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PivotViewer – Collections

I’ve been wanting to catch up and explore the (relatively) new Silverlight PivotViewer control for a little while but just hadn’t managed to find the spare cycles. The announcement is about 6 weeks old at this point which shows how far “behind the times” I...

Published Thu, Aug 19 2010 2:49 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Pivot
Visual Studio LightSwitch – MSDN Subscriber Downloads

It looks like there is a download available of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 if you’re an MSDN subscriber. ( via the official blog )

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 11:44 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, VisualStudio, WCFRIAServices, LightSwitch
Window Dressing

Today, I’m running both MetroTwit and Bend which show up on my desktop as; and neither have the traditional Windows decoration around them and I’m wondering whether having the non-client area of a Window drawn with transparent glass as in; led to a bunch of...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 3:46 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows7
Reactive Extensions for .NET ( “stuff happens” )

I’ve been taking a look at the Reactive Extensions for .NET. It’s early days for me at this point but I’m finding what I’m seeing to be really interesting. This is code that’s available from the DevLabs; and there are versions for .NET 3.5 Sp1, .NET 4.0, Silverlight...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 3:17 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Rx
Silverlight Feature Suggestions Forum

I happened to revisit the current list of feature suggestions in the “ Silverlight Feature Suggestions Forum ” and was struck by what a great list it is. Here’s how the list looks in August, 2010 with Silverlight 4 being the current shipping version ( and,...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 12:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight
Zoom.It

I had a quick play with with the (relatively) new Zoom.It site from LiveLabs ( click the image ); If you visit the site, you can point it at any image on the web or any website and create a DeepZoom from it. I visited, entered my URL and it created me this...

Published Thu, Aug 5 2010 4:19 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight
Experimenting with PRISM 4, Silverlight, MEF

In the past I’ve made some screencast videos around PRISM or “Composite Application Guidance” for Silverlight. I’ve also made some screencast videos around the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight . Not so long ago, the PRISM folks announced that...

Published Wed, Aug 4 2010 1:06 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, MEF, PRISM
“Coming Soon”– Visual Studio LightSwitch

A new version of Visual Studio called “LightSwitch” was announced at the VS Live conference today by Jason Zander. At the moment, I don’t have any deep details to write about here but the essence is around a productive tool for building business applications...

Published Tue, Aug 3 2010 11:36 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, RIA

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