Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
After many months of beta testing Microsoft Silverlight 2 it has been officially announced that it will release today, the 14th of October 2008. A release build was expected to emerge sometime in November so it seems the team is very confident with the RC0 developer-only build that emerged ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I previously posted about Blend 2.5 June Preview not supporting managed type converters and I’m pleased to report that the team has resolved it according to the bug report that I filed. Hopefully we’ll see a new build of Blend 2.5 ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
If you are busy trying to develop using Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 and Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview you might have encountered errors while working in Blend such as The TypeConverter for "DataGridLength" does not support converting from a string. although Visual Studio doesn’t ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
When Microsoft released Silverlight 2 beta 1 they included a really cool control called the System.Windows.Controls.WatermarkedTextBox control. It lived in the assembly System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll and was included in your XAP file when you did a build. However in Silverlight 2 beta 2 the one control that didn’t make it was the ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Microsoft earlier this week announced at Tech-Ed North America 2008 that Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available for download this week. The new Silverlight 2 beta 2 control updates the version number from 2.0.30226.2 to 2.0.30523.6. This release is expected to break compatibility with Silverlight 2 ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The Silverlight SDK blog has an overview of what new features to expect from the Silverlight 2 beta 2 release coming this week. Highlights for me include: DataGrid improvements: Autosize, Reorder, Sort, Performance increase, and ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Some cool news coming out of Tech-Ed North America 2008 today from Bill Gates himself. Firstly Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available this week including a commercial Go Live license and updated developer tools such as Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Yes you heard it here first! Brad Abrams, the man, the legend, is coming to South Africa and is taking time out of his busy schedule for SA Developer .NET events in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Before you ask how I can speak so highly of the man, take ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
One of the guys on the official Silverlight community forums posted an interesting question, namely how does one change the currently visible UserControl in a Silverlight 2.0 application. To put things in context the new Silverlight 2.0 project template creates two classes for you: a System.Windows.Application derived class named App ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Check out this post which details all the download links for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Yay! Naturally this includes an update runtime, an SDK, the source code to the new controls, documentation, some tools for Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression Blend 2.1 March Preview. [tags]Silverlight[/tags]
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