Entries Tagged 'Silverlight' ↓

Kirpa has a great article on Dependency Properties here and a nice little Silverlight Dependency Property generator here.

Social Desktop from Microsoft Research is a proof of concept Silverlight application that uses Windows Azure to share, or “socialize”, content on your computer.

The Social Desktop blends the Web and PC by embedding Web oriented sharing inside your desktop,  allowing every document to have the ability to have a backing social URL for sharing without having to upload or copy or move it from it’s natural location. his url provides access not just to the file, but to a built in social experience which includes a rich preview of each item, comments, related items, tags, etc.

As developers we quickly forget how confusing it can be when trying to get up to speed on a new platform. That initial dive in is the hardest part. Not because the the technology is difficult, but because there are very few beginner tutorials. It seems like the majority of information on the web will be geared toward the advanced user when all you need is for someone to walk you through the basics.

That’s why I like to see these tutorials like Adding Items to a Listbox using Blend from Kirupa. He does a great job of structuring the tutorial with a clear goal lots of screen shots.

The only thing I think he could add is the source for download. I know it seems silly to post the source for a list box, but for someone who is completely new to Silverlight it would be helpful.

Tim Sneath has a great commentary on Silverlight adoption and how the reality compares to the preception that Adobe would like to create.

Oh, he also mentions that HSN is using silverlight to stream content. Something that I wasn’t aware of.

Karl on WPF has a new release of XAML Power Toys available. In this release:

• Extract properties to a Style allows selecting a control, choosing desired properties and have those selected properties extracted to a newly created style
• Create ViewModel Class from a VB.NET or C# code window.  Easily create a ViewModel stub that includes commands and exposed data class.
• Group into GroupBox
• Option to generate x:Name for controls
• Option to add ForeReRead converter to TextBox bindings (both VB.NET & C# converters included in source and binary downloads.  Converter is also included in the OceanFramework.WPF namespace.)
• Option to add TargetNullValue to TextBox.Text bindings when Source property is Nullable
• Corrected secondary application domain load issue reported by DevExpress.  This fix also solves another edge case secondary application domain load issue.

Infragistics recently launched Quince, a design pattern explorer built in Silverlight.

Design patterns are nothing new, The Welie Library, Jenifer Tidwell’s Designing Interfaces, UI-Patterns.com and The YUI (Yahoo! UI) Library among others have been around for some time.

What is unique about Quince is the social aspect, which allows users to comment and give examples of use cases for patterns. Aside from UI-Patterns.com it’s one of the few that affords for this.

Robby Ingebretsen of NerdPlusArt has a well written piece on deep linking and browser history in Silverlight using jQuery.

Sothink Quicker for Silverlight is a very Adobe Flash like application for creating animations that can be output to Silverlight. I have no idea what the output looks like but they do have some demos on their website.

They offer a free version and a full version for $39.95.

Happy New Year.

The holidays have kept me from updating but I’m about to get back into the groove. In the meantime here are a few links.

Source code for Silverlight controls published
Hosting Silverlight content on a CDN
Via Method ~ of ~ failed

Become a Kaxaml Power User in about 7 Minutes
Via: NerdPlusArt

Microsoft Live Labs is looking for Interns
Via: Live Labs Blog

Jonas Follesø has an incredibly informative post about building Mesh-Enabled Silverlight Applications and the their ability to run online or offline.

He walks us through the conversion of his Dive Log application from Silverlight to a Mesh-Enabled app and outlines the benefits of this approach.