Ramblings about C#, .NET and Programming
Lutz has released a new version of Reflector with Silverlight support (if you already downloaded a previous version, just run the update checker if you don”t get prompted for an automatic update). There”s alsoe monotone demo app for silverlight. Go get it!
What can I say? I should have complained earlier! :,,)
damn! there goes all the joy!
According to Mike Harsh, there”s a new release with .NET support. It seems like now we”ve got a new site, new forums and new samples. Everything is concentrated on a single page. It”s time to start looking at Silverlight!
Today I”ve started looking at the samples that accompany Silverlight. I started with the FilmStrip sample. After looking at it for some minutes, I thought that maybe I could simplify the code needed to achieve the image transitions. If you look at the original code, you”ll see that there are several storyboards that set up […]
Michael Howard describes what a strange vista bug :,,)
I decided spending 1 or 2 hours looking at how we could build and encapsulate controls with Silverlight and Javascript (nothing too fancy). It was a great exercise since it helped me understand a little more about the limitations of the current version of Silverlight. Unfortunately, 1 or 2 hours weren”t enough to build a really cool framework. […]
This is bad…almost as bad as not giving us controls. that”s all I have to say right now…
After looking at the current Silverlight docs and after seeing this post in the forums, it seems like you can only detect left clicks on items. In other words, there is only a MouseLeftButtonDown/Up event and no corresponding RightLeftButtonDown/Up event. I thought: well, there surelly is a MouseDown event which precedes the MouseLeftButtonDown event, but […]
After installing the Silverlight templates, I”ve started learning it by trying to build a new button control (the choice may seem strange, but currently Silverlight doesn”t have any controls). Well, if you create a new project based on the template, you”ll see that it already has code that reproduces the basic behavior of a button. After […]
Yesterday I”ve finished reading Adam Nathan”s WPF Unleashed. What can I say that Jeff hasn”t already said?
Today we”re talking about the FadeAnimation class. As I”ve said in the last post, the Animation class is abstract and is extended by several animations introduced by the toolkit. The FadeAnimation class is really simple: it lets you apply fade to an HTML control present on the page. The FadeEffect enumeration introduces 2 values which […]
One of the things that was removed from the final versions of ASP.NET AJAX was WCF web service support. Does anyone know if we”ll be having it on orcas? I”m asking because I”ve just started looking at Silverlight and there really isn”t any support for it there (as i was expecting)…
2011-01-12 08:34:08
My good friend Paulo has alerted me for some problems related with the feedburner feed I”ve created. Unfortunately, I”ve put the wrong url. This is the correct one: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Laneten Sorry for the mess.
The Ajax Control Toolkit introduces several classes and helpers which makes adding animations to an object really easy. Today I”m starting a new serious of posts where I”ll describe the main client classes introduced by the toolkits. If you already know the client classes introduced by the preview bits, you”ll be pleased to know that the animation framework presented […]
Mike Taulty has produced some cool videos on LINQ. here”s the current list: Introduction to LINQ to SQL A tour around the data context Mapping .NET types to relational schema Tools for generating mapping information Inserting Data Keep them coming please!
More info here.
This is the last book written by Charles Petzold. Before proceeding, let me assure you one thing: Petzold is good, real good. No doubt about it. Now, the book review…well, I”m disapointed with it. I”ve been following Petzold”s work for a long time. I”ve read at least 4 books written by him, so you can say […]
This book is what you want if you”re after a book that will get you up to speed in C++CLI. Even though I haven”t done any programming in C++ for (at least) 4 years, I was able to follow the book without any problems. The only thing that could be improved was the chapter on […]
This was another of the books I”ve manager to read last week. If you love pets (dogs, in this case) and you”re after a funny, relaxing book, this is it! The book is about Marley, a Labrador retriever, which the author bought still young. The idea was that Marley would help him (and his wife) preparing for […]
During my last vacations, I was able to catch up on my reading list and I”ve managed to read several books. The Old New Thing was one of those and I must say that it is simply great! Raymond Chen knows lots of cool stuff and the book can be seen as a more elaborated […]
Not sure on when this name changed occurred, but it seems like now WPF/E is known as Microsoft Silverlight. Maybe it”s time to take it seriously and start studying it…
InfoQ published a video where Nikhil Lothari demonstrates the out of the box features of ASP.NET AJAX.
In one of my last posts, I talked about an unexpected behavior that I was facing when trying to port an old ASP.NET composite server control to ASP.NET 2.0. As you recall, in ASP.NET 2.0, composite controls should inherit from CompositeControl (and by doing this, your control will automatically get a composite designer – an instance […]
Yeah! I”ve been using it for a week for some demo code at work and I must say that it”s fantastic! Even the old IIS default web site limitation of IIN on XP Pro is gone now (I mean, you can finally create several web sites on IIS even if it”s running in Vista – […]
Or, what am I doing wrong? (again, I”m hoping that it”s my fault) After ending my vacations (which, unfortunately, ended yesterday), I”ve already started doing some experiences. This time, I thought it was time to port some of my old ASP.NET 1.1 controls to 2.0. As you”ve probably guessed, I”m already facing weird problems. Scenario: […]
If you need to install Ubuntu on a Virtual PC machine, then you should follow the steps presented on this post.
