June 2007 - Posts

29 June 2007
msmvps.com online again
The msmvps.com site was down in the last 2 days, but it looks like the team solved the problem (which is cool :)). while the site was down, i just got older and now I'm 31 :) (on the 27th to be precise). I've also spent some time looking at Silverlight and I'm still not sure if I should be... Read More...
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24 June 2007
Working from home
2007... and this (working from home) is still something close to impossible. not sure why, but it still looks like there are lots of people that think that workers produce more when they work on the office than when they work from home. most of them think that watching their workers is the key to insure... Read More...
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23 June 2007
Silverlight: GOA controls
A cool pack of 40+ controls for flash and silverlight. Go get them while they're free :) Read More...
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22 June 2007
31 days of Resharper
Since there's a new release of this great tool, maybe it's reread the 31 days of resharper :) Read More...
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22 June 2007
MediaElement and local files: no luck on Silverlight
When you look at the MediaElement object, it's obvious that it's really easy to use when you need to play a file and you know the location of that file. When you think about it, you have several options when you want to open a movie: you can download the movie before starting to play it (using... Read More...
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21 June 2007
Book review: The non-designer's design book
This short book is appropriate for everyone who needs to learn some basics about the principles of design. After presenting the basic principles, the author gives lots of examples that show how to improve some bad design examples. Since it's a short book, you'll be able to read it in 2 days.... Read More...
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21 June 2007
More tutorials on Silverlight and blend
Man, these topics are hot! Here's another cool site that has some tutorials on these technologies. Read More...
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21 June 2007
Resharper 3.0 is out
As always, there's also a 30 day trial version available. Check it out here ! Read More...
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21 June 2007
Adding glyths to your silverlight apps
Well, it ended up being easier than I though. You have two options: use the glyphs object or download the font using a downloader object and then associate it with the TextBlock object that has the text you want to show. There are already two excellent posts that show these options: a cool glyph explorer... Read More...
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21 June 2007
There's a new release of the AJAX toolkit
And it seems like it solves some of the issues i've mentioned before . Delay has a great post that explains everything that you need to know about it. Read More...
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20 June 2007
Some ideas on how to integrate search on your ASP.NET applications
A few weeks ago I spent some hours building some controls that ease the integration of search on a web site. My initial prototype consisted of two ASP.NET controls: a data source control and a composite control. Its objective was to search the web by using the MSN Search SOAP API. I documented the whole... Read More...
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20 June 2007
Getting your initParams from managed code
You can use the initParams property of the Siverlight control to pass aditional infomation during the creation of the control. There's already a property which should let you get it from managed code:StartupArguments. Unfortunately, it wil always return an empty string in the current release: WebApplication... Read More...
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20 June 2007
Cool workaround for "complex" parsing in the current Silverlight alpha version
In the current alpha version you can only have "simple" properties exposed by your controls. Trying to expose a complex property ends up generating a parsing exception. This limitation has been ackowledged by the team. Here's a cool workaround which you can use when you need to add collections... Read More...
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15 June 2007
How can I submit my form from my C# Silverlight code?
Simple: call one of the overloads of the static Submit methods exposed by the HtmlPage class: HtmlPage.Submit(); HtmlPage.Submit( "formId" ); If you only have a form on you're page, then using the first option is the way to go. if you have several forms, you need to specify the id of the... Read More...
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15 June 2007
Silverlight: windowless property and transparent controls
Today I've been playing with the Windowless property of the Silverlight control and seeing what can be achieved when you set this property to true. The first thing you should keep in mind is that this property can only be set during the creation of the control. You can always check the value of the... Read More...
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15 June 2007
Silverlight: extra parameter on the object that is passed to the createObjectEx method
Scott's post leads me to thinking that (maybe) we need an extra parameter on the object that is sent to the createObjectEx method: ignoreVerifications. Setting this parameter to true would prevent all the verifications that are done on the Silverlight.js file during the creation of a new Silverlight... Read More...
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14 June 2007
Drag-n-drop on Silverlight alpha
Today I've run some tests on drag-n-drop support available for the alpha version. It ended up being really easy to add this kind of behavior to a silverlight element. Lets start by defining some elements in XAML, which are placed inside a top canvas: <Rectangle x:Name="r" Width="66"... Read More...
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14 June 2007
Silverlight alpha: handling SL object's events from Javascript code
You have several options for handling events fired by your SL objects in javascript. The first option is to hook up the event from Javascript code. In this scenario, you'll probably start by hooking up the onLoad event of the Silverlight control: function createSilverlight() { Sys.Silverlight.createObjectEx... Read More...
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13 June 2007
Calling a Silverlight WCF service - part II
Yesterday I showed one approach to call a WCF service from a silverlight page. Today, after some posts exchanges here , i ended up installing a VPC XP image and i was able to see that, on a clean installation (no VS 2005), you can get a proxy automatically by using the add web reference menu. So, if... Read More...
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12 June 2007
Calling a WCF service from your Silverlight application
Yesterday I talked about calling a traditional ASMX web service from your Silverlight app. Today, I'll be talking about WCF services. As I've said yesterday, in the current release, you only have tool support for getting a proxy to an ASMX web service (well, at least I've tried getting a... Read More...
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