Demos



  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Codeflakes.net  on  Apr 28, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article

    At Mix Essentials in Belgium, I delivered a session on working with Silverlight and data and services. Since the session was very well received and also the way the session was constructed, I decided to create a tutorial from it.

    This tutorial covers several scenario's for having Silverlight connect with data and services: varying from WCF, REST, POX... all the way up to RSS. So let's take a look and I'm sure that by the end of this tutorial, you'll have a solid understanding on the topic. I did re-use some graphics from my slide deck to make some things more clear.

    There are actually 4 parts to this tutorial.

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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Brad Abrams  on  Apr 26, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article

    In this example I will demonstrate a very simple call to the FlickR REST APIs from a Silverlight client. At the end we will end up with an app that looks like this:

    image

    Part 1. Define some Silverlight UI

    Part 2. Show the local open file dialog support

    Part 3. Call the FlickR Service to find a picture

    Part 4. Use IsolatedStorage to preserve some local settings across runs

    Part 5. Skinning the UI

     

    You are welcome to also get the completed sample, and demo files

     

    Part 1.

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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Snowball - The Blog  on  Apr 25, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article

    Today I delivered a session on Mix Essentials in Belgium (Louvain-La-Neuve). The talk was about connecting Silverlight with services and data. Everything went great and every single demo worked as expected.

    This morning however, I do was a little bit scared when I was trying out my demo's. I had one demo with the Flickr REST API and when testing it this morning, it didn't work anymore. Turned out that the most "easy" solution actually solved it: Flickr.com was down for about 10 minutes...

    As promised, below you can download the slides and demo's.

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  • 1 comments  /  aggregated from  Laurent Bugnion (GalaSoft)  on  Apr 24, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article
    Introduction

    I guess that it's time to write about it, after making a few people curious at the MVP summit in Seattle. This article is to be taken as a proof of concept, and (I hope) as a way to "motivate" Microsoft to integrate this ability into Silverlight.

    As soon as I started playing with Silverlight, I saw the great potential that this technology has. As a RIA technology, it provides extended functionality over the web. As a WPF subset, it allows me to leverage the knowledge I already acquired in the past, and to reuse it for web applications. This in itself makes Silverlight a technology I *have to* learn.

    But what if... what if we could use Silverlight to run lightweight .NET applications in standalone mode? A little like Adobe AIR is offering, but with the power of .NET instead of ActionScript.

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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Delay's Blog  on  Apr 22, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article

    One scenario I've seen cause a bit of trouble on the Silverlight Controls Forum is that of putting a Button in a ListBox. There are two aspects of this that seem to cause difficulty and I thought it would be helpful to demonstrate the complete scenario in a runnable, self-contained sample. (Please Download the ZIP file attached to the bottom of this post for all the code/XAML in a ready-to-go Visual Studio 2008 + Silverlight Tools solution.) While I was developing the sample, I threw in a couple of other handy techniques that may not be widely known.

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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Swiss MSDN Team Blog  on  Apr 17, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article

    This is the recording of the session “Silverlight 2” that I did last month atTechDays 2008 Basel.

     

    In this 1 hour video blog I show how to build a picture gallery showing some of the powerful capability of Silverlight 2 like:

     

    Blend 2.5

    Layout controls

    WebClient (RSS requests)

    LINQ to SQL

    DataBinding

    DataTemplate

    Animations

    UserControls

    Multi files upload

    DataGrid

    LINQ to OBJECT

     

    You can get the slides and the demo code here: http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/presentationfinder/detail.mspx?id=106102

     

    Ronnie Saurenmann

     

     


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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek  on  Apr 17, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article

    Today's Webcast was intended to be a smooth presentation of a topic I know cold. Not uncharacteristically,  I went off on a tangent from which I never returned and ended up writing all my code spontaneously.

    EventsWebCast

    The good news was it was "fresher" the bad news was a few false starts; fortunately I was talking to pros who were very patient, and the key points were made:

    • You can set the container as the event handler for the contained objects (e.g., the stack panel can receive the click event for all the radio buttons
    • Some events bubble and some do not, and it is important to understand which do and which do not and what will happen accordingly
    • The rule of thumb is that events associated with a control (e.g, click) do not bubble but most events associated with mouse and keyboard do bubble; it's best to check the documentation.
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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Brad Abrams  on  Apr 12, 2008 (4 months ago)   /   original article

    I had a great trip in North Carolina… In addition to a fun time with my extended family, I had a chance to take two days “off” vacation and visit with three Fortune 500 companies, give a Framework Design Guidelines training class to the Visual Studio North Carolina office and speak at the Triangle Area .NET User’s group.

    Overall, I am very impressed with the .NET community in North Carolina. I found a ton of passion and interest in Silverlight 2 in both consumer facing Internet applications as well as browser clients for internal line of business applications.

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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Andy's Blog  on  Apr 07, 2008 (5 months ago)   /   original article

    Thanks to everyone who attended my "Silverlight 2 for Data Applications" talk at Code Camp 9 in Waltham, MA on 4/5/2008! And a big thanks to Chris Bowen and Chris Pels for their hard work organizing this great event time after time. I had a great crowd for my talk, standing room only, and as promised I have some goodies for all:

    First, even if you couldn't make it to Code Camp for my talk, I have created a screen cast that walks through the demos. Just click the image below to launch the video:

    I also have the Beers Demo Application and Slide Deck available:

    DOWNLOAD THE DEMO CODE

    DOWNLOAD THE SLIDE DECK (PPT)

    Summary of the Presentation

    In this talk, I walked through a mult-tier Silverlight Application with the following architecture:

    1.

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  • 0 comments  /  aggregated from  Laurent Bugnion (GalaSoft)  on  Apr 05, 2008 (5 months ago)   /   original article

    I am currently writing a Silverlight class library which I want to use in a project, and decided to try Test Driven Development for this class. This is a really nice way to work, and the Silverlight development team made this very easy by providing a unit test framework easy to integrate into Visual Studio 2008.

    (Note: You cannot simply use the built-in unit test framework, because a non-Silverlight application cannot reference a Silverlight class library).

    To find information about where to download and how to install the Silverlight unit test framework, check this post.

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