Articles Tagged 'silverlight'
David Yack dropped by my office today and we had a good chat about the direction of Silverlight and RIA Services. David has some great feedback for us from several real apps he has been working on. He also dropped off a copy of his book Silverl...
Time for a brief but fun post... some time back Tim Heuer posted the Silverlight 3 bouncing plane gratuitous demo . Click an element, and the nearest corner would bounce backwards and forwards as it comes back to rest. Tim had the code to setup th...
In my last post, I described BLinq, or LINQ to Bing , an API that allows you use LINQ to access the Bing search results (ok, so perhaps BLinq was not the best of names, given prior art on that name ... but anyway). I also alluded to .NET RIA Servi...
Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. While many of the RIA Services examples we have shown thus far do CRUD directly against database tables, I certainly recognize that many scenarios require using sto...
Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. Azure represents a general trend in the industry towards a cloud computing model. As much as I love the development phase of projects, the operations side is often ...
Charlie Calvert
8/21/2009
Welcome to the fifty-fourth edition of Community Convergence. The number of posts from the C# team is a bit sparse right now since so many folks are heads down on C# 4.0. There was a little flurry of excitement among some of us on the team when So...
Charlie Calvert
8/14/2009
Welcome to the fifty-third edition of Community Convergence. Here at Microsoft the C# team is still busy polishing C# 4.0 so that is shines and glistens. Below I provide some links to recent articles of interest by C# team developers, other Micros...
Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. This time I take up a challenge from Mr. Wildermuth . Shawn recently raised a very interesting issue with RIA Services development. He works with a lot of large ent...
Wow – the gift that keeps giving.. I am *still* having fun updating my my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  Would anyone be interested in a say 10 hour session at PDC2009 where we walk thought all of this stuff ;-). Anyway, in this secti...
I have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Silverlight 3 tools on the laptop I’m writing this post on. Ten minutes ago I was trying to create a new Silverlight 3 application through the New Project Dialog and after creating the project Visual Studio just d...