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  WatermarkedTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 One breaking change you may have noticed between Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and Beta 2 is that WatermarkedTextBox is no longer available in the Silverlight SDK (System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll).  We decided to remove the control because in a future... Posted Jun 24 2008, 09:19 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, blog, beta, silverlight, source code, system windows, unit test

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  Welcome to PDC08! I can't believe it, it is PDC time again!  We are back in LA Oct 27th-30th, I hope you can make it! You can register here: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Registration/ You can check out a very small sampling of session here: http://www.microsoftpdc... Posted May 28 2008, 09:21 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, ajax, visual studio, business applications, futures, mvc, dynamic data, interesting things, storage, framework 4, sampling, technology wave, agenda sessions, future technology

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  May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately.  Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page... Posted May 20 2008, 10:02 PM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, ajax, high quality, apologies, listview control, scott mitchell, tess, javascript files, page loading, perf, data entry, virus scanner, logging code, thumbnail images, large numbers, virus scanners, caps, progress bar control

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  April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Displaying the Number of Active Users... Posted Apr 28 2008, 10:35 PM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: silverlight, ajax, control toolkit, scott mitchell, dynamic data, site asp, prototype, membership roles, travis illig, kothari, membership features, templating, profile support, template support, page load time, cool themes, tab controls, ivonna, web forms, foreign key

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  Slides from my ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks Last week I presented at the ASP.NET Connections Conference in Orlando.  I gave a general session talk on Monday, and then two breakout talks later that day.  You can download my slides+samples below: General Session The slides for my keynote... Posted Apr 27 2008, 09:51 PM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, keynote, slides, source code, breakout, connections conference, mvc, dynamic data, stephen walther, rock memorabilia, hard rock

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  Silverlight FlickR Example In this example I will demonstrate a very simple call to the FlickR REST APIs from a Silverlight client. At the end we will end up with an app that looks like this: Part 1. Define some Silverlight UI Part 2. Show the local open file dialog support Part... Posted Apr 25 2008, 11:23 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, apis, ajax, lt, local settings, demo files, ofd, jpeg files, meaningful name, example image, cow, openfiledialog

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  End-to-End Data Centric Application with Silverlight 2 I have been having some fun with an end to end Silverlight 2 demo recently and I thought I'd share it here.&;&; My goal with the demo is to show how easy it is to create an end to end Silverlight application.&; In particular, my goal is... Posted Apr 17 2008, 10:16 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: silverlight, demo, web service, ui, business logic, lt, line of business, data access, amp nbsp, html page, web server apache, server source, business controls, animation, home web, instantiations

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  Thank you North Carolina! I had a great trip in North Carolina… In addition to a fun time with my extended family, I had a chance to take two days “off” vacation and visit with three Fortune 500 companies, give a Framework Design Guidelines training class to... Posted Apr 11 2008, 05:07 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: silverlight, internet applications, line of business, dynamic data, framework design, fun time, datagrid, visual layout, banana pudding, baked beans, browser clients, cool animations, local control, steve jackle, great trip, fortune 500 companies, layout capabilities, triangle area, bbq slaw, extended family

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  April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET More ASP.NET Security Tutorials : The... Posted Apr 11 2008, 12:04 AM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, ajax, ui, scenarios, scripts, listview, passwords, scott mitchell, virtual earth, bertrand, tips and tricks, page loading, le roy, co founder, security tutorials, css tips, screen readers, pageflake, user accounts

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  Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes... Posted Apr 04 2008, 01:37 AM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, developers, silverlight, lt, expression, functionality, dialog, shipping, markup, project template, template approach, address user, grid layout, design goals, place labels, fundamental design, textbox controls, copy paste, billing address

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  Unit Testing with Silverlight One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing.  This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can... Posted Apr 02 2008, 02:01 AM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: silverlight, apis, cross browser, unit test, unit tests, test cases, browser instance, beta1 release, cross platform, test project, jeff wilcox, video post, test framework, button clicks, control source, os combination, test classes, reporting system, test harness, test c

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  Silverlight Extensibility: The Calculator Scott is a devlead I work with and he has been experimenting with how to have an extensibility pattern for Silverlight 2... Of course, he chose calculator as the example, because who would not want to write custom functions and skins for calc.exe!! [... Posted Mar 27 2008, 12:16 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, love, calculator, silverlight, good thoughts, skins, calc, custom functions

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  The Next Programming Skill You Should Learn Change and growth are faster than ever in software these days. There’s Silverlight, LINQ and WPF from Microsoft. There’s AJAX, REST and Rails 2.0 in the web development world. Java has JavaFX. There used to be a time when you had to pick one... Posted Mar 19 2008, 08:29 AM by "Hello World" - The SlickEdit Developer Blog Feeds Filed under: microsoft, silverlight, linq, ajax, wpf, web development world, world java

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  A Start at Test Driven Development with Silverlight 2 As you likely heard, we have released the source code for all of the Silverlight controls as well as almost 2,000 of our own unit tests.  Included with in this is a jewel... A unit testing framework for Silverlight.  It is very powerful to have... Posted Mar 18 2008, 10:46 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, source code, unit tests, jewel, test suite, test code, jeff wilcox

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  Using Silverlight 2 on a production Web Server I recently ran into an issue with using Silverlight 2 on a production web server.   Basically the Silverlight 2 application worked great on my dev machine, but when hit from the production web server I found the page has the Silverlight control... Posted Mar 14 2008, 10:05 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, wmv, xaml, file extension, apache, production web server, lighttpd, xap, white canvas, issue 1