Friday, August 14, 2009 3:57 PM/EST
Earlier this week at the Vermont.NET User Group, local developer Zac Morris who is CTO of the Vermont based WattMetrics, did a presentation on XAML. The title of the presentation was "Don't Fear the XAML: How How Silverlight and WPF...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:07 PM/EST
ADO.NET Data Services (pet name: Astoria) has client APIs that you can use to easily code against data services from .NET applications. The main .NET Client Library API can be used in Winforms, Web Apps, WPF, etc. while there is...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:52 AM/EST
I took a long hiatus on playing with Silverlight plus Astoria solutions but I could hold back no longer. My impetus is that I am building a hands on lab for students in a full day "EF on the Web"...
Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:15 PM/EST
The Silverlight team has finally revamped the Silverlight Toolkit with a version for VB developers. Here's the word from Microsoft: The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3....
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:30 PM/EST
Silverlight 3.0 is having its coming out party today at MIX09 and you can follow along even if you aren't in shiny Las Vegas. The meme I'm seeing repeated the most is that Silverlight 3.0 is 40k smaller than Silverlight...
Friday, March 06, 2009 10:16 AM/EST
Are you aware that Microsoft is providing even more controls than those which are part of Silverlight 2.0? The Silverlight Toolkit is Microsoft's way of getting controls into developers hands (and end users applications) in between Silverlight version releases. The...
Friday, October 24, 2008 11:14 AM/EST
Okay so I am not a gamer. I don't play them and don't write them. I have seen a few, over the shoulders of my friends' kids. Almost forgot that I did play an XBOX game once for about 5...
Friday, September 12, 2008 9:15 AM/EST
Remember your first coloring book and the big challenge of staying inside of the lines? Well, it's a problem with InkPresenter too. If you being a stroke in the InkPresenter and then draw outside of its border, the line will...
Monday, August 11, 2008 8:11 AM/EST
The Silverlight 2.0 Annotation Sample Application that I deployed based on my recent MSDN Magazine (August 2008 issue) article, Write On! Create Web Apps You Can Draw On with Silverlight 2 had originally been written in an earlier beta of...
Friday, August 08, 2008 6:04 PM/EST
The August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features a bunch of Silverlight articles as well as an article on ADO.NET Data Services, a great data source for Silverlight apps. Among these articles is one on using Silverlight's InkPresenter to draw...