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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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Monday, March 15, 2010 10:57 PM

Silverlight at Windows Phone 7

Microsoft announced today, that new Windows Phone 7 Series will support Silverlight as one of 2 development frameworks. Second development framework will be XNA (will blog about it later). So, what’s new for Silverlight developers there? First, we have familiar tools: Windows Phone applications with Silverlight will be developed either with Visual Studio 2010, either with new “express” version called Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone. This “express” version will enable development with...
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Monday, March 15, 2010 6:32 PM

MIX10: Keynotes – LIVE BLOGGING

This year MIX10 will be exciting! Scott Guthrie on stage, and he is talking about Silverlight 4 support. Cool demos of Winter Olympics with Silverlight 4 & Smooth Streaming! All the sources which used to for Olympics creation just were open sourced here ! New control to Silverlight Controls family - and additional cool demo - Pivot control. Wow! Just announced – Silverlight penetration rate is 65%! Now Scott talking about Elevated Out-of-browser support and the demo coming on stage is eBay desktop...
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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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Saturday, January 16, 2010 7:26 AM

News: Silverlight TV

Silverlight TV channel airing on Channel 9 ! The mission of Silverlight TV is to provide premium Silverlight content through exclusive interviews with the members of the Silverlight product teams, partners and community leaders. You can watch the first episode right here where Keith Smith (Silverlight Group Program Manager), along with host John Papa (Silverlight Evangelist), discuss Silverlight 4's out-of-browser applications right here .   Key links for Silverlight TV Watch Silverlight...
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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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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:21 PM

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 3) – Elevated Out-of-browser applications

Silverlight 4 enhances the out-of-browser feature introduced in previous version of the technology. Silverlight 3 added a feature to use application in Out-of-browser mode – install application shortcut to desktop or start menu, and launch it within application launcher (instead of the browser). Along with it, the application still was sandboxed application, with the same set of restrictions, like in browser. Silverlight 4 extends this feature and allows to relax some of the sandbox restrictions...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:18 PM

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 2) – Printing Support

In previous part (here) I’ve created sample application which uses Webcam and captures the image. In this post I’ll show how to print received image (and any part of the UI) to a printer. In Silverlight 4 we got new class, called PrintDocument which is a part of “System.Windows.Printing” namespace. This class provides a number of events, which helps to control the printing job: StartPrint – occurs right after printer selection dialog successfully returns, prior the first page print PrintPage – occurs...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:16 PM

Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 1) – Webcam/Mic Support

This post starts a series of post about new features in Silverlight 4 Beta released at PDC 09. Today I’ll show how to use Webcam/Mic support feature in the new version. In order to use the Webcam/Mic the user should has valid drivers installed. To see which from installed drivers could be used open Silverlight Configuration and select 4th tab: This tab also allows to select default webcam/mic to use with Silverlight applications. Webcam/Mic controlled by CaptureSource class. This class allows to...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:14 PM

Silverlight 4: What’s New?

Today Microsoft announced new version of Silverlight, and released the Beta version of Silverlight 4. Here is the summary of new features in this version: Better Out of Browser Applications Elevated Privileges Support Cross Domain Networking Access Full file path from Open/SaveFileDialog No User-Initiation Requirement for Full Screen, Open/SaveFileDialogs COM interop HTML Hosting Support Media Enhancements WMS Multicast Support Mp4 Playback Protected by PlayReady DRM Offline DRM Output Protection...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:00 AM

PDC09 – Day 2 – Keynotes – Live blogging

PDC09 – Day 2 – Keynotes – Live blogging Like yesterday we are sitting in amazing place 8 row just in front of the stage creating a homorganic row of blue shirts (There is a power in numbers). Even that this happened after an hour of the keynotes I need to put this first : FREE LAPTOP !!! Steven just Announced that we all going to get a FRESH NEW LAPTOP from Acer to all. The crowed just jumped out of their chairs for that. When we first come to the PDC we asked our self what will be the “Gift” this...
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