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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 | 23 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 | 1 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
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:01 PM

Tafiti - a new search experience with Silverlight and Live Search

Earlier Today Microsoft launched Tafiti (which means do "do research" in Swahili) which shows how Web applications such as search can be brought to the next level using Silverlight. Tafiti is essentially a Silverlight interface to Live Search and helps
Posted by ronang | 2 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:45 AM

ASP.NET with IronPython, Silverlight DLR Console Prototype

Technorati Tags: .NET , Microsoft , Developer , DLR , Dynamic Language Runtime , IronRuby , IronPython , Silverlight , ASP.NET Futures If you download the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and look closely at the contents of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight
Posted by ronang | 2 Comments
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:37 PM

Silverlight Streaming

function CreateSilverlightApp0(){Sys.Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source: "streaming:/17605/livewriterapp0",parentElement: livewriterapp0Wrapper});} One of the things I'm playing around with at the moment is Silverlight Streaming which gives you
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
 
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