Silverlight 3.0
Glad to see so much work has been going on with Silverlight and the momentum to launch SL4. People like us drive the effort because we can actually see the potential and get quite excited about it. I recently had a chance to work with Brad Abrams and the .NET RIA Services team at Microsoft on a project for the IRS / FreeFile Alliance. What an amazing group of developers. Truly I was both inspired and humbled. Needless to say I got a really deep dive into WCF RIA Services and fell in love with...
Unbenkownst to me, this little blog was featured on the silverlight.net home page earlier today. Needless to say, the traffic that little link generated maxed out my bandwidth for the month in under 2 hours.
When I opened my mailbox and saw around 20 messages stating my bandwidth was exceeded, I quickly moved to upgrade my video hosting account so that new visitors can continue to view these screencasts.
So while, the videos were down for a couple of hours this morning, they should be streaming fine again.
As for why I'm using flash to host these tutorials, it's easy. I occasionally...
In this final installment of the Silverlight 3 testing screencast series, I dive into the Test Framework's asynchronous capabilities and how we can apply them to tests involving control elements and services outside of our Silverilght application. This feature is very useful for testing business applications which rely on external services for data exchange.
My deepest gratitude and respect to Jeff Wilcox for developing the Silverlight Testing Framework and maintaining it with quality updates. Thanks to his efforts, not only can we all enjoy coninuing stable releases of the Silverlight...
This is an introduction to the 3-part series of Test-Driven Development for Silverlight 3. This is a quick overview of test-driven development and some of it's advantages.
Be sure to download the following binaries for the Silverlight Test Framework
And the Silverlight Test Framework Project and Object Templates
Adding membership and role functionality to Silverlight 2.0 is no easy task, but fortunately for us, RIA Services makes it a snap with 3.0, in fact it's practically built-in. This 5 minute screencast shows how to create a Silverlight 3.0 business application with membership and how to assign your own membership and role providers with existing aspnet or membership databases. If you don't already have it, you will need to download the .NET RIA Services SDK Refresh.
Here is a 12 minute tutorial on how you can make borderless buttons in Silverlight 3.0 which pop out with 3D effects using control templates and pixel shaders while working in Expression Blend 3.0 Preview Edition.