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I recently dragged colleague Mark Bloodworth out to the lake at TVP to chat about ASP.NET MVC and working on a proof of concept with iWantGreatCare.org , a free service for those looking to find the best healthcare for themselves, their family or those
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I’ve had the same question asked a few times recently about the rate of Silverlight adoption so I thought I’d try and give some hard and fast figures as well as point to some useful references in case anyone comes here looking for information after our
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I’m a huge sceptic when it comes to code competitions – perhaps Terrarium has left a permanent impression on me – I think they tend to promise much yet offer little. It’s an easy answer to a difficult problem. The barrier to entry is usually too high
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PDC's just out of the way and it's already time to start thinking about MIX. I saw this logo on the website and thought we were going to be expected to run a 10K in the desert. Fortunately it's 10K of storage and a challenge to do as much as you can with
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Things are starting to shape up nicely on the developer track so I thought I'd try and give you a flavour of what you'll see if (surely "when"?) you join us in Brighton in September for ReMix UK. There'll be a big focus on rich client with Silverlight,
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ie get them while they're hot . Following on from the massive success of last year's Mix 07 , the ReMix UK 08 website has just this minute gone live. Here's a Key Facts document: ReMix UK 08 is all about bringing together the very best web design and
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I've updated my Deep Zoom demo to add mouse wheel support for zooming. There is no way to capture mouse wheel events in managed code in Silverlight 2 so I tried a couple of approaches. Firstly I tried to attach a managed event handler to the DOMMouseScroll
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With inspiration and a bit of help from MikeT , Daniel and Yasser (and John in his comments) I had a crack at a simple Silverlight 2 demo with Deep Zoom. You'll find links to all the tools etc in the linked posts but essentially I took some images and
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You can download the new ASP.NET MVC Preview here . The updated Silverlight ASP.NET controls get installed along with the Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 1 (or Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 which includes the SDK). For these downloads go here
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I mentioned in a previous post that there was much improved accessibility in Silverlight 2. There's a video interview with Mark Rideout on the Mix08 site with more details. When I talk to customers about Silverlight I often get asked about accessibility
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You can watch the Steve Ballmer keynote live starting about now at http://www.visitmix.com And 25 sessions are already available at http://sessions.visitmix.com - here are a few I'll be downloading for the flight home (below are WMV download links, if
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Again, really a set of shorthand notes but hopefully a few nuggets in here that you might find useful... User Controls Fixed look with some logic Split large pages into smaller chunks Re-use Root XAML element is UserControl and partial class derives from
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First thing to say - great install experience. I uninstalled Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 Alpha and Silverlight 1.1 and visited the Hard Rock Memorabila site. Below is what I was presented with - a "preview" of the application with an "Install Silverlight"
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Sorry - this is very scrappy as I had the most horrendous headache and it's really difficult to type, watch, listen at the same time while being jostled by the person next to you because the room is so full... :-) New in Silverlight 2 Text, Text Input
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Important point - not everything in WPF is in Silverlight 2 (obviously) but what is there is API compatible so, for example, you can take Silverlight XAML and re-use that in WPF. LOB Applications - Cirque du Soleil casting application. A handful of people
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