26 August 2008
How to Submit a Bug/Feature Request for Silverlight.
Stephen Price sent me a piece of email asking how the heck does one submit a bug to Silverlight Team? I replied "connect.microsoft.com" thinking it was self-explanatory from there and off you go. I then actually clicked on it and I'm embarrassed
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14 August 2008
Do you know Silverlight has an inbuilt native RSS Reader?
Interesting, I keep asking this question a lot and the responses I get are something that un-nerves me. In that, in Silverlight there is a native RSS Reader built in, so the ability to consume an RSS Feed is so easy, it's almost cheating (Sharepoint readers,
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12 August 2008
Silverlight has a more natural support of JavaScript.
It was interesting to read this CNet.com article around Flash, HTML and AJAX . It talked about the various ways in which the Adobe Flash is struggling to compete with AJAX in the RIA space. In fact, some of our early research showed that AJAX was associated
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09 August 2008
Silverlight, Deep Zoom & LOLCats.
I can haz ur LOLCats in DeepZoom Thx bai. Well, for those of you whom aren't up to speed with LOLCats then you really need spend some time studying this creation of gold nuggetness. Rob has definitely put a lot of thought behind this and I was amazed
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08 August 2008
Please tell me this isn't the US Presidents computer..
This one came into my inbox today, I had to just laugh. I mean I know Bill Gates said he wanted to put Windows on every desktop, I just hope he didn't mean the presidents as well in this particular case :) hehe. Just goes to show, that Windows Vista has
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08 August 2008
Silverlight Offline Storage with LINQ.
I get asked a lot about what the .NET folks can bring to RIA, and the first thing I proudly say is the fact is they bring a lot of engineering maturity and given Silverlight compliments a lot of their existing knowledge, it is our bet that this will carry
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07 August 2008
You lost your $35 domain, but you can have it back for $5000 USD
I have this really bad habit of buying domains for projects I plan on working on for 1 year only. I recently accidentally lost BeyondTheBrowser.NET and SilverlightCoders.com due to not only moving between US to Australia (i.e. lost track of my inbox)
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06 August 2008
Deep Zoom Guru, Lutz goes online.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Lutz in our downtown Seattle Office and he's just announced his blog tonight is now online. Hey everyone – I started a deep zoom blog to answer some of the many questions I’ve been getting and to put some nice
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05 August 2008
What do you mean all Silverlight.
There are times, when I see great things around Silverlight and this one site for me always seems to capture us at our best. Great video, and from a great site.. http://www.microsoft.com/click/artandtechnology
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10 July 2008
The sleeping giant has awoken.
July 8, VP Brad Brooks gets on stage, and says the following about Windows Vista: We know our story is very different from what our competitors want us to think.Today we are drawing a line and are going to start telling the real story I hear at times
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04 July 2008
SEO, Nothing changed.
Gilbert (one of the original guys behind prooving Silverlight + SEO) of had a great write-up outlining some depth thought around this whole SEO buzz that Adobe unleashed early this week. http://bits.samiq.net/2008/07/seo-for-ria-status-few-days-later.html
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30 June 2008
Silverlight: VisualState Manager, Storyboards and why designers should care about them both.
I've seen a lot of talk around VisualState Manager online and it mostly covers button states and so on. What I want to do here in this post is illustrate why VisualState Manager is a handy tool for the average interactive designer out there and how it
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29 June 2008
Silverlight Experiment: Create a PullDown Menu using Storyboards.
This is a basic example of how to create a "PullDown Menu" using Silverlight and Expression Blend. The Objectives The GUI will have a PullDown Menu (UserControl) under the main outer chrome. It's intended that when a user clicks on the "MainMenu"
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27 June 2008
New Car..
A bit of a personal milestone here, basically we bought a car for the family today. It's a Ford Edge and I think it looks like an angry little " mongrel " of a thing... kind of reminds of this little stocky pit fighting machine for some reason.
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26 June 2008
Go Deeper! - The Deep Zoom Day.
Today was a fun road-trip day for me ( I don't get out as much now that I'm in corp so bare with me). As we drove to downtown Seattle to check out what the latest movements are with the Seadragon folks (Deep Zoom) as well as introduce myself to them (as
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