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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 of the PivotViewer control 3D Graphics capabilities...
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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
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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) to reference Microsoft.Xna.Framework in...
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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 and it was a trivial UI that looked like...
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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 have a ViewModel like this; public class ViewModel...
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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 native code that is packaged as DLL export functions...
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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 review and see how well my application had...
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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 (Rx) in a couple of places in the...
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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 this slide in the past; where I’ve advised...
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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 around this area – the company is, understandably...
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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 week There are actually 2 releases – the...
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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 from the filesystem); and these pages are...
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“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 hosting HTML content and JavaScript. The HTML...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Gill Cleeren of Ordina talking about RIA Services; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then you should get a pretty good quality 1280x720 stream...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine who did an excellent session around MVVM which you can enjoy from here; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then...