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Silverlight 5 Released

Silverlight 5 has been released today – you can find the official announcement over on the Silverlight site along with a link to the download and a list of the improvements in Silverlight 5 up on MSDN including features like; platform invocation integration...

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 12:13 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

If you moved to the Silverlight 5 RC then you’d probably be wanting the companion version of Expression Blend. Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 Enjoy

Published Wed, Sep 7 2011 10:21 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Silverlight 5 RC–Low Latency Sound Effects

Back on the Silverlight 5 beta, I ported an old Expression Blend sample to use the new XNA low latency sound effect classes in SL5 ( post is here ). I thought I’d take a look at it under the Silverlight 5 RC – the only changed that I had to make was (it seems...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:47 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio

Silverlight 5 RC–TrickPlay and Media Remote Controls

At the time of the Silverlight 5 beta, I’d put together a simple demo around some of the new media capabilities (not all of them as I’ve never been too hot on the DRM stuff) in Silverlight 5. This demo involved playing the trailer from the then new X-Men movie...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:46 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio

Silverlight 5 RC–MarkupExtensions and DataContextChanged

When the Silverlight 5 beta shipped, one of the things that I wrote about was trying to use a markup extension in order to link between something like a Click event on a Button and a method to be invoked on the ViewModel rather than on the view. And so if I...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:42 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio

Silverlight 5 RC–Platform Invocation

One of the big features of Silverlight 5 for me is platform invocation. If you’ve been around .NET for a while then you’ll know that this has (since day 1) represented the “get out of jail free card” because it allows .NET code to call into pretty much any...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio

Silverlight 5 Release Candidate

The release candidate for Silverlight 5 is now available for download over on the Silverlight.NET site. You can go there directly; http://www.silverlight.net/learn/overview/what's-new-in-silverlight-5 or, alternatively, pop over to Pete Brown’s blog where...

Published Fri, Sep 2 2011 8:53 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Expression

Windows Phone App–ContactShare Updated for ‘Mango’

I’d managed to get my Windows Phone upgraded to the ‘Mango’ developer beta 2 release and so I thought I’d revisit my amazing ContactShare application that I’d built against the RTM version of Windows Phone. Firstly, I thought it’d be good to do a quick...

Published Thu, Sep 1 2011 7:13 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend, WindowsPhone

FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx

This one was just a side-product of something else that I was toying with but I’d made this little Silverlight screen that let me search FlickR; which you can run by clicking on the image above if you like ( it’s not too polished ) but I used the Reactive Extensions...

Published Thu, Aug 11 2011 5:28 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Rx

Silverlight and Synchronous Network Calls

Someone tweeted on Twitter that they wanted to stop the UI thread in Silverlight while they performed a couple of asynchronous network activities because one activity depended on the output of another. To be honest, I don’t really like the idea and I’ve drawn...

Published Mon, Aug 8 2011 3:28 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Rx, Async CTP

Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference

I’ve been asked about what will happen at the BUILD conference ( http://www.buildwindows.com ) many times over the past few weeks and how it will or won’t affect existing client technologies like Silverlight, WPF and so on. There’s very little that I can say...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 9:54 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WPF, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend, Windows

Reactive Extensions RTW

I’m a big fan of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) and I’ve put together a post or two in the past and also even done a talk or two around the topic so it was great to see that the Reactive Extensions team have put out their first full release of the framework this...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 2:52 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Rx

Silverlight WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Part 2)

Following up on my previous post about using the WebBrowser control to display HTML content that is stored in the filesystem and so available offline I thought I’d experiment with a little code. I wrote a couple of HTML pages that look like this in IE9 (running...

Published Fri, Jun 24 2011 12:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio

Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps

“Silverlight is a browser plug-in” In the early days of Silverlight, it was fairly easy to understand that Silverlight content would always be rendered inside of a browser window (whether that be IE, Chrome, Firefox or Safari) where it was surrounded by the...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 12:18 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Mosaic by Tribune

I was very impressed by the Mosaic application that you can read more about on the Windows Azure blog or by hopping over to the Mosaic site; I’ve only tried the Windows version so far but I’m keen to get the Windows Phone 7 version too and try that out – in...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 9:50 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

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Mosaic by Tribune