scorbs

Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more!

Go here to see the app and get the code.

Silverlight 3 is out in the wild!!

(team-signed poster in my office)

Links to all the good stuff:

• Developer Runtime (pc, mac)
• SDK (link)
• VS Tools (link)
• Expression Blend RC (link)
• July Toolkit (link)

Some of the new Silverlight 3 features include…

* Added since Silverlight 3 Beta

On a personal note…. Around Mix, I took over the PM position in the Silverlight 3 Shipping Triad.  It’s been an amazing (tiring, ridiculous, exhilarating) experience.  So, a shout out to the SL3 Triad, the always awesome framework feature teams, and the Silverlight team as a whole.  It’s been a privilege working with all of you.

This release was a special one for me. 

Karen

p.s.  If you read my blog, you know I’m on vacation right now.    I made the call a few days ago to leave my laptop at home… So none of my SL3 Beta samples have been updated to RTW bits yet.  But I promise to when I’m back in Seattle.  In the meantime, enjoy playing with SL3!

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

• Silverlight 3 Developer Runtime (windows, mac)
• Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio
• Microsoft Expression Blend 3 Preview
• Silverlight Toolkit
• .NET RIA Services

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

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…

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!

For those of you who didn’t see, Seema Ramchandani (a fellow PM on the Silverlight team) blogged that we released source code for the Silverlight 2 controls.

Check it out here!

I was home sick today… there’s a massive bug going around work.  I was pretty useless sitting on my couch, so I decided to make a holiday Silverlight card.

And if you’re thinking….

                wow, that’s really ugly.

… or …

                that looks like a 7 year old’s crayon drawing.

… you’re absolutely right.  

I have no design skills (as my officemate likes to continuously point out.)

Hope you enjoy it anyways! 

See the full post, if you’re reading my feed and can’t see the card!

Thank you to everyone who made it to my talk on Thursday!

As promised, some links:

• Session deck
• Session samples
• Session recording

Also, if you haven’t already, please take the time to fill out the online evaluation.  Your comments help me be a better speaker. 

Between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 & Silverlight 2 RTW, there were a few changes and additions.  Here’s a brief rundown on the areas I directly worked on. 

The overall breaking change list can be found here.

Control Model Silverlight 2 RTW Updates

• generic.xaml lives in themes directory
  • For WPF compat, we’re now looking for generic.xaml at \themes\resources.xaml.  It still needs to be built as an assembly resource.
• VisualTransition.GeneratedDuration
  • The VisualTransition.Duration’s property name has changed.  It is now called VisualTransition.GeneratedDuration.
  • This value will only impact the duration of generated transition animations.  It has no affect on the VisualTransition.Storyboard animations.
• VisualTransition.Storyboard must be defined inline
  • You cannot set VisualTransition.Storyboard to be a storyboard resource.  It needs to be defined as content of the <VisualTransition>.

HTTP Networking Silverlight 2 RTW Updates

• Cross-scheme HTTP <-> HTTPS calls are allowed with a cross domain file.
  • See my Networking Tutorial for more details
• Sub-domain wildcards are allowed within a clientaccesspolicy.xml cross domain file
  • See my Networking Tutorial for more details
• Setting the Content-Type is always allowed on cross domain POSTS
  • Of course, the cross domain POST itself needs to be allowed by the service’s cross domain policy file.
  • All other headers still need to be explicitly allowed in the service’s cross domain policy file.

Here are some of the Silverlight-focused PDC sessions. 

Hope to see you there!