March 10th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andrew Veresov, Nokola, SilverLaw, Gill Cleeren, Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness, Viktor Larsson(-2-), and Walter Ferrari.
Shoutouts:
Viktor Larsson has a post up about Silverlight Market Penetration ... hope to meet you at MIX10, Viktor!
Gergely Orosz has posted the Slides and code for the presentation “An Introduction to Silverlight”
It appears that if I miss a day, I can pretty much do an all-submittal post :)
From SilverlightCream.com:
- Writing an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations
- Andrea Boschin has a tutorial on SilverlightShow where he's building up an asynch service to deal with a long-running app on the server.
- MVVM with MEF in Silverlight: Video Tutorial
- Jeremy Likness has a video tutorial up for helping beginners wire up MVVM and MEF to Silverlight. Source code for the app in the video is downloadable.
- MVVM with MEF in Silverlight Video Tutorial Part 2: Plugins and Metadata
- In part 2, Jeremy Likness redesigns the app using metadata to turn the shapes into objects, and then show how easy it is to add a new plugin... and the source for the app is downloadable.
- Binding a Converter Parameter
- Andrew Veresov has a nice code-filled solution up for those times that you need to bind a ConverterParameter value.
- EasyPainter: Lion Hair styling
- Nokola has not been idle with Easy Painter... now he's added "Lion Hair" to the list of stylings you can apply... guess if you want to change someone's 'mane' ... sorry!
- Twisting Navigation - Silverlight 3
- SilverLaw has another control up - a "Twisting Navigation" control... very cool :) ... and since I'm behind the curve, he already has an update in the Expression Gallery as noted in his post, and a video tutorial on implementing it in an application... and if you understand German, turn up the sound :)
- Uploading and downloading images using a WCF service with Silverlight
- Gill Cleeren has a tutorial up at SilverlightShow on uploading and downloading images using WCF Services in Silverlight
- New Windows Phone 7 Community Developer Hub
- Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness have a very cool Silverlight page up where you can paste the URL of your XAP in and have it display in a "Windows 7 Series Phone" ... and that's all I'm saying about that.
- XAML Transformation 101
- Viktor Larsson is discussing Transforms in XAML and has a nice tutorial up that is easily the beginning of a carousel... you may also want to check out his other posts... I'm adding him to my list.
- Silverlight 4 Webcam Demo
- In this post, Viktor Larsson has a tutorial up for using the WebCam. This is from a beginner perspective, so if you haven't jumped in, now's a good time.
- How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1
- Walter Ferrari has a post up at SilverlightShow discussing extensions to BingMaps such as creating routes using GeoCoding and Route Services plus drawing lines on the maps and getting coordinates of the points.
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March 10th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
This weekend i am headed to Vegas for a week of designer/developer love. I plan to spend a lot of time in the phone sessions as well as in the Commons visiting with people.
This year's MIX has be really excited about both Silverlight 4's continued maturation as well as the XNA/Silverlight 4 story on the phone. I really want to connect with designers who have spent a year with Sketchflow and see how the tool is working in their 'day jobs'.
Not coincidently I am also speaking at MIX this year. My talks are:
Debugging Microsoft Silverlight Applications
Time: Tuesday at 1:30 PM
Location: Lagoon B
Building Silverlight apps is one thing, but what happens when you get stuck? That's where debugging comes into the picture. In this mini-talk, Shawn shows you how to do simple debugging of Silverlight code, debug data binding/validation problems, and how to debug Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services.
This is a twenty-five minute talk where I hope to help you figure out some of the debugging mysteries of Silverlight.
Securing Microsoft Silverlight Applications
Time: Tuesday at 3:00 PM
Location: Lagoon F
Come hear how to protect Silverlight applications from common threats including securing your application from intruders, eavesdroppers and users as well as protecting your code, your data and your servers from attacks. Also, hear about the key security vectors that must be considered when using Silverlight such as securing applications that often live outside firewalls.
The Rest of the Time
During the rest of the conference I will be around and at as many parties as possible...it is Vegas after all. If you want to find me, either follow my tweets, my FourSquare checkins or my Glympses (see my Twitter feed for Glympse notifications).
