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Diving into the RichTextBox (Silverlight TV #31)

June 3, 10 //
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Mark Rideout, Program Manager on the Silverlight product team, joins John to dive deep into many of the RichTextBox control’s features. Mark has worked on the text aspects of Silverlight since the first version. Here are just a few of the areas that Mark covers:

  1. Overview of RichTextBox vs. TextBlock and TextBox for rich content
  2. Wire-up logic for applying formatting
  3. Inline UI elements
  4. Using text position to point for simple and complex operations  
  5. Basic “position to point/point to position”
  6. How to walk content and getting rectangle data
  7. Using rectangle data to generate line metrics/highlight bar
  8. The clipboard XAML format and that the same data is exposed in the XAML property
  9. TextAlignment=Justify on paragraph

Don’t miss this great deep dive into the RichTextBox control with Mark and John!

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Using Behaviors in Blend 4 (Silverlight TV 30)

June 1, 10 //
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In this episode, Adam Kinney demonstrates how to take advantage of behaviors in Expression Blend 4. He creates several demonstrations using the new DataStore and conditional behavior features in concert with several new behaviors including ChangePropertyAction, ControlStoryBoardAction, SetDataStoreValueAction, and the custom Mouse3DBehavior. Adam also shows how to create a custom behavior using code. Don’t miss this episode as Adam discusses how behaviors can make the UI developer’s job much easier.
 

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Learning Silverlight and Blend with .toolbox (Silverlight TV #29)

May 27, 10 //
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In this episode, Arturo Toledo demonstrates all of the new content he and his colleagues have created to teach you to design and develop with Expression Blend and Silverlight. He shows off some really cool samples, all of which you can download and do yourself through hands on-labs. Arturo walks through the .toolbox site and shows the numerous learning materials, videos, demos, and hands-on labs. If you have been looking for a comprehensive set of self-paced learning materials focused on designing  with Expression Blend, you should definitely watch this video and check out .toolbox.
 

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TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server

May 22, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back in the studio talking about the week’s top developer news, including:

Picks of the week

Hotmail: The Next Generation

May 19, 10 //
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The Windows Live team previewed the next version of Hotmail Monday. This release has a foundation on saving time. Attachments, for example, often take you away from your inbox, they require you to wait for a new application or new window to open, one at a time. Hotmail will allow you to see a Silverlight Gallery of attached images or even linked images from Flickr and SmugMug. They have made it possible to send up to 200 photos @ 50MB each in a single email using Windows Live SkyDrive. Hotmail will open Office attachments using the new Office Web Apps right in your inbox, and even links to Hulu and YouTube will play within the email.

Another new feature is the ability to sweep your email removing unwanted mail. This goes beyond spam and into “graymail”, which is mail that you requested, but you really don’t care about. You can also sweep you Gmail and Yahoo! mail accounts.

There are many more features, be sure to check out the Windows Team Blog for more. Our good mate Nic Fillingham will be connecting with the Windows Live team when they get back for a video, so if you have questions please leave them here.

WCF RIA Services v1.0 Launch! (Silverlight TV 28)

May 17, 10 //
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Nikhil Kothari and Dinesh Kulkarni join John to announce the official release of WCF RIA Services v1.0! They discuss the road their teams took to create RIA Services, some of the decision points that helped shape the product, and the high level of community involvement in the product’s evolution. They also demonstrate some of the features of RIA Services and give a glimpse at what the future may have in store for it. Dinesh and Nikhil have worked on RIA Services from its beginnings and have seen it evolve through several names (4 by my rough count). Don’t miss this episode with 2 key leaders of RIA Services!

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Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Launch: New Designer Capabilities (Silverlight TV 27)

May 17, 10 //
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Mark Wilson-Thomas joins John to announce the launch of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! Mark shows off several impressive, new features in the Visual Studio 2010 designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF development. Some key new features that are covered include:

  • New interactive design surface
  • Working with Styles and Resources
  • Go To Value Definition lets you directly locate nested styles
  • Using the new “Data Can” to pinpoint data hookups
  • Moving stuff around in complex Grid panels using the new right click “goodies” 

You can learn more about the new features from the Cider Designer blog, too.

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Silverlight TV 26: Exposing SOAP, OData, and JSON Endpoints for RIA Services

May 13, 10 //
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In this video, John meets with Deepesh Mohnani from the WCF RIA Services team. Deepesh demonstrates how to expose various endpoints from WCF RIA Services. This is a great explanation and walk through of how to open RIA Services domain services to clients, including:

  • Silverlight clients (of course)
  • Creating an OData endpoint and showing how Excel can use it
  • Creating a SOAP endpoint to a domain service and using it from a Windows Phone 7 application
  • Creating a JSON endpoint and having an AJAX application talk to it

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Silverlight TV 25: No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox

May 11, 10 //
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In this video, Adam Kinney explains what the PathListBox is and why it is so compelling. Then, he demonstrates several ways of using it in creative examples. The PathListBox is one of the newest features available in Expression Blend, Silverlight 4 and WPF 4. It redefines how users look at lists of data as it breaks the mold of a list “box” and opens the possibilities to use any shape or path. Don’t miss this episode and be sure to download Adam’s sample code.
 

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Don’t miss the next episode on Thursday May 13th…Exposing SOAP, JSON, and OData Endpoints to RIA Services.

Ping 57: IE9, Alan Wake, Silverlight, Spindex, MMS

May 10, 10 //
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This week Paul and Laura reviewed the most buzz worthy stories in Microsoft news- exciting stuff like:

Take IE9 for a test drive!
Alan Wake & SilverLight
Spindex is here
Perez Hilton Web Slice
Paul goes to MMS
Spike and Hammer

And More!

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