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Is Silverlight 2 Ready for Business Applications

Jonas Folleso — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:18:46 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "I will try to highlight some of the strengths of Silverlight 2 as a platform for building data centric business applications, compared to traditional web applications. I will also try to address some of the challenges and concerns developers have...Some of these concerns are around things like printing, search engine optimization...All of these issues can be addressed using various techniques I will touch on..."

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How to Apply Separated Presentation Patterns in GUI Applications

Jonas Folleso — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:38:34 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "To show how the Supervising Controller and the Model-View-ViewModel pattern can be combined I’m going to create facetious Flickr Photo Uploading application....the Supervising Controller pattern can be combined with a Model-View-ViewModel pattern to implement drag-and-drop functionality. The specific example uses WPF, but the same concepts apply for Silverlight 2 applications as well."

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Silverlight Toolkit New Features Include Two New Layout Controls

Jonas Folleso — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:01:30 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "Developers with a WPF background should feel comfortable with these new controls. Silverlight 2 developers who know the Canvas, StackPanel and Grid should definitely start exploring these controls and how they can help layout the user interface. Remember that you can combine and nest these controls..."

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Silverlight Toolkit New Features Include Two New Layout Controls

Jonas Folleso — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:10:43 GMT

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Silverlight Toolkit New Feature AutoCompleteBox Examples

Jonas Folleso — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:30:03 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "The AutoCompleteBox control supports both data bound suggestions as well as custom code to get suggestions asynchronously, for instance by calling a web service. I will cover both scenarios and show how the auto completion code fits in to the Model-View-ViewModel architecture of the Dive Log application...looks and feels like a textbox, and has a Text-property..."

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Silverlight Toolkit New Features Include Two New Layout Controls

Jonas Folleso — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:53:08 GMT

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Silverlight Toolkit Announced at PDC: ImplicitSytleManager Examples

Jonas Folleso — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:07:17 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "One of the strengths of WPF and Silverlight is the ability to change the style or template of any control. This gives the designer maximum flexibility to change the look and feel of an application, without breaking its behavior...The ImplicitStyleManager makes it easy to share themes and apply them to your application. There are still some shortcomings..."

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Silverlight Designer & Developer Network Initiative

Jonas Folleso — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:15:45 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "The SDDN is a great initiative for many reasons. Most importantly it creates a meeting forum to bring developers and designers together. Getting designers engaged is a key success factor for Silverlight...Secondly the Network-part of the name suggests this is more than user group meetings. The SDDN has ambition to build a strong online presence, with high quality recordings of all meetings. This is a great way to reach out"

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Printing in Silverlight 2 Using CSS and ASP.NET AJAX 4

Jonas Folleso — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:47:37 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "Printing is a core requirement in many business applications and something you need to be addressed if you’re going to build a Silverlight 2 application. In this blog post I’m going to cover different strategies for printing, and show how we can use the HTML Bridge combined with some of the new features in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 to implement printing..."

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Printing in Silverlight 2 Using CSS and ASP.NET AJAX 4

Jonas Folleso — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:20:45 GMT

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Types of Code Tests to Use While Building Silverlight Applications

Jonas Folleso — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:21:26 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "Automated unit testing of code has become a common development practice, and as developers we have a wide variety of frameworks to pick from to help us do testing. A common misperception is that any test written using a testing framework is a unit test. That is not necessary true...the types of tests I normally write when building Silverlight applications..."

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Types of Code Tests to Use While Building Silverlight Applications

Jonas Folleso — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:16:47 GMT

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Silverlight 2 RC Issue - DataTemplate in the YouCard Application

Jonas Folleso — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:07:43 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "I didn’t bump into too many issues in the update...the only real issue I ran into was my use of user control inside a DataTemplate in the YouCard application...If you try to set a breakpoint and debug the DataContext property of your user control you will discover that it’s always null. It took some time to figure out the problem..."

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Color Tool Used Directly in Browser

Jonas Folleso — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:03:29 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "Kuler is a tool that helps you create color themes by applying different rules to find matching colors...You can create an account and save your colors online and share them with the community..Kuler is being a good Web 2.0 citizen and offers a REST-full API..."

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Chrome Developer Build Fixes Silverlight 2 Bugs

Jonas Folleso — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:28:41 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "On the sites I tried Chrome would render the application, but any interaction from keyboard or mouse wouldn’t get passed to the application. This is now fixed...This is great news for the Silverlight community as this clearly indicates that Chrome will have full Silverlight support when it comes out of beta. I've included some screenshots..."

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How to Port the Silverlight Dive Log App. to WPF

Jonas Folleso — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:35:56 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "The Dive Log application is a fairly trivial application, yet complex enough to give a decent indication of what it would take to port an application from Silverlight to WPF. I was pleasantly surprised with how easy it was to port the application to WPF. However you will have to do some manual work...I've uploaded the current source code, as well as a compiled version of the WPF application..."

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How to Port the Silverlight Dive Log App. to WPF

Jonas Folleso — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:32:43 GMT

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WCF Authentication Services, Silverlight and Smelly Cookies

Jonas Folleso — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:51:23 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "When I started porting the application to WPF I wanted to reuse the same WCF service used by Silverlight. But since I’m not going to logon using my browser I know that I had to provide some authentication mechanism for my WPF application. I assumed this should be fairly trivial...I’m sure some WCF experts have a better solution for this, and I would love to hear suggestions in the comments..."

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How to Control - Navigate Pages in Silverlight 2 Using ASP.NET AJAX

Jonas Folleso — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:22:04 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "The first thing I did was to define the interface I want to use for the history manager...The interface is straight forward, and mimics the history management functionality of the ASP.NET AJAX client library...I have deployed a new version of the Dive Log application you can play with online. You can also download the updated source code..."

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Perspectives on the Future of JavaScript, Web Apps and Silverlight

Jonas Folleso — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:35:49 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes "...I do think that JavaScript will turn out to be a bigger competitor to Silverlight than Flash for developers deciding which technology to use for their rich Internet applications...The ZDNet article is well written and should be an interesting read if you want to learn more"

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