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MVVM Authorization for Silverlight

In his next post, Kyle McClellan demonstrates how to extend the authorization library to support read and write permissions. Source: Kyle McClellan's Blog In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and
Sep 03 2010 12:09 AM
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Silverlight Application Life Cycle

In the previous article, Dinesh Sodani explained what Silverlight is and how it is being used more and more to develop business applications. In the next one, he discusses the Silverlight application life cycle. Source: Beyond Relational As you may
Sep 02 2010 10:04 PM
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Making WCF RIA Services work in a DMZ/Multitier architecture using Application Request Routing

In this post, Sandrino Di Mattia explains how to make WCF RIA Services work in a Multitier architecture using IIS Application Request Routing. Source: Sandrino Di Mattia's Blog In large companies / governments / ... most of the time the application
Sep 02 2010 09:43 PM
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Windows Phone 7: Navigating After A Picture/Camera Task

While working on a Windows Phone 7 project, Matthias Shapiro came up against a problem in which the project would crash after a picture had been taken. After he spent a little time digging into Internet with no result, Matthias came out with his own
Sep 02 2010 09:21 PM
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Sample code from TechEd New Zealand talks

Peter Torr posted the sample code from TechEd New Zealand talks where you'll find a lot of interesting information on Windows Phone 7. Source: Peter Torr's Blog These are the latest revs of the “Building WP7 Apps in Silverlight” talks
Sep 02 2010 09:05 PM
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New Silverlight 4 Service Release

Tim Heuer announces that an update to Silverlight 4 (update build is 4.0.50826.0) has been just released along with an updated SDK. Source: Method ~ of ~ failed You can find all the details in KB2164913. Here are the relevant highlights: SDK feature
Sep 02 2010 08:44 PM
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The Future of Silverlight

The Silverlight team published some information about what the future holds for Rich Internet Applications and how Silverlight will be a part of the next evolution of RIAs. Source: Silverlight Team Blog There's been a lot of discussion lately around
Sep 02 2010 08:23 PM
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SilvAir Strike - A Silverlight 4 Game

Here is a free Silverlight 4 game: SilvAir Strike. It is a simple fun game. Defend your base against attacking enemy aircrafts. Shoot them and you will survive. The game has three levels of difficulty. You might watch a video trailer on
Sep 02 2010 01:21 AM
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WP7: Windows Phone 7 Application Platform

  This is part 7 of the Windows Phone 7 series: What is Windows Phone 7 Hardware requirements for Windows Phone 7 Part 1 – Buttons, Screen, Cameras, Keyboards, Wireless, Bluetooth, CPU Hardware requirements for Windows Phone 7 Part 2 –
Sep 01 2010 11:17 PM
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myChannel9 Application for Windows Phone 7

Take a look at this new Windows Phone 7 Channel9 application. Here you will also find a video of the application. Source: Sigurd Snørteland Features: » News & fresh videos » Shows » Tags » Favorites » Search
Sep 01 2010 10:19 PM
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3D Space game

A new version of Silvermotion 3D has been released, including fixes, more features and new demos in the product package. One of the new demos, a 3D space arcade game, which can be seen at the Postvision website, has its source code included in
Sep 01 2010 10:10 PM
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PivotViewer – Custom Actions

In this next part of his PivotViewer series, Timmy Kokke explains how to make use of Custom Actions. Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog The only downside of these actions is that they aren’t fully implemented. So you’ll have to
Sep 01 2010 09:43 PM
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Managing Trial Applications for Windows Phone 7

Jeff Brand has written TrialManager which is a simple piece of code that you can add to any Windows Phone 7 project to help manage the behavior of your trial apps. Source: SlickThought.Net Windows Phone 7 provides the LicenseInformation class that
Sep 01 2010 09:24 PM
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XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 - Gestures

In this post, Mike Ormond discusses accessing XNA APIs from a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application and touch gesture support. Source: Mike Ormond's Blog Although Silverlight offers manipulation support, it has no direct support for
Sep 01 2010 09:08 PM
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Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part one

Georgi Atanasov is starting a series on building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up and this first part is an 'inifinite listbox'. Source: Telerik Blogs One of the coolest things in every new developer platform is the challenge to master the
Sep 01 2010 08:52 PM
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HTML5, XAML and Declarative User Interfaces

Shawn Wildermuth decided to take a brake from writing his Windows Phone 7 book to explore HTML5 and its impact on Rich Internet Applications. Source: Shawn Wildermuth's Blog My real goal was to look at the <canvas /> element as that's what I
Sep 01 2010 08:30 PM
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Silverlight TreeView Case Study - FAQ Maintenance - Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, Benjamin Gavin designed the data model and started building out the administrative application. In this article, he continues building out the client application by adding Question maintenance, then he adds some custom
Sep 01 2010 08:13 PM
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.NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Scott Guthrie has published the next part of his link-listing series and there are some good links to Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 articles. Source: ScottGu's Blog Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4
Sep 01 2010 02:37 AM
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Silvermotion Space Simulator

A genuine 3D space arcade game, made with Silvermotion. Full source code (less than 500 lines with commens) available for download with the Silvermotion free edition here. Play game!
Aug 31 2010 10:56 PM
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FormsAuthentication and ClientHttpStack with mixed applications

Andrea Boschin has found a little "dirty hack" that will allow you to use the new ClientHttp stack every time when there is a need to place HTTP calls. Source: Silverlight Playground If you ever tried to have mixed applications, with some regular
Aug 31 2010 09:43 PM
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Silverlight Competency Test [2]

