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One more gadget (the ego never quits)
I woke up at 5 this morning, so I decided to take apart the Silverlight Tip of the Day gadget that Kelly White had so kindly created and, as an exercise in egomania, modify it to display all my blog … Continue reading
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Tip of the Day – Getting Ready for Silverlight 2
We have announced that Silverlight 2 Beta 1, will be released during the first 3 months of this year (that is, any day now) with a go-live license. It is important to keep in mind that this will be a … Continue reading
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Tip of the Day – Time to move to Generic Collections for Silverlight.
In Silverlight 1.1 the non-generic collections were marked obsolete. We have announced that the non-generic collections will not be in Silverlight 2.0 at all, so if you're still using non-generic collections like ArrayList it is time to step up to … Continue reading
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Free Silverlight Seminar in Dallas Texas Feb 18, 2008
Shawn Wildermuth, theADOguy (who should really rename himself the Silverlight guy) is giving a free seminar at the Microsoft office in Dallas on 2/18. Shawn is a very smart cool guy who knows a lot about a lot, and even … Continue reading
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Webcast Follow-up – CreateFromXAML
Today's Webcast focused on factoring out repeated creation of objects in XAML (and their manipulation in the code behind) by creating objects dynamically using CreateFromXaml (This will be available for viewing as soon as the recording is processed). The webcast … Continue reading
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Adam Kinney’s Too Great To Miss Tutorial on Making a Chart In 1.0
Do not miss Adam Kinney's excellent tutorial on creating a bar chart in Silverlight 1.0; it is brilliant, and it is a great staring point on working with XAML, JavaScript, JSON data and many other interesting aspects of Silverlight. Also, … Continue reading
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Tips of the Day: Setting properties in custom controls in 1.0
Got a nice international email today that said in part… …things get more interesting it is a common scenario to write custom controls….I need to specify the parameters in code behind. Can I create custom xaml tags which are connected … Continue reading
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Silverlight Tip of the Day Gadget Version 2
Kelly White has updated the Silverlight Tip of the Day Vista Gadget and added the ability to set the update frequency; so that you are sure to get the Tip of the Day just after it is posted (1 pm … Continue reading
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Did You Know… How to create XAML objects in Javascript?
I have had a very strong positive reaction to focusing on the Javascript in code behind for Silverlight 1.0, and so will devote not only today's Tip of the Day to a bit more on the topic, but will make … Continue reading
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Did You Know That… The Code Behind is Just… Code?
A very insightful reader sent me email that I'm going to respond to here. To protect his identity let's call him Bob. I'm going to excerpt Bob's email and rephrase a bit so that this becomes a more general discussion. … Continue reading
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Did You Know.. There is now a Silverlight TOD Gadget?
Thanks to the work of Kelly White you can now have the Silverlight Tip of the Day appear in your Vista Sidebar as a Gadget . Kelly has graciously made the script available here. Just unzip the file and place … Continue reading
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My Last Pre-Mix Web Cast: Feb 6: Dynamic S.L. 1.0 Apps w/ CreateFromXAML
I will be giving my last pre-mix Webcast on Feb 6 (did i hear cheering??) on Feb 6 on the topic: "Building a dynamic Silverlight Application using a web service, the downloader and CreateFromXAML" — you can read more about … Continue reading
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