3 Jun
2010

Silverlight 4 Minor Update

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Today a minor update to Silverlight 4 was released.  This update won’t effect all users, but if you are a media developer you will want to get this update.  For the specifics read KB982926. Developers can update their runtime by downloading and installing the updated Silverlight developer runtime for Windows or Mac.  Any new Silverlight […]

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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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15 May
2010

Silverlight Profiling PowerShell helper.

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I was playing around with some Silverlight profiling the other night to see if I could find any obvious issues with my open source project StatLight and wound up writing a little script in PowerShell I hoped someone might find helpful. But I didn’t know you could profile a Silverlight app. I didn’t until I […]

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1 May
2010

Communicating Between Silverlight Applications

Silverlight is a great platform for creating rich internet applications, but a full blown Silverlight app is not a solution to every web application.  Lets face it, the vast majority of web applications will always be some type of server based solution, such as ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, etc…  Everyday I see more and more creative […]

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1 Apr
2010

Visual Studio: Open in Full XAML View by Default

So I am using Visual Studio 2008 for developing WPF and Silverlight applications.  The one thing that really annoys me is when I open a .XAML file and then Visual Studio automatically opens the file in split view mode.  I am sure you are well aware of how VS 2008 support for the preview pane […]

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