Silverlight TV 13: MVVM Light Toolkit

Thursday, March 11 2010 - , , , - 0 comments

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In this episode, Silverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss using MVVM with Silverlight. Laurent and John discuss their experiences with MVVM and how Laurent's experiences inspired him to create his MVVM Light Toolkit. If you have been meaning to get into MVVM or you feel a bit overwhelmed by it all, definitely watch this episode and check out the MVVM Light Toolkit. Laurent has a great session ...

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Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10

Wednesday, March 10 2010 - , , , , - 1 comments

On Monday the 15th from 5pm – 6:30pm at MIX10 there will be a “Ask the Experts” event where an incredible pool of knowledgeable experts on topics including Silverlight, WCF RIA Services, and Blend will be available to answer your questions. You can also win some great prizes including a Zune HD! I’ll be there along with Adam Kinney, Brad Abrams, Joe Stegman, and many others. More details are below, but please stop by and see us! “Ask the Experts” returns to MIX on Monday, March 15. 5:00 – 6:30pm; ...

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Now Every Thursday Morning - Silverlight TV

Saturday, March 06 2010 - , - 1 comments

It has been 7 weeks since Silverlight TV kicked off its first episode with Keith Smith . Since then we have posted a total of 12 shows on a variety of topics. Here are some interesting numbers from the show: 12 The number of episodes we have aired in since the debut. 145 The number of comments our viewers have left on Channel 9 703 How many followers @SilverlightTv has on Twitter 333,000 +   The number of views Silverlight TV has had in 7 weeks! Thank you so much for watching! Along the way ...

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Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever!

Wednesday, March 03 2010 - , , , - 0 comments

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In this episode, Adam Kinney makes his theatrical return to Silverlight TV and claims to have filmed the best Expression Blend 3 video ever! (or at least on Silverlight TV). Adam walks through Blend and Sketchflow from the perspective of the client and through to the designer/developer using a real world scenario. This is a great demonstration of how to effectively use Blend. In this video, Adam demonstrates : sketching with SketchFlow ...

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Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF

Monday, March 01 2010 - , , - 2 comments

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 11 ! In episode 11 Glenn Block makes a return appearance on Silverlight TV and discusses the one of my favorite features of MEF: partitioning. Glenn explains how partitioning makes it easy to decouple the application and dynamically load XAPs. This is incredibly useful when building large scale applications that experience XAP growth. You can see the episode online by clicking this link or clicking the mage below: Follow @SilverlightTV ...

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Silverlight TV 10: Silverlight Hyper Video Platform with Jesse Liberty

Tuesday, February 23 2010 - , , - 2 comments

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 10 ! In episode 10 Jesse Liberty makes his first appearance on Silverlight TV and discusses the Silverlight Hyper Video Platform (SLHVP). Jesse is a brilliant person and a great guy to have on the show. Despite John’s attempts to make Jesse laugh, Jesse manages to shares just exactly what the SLHVP is, why it was created, and how it works.  He has done a fantastic job stimulating the SLHVP with the community. You can see the episode ...

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5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight

Monday, February 22 2010 - , , - 18 comments

Implementing ICommand in your Silverlight 4 project only requires a few steps. I have had a dozens of questions about this lately so I decided to share a very simple technique to implement commanding in Silverlight 4. Step 1 – Implement ICommand The first step is to implement the ICommand interface with a class that will manage the commanding aspects. There are other options to do this, but here is a simplified yet powerful implementation of ICommand. The DelegatedCommand class implements ICommand ...

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MIX 10K Challenge Winners

Thursday, February 18 2010 - , , - 6 comments

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 9 John thwarts Adam’s futile attempt to take over Silverlight TV.  No … actually John and Adam have way too much fun as the Continuum Show meets Silverlight TV as John and Adam review the highlights of the MIX 10K Challenge. They check out the winners in each category of the second annual contest, which has some great prizes. The MIX 10K Challenge Winners have been announced publicly, and are now posted on the MIX ...

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Prepping for Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10

Thursday, February 18 2010 - , - 0 comments

In just under a month MIX10 will kick off with a day of workshops. One of these workshops is a Silverlight Bootcamp that both I and Mike Taulty will be presenting at. Mike is a fantastic presenter and has some great content on Silverlight. I can’t wait to share the podium with him! If you have yet to register for MIX or for our workshop , you can sign up here. The workshop is filling fast … perhaps because I’ll be giving away some cool new Silverlight TV t-shirts at the bootcamp. ;-) Mike and I hope ...

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SL TV 8: Silverlight Client for Facebook

Monday, February 15 2010 - , , - 2 comments

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 8 John scores a cool interview with one of the developers responsible for the Silverlight client for Facebook application. This application made a big splash at the PDC 09 keynote, and another when it was released on www.silverlight.net at this link here . Rajendra Vishnumurty demonstrates some of the key features of the application and jumps right into the code for several areas. Be sure not to miss this inside look ...

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