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Microsoft Silverlight Introduction (LiveMeeting)
Tomorrow there is an online event for developers talking about Silverlight at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada): "Microsoft Silverlight is a technology for delivering rich, cross-platform … more
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Bubblemark Animation Test
Did you ever compared client-side RIA frameworks? Alexey Gavrilov has written a great test to directly compare performance: Silverlight (WPF/e) vs. DHTML vs. Flash (Flex) vs. WPF vs Apollo vs. Java ( … more
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Silverlight Surface Demonstration (Video Support)
In one of my last posts I wrote about the Silverlight Surface demo of the "photo table". If you had a look on the live demo you only see images, no video. I have added this because it is a very … more
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Silverlight Examples
During the weekend I spent some minutes to collect some of the greatest Silverlight examples. Most of them need the Silverlight 1.1 alpha runtime which is available for download here. If you are … more
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Silverlight Surface Demonstration
Microsoft announced some days ago its Surface product. If you didn't had a look on the videos you should watch it. Microsoft Surface Teaser Business 2.0 Demo The Possibilities Microsoft … more
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Silverlight with Visual Studio .NET 2005
Could Silverlight 1.1 assemblies be generated with Visual Studio .NET 2005? Well, if you read the GetStarted page of Silverlight you see only upcoming Visual Studio codename Orcas as development … more
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Silverlight Streaming
Microsoft Silverlight Streaming is a new service by Windows Live that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich meda as part of their Silverlight applications. The new … more
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JavaScript and .NET Arrays in Silverlight
During my tests with the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) in Silverlight 1.1 I came accross several things that didn't work first. Most of them could be fixed by using small workarounds. Managed … more
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Silverlight and JSON
Silverlight 1.1 comes with an built-in JSON serializer which can serialize common data types like string, numbers and arrays. It includes a object serializer, too, I think it is nearly the same as in … more
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Call Scribtable Methods from JavaScript with Silverlight
Today I wrote a very simple example how to call a C# method from JavaScript code. I was using this because I'd like to access the IsolatedStorage with a small wrapper that is working similar to the … more
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Silverlight 1.0 and OnLoad
There are some changes for the OnLoad event handler from older beta versions (code name WPF/E). In Silverlight 1.0 beta you will use following event handler, now: function handleLoad(control, … more