Nick on Silverlight and WPF
The main difference from the Silverlight 4 version is I've added a section on trusted in browser...
Date: 12/22/2011
Thanks for everyone who came out to MIX and went to the talk. If you didn't get a chance, or want to...
Date: 04/22/2011
Compatibility is extremely important to Silverlight, so how exactly do we achieve it? Before we get...
Date: 09/10/2010
https://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/A/A1A80A28-907C-4C6A-8036-782E3792A408/Silverlight...
Date: 05/06/2010
[Update: This paper has been published as the Silverlight Security Overview. -Nick] I updated the...
Date: 03/19/2010
Here's the API listing for the Silverlight 4 release candidate (RC). I included mscorlib.dll this...
Date: 03/18/2010
See previous post for explanation. Silverlight-v4beta-plus-sdk.txt
Date: 01/15/2010
One of the things we do to keep API quality high in Silverlight is to periodically dump the complete...
Date: 01/15/2010
Several years back I posted a XML tokenizer for syntax highlighting. At the time I didn't post a...
Date: 12/09/2009
One of the more subtle improvements in Silverlight 4 is that we unsealed the Path class. That means...
Date: 12/02/2009
[Update: This paper has been updated and published as the Silverlight Security Overview. -Nick]...
Date: 11/19/2009
This has absolutely nothing to do with Silverlight or WPF, but thought people might find it useful...
Date: 11/13/2009
Here's the VB version of the resource dictionary item template. Copy the attachment into...
Date: 04/03/2009
To make it easier to create merged resource dictionaries in Silverlight 3 beta, I put together a...
Date: 04/03/2009
A couple more bits of code that others might find useful... Whenever I do databinding-intensive apps...
Date: 02/03/2009
Short version is, the keys we left out are harder than you might think to support, and they weren't...
Date: 01/22/2009
Here's a couple classes I've found helpful when writing WPF & Silverlight applications, which...
Date: 01/14/2009
Here's a version of the BeginAnimation extension method, updated for Silverlight 2: static class...
Date: 12/05/2008
Yeah, it's been awhile since I've blogged anything, so I thought a nice way to get back in the game...
Date: 04/30/2008
I got a chance to speak about Silverlight at the TechReady conference this week (same talk I gave at...
Date: 07/26/2007
I put together a little Silverlight app demonstrating how to drag and drop between different areas...
Date: 06/27/2007
The latest iteration of the FantasyBaseball demo... the end result looks virtually identical, but...
Date: 06/05/2007
I had several requests for the slides, I've posted them as an attachment.The video for the talk (I...
Date: 05/11/2007
It's been a fun conference, getting to show off all the things we've been working on. And as usual,...
Date: 05/02/2007
Yup, it's official, WPF/E is now Silverlight. Once upon a time, I used to get annoyed at the...
Date: 04/24/2007
John points out that WPF/E's mouse event.X/Y are in the coordinate space of the browser plug-in,...
Date: 03/30/2007
I zipped up all the different files I use for my WPF/E mini-framework. I also threw in a couple...
Date: 03/29/2007
A while back, I promised to share some tips and tricks about writing controls in the WPF/E CTP...
Date: 02/26/2007
I hear a lot about scrum these days, not the least of which because WPF/E uses scrum. Personally, I...
Date: 01/02/2007
Now that we've shipped our first CTP, I can tell you what I've been working on for the last six...
Date: 12/07/2006
I've spent a good part of my career writing compilers, editors, and runtime libraries, so I've...
Date: 11/20/2006
Right before I went on vacation, I wrote a little code to do syntax coloring for XML, which reminded...
Date: 10/26/2006
I wrote some code that would generate syntax coloring for xaml (and for that matter, most other...
Date: 09/22/2006
Seema posted the final word on hardware acceleration for WPF layered windows. Long story short,...
Date: 09/19/2006
In WPF, some collection properties require you to specify an object element for the collection...
Date: 09/05/2006
One of the things I don't think we've done that good a job on in WPF is using a consistent set of...
Date: 08/28/2006
As Tim announced the other day, the "Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007" (codename: xcal)...
Date: 08/22/2006
I've been slacking on my blogging lately, so what better way to get back into the swing of things...
Date: 08/17/2006
As the latest CTP shows, we are cranking along on WPF. Most of our time is going towards bug fixing...
Date: 07/07/2006
IKIS depends on the message loop calling the root IKIS's...
Date: 06/09/2006
I've been promising for awhile that I would write something about keyboard interop, and I finally...
Date: 06/08/2006
Third demo is the one that uses MFC. (What happened to #2, the DirectX demo? I'm trying to figure...
Date: 06/08/2006
Figured that in preparation for TechEd, I would buckle down and fight this stupid blog software to...
Date: 06/08/2006
In almost all programming languages, names are not globally unique, they are unique only relative to...
Date: 06/05/2006
TechEd is around the corner, and over in Redmond we're pretty psyched! We (WPF) have done two PDC's...
Date: 06/05/2006
As Tim mentions, in beta two we don't support any form of forward references using StaticResource....
Date: 05/26/2006
As we get closer to shipping WPF, I get more and more wary of what I call heavy-handed fixes. Places...
Date: 05/09/2006
When you're writing a platform, you sometimes need to make hard choices between making the common...
Date: 05/05/2006
This content will make it into the master compatibility document in the next month or so, but in the...
Date: 04/24/2006
The fifth and final installment... NetDDE -- For security reasons/reduction of attack area, Windows...
Date: 04/17/2006