Archive for January, 2010
Last July I recorded a StarterKit, a series of 10 screencasts for Microsoft showing how to create a Silverlight Color Swatch application complete with some very cool functionality. Here is what I show you how to build: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/ColorSwatch/ Here is the source code: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/ColorSwatch/ColorSwatchSL.zip Here is a list of all of the videos in the [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, The Super Happy Dev House is: ”The premier monthly hackathon event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. SuperHappyDevHouse is a non-exclusive event intended for creative and curious people interested in technology. We’re about knowledge sharing, technology exploration, and ad-hoc collaboration. Come to have fun, build things, [ READ MORE ]
Whenever you need to make a new Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser (OOB) application you have to do a few things before you even get started. You need to make an Install Button, check for updates and inform the user to restart the applications if in fact updates have been installed. In this video I show [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, A friend from Tiwtter yesterday asked me how to make a banner that scrolled forever. So I built a sample application that does just that. Silverlight 4 Version and Silvelright 3 Version. Notice that the banners on those pages will scroll forever. Well I decided that you too may want to accomplish this [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, Lastnight I had the great privillege of presenting Silverlight 4 to the SoCalDotNET Usergroup in Buena Park. I showed some cool new features of Silverlight 4 as well as a quick demo of Sketchflow Prototyping. They were a great, smart crowd. You can view the video Here: http://tinyurl.com/yj8yrnb I will be posting the [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, As you know MIX 2010 is coming soon (March 15-17). Many of us submitted Open Call Session Proposals. Some of those proposals actually were liked enough by MSFT and put up to you, the public for a vote. So, please go to http://visitmix.com/opencallvote/ and vote for the sessions you would like to see. Not going [ READ MORE ]
I wrote an article on this but I thought you guys would like a step-by-step in a video tutorial like you are used to. I am of the mindset that I love to learn by watching and playing along. That being the case I decided to give you both an article and a video. Please [ READ MORE ]
Some have complained that page 33 of my book, Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight tells how to make a Color Resource in a Resource Dictionary. However, because of reasons that are not completely clear to me what I show is not possible to do in Blend for a Silverlight application. For that reason I have written [ READ MORE ]
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