Daily Archives: August 6, 2007

Updated Silverlight Annotation Samples for 1.0 Release Candidate

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 Between Beta and RC” topic in the Help file that comes with the SDK. The one that had me confused for a while was switching the “\” to “/” in the xaml where I had images in subfolders etc. It confused me because I somehow skipped over it in the list and the error that it threw the error “2210: AG_E_INVALID_ARGUMENT” which didn’t tell me too much.

You can read more about updating your Silverlight apps to work with the Release Candidate version here.
 

Mike Gunderloy’s 7 month status report on de-Softing

Community Cheerleading

After many years of being an icon of teaching us all how to use Microsoft development tools, Mike Gunderloy decided he needed to transition himself away from a dependency on Microsoft for personal reasons stated in this blog post, the first of his alter-blog “A Fresh Cup”.

It was a scary proposition, mostly because he has a family of 6 (including himself) to support.

It’s been 7 months and in a recent “status report“, Mike seems to be content with his progress, productive with his learning curve and getting work using his new tools.

I’m not sure if I could go through the refactoring that he has done, going from “expert” to starting over again with a new set of development tools. On the other hand, he brings an enormous amount of IP to his adventure which makes the transition that much more interesting.

I think if I were going to make a big life change like this, it would be more along the lines of doing a dramatic life-style downsizing and returning to my love of potting (as in making clay pots and sculptures) and that just ain’t gonna happen any time soon.

I have an enormous amount of respect for Mike on many levels and his commitment to following (and following through on) what he believes in is pretty impressive.