Archive | March, 2009

Silverlight 3 Beta!

24 Mar

Here are all the Silverlight 3 Beta links, if you’re interested in digging in.

As a callout:  This is a developer beta release only! This means there is no “go-live” licensing available and the end-user runtime of Silverlight 3 is not available.

A full list of the new features can be found here.

If you’re curious, some of the new framework features inside of the core runtime are:

  • BasedOn Styles
  • Merged ResourceDictionaries
  • Ability to listen to handled routed events
  • Data Binding to DependencyProperty sources
  • Binding supports RelativeSource syntax
  • Explicit update for Bindings
  • Validation UI supported by VSM
  • MultiSelection for ListBox

Mix 09: Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls

23 Mar

Thank you to everyone to who came to my talk at Mix09! 

I’m always a bit nervous having talks on the last day of a conference. (After all, you work really hard to pull a session together – and it can kinda be a bummer talking to mostly empty chairs.)  But my room was full, and the audience’s vibe felt great from stage.  :)

If you missed the session, you can watch the video here:

Also, as promised, here are links to…

  • Sample source code
  • Deck

    The final WishExplorer demo uses Wishpot’s 3rd party web service. 

    Wishpot is a great site for wishlisting – it’s aimed at avoiding “random” (note quotations) presents on your birthday and holidays. :)   Anyways, in order to compile & run the demo locally, you’ll need to request a developer key from them here.

    Also, here’s a link to two other demos, if you’d link to click around them:

    A few callouts:

    • Thank you to Wishpot’s CTO Tom Lianza and  Senior Designer John Hildenbiddle for all their help on the backend and visuals for the demos.
    • Dave – your radial panel rocked it.  Thanks!

    Any feedback you have on the session content or presentation is appreciated – I’m always trying to be a better speaker.  :)

    p.s.  I’ve posted an update to my SnippetManager – it now automatically copies the snippets to the clipboard.

    • Mix09 – So Divine!

    10 Mar

    Yep.  That’s a rhyming blog post title.  Anyways.  :)

    Mix09 is next week.  As you can tell from the title of our talks… You’ll get to see Silverlight 3 at Mix this year!

    Here are some of the core Silverlight talks (including one by me).

    Also note the ambiguously named talk by Mike Harsh – I can’t wait for that session!