Earlier this month I blogged about the Silverlight Toolkit and it pained me to show a screenshot that only had XAML and C#. Happily, the March version of the Toolkit now has VB samples as well! Read more here! [A New DevLife post]...

The Silverlight Toolkit folks at Microsoft are prioritizing their "Honey Do" list and one of the items on it is to be sure that more of their examples are in VB, not just C#. Of course, the toolkit should have originally had both C# and VB examples, but that's a different issue. In order for that item...

Adam Kinney has shared an astonishing video of a 3D game, a port of Quake for you gamers, that is written from the ground up in Silverlight by a French programmer, Julien Frelat. Read more (and see the video) here... Thanks to Aaron Seet for the heads up! [A New DevLife post]...

Remember your first coloring book and the big challenge of staying inside of the lines? Well, it's a problem with InkPresenter too. I've been using ClippingPath to solve this problem, but someone recently asked about using MouseLeave and MouseEnter instead. Here's what we learned. [A New DevLife post...

I don't know why I'm so special that my sample app has still not been put on the MSDN Magazine site to go along with my article, Write On! Create Web Apps You Can Draw On with Silverlight 2 . You can play with the app here: Silverlight Annotation sample I finally put the download on my own website. The...

I'm actually leaving my house and leaving my road and even leaving my state today. And I won't be doing it on my bicycle. I'm heading down to Springfield Mass to do an INETA sponsored presentation at the Western Mass .NET User Group hosted by MassMutual . I've spoken at this group before when they were...

Well it looks like somebody's been playing with my Silverlight Annotation sample that I put on my website . This is the application that is described in my MSDN article, Write On! Create Web Apps You Can Draw On with Silverlight 2 . I just realized that the code download does not seem to be on the magazine...

VS2008 SP1 RTM is now on MSDN Subscriber downloads. It's an 830MB download, unlike the gigs and gigs of the actual product. But of course, it's still pokey because there's quite a bit of competition on the wire! Two worthy additions: 1) Don't forget that the Silverlight .NET 2.0 Beta Tools for VS will...

I remember seeing WPF/E, the early version of what was to become Silverlight, at Microsoft a few years ago, then running over to the building where the TabletPC team lives and asking if the WPF inking features were going to be in Silverlight. As you may or may not know by now, the answer was yes and...

In moving a Silverlight 2.0 app to use Beta2, I hit a wall when trying to access my WCF Service which was working perfectly fine in Beta1. I was getting a 404 telling me that the service could not be found. While the exception itself told me nothing more than that a 404 had been returned (with no inner...

Late last night, Scott Guthrie announced (and provided his usual extensive details and samples) that Beta2 for Silverlight 2.0 was released along with a new version of the VS2008 tools (compatible with the VS2008 SP1 release) and a new CTP of Blend! I also found a few minor API changes so far, one that...

Debug breakpoints stopped working in my Silverlight 2.0 project. There's one very good reason why debugging won't work which Karsten blogs about in his post " What To Do When Breakpoints Disappear and Debugging Dies In Silverlight 2 ". But that wasn't my problem. I had SL debugging on. My project was...

Okay, my poor little ego is saved... I thought I was doing something horribly wrong with the new Silverlight tools, but it wasn't me after all. Read more.... [A New DevLife post]...

Last week, I pointed out a screenshot in Expression Blend from Scott Guthrie's post about Silverligth 2.0, showing a lot of new controls. Roger Jennings asked - so where's this datagrid I keep hearing about? I thought perhaps it was in the additional tools that were not visible in the screenshot, since...

[update: hmmm, I gave up trying to get the app working and started a new one from scratch, so "good to go" was only relative!] The MSBuild files for Silverlight 1.1 were tucked inside of the MSBuild's Visual Studio folder. Now they are in their own folder. If you try to open up a project created with...

At the last minute, I had to forego heading out to Las Vegas for MIX but thanks to streaming, I was able to watch the 3 hour keynote given/hosted by Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. I say "hosted" becasue there were many many amazing demos of work different companies have been doing. There will be so many...

Scott Guthrie has written about Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2.0 in this blog post. I just wanted to highlight one of the screenshots from his blog post. Ooooh - look at ALL of those controls!!!...

This morning, Scott Guthrie has finally made public the list of features that we will see in Silverlight 2.0. He also include links to EIGHT tutorials all at once, rather than waiting for them blog post by blog post. Scott says "We are shortly going to release the first public beta of Silverlight 2"...

Matthieu Mezil is presenting on Entity Framework and LINQ (and VSTO) at next week's first (?) .NET event in Paris: TechDays 2008 . I wanted to see what else was going on and found the website (by BrainSonic ) and boy is this a fantastic Silverlight implementation. Even if you don't know French, I highly...

In the TabletPC SDKs and in WPF it's very easy to take an ink image and save it to an image format - BMP, JPG, etc. Then came Silverlight and the InkPresenter and naturally I wanted to do the same. But it wasn't so easy. Silverlight itself isn't bogged down with that functionality. So you first need...

