I’m going to be speaking at the next DotNetZone event on a very interesting topic namely IoC (Inversion of Control) and on how using "Prism" and it's friend Unity (an implementation of IoC) from the Patterns and Practices team that can help in building Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity. In talking with various colleagues and customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it or use it. So coming next Tuesday 15th of December 19.00 at MIC (Microsoft Innovation Center)...

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If you’re into Silverlight/WPF development you’ll surely appreciate Karl Shifflett’s XAML Power Toys: http://tinyurl.com/karlpowertoys  Awesome (free) tool for WPF/Silverlight. XAML Power Toys Full Feature Set  includes Create ViewModel Class - from a VB.NET or C# code window, easily create a ViewModel stub that includes commands and exposed data class.  Optionally you can elect to re-implement all Model properties on the ViewModel. Create Silverlight DataForm For Selected Class - quickly create a DataForm complete with bindings that are easily associated with properties on the source class Create WPF or Silverlight DataGrid...

Yesterday, I had the chance to speak in front of an audience about how ready is Silverlight for your business applications at a Microsoft DevDay event. I really enjoyed it as I was mainly showing code and demos (did 7 demos in 1h.30m which is a personal record) instead of doing PowerPoint slides, and talked about a lot of new features coming up with Silverlight 3. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as me. If you didn’t make it, I believe there’s a video coming up later on (it really depends on Isavella ;-)). Till then you can take a...

It’s been almost a year since I last talked about Microsoft's Hosted Deep Zoom project. It then was a simple Ajax – silverlight enabled web application that enabled you to dynamically deepzoom and share your images. A lot have changed since then as I discovered today. To begin with, the project has been renamed to Deepzoompix and a lot of cool new features have been added making it a great way to show off your photos in a new and interactive way. Get started by importing your own photos and prepare to be amazed… Jellyfish Deep Zoom framework. This is a...

Most of the large control suite vendors have already started releasing their offerings for the Silverlight platform. One of those, namely divelements, has put together a couple of samples on what you can do with their controls. So if you are interested in building line of business applications in Silverlight such as an mail client, word processing, or something similar, check out http://divelements.co.uk/silverlight/. Furthermore divelements is offering a free set of simple but commonly-requested tools, including an HTML display control. This control allows you to embed HTML anywhere in a Silverlight application by simply specifying raw HTML to...

I'm pretty often asked the question "Can I use real (as in coming from a database) data in my Silverlight application?" the answer is “of course”, although this requires a lit more work than any other technology (WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF) you could use. The reason for that is, that as you probably already know, Silverlight runs on the client, so you’ll need a way to move the data from the server to the Silverlight Client application. There are a number of ways you can achieve that... read more

There were quite a few questions on my last Silverlight talk about Silverlight support in various Linux Distros. Well today I read that a first source code release was made publicly available in order to encourage developers start playing with it. To try out Moonlight, you have two options: Media codecs: you must do your own build from source code. No-media codecs: we provide one-click addins for Firefox that will install with no effort. Firefox addins are available from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight. Source code for Moonlight...

Yesterday I had the chance to talk at a DotNetZone event about Building Rich Internet Applications using Silverlight 2.0. It went very well, people seemed to have an active interest on this new Technology and anxiously looking forward to build real word applications (like this healthcare one announced yesterday by Tim Sneath) with it. My session was quite long (2.5 hours - thankfully no one slept during it ;-)) so I had the chance to talk about almost all of Silverlight's features and give a lot of demos, after all events like that, where you speak to developers, is...

Quite a few people came to me on Microsoft's Launch 2008 event, asking me how someone can work with Silverlight to present video content. So in case you haven't already seen it, here is a Screencast, I've put together, showing off a few of Silverlight's features combined with Ajax. Currently it's only available on Greek, sorry for those of you not speaking Greek.