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Eric Griffin's Blog

Code Adventures of an Microsoft Consultant

July 2007 - Posts

Silverlight Configuration Tool
New Configuration tool with the latest bits. You can read about it at Michael's Blog Read More...
Silverlight RC1 Available Now!
Here you go. Go grab them! Silverlight 1.0 RC1 / Windows ( direct link ) Silverlight 1.0 RC1 / Mac ( direct link ) Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh / Windows ( direct link ) Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh / Mac ( direct link ) Read More...
Astoria and ASP.NET Futures
In my previous post I told you about "Astoria" our new REST API toolkit. You can find a great tutorial on how to use "Astoria" with ASP.NET with code at the ASP.NET Futures site. Read More...
Silverlight + ASP.NET Futures: Better together
Just saw a bunch of great demos from the ASP.NET team on Silverlight and ASP.NET Futures ( shipping with VS Orcas ). The ASP.NET guys have done some great work to deeply integrate Silverlight . Two of the big controls in ASP.NET Futures: A Media server Read More...
More Silverlight Stuff when I get back...
Sorry for the slow posting. But I have been attending our internal conference TechReady in Seattle. (Bill Gates spoke to us this morning!) All I can say right now is there is going to be some incredible things coming from us in the near future. Stay tuned Read More...
Silverlight Tetris with Source Code
Like I've said before. I love to learn from games. Check out the classic game Tetris created by Jose Luis Quintero Mendez created with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. Here's the code: Silverlight Tetris source code . Nice Read More...
WPF Example Up on CodePlex
Silverlight has its roots in WPF. So what better way to get deep that to dig into some code. The WPF team has updated and uploaded to CodePlex the Family.Show app. You can check out the code and documentation here . Read More...
Silverlight 1.0 RC: A Couple of Weeks Out!
The Silverlight Team is getting close to a Release Candidate. Tim Sneath can get you up to speed in today's post . Read More...
Heard of Code Name "Astoria"?
If you haven't, and you are interested in a new tool kit to expose your data in your ASP.NET applications, then you want to check out Astoria . Of course it is integrated with Visual Studio Orcas and Silverlight. What exactly is "Astoria" The goal of Read More...
Accessing ASP.NET Application Services from Silverlight
Mike Ormond is doing a great series of posts about Accessing ASP.NET Application Services in Silverlight. Check it out: Mike Ormond's Blog : Accessing ASP.NET Application Services from Silverlight Read More...
New Silverlight Webcast Service
Just heard about iStreamPlanet adopting Silverlight as a webcast delivery platform. Read More...
50 Silverlight Applications
Tim Sneath summarized a list of 50 Silverlight Apps. Here is the list. 2D Physics Simulation Grand Piano Silverlight Mind Map 3D Teapot Demo Infragistics Controls Demo Silverlight Pad Amazon Search Visualization JavaScript / .NET Chess Silverlight Playground Read More...
Silverlight realtime video service: LiveStation is here!
Skinkers just announced a realtime streaming Internet tv services that uses Silverlight called LiveStation . It is in limited Public beta. Jump on over, sign up to get in line to test out the future of TV. Read More...
Flash to Silverlight XAML
Ok folks. Its time for some kool stuff. Check out a Flash converter to Silverlight XAML created by Debreuil Digital works . They sell it for around $250. Not bad. So go get converted. Read More...
Jon Galloway's Keyboard Tricks in Silverlight
Nice post with code examples detailing how to capture keyboard events in Silverlight. He learned about it while completing a game he created for his daughter. Some keyboard input tricks for Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha) - Jon Galloway Read More...
Data Binding with Templates in Silverlight
Ran across this great blog post by Joshua Allen shows how to do template based data binding in Silverlight . He was nice enough to provide code to download. Read More...
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