Monthly Archives: December 2009

Silverlight in Webslices

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Peter Loebel

I had a little inspiration during the holidays – tried it out – and it worked. With Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft introduced a new feature called Webslices. Little pieces of information within your browser-bar (most commonly) about site-updates. Now I … Continue reading →

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Manage Azure Blob Storage With Ease

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Peter Loebel

After the Gladinet Cloud Desktop 1.4.232 release, it is fairly easy to manage Azure Blob Storage from your Windows Explorer directly. Feature Highlight: (1) Map a Network Drive Letter to the Azure Blob Storage You can map multiple Azure Blob … Continue reading →

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Would anybody want StreamLink for Windows Mobile?

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Peter Loebel

After years of promise it really does look like mobile is the next big thing? But what mobile platform will prove to be the most popular? It seems to be a two horse race between iPhone and Android, with Windows … Continue reading →

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PythonSilverScripting: Silverlight apps in the browser with Python

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Tarn Barford is an Australian blogger and programmer who uses IronPython. He’s created a Google App Engine site for experimenting with IronPython in the browser (through Silverlight). PythonSilverScripting: Scripting Python Silverlight Applications PythonSilverScