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Michael Sync wrote a great tutorial on how to consume ADO.Net Data Services (Astoria) from Silverlight . I just demoed Silverlight on top of Astoria at code camp and wanted to add one comment to Michael's post: Create the class like below. (Note: The
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Thanks to everyone who came to my session , hope you enjoyed it. First off, instead of slides I used WPF based on the example by Beatriz Costa: How can I replace PowerPoint with WPF in my presentations? Next I demoed exporting the Xaml created by the
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I'll be speaking on this coming Sunday at the SoCal Code Camp at Cal State Fullerton. My session is at 9:00 AM on Sunday and is titled Bridging the Desktop/Web Divide with WPF and Silverlight . I'm hoping to demo (still working on my code) a simple application
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Now that there is a central place to host your Silverlight applications, creating a Community Server Module for Silverlight is a lot easier. I took my previous WPF/E CS Module and modified it to work with the Silverlight streaming service . If you want
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Well I've been downloading the VS Orcas for a few days and it still isn't done. I really wanted to try out the .NET support in Silverlight 1.1 and so I asked if this could be done with VS 2005 and Scott Louvau replied: Well, in VS2005 you can create a
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I'm going through the process of updating my WPF/E Samples to Silverlight. Since it is a little more painful than the last update I thought I would walk you through the process so you don't have to figure the out. Copy the Silverlight.js file to your
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Today at MIX the Silverlight.net community site was announced. Along with that announcement Microsoft has closed the old WPF/E forums : These forums are retired. To join the conversation about Silverlight, please go to the new Silverlight community home:
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Wow, I just came across the DesignersLove.Net blog today via Rob's post about CHATBlender which is a very cool combination of WPF/E and MSN Messenger. So I subscribed to it and since then there have been two more great posts that are worth sharing. The
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Donald Burnett has an interesting piece call Poor, maligned, and misunderstood by many: WPF/E which I found to be an interesting read. He brings up two myths about WPF/E that (1) it doesn't support databinding and (2) it doesn't have any input controls.
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The source code for this article can be downloaded here . You can view a live sample of the grid in action here. This article builds on Part 1 where we used ASP.Net AJAX to get a list of employees and then format then with Xaml to add them to our data
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I didn't think it was possible, but smargroth (the creator of the WPF/E Vista example ) has posted in the forums about how to simulate 3D objects in WPF/E. You can view his example here . The example isn't perfect, but he explains that it will be fixed
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Last week Chad posted his Matrix style text animation which I thought was very cool. I wanted to experiment a little with keyboard events and using Glyphs . The result is the Matrix Reloaded : The example takes keyboard input without any html help and
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The source code for this article can be downloaded here . While there is no official Data Grid in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) you can still layout your data quite easily using the Grid Panel. In WPF/E (E for Everywhere) there is no Grid Panel
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Two collegues of mine at Avanade , Hong Tan and Greg Ferguson, did a demo of WPF for the students at UCI . For the demo they took the Kevin Button and modified it with pictures of Hong. They also created a javascript only version of the button to see
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