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Monday, July 27, 2009 9:19 PM

Use Try/Catch Block with Analytics Object (Silverlight 3 bug)

Some folks have found that a small percentage of customer machines are throwing an exception when the Analytics object is instantiated. To work around this bug for now, use a Try/Catch block when you attempt to instantiate the Analytics object. For more
Posted by snoutholder | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:14 AM

Expression Blend 3 released!

On July 10th Scott Guthrie and Soma launched Expression Blend 3 and and SketchFlow, and today, the full version of Expression Blend 3 including SketchFlow was released. You can check out the Expression Web site , and don't forget to download the 60 day
Posted by niravi | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:31 PM

Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released!

Download the MSDN offline docs for Silverlight 3 here . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. The plan is to update this CHM at the end of every month, so stop
Posted by snoutholder | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:46 AM

New controls in Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3 runtime and SDK introduce many new controls. Some of these controls were previously released as part of the Silverlight Toolkit and some are completely new. Regardless of their origins, since they are now part of the Silverlight 3 product,
Posted by cherylws | 0 Comments
Monday, July 20, 2009 10:59 PM

F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here's a workaround

Unfortunately, the web service that underlies the F1 behavior in Visual Studio is flawed. Specifically when you are trying to find a Silverlight API, the service is promoting the old, v3 beta1 content for Silverlight, and will show you that page (the
Posted by Wolf Schmidt [MSFT] | 1 Comments
Friday, July 10, 2009 9:17 PM

Silverlight 3 has Released!

WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up: - Scott Guthrie's Silverilght 3 kick off announcement - What's New in Silverilght 3 - Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime, tutorials, other links) - Breaking Changes (good to read if you're migrating
Posted by snoutholder | 0 Comments
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:44 PM

Silverlight Hardware Acceleration

Caching visual elements as bitmaps allows you to take advantage of hardware accelaration. Once an object or tree of objects has been cached as a bitmap, it no longer goes through the render phase as the application refreshes, rather, the cached bitmap
Posted by snoutholder | 3 Comments
Monday, July 06, 2009 10:14 PM

LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight

Today, July 7 th , 10AM PT, 1PM ET – We are broadcasting the Michael Jackson memorial, live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight: http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/Michael_Jackson . Technorati Tags:
Posted by jgalasyn | 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:35 AM

Breaking Changes Document Errata (Silverlight 3)

This blog post lists additions and corrections to the Silverlight 3 Breaking Changes document . Like the breaking changes document, I'm splitting the errata into three categories-- Breaking Changes since Silverlight 3 Beta, Breaking Changes since Silverlight
Posted by snoutholder | 0 Comments
 
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