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Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:36 PM

Utility: Extmap Maker v1.1

Quite some time ago, I wrote small utility which helped to create external map manifest file for Silverlight assemblies. This manifest is needed to enable XAP reduction feature (you can read more about it here ). I have been told, that the utility is not working with assemblies compiled with Silverlight 5, so I decided to update it. The new version compatible with Silverlight 3, 4 & 5 assemblies. Please note, that new version requires .NET 4.0 Client profile in order to work. Updated version...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:42 PM

Thoughts about application packaging, Resources, MVVM and others

I thought a lot before decided to write this post… First - I’d like to thanks Ariel Ben Horesh for “inspiring” me to write this post and for dedicating so much time to write his post! After reading his post I thought a lot and my thoughts about the post are the follows: 1. First, I thought about the applications and the way to provide user with best experience while loading those applications… The users shouldn’t wait minutes for application to download… While authoring large Silverlight applications...
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Friday, October 22, 2010 10:31 AM

Windows Phone 7 Quick Tip: How to use Bing Maps in XNA games

A few days ago, a colleague of mine pointed out to this site which shows a Bing Maps usage within XNA game. I was intrigued how to achieve it… I know that Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 could use Bing Maps control (see great usage tutorial here ), but XNA games cannot render Silverlight controls… To solve it, I decided to use a different approach for XNA – download image tiles and present them in XNA game. Let’s get started. First, in order to use Bing Maps API you need a Bing Maps...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:56 AM

Teaser: Multi-Screen

Something big is coming… Imagine PC, imagine phone, imagine game console… Image all of them playing same game… Imagine player with phone playing versus player on console or player on PC… Imagine player starting the game in public transport at the way home and resuming it after arriving home on the console… Imagine that everything is possible…   Just imagine… and enjoy the photo meanwhile :) Stay tuned for more to come!   Enjoy, Alex
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Monday, July 12, 2010 10:00 PM

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers

This post will talk about launchers and choosers mechanism in Windows Phone 7 applications. The Windows Phone application model isolates every application in its own sandbox, both for execution and file storage. Applications are not able to directly access common stores of information, such as the contacts list to directly invoke other applications such as the phone or messaging applications. To enable scenarios that require common tasks such as these, Windows Phone exposes a set of APIs referred...
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Monday, July 12, 2010 9:53 PM

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 1 of 2)

Now, after Beta tools released it is a time to start talking about new features and changes since Apirl CTP. This is the first part of two parts blog post about push notification mechanism in Windows Phone 7. The API described in this article according to recently released Beta version of Windows Phone Development Tools (WPDT). Windows Phone 7 application can’t run in the background (performance, battery life, usage of radio) and therefore there is a need to have a mechanism that facilitates a communication...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:44 AM

Silverlight 4 @WDC

Thanks for all participants at WDC monthly meeting! I really enjoyed to present Silverlight 4 before such nice audience! I really enjoyed the Q&A session ah the end of the meeting. If you have more questions – keep them coming! As promised, I’m posting the links for demos and presentation for your convince. Presentation slides are here . You could see them online (guess what – pure Silverlight presentation) at my home page: http://www.devcorner.info/   Demo #1 – Webcam, Printing, Install...
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Friday, April 16, 2010 7:55 AM

Silverlight 4 Available

Silverlight 4 finally here!!! It works with Visual Studio 2010 RTM ! All downloads you need to start developing great line of business applications: Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Blend 4 RC here Silverlight 4 Toolkit (April 2010)   For those who are in Windows Phone 7 development : Do not install this build ! If you need to develop for Windows Phone 7 stay with Silverlight 4 RC build and Visual Studio 2010 RC. The update for Windows Phone 7 tools is not ready yet and will be available...
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Monday, March 15, 2010 11:05 PM

Silverlight 4 Quick Tip: Out-Of-Browser Improvements

This post will focus on improvements (well some of them) in Silverlight’s 4 RC Out-Of-Browser features. I’ll show how to change shape of your Out-Of-browser (OOB) application. Note : the application has to be elevated application . All needed to take application out of browser is to check this small checkbox in Silverlight’s project settings: This is not new. But the combo in OOB Setting dialog is new: This allows to change the Windows shape in Elevated OOB applications. Small tip here: when you...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:49 PM

DevAcademy 4

DevAcademy 4 is coming at March 22, at Airport City near Lod (local event). Come and see me presenting new features of Silverlight 4! At this session I’ll new line of business (LOB) related features of Silverlight 4, improved out of browser model, native automation and much more. Great time and many cool samples involved.   My session is: What’s new in Silverlight 4   Other sessions list (draft) is here . Registration is open! Register here . Hope to see you there! Alex
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Monday, December 28, 2009 8:06 AM

Silverlight 4 Tutorial @SDP

My Silverlight 4 Tutorial day at SDP is over. I’d like to thank all participants!!!   As promised, here is source of application I’ve build during the session. Additional samples here and here . Labs could be found here .   See you at Silverlight 4 session tomorrow :) Alex
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:41 AM

Sela Developer Practice – Take Two

I’m enjoying PDC09 at LA. As a part of Sela representatives here I am participating at lectures and meetings with many key professionals from Microsoft and other companies. After getting back from PDC I’ll participate at Sela Developer Practice (SDP) – a special conference which will bring the latest news in the development area. Save the dates 27-30 December . Now I could announce, that all Silverlight session at SDP will be about Silverlight 4!   I have very exciting stuff to share and cool...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:26 PM

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 5) – DataBinding improvements

Silverlight 4 introduces improvements in DataBinding. between the improvements are IDataErrorInfo support, ability to bind to DataObjects, StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue support and many others. This post will show how to use StringFormat, TargetNullValue and FallbackValue while databinding. For show the new features I’ve created sample application –> it will display values bounded to number of DependencyProperties defined in code behind. In code behind I’ve created number of Dependency...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:24 PM

Silverlight 4 Quick Tip: Styling application

Silverlight 4 supports default styles. Default styles are styles with TargetType, but without x:Key property set. Those styles will be applied to all controls from corresponding type. The sample of default (also sometime called anonymous) style: < Style TargetType ="Button"> < Setter Property ="Margin" Value ="5"/> < Setter Property ="Width" Value ="100"/> < Setter Property ="Height" Value ="25"/> < Setter...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:23 PM

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 4) – Out-of-browser applications: even more features

In addition to previous features, Silverlight 4 adds some more nice improvements to Out-of-Browser model. Now it allows to control Top/Left position of the out-of-browser window, bring it to the foreground (if not active), check if the window is topmost and define it’s Width/Height. All those features being exposed by MainWindow object of Application: Additional feature is Notification Window. It is a notification area that is displayed in the system area, at the bottom right part of the screen....
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