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I’ve just came back from a trip to Washington DC , where I’ve been at the 50th IAM International Moving Annual Meeting . This was for my employer TellUs , who’s into lead generation for international removal companies. A lot of people asked for the reason why I went to the states, this is it. And of...
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WCF, as you probably know, can be a hugely flexible, but equally complicated beast. The domain knowledge stretches from the .NET stack to identity management, encryption and transport. “Out of the box”, it’s pretty straight forward, but the demos and examples often presented by Microsoft...
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Saving a file from Silverlight using the SaveFileDialog , added in Silverlight 3, is easy. If you’re used to desktop development however, you might find yourself getting a SecurityException with the message ‘File operation not permitted. Access to path 'xxx' is denied.’. Here’s why: In desktop...
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For a project I’ll probably dedicate a post on this blog to in the future, I needed a ZIP library for Silverlight. After asking around on twitter ( @rickvdbosch ) I was pointed towards the SharpZipLib port on Codeplex, found on http://slsharpziplib.codeplex.com . Basically what I wanted to do was replace...
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Recently on Silverlight 5.0 Firestarter event ScottGu has announced road map for Silverlight 5.0. There will be lots of features that will be there in Silverlight 5.0 but here are few glimpses of Silverlight 5.0 Features. Improved Data binding support and Better support for MVVM: One of the greatest...
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Some time ago I went to a great presentation, organized by DotNed , held at Vicrea and given by Dennis Vroegop and Thomas Huijer . At some point Dennis Vroegop mentioned that he saw a lot of old Windows Forms developers, create WPF applications like they were still developing Windows Forms applications...
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For those working on Silverlight project (including myself) this list comes in very handy when setting up your development environment. http://www.timmykokke.com/silverlight-downloads/ Thanks Timmy.
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Recently Microsoft launches there latest innovation from Live Labs named Pivots. Pivots is an application for visualizing rich amount of data by using the PivotViewer Silverlight control. The control allows you to categorize your data based on the metadata it retrieves. By using the Silverlight DeepZoom...
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EDIT : This issue was caused by using cached singletons for each proxy (see comments). So the context of anonymous method works correctly, it just appeared it didn't because multiple event handler (lambda's) were registered to the same proxy instance. We're building an SL3 application that...
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I have been searching for a Silverlight behavior where you have the ability to resize a column. Normally you can do such a thing with a GridSplitter onto a grid with several columns. Unfortunately this doesn’t work when you also wants to implement something like a hide and show menu column. Therefore...
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Every year I do a blogpost around the sessions that I recommend for the Microsoft Developer Days in The Netherlands. I don't think I will be able to attend the event this year, but I will definitely watch some of the videos afterwards. This would be my agenda: Tuesday March 30: The key-note(9.15...
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Working with web sites, web pages, web services and web clients has until recently been very much a synchronous operation, which is despite the very asynchronous nature of the web. Synchronous programming techniques are linear in operation in that process A cannot execute until process B has completed...
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Yesterday was a great day as the SDN Event took place in Houten. The location was really great and the food never has been better. The poll on the website shows others agree with me. Thanks to those who attended my sessions. Sorry to those who wanted to know more about SQL Data Services, but know that...
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I had read some blogs posts about the new smooth streaming capabilities for IIS 7.0, but I never actually experienced them myself. IIS Smooth Streaming is a technology that works with Silverlight in delivering a smooth video playback experience from Microsoft Internet Information Server in circumstances...
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Via Twitter @ MarcelMeijer and SDN site , that Silverlight 3 SDK Beta 1 was just released, a few hours before Mix09.