XAMLFest Online training
Posted By Coffee on May 20, 2009
Beginning May 25th, you can access recorded training on XAML, and on June 1st you can register to join live training for Developers and Designers. Don’t miss it!
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It's a place to sit back and relax, catch up on all the stuff that's going on around the development world, and see all the cool things everyone else is doing. Stick around for RIA (Rich Internet Applications), Silverlight, and Development goodness.
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Happy Saturday!
Posted By Coffee on May 16, 2009
Looks like a good start to Saturday, as usual the gurus are working overtime:
A new Silverlight business site from Ian Blackburn, Silverlight For Business.
More on Behaviors from Shawn Wildermuth - also, check out my previous links on behaviors.
Behaviors day
Posted By Coffee on May 11, 2009
Time to get reading and coding on behaviors in Blend 3:
Just beginning? Electric Beach has a great beginner series on Action, Triggers and Behaviors.
After you digest that, move on to one of our favorite blogs by Mike Taulty.
A good explanation and tutorial by Jose Fajardo shows the power of behaviors.
Also, start here on Kirupa’s blog and click around there, he’s got a few good pieces on triggers and behaviors.
honeycomb navigation
Posted By Coffee on May 10, 2009
a honeycomb pattern for navigation, similar to Windows Mobile 6.5 original, just add images/text/links.
WaterWorld
Posted By Coffee on May 10, 2009
Building off the Fire Animation tutorial at Silverzine, I thought I’d try a quick and dirty water button.
It only took about 10 minutes, and I’ll refine it more later so the animation is smoother and it responds to button clicks with various behaviors, and maybe some whitecaps. I don’t want to get too detailed on what will end up a much smaller button. This is a preview of a WaterWorld skin.
I can put up a quick tutorial later if anyone requests. I know it’s a bit rough, I just wanted to bang something out this morning before I went to the movies so I’d remember to get back to it later.
Also, I’m trying out WP-Spamfree on the blog due to lots of spam posts, so please email me if you post a comment and it doesn’t show up.
Fire Button tutorial at Silverzine
Posted By Coffee on May 7, 2009
Use the tutorial at Silverzine to create your own easy button in Silverlight.
It’s a quick and easy 5 minute solution, even I can kind of do it. Don’t worry, they’ll help you do it much better.
Twitter roll
Posted By Coffee on May 4, 2009
I added some of the twitter feeds I like to follow on the Twitter page (see link above on the menu). All are relevant to the Silverlight, RIA or development community and consistently contribute great info.
Silverlight 3 review
Posted By Coffee on April 30, 2009
Pete Brown has a monster post on Silverlight 3 on his blog with lots of good info and links. Don’t miss it.
Book links
Posted By Coffee on April 29, 2009
I decided to put in a books section on the left side of the page, but I’m only listing books I personally have purchased and used, and am happy about buying.
There’s nothing worse than buying a book for $25-40 and finding out it’s not very relevant, so I’m not going to allow just anything to be listed there.
Amazon usually has some of the lowest prices on them, too.
LOB app tutorials
Posted By Coffee on April 29, 2009
A couple of multi-part tutorials from SilverlightShow.net should be on your reading list (if you’re not already far beyond this) if you are looking at Silverlight for more than just multi-media displays.
First, the RIA Services tutorial is a (currently) 5-part walkthrough and includes loading, visualizing and sorting data.
The LOB Tutorial is an on-going article (currently 7 parts) that talks about not just the technical, but also the why and how Silverlight can function as an LOB platform.