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All Roads Lead to Silverlight 2

It may be the dog days of summer, but things are hopping here at Wintellect. We just finished another successful Devscovery Redmond , where attendees soaked in lots of Silverlight love and also made a run on the Microsoft company store. If you've never Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 8:53 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments

Silverlight Controls and the Visual State Manager

If you're interested in writing custom controls for Silverlight but need a step-by-step tutorial to get you started, check out my latest column in MSDN Magazine: Craft Custom Controls for Silverlight 2 . I had a load of fun writing this one and wrote Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:30 PM by jprosise | 0 Comments

Me Meme

Charles Petzold tagged me and challenged me to answer the following questions as part of a software development meme that's going around. How old were you when you first started programming? I had a couple of programming courses in college, but I didn’t Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:05 PM by jprosise | 0 Comments

Microsoft, Open Source, and the Meaning of Life

Jeff Atwood wrote a great blog post about why Microsoft can't use open source in their products. Jon Galloway wrote a complementary post providing some specifics from a Microsoft insider explaining why Microsoft can't use open source. One of Jon's salient Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 5:29 AM by jprosise | 1 Comments

Lightning Strike, Silverlight 2 Beta 2, and Winamac

You may have noticed that our blog was down for a couple of days last week. Lightning struck our server and our IT folks worked around the clock to get wintellect.com back online. Most of the site is back to normal now and we're working on the last 2% Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 10:22 AM by jprosise | 0 Comments

It's TechEd Time!

TechEd was split into two weeks this year--one for developers and one for IT folks (a formula that has worked well at TechEd Europe the last couple of years)--and Monday morning TechEd Developers begins with a slate of full-day pre-conference sessions. Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:43 PM by jprosise | 12 Comments

Groundhog Day in Hyderabad

I'm in Hyderabad, India preparing to work on the Microsoft campus this week and I feel like I'm in the movie "Groundhog Day." My luggage didn't make it with me. When this happened to me in Europe last year, I went for almost a week without my luggage. Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 5:06 AM by jprosise | 5 Comments

Silverlight Page Turning Made Simple

My latest Wicked Code column is now online at MSDN Magazine. Titled "Silverlight Page Turning Made Simple," it presents a Silverlight 1.0 framework for building slick page-turning applications. I mentioned the framework in an earlier blog post but didn't Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:26 PM by jprosise | 0 Comments

My Beef with Vista and IE

I have largely avoided problems with Vista by only running it on PCs on which it comes preinstalled. At least I avoided problems until a few weeks ago. With a total of five PCs and laptops now running Vista in my house, the constant avalanche of automatic Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:33 PM by jprosise | 8 Comments

Control Interop, Silverlight-Style

A number of people have asked me in recent weeks whether two Silverlight 2 controls hosted in the same page can communicate with each other, and if so, how. I tell them they need to build a JavaScript bridge between the controls and then the controls Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:16 AM by jprosise | 5 Comments

Reading XAML from a Silverlight Application Assembly

I was having dinner with Walt Ritscher tonight when he posed an interesting question: how can a Silverlight app load its own XAML from an application assembly? I thought I knew the answer, because I had just finished doing a lot of research into the various Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:54 AM by jprosise | 1 Comments

Silverlight Deep Zoom

Like a lot of folks, I was pretty impressed the first time I saw Silverlight 2.0's new Deep Zoom feature at work. So I downloaded Deep Zoom Composer and starting building apps to see what makes Deep Zoom tick. Deep Zoom Composer is cool, but what really Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:25 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments

Threading and Marshaling in Silverlight 2.0

Quick: can you spot what's wrong with this code? Thread thread = new Thread ( new ThreadStart (RunClock)); thread.Start(); ... private void RunClock() { while ( true ) { Clock.Text = DateTime .Now.ToLongTimeString(); } } The intent is to launch a thread Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:45 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments

Mousewheel Zooms in Silverlight 2.0

A few weeks ago I posted a short code sample demonstrating how to do mousewheel zooms in Silverlight 1.1. They're easier to do in Silverlight 2.0 and can be done without calling out of managed code, thanks to the new HtmlWindow class (and the HtmlPage.Window Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:11 PM by jprosise | 6 Comments

Alerting the User in Silverlight 2.0

Silverlight 1.1 lacked a managed equivalent of JavaScript's window.alert, so when I wanted to pop up a message box (actually, an alert box) in Silverlight 1.1, I used the platform's DOM integration features to fire a scriptable event from C# and handle Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:49 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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