April 2007 - Posts

30 April 2007
Still related with Silverlight
Lutz has released a new version of Reflector with Silverlight support (if you already downloaded a previous version, just run the update checker if you don't get prompted for an automatic update). There's alsoe monotone demo app for silverlight. Go get it! Read More...
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30 April 2007
SDKs for Silverlight available!
What can I say? I should have complained earlier! :) Read More...
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30 April 2007
Silverlight SDKs links broken
damn! there goes all the joy! Read More...
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30 April 2007
Silvelight beta is out!
According to Mike Harsh , there's a new release with .NET support. It seems like now we've got a new site , new forums and new samples. Everything is concentrated on a single page . It's time to start looking at Silverlight! Read More...
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30 April 2007
Silverlight: simplifying the FilmStrip sample
Today I've started looking at the samples that accompany Silverlight. I started with the FilmStrip sample. After looking at it for some minutes, I thought that maybe I could simplify the code needed to achieve the image transitions. If you look at the original code, you'll see that there are... Read More...
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29 April 2007
Strangest Vista bug?
Michael Howard describes what a strange vista bug :) Read More...
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29 April 2007
Building controls for Silverlight
I decided spending 1 or 2 hours looking at how we could build and encapsulate controls with Silverlight and Javascript (nothing too fancy). It was a great exercise since it helped me understand a little more about the limitations of the current version of Silverlight. Unfortunately, 1 or 2 hours weren't... Read More...
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27 April 2007
Silverlight: events are string properties...
This is bad...almost as bad as not giving us controls. that's all I have to say right now... Read More...
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27 April 2007
Silverlight: no mouse down event?
After looking at the current Silverlight docs and after seeing this post in the forums, it seems like you can only detect left clicks on items. In other words, there is only a MouseLeftButtonDown/Up event and no corresponding RightLeftButtonDown/Up event. I thought: well, there surelly is a MouseDown... Read More...
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26 April 2007
Silverlight: why do we havetriggers? or, why do we have them and they simply refuse to work?
After installing the Silverlight templates, I've started learning it by trying to build a new button control (the choice may seem strange, but currently Silverlight doesn't have any controls). Well, if you create a new project based on the template, you'll see that it already has code that... Read More...
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25 April 2007
Book review: WPF Unleashed
Yesterday I've finished reading Adam Nathan's WPF Unleashed . What can I say that Jeff hasn't already said ? Read More...
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23 April 2007
Improving your animations with the tookit animation framework - part II
Today we're talking about the FadeAnimation class. As I've said in the last post , the Animation class is abstract and is extended by several animations introduced by the toolkit. The FadeAnimation class is really simple: it lets you apply fade to an HTML control present on the page. The FadeEffect enumeration... Read More...
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23 April 2007
ASP.NET AJAX: WCF support??
One of the things that was removed from the final versions of ASP.NET AJAX was WCF web service support. Does anyone know if we'll be having it on orcas? I'm asking because I've just started looking at Silverlight and there really isn't any support for it there (as i was expecting)... Read More...
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22 April 2007
ASP.NET AJAX: creating a trigger on a client control
A few months ago, I've written a post on a forum which shows how to trigger a conditional postback from an HTML client control. Today I was asked about it again. It's not really complicated after you understand that triggers are maintained in a javascript array by the client PageRequestManager object... Read More...
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21 April 2007
Rss feed problems
My good friend Paulo has alerted me for some problems related with the feedburner feed I've created. Unfortunately, I've put the wrong url. This is the correct one: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Laneten Sorry for the mess. Read More...
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20 April 2007
Improving your animations with the Toolkit animation framework - part I
The Ajax Control Toolkit introduces several classes and helpers which makes adding animations to an object really easy. Today I'm starting a new serious of posts where I'll describe the main client classes introduced by the toolkits. If you already know the client classes introduced by the preview bits... Read More...
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20 April 2007
Mike Taulty on LINQ
Mike Taulty has produced some cool videos on LINQ. here's the current list: Introduction to LINQ to SQL A tour around the data context Mapping .NET types to relational schema Tools for generating mapping information Inserting Data Keep them coming please! Read More...
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20 April 2007
VS Orcas beta 1 is out
More info here . Read More...
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16 April 2007
Book review: Applications = Code + Markup
This is the last book written by Charles Petzold . Before proceeding, let me assure you one thing: Petzold is good, real good. No doubt about it. Now, the book review...well, I'm disapointed with it. I've been following Petzold's work for a long time. I've read at least 4 books written by him, so you... Read More...
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16 April 2007
Book Review: C++\CLI The Visual C++ Language for NET
This book is what you want if you're after a book that will get you up to speed in C++\CLI. Even though I haven't done any programming in C++ for (at least) 4 years, I was able to follow the book without any problems. The only thing that could be improved was the chapter on interop: nothing would be... Read More...
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