Jesse Liberty has published the second of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test. Source: Jesse Liberty's Blog Competency #2 (of 12) Create a custom button that has non-standard visual behavior when you hover over it, and when you
Aug 31 2010 09:18 PM
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How to add mockup controls to your Expression Blend library

From the Expression Blend and Design team announce that Expression Blend 4 comes with a sample that includes a set of useful mockup controls that help creating common mockups quicker and easier. Source: Expression Blend and Design In Expression
Aug 31 2010 09:03 PM
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BALL Watch Silverlight Contest Winners Announced

The judging for the BALL Watch Silverlight Contest is now over and Michael Scherotter is proud to announce the winners. Source: Synergist Entrants had 59 days to recreate one of the watches from BALL Watch USA with Silverlight using Microsoft
Aug 31 2010 08:40 PM
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Free chapter from Gill Cleeren's 'Data and Services Cookbook' now available on SilverlightShow

A free chapter from Gill Cleeren's book 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' is now available to SilverlightShow community. The chapter, named Introduction to Data Binding, is available for download here (4.4 MB). A 20% price
Aug 31 2010 05:58 AM
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DroppyPop for WP7 Update

Andy Beaulieu has a new version of DroppyPop for Windows Phone 7. Source: Andy Beaulieu's Blog Today I released an update to DroppyPop, which for a limited time unlocks all rag dolls and power-ups! (The final release will have a Trial version which
Aug 31 2010 01:53 AM
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Listening to DependencyProperty changes in Silverlight

The dependency property system is a pretty nice concept. Receiving notifications for dependency property changes on an existing object is a very common scenario in order to update the view model or the UI. This is quite easy in WPF. But Silverlight has a
Aug 30 2010 11:51 PM
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MoAds - Custom Win Phone 7 Ad Control with AdMob support

MoAds is a custom Silverlight control for Windows Phone 7 for showing ads from different service providers including AdMob. MoAds has support for serving custom ads and is highly "Blendable". Source: Jacob4u2 Blog
Aug 30 2010 11:35 PM
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Flashing Text in Silverlight 4

Michael Crump noticed a lot of confusion around flashing text in Silverlight 4 and decided to show you a simple way to pull it off using Blend 4. Source: A .NET Developer's Blog I’ve seen plenty of examples of people using code-behind to
Aug 30 2010 11:10 PM
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Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM

Jeremy Likness shows how to build a standalone validation library that can be shared between Silverlight and the server, then integrated via MEF and PRISM for fluent validation. Source: C#er : IMage We need to lay down the validation framework. One
Aug 30 2010 10:36 PM
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WP7 Gesture Recognizer and Behavior / Triggers

Kevin Marshall has created a quick gesture recognizer for the Windows Phone 7. Source: Clarity Consulting You can use the gesture recognizer standalone in code and attach to a UI element or you can also use the behavior + trigger. The behavior attaches
Aug 30 2010 10:19 PM
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Slides and demos for DotNed.nl Silverlight session

Gill Cleeren has published a ZIP file that contains the PPTX and the demos from his Silverlight talk for DotNed.nl. Source: Snowball - The Blog Yesterday, I gave a talk for DotNed.nl, the Dutch usergroup at the Ordina offices in Nieuwegein. 55 people
Aug 30 2010 10:04 PM
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WPF DataGrid Control - Performing Update and Delete Operations

In this article, Mahesh Sabnis demonstrates how to perform Update and Delete operations on a WPF DataGrid control. Source: DotNetCurry.com The WPF DataGrid is an excellent control to bind with collections and provides various events to work with. In this
Aug 30 2010 09:42 PM
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XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone

In this post, Mike Ormond discusses microphone access from Silverlight. Source: Mike Ormond's Blog Access to the microphone is provided through the Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio namespace in the Microsoft.Xna.Framework assembly. You’ll need to add
Aug 30 2010 09:27 PM
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Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App

In this post, Cheryl Simmons explains how to load a static xml file into your WP7 application. Source: Silverlight SDK In my application, I have a fair amount of static data that lends itself to an XML file very well…it’s not
Aug 30 2010 09:13 PM
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A DotNetNuke Silverlight Expense Report Module

Michael Washington posted a new DotNetNuke Silverlight 4 View Model module, which allows you to easily gather and process Expense Reports from users in your DotNetNuke portal. Source: Open Light Group Advantages of Using Silverlight It is faster - When
Aug 30 2010 08:58 PM
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Xaps Minifier Updated

Max Paulousky has added some new options and features to his Xaps Minifier. Source: Silverlight Driven Blogging Almost two months has come since the previous release of Xaps Minifier (see part 1 and part 2). This add-on has been downloaded from the
Aug 30 2010 08:41 PM
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Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Event

With the announcement of the release date for the final Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools the mobile market is heating up! Currently there are numerous free Windows Phone 7 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7 Firestarter events allover US, which
Aug 30 2010 07:23 PM
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Exploring Silverlight-XNA integration on Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 platform provides two different frameworks for developing applications: Silverlight and XNA. XNA is a game-specific framework. If you want to write a 3D game, or a loop-based game with a lot of effects, textures and motion, you should
Aug 30 2010 12:33 PM
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Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 Training Kit

From Microsoft are happy to announce the release of a training kit for Visual Studio Lightswitch Beta. Source: Microsoft Download Center  The Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit contains demos and labs to help you learn to use and extend
Aug 28 2010 12:09 AM
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Drag and Drop grouping in Datagrid

In this article, Emiel Jongerius demonstrates how to drag column headers to the area above the grid to group the data to the Silverlight DataGrid. Source: On developing Pochet.NET The DataGrid of the Silverlight Toolkit supports grouping
Aug 27 2010 09:37 PM