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Silverlight Fire Starter Videos

Adam Kinney posted all of the Fire Starter videos and the site has a cool Silverlight UI. Read More...

Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 9:08 PM by ebooth | 3 Comments

Speaking @ Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter

I will be speaking at the Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter event on November 29th along with a bunch of my colleagues. My two sessions are "Media, Markers and More" and "What will Silverlight look like in future versions? WPF". The first session goes into Read More...

Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 1:25 AM by ebooth | 1 Comments

Silverlight 1.0 Book!

My officemate and friend Laurence Moroney's Silverlight 1.0 book is now available. Check out his detailed post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2007/10/27/introducing-silverlight-1-0-book-is-now-available.aspx Read More...

Posted Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:26 PM by ebooth | 1 Comments

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Silverlight Reflector Add-in Now a community Project

Jamie Cansdale of Test Driven.Net has improved the Reflector Silverlight Add-in and started a community project here . If you have improvements, bugs, or features request please posted them to the community site. Jamie changed it so that the C# or VB Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:17 AM by ebooth | 1 Comments

View Source Reflector tool for .NET Silverlight Sites

One of the nice advantages to Silverlight is that you can view the source of a site to see how things work, but with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha that process became more complex. While you can still fish through the JavaScript and Xaml to find the .NET assembly(dll) Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 19, 2007 1:26 AM by ebooth | 59 Comments

Silverlight C# 3.0 Features

The .NET framework version Silverlight targets is the same that C# 3.0 targets and so we are able to take advantage of the new language features in C# 3.0. The LINQ ( L anguage IN tegrated Q uery) features of C# 3.0 has gotten the most attention of any Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:55 AM by ebooth | 2 Comments

Silverlight .NET introduction for JavaScript Developers (Updated)

To begin our .NET Silverlight learning we will start off with an overview of .NET. For those are used to developing Silverlight applications with JavaScript, we will be concentrating on the differences between using JavaScript and .NET. If you haven't Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:55 PM by ebooth | 2 Comments

MIX 07 Sessions Online

This week we launched Silverlight at MIX07 and now all the sessions are online at sessions.visitmix.com . I am watching a great session on LINQ and Silverlight presented by Anders Hejlsberg. LINQ is only one part of the announcements we made this week Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:07 AM by ebooth | 0 Comments

XNA On Channel9

A few weeks ago I headed over to Gamefest when XNA Express was announced to shoot a Channel9 video with the team. Check it out . For those of you not familiar with XNA Express it allows developers to write games using C# and play them on Xbox 360 and Read More...

Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 7:04 PM by ebooth | 0 Comments

Peer To Peer in Windows Vista - Part 2 - PNRP

Today we are going to look at a few different methods. The first set of methods allows us to register a PNRP name and the next set of methods allows us to resolve a PNRP name. A few important things to keep in mind are that the Windows Firewall Client Read More...

Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 10:36 PM by ebooth | 3 Comments

Peer to Peer (p2p) in Windows Vista - People Near Me API

This week we are going to start exploring the peer to peer (p2p) in Windows Vista. Before we get into any code an overview of the p2p APIs available in Windows Vista is in order. PNRP (Peer Name Resolution Protocol) is like server-less DNS. It allows Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:50 AM by ebooth | 8 Comments

WPF Command Scope (Focus Scope)

My friend ran into a problem recently where they wanted to use commands such as Cut, Copy, Paste in buttons, they couldn’t figure out how to bind the buttons CommandTarget property to multiple targets. For those of you not familiar with WPF Commands check Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:30 AM by ebooth | 0 Comments

2D Cell Animation Part III: Creating a Color Palette

This is the third and final post about my WPF 2D Cell Animation program; Ink-A-Mator. Once you can get the source on the .NET 3.0 Community site . This week we are going to look at how we can create a color palette, since WPF doesn’t have one. The first Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:53 PM by ebooth | 1 Comments

2D Cell Animation Part II: Open Packaging Conventions

Last week we looked at how we could use the Ink APIs in WPF to create 2D animation authoring application. This week we are going to look at how we can use the Open Packaging Conventions APIs in WPF to save and load our animation. Once you can get the Read More...

Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 10:03 PM by ebooth | 0 Comments

2D Cell Animation with WPF

2D animation is an area that I have always had a lot of interest in. I thought I would try my hand at creating a simple 2D animation program with WPF and ran into a few surprises. The sample and source is posted on the .NET 3.0 Framework site. The first Read More...

Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 10:04 PM by ebooth | 3 Comments