Digital Rapids – a leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences – has unveiled a powerful new version of the Stream software for the company’s award-winning StreamZ™, StreamZHD ™ and DRC-Stream…( read more )
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Digital Rapids New 3.2 Upgrade Reaches New Heights in IIS Smooth Streaming Performance
As part of the CRE8 Conference last week in Miami, August de los Reyes and I presented a collection of the cool videos, websites and customer stories. Here is a great list for you with the best of best in Silverlight and UX. August de los Reyes, Director…( read more )
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25 Inspiring Silverlight Websites, Videos and Customer Stories
A second hot fix has been made available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate that solves another IntelliSense related crash. Get the hot fix Information here. There are now two hot fixes.
I was looking for a screenshot of an old app I wrote, and I ran across this code from 2001. This is the shortest .NET program I ever wrote. Intermediate Language (IL) was new to us back then, so many of us tried writing simple programs in it just to try it out. The whole solution consists of three files: the resulting EXE, the source IL and a batch file to do the compilation: The code itself targets .NET 1.0 Beta 2. Here’s the source .IL file. There are more comments than code, but luckily that means it should still be pretty easy to read.
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Shortest .NET program I have ever written (or smallest solution anyway)
The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day event in Boston is now available. May 14 – Boston, MA, US
It’s after 5am and I’m still up. Why? I just completed standing up the blog portion of my new site and I’m pretty excited. The full site migration is far from over, but the bones are there, and the blog content has been all moved over. New Site My blog (first picture below) has had roughly the same look for a number of years now. I’ve updated the background and the header graphic, but everything else has been pretty static.
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New Site, New Platform, New Domain – 10rem.net
This is Windows Client Developer roundup #13. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight and Windows Phone. If you have something interesting you’ve done or have run across, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link on my blog. WPF WPF Shell Integration Library (.NET 4 Shell API in .NET 3.5sp1) (WPF SDK) Populate a treeview based on a collection of objects with collections (Edward Tanguay) WPF Wrapper for Awesomium/Chromium – Host a browser in WPF without airspace issues, and with proper integration with rendering pipeline (Chris Cavanagh) Animated gifs in WPF (we are righteous) WPF in Visual Studio Part 1 (Visual Studio Blog) See also: How VSIX Extensions are discovered and loaded. Magellan Forms (Paul Stovell) XAML UI News 2010/02/24 (Rob Relyea) Surface Surface spotted at the Vancouver games (Surface blog) Surface lands in Heathrow (Surface blog) Surface at WIND Mobile stores in Canada (Surface blog) Cross-Technology (Silverlight, WPF, Surface, etc.) Setting focus in Xaml with no code (Rocky Lhotka) How to structure resource dictionaries in WPF and Silverlight (xaml ninja) Windows Phone Windows Phone Excitement (Windows Phone Blog) Fun 15 Amazing used tire sculptures (Toxel) Cool building made of stacked houses (want!) 14 Fictional Characters in Real Life (Untooned) (Toxel)
This is Windows Client Developer roundup #12. I’ve just returned from the MVP summit and some meetings with the product teams, and all I can say is “wow”. We have some seriously cool stuff coming, and I can’t wait to talk about it. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight and Windows Phone. If you have something interesting you’ve done or have run across, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link on my blog. My link of the week is the new online Windows Phone 7 Series demo. This is a Silverlight app that runs a simulation of the phone so you can get a feel for the awesome new UI
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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/22/2010
In my previous post about buttons and content controls , I explained how to do quite a bit of customization using just the content property of a button. That gets you pretty far, but you’re barely tapping into what WPF (and Silverlight) can do. In this post, we’ll cover styling and and build up the background we’ll need to tackle templating, the backbone of what makes WPF and Silverlight so powerful. Lookless Controls In WPF and Silverlight, controls are “lookless”. That is, everything about how they appear is defined in the style and the control template.
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Getting Started with WPF : Button Control Part 2 – Basic Styling
Often on twitter I see posts like “I just downloaded X, it looks awesome. Is it WPF?” One way to easily answer that question for yourself is to download snoop and run it. If you hit refresh and the application shows up, it’s a WPF app. If not, well, it’s not 
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