In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft released a new update for Silverlight 4 yesterday, along with a new SDK. You can check out the details at KB2164913.
The stuff I was interested in:
Add New Row for the DataGrid
Improved application startup performance
Mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applications on the Mac
Media bug fixes
MouseCapture [...]
Have you ever stopped to think about the industry you have choose to work in (I’m bluntly assuming that if you are reading this you are working in the software industry in some way)? I would call it one of the most complex industries in the world. Think about it. We are working in an [...]
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Have you been hearing the chatter about Visual Studio LightSwitch? It is a new technology from Microsoft targeted at quickly building line of business apps. And for a bit more sweetness, it builds tiered Silverlight apps for us! LightSwitch is currently in Beta 1, but seems destined for being it’s [...]
Last week I had to implement some functionality to support uploading images to an MVC 2 application and then subsequently display them. Naturally there are a mountain of blog posts on this topic but I was unable to find anything comprehensive that covered everything that I needed on both the client and server side. What [...]
Having this book on my shelf for quite some time now, I finally decided to to make my way through reading Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering written by Robert L. Glass. As the title already implies, this well-established author lays down 55 facts and 10 fallacies about software engineering based on his half a [...]
There was a time when you wrote a web site and you targeted IE6.
That time has long passed.
When you really only had to target IE6, you could pretend the web was platform independent.
The truth is now the web is neither, nor will ever be platform independent. It’s just an illusion based on the simple notion [...]
JQuery, JavaScript, html, web
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If you think ASP.NET Web Forms automatically results in boilerplate, procedural code, this show is for you. Turns out, there are some techniques we can apply to Web Forms (like a salve) that make them creamier and delicious. Keith tells us how Pluralsight.com gets built, along with the tools, techniques, [...]
Throughout my career as a professional software developer, I’ve spent quite a lot of my learning time to sharpen my debugging skills. I’ve always considered this as one of the required abilities of a true software craftsman. I also strongly believe that the time spent hunting bugs should be minimized as much as possible. [...]
First of all let me thank the people at Elegant Code for the invite! I am really honored to be brought into the realm of the awesome bloggers that make up this community. I will do my best to maintain the standards that has been set so far!
So who am I anyway? Good question! Some [...]
Yes, another great control has been added to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the ColorPicker.
The ColorPicker is pretty much self explanatory. It allows a user to select a color using a color canvas, a hue slider, and an alpha slider for transparency.
This is what is looks like when it is in display [...]
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