Rants Tagged with “Silverlight”
I try to avoid just linking to another blog entry, but this one is a big one.
Mike Harsh just announced a new version of
Silverlight 1.0 that had some key fixes. They mostly have to do with the way that Media is handled but there are fixes for a couple of other issues too. Check out Mike's blog entry for the full details!
If anyone is considering registering for the Seattle stop of the
Silverlight Tour (being held from December 3rd-5th), hurry up and register. Only five seats are left for that workshop. If you are interested in learning about Silverlight, from
XAML to Server-Controls, you can sign up today. Please visit
Silverlight-tour.com for more information.
I've had a number of people ask me about intellisense with Silverlight 1.0 on VS 2008. The trick is to *not* use the WPF Editor (the one that won't show Silverlight WPF anyway). To make it work:
- Right click the XAML file in the solution and pick "Open With...".
- Pick "XML Editor"
- Click "Set as Default" if you want it to always open XAML files in the XML Editor...
Voila...
I am rebuilding the VMWare images for my Silverlight Workshop coming up in San Francisco next week. With the melt-down of the Orcas Beta 2 VPC's, I've had to rebuild the image again (knowing that by the end of the month i'll get to do it again with the RTM).
One curiousity is that installing the 1.0 and 1.1 runtimes on a machine got everything very confused. Suddently my 1.0 apps would show the "install" Silverlight button. Thinking that something got fuddled, I clicked the button and tried to reinstall the 1.0 runtime to get the dreaded "installation failed, there is a newer version of the runtime installed". Huh?
To fix this error, I uninstalled all the runtimes and insalled *only* the 1.1 runtime. And it worked. Somewhere between Beta of 1.0 and RTM of 1.0 they merged the runtimes so the 1.1 runtime supercedes the 1.0 runtime. If you want both installed, just install the 1.1 runtime. Voila, everyone happy again.
To go with our Australian partner in the Silverlight Tour, I am happy to announce that the New Toronto Group is now a partner to teach the Silverlight Tour in Canada. I will kick it off with a Silverlight Tour stop in Toronto on December 17-19th.
We also have new tour stops through July of 2008. Be sure to stop by and see if I am making an appearance near you!
via Tim Heuer's Blog
This is a great write-up of taking a 3D model (in this case a Jeep) and taking images of it at lots of angles and tying that to mouse moves to give it that Faux-3D sheen. Nice explanation if you want to do it yourself. No Real 3D in Silverlight though...just swapping images...but a great technique.
I've been digging into the Entity Framework and Astoria and decided to create a quick little mashup of Silverlight and those two technologies. The result is this little product viewer using the Northwind database:
The goal of the project was to use Silverlight 1.1 to design the UI, Entity Framework to design the DAL and use Astoria for the client-server communication. I am pretty happy with the result. I am using September previews of Entity Framework and Astoria as well as the Alpha of Silverlight 1.1 so the site may have problems from time to time as these are early releases of the products.
Astoria in particular is a very early build (and they've even changed the search syntax already so when the new version is released I'll change this). The September version of Astoria comes with a Silverlight client data layer that just does not work for me currently. But that wasn't a problem as Astoria (for those who don't know) is a REST-based API for access a data model. Astoria supports returning results in XML, JSON and RDP. So all I did was use the JSON format and Silverlight 1.1's built-in JavascriptSerialilzer to convert the results to in-memory objects.
You can download the source here:
http://www.silverlightdata.com/mashup.zip
UPDATE: Doesn't seem to work with Firefox. I believe this is an issue with Astoria (astoria is changing the search syntax to be more compatible with other browsers). Might also be my resizing logic. I'll see if I can get it working with FF later this week.
Silverlight.net has released another of my videos. This time I am discussing what the XAML looks like for Animations. While Blend is a great tool for creating aniamtions, understanding the XAML structure can help you do some very interesting animation feats.
Click here to view this new video. Or go to my Silverlight page to see all the videos, tutorials and examples I have available:
http://wildermuth.com/silverlight
Come see me and Glen Gordon talk at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta about Visual Studio 2008, "Astoria", Entity Framework and Silverlight...and see them working gracefully together!
Click here to register for the event before it fills up.
