Microsoft Blog Archives

Quick FAQ on Visual Studio 2010 RC release (February 2010) and Silverlight development

Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010 — Tim Heuer

Yesterday Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was available for MSDN subscribers and would be generally available on 10 February 2010 for the public. This release represents a significant imp...

Answering A C# Question

Monday, Feb 8, 2010 — Jesse Liberty

I often receive questions about topics covered in one or another of my books, and I respond, most often, privately. Every once in a while, however, a question comes along that may be of more general interest. This que...

SketchFlow: Exploring Ideas

Monday, Feb 8, 2010 — Christian Schormann

SketchFlow, the prototyping environment in Expression Blend, lets you build deep, dynamic prototypes with a lot of “real” interactivity. Sometimes, these deep prototyping abilities make it easy to forget about another...

BBQ Shack – Ocean v2 for Visual Studio 2008

Sunday, Feb 7, 2010 — Karl Shifflett

What the Heck is BBQ Shack? In September of 2009 I went on a cruise to Alaska with a simple goal of writing a WPF application that shared business objects and Ocean framework code with a Silverlight 3 project within t...

Behind the Curtain

Sunday, Feb 7, 2010 — Jesse Liberty

Our team (officially Community Program Managers, but from time to time our conceit is to call ourselves STO Ninjas) has quietly expanded over the past few months, including the additions of two amazing and terrific ne...

Test Driven Silverlight Body Snatchers

Friday, Feb 5, 2010 — Jesse Liberty

This posting is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform documentation and a Silverlight Mini-tutorial . The information in this posting, however, should be of interest to anyone writing meaningful Line of Busi...

Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight

Friday, Feb 5, 2010 — Scott Hanselman

I heard someone saying they were having trouble setting up Smooth Streaming for IIS, so I wanted to try it myself. If you just want to see Smooth Streaming work, visit http://www.smoothhd.com/ for some sample demos. T...

Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner: Metia’s perspective

Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 — Silverlight Team

January 2010 saw the launch the new Mass Effect 2 game, and EA Games in the UK wanted to mirror the game innovation with their digital marketing. Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner to be ad-se...

Customer Preloader - Silverlight TV 006

Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 — John Papa

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 6 John Stockton (Silverlight MVP) discusses how a custom preloader can spice up your application . He shows how to implement a basic cust...

Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state

Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 — Tim Heuer

A developer asked me this question and while a simple answer, I thought it would be a good quick tip to share for those who may be in similar situations. The scenario is the classic master-details scenario where perha...