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Both Yet Another Carousel (YAC) and the WPF training site (which uses YAC) have been ported to Silverlight Beta 2. Read More...
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Get it from http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0 (tools are being propped as I write to http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ ). Lots of new goodies – keep hitting F5 on Scott Guthrie’s blog for a comprehensive guide. I’m not going to try and compete with him today: my family tell me it’s time for the weekend to start! Read More...
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I haven't seen these training videos receive nearly the coverage they deserve, so I wanted to try and "bump" them onto the radar. My erstwhile UK colleagues Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond have been hard at work over the last few weeks recording an amazing series of Silverlight 2 training screencasts . All free for the taking, these fifty videos provide a comprehensive guide to all matters Silverlight: from basic topics such as layout, controls, data binding, and styling to advanced topics like sockets, cross-domain requests, multi-threading and HTML interop. If even that's not enough, there are some great tips and tricks that go beyond the documentation: loading assemblies dynamically, embedding fonts and creating custom splash screens. Many screencasts are too long or too ponderous - they don't suit the rapid-fire medium of the Internet. These are all short - mostly just a couple of minutes in length, and they're well edited to remove anything extraneous. Highly recommended - please produce Read More...
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Congratulations to Martin Grayson and team for building one of the smartest Silverlight 2 demonstrations I've seen to date . I saw parts of this demo a month ago when I was in the UK, and I'm delighted it's now released. Whether or not you're involved in the healthcare sector, this demo does a great job of showing how Silverlight 2 can transform web-based application development. We're already starting to see many real-world applications using Silverlight 2, even in its beta 1 stage; I'll post a list of the best ones I've collected before the end of the week. With a beta 2 release not far away, momentum is continuing to grow. And keep an eye on this blog first thing Friday morning for a separate exciting announcement (he said elusively)... Read More...
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Effective UI has put together a site called the User Interface Resource Center . They were kind enough to interview me about WPF, Silverlight, Expression and more. As they put it: In the 2008 whitepaper “The New Iteration,” Karsten Read More...
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I recently used the Silverlight 2 Carousel sample I wrote for the WPF Boot Camp application and encountered a gotcha that some others may hit. Each carousel contains multiple videos, between 5 - 10. Initially, the source of the video was coming Read More...
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In WPF, when styling a control, Blend has a very handy feature which allows you to get at the default style and template for any control, simply by right clicking the control and selecting "Edit Control Parts (Template)" and then selecting "Edit Read More...
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For some random reason, occasionally Silverlight 2 projects will suddenly no longer support debugging. Very frustrating. Fortunately, the fix is pretty simple: Right click on the Web in the Solution Explorer pane. If you have a Web project, Read More...
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The jolly chaps at Conchango are setting up a user group in London to focus on Silverlight, and the first meeting is tomorrow! By chance I'm actually in the UK right now on something of a customer tour, so I plan to be there myself and give a bit of a status update on Silverlight 2 and WPF. Should be a fun evening - pizza and beer is provided, and the event kicks off at 6:30pm. Full details and registration information are on the Facebook event site or on one of the Conchango blogs . If you're working in London, why not head over to London Bridge and come and say hi? Read More...
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Recently learned a nifty trick from Pete Blois about how to use a UserControl as a DataTemplate in Silverlight 2. This is real handy, because it allows for a more WPF-like workflow, allowing a designer to create data templates in Blend. With this Read More...
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I recently was working on a Silverlight 2 project and needed to "phone home" from the .xap back to the server of origin to get a text file from the server. It wasn't completely obvious how to do this at first, so I figured I'd share the code Read More...
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Following on very nicely from my last post on deploying Silverlight content to your own production server , I'm pleased to announce that Silverlight Streaming has added full support for Silverlight 2 applications. As well as adding the basic support, the team have put a lot of work into simplifying the process of uploading and validating your application. Here's a basic walkthrough: Create your Silverlight 2 application using Visual Studio or Expression Blend, do all the usual test / debug steps, etc. Create a manifest file named manifest.xml, that describes how you want the control to be hosted. Here's a simple sample you can use as a template: < SilverlightApp > < version > 2.0 </ version > < source > PopTheBubble.xap </ source > < width > 400 </ width > < height > 300 </ height > < background > white </ background > < isWindowless > false </ isWindowless > </ SilverlightApp > Zip your application .xap Read More...
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Deploying Silverlight content to a production web server is a pretty easy process. Despite occasional misconception, Silverlight doesn't require a Microsoft-based web server: Apache can host up Silverlight content just as happily as IIS. But there's one little gotcha: web servers are typically configured to only serve up a limited set of known file extensions as static content. That's all well and good, but Silverlight introduces two new file extensions (.xaml for loose XAML files and .xap for the zip-based binary packaging format). As a result, you need to add the MIME types for those file extensions to your web server so that it recognizes Silverlight content appropriately. Here are the MIME types you need to add to the server configuration: Extension MIME Type .xaml application/xaml+xml .xap application/x-silverlight-app That's all you have to do. Unfortunately, it's not possible to provide generic instructions for how to add MIME types, as it varies from server to server, but here are Read More...
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