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...
Tim Sneath [via Lamont ] shows off the new Video.Show reference application: Video.Show is an end-to-end solution that provides a reference-quality sample for user-generated video content sites. Taking advantage of all of our latest technologies: .NET Framework 3.5 , ASP.NET AJAX , LINQ , Silverlight...
Via Tim Heuer I read about Kirk's xbox contest : To help fill those seats, we are giving away two XBox 360s to people simply who blog about the event with some pre-canned text. The first XBox 360 will be given away during the keynote at the Los Angeles Web Experience event this week, the second will...