I have not blogged in a month. What I found out in that time is that working 60-70 hours a week on two separate projects with deadlines is not very conducive to blogging :-). Now that I am off one of the projects, I should have more time to get into the routine of blogging …
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As I posted previously, I talked at Atlanta ReMix 2010 conference past Saturday. Entire event was a a success, we had over 200 people there. We had great presenters and good topics. My topic was “Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web” You can download PowerPoint presentation here. You can download …
If you ever used ComboBox inside a templated columns inside DataGrid in Silverlight, you probably encountered the following issue. If you use ElementName to bind ItemsSource for a ComboBox in this situation, you will find that ElementName cannot be resolved. Typically, you have to put your items source inside Resources collection on your use control, …
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I just uploaded and published new CodePlex project I have been working on. It is an Isolated Storage based database for Windows Phone 7. I converted my existing Silverlight database project I published a long time ago and adapted it to Windows Phone 7. It supports multiple strongly typed tables, basic Linq based operations, addition …
If you have not registered for this fine event I blogged about previously, you have a week left. You can register for it here: http://reMIXatlanta.org. You can also check out the list of session that will be presented there. Yours truly will be presented a session there as well. The title will be “Microsoft Silverlight …
I had a privilege to present on Silverlight development for Windows Phone 7 at local Atlanta.NET Users Group today, March 29th 2010. You can download PowerPoint presentation here. Please email me any questions you have regarding the presentation. Thanks.
In this post I will continue exploring Windows Phone 7 development. Almost any application needs a data source. There are a few options available for Silverlight applications on Windows Phone. You can use plain WCF service. You can optionally put it on Azure. You can also use Isolated Storage. Essentially it becomes your custom database. …
In this post I will go through the steps of creating my first Windows Phone 7 application using Silverlight. It will be simple and will mostly concentrate on tools rather than phone specific functionality. Of course, I will do more posts describing features that are specific to Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. First thing I …
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Today is the day to talk about COM possibilities in Silverlight 4. One would question the titles of my post. COM and Cool in the same sentence? Let me proof this title to you. First, let me take a closer look at COM. In order to access COM, you must install Silverlight application on a …
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Yesterday I was asked about a way to play animations in MVVM environment. So, I gave this some thought today, and came up with a few ideas. First, and the easiest way is to separate ViewModel from animation by attaching an animation to a behavior. Here is how we would write the behavior: public class …