At the UK TechDays online conference last week there were a number of sessions around Silverlight and Windows that I wanted to provide follow-up resources on here. Session: Modern Windows Applications Visit Develop For Windows Download the WPF Ribbon Control and get the information on it here Download...
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We were very lucky to have Glenn Block in the UK recently and he did a whole morning talking about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to a fairly packed room of around 120 developers on the UK Microsoft Campus. I was really pleased to be able to host Glenn but I also wanted to get the sessions...
We’re very lucky to have Glenn Block in the UK in July and on the 14th he’s going to be doing a half-day event at the Microsoft offices in Reading where he’ll be speaking about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). MEF is a framework that shows up both in .NET Framework 4.0 and in Silverlight 4...
I’ve been holding back on moving to Visual Studio 2010 RTM because I wanted to keep all the bits that I had on my machine working including the Windows Phone 7 preview developer bits handed out at MIX10. But I was finding it more painful to stay there ( because e.g. I had products demanding .NET Framework...
This one’s just a link but an important link for anyone who’s heard that you can share assemblies between the Silverlight CLR and the full .NET desktop/server CLR. The CLR team has a blog post with the details; Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps
Great post from Pete over here about Silverlight/WPF convergence; “The Future of Client App Dev: WPF and Silverlight Convergence” It’s funny as someone asked me just yesterday what my view was about Silverlight/WPF post-PDC and in the light of Silverlight 4 and I expressed pretty much the same view as...
I did a couple of sessions at DevWeek this week and had a really good time meeting up with various folks and chatting about technologies. My sessions were on; VB and C# in Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Extensions in Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight and HTML/Javascript interoperability (in Silverlight 2)...
I’m still very much in a mode where I’m trying to catch up with Mix09. I’ve been watching this video about Behaviours in Expression Blend 3 and it led me on to this gallery of behaviours up here which looks pretty cool to me. So far I’ve only tried the MessageBox and the Drag behaviour which both worked...
Thanks to all who attended our event in Birmingham this afternoon. Follow up resources are linked to from; My post here Mike’s post here Some photos from the excellent venue in Birmingham;
More than once, I’ve found myself wanting to be able to demonstrate the range of controls that are available for Silverlight and WPF and, today, I ended up in that same place and decided to do something about it. I built a very, very simple WPF application. Screenshot is below and you can install the...