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Reflecting the entire layout panel in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

After my post on creating reflection with Silverlight 2 Beta . I was asked several times by couple of Silverlight enthusiasts questions like this : is there any way i can reflect an entire grid?, is it possible to make a reflection of lets say a grid with multiple buttons since there is no VisualBrush in Silverlight?, is there any chance to reflect some generic Control(Framework element etc)?. So I started to think about how entire Layout Panels like Grid,Canvas,Border etc. can be reflected. In WPF I did this stuff so easily. But in Silverlight I didn't find any any way till last night. The idea behind Layout reflection is , creating a mirror effect of a Container Control, which means child controls placed inside the container will also be reflected.

MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly's Journey

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:46:13 GMT

Yes, I know you've read this before so stop rolling your eyes and skip it if you're not interested. I'm not coming at this from the perspective of an expert imparting knowledge but as a hillbilly who has ignored the question too long. And now that I have to dive into it for the book, all the vagueness that I've been able to shunt aside to a little corner of my brain has surfaced like a long-lost brother beggin' for college money.

Do you think that you know how to deliver reports over the web?

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:18:11 GMT

It's amazing but although reports are the essential part of any business application, nowadays there is no simple, convenient, safe and universal way of distributing reports over the web. I know that many developers don't agree with this statement. Ok, let's analyze the difference between client and web reporting solutions.

Path to .NET 3.5 Developer Certification

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:31:05 GMT

If you are trying to figure out the new certification exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for .NET Framework 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 then you may be interested in a diagram that I put together to helped me to visualize the path through the required certification exams.

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC preview 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:31:02 GMT

In earlier ASP.NET MVC previews, form validation was something that should be implemented "by hand". Since the new ASP.NET MVC preview 5, form validation has become more handy. Let me show you how you can add validation in such a ridiculously easy manner.

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:16:16 GMT

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF.

How to make my web pages Internet Explorer 8 compatible

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Free tool to make your web pages compatible with IE8 by automating the introduction of the compatibility flag.

Loading Images Asynchronously Inside an ASP.NET GridView

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:31:04 GMT

Retrieving and displaying images in a GridView is a time consuming task. If done synchronously, this task can at times test the user's patience. One way to provide a good user experience is to load the images asynchronously. So when the GridView loads, we initially display a default image for the user to view, while the actual images are being loaded from the database. In this article, we will see how to do so.

Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 5

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:46:15 GMT

In part 5 of the IronRuby versus C# series, we talk about Arrays in Ruby and how they are a different beast from what we are used to in C#.

Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 2

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee wraps up his discussion with hosts Keith and Woody about the growing design practice and how it can be used with the .NET platform.

LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:31:23 GMT

The LINQ aggregate operators allow you to perform simple math operations over the elements in a sequence. This post is designed to walk you through those operators, and give you an overview of how to use them.

SQL Server Programming Hacks

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:16:02 GMT

This is a collection of SQL hacks, right now there are 8 sections and between 70 and 80 hacks.

LessThanDot goes live!

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:46:06 GMT

The IT Community LessThanDot has been launched as of this morning, Sunday 1st June 2008.

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page Hope these Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links will help your SILVERLIGHT development. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Three

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Here's an example of an animation where clicking a button will increase the size of the font of the button. First I've declared two constants of type double, one for the font size of the button at the initialization time, which is declared as initFontSize; and the other one at runtime when the button is clicked. When clicked, the event handler creates a DispatcherTimer that generates Tick events every tenth of a second. The TimerOnTick method here increases the FontSize by two units every tenth of a second until the size reaches 48 units, at which point the button is restored to its original size and the timer is stopped.

The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

Mon, 26 May 2008 09:31:04 GMT

The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean.

Animated Bar Graph using Silverlight

Sun, 25 May 2008 15:23:22 GMT

This demo application was made using Silverlight and javascript. It uses AJAX to fetch data(JSON) and refresh itself at regular intervals. There is an online XAML generator tool to create such graphs.

New York Times proves out Silverlight integration in a native Mac appl

Sun, 25 May 2008 03:41:58 GMT

New York Times has migrated their popular WPF-based New York Times Reader to the Mac, using Silverlight and native Cocoa windowing and application logic, and using the Safari / WebKit API as a Silverlight wrapper. (Darn it, I knew it was both doable and legal!)

Silverlight 2.0 almost WPF

Sat, 24 May 2008 12:03:11 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available now. So what's new in this version compared to Silverlight 1.0/1.1? In easy words: It's (almost) as powerful as WPF. This article will help you getting started with Silverlight 2.0 and VS 2008. We will explain the installation of the Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 and create a little Silverlight project using new Layout-functionalities and controls.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Two

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:31:07 GMT

I mentioned in the first article that a Storyboard controls animations with a timeline, and provides object and property targeting information for its child animations. This is the cornerstone of Silverlight animation. A Storyboard is a set of one or more animations. It is comparable to a <TransformGroup> element. Storyboard does exactly the same things for animations that <TransformGourp> does for transformations. Storyboard has a Children property that enables you to access all the animation objects within a given Storyboard. Animations do not add or remove elements, they temporarily alter the property values of existing elements. If you create a new Storyboard and add a new rectangle to the canvas, that rectangle will be available to all Storyboards, not just the current one. The rectangle was added to the scene's base canvas and is not specific to the active Storyboard.

ASP.NET MVC - Extracting Web Resources

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:31:05 GMT

One nice feature that ASP.NET added in the 2.0 feature set was the ability to embed resources directly within an assembly and then later extract them through a separate Http Handler. You've notably saw this by all the WebResource.axd calls. If you're building a ASP.NET MVC view, you have two ways of extracting web resource urls. Find out how to do this in your view and through a new extension method.

Silverlight 2.0 and NFL Free Agency

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:06:44 GMT

Cool application using Silverlight.

Query Composition using Functional Programming Techniques in C# 3.0

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

This stuff is easy. It's also really fun. You don't have to read academic papers to learn about, enjoy, and benefit from functional programming in C# 3.0. There are about half a dozen concepts you need to learn, each one easy. Concepts like just a new way to write a method (that has no name), or a new way to write a static method for a class. Then you put them all together, and the result is more than the sum of the parts.

Retrieve Browser Information in Silverlight

Sat, 10 May 2008 16:15:51 GMT

This post shows you how simple it is to retrieve information about the browser on which your silverlight content is running.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part One

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Animation allows us to create attractive user interfaces. Animation is used to apply dazzling effects such as spin a logo or video, make text scroll, make images grow when the mouse is over them etc. Animation is much like varying the property value over time as far as Silverlight 2.0 is concerned. This will be clear if someone takes a closer look at the animated stuff done in Silverlight/WPF applications.