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Silverlight 2 Controls, Data Binding, Templates and Styles

Silverlight 2 provides a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation Controls including a set of Layout controls such as Cancas, Stack Panel and Grid and visual controls such as Button, TextBox, Calendar, Checkbox, ListBox, RadioButton, DataGrid, Slider, Read More...
Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 12:37 PM by Bob Familiar | 4 Comments

Developing, Deploying and Invoking WCF Services from Silverlight 2 Applications

In order for your WCF Service to be invoked from Silverlight you need only change the default Web.Config EndPoint Binding setting from wsHttpBinding to basicHttpBinding : Optionally you can add the AspNetCompatibilityRequirements() attribute to your service Read More...
Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 12:36 PM by Bob Familiar | 4 Comments

Rich Internet Application Architecture

Rich Internet Applications Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) combine the maturity, stability and scalability of service orientation with state of the art display technology to create the next wave of web based distributed applications. One of the drivers Read More...
Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 12:34 PM by Bob Familiar | 2 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 Get Ready Event - UX Track Session Content

It was a pleasure to present at the Waltham, MA Visual Studio 2008 Get Ready Event. I presented the User Experience Track covering Office Business Applications using Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office (VSTO), Windows Presentation Foundation , ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:03 PM by Bob Familiar | 1 Comments

AJAX and Silverlight @ the NYC arcCouncil June 2007 ReCap

I had a great time presenting at the New York City arcCouncil event hosted by Bill Zack at the Microsoft Office. I presented on AJAX and Silverlight . My slides and sample code can be found at here . There was a need for some clarification on the details Read More...
Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 3:24 PM by Bob Familiar | 2 Comments

Yummy Silverlight Nibbles!

A new site with on-line Silverlight tutorials, build completely in Silverlight by the way, has been launched. Check out Nibbles and the associated Nibbles Blog . -bob Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:50 PM by Bob Familiar | 0 Comments
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Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming Nuts and Bolts

Danny Thorpe has a great post on how to get your Silverlight applications working with the Silverlight Streaming Service . -bob Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 10:24 AM by Bob Familiar | 2 Comments
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MSDN Event - AJAX + Silverlight

I had a great time speaking at the MSDN Events this week on the topics of Microsoft ASP.Net AJAX and Silverlight. As promised here is the link to the content from the event. Here are other blog posts of mine that are also relevant: XAML Primer Making Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 1:39 PM by Bob Familiar | 0 Comments

'Acropolis' CTP for WPF Development Released

The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview 1 is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is part of the “.NET Client Futures” Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:09 PM by Bob Familiar | 1 Comments

File under way cool!

Multi-touch display technology has been demonstrated in the realms of R&D conferences and now Microsoft has announcemd a product based on this technology, Microsoft Surface . I can not wait to order a mixed drink, a slice of chocolate cake and then Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:50 PM by Bob Familiar | 2 Comments
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WPF based Digital Publishing Application Launched - Xiine

Xiine , pronounced 'zeen', is a WPF application that you can download that provides access to digital content feeds that are loaded into a FlowDocument based reader. Cool factor of 10!!! Here are some interesting facts about Xiine: Xiine Facts We have Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:57 AM by Bob Familiar | 2 Comments
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Xaml and WPF - A Primer

Xaml (pronounced zammel ), e X tensible A pplication M arkup L anguage, is a new declarative XML-based language developed by Microsoft that allows you to define a set of .Net objects that can be compiled into an assembly or dynamically instantiated at Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:12 PM by Bob Familiar | 4 Comments
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Expression and MSDN Announcement

Based on community feedback, we are pleased to announce that we will be making Expression Web available starting today to all MSDN Premium subscribers. We will also make Expression Blend available to MSDN Premium subscribers shortly after the Expression Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:26 PM by Bob Familiar | 2 Comments
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