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October 2008 - Posts

Page-Turn Framework Updated for Silverlight 2

I just returned home from the PDC after a marvelous few days in sunny L.A. Sunday's Silverlight precon was a blast, and if you attended, I hope you felt it was worth your time. I could have easily filled out two more days with Silverlight fun and games, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:59 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments

Cool Silverlight Trick #5

I leave for the PDC tomorrow morning, but there's time for one more cool Silverlight trick before I leave. One of the features added to Silverlight 2 late in the development cycle was the CompositionTarget.Rendering event. CompositionTarget.Rendering Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:24 AM by jprosise | 3 Comments

Cool Silverlight Trick #4

One of the unique features that Silverlight brings to the browser platform is the ability for you to write multithreaded apps. You can use Thread.Start , ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem , and other mechanisms to execute code on another thread, and you can Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:19 AM by jprosise | 5 Comments

Deep Zoom Demo Updated for RTW

Today I updated the Deep Zoom demo I originally published a few months ago for the RTW release of Silverlight 2. The new version shows how to do mouseovers on the individual subimages in a Deep Zoom scene—something that wasn't at all obvious to me how Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:18 AM by jprosise | 6 Comments

Cool Silverlight Trick #3

One of the areas of Silverlight that not much has been written about yet is the factoring of applications. Applications don’t have to be packaged in one big XAP file; Silverlight presents numerous options for dividing code and resources among multiple Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:42 AM by jprosise | 5 Comments

Cool Silverlight Trick #2

A while back I blogged about a technique for allowing two Silverlight control instances to communicate . It involved having one of the controls call out from C# into a simple JavaScript bridge, and then having the bridge call into the other control by Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 9:52 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments

Cool Silverlight Trick #1

I've been working crazy hours updating my Silverlight course for version 2 and expanding it with lots of new material. With the PDC coming up in less than a week, I've also been working on some cool tips and tricks demonstrating some of the lesser-known Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 12:47 AM by jprosise | 3 Comments

The Saddest Demo Ever

I wanted to build a demo for the Silverlight precon at the PDC showing off Silverlight 2's support for duplex WCF services. I considered various themes for the demo, including stock tickers, sports scores, and weather data. But what I ultimately decided Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:12 PM by jprosise | 4 Comments

It's Silverlight Day!

As you're probably aware by now, Silverlight 2 shipped last night. Scott Guthrie has an excellent summary of the details as well as the links you need to download the run-time and tools. He also spiced up the news with a few surprises: The Silverlight Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:11 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments

Enigma to Debut at the PDC

I've been away from the blog for a while enduring several straight weeks of travel, two of them overseas. Now I'm back home readying for the PDC by porting Silverlight samples to RC0 and writing new ones. If you're coming to the PDC, I would love to see Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 3:42 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments