In my earlier post I created a high level breakdown of the APIs shared by both Silverlight and WinRT… Here I’m providing a complete reference of all 6,585 public types and 15,248 members included in Silverlight 5 and/or WinRT and where they overlap. My hope is that this will serve as a reference to Silverlight [...]
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WinRT Genome Project Details
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, Win8 Metro, tagged Metro, silverlight, Win8, WinRT on November 18, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Live Stereoscopic 3D in the MMP Player Framework
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged 3d, live 3d, microsoft media platform, mix11, mmp player framework, silverlight, silverlight media framework, stereo 3d, stereoscopic 3d, webcam on April 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
At MIX 2011 I had the fantastic opportunity to present on many of the cool new features recently added to the MMP Player Framework (formerly the Silverlight Media Framework). One of these new features is the ability to play stereoscopic 3D videos (think Avatar). For fun, I also demoed a little app I built that [...]
Leveraging the Silverlight ecosystem with Windows Phone 7
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, Windows Phone 7, tagged apps, Jigsaw puzzles, online jigsaw puzzles, PuzzleTouch, silverlight, WP7 on November 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There are a lot of reasons for developers to be excited about Windows Phone 7. First and foremost, .NET developers can easily build great apps using the language and tools they already know. If you’re like me, learning a new technology is always fun, but producing great results with minimal effort is better. But there’s [...]
Turn your photos into a pivot collection with PhotoPivot
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged photos, Pivot, PivotViewer, silverlight, silverlight controls, Silverlight tips and tricks, utility on August 17, 2010 | 23 Comments »
Turn your photos into a pivot collection with PhotoPivot and expose camera meta data associated with your images.
Silverlight PivotViewer app from start to finish
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged online jigsaw puzzles, Pivot, PivotViewer, silverlight, silverlight controls on August 2, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The new Silverlight PivotViewer control provides a cool and powerful way to visualize and filter data straight out of the box. It is very simple to use and in the end you’ll have a great looking, fun and powerful window into our data.
Rx for Silverlight at Portland CodeCamp
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged Reactive extensions, Rx, silverlight, Silverlight tips and tricks on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to everyone who joined me for a great discussion about my new favorite technology: Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Silverlight. As promised, here is the source code for all the projects we went over as well as my PowerPoint slides… Source code for all projects Power point I hope everyone grows to love Rx as [...]
XPath support in Silverlight 4 + XPathPad
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged silverlight, Silverlight 4, Silverlight tips and tricks, tool, Xml Tool, XPath on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Silverlight 4 now has built in support for XPaths! Check out the new XPathPad tool to help test XPaths against any Xml document.
Reactive XmlReader for SAX like parsing
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged Reactive extensions, Rx, SAX, silverlight, Silverlight tips and tricks, Xml indenting, XmlReader on March 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
An observable XmlReader allows you to subscribe to it and would iterate over your Xml document for you, notifying you when each node was read. The programmer using this can then easily write reactive LINQ expressions to select on specific nodes in the Xml resulting in code that would look and feel much like LINQ to XML but with all the performance benefits of XmlReader.
Silverlight Rx DataClient within MVVM
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged MVVM, Reactive extensions, Rx, silverlight, Silverlight tips and tricks on March 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Here is a demonstration of how to use reactive extensions (Rx) from within a view model by asynchronously loading an RSS feed into your model and populating the UI while the bytes are still coming in. This is about as fast and responsive as it gets!
Use Silverlight Reactive Extensions (Rx) to build responsive UIs
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged Reactive extensions, Rx, silverlight, Silverlight tips and tricks on March 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Use reactive extensions in Silverlight to easily build responsive applications. In this post, we will build a super simple Silverlight app that updates a ListBox with and without Rx.
