Yesterday I saw that the Expression Blend and Design team had blogged about the new DeepZoomTool.dll : In our most recent release of Deep Zoom Composer, one of the major changes we made was to change how we generated the image tiles both for designing as well as exporting your Deep Zoom Content. In the...
This is something that wasn’t clear to me so I decided to blog about so that I could fully understand it. Both IValueConverters and TypeConverters are used to do conversions (imagine that!), but they are used differently. TypeConverters are used by the Xaml parser during parse time to convert values...
About six months ago I decided to take a break from blogging without feeling bad about it. It was a nice break, but really my lack of blogging was mostly due to the type of work I was doing. I was working on an interesting project for a large media and entertainment company that combined Microsoft Excel...
A lot of people are waiting expectantly for the release of beta 2 of Silverlight 2.0. Dave, for instance, is watching a number of blogs and twitter. However, I just saw on Barak Cohen's Silverlight News blog that it is available today . He doesn't have a live link though and just says that: Silverlight...
Ok, so in my first post on Integrating MVC with Silverlight I didn't actually get to the Silverlight part. I only laid out the navigation and set it up so that it would work with Silverlight when I did add it in. So while on the flight from Orlando to Phoenix I re-wrote my menu using Silverlight 1.0...
Ok, so before I go any farther I want to spell out a couple of things. First, my sample code doesn't have any Silverlight in it yet . Since I didn't have a whole lot of time and beta 2 is only a day or so away I didn't think it was worth the effort. This post is more about figuring out where Silverlight...
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 class name should be the same as your table name....
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 WPF application to XPS. Here is a good link that covers...
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 I built in WPF and show how easy it is to...
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 to add this to your blog follow these steps: 1)...