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  With the coming trend towards UX in general and my interest in Silverlight I have taken to following a number of up and coming designers. One 'Ariel' that I know has had her blog going for a while but hasn't posted a front end on her site... Posted May 28 2009, 04:05 PM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: silverlight, expression, UX, SD2IG, silverlight 3, designers, facing blend, blend, book, blog, design

• Flex Flash Smack Down and maybe some Silverlight

  Last night was the Seattle Designer Developer Interaction Group (user group) meeting. its a user group focused on UX and the designer developer experience. We meet in downtown bellevue. Last night Yoeun Pen was our guest speaker and a did a great presentation... Posted May 21 2009, 06:23 AM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: silverlight, fun, event, SD2IG, flex, flash

• Facebook and Microsoft demos facebook API's

  something cool from facebook and microsoft http://team.silverlight.net/announcements/microsoft-previews-great-wpf-and-silverlight-apps-with-facebook-openstreams-api/ Posted Apr 28 2009, 03:43 PM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: silverlight, WPF, microsoft, facebook

• Custom Text Runs, Data Binding and cheating...

  Faisel sent posted a question: 'Hi, I have a requirement of showing additional text in a TextBlock. I have a Class in my silverlight application. I want to bind two of the properties in a TextBlock in my main page and show text something like this... Posted Apr 21 2009, 12:36 PM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: silverlight, Faisal, Hacking Silverlight, dotnetslackers, hack, hacking

• Silverlight Automated UI Testing

  Working with alot of larger clients at IdentityMine we frequently work with teams that use automated testing and deployment systems. I did a post last year on deployment with msbuild and build environment deployments etc and today I'd like todo a... Posted Apr 15 2009, 09:28 AM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: javascript, silverlight, XAML, C#, identitymine, best practices, testing, HTML, browser

• Indexablity for Search Engines in Silverlight

  I saw a question as of late around the indexability of Silverlight for search engines much like an html based web site or web application. I know from my work with Microsoft and the Silverlight team that this has been taken into account and goes well... Posted Apr 13 2009, 11:39 AM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: silverlight, best practices, silverlight 3, HTML, indexability

• Next Generation UX

  Normally I'm not a big fan of alot of the koolaid you might see coming form big corporations including ms. But I am about cool UX even if I'm just a dev and not even that great of one to begin with but I got this link from Jobi about cool UX applications... Posted Mar 03 2009, 12:00 PM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: silverlight, fun, UX, microsoft, jobi

• Cool Silverlight 'Patterns'

  My friend Nathan sent me this link to this cool Silverlight UX Pattern tool. From Infragistics in Silverlight lets you explore UX patterns visually and by tags and more. Check it out: http://quince.infragistics.com Posted Feb 03 2009, 04:03 PM by HackingSilverlight Filed under: silverlight, fun, UX, designers, design patterns, Infragistics

• Dev Teach 2008 Toronto Canada

  looks like we are going to Canada: read more at: http://hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com/2008/08/dev-teach-2008-toronto-canada.html Posted Aug 19 2008, 08:04 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Control Library on Codeplex

  I started a code plex project on code plex... dah... that has a Silverlight control library solution with items from the forth coming book. right now I only did unit tests for 7 of the controls namely multi panel and some of the other panels and then... Posted Jul 07 2008, 09:37 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, C#

• Hacking Silverlight 2 on Amazon

  Available for pre order on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Silverlight-2-David-Kelley/dp/1933988576/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213734172&sr=8-1 Posted Jul 07 2008, 09:34 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML

• Silverlight MIX Announcement(s)

  In the keynote today Scott G annouced SL 2. is publicly available. very cool. my favorite part whas how much they showed our Entertainment Tonight work in Silverlight. among my favorite features annouced include (I will skip all the new bits Scott put... Posted Mar 05 2008, 02:53 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, Silverlight 2.0, MIX

• Using the Silverlight 2.0 Xaml StackPanel Element

  The next advanced layout element in Xaml is the stack panel. The StackPanel lays out it’s children either horizontally or vertically without having to define the exact location in the visual tree in Xaml. Take the following listing example of a stack... Posted Feb 28 2008, 07:25 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, layout, Silverlight 2.0, stackpanel

• Using the Silverlight 2.0 Xaml Grid Element

  The Grid is basically just that a grid of a set number of colums and rows. Elements in the grid must then be placed into a cell in the grid by setting the Grid.Column and Grid.Row property of the element in questions. To start using a grid you first need... Posted Feb 28 2008, 07:23 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, layout, Silverlight 2.0, grid

• Anatomy of a Silverlight Animation

  For the most part we should be using Storyboards to do animations. Though it is possible to do programmatic animation and we do sometimes programmatically set properties the Storyboard infrastructure in Silverlight provides a standard easy to use and... Posted Jan 30 2008, 08:49 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, animation