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March 9th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
Some great content has been published since I posted my previous collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links. What's more, the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit and the February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit have both been released, so please have a look at them if you haven't already!
Now, without further ado, here are all links that are fit to print (FYI: previously published links are gray):
Overviews (100 level)
Scenarios (200 level)
Internals (300 level)
Team Member posts (Partner level)
My posts (Ego level)
My many thanks go out to everyone who has spent time helping people learn how to use Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization!
PS - If I've missed any good resources, please leave a comment with a link - I'm always happy to find more great content! :)
PPS - The most recent version of this collection will always be pointed to by http://cesso.org/r/DVLinks. If you're going to create a favorite or link to this post, please use that URL so you'll always be up to date.
March 8th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
[This paper discusses security issues that are associated with “client and cloud” and their impact on organizations that host applications “in the cloud.”]
Very good high-level paper on SDL consideration for both Client and Client Apps.
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March 8th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tim Greenfield, Bobby Diaz(-2-), Glenn Block(-2-), Nikhil Kothari, Jianqiang Bao(-2-), and Christopher Bennage.
Shoutouts:
Adam Kinney announced a Big update for the Project Rosetta site today
Arpit Gupta has opened a new blog with a great logo: I think therefore I am dangerous :)
From SilverlightCream.com:
- DotNetNuke Silverlight Traffic Module
- If it's DNN and Silverlight, it has to be my buddy Michael Washington :) ... Michael has combined those stunning gauges you've seen with website traffic... just too cool!... grab the code and display yours too!
- Cool demonstration of Silverlight VideoBrush
- This is a no-code post by Tim Greenfield, but I like the UX on this Jigsaw Puzzle page... and you can make your own.
- Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Application, part 1
- Bobby Diaz has an informative post up on combining earthquake data with BingMaps in Silverlight 3... check it out, the grab the recently posted Live Demo and Source Code
- Adding Volcanos and Options - Earthquake Locator, part 2
- Bobby Diaz also added volcanic activity to his earthquake BinMaps app, and updated the downloadable code and live demo.
- Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog
- Glenn Block posted a pair of MEF posts yesterday... made me think I missed one :) .. the first one is about the DeploymentCatalog. Note he is going to be using the CodePlex bits in his posts.
- Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel
- Glenn Block's part V is about MEF and MVVM -- no, really! ... he is refactoring MVVM into the app with a nod to Josh Smith and Laurent Bugnion... get your head around this...
- The Case for ViewModel
- Nikhil Kothari has a post up about the ViewModel, and how it facilitates designer/developer workflow, jumpstarts development, improves scaling, and makes asynch programming development simpler
- MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (12)Map Instance (Part I)
- Jianqiang Bao has part 12 of his MMORPG game up... this one is showing how to deal with obstuctions on maps.
- MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (13)Perfect moving mechanism
- Jianqiang Bao also has part 13 up, and this second one is about sprite movement around the obstructions.
- 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight
- Christopher Bennage blogged about Commanding in Silverlight, he begins with a blog post about commands in Silverlight 4 then goes on to demonstrate the Caliburn way of doing commanding.
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March 8th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
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March 8th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
Thanks to the Augusta User Group for the opportunity to speak. You can find my deck and demo code at this link: http://cid-f94e5578f397f00b.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/Augusta%20User%20Group...(
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March 8th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]
We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has downloaded and tried out the VS 2010 Release Candidate, and especially to those who have sent us feedback or reported issues with it. This data has been invaluable in helping us find and fix remaining bugs before we ship the final release.
Last month I blogged about a patch we released for the VS 2010 RC that fixed a bad intellisense crash issue. This past week we released two additional patches that you can download and apply to the VS 2010 RC to immediately fix two other common issues we’ve seen people run into:
Patch that fixes crashes with Tooltip invocation and when hovering over identifiers
The Visual Studio team recently released a second patch that fixes some crashes we’ve seen when tooltips are displayed – most commonly when hovering over an identifier to view a QuickInfo tooltip.
You can learn more about this issue from this blog post, and download and apply the patch here.
