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What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight Application of the Week    FlickrLight is an interesting application for browsing images.  It has some nice transitions, but the navigation could use some work.  Make sure to click on the username in the bottom to dive deeper into the application.          Silverlight Rumors   Interesting Windows Phone Development blog on MSDN.  Rumors are starting [...]

What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight   Application of the Week  Quince. Quince is one of the best looking Silverlight applications out there.  If you haven’t seen quince, you owe it to yourself to take a look.     Silverlight Rumors  *Warning* – This section is filled with lies.  There is absolutely no reason to think that anything said here [...]

What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight Application of the Week Life-size Windows 7 Phone Series Demonstrator. Honorable Mention: Smooth Streaming Player. Silverlight News Silverlight Cream No. 800 is up - Congratulations on two counts to Dave Campbell Cool new  Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2008 by Perpetuum Silverlight, IIS, Smooth Streaming and Winter Olympics in Europe   Silverlight MVPs of the Year (2009) From [...]

New Show Format!  This show we try a new format.  We’ll keep putting out shows in the old format as well, but this is a good chance to have a less formal discussion about Silverlight news and information.  The idea is to talk about the week’s Silverlight news with a couple of my favorite Silverlight folks: Brian [...]

In The Silverlight Trenches This show is all about Developer/Designer misconceptions.   There’s a marketing story (”Designers use Blend and Developers use Visual Studio”), but how does this work out in real life?  To find out, I interviewed Mike Wolf.  He explains how we’re making applications backwards. Mike Wolf is the Principal Architect for WPF and Silverlight Practices [...]

Jesse Liberty returns to the podcast to explain some of the new features found in Silverlight 3. This week, we talk about validation. What’s New? Validation was kind of a pain in Silverlight 2.  Silverlight 3 has built in features (including template and VSM support) for capturing and displaying validation errors. Example A user types text into a TextBox [...]

Jesse Liberty returns to the podcast to explain some of the new features found in Silverlight 3.  This week, we talk about element-to-element binding. What’s it For? Element-to-Element binding is used to link the properties of two different controls in XAML. Example Imagine displaying the value of a slider control in a Textbox.  This can now be done entirely [...]

Jesse Liberty returns to the podcast to explain some of the new features found in Silverlight 3. This week, we talk about Animation Easing.  Easing has been around since Silverlight 2, but in Silverlight 3 it gets quite a makeover.  Primarily, it becomes much… easier… to use. What’s it For? Easing functions allow us to specify how [...]

In this show, we look at Prism and the Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF. What are the differences?  How do they overlap?  We have the perfect guide: Glenn Block! He’s worked on MEF and Prism, and he helps us sort them out. In this show: Prism and MEF are complementary.  Since Prism can swap IoC containers, MEF [...]

In this show, we explore Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and Silverlight. Our guide is none other than Glenn Block! In this show: MEF makes Silverlight applications extensible.  Think about a custom CRM system.  Sometimes we want to customize those applications per customer and MEF/Silverlight makes that easy. Other technologies (think Modules in Prism) can lead to bloat.  MEF [...]