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What’s New In Silverlight 3
I had the pleasure of presenting What’s New In Silverlight 3 both at TechEd this year and then again to the Redmond .NET Developer’s Association, I think the best way to make this material available is to post my slides … Continue reading
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On The Bleeding Edge: Where All The Fun Is.
Tim Heuer did a brilliant job in his recent blog post sorting through and summing up some of the confusion that has arisen out of the current unusual circumstances of Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio all having two versions available … Continue reading
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I’m committed to Two Tool Development
I confess. After years of developing with separate debuggers, editors and compilers it was a wondrous thing to have an Integrated development environment in which all three and more were combined. I love Visual Studio. And for the past year … Continue reading
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Just Built My First SL3 / Dev 10 App
As you no doubt know we released Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 today (the usual caution applies: I would advise only installing this on a machine you are prepared to repave!). [Update – the Landing Page for all things … Continue reading
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Time Flys Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana
We recently released my video on the new Animation Transition Control and in looking it over I noticed that I promised to follow up on the definition of a Date/Time “Tick” A quick look at Wikipedia reveals any number of … Continue reading
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This is a note that I’m Cindy To Buy Chocolate
Remember the Newton? Such a great idea… almost. Long before the iPhone, Apple released the Newton, promising that you could write in long hand and the Newton would turn your scrawl into printed words. Unfortunately, not always the words you … Continue reading
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Validation. Hey! You’re Done!
Towards the end of my “What’s New In Silverlight 3” presentation for Tech Ed, I discuss the (much anticipated) enhanced Data Validation in SL3. Now, anyone who has been around the block a few times knows that there are … Continue reading
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Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control
The Silverlight Toolkit is innovative in many ways, not least of which is that controls are released in one of four quality bands: Mature: ready for release Stable: suitable for most scenarios Preview: suitable for most basic usage scenarios, … Continue reading
The State of Things – A Brief Review Before Tech Ed.
I think it is fair to say that interest in Silverlight is wicked-high. Twitter grades. Jesse: 99.5th percentile; Tim: 99.8th percentile! Between us Feedburner shows more than 10,000 subscribers 31 Silverlight Sessions at Mix, 30 at Tech Ed LiveSearch of … Continue reading
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Easing is… Easier
For those who have been wondering “Where’s Jesse??” the answer is that I’ve been head’s down preparing for my presentation at Tech Ed (you are going to Tech Ed aren’t you?!) Microsoft has three major conferences. The following is my … Continue reading
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A Twitter App I want
Whose tweets do the people whose tweets I value, value? That is, this application would help me find the people whose tweets I consistently value, and then find out whose tweets they consistently value, and it would do it in … Continue reading
The State of the ViKi
In my previous posting about the VideoWiki project I mentioned that I fell off the edge of the world when I tried to replicate the work I had done previously with the player emitted by Encoder. I’m told by the … Continue reading