On October 1st I was awarded the Microsoft MVP for Silverlight. I am very honored and excited about this. The MVP program, taken from Tim Heuer’s post, “ is a recognition program that is in place to recognize and reward those individuals who have been identified by individuals (peers, Microsoft staff, etc.) as experts in [...]
Tag Archives: Silverlight
Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer
Today SmartyP (did you get that Roger, I didn’t use your name) was letting me know what Grinds his Gears which is: Why do Silverlight bloggers not embed Silverlight applications into their posts. Admittedly, I don’t have a single post that has an embedded Silverlight app. The root of the my problem is the lack [...]
Editing a ToolTip Style in Blend 3
ToolTips are a great way to display mouse over information, while increasing your applications accessibility. UI designers are increasingly demanding the use of rich overlays in applications. Meaning, instead of a standard Tooltip, a designer might want to add polish by adding animation or having a rich UI to a overlay. Initially you may consider [...]
ToggleButton Command for Prism
Prism Commands enables you to handle user interactions in Xaml. Even though the plumbing is there, Prism lacks commanding support for everything but Buttons. Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to create new Commands for a range of controls. This post details how to create a Checked and UnChecked Command for the ToggleButton (which can be applied [...]
Versioning your Silverlight application
When writing an enterprise level application it’s critical to have a version number. Whether it’s located on the help screen or in debug mode, this will save you so much heartache during QA. The larger the project, the more dependent your team is on the version. Now that I’m all done ranting to the converted, [...]
New Preloader for Silverlight
Tim Heuer announced on his blog three ways to get a free pass for MIX09: Design a LineRider map, Visualize data in Silverlight, or Create a new preloader for Silverlight. For some time I’ve been wanting a new default preloader for Silverlight. The loader is the first impression users have of both Silverlight and your [...]
XAML guidelines and best practices
Everyone has their own opinion on how source code should be structured and formatted. What really matters when it comes to code is not saving the CPU a couple cycles, rather enabling others to read and understand what you’ve written. This comes from Martin Fowler’s classic book Refactoring: There is another user of your source [...]
Silverlight and VOIP
Much like 3D is more like 2.5D so is VOIP through Silverlight. TringMe has set up a compelling Silverlight prototype showing how to make a call using Silverlight. They’re using Flash to handle the voice and audio, with Silverlight to passing the number, the call action, and hang up action. It looks like Silverlight is [...]
HSN.tv video player
I am proud to announce that the new version of HSN.tv is live! This is what has been keeping me busy for the past couple months. There were a number of Silverlight features that we pushed to the limit. One of the biggest wins was the use of the Command pattern and the integration of [...]
3D example in Silverlight
Talking with my boy Ryan made me start thinking about trying new things in Silverlight…3D. Here is an example of images in Z space. I am working on getting a camera object implemented so you can zoom in and out on the objects.
