December
24

Martin saw my keynote at ReMix Boston and wanted to try the demo himself to find out if it was all just demo-magic or not ;-). Well, I am relieved happy to say he was successful! His detailed step-by-step instructions are the best I have seen for setting…( read more )…(read more)

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December
21

The current Flickr picture upload process is cool. It’s dead simple and makes multiple-picture uploading fun. The user experience is spot on and it really makes Flickr the killer picture sharing app that it is! I’m going try to recreate it’s…( read more )…(read more)

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December
21

Tim Heuer points out, in his always valuable blog , that there's a new way to create Silverlight 1.0 applications in Visual Studio 2008. Your first step, as Tim points out, is to install the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 .  Once that…( read more )…(read more)

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December
21

Well, the year 2007 is nearly at the end and I have my short wish list for Microsoft Silverlight . The following (maybe not complete) unsorted list would be nice to see in 2008 with the next CTP or final version: When building Silverlight 2.0 Web applications…( read more )…(read more)

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December
21

While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers . The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii console, simple the controller and a bluetooth…( read more )…(read more)

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December
21

I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing . Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing…( read more )…(read more)

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December
18

One of the parameters you pass in when creating a Silverlight object is the parameter isWindowless . That parameter defaults to false. Normally, you do want isWindowless to be set to false, because when it is set to true, you pay a very large performance…( read more )…(read more)

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December
18

One year ago today I blogged my first 'article' on WPF/E. WPF/E CTP'd on December 4, 2006. I didn't see it until the 6th. I read about it and was confused, but I kept going back to it, and kept playing with the QuickStart. Finally I started…( read more )…(read more)

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December
18

I've been involved (in the wings) in a project with the Windows Live team who used DotNet Solutions and later the Silverlight team in Seattle to produce this festive Silverlight based web site that allows users to search for the favourite and worst…( read more )…(read more)

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December
18

Frank of Frank's World has produced the first (that I'm aware of) Silverlight Christmas Card. From SilverlightCream.com : Frank's World Christmas 2007 I've been wondering if we'd start to see some of this going on this year. In the…( read more )…(read more)

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