Breaking Changes in Silverlight 2
There is an MSDN article that focuses on changes that might cause your older Silverlight [1]-based applications to now fail or behave differently not on new features/enhancements for this release:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Surface Demo - Silverlight 2 Update and DeepZoom
Today I updated my Surface Demo [1] (original source from Silverlight examples [2]). Well, there are only some small changes since last beta 1.1. So I have added a DeepZoom [3] control (MultiScaleImage) to the demo [4]:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Everywhere Microsoft Silverlight
To prepare my laptop for the next weeks I reinstalled my last image to get rid of all the beta software I tried the last months. Oh, I have to install Silverlight [1] to be able to develop and show some demos. While visiting some web sites from Microsoft I got a small popup showing me that I can get a better experience on that site when I install Silverlight 1.0. Here are some screen shots:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Sunday, January 6, 2008
Silverlight Rectangles, Paths and Line Comparison
More than half a year ago Dave Campbell [1], Luis Abreu [2] and I had a discussion [3] about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF [4]. A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and using an anti-alias effect:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, January 4, 2008
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)
I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing [1]. Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing and are maybe important for everyone.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, December 21, 2007
Nintendo Wii and Silverlight: Tracking Your Fingers
While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee [1] is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers [2]. The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii [3] console, simple the controller and a bluetooth connection [4] is enough. Combining this project with WPF or Silverlight would be the answer of one of my wishes. (Well, I know what I will try during the holidays.)
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, December 20, 2007
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List
Well, the year 2007 is nearly at the end and I have my short wish list for Microsoft Silverlight [1]. The following (maybe not complete) unsorted list would be nice to see in 2008 with the next CTP or final version:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, December 20, 2007
[de] Kostenfreier Silverlight Workshop in Erlangen
Nachdem wir den ersten Workshop kurzfristig absagen mussten haben wir einen neuen Termin in Erlangen bei der the campus [1] am 9. August, ab 18 Uhr. Wir haben einen Raum, PCs, Kaffee und Kuchen! Anmeldungen über die neu angelegte Google Group NET-Workshops [2].
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007
New Silverlight Links
The last weeks I was a little bit busy because of some projects and other work I had to do at home. But today I will publish some new links about Silverlight:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007
Silverlight 1.0 RC1 available
As you may have already noticed: the RC1 of Silverlight 1.0 has been put online on the weekend. Since the last beta there have been fixed around 2000 (!) bugs and added some more features. English downloads are available here:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007
[de] Silverlight Get Together
(English: I will start new workshops about Ajax, ASP.NET and Silverlight in the next months, first will start on Thursday about Silverlight.)
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 23, 2007
Expression Studio in German
The German trial versions [1] of Microsoft Expression Studio [2] are now available. The full versions will be available in about 6 weeks, Expression Web is already available.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, June 14, 2007
[de] .NET User Group Franken am 5. Juli 2007
Die .NET User Group Franken [1] trifft sich mal wieder, diesmal in den Räumen der evosoft GmbH (Dank geht an Igor Milovanovic [2]).
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Silverlight Tutorials
There are a couple of great tutorials on how to developer Microsoft Silverlight [1] 1.0 or 1.1 Web applications:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Bubblemark Animation Test
Did you ever compared client-side RIA frameworks? Alexey Gavrilov [1] has written a great test to directly compare performance [2]: Silverlight (WPF/e) vs. DHTML vs. Flash (Flex) vs. WPF vs Apollo vs. Java (Swing):
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Silverlight Surface Demonstration (Video Support)
In one of my last posts [1] I wrote about the Silverlight Surface [2] demo of the "photo table". If you had a look on the live demo [3] you only see images, no video. I have added this because it is a very great idea to do it with Silverlight and the high media support inside.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
Silverlight Examples
During the weekend I spent some minutes to collect some of the greatest Silverlight [1] examples. Most of them need the Silverlight 1.1 alpha runtime which is available for download here [2].
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
JavaScript and .NET Arrays in Silverlight
During my tests with the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) in Silverlight 1.1 [1] I came accross several things that didn't work first. Most of them could be fixed by using small workarounds.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007
Silverlight and JSON
Silverlight 1.1 [1] comes with an built-in JSON serializer which can serialize common data types like string, numbers and arrays. It includes a object serializer, too, I think it is nearly the same as in ASP.NET AJAX or Ajax.NET Professional.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007
Call Scribtable Methods from JavaScript with Silverlight
Today I wrote a very simple example how to call a C# method from JavaScript code. I was using this because I'd like to access the IsolatedStorage with a small wrapper that is working similar to the registry.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007
Silverlight 1.0 and OnLoad
There are some changes for the OnLoad event handler from older beta versions (code name WPF/E). In Silverlight 1.0 beta you will use following event handler, now:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007
IsolatedStorage and managed JavaScript
Today I tried to use the IsolatedStorage in managed JavaScript with Silverlight 1.1 [1]. The IsolatedStorage can be used to store data on the client. Currently the alpha version supports 1MB, which is more than storing data in cookies, but maybe will be changed in the future. Perhaps there will be a setting in a future options dialog where you can specify how much you will allow to store locally.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, May 31, 2007
DLR and Performance
The idea was to put all JavaScript libraries into the DLR of Silverlight to get better performance, but a first tests failed or is compared to JavaScript directly in the Web browser very slow.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, May 31, 2007
Running managed JavaScript in Silverlight
At MIX 07 Jim Hugunin announced a new level of support for dynamic languages on .NET that they're calling the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime). With Silverlight 1.1 you get support for dynamic languages today: Phyton, JavaScript (EcmaScript 3.0), Visual Basic and Ruby.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, May 31, 2007
Silverlight .NET Support
The Silverlight team has released a new version [1] today at the MIX with .NET support. Since Mike announced [2] this Web developers are waiting for this new feature.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, April 30, 2007
webinale 07
I will be available for Microsoft Silverlight discussions at the [webinale 07 [1] conference in Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart to talk and discuss about the latest version of Silverlight presented at the Mix07 in Las Vegas. Of course, you can talk with me about Ajax.NET Professional, too.]