I spent a lot of time coding in javascript for silverlight 1.0 and am having fun now getting back to managed code with 1.1. I'm even doing it all in C#, but the main reason is because I have a lot of nearly reusable javascript code and it's just easier to port that to C#. However, as usual, I am just...

Yet another Flash driven advertisement ( here are some others i've blogged about in the past ) that uses annotation. Below is a screencast of me playing with this Notes ad (with a mouse, not a stylus). You can do this in Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 with the InkPresenter. I'll be giving a session on Annotating...

This is probably a temporary problem as I'm working with an alpha and a beta, and therefore my fix is a probably a temporary hack. I always have to remember how to get XAML intellisense to work whenever I start a new Silverlight project. Here's how to do it. [A New DevLife post]...

The fall DevConnections is coming up in another 10 days (Nov 5-9) in Las vegas. It looks like they will have about 5,000 attendees again, like last year which is amazing. I will be doing a variety of talks. One that i'm especially looking forward to will be teaming up with John Sudds from the Internet...

I wanted to create a demo of Astoria Data Services being used in a Silverlight app for my ReMix07 Boston session on Tuesday. i have created a little screencast of it in action. Read more here......

Loren Heiny has been working on a cool Silverlight annotation app to user Silverlight and a stylus to do Google and Technorati searches. It's called SearchTip and is live on TabletPC Post . There is a lot that is really interesting about this. (And it's visually appealing too!) First of all, he has a...

I have dynamically generated XAML in a few of my apps. It's not easy to debug so I wrote a post sharing how I go about tracking down problems that might be in this code . [A New DevLife post]...

Hey, so I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I thought it would be cool to try to build an xml file from a Silverlight object - namely the StrokeColleciton of an InkPresenter. I coded it up in what I thought was a very nice way: XElement XMLStrokes = new XElement("StrokeCollection"); //create stroke then...

Up until now, i've done all of my exploration of annotation in Silverlight using WPF/E and then the 1.0 bits. I finally took my first dip into Silverlight 1.1 today and wanted to see what it took to recreate a simple InkPresenter example using the .NET runtime. Here is what I found. [A New DevLife post...

Scott Guthrie announces the official release of Silverlight 1.0 (this is the version that you code up in javascript) as well as Microsoft's partnership in bringing the Linux support that Miquel de Icaza fronted into the Microsoft fold. Read more and see links to existing big-name websites using Silverlight...

I have updated two of my demo Silverlight apps which broke with the RC version of Silverlight that came out last week. The little embedded drawing surface at the top of this blog has been fixed along with my more full blown annoation application. All of the changes I made were listed in the "What Changed...

Well, I didn't pay attention and all of my silverlight apps are broken. But fixing them up was pretty easy (except for one lingering issue I'm having with CreateFromXaml and ink presenter stroke data). Here's a post to point you to what you need to updates your apps from Beta to RC and also a great resource...

I don't have a Mac, but while I was working on my Silverlight annotation tests, I had a few friends try them out on Safari on their Macs and they reported that it just didn't work at all. Now that we have a Windows version, I finally did a few tests myself. At first, I was being prompted to install ...

One of the issues that held me up a for a while when I was working on my SilverInk Silverlight annotation app, was a difference between some color encoding between IE and Firefox. I was very lucky to discover a seemingly unrelated blog post that held the magic key to solve my problem. Read more here...

Pepole are leaving messages in the drawings of my Silverlight tests . One was interesting and doesn't need to be repeated. :-) Two other asked: 1) Are you going to post the source? Not yet. 2) What business purpose? This is part of the reason I am not posting the source yet. :-) Second, what business...

I've been banging away with javascript and Silverlight for a while, trying to implement the next step of the idea I am aiming for with silverlight. You can read about it here or just go right to the site and add some artwork of your own. As you can see from some of my tests, no talent is required! :...

I opened up the Amazon.com site today and was quite startled to see this: But when I viewed the source, I saw that rather than just one DIV that embedded all of this functionality (which is what I would expect from a Silverlight object) , there was a ton of html and script pulling this off, including...

Last time I wanted to play with using videos as a source for Silverlight media , I found that Silverlight's "WMV only, thank you" limitation put the kibosh on my plans. YouTube and Yahoo are Flash and at the time Soapbox was password protected. Soapbox's latest beta removed the permissions requirement...

The Mobile team is at it again. They have written a converter to take Journal notes and convert them into an interactive Silverlight page. You can read about it on the Mobile dev center and download the converter application. There are two live demos of it here on my own website where I have hosted their...

This was easier than I expected! Go ahead, draw in my blog post! :-) createSilverlightDrawWithColors(); (note - If you do not see the drawing surface it's because this doesn't seem to work when the blog post is viewed individually. View my entire Silverlight category and it will be rendered properly...