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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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Tutorial-General-Silverlight
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I've made it a personal goal this coming year to help Windows
Forms developers (who want to move) move to Silverlight and/or
WPF.
A common sticking point for development shops planning to adopt
Silverlight or WPF after years of work in something like Windows
Forms, is that they feel they need a design professional on-team in
order to build the same quality apps they've been used to bu...
Published
Friday, November 19, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, User-Experience-(UX), WPF, Silverlight, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, Tutorial-General-Silverlight, Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization, Tutorial-General-WPF |
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What follows is a raw excerpt (before copy editing or final tech
reviews) from chapter 20 in my book, Silverlight in
Action. This is just a small portion of chapter 20, which
covers the media element, streaming, using IIS Smooth streaming,
using the Silverlight Media Framework, creating raw video and
audio, and using the webcam and microphone APIs. I've blogged bits
and pieces on this t...
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I'm creating some "create your first" videos for MSDN, and
thought it would be useful to offer up a text version of the
Out-of-Browser one in addition to the video.
In this example, we'll build a simple Twitter
Search client, using Silverlight out-of-browser mode. I'll also show
how to use the Automation (IDispatch) API to load the search
results into Microsoft Excel.
XAML
The X...
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Over the weekend, I was working on the Printing chapter of my Silverlight 4
Book. As part of that chapter, I decided to build a simple
report writer. While there's a lot of other useful stuff in the
chapter (buy my book! <g>) I felt the report writer could be
very useful to release into the wild.
Silverlight 4 Printing API
The book chapter goes into great detail on the printin...