Patch that fixes issues with the Web Forms designer not correctly adding controls to the auto-generated designer files
The Visual Web Developer team recently released a patch that fixes issues where web controls are not correctly added to the .designer.cs file associated with the .aspx file – which means they can’t be programmed against in the code-behind file.
This issue is most commonly described as “controls are not being recognized in the code-behind” or “editing existing .aspx files regenerates the .aspx.designer.(vb or cs) file and controls are now missing” or “I can’t embed controls within the Ajax Control Toolkit TabContainer or the <asp:createuserwizard> control”.
You can learn more about the issue here, and download the patch that fixes it here.
Common Cause of Intellisense and IDE sluggishness on Windows XP, Vista, Win Server 2003/2008 systems
Over the last few months we’ve occasionally seen reports of people seeing tremendous slowness when typing and using intellisense within VS 2010 despite running on decent machines. It took us awhile to track down the cause – but we have found that the common culprit seems to be that these machines don’t have the latest versions of the UIA (Windows Automation) component installed.
UIA 3 ships with Windows 7, and is a recommended Windows Update patch on XP and Vista (which is why we didn’t see the problem in our tests – since our machines are patched with all recommended updates). Many systems (especially on XP) don’t automatically install recommended updates, though, and are running with older versions of UIA. This can cause significant performance slow-downs within the VS 2010 editor when large lists are displayed (for example: with intellisense).
If you are running on Windows XP, Vista, or Windows Server 2003 or 2008 and are seeing any performance issues with the editor or IDE, please install the free UIA 3 update that can be downloaded from this page. If you scroll down the page you’ll find direct links to versions for each OS.
Note that we are making improvements to the final release of VS 2010 so that we don’t have big perf issues when UIA 3 isn’t installed – and we are also adding a message within the IDE that will warn you if you don’t have UIA 3 installed and accessibility is activated.
Improved Text Rendering with WPF 4 and VS 2010
We recently made some nice changes to WPF 4 which improve the text clarity and text crispness over what was in the VS 2010/.NET 4 Release Candidate. In particular these changes improve scenarios where you have a dark background with light text.
You can learn more about these improvements in this WPF Team blog post. These changes will be in the final release of VS 2010 and .NET 4.
Hope this helps,
Scott
March 7th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]
This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK.
I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th
I’m doing a free 5 hour presentation in Glasgow on March 25th. I’ll be covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET Web Forms 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, Silverlight and potentially show off a few new things that haven’t been announced yet.
You can learn more about the event and register for free here. There are only a few spots left – so register quickly.
When the event fills up there will be a wait-list – please add yourself to this as we’ll be encouraging people who won’t be able to attend to let us know ahead of time so that we can add more people to the event.
I’ll be presenting in Birmingham, England on March 26th
I’m doing a free 5 hour presentation in Birmingham (UK) on March 26th. I’ll be covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET Web Forms 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, Silverlight and also potentially show off a few new things that haven’t been announced yet.
You can learn more about the event and register for free here.
The event unfortunately filled up immediately (even before I had a chance to blog it) – but there is a waitlist. If you’d like to attend please add yourself to it as hopefully a number of people will be able to attend off of it.
UK Party at MIX
If you are going to MIX and are from the UK send mail to phil@pixelprogramming.com (or tweet him @plip) for an invite to a party being organized for UK MIX attendees next Sunday (March 14th). Knowing the people involved I’m sure the party will be fun. <g>
Cool MIX10 iPhone App
Speaking of MIX (and UK developers), Chris Hardy has posted a cool new MIX10 iPhone application on the Apple AppStore. The free application helps track sessions, rooms, etc. You can learn more about it from Chris’ blog post here. The app works for everyone – not just those from the UK. :-)
Hope this helps,
Scott
March 7th, 2010 — silverlighters.org (Syndicated Content)
Last fall I visited 0redev in Sweden and gave a "What's New in Silverlight 3" talk. THey've just released the video if you interested in wathcing it:
Shawn Wildermuth - What's New in Silverlight 3 from Øredev on Vimeo.
Now that Silverlight 3 is available, learning all the new features can be a chore. In this talk I will walk through all the new features and show you the most compelling pieces from both Silverlight 3 and Blend 3.
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