In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft released a new update for Silverlight 4 yesterday, along with a new SDK. You can check out the details at KB2164913. The stuff I was interested in: Add New Row for the DataGrid Improved application startup performance Mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applications on the Mac Media bug [...]
Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0
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Sep 022010
Extended WPF Toolkit – New ColorPicker Control
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Aug 152010
Yes, another great control has been added to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the ColorPicker. The ColorPicker is pretty much self explanatory. It allows a user to select a color using a color canvas, a hue slider, and an alpha slider for transparency. This is what is looks like when it is [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit – New RichTextBox Control
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Aug 122010
There has been a new control added to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the RichTextBox. The RichTextBox extends the System.Windows.Control.RichTextBox control that represents a rich editing control which operates on FlowDocument objects. The RichTextBox control has a Text dependency property which allows a user to data bind content to the RichTextBox.Document property. [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit – New MessageBox Control
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Aug 052010
I have added a new control to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the MessageBox. It is currently in beta and is only available in the source code download. The MessageBox control mimics the System.Windows.MessageBox closely and you use similar syntax to create it. MessageBox Displays a message box that has a message [...]
Aug 032010
WPF developers, have you ever needed a control that it is in the Silverlight Toolkit but not the WPF Toolkit? What is that all about? Well my solution to that problem is on CodePlex and it is called the Extended WPF Toolkit. The Extended WPF Toolkit is a collection of WPF controls, components and utilities [...]
Jul 172010
For those of you who did not get to see the “Local Messaging and Silverlight” geekSpeak webcast live, it has been posted on Channel9 for your viewing pleasure. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/geekSpeak/geekSpeak-Recording-Local-Messaging-and-Silverlight-with-Brian-Lagunas/ And yes, I did give Elegant Code some love on the show.
NETDUG: Silverlight Bing Maps Sample Code
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Jul 172010
Thanks to everyone who attended last weeks NETDUG presentations. For those of you who would like to get started right away with Bing Maps in your Silverlight applications, you can start here: Get the Bing Maps Silverlight Control Get a Bing Maps API Key Play with the Bing Maps interactive SDK Application Read the Bing [...]
GeekSpeak 7-14-2010: Local Messaging and Silverlight
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Jul 132010
If you haven’t noticed lately, I have been pretty quite on the blogs recently. That is mainly due to my new born baby, and a new job. Well, I have set aside some time to do a GeekSpeak webcast with Glen Gorden and Mithun Dhar. Here is the episode description: “A powerful feature of Microsoft [...]
Expression Studio 4 Launched
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Jun 072010
Okay, it is official; Expression Studio 4 has been released and is available for download now. Owners of v3 pay special attention to what I am about to tell you. You can get v4 for FREE. Yes, I said FREE. Just install the v4 trial on top of your licensed v3 and upgrade it. For [...]
Silverlight 4 Minor update
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Jun 032010
Today a minor update to Silverlight 4 was released. This update won’t effect all users, but if you are a media developer you will want to get this update. For the specifics read KB982926. Developers can update their runtime by downloading and installing the updated Silverlight developer runtime for Windows or Mac. Any new Silverlight [...]
