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The Silverlight 4 beta came with a version of MEF that had 3 catalogs – namely AssemblyCatalog, TypeCatalog and AggregateCatalog . They’re pretty easy to understand and I made a screencast on the topic here . The Silverlight 4 preview toolkit came with a PackageCatalog that is really useful as it works...
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Warning – bit of a sketchy post this one so apply a pinch of salt, just an idea I’ve been toying with… One of the things that I find a bit mind boggling about Silverlight 4 is the new support for pluggable navigation. I wrote about it a little here but there are a better series of posts on it over here...
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I wanted to do a call out for the Client development day that we’re running as part of the UK TechDays event. This is a FREE event that’s running all day in London on the 15th April and it’s targeted at developers who are interested in hearing about client development with .NET Framework V4.0 and for...
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I posted about the DeploymentCatalog in the new MEF preview the other day and I got a question or two along the lines of “show me an actual example rather than snippets” and so I thought I’d walk through a simple example here. Let’s say that I want to build a Silverlight application that has a need for...
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Jesse Liberty ( the Silverlight Geek ) is doing a UK and Ireland Tour talking about Silverlight and calling at; Bristol, London, Cambridge, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin You can find details on Jesse’s blog . His visit to London is being brought under the banner of the TechDays...
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I’m doing a half-day “bootcamp” session with John Papa at MIX 10 and wanted to publicise that again here – if you’re already signed up for MIX then you can still revisit the pre-conference workshop registration and register for our session. If you’re not registered for MIX then registration is still...
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I was pretty excited to see that there’s a new drop of MEF up on CodePlex – if you’re a reader here then you’ll know that MEF will ship with Silverlight 4 and with .NET Framework 4.0 ( it’s already in the beta/RC bits in both cases ) and there are versions on CodePlex targeting Silverlight 3 and .NET...
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I hadn’t really thought properly about implicit styles in Silverlight 4 although I wrote a little about it back here and it’s something that WPF always had ( if I remember correctly ). The bit that I hadn’t really thought about was how you could set up a set of implicit styles for all your controls,...
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I’ve been putting together a session around networking in Silverlight and I wanted to get a little more re-use out of the work that I’d put into it so I thought I could quickly turn some of it into screencasts that go onto Channel 9. In Silverlight, applications are browser-initiated and ( usually )...
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Tomek has a fantastic post over here about the netTCP binding in Silverlight 4. I’m linking it so that I never lose it! :-)
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Just a quick plug for a talk I gave last week at the London Silverlight User Group on the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4. Ian Smith kindly recorded this with great skill and speed and has the video available if you click the picture below; The Silverlight User Group is growing really...
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I was reading Tim’s post over here with the same title as this one where he was suggesting that Microsoft may be underselling Visual Studio 2010. I suspect that the problem is that VS 2010 is huge and there’s a lot of material out there but some of it looks to be published in small fonts and isn’t perhaps...
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In my head, I see Silverlight 4 applications as either running; In Browser Out of Browser Out of Browser and Trusted Out of Browser and Trusted and in the presence of COM interop ( i.e. on Windows ) and you might write functionality that only works in certain of those contexts – e.g.; HTML display only...
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I’m excited as it’s looking pretty likely that I’ll be able to get to my first ever MIX conference – MIX10 in March, Las Vegas. The current plan is that I’m going to pitch in and deliver the Silverlight Bootcamp; with “Mr Silverlight TV” himself, John Papa . I’m looking forward to it – hope to...