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My two-part article on rebuilding an existing Silverlight application to use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) for “selective composition” is now live on SilverlightShow.net ( part 1 , part 2 ). I took my Halloween Gallery application and made it...
Following up on The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend post from Josh Smith, I tried to make Blend display pictures from the My Pictures folder right in my Silverlight application. Needless to say, it worked as advertised :) The ViewModel is set through...
A few of my Silverlight articles were published on the SilverlightShow site this past two months. The first one is an introduction to Silverlight/(WPF)/Blend behaviors, where I create a Silverlight Halloween Sound Player without writing a single line...
With Halloween around the corner, it’s time for some scary photos… In this post I’ll explain how I built my demo application I showed at my Windows 7 Launch talk . Expression Blend 3 shipped with a few interesting samples, available for immediate use...
Windows 7 launch day was fun. I gave a talk on Expression tools (and related) – here’s the PowerPoint slide deck for those who asked for it: I used Expression Blend 3 to build a photo viewer application, which I’ll blog about later; key points here were...
Last night, while working on a sample Silverlight application with Blend, I asked myself – where’s the Use GPU Acceleration option? Sure you can set the parameter on a Silverlight object directly in HTML or enable it through Out-Of-Browser Settings in...
Behaviors are not new in WPF / Silverlight world; it’s a common way of extending visual element’s behavior through the power of attached properties and everybody probably used one of these at least once in their projects. Now, there’s new Behaviors in...
Visual Studio 2008 introduced a lot of new features to support new technologies, adding some cool new designers to developer’s tool belt. On the other hand, support for some technologies was simply left out, leaving a some developers very unhappy. One...
Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer ? Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics...
Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for giving your application a sketchy appearance when in early stages of development. However, if you don't find the green color she used sketchy enough...
If you're considering installing Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview over Expression Blend 2 December Preview, make sure you uninstall the December Preview first, and then continue with March Preview installation. When doing vice versa, you'll...
As expected, a lot of stuff was shown and discussed on the MIX08 keynote today: eight - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ( download ): better standards compliance, backward compatible mode, faster faster JavaScript implementation, embedded debugging tools,...
One of my favorite samples when talking about WPF is showing a rotating 3D letter ' e ' in a Windows Forms application. You know, something like those "you've got mail" computer messages, seen in many Hollywood movies. Windows Forms...
Just a quick reminder: 1st European Silverlight Challenge is entering the finishing line. As announced , the competition ends next Monday, which still gives you plenty of time to polish your applications and give them some finishing touches. When ready...