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Saturday, April 28, 2007
Rich Media Platform Comparison
I found a nice table which will show a comparison between Microsoft products and Flash/Flex:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, April 19, 2007
Microsoft Silverlight
For all of you didn't noticed the name change of code name WPF/E, it is now Microsft Silverlight. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Silverlight integrates with existing Web applications and, of course, almost all Web technologies you are already using like Ajax.NET Professional [1] or ASP.NET in common.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, April 16, 2007
[de] .NET User Group Franken - Erstes Treffen 2007
Am 21. Februar ist es wieder soweit, die .NET User Group Franken lebt wieder auf. Meine Wenigkeit wird dort über AJAX und WPF/E sprechen, mehr Details und Anmeldung gibt es auf der Dodned Web Seite [1].
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, February 9, 2007
WPF/E SDK (February CTP) available (and Windows Vista running in a web browser)
The WPF/E SDK [1] (February CTP) is now available, you can download the files from the MSDN web page [2]. The WPF/E QuickStart is not yet available as download.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Sunday, February 4, 2007
WPF/E February CTP and Problems with Firefox
I tried a some of the WPF/E examples I collected [1] with Firefox on Windows Vista . Oh, sorry, a lot of them are not working correct, and some kills my Firefox here.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, February 1, 2007
New aghost.js JavaScript for WPF/E
In my last post [1] I wrote that there is a new aghost.js you need. The main reason is that the December CTP of the WPF/E plugin [2] is only running until end of January, so you have to update your plugin with the February version [1]. If you have installed the old version you will get following error message:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, February 1, 2007
The February CTP Of WPF/E Is Live
Like Mark Harsh is writing on his blog [1] the new February CTP of WPF/E is live. Download the Windows [2] and the Mac [3] version, but keep in mind that there is a change in the aghost.js for the new version, see more details here and download the changed JavaScript file [4]. Joe Stegman is writing [5] about some changes:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, February 1, 2007
[de] Ingolstädter .NET Developers Group am 22.02.2007
Die Ingolstädter .NET Developers Group [1] ist eine unabhängige Gemeinschaft für Interessierte der Microsoft .NET Technologie aus dem Großraum Ingolstadt. Sie besteht aus professionellen Entwicklern, Hobbyentwicklern, Akademikern und Studenten, die Ihre Erfahrung mit anderen teilen möchten.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, January 29, 2007
The WPF/E Gear Keeps Turning
As you may have read on my blog I have added an animation to the gear example [1] from Mike Harsh. Now, the gear community is here! Read Bryant Likes's Blog [2] post about the gears:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, January 26, 2007
How do I hack a web site?
On next Tuesday I will talk at the .NET User Group in Munich / Germany [1] about following topics:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award 2007
All the things around Christmas and New Year's Eve are left, now, and starting this morning reading my mails I got a very surprising mail from Microsoft:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, January 1, 2007
Updated Version of WPF/E Pad
Mike Harsh [1] has updated his WPF/E Pad. The new version has the following changes:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, December 29, 2006
WPF/E Plugin Update: how does it work?
Today I had a look on how the WPF/E plugin will check if there is a new update available. Would it be in Windows Updates or is there any automatic update done?
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, December 25, 2006
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I will say Thank You! for all your help and discussions I had this year! 2006 was a great year where AJAX became very important to web applications, AJAX, JavaScrippt, CSS and Web 2.0 are the most used terms we used for web development, and I'm happy to see more and more web sites using AJAX to improve usability.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, December 22, 2006
A short list of WPF/E exmaples
http://mtaulty.com/wpfe/ex2.html [2] http://mtaulty.com/wpfe/ex3.html [3] http://mtaulty.com/wpfe/ex4.html [4] http://mtaulty.com/wpfe/ex5.html [5] http://mtaulty.com/wpfe/ex6.html [6] http://mtaulty.com/wpfe/ex7.html [7] (nice video animation)
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, December 14, 2006
WPF/E VS2005 Template (ASP.NET Version)
I found a post [1] on Paul Glavichs [2] blog about the WPF/E Visual Studio .NET 2005 template:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, December 7, 2006
More WPF/E and Flash Integration Madness!
I found again a very nice example on how WPF/E and Flash are working together. Lee [1] has written an example where you will see WPF/E and Flash side-by-side, you don't see the difference.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, December 6, 2006