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Archetype have put together a cute little Hallowe’en pumpkin-carving application built with Silverlight and hosted on Azure. It lets you “carve” a pumpkin, complete with backlit glow from the candle, and send the resulting image to a friend. Give it a
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Two out of three of this afternoon’s sessions in my track at the TechDays conference – Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform -- were presented by Anthony Vranic, an independent consultant who used to be a Microsoft developer evangelist. His sessions:
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Today is a landmark launch day for anyone building Rich Internet Applications (also known as RIAs), particularly those that build compelling web-enabled experiences on the Microsoft platform. We launched 2 new product versions today and it’s something
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Don’t forget that Silverlight on the Silver Screen , ObjectSharp’s free seminar on Silverlight 3 , Expression and SketchFlow takes place in Toronto this Thursday at the Scotiabank Theatre. If you’d like to learn more about the rich-UI applications that
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You’ve got to hand it to ObjectSharp : when they do a parody, they pull out all the stops: Next Thursday, June 9th – exactly one week from today -- ObjectSharp will host Silverlight on the Silver Screen , a presentation on the upcoming revision of Silverlight,
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31 Days of SIlverlight is a series of blog posts posted through the month of July by Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg (yes, the same guy behind the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever, which was covered in the previous post ). For each day in
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The covers will be coming off our next generation of user experience tools and technologies on July 9th. That’s when Microsoft will be unveiling Silverlight 3 , which gives you the all the goodness of RIA (Rich Internet Application, although you can use
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If you’ve been meaning to get into building rich internet applications using Silverlight, you might want to check out The Silverlight Tour . Billed as “a worldwide three-day course on Silverlight”, the Tour mixes lectures, demonstrations and hands on
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Silverlight , Microsoft’s plug-in for delivering cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and experiences has been out for a while now. The first, JavaScript-only version was released at Microsoft’s MIX07 conference in May of 2007.
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There are lots of exciting announcements coming out of MIX in Vegas this week. Today we shipped Internet Explorer 8 . However, there’s also plenty to celebrate back home around Silverlight and IE8. Check them out! Watching your favorite TV shows
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From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his insights from the conference on a daily basis. Robert Burke is a Toronto-based IT Consultant who’s attending his fourth MIX event this year. By day he’s
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Silverlight 3 Beta Today at the MIX ‘09 conference , we rolled out the beta for Silverlight 3 , the next iteration of our rich internet application platform. Version 3 adds a lot of new features including: Out of Browser Capabilities. Silverlight 3 applications
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In the past few weeks alone I have had a number of requests and questions regarding courses and training material available for partners and customers. Is this a sign of the economic turbulence we’re in? Perhaps. In talking with many of you we understand
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Infragistics , one of the top UI controls vendors, has recently launched Quince – a UX Patterns Explorer in Silverlight. You can explore various UX Patterns by User Tasks, Tag Relations, and Wireframe (i.e. arranged by their UI positions). Of course you
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Thanks for everyone who came out to the Toronto and Montreal TechDays. The three Silverlight sessions in both cities are extremely popular with long line-up of people wanting to ask questions about after the presentations. Robert Burke (Silverlight Samurai
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