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Silver Enlightenment: March 2010

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Sunday, March 21, 2010. NCAA Brackets in Silverlight. The developers at a company we were working with put out a challenge - can you write software to pick the brackets in the NCAA basketball tournament? The answer is you can and 6 of us did. Our solutions range from random number generators to multivariate stepwise regressions. We did the multivariate stepwise regression. And you can see our picks at http:/ www.mysilverisland.com/NCAA. Since we...

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Silver Enlightenment: August 2009

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Monday, August 31, 2009. Deb and I have created many solutions that support sales or engineering efforts. Each application is a little different, driven by the unique aspects of the product we are selling/designing. We have built systems to sell cars, to quote multi-million dollar communications infrastructure projects, to design chemical plants and gear boxes. The secret to creating a convincing picture is to have each ingredient on its own sep...

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Silver Enlightenment: January 2010

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Monday, January 25, 2010. What I Learned at PDC - Microsoft Tools. Designers, VS2010 also includes a design surface to help developers create GUI in WPF/XAML. It works well for simple GUI composition, but is not good for real creative work. Blend is the tool of choice for creating GUI with animations or custom controls that use Virtual State Manager. For non-developers, there are only 2 things you need to know about this tool:. These tools make ...

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Silver Enlightenment: February 2010

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Thursday, February 25, 2010. Another Way to Think about Code Reuse. Anyone who practices Object Oriented Programming has a lot of different ways to reuse code. The most common way is to use inheritance, but recently I have been reusing code in an unconventional way. Whenever I create a class I follow a strict convention on naming properties. Here is an example:. 160;    public. 160;    public. List People Actors { get. 160;   {. Via inheritance ...

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Silver Enlightenment: December 2009

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Saturday, December 26, 2009. What I Learned from PDC - Domain Technologies (continued). Talking Points: Exposing ICommand for Silverlight has simplified the implementation of a control pattern. Best examples using the controller pattern are FT59: ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninjas Still on Fire Black Belt Tips. By Scott Hanselman, FT22: Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2: The New Stuff. The first picture shows the technology layers that .NET WCF provides. The p...With ...

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Silver Enlightenment: July 2009

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Autosizing of Grids, Canvasses and StackPanels. Deb: Moving from a relatively static environment, like Photoshop, to a dynamic environment like Silverlight/Blend, requires learning about autosizing and how visuals will behave when the browser is resized. One of the most challenging things for me to learn was the differences in behaviors between grids, canvasses and stackpanels. This is where trial and error has led me&#4...

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Silver Enlightenment: NCAA Brackets in Silverlight

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Sunday, March 21, 2010. NCAA Brackets in Silverlight. The developers at a company we were working with put out a challenge - can you write software to pick the brackets in the NCAA basketball tournament? The answer is you can and 6 of us did. Our solutions range from random number generators to multivariate stepwise regressions. We did the multivariate stepwise regression. And you can see our picks at http:/ www.mysilverisland.com/NCAA. Since we...

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Silver Enlightenment: Another Way to Think about Code Reuse

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Thursday, February 25, 2010. Another Way to Think about Code Reuse. Anyone who practices Object Oriented Programming has a lot of different ways to reuse code. The most common way is to use inheritance, but recently I have been reusing code in an unconventional way. Whenever I create a class I follow a strict convention on naming properties. Here is an example:. 160;    public. 160;    public. List People Actors { get. 160;   {. Via inheritance ...

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Silver Enlightenment: Generic Property Merge Using Reflection

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What We've Learned While Building Silverlight Applications. Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Generic Property Merge Using Reflection. I have found this generic merge method to be very useful. Before you cut and paste it into you Silverlight application, let me explain why I created it. OPropInfo.CanWrite oPropInfo.Name = "Item". OResult = oPropInfo.GetValue(oSource, null. By defining this method as virtual. You are able to override. To build a version that performs better, for example:. ID = oPerson.ID;. Since...