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• Design surface in Silverlight

  If you are working on a resizable user control in Silverlight, you usually do not specify height and width of any elements in order to ensure that all controls resize properly when application size changes. For example if you use Grid as your layout base, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:56 PM from Sergey Barskiy | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Using Prisms (CompositeWPF) EventAggregator

  Event Aggregator - What is it? The event aggregator in Prism is an implementation of the Event Aggregator pattern . Fowler explains the Event Aggregator pattern as follows: Channel events from multiple objects into a single object to simplify registration Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:10 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, Design Patterns

• Prism Drop 8 Breaking Changes

  The Prism team dropped another version of Prism last Friday at the usual spot: www.codeplex.com/compositewpf . This is Drop 8 of their product. Breaking Change #1 - Cannot Find CompositeWpfEvent However, there is not note of a breaking change in this Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:26 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Reporting in Silverlight

  Reporting in Silverlight environment has one major problem. Silverlight does not have a report viewer control for either SQL Server reporting services or Crystal reports. As a result, one has to come up with a workaround that uses existing report viewer Read More... Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 9:05 AM from Sergey Barskiy | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Debugging Silverlight Tip

  If you're doing any kind of Silverlight work you're bound to get "Error on page" in Internet Explorer. Here's what I'm talking about. You fire up your app in the browser window and BLAM. Screen is empty and you get the "Error in page" error. Double click Read More... Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 8:09 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, Visual Studio

• XamlParserException - AG_E_PARSER_BAD_TYPE

  Ohhhhh the dreaded XamlParserException. The exception message is not to helpful at all. In my instance I was working with Silverlight. Namely working with the Prism V2 Drop #5 from the Composite WPF team. Get the latest and read up the project here . Read More... Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 9:11 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Silverlight Cross Domain Issue

  I'm doing some Silverlight Development and I ran into a wacky issue (or so it seemed at the time). The Silverlight app would connect to a Java Web Service and get some data (XML). The end result is that this Silverlight app will talk to Java Web Services Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:31 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, WCF

• Implementing MVC site using CSLA and ExtJs – Part 1 - Introduction

  There are many folks who simply believe that one can’t develop a Test Driven MVC site using CSLA.NET. Two just simply won’t work together! CSLA.NET is just too tightly coupled! MVC and TDD require a specific DI architecture that simply cannot Read More... Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 4:19 AM from Nermin's .Net | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, ASP.NET, ReSharper

• Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview Now Available

  Along with the release of the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Betas, comes the June preview of Expression Blend 2.5. I am eager to install and test these new bits as Control Skinning has made its... Read More... Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 9:47 AM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Expression, Silverlight, WPF, RIA

• Exporting XAML from Photoshop & Illustrator

  From the mailbag… John B. of Chicago asks: I am a UI designer that is interested in exploring XAML, WPF and Silverlight. Is there a way I can leverage my current set of tools (Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks) when working... Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:30 PM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Expression, Silverlight, WPF, Design, RIA, Flash, Adobe

• Riapalooza Chicago

  Join your fellow RIA professionals for RIApalooza, a invaluable two day event aimed at exploring and promoting the development of Rich Internet Applications. I will be presenting on WPF and fellow Magenicon Corey Miller will be showing his Silverlight Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:28 PM from UX Confidential | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Web/Tech, Silverlight, RIA, Inspiration, Flash, Adobe, Fundamentals

• Silverlight 2 Developer Poster

  Don Burnett points out that the Silverlight 2 Developer Reference poster they passed out at MIX08 can also be downloaded via Brad Abram's blog here. Also, don't forget to check out the cool DeepZoom version here. Thanks Don! Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 12:15 PM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: MIX, Expression, Web/Tech, Silverlight

• 2 Flavors of Expression Blend

  I had the chance to chat briefly with Pete Blois from the Microsoft Expression team about this week's announcements regarding Blend. He pointed out that there are 2 new versions of Blend now available: Blend 2 Beta and Blend 2.5... Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 12:21 AM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, MIX, Expression, Web/Tech, Silverlight, WPF, Design, RIA