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What is new in WPF and Cider on the .NET Framework 4 and VS2010 beta 2 release

This post is a quick recap of the most important changes for WPF and Silverlight developers in this Beta 2 release. I definitely will return to a few of these topics over the next few weeks, so stay tuned for updates and new posts. Please note that this Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 7:39 AM by jaimer | 0 Comments

Expression Studio TuTorialS Starter Kit

Via Arturo Toledo (internal email).  The Expression team released four great Expression starter kits today.. Introduction to Prototyping with Sketchflow in Expression Blend 3 Discover Sketchflow, a new feature set in Expression Blend 3 that helps Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:26 PM by jaimer | 5 Comments

New release of WPF Toolkit, now with charts!

The June release of the WPF toolkit went live today, it now includes the charts that come with the Silverlight toolkit. David Anson has the scoop and a great sample on the charts . The other controls (Datagrid, VSM, and DatePicker) also include a few Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:57 PM by jaimer | 1 Comments

Programming differences between WPF and SIlverlight, a WHitePaper

Wintellect just posted a great 70 page white paper on codeplex about the “ programming differences between WPF and Silverlight ”. I have not dissected it yet, but from a quick scan it looks very useful. I will be printing it and dissecting it on my flight Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:46 AM by jaimer | 3 Comments

WPF effects Library running in Silverlight 3

At MIX last week, we announced that Silverlight 3 supports effects, written in HLSL 2.0 .. If you remember from this previous post , we have a codeplex WPF library with 20+ effects and greater number of transition effects. Charles Bissonette, in the Blend Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:37 PM by jaimer | 2 Comments
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Microsoft Client Continuum in action: The Silverlight toolkit charts, running in WPF

The Silverlight toolkit CTP released at PDC includes some new charting functionality  (Column, Bar, Pie, Line, and Scatter).    The long-term plan is for all of these controls to be ported to WPF; but inspired by Rudi’s work Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:05 PM by jaimer | 17 Comments

Working with Collections in Deep Zoom.

In the Deep Zoom run-time, you can load two types of compositions: A single image composition is when you interact with a single image at run-time. This does not mean you started with a single image, you could start with many images and compose a scene, Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 11:29 PM by jaimer | 9 Comments
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Installing Silverlight no longer requires a browser re-start… woohoo!!!

A few weeks ago I noticed changes in browser's behaviors… 1) My IE 7.0.6000 no longer prompts for Click To Activate :) 2) My firefox 2.0.0.13 no longer required a reboot after installing Silverlight … If you had not noticed, using silverlight.js on IE Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 11:06 PM by jaimer | 3 Comments
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Viewbox for Silverlight2

Viewbox is a pretty handy 'container' in WPF..   It is a decorator that scales its child content to the size available to the viewbox ( if child is smaller it scales it up >1, if child is bigger it scales it down such that it fits based on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:34 AM by jaimer | 5 Comments
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Some of the Silverlight blogs I read..

This one got stuck on my drafts on 4/10… sorry …   (FYI, I am back from my trip; more on that soon ) … - –-  -—-— -- - I am out all next 1.5 weeks talking to ISVs in EMEA about WPF and Silverlight… Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:11 AM by jaimer | 3 Comments
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built-in Styling and generic.xaml

Most people already know (from ScottGu’s blog post for example) that in Silverlight 2 you can override the ControlTemplate for a Control and ‘re-define’ the look of the control. However, I have received a few questions around the use of generic.xaml to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:58 PM by jaimer | 2 Comments
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Silverlight instantiation on 2.0

On my Deep zoom Post , I recommended that for Deep Zoom applications you instantiate the control using Silverlight.js to avoid the Click To Activate.   Some one picked on this and asked why the new default is using OBJECT. Here is what I know Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:10 PM by jaimer | 1 Comments
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Open source charting library for Silverlight 2..

Visifire has a free, open-source library for 2D and “3D looking” charts built using Silverlight 2..  Very cool!!   For me, this is obviously handy when creating demos and showing Silverlight capabilities; for commercial use they Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:31 PM by jaimer | 2 Comments
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A deepzoom primer ( explained and coded)..

I had to learn DeepZoom recently and along the way I put together some handy notes .. below are the notes organized in a near step-by-step explanation format. This is a very long post, but I hope it has useful insights for any one wanting to do deepzoom Read More...
Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 10:56 PM by jaimer | 18 Comments

Microsoft's "client" strategy for next few years became real at MIX08 ( and is incredibly exciting if you ask me) ..

Below are my scribbles during my flight back from MIX. I considered not publishing this because it feels 'too positive' (or too marketing-like).. if you don't like those, please skip (no harm). I am sharing to see if any one has feedback. I also want Read More...
Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 1:46 AM by jaimer | 3 Comments
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