April 2011 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Debugging Data-Binding

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. A core part of the Silverlight platform and one of its strongest is the data-binding support. However, it’s fair to say that there...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 9:19 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Composition Thread?

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. Here’s a simple interface containing some rectangles, a couple of CheckBoxes and a Storyboard set up to rotate the rectangles;...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 4:50 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Linked RichTextBoxes

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. You’ll find a new class in the Silverlight 5 beta framework called the RichTextBoxOverflow – this is a really simple...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 1:09 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trusted Apps In The Browser

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. For the longest time I’ve been talking about Silverlight’s sandboxing abilities by saying something like; “There are 3 different...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 10:34 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta–Binding to Dynamic Properties

I’ve nothing to say on this one because I’ve just read a great article on it so I’ll link to it; Binding to Dynamic Properties with ICustomTypeProvider The one thing I would say is that if I read this correctly it won’t allow for binding via IDynamicMetaObjectProvider...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 11:45 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Silverlight and IE9 in Windowless Mode

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. If you search the web for something like “Silverlight windowless performance” you’ll find a bunch of articles that talk about...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 2:26 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 4, UserControls and the dreaded “name already exists in the tree”

I was doing some work with Silverlight the other week which involved using UserControls where the control named itself. That is, a situation such as; <UserControl x:Name=”foo”> <!—Content of control –> </UserControl> and, under unpredictable...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 12:52 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Ancestor Relative Binding

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. There’s another new tweak to the binding engine in Silverlight which now allows for a RelativeSource with a Mode of Ancestor which...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 12:39 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Implicit Data Templates

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. One of the powerful new features around templating in the Silverlight 5 beta is the ability to produce a DataTemplate that will...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 11:13 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Markup Extensions

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. One of the WPF features that’s been missing from Silverlight has been the ability to extend the XAML language by writing your...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 10:34 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect

This is one that I came across last week when talking to Jeremy Likness from Wintellect at MIX and lines up with some of the previous posts that I’ve written about touch based applications (the last of which is here and links back to previous entries). The...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2011 9:10 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. Back in the old days I think we used to called this Multiple Document Interface or MDI and the need for business applications...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2011 9:05 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy

I’m fresh (well, sort of ) back from the MIX11 event in the US which saw the release of the beta of Silverlight 5 and I thought I’d provide some links to sessions that I saw in the Silverlight world that you might want to catch up on from MIX. It was a great...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2011 8:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

DevConnections UK–London, June 13-15

For the first time this year the DevConnections event is coming to London in June; This is a 2/3-day, paid for event (currently with a £200 off early-bird offer) and there’s some great speakers lined up for the developer tracks including Scott Guthrie doing...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2011 7:59 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Upcoming UK Events

There’s some great events coming up in the UK over the coming weeks/months – here’s a quick update, hope to see you there. § 4 Hours of Coding and You’ll get a 30 Day Azure Pass at the Windows Azure Bootcamp this May – If...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 3:03 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

April 2011 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Blogs

Syndication

Elsewhere

Tags

Archives

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Debugging Data-Binding

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Composition Thread?

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Linked RichTextBoxes

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trusted Apps In The Browser

Silverlight 5 Beta–Binding to Dynamic Properties

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Silverlight and IE9 in Windowless Mode

Silverlight 4, UserControls and the dreaded “name already exists in the tree”

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Ancestor Relative Binding

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Implicit Data Templates

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Markup Extensions

LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support

MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy

DevConnections UK–London, June 13-15

Upcoming UK Events