23 May
2010

Pluralcast 16 : A Software Journeyman’s Journey

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   Listen to this episode! [34:14]  Liam McLennan is an independent software developer based in Brisbane, Australia. He recently packed  his bags and came to the U.S. to attend some developer community events, but in the week between events traveled across the country pairing with other developers. Liam shares tales of his travels in this […]

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22 May
2010

Silverlight – DataBind to an Anonymous type (Who knew?)

I searched the web for the idea first. I was certain somebody had blogged about this before, and just wanted to quickly confirm it’s truth. Unfortunately all I came across were work-a-rounds and people telling you it’s not possible. So hopefully this post will help the next guy. Since anonymous types are generated in an […]

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19 May
2010

New Silverlight 4 Application Themes Released

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Back in march I gave you guys a sneak peak at some Silverlight application themes.  Well now they are here and ready for your consumption.  These include the Accent Color, Windows 7 and Cosmopolitan themes.  The download contains Visual Studio 2010 template installers, Blend 4 compatible templates as well as the raw resource dictionary assets […]

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19 May
2010

WPF Goodies in the Silverlight 4 Tools

If you haven?t heard already, the Silverlight Tools for VS2010 have been released, as mentioned by fellow ElegantCoder Bill Moore.  In this release there have been some great improvements to the Visual Studio designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF.  Lets check them out. Go To Value Definition Have you ever had a control […]

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17 May
2010

Silverlight 4 Tool RTW and WCF RIA Services v1.0 ships today

Hey Silverlight gals and pals, Looks like the RTW of the Silverlight tools has arrived.  I know what you are thinking, Hasn’t Silverlight 4 already shipped? Yes it has, but the tools team has a dependency on the runtime, so they cannot finish their stuff until the runtime has shipped, hence the beta of the tools […]

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