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Silverlight resources for designers

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:04:59 GMT

When I am training Silverlight I am often asked by designers how to find resources on Silverlight/XAML/Expression, so here is a post for them.

Silverlight Extensions

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:25:25 GMT

Silverlight Extensions is a nice project which group useful Silverlight controls and best practices.

Developing for IE8: Web Slices and Accelerators

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:50:24 GMT

How to develop new kinds of add-ons for IE8 right now: Web Slices and Accelerators.

Silverlight 3: Line of Business app made easy!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:44:57 GMT

Silverlight 3 comes with tons of enterprise features: - Data access with client side ObjectDataSource! - Silverlight Business Logic Class (used inside Silverlight without adding a service reference!!) - Validator controls, validation rules enforced by server-side business class - Navigation workflow, browser history integration - Login control, roles -...

IE8 beta 2: shit that's good!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:04:03 GMT

Unlike beta 1, I am gladly surprised by this version! IE8 really improve the way you browse the web. The IE team seems to have listened to users more than usual, did a strong research on how people browse the web, and as a result worked a lot on user experience.

Blend 2.5 march preview: Where is the Silverlight DataGrid ??

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:04:24 GMT

Strange that the DataGrid is not in Expression Blend 2.5 march preview toolbox, but only in VS2008 !? If you add a DataGrid in VS2008 and then switch to Blend that will break your designer. It seems like there are problems with some assemblies references in Blend 2.5

[Cool Tool] Browsershots

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:02:45 GMT

Browsershots is a free online tool that makes screenshots of your web site in different browsers/versions on multiple platforms (Win, Mac, Linux).

Silverlight 2: migrating from alpha to beta 1

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:01:49 GMT

Today I had to migrate a Silverlight Alpha 1.1 project to Silverlight 2 beta 1 for a client. As we had to expect there are a lot of changes! First thing to notice: after installing Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 you won't be able to open your Silverlight 1.1 projects in VS2008, you have to migrate.

MIX08 VIP pre-conference day

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:54:48 GMT

Today march 4 was the MIX08 VIP pre conference "Together@MIX". We had sessions and panels on the morning and an afternoon full of fun activities (I chose the Las Vegas Extreme rides!). Here is the speakers and a bit of what they said...

Microsoft Big Ass Table (Surface)

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:52:41 GMT

Do you know Microsoft codename BAT ? Big Ass Table, sometimes presented as Surface... At the MIX08 VIP pre-conference a member of Microsoft SUX Team (Surface User Experience...) shown us this...

10 types of programmers you'll encounter in the field

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:16:39 GMT

Programmers enjoy a reputation for being peculiar people. In fact, even within the development community, there are certain programmer archetypes that other programmers find strange. Here are 10 types of programmers you are likely to run across. Can you think of any more?

Code Camp Montreal 2007

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:47:46 GMT

The second Code Camp Montreal is very soon!!! It is saturday October 27th, a whole free day with 17 sessions in 4 rooms.

Try Popfly!

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:02:42 GMT

With Popfly, you can create applications, mashups, web pages and widgets (gadgets) and it is all tied together in a social network (as part of the Live Spaces platform) where you can connect with other users and publishers of applications.

Vista Sidebar Gadget Template

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:00:41 GMT

Tim Heuer has done a really nice Sidebar Gadget Template for Visual Studio.

Silverlight "Zero to Hero" series

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:59:56 GMT

Laurence Moroney has started a really nice series of posts on Silverlight : "Zero to Hero" (how to get started with this technology with no prior knowledge assumed).

realDEVELOPMENT_07 Canadian Tour for Web Developers

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:58:27 GMT

realDEVELOPMENT_07 tour is coming to a Canadian city near you. This half-day event is your chance to get a closer look at the technologies you use to create real web applications.

6 Silverlight Screencasts (MSDN Nuggets)

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:46:04 GMT

6 some short MSDN Nuggets looking at particular features of Silverlight (1.1 on the whole).

Silverlight Configuration Tool

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:31:02 GMT

With the latest Silverlight bits you will find a new configuration tool in the Silverlight application folder (i.e. c:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight) names slup.exe (SilverLight UPdate?). You can open the configuration from any Silverlight host, too, by right-clicking on the host control and click on Silverlight Configuration.

Which version of Silverlight is installed on your browser?

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:03:49 GMT

As you know Silverlight is currently available in 2 versions : v1.0 beta and v1.1 alpha. Right, so how do you know which version of Silverlight is installed on your browser (Win)?

Using your mashups from Popfly

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:02:32 GMT

So now that you have a fresh new Popfly mashup, what can you do with it ?

Building a simple mashup step by step with Popfly

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:46:02 GMT

My goal is to show you the few steps involved during the creation of a complete mashup with Popfly, for those of you who do not want to bother asking for an invitation nor watching a webcast, or maybe fed up with beta things? Just look below and discover how to build a Blaugh carousel in 35 sec (4 steps)!!

Vista Gadget deploying problem

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:43:26 GMT

You have created a Vista Sidebar Gadget, but when you try to install the gadget on your system nothing happens and in your directory(C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets) there's a folder named : mygadget.gadget.~0000

[fun] Windows Server 2008 brainstorming

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:33:48 GMT

How does Microsoft come up with product names? This video goes over the process for naming Longhorn to Windows Server 2008.

Zune Vista Gadget

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:32:25 GMT

Wow, here is a really cool Vista Sidebar gadget ! The Zune gadget acts just like a music player in the side bar, that looks and behaves just like the Zune! It displays informations from your music library (pictures, tags, ...), is fully customizable and can be used with keyboard.

Expression Studio on MSDN today!

Sat, 26 May 2007 13:23:28 GMT

Expression Studio is available for Premium subscribers to MSDN Visual Studio Team Suite!