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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:58 AM

Event : UX Options with Microsoft, 11th Dec 2008 (Dublin)

Event Invite: User Experience Options with Microsoft - a full-day seminar If you've been reading a lot about Silverlight, WPF and all the various flavours of the Expression tools - you might be wondering about how they all fit together, and with more
Posted by ronang | 2 Comments
Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:02 PM

WPF & Silverlight : Sharing skills and code

I get asked about this quite a bit, so this is session from PDC is a ready-made answer :-) Over the course of the session Ian builds a Twitter client in both Silverlight and WPF highlighting the pros and cons of each approach, what code is the same and
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:37 AM

Eclipse Tools for Silverlight

Check out this open source project " Eclipse Tools for Silverlight " which allows you to use Eclipse to create Silverlight applications. Basically it's an Eclipse plug-in, with a XAML editor (with code hints and completion), a SL project system and SL
Posted by ronang | 0 Comments
Friday, August 22, 2008 3:17 PM

High Altitude Deep Zoom - Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 3000m

I just spent a couple of weeks in Switzerland and one of the highlights was a (two-stage) cable car ride up to Les Diablerets at an altitude of 3000m. The below Deep Zoom collection consists of a partial panorama plus detail of the halfway cable car station
Posted by ronang | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:33 PM

What a difference a month makes...

Between TechReady in Seattle (an internal technical conference, think of it as Tech Ed for Microsoft folks) followed by holidays I've been out of the office for the last month, during which there has been many interesting happenings, including SQL Server
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
Friday, July 18, 2008 4:17 PM

Silverlight now on Ryanair.com

Yesterday Ryanair.com went live with a new destinations map which uses Silverlight to map all its destinations and routes. (For those of you who may not have heard of Ryanair, they are Europe's largest low fares carrier, with more than 700 routes across
Posted by ronang | 37 Comments
Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:37 AM

Firefox 3 and Silverlight

I've been doing some work with Silverlight over the last couple of weeks and ran into this question yesterday (specifically re. SL 1.0). The issue arose since Firefox 3 came out after Silverlight 1.0 and is related to silverlight detection, meaning that
Posted by ronang | 3 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:47 AM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 publicly available this week

Hot off the press from TechEd US, Silverlight Beta 2 will be available this week. Check out below for a summary of some features, but perhaps most interesting is that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 comes with a commercial go-live license ! ยท UI Framework : Beta
Posted by ronang | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:05 AM

Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint

Just a link post really, but check out http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/cc303301.aspx for details of source code and guidance for how to use Silverlight and Sharepoint together. Six application component samples are included in the kit to get
Posted by ronang | 2 Comments
Monday, January 21, 2008 8:47 AM

Free Microsoft Press E-Book (Introducing Microsoft LINQ)

Preview the first chapter from any of these Microsoft Press Visual Studio 2008 titles here , and then download the entire contents of Introducing Microsoft LINQ, as well as additional chapters from the other two titles. Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo
Posted by ronang | 3 Comments
Monday, October 15, 2007 1:18 PM

When to choose...WPF? Winforms? Silverlight? XBAPs?

Are you clear on when to use say WPF instead of Winforms? Or, just as importantly, when to use Winforms (e.g. for a more traditional LOB application)? Or that you can easily use both together? How does Silverlight compare to XBAPs? David Chappell has
Posted by ronang | 3 Comments
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:59 AM

SQL Server 2008 overview video (built entirely in Silverlight!)

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/overviewdemo/ for a new video that provides a high level overview of what's in SQL Server 2008. Quite an easy way to learn about the platform for the next generation of data-driven applications!
Posted by ronang | 9 Comments
Friday, September 14, 2007 4:13 PM

Always-visible Silverlight Ads in ASP.NET (with example)

This is a simple example of how to ensure that an (animated) ad created with Silverlight (in this case an ad for my blog :-)) can remain always visible regardless of whether your user scrolls down or not - in this case I anchored the ad to the top left
Posted by ronang | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): AlwaysVisibleSilverlightAds.zip
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:48 PM

Halo 3 (in HD!) on MSN

Wow. http://halo.msn.com/videosHD.aspx
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:42 PM

Infragistics controls with VS 2008

Recently I was asked how Infragistics controls would play with VS 2008 - the answer is very well , as they are developing for Silverlight, as well as working on a new set of server controls which will work on ASP.NET 2.0 as well as ASP.NET 3.5, codenamed
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
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