Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

  An example of the difference between an “ok”  blog post and a brilliant posting  crossed my reader yesterday and it was too canonical not to comment on.  Scott Hanselman wrote about his wish (shared by so many of us) for a … Continue reading →

It is of course inertia, that overwhelming sense of “what is the most important thing to do first?” that will kill you, and this project got hit bad because it came just when Passover interrupted my normal schedule, along with … Continue reading →

  The initial approach to designing the VideoWiki is to layout all the obvious pieces of the design, understanding that this will evolve over time.  Here is my first cut at the design.   If you have Silverlight 3 installed, the … Continue reading →

  The neurons in your brain have a basic structure of an axon (the finer cable like projections) and dendrites (the branches) and the soma (the central part of the neuron).  The axon emerges from the soma at the axon … Continue reading →

It turns out, as many of us have known but not really focused on, that you can ask TinyURL.com to give you a custom url if it is not otherwise taken. We know what has happened with full URLS, and … Continue reading →

VideoWiki Project and Meta-Project – Launch I am pleased to announce a new long term project that I am launching here on Silverlight.net, principally on my blog, but that will reach into my videos and beyond. This note is the … Continue reading →

I had a little trouble unpacking my new mouse     But once I did, I really like it. Very comfortable and very nice looking. (no wise cracks about looking for the apple logo, thank you).  I’m impressed by the … Continue reading →

…and Why Coding Is So Much Fun A Gonzo Adventure In What You Can Learn When You’re Not Doing What You Are Supposed To Be Doing And You’ll Be Done In Just A Minute, It Almost Works…   [Read the … Continue reading →

  Guaranteed to have the quality of Example Code – Every Time  To keep things a bit tidier here, I’ve consolidated the messages about the Example-Code Quality effort to provide development environment information to a  centralized page that can also be … Continue reading →

I mentioned in a previous blog post that I’d posted a two part video on the new 3d capabilities in Silverlight 3. Since then I’ve had a few great conversations with Jeff Paries (who knows more about Silverlight Animation than … Continue reading →

      You can learn a great deal about the new TimePicker class with a fairly simple example program that I will lay out and zip through here (a full video on the topic is coming very soon). To … Continue reading →

Some people are naturally organized – my wife can (literally) find a receipt from five years ago within minutes. I’m lucky if I can find a receipt from Mix. Organization Through Larger Boxes I recently read a book that suggested … Continue reading →