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Win7 your Visual Search if it speaks RSS

I already blogged quite a bit about the new Visual Search feature in Internet Explorer 8. Since this needs some customizations on the server side in order to create search responses that correspond to the Visual Search standard and are either in JSON Read More...
Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 7:34 AM by astrauss | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): ComeGetSome.osdx

Update: Enterprise RIA Project Now Running on Silverlight 3 Release Version

As the release schedule of our Enterprise RIA template and sample application was a little bit unfortunate we now had the time to update the project. We needed to do some changes to the code which we couldn’t do before now due to some time constraints. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:59 AM by astrauss | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): RiaPrototype-sl3rtm_build.zip

Silverlight 3 Business Applications Made Easy

Jörg an I created a new RIA Template and sample application for enterprise applications based on Silverlight 3 and the Silverlight Toolkit. This Visual Studio template and sample application provides a basic structure with sample code for an Enterprise Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:39 AM by astrauss | 0 Comments

Radio GaGa New Version And Live On Windows Azure

I took some more time to enhance Radio GaGa, the sample application from my last post . It now supports search, has a home button, artist paging functionality and an updated layout and was updated to work with the final Silverlight 3 runtime. And as I Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 1:19 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments
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The ViewModel Pattern in Silverlight – An Example

During the last few weeks I was working with Silverlight again quite a bit. This meant I had to write some code for several showcase projects, too. Of course no real production code (beware) but nevertheless in the end the applications were doing what Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:25 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments

Physics, Silverlight and Visualization…Update!

Due to quite some unexpected demand for the sources of the knowledge management showcase published in this blogpost even now almost 2 years after the initial post I took some short time and updated the solution. So now should at least rudimentary work Read More...
Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 12:40 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments

Do A Gadget With Silverlight And The Award could be yours

This time just a short announcement and no broad epic technical essay as usual. The announcement is about the Silverlight Gadget Award for all those who are developing cool and innovative Vista Sidebar Gadgets and want to introduce this to a even broader Read More...
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 1:17 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments

IE8 Beta2 - The RIA Slice

The Internet Explorer Beta 2 was released yesterday introducing quite some new features about which you already probably read in one of the various like the IE8 Homepage or the announcement on the official IE Blog . However there may be a feature that Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:50 PM by astrauss | 4 Comments

IE8 Beta Is Out And With It Some Slices And Activities

Today the MIX Conference in Las Vegas opens its doors and there will be quite some interesting announcements there. I will surely blog about some of them and today I will take a start with the public release of Internet Explorer 8 and one of its new features. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:54 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments

Physics, Silverlight and Visualization...How Businesses Can Benefit!

Recently we had an engagement at a cutomer with a department responsible for knowledge management. They were looking for a way to visualize some of their knowledge data in a intuitive way and make content related to that data acessible to all relevant Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:16 PM by astrauss | 10 Comments

Astoria Dataservices Featured @ Xtopia

This week the German Designer Conference held by Microsoft took place in Berlin. I wrote a blog entry about it quite a while ago. The event is called Xtopia and it was the first event of a reoccurring series. I held a session there about a Microsoft technology Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 10:38 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Slides_and_Demos.zip

Smart Enconding Enables Content Reuse

As I work with many customers from the media and entertainment sector which naturally have a high affinity to Windows Media Center and Silverlight technologies I'm frequently asked the question on where the overlaps are between Media Center and Silverlight Read More...
Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 10:07 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments

Silverlight Is Cool Because It ...

As you all have probably seen, read or heard about the announcement of Silverlight the new Microsoft technology to create Rich Internet Applications. Some of you might still wonder what it is all about and therefore I thought I will provide you a brief, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:58 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): WhatIsSL.xaml

Quick Win Series - Silverlight Background Transparency With "Orcas"

Have you already tried to create a Silverlight project with Visual Studio "Orcas" and wondered why setting the isWindowless property to true and the background property to transperent on the Javascript function that creates the Silverlight control like Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:23 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments

Should I Stay Or Should I Go - With Silverlight?

Despite the fact that there have been already an amazing amount of blog posts about the Silverlight announcement Microsoft made on the Mix coference in Las Vegas last week I will step into the round dance of blogging about it. Why? Because I realized Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:03 AM by astrauss | 6 Comments
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