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Blend Container Editing

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:17:15 GMT

I love teaching the Silverlight Tour as pretty much every class I teach I learn something new. I get used to certain features of Blend that do what I need but because of some bugs, I have gotten too good at hand-editing my XAML . In my current class (a private class for a Dutch software company), one of their very bright engineers showed me this trick: I was explaining how you can specify the rows/columns in the main grid by clicking on the top/left bars as seen below: I was starting to explain that...(read more)

Tutorial Feedback – Leave a Comment Why Dontcha?

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:49:22 GMT

I’m incredibly pleased to say that we have implemented a comments section for each tutorial, just as we do for each video Please leave your comments and I will subscribe to the comments list and try to respond as quickly as possible (if your comment goes unanswered for a while, don’t hesitate to send me mail: jliberty@microsoft.com NB: I’ve heard loud and clear that you want to see more advanced topics covered; they are on the way. The current plan calls for a tutorial in September and one in October...(read more)

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Silverlight City - Recent Posts — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:59:45 GMT

Post: Approved at: Aug-19-2008 Silverlight heating up with Grid Girls Seems Silverlight is really getting around the sports world ;) Pick a Girl and maybe win a prize: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62045016,00.htm http://www.singtelrace.com/SingTel-Grid-Girls_Heart-Race.aspx Implement Custom Mouse Cursor http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/08/18/tip-of-the-day-28-how-to-implement-a-custom-mouse-cursor.aspx SL Animations back MS RFID Network Microsoft is developing...(read more)

Deep Fried Bytes Interview - Part 2

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:25:06 GMT

URL : http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-10-a-... In this second part of my interview, Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff to talk about all things Silverlight . This episode gets deeper in to the good and bad of Silverlight 2 development today. © 2008 Shawn Wildermuth. All Rights Reserved. Add Comment | digg this...(read more)

newest member of the expression web team: steve hebert

Expression Web team blog — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:45:16 GMT

Steve Hebert recently joined the Expression Web team as a Development Lead and is working out of our new Saint Paul/Minneapolis development office. We’ve added a link from our BLOG ROLL to Steve’s blog at http://codebetter.com/blogs/steve.hebert/ where Steve has been blogging about .NET and development topics for several years. Whenever Steve blogs about something of interest to the Expression Web and web development community, we’ll be sure to mirror his blog post here on the Expression Web team...(read more)

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Silverlight City - Recent Posts — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:35:58 GMT

Post: Approved at: Aug-18-2008 SL vs Flash/Flex (or not) and my SL wishlist http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/archive/2008/08/17/Silverlight_2F002E00_NET-vs-Flash_2F00_Flex-_2800_or-not_2900_-and-My-Silverlight-Wishlist.aspx...(read more)

From-To Animation vs. Linear Keyframe

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:09:52 GMT

In much of the writing about animation in Silverlight, one question that seems to recurs is this: why bother with a linear key-frame animation if it is less intuitive and more complex than a simple from-to animation Let’s back up and examine that for just a second. Linear Interpolation Linear Interpolation means that if you instruct the animation to start at position 0 and move to position 200 over 4 seconds, then you know that it will be at position 100 at 2 seconds, (half way there in half...(read more)

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Silverlight City - Recent Posts — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:43:17 GMT

Post: Approved at: Aug-17-2008 Webcam in Sl 2 – Sliding Puzzle Game Game image from webcam via Flash: http://jonas.follesoe.no/WebcamInSilverlight2NdashSlidingPuzzleGame.aspx Dan Wahlin on SL 2.0 and WPF Dan Wahlin chats with Carl and Richard in front of a live audience at DevConnections in Orlando about his experiences with Silverlight 2.0 and WPF. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1f3dea01-c497-4378-b5db-e24477d9cde1&DisplayLang=en The Dynamics Duo talk about CRM and...(read more)

Four Transforms

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:21:01 GMT

I haven’t really written much about transforms in a long while. We looked at them in depth during the Silverlight 1.0 time frame and then more or less took them for granted ever since. It may be time for a review – perhaps a quick video (it’s on my list!). In the meantime, here’s a quick peak into some of what we say about Transforms in our forthcoming book, [footnote 1] Programming Silverlight 2 by Jesse Liberty, Tim Heuer Read more about this title... A Transform is just a change A transform...(read more)

Visual Thesaurus – Mindware

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:34:00 GMT

When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and got back a blizzard of related words, (Click on the image to see it full size) Each node can be clicked on to find out what everything radiating from that node shares in common. For example, travel, locomote, go and move all radiate from a common...(read more)

How to Animate a Drawing Line

Expression Blend and Design — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:26:17 GMT

In Blend you use the Pen tool to draw lines and they appear in the XAML as <Path> elements. But after you’ve drawn your lines and you test your application, the Paths appear immediately: they don’t replay the gestures you used to create...( read more )...(read more)

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Silverlight City - Recent Posts — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:16:54 GMT

Post: Approved at: Aug-15-2008 Custom Sort Icons in DataGrid What you own sort icons to display in the Silverlight 2's DataGrid controL? http://mattberseth.com/blog/2008/08/custom_sort_icons_with_silverl.html SL Flickr client in IronRuby http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2008/08/walk-through-silverlight-flickr-client.html Our Making Silverlight Shine Article about Microsoft goal of getting Silverlight on all devices: http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2008/8/14/technology/20080814104614&sec...(read more)

Candidate for favorite new utility

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:53:50 GMT

I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip board, it is captured to ClipTrack (though you can create white and black lists to change that behavior). You can find things in chronological order, alphabetical order, by when they were clipped,by when they were pasted, by type (image, text, web, etc...(read more)

Take the survey of web professionals @ a list apart

Expression Web team blog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:25:42 GMT

If you subscribe to this blog or are reading this post, chances are very good that you make a living creating websites or contributing to them in some way. If you consider yourself any of these: “designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites”, then go represent and fill out the 2nd annual survey of web publishing professionals at A List Apart : http://www.alistapart.com/articles/survey2008...(read more)

Nine Questions by Me...

