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See the (Silver)Light

Today marks the release-to-web (RTW) of Silverlight 3 as well as the release candidate of Expression Blend 3. You’ve heard of the cool and innovative new features and maybe even caught our recent Roadshow where Chris demonstrated many of them – smooth Read More...
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 1:30 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Summer of Silverlight – Win $10K

I missed the mark on this one, but thanks to a recent posting from Dino Esposito , I just became aware of ComponentArt’s 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition .  The best application (as selected by the panel and community votes) will win $10,000, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:00 AM by joneil | 1 Comments
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Awesome WPF/Silverlight Guidance

I don’t casually throw around words like ‘awesome', but this is indeed it.  If you’re building applications for WPF and/or Silverlight, you’ve certainly become XAMLized, since XAML (eXtensible Markup Language) is the “common” user-interface description Read More...
Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 2:38 PM by joneil | 2 Comments
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Atta Boy, Andy

Congrats to the Northeast’s own Andy Beaulieu (MVP and leader of the Central New York .NET Developer Group ) for winning the ServerQuest II Silverlight game competition, with his entry Boss Launch   And from the “great timing department”, my colleague, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 12:31 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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NERD to Host XAML Fest - May 27th - 28th

My colleague, John Pelak, is bringing another edition of the XAML Fest series to the Boston area, this time to Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (aka NERD) in Cambridge.  The past several sessions in this area filled to capacity Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 6:04 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

RIA = Developer + Designer

That’s an equation you’ll typically hear us evangelists espouse, with XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) being the lingua franca of the developer/designer relationship, and Visual Studio and Expression Studio the tools of choice.  It’s Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 4:39 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Silverlight 3 Emerges from the Shadows

Scott Guthrie gave a bit of a teaser in a blog post last November , but today Silverlight 3 is a significant step closer to reality through the official announcement of a beta release at MIX 09 in Las Vegas.  Coinciding with the beta is the availability Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:10 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Get into the MIX09

It’s exactly two weeks until MIX09 , and here’s the scene from my home office window juxtaposed with one of the MIX09 venue.  Vegas is looking pretty good, huh?   Weather aside, there’s a lot of other great things in store at this year’s edition Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:43 AM by joneil | 1 Comments
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I is for… Isolated Storage

Isolated storage is a pretty nifty concept that’s actually been part of the .NET Framework since version 1.1 but is getting a bit more attention these days with the adoption of Silverlight and the desire to leverage the client machine for a better user Read More...
Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 12:00 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Prism 2: Now With Silverlight

Back in the fall on our Northeast Roadshow , I presented on the various User Interface Experience options available for both smart client and browser-based applications.  At the end of the discussion, I mentioned the Composite Application Guidance Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:11 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Are You Game to Win $5000?

Check out this new Silverlight developer competition in which you could pocket $5000 for showcasing your Silverlight skills.  The contest rules aren’t that apparent from the site unless you register (or spot the tiny link in the footer), so I’m copying Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:06 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Silverlight Control Mega-List

If you’re working on or considering Silverlight for application development, then the sine quibus non of your daily blog reading should include both Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty . Tim just posted A Comprehensive List of Silverlight Controls for Developers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:01 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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I Hereby Resolve To ...

Having trouble figuring out how to fill in the blanks? Fret no longer; I found this link to a Resolution Randomizer on Brad Abrams's blog, and it's too fun not to forward on. Plus it's a Silverlight application and, therefore, legitimately work-related Read More...
Posted Friday, December 26, 2008 9:23 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Silverlight DataGrid Update

During the recent Northeast Roadshow series, I talked about data binding in Silverlight and mentioned a number of data-oriented controls that are part of the Silverlight 2 release as well some recently added to the Silverlight Toolkit . While we didn't Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:46 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Another Roadshow Gone By

As I write this post, I'm looking out the window at the first two four inches of what promises to be a bona-fide Winter storm - a fitting end to the 2008 Winter Northeast Roadshow series. As always, it was great to see familiar faces, as well as a number Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 3:55 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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