by Bruce | Oct 28, 2008 | Development
Sure the AutoCompleteBox, Expander, TreeView, Charts, etc. from the new Silverlight Toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight ) are cool – and will make some Silverlight apps look even better. But the ImplicitStyleManager (and related Theme classes) will now...
by Bruce | Oct 22, 2008 | Development
Another “geek post”, sorry. We’ve been updating some of our MVC apps to the beta and were relying on the non-GAC implementation of MVC (i.e. we didn’t want to have to physically install the MVC .dlls on the shared dev and live servers – we’ll do this for RTW but not...
by Bruce | Oct 19, 2008 | General
This was such an amazing and surprising picture – Narwhals in Arctic Bay, Canada – that I had to share it. I honestly didn’t know if it was real or not and that made me feel a little stupid. Many of the rest of the pictures in this article are also...
by Bruce | Oct 18, 2008 | General
This wasn’t specifically Silverlight-related, but you really can’t have much of a Silverlight application without some kind of data access. We chose WCF services and built up some quick models with NHibernate, in 5 easy steps I’ll use the example of the...
by Bruce | Oct 15, 2008 | General
This is the first in a series of posts that I promised to do after my presentation to the User Group on Tuesday. These will be details, link and some sample code. I am in the process of making sure my code samples are functional under the release version...