Entries from March 2008 ↓

I found a great post by Ben Hall while researching sidebar gadgets. It’s an overview of sidebar gadget creation with Silverlight. He also shares some hints on debugging since you can’t see JS errors in the sidebar and it also suppresses alert dialogs.

On Friday Miniclip.com announced that they’ve published a Sliverlight game. …Um, one game? Is this really worth a post?

It is when you consider that Miniclip is reported to be the largest online gaming website with a user base approaching 50 million.

Give ZomBomatic 3000 a go.

Tim Marman has written an interesting piece over at Loosely Coupled.

He shares his perspective on Apples recent announcement to support Exchange ActiveSync on the iPhone and Silverlights role in it’s acceptance by the businesses community.

Flash is nearly universally available on the desktop, so it makes a lot of sense for Internet developers to choose that over Silverlight - but those numbers are wholly irrelevant to the enterprise developer. This is precisely the reason we were able to do AJAX back in 1999, even if it wasn’t ready for an Internet deployment.

Frogs69 (Remy?) announced on the on the Silverlight Streaming Blog that Microsoft will be opening a pilot program for revenue sharing on the Silverlight Streaming Service.

This spring we’ll be launching a pilot program to offer turnkey advertising with the Silverlight Streaming video service.

This pilot program will allow a control group of Silverlight Streaming account holders to take Silverlight videos and automatically insert contextual advertisements into the end-user video playback experience.

I wish i had something to offer, do you? I’d love to check it out.

SharpDevelop 3.0, an open source .net IDE, includes WPF and XAML support.

The designer replaces SharpDevelop’s property grid with its own, WPF-based property grid. This property grid will provide support for editing attached properties and data binding in the future.

Unlike the Windows Forms designer, which is included in the .NET Framework and merely hosted by SharpDevelop (which isn’t as easy as it sounds); the WPF designer is written from scratch. Thankfully WPF makes this a lot easier than writing a Windows Forms designer from scratch would be.

Microsoft published 2 documents yesterday that detail XAML Vocabulary and Object Mapping.

WPF XAML Vocabulary Specification & XAML Object Mapping Specification. Combine they span 633 pages.

*Edit: I originally posted that these documents were authored on 2006. But as Rob Relyea pointed out in his comment below that’s not the case.

Cynergy Labs presents Project Maestro, a WPF application that uses a Wii remote to track hand movements. Different gestures are interpreted as grabs in a multitouch environment. Neat.

IETester claims to be a browser that can render pages with the IE 5.5, 6, 7 and 8 rendering engines.

A neat piece of software but I have to say. This wins the prize for the ugliest implementation of the Office 07 Ribbon control I’ve seen. Guess they missed this

There’s a nice Silverlight 2 Developer Reference Poster available in Deep Zoom at Joe Stegman’s Blog …or if you’re old school you can download and print the high resolution files over at Brad Abrams Blog.

Feeling frisky? Download the Silverlight 1.1 Developer Reference Poster and spend the night comparing the differences.

Yeah, I said it. Oprah.

According to ReadWriteWeb Oprah’s doing a 10 week interactive series via Silverlight and Skype. The course is expected to draw a half million viewers.

Oprah just might bring Silverlight to the mainstream in a way that the Olympics and Library of Congress never could.