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:20:55 GMT

URL : http://www.blogusmaximus.net/archive/2008/08/14... I was approached to answer nine questions for the ninequestions.net site. I was happy to get asked. Hopefully there is some info that you haven't heard already. Enjoy... © 2008 Shawn Wildermuth. All Rights Reserved. Add Comment | digg this...(read more)

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Silverlight City - Recent Posts — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:08:14 GMT

Post: Approved at: Aug-14-2008 SilverlightOnly 360° Panorama Viewer 2D Features: * Support for file types JPEG (*.jpg) and QuickTime QTVR (*.mov). * Open local panorama files or load from Internet with authorization * Mouse-activated control panel with full-screen switch * Zoom in and out through control panel, keyboard keys (+)(-) or the mouse wheel. * Keyboard and mouse controlled movement with variable speed. * Screensaver mode: automatic horizontal rotation with speed choice. Visit http...(read more)

Getting started with the silverlight 2 media player in expression web 2

Expression Web team blog — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:34:54 GMT

Expression Web 2 has built-in support for Silverlight 1 in the Insert menu ( Insert > Media > Silverlight) and in the Media category of the Toolbox task pane, but what if you’ve already moved onto working with Silverlight 2? There’s no need to wait for version 3 of Expression Web, you can get started with Silverlight 2 right now with Expression Web 2. The Silverlight 2 Beta SDKs have a Silverlight ASP.NET server control and also a MediaPlayer ASP.NET server control. We will look at how you...(read more)

3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of my To-do List

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:55:36 GMT

I’m pleased to announce we’ve posted three new videos: Graphics and Brushes (never hurts to “brush up” on the fundamentals and I try to bring together what we were doing in 1.0 with what Blend brings to the party. Using Multiple Pages Part 2 covers passing data/parameters from one page to the next (and no change the the url and no callbacks because everything happens on the client In-state animation – By adding just a tiny bit of animation to a control while it is within its state (while the mouse...(read more)

Microsoft sponsors uxweek

Expression Web team blog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:27:31 GMT

We know that great user experience is good business…the more engaging a web site, application, or device is, the more likely we want to spend time with it, buy it, and tell everyone we know about it. With this is mind, Microsoft is sponsoring a user experience conference, UxWeek , put on by Adaptive Path , August 12 -15 in San Francisco. In addition, we'll be presenting two sessions: "The Challenge of Emotional Innovation," presented by Dennis Wixon of Microsoft Surface Computing, who...(read more)

VS2008 + Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Update

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:42:37 GMT

URL : http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/... After some discussion, Mike Flasko (Program Manager, ADO.NET Data Services ) has clarified the relationship between the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Data Services Library and the SP1 of VS2008/.NET 3.5. Specifically he says: While the Silverlight Beta 2 data services library may work in some scenarios against a .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM server, you should NOT count on the two being fully compatible with each other. For me, I am going to wait to roll...(read more)

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Silverlight City - Recent Posts — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:10:09 GMT

Post: Approved at: Aug-12-2008 Angled Column Headers with SL 2's DataGrid Matt Berseth has a winner with his post on angled column headrs: http://mattberseth.com/blog/2008/08/angled_column_headers_with_sil.html Silverlight Offline Database storage http://infosysblogs.com/microsoft/2008/08/silverlight_offline_database_s.html#more Loading an XML File into Silverlight Example of how to use an XML file via WebClient http://www.kirupa.com/blend_silverlight/loading_xml_sl2_pg1.htm A Practical Look...(read more)

I've been Fried - Part 1!

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:32:16 GMT

URL : http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-9-a-p... Recently I sat down with Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff to talk about all things Silverlight . I guess they sparked my long-windedness because we talked so long they had to split into two parts. We discuss basic Silverlight topics as well as how I think the Olympics will impact Silverlight and even some comparisons with similar Adobe products. Go grab it while its hot. © 2008 Shawn Wildermuth. All Rights Reserved. Add Comment | digg this...(read more)

VS 2008 SP1 RTM + Silverlight 2 Beta 2 == No ADO.NET Data Services

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:21:44 GMT

URL : http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/08/11/vis... As everyone has announced already, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 have released an SP1 that includes a bunch of fixes as well as the Entity Framework as well as ADO.NET Data Services . To support this, the Silverlight team dropped a new version of the Visual Studio tools that work with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The one caveat is that the Silverlight library for ADO.NET Data Services is not compatible with the RTM of...(read more)

Impromptu Geek Dinner in Waltham, Massachusetts!

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:40:48 GMT

I am holding a quick impromptu Geek Dinner on Tuesday night in Waltham, MA if you are in the area, please let me know if you can attend. I am holding it at Naked Fish: Naked Fish 455 Totten Pond Road Waltham, MA 02451 781-684-0500 Please RSVP by sending me an e-mail here: RSVP . © 2008 Shawn Wildermuth. All Rights Reserved. Add Comment | digg this...(read more)

Rigidity in Data Design

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:29:53 GMT

To many developers this may seem odd. I talk with many staunch ALT.NET guys, and the DDD philosophy seems to be that data is a top-down or at worse, bottom up design problem. The issue here is that there is an assumption that just simply not true that data design is part of most software development projects. The reality based on my experience as well as the experience of talking with developers in the community is that many projects (though its hard to exactly quantify what percentage) begin with...(read more)