June 2008 - Posts

• What's new in the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK's Silverlight.js file?

  The Silverlight.js file was updated with several important improvements in the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK . These improvements were focused on two key areas: better experiences out-of-the-box for end users and easier customization of those experiences for Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:19 PM by PiotrP | 7 Comments

• Structure of the Silverlight Object Tag

  The Silverlight 2 installation/instantiation model promotes the use of the Silverlight <object> tag template. In my post Instantiating Silverlight: HTML vs. Script I mentioned that this template was designed to meet five criteria: be backwards-compatible Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:38 PM by PiotrP | 4 Comments

• Instantiating Silverlight: HTML vs. Script

  Many Silverlight developers have noticed a rather fundamental change between the Silverlight installation/instantiation models in Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2.0. Silverlight 1.0 relied on a javascript helper file, Silverlight.js, to provide the installation Read More... Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 6:45 PM by PiotrP | 4 Comments

• Firefox 3 support added to Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK's Silverlight.js

  Lots of folks are starting to notice that changes between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 are causing failures in the isInstalled function used in older Silverlight.js files. Since the Silverlight.createObject function uses isInstalled, this results in Silverlight Read More... Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:14 PM by PiotrP | 9 Comments