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The WPF Starter Kit

Arunjeet Singh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:23:00 GMT

Disclaimer: It has come to my attention that there is some confusion in the community regarding the "official status" of the WPF Starter Kit. I wanted to make it clear that this toolkit has come out of my and my team's efforts on a recent project and...(read more)

Windows Mobile 6.5 Emulator Available

Arunjeet Singh — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:04:16 GMT

The developer kit for Windows Mobile 6.5 (including documentation) is now up here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e . You might remember me talking about this at the Tech...(read more)

MOSS: Using the List Web Service to Rename a File

Arunjeet Singh — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:12:22 GMT

Right, so I ran into an interesting problem recently. I needed to rename a bunch of files in a document library we have on our team’s MOSS site. Problem is, this is a lot of documents. So I figured I’d use MOSS’s web services to do it. Now in MOSS, a...(read more)

Building Great Looking Mobile Applications

Arunjeet Singh — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:43:21 GMT

Today at Tech Ed I’ll be trying out something interesting. Instead of speaking on a particular technology area, I’ll be talking about building great looking applications for Windows Mobile. I won’t bother doing a full blown post about this because most...(read more)

Cannon PI

Arunjeet Singh — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:23:04 GMT

Heh. This could be a lot of fun. I’m looking out for the first episode. 50 points to whoever can tell me who the Some Guy playing Higgins is :)...(read more)

Tech-Ed Ahoy!

Arunjeet Singh — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:54:35 GMT

Phew! The demos are done, the Powerpoint deck’s been finalized and I am suffering from a severe lack of sleep. I hope they have lots of coffee at the convention center :) Tech Ed is an yearly Microsoft event meant for developers, IT Pros and business...(read more)

My First Facebook Application

Arunjeet Singh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:58:00 GMT

I did a quick Facebook application to show off at a session I did today. In the process, I ended up writing what might be the beginnings of a Silverlight API for Facebook. The application's here . It shows you the status messages of your friends in the...(read more)

A Home for the Collapsible Panel

Arunjeet Singh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:09:41 GMT

Phew! It's been a long time since my last post. I have no excuse. I've been a lazy bum and I know it. Well, getting married will do that to ya :) I have been using the Collapsible Panel control as a tool to demonstrate various Silverlight concepts over...(read more)

Collapsible Panel Makes it to Silverlight 2 RTM

Arunjeet Singh — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:05:06 GMT

This was something that had been bothering me for a while. Silverlight 2 came out almost two months ago now and I still haven't had the time to go back and update CollapsiblePanel, my sample content control. To read more about CollapsiblePanel, go here...(read more)

Consuming Feeds with the .NET Syndication API

Arunjeet Singh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:59:00 GMT

One of the nicest (and very under-advertised) features to make it into .NET framework 3.5 was the new Syndication API ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.syndication.aspx ). The Syndication API provides .NET applications a great...(read more)

Silverlight 2: So Close I Can Taste It

Arunjeet Singh — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:48:00 GMT

No doubt many of you have heard that Silverlight 2 RC0 just debuted. There's loads of bug fixes here since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and some breaking changes as well. Unlike the breaking changes document from Beta 1 to Beta 2 (which was 80 odd pages) this...(read more)

Phew! It's Been a Busy Month

Arunjeet Singh — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:22:29 GMT

It's been a busy time here in Arunjeetland. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was working on two projects simultaneously. As I was doing that I had an interesting realization. It's easier to do multiple projects if they're on the same technology. The...(read more)

Encrypting Configuration Settings in .NET 2.0

Arunjeet Singh — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:58:00 GMT

This article describes a utility called ProtectConfig that can be used to Encrypt/Decrypt .NET 2.0 configuration files using the ProtectSection ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.sectioninformation.protectsection.aspx ) API....(read more)

Using VisualTransition with a Silverlight Content Control

Arunjeet Singh — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:53:00 GMT

Note: The zip archive below has been updated after Silverlight 2 released to the web. For more details on the changes I made, see this post. This post is part of series that demonstrates how to write a Silverlight 2 content control. The first post in...(read more)

Assigning a Name to a Silverlight Element

Arunjeet Singh — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:25:00 GMT

I answered this in a comment earlier today but I figured this was something that deserved a post of its own. There seems to be some confusion around how to set the name (x:Name in XAML) of a Silverlight object in code. Here's how it's done: object.SetValue(FrameworkElement.NameProperty,...(read more)