Posted on Tuesday, June 16 2009 by John Papa
This Wednesday evening at 6:30pm, thanks to the good people of INETA, I will be presenting ADO.NET Data Service and Silverlight at the Space Coast .NET User Group in Melbourne, Florida . I really enjoyed the group last year when I spoke about the Entity Framework. If you are in the area, drop by … I...
Posted on Tuesday, June 16 2009 by John Papa
I’ve been working on fine tuning a Silverlight progress control for an article with Simple-Talk.com. Along the way I wanted to create a background that dims the entire page while the progress control is up and running. Easy stuff … just stick it in a Grid panel with HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment...
Posted on Thursday, June 11 2009 by John Papa
If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated … because sometimes Visual Studio cannot even display the preview...
Posted on Monday, June 08 2009 by John Papa
My Data Points column in the June 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online . In this issue I demonstrate how to build an out of browser application using Silverlight 3 and demonstrate how the API works under different circumstances. I demonstrate the features using a Silverlight Twitter client (a light...
Posted on Monday, June 08 2009 by John Papa
This is not the first time I have hit this issue, and it has been documented by people like Julie Lerman … but for my own sake I decided to blog about it in case I hit it again. It seems like I run into this issue just about the time I forget how to resolve it :) The problem sometimes occurs with the...
Posted on Monday, May 25 2009 by John Papa
Check out this post by Unni (Program Manager with the Blend team). It’s a visual thing, yes, but it makes it easier to find the items in Blend. I’ll come clean right now … several times I have not been able to find an asset I was looking for because I forgot to check the right box or click the right...
Posted on Friday, May 15 2009 by John Papa
I took a break from blogging (and most everything else) for a few weeks to spend some time with my family and enjoy our new son. Yep, after 3 girls we had a boy! Everyone is healthy and we are now a happy and larger family. I’ve been digging my way out of a pile of “things to do” and realized that I...
Posted on Thursday, May 14 2009 by John Papa
One of the most common comments I hear form people when they start digging into Silverlight 3 Beta (and Silverlight 2) is the lack of WCF binding options. Some changes have been made to include binary encoding in Silverlight 3, so now we have: customBinding can do things like binary binding with WCF...
Posted on Wednesday, March 25 2009 by John Papa
Here is just one story of 3 incredibly fun hours spent at MIX09. I was told by many of the attendees that they had a blast … I know I sure did! I want to thank everyone who came, the sponsors, and everyone who helped make it possible. As I started organizing my schedule for MIX09 I realized that there...
Posted on Wednesday, March 18 2009 by John Papa
Some great Silverlight gurus at the MIX keynote, getting there early for some good seats. Pete Brown, Jay Kimble, Nikita, Bryant Likes, Page Brooks, Frank LaVigne, Dave Campbell, Bill Buxton and more! Bill Buxton on stage … 6 degrees of separation … ...
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