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How to implement communication between Silverlight and the HTML host.

Posted Jan 29 2012, 11:41 AM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

A question about intercommunication between Silverlight and the HTML host has been asked in the Israeli MSDN forum. Since I’ve already implemented it once in a project, I believe I can extract the great info already exist in the MSDN documentation to a more direct how-to. Let’s begin. Create a class...

“Hacking” through Prism regions (or when to cross the lines with Prism)

Posted Jul 19 2011, 05:51 PM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

If you’ve been following this blog long enough, you should know I’m an avid prism fan. Most of my projects I am making use of Prism or Composite Application Guidance. This is not a post for learning Prism, but to provide a solution, not so straight-forward for a rather straight-forward problem. I must...

Wrapping up MIX11 (Part 2)

Posted Apr 20 2011, 10:17 PM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

In Part 1 , I’ve placed down the background for this post series, I’ve written down my feelings towards the session at MIX, but what about the Keynotes? Keynotes In this MIX we had 2 keynotes, one was concentrated around IE10 and HTML5, the other was about Windows Phone 7, Silverlight and Kinect. It...

How to Develop MVVM Silverlight applications with Prism

Posted Oct 24 2010, 01:55 AM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

I’ve got some criticism from Alex Golesh in a comment on one of my latest Posts ( Managing Silverlight resources contained in external assemblies ), First I would like to thank him for taking his time and writing this comment, I would like to reply him with this post. First let’s see Alex’s Comment:...

Open-Generics Support in MEF– Building a simple sample

Posted Oct 22 2010, 06:39 PM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

A year ago, A controversy arisen in the community when it was discovered that MEF is not going to support Open-Generics out of the box. ( Here , Here and finally Here ) For those of you who don’t know what is Open-Generics. Consider the following scenario with Unity (which do support Open-Generics):...

Porting Windows Phone 7’s Panorama Control to Silverlight 4

Posted Oct 21 2010, 11:52 AM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

One of the first things that really caught my eyes in WP7 is the nice looking Panorama control. You may checkout its functionality here: Windows Phone 7 Panorama Control display. I was rather disappointed that this control is available out-of-the-box for WP7 only. But let’s not let that small fact break...

MIX 10K challenge, Learn How I did my Silverlight App. Part 2

Posted Dec 23 2008, 01:24 AM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

In Part 1 , we’ve discussed how the Layout was done, and we finished designing our XAML. Now let’s see what is going on beyond the scenes. We will define two helper classes that will help us manage the data in our App. Function class got: Name : Will be shown inside the ComboBox. Params: List of Param...

MIX 10K challenge, Learn How I did my Silverlight App. Part 1

Posted Dec 23 2008, 01:22 AM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

My esteemed colleague Alex Golesh   sent me a request to rate his app on the MIX 10k competition, I wasn’t aware of this competition, but I immediately decided that I want in. The rules are simple, do anything you want on Silverlight or XBAP but you mustn’t exceed 10kb of code and resources. After...

#devacademy3. Live blogging : Building Twitter Silverlight App

Posted Dec 15 2008, 05:01 AM by Ariel Ben Horesh  

Guy have produced a well structured lecture. Managed it with high precision and very well timing, never slowing on it's own, just the proxy slowed his pace, and in those times it felt like he didn't have really nothing more to say out of his well practiced script. Furthermore, I felt a little...