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  • 0 comments   /   posted by   Ivan Dragoev  on  Jun 11, 2008 (1 month ago)

    While digging into templating and styling of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 controls, I came into a situation where the event for MouseLeftButtonDown was not triggered when I click on the control. I created a sample project and in the Page.xaml I added the following:

    <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" 
    MouseLeftButtonDown="StackPanel_MouseLeftButtonDown">
         <    TextBlock Text="Antonio Moreno" Height="22" FontSize="16" />
              <    Grid>
                   <    Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                        <    ColumnDefinition />
                        <    ColumnDefinition />
                   </    Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                        
                   <    TextBlock Text="AMoreno@hotmail.com" Grid.Column="0"/>
                   <    TextBlock Text="(5) 555-3932" Grid.Column="1"/>
              </    Grid>
    </    StackPanel>

     As you can see from the xaml, I have a StackPanel and an event handler for MouseLeftButtonDown event.

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  • 0 comments   /   posted by   Chirag N R1  on  May 30, 2008 (1 month ago)

    Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft® Silverlight™. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML.

    Take a tour of beautiful charts in Gallery

    Design your own chart in minutes using Chart Designer.

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  • 1 comments   /   aggregated from   POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight  on  May 10, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article

    On June 13, 2008 in the Microsoft Reston Technology Center, join AIS, Cynergy and Microsoft for the first Silverlight TechFest. This is a full day event focusing on Silverlight and Expression. We'll build a full application showing key parts of the process both on the UI side with the designer/developer relationship, and on the back end with WCF services and and business logic. I'll be doing the afternoon session on Silverlight and WCF.

    Here's the official blurb:

    Microsoft TechFest – Building Rich Interactive Web Applications with Silverlight and Expression

    You are cordially invited to join us in a full-day event for developers and designers.

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  • 0 comments   /   aggregated from   Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner'  on  May 08, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article

    I have been fairly quiet for the last few months, and one of the reasons is that I have been working on a Silverlight 2 application, showcasing some future thinking for rich UI in the healthcare space.

    The Microsoft Health Common User Interface: Patient Journey Demonstrator is the result of work from a very small team based here in the UK, and we think, is a great example of a Rich Internet Application demonstrating an LOB scenario, but using the power of Silverlight to provide beautiful, meaningful ways of representing incredibly complex data.

    PJD

    The blurb from the site...

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  • 0 comments   /   aggregated from   Frank La Vigne  on  May 07, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article

    The Expression team has released an update to Deep Zoom Composer.

    Among the improvements (see screen shot):

  • Better Exporting
  • Improved Design Experience
  • Better Collection Exports
  • Better Help Experience

    • exportDZC

     

    [found via Shawn Wildermuth]

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  • 0 comments   /   aggregated from   WynApse  on  May 04, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article


    If you're in the Phoenix Area, please join us at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix for our next regularly scheduled Phoenix Silerlight User's Group Meeting on Wednesday May 7 from 6pm to 8pm.

    Our meetings follow the pattern of a short presentation followed by a break which is then followed by two sets of Open Space discussions.

    Anyone can sign up for an Open Space and these can be anything from "How do I ..." to "Help me finish..." or "Look what I did"

    There are plenty of experienced people in the group to fill in spots as needed, so don't avoid the meeting thinking you'll be expected to do show-and-tell :)

    Come get your questions answered and your engines revved to catch the Silverlight!

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  • 0 comments   /   aggregated from   Snowball - The Blog  on  May 02, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article

    Exactly 1 year after the release at Mix 07, Microsoft releases Expression Studio 2. The suite of tools for professional designers includes Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design, Expression Media and Expression Encoder.
    It also works seamlessly with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008, solving the age-old designer and developer workflow challenge.

    Here are the most important changes that made it into this release of the Expression Suite:

    • Expression Web 2 adds support for PHP and Adobe Photoshop import based on customer feedback.
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  • 0 comments   /   aggregated from   Somasegar's WebLog  on  May 02, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article

    Last year the Microsoft Expression team shipped a new suite of tools for creative professionals. This first release of Expression Studio marked a significant milestone in the history of development tools at Microsoft, delivering superior designer-developer workflow and providing designers a set of interaction design, graphic design, Web design, digital asset management and video production tools to deliver better user experiences on Windows and the Web.

    I am pleased to announce, just one year later, the team has done it again with today’s release of Microsoft Expression Studio 2.

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  • 0 comments   /   aggregated from   Kathy Kam  on  Apr 30, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article

    Just bought my tickets and booked my hotel to TechEd '08! Can't wait to see everyone in Orlando again this year!!

    Here is my schedule:

    Tuesday 6/3:    8:30am to 6:00pm - TLC Booth Dev Area

    Thursday 6/5:   8:15am to 2:45pm- TLC Booth Dev Area

    Friday 6/6:      11:30pm to 2:45pm - TLC Booth Dev Area

                             4:30pm to 5:45pm -  Chalk Talk

    My Chalk talk is titled: "Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Building a Great Microsoft Silverlight Application"

    • I will demonstrate how to use all the latest set of controls for Silverlight 2 focusing on the ones that are not available to WPF.
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  • 0 comments   /   aggregated from   Zhiming Xue's WebLog  on  Apr 26, 2008 (2 months ago)   /   original article

    Silverlight Streaming is a free service that Microsoft offers to the public. With the service users receive 10 GB free space that they can use to host video contents. Unlike the service provided by youtube.com, Silverlight Streaming does not add Microsoft logo or attach any commercial information to your video contents, and your contents can only be made available/visible to the public in your web applications. This service is great for individual users and developers, or even small businesses.

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