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14 August 2008
Do you know Silverlight has an inbuilt native RSS Reader?
Interesting, I keep asking this question a lot and the responses I get are something that un-nerves me. In that, in Silverlight there is a native RSS Reader built in, so the ability to consume an RSS Feed is so easy, it's almost cheating (Sharepoint readers, Read More...
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12 August 2008
Silverlight has a more natural support of JavaScript.
It was interesting to read this CNet.com article around Flash, HTML and AJAX . It talked about the various ways in which the Adobe Flash is struggling to compete with AJAX in the RIA space. In fact, some of our early research showed that AJAX was associated Read More...
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09 August 2008
Silverlight, Deep Zoom & LOLCats.
I can haz ur LOLCats in DeepZoom Thx bai. Well, for those of you whom aren't up to speed with LOLCats then you really need spend some time studying this creation of gold nuggetness. Rob has definitely put a lot of thought behind this and I was amazed Read More...
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08 August 2008
Silverlight Offline Storage with LINQ.
I get asked a lot about what the .NET folks can bring to RIA, and the first thing I proudly say is the fact is they bring a lot of engineering maturity and given Silverlight compliments a lot of their existing knowledge, it is our bet that this will carry Read More...
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05 August 2008
What do you mean all Silverlight.
There are times, when I see great things around Silverlight and this one site for me always seems to capture us at our best. Great video, and from a great site.. http://www.microsoft.com/click/artandtechnology Read More...
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04 July 2008
SEO, Nothing changed.
Gilbert (one of the original guys behind prooving Silverlight + SEO) of  had a great write-up outlining some depth thought around this whole SEO buzz that Adobe unleashed early this week. http://bits.samiq.net/2008/07/seo-for-ria-status-few-days-later.html Read More...
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30 June 2008
Silverlight: VisualState Manager, Storyboards and why designers should care about them both.
I've seen a lot of talk around VisualState Manager online and it mostly covers button states and so on. What I want to do here in this post is illustrate why VisualState Manager is a handy tool for the average interactive designer out there and how it Read More...
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29 June 2008
Silverlight Experiment: Create a PullDown Menu using Storyboards.
This is a basic example of how to create a "PullDown Menu" using Silverlight and Expression Blend. The Objectives The GUI will have a PullDown Menu (UserControl) under the main outer chrome. It's intended that when a user clicks on the "MainMenu" Read More...
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26 June 2008
Go Deeper! - The Deep Zoom Day.
Today was a fun road-trip day for me ( I don't get out as much now that I'm in corp so bare with me). As we drove to downtown Seattle to check out what the latest movements are with the Seadragon folks (Deep Zoom) as well as introduce myself to them (as Read More...
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24 June 2008
Where do I go to get the latest movements in Silverlight?
By rights you should be answering that question with sites like Silverlight.Net and if you're not getting that answer, my comments and inbox are wide open for your commentary as in the end our goal is to provide less friction as possible to ensuring you're Read More...
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24 June 2008
Silverlight: How to write your own EventDispatcher.
Gilbert Corrales and I metup last week here at Redmond and he and I were talking to about how I wanted to make use of an EventDispatcher approach to routing events around the code base (the analogy we came up with was "the difference between a cough and Read More...
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21 June 2008
Silverlight: How to Bind Controls to your own Custom Model.
I've been reading a few comments and questions floating around in the Silverlight ethos around DataBinding and basically the how. The most common examples I've seen usually show the Binding capabilities within XAML but don't really break open the "code-behind" Read More...
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11 June 2008
Get some Deep Zoomable Soul in your Virtual Earth Solution..
Ok, I had way to much fun with that title. SoulSolutions which is based out of my home town, Brisbane Australia has put together a remarkable Deep Zoom + Virtual Earth demo via the Silverlight 2 (b2). He's even showing you how via code! What's remarkable Read More...
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07 June 2008
The ScottGu talks about What's New.
The title just rhymes doesn't it?. We launched Beta 2 today and I'm super excited to see this release. It's now in your hands and you do what you will with it, and I'm extremely keen to see what folks get up to with regards to the new changes since Beta Read More...
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04 June 2008
Silverlight B2 - Learn once, Apply Anywhere.
Today, we announced Silverlight 2 (Beta 2) . Why should you care? well today we are coming through with the goods that we promised at MIX08 firstly. Secondly, you will be able to now Go Live with your Silverlight 2 creations!! (when the beta2 release Read More...
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