Nick on Silverlight and WPF

The main difference from the Silverlight 4 version is I've added a section on trusted in browser apps (which in many ways aren't that different from trusted out of browser apps). I've also folded in a few corrections/improvements from customer feedback...

Thanks for everyone who came out to MIX and went to the talk. If you didn't get a chance, or want to see it again :), the video has been posted: http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/MIX11/MED12 . I've attached the slides below. For what it's worth, I hid...

Compatibility is extremely important to Silverlight, so how exactly do we achieve it? Before we get into that, we need to take a moment to define different types of compatibility. The most important is application compat -- if you have a xap written for...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/A/A1A80A28-907C-4C6A-8036-782E3792A408/Silverlight Security Overview.docx (The content hasn't changed since RC but the formatting & presentation has undergone a facelift courtesy John Allwright) A little...

[Update: This paper has been published as the Silverlight Security Overview . -Nick] I updated the white security overview white paper for the Silverlight 4 RC release. Biggest change was I've added a section on security recommendations for trusted...

Here's the API listing for the Silverlight 4 release candidate (RC). I included mscorlib.dll this time, as well as a couple DLLs I forgot the last time. For more details about these API listings, see an earlier post .

See previous post for explanation.

One of the things we do to keep API quality high in Silverlight is to periodically dump the complete public API set to a text file & run a diff against previous versions to see what's changed. Figured these "txref" files might be of use to someone...

Several years back I posted a XML tokenizer for syntax highlighting . At the time I didn't post a complete app, since it was part of a larger project; if someone recently asked me for a little more context for the tokenizer so I put together a quickie...

One of the more subtle improvements in Silverlight 4 is that we unsealed the Path class. That means you can write a class that behaves like a shape without re-implementing properties like Fill, Stroke, etc. -- just subclass, set Path.Data to render what...

[Update: This paper has been updated and published as the Silverlight Security Overview . -Nick] Wanted to let folks know about a white paper we're making available (attached below). We plan to incorporate this into the main Silverlight documentation...

This has absolutely nothing to do with Silverlight or WPF, but thought people might find it useful anyway. If you've ever tried to check in a large number of files into SharePoint, you'll notice that there isn't a way to check them in bulk -- you have...

Here's the VB version of the resource dictionary item template . Copy the attachment into "C:\Users\ <your name> \Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual Basic" .

To make it easier to create merged resource dictionaries in Silverlight 3 beta, I put together a little Visual Studio item template so you can do "Add | New item... | Silverlight Resource Dictionary". For C# users, take the attachment & copy it...

A couple more bits of code that others might find useful... Whenever I do databinding-intensive apps (both Silverlight & WPF), I find myself writing a fair amount of boilerplate code. If you want change notifications on your class, you need to inherit...

Short version is, the keys we left out are harder than you might think to support, and they weren't necessary for the scenarios we focused on (tabbing around forms, writing common controls, accelerated keys, etc.). The longer version requires a...

Here's a couple classes I've found helpful when writing WPF & Silverlight applications, which I've named simply Command and CommandHelper. Sometimes, you just want to do simple commanding stuff, and you don't need the overhead of RoutedCommand. (Also...

Here's a version of the BeginAnimation extension method, updated for Silverlight 2: static class SilverlightHelpers { public static void BeginAnimation(this FrameworkElement obj, DependencyProperty property, DoubleAnimation animation) { var storyboard...

Yeah, it's been awhile since I've blogged anything, so I thought a nice way to get back in the game was to post a BeginAnimation method. Sometimes you just want to start a simple animation in code, and the Silverlight way of doing it through storyboards...

I got a chance to speak about Silverlight at the TechReady conference this week (same talk I gave at MIX ), I love to talk about Silverlight and it's always great to talk with people who are in the trenches using or thinking about using your stuff. TechReady...

I put together a little Silverlight app demonstrating how to drag and drop between different areas of your Silverlight app. (This isn't drag and drop in the OLE sense, for security reasons Silverlight doesn't support dragging between processes) I actually...

The latest iteration of the FantasyBaseball demo... the end result looks virtually identical, but the underlying code has been cleaned up in a couple different ways. I simplified the solution/project set up significantly, cutting it down from four projects...

I had several requests for the slides, I've posted them as an attachment. The video for the talk (I haven't had a chance to watch it myself) is: Building Silverlight Applications using .NET (Part 1) Building Silverlight Applications using .NET ...

It's been a fun conference, getting to show off all the things we've been working on. And as usual, its also been a lot of work (both by me and the rest of the Silverlight team). So before I get completely out of conference mode, I wanted to post Jamie...

Yup, it's official, WPF/E is now Silverlight. Once upon a time, I used to get annoyed at the marketing department for these changes. "Why can't these guys just pick a name and stick with it? And why is it such a big secret until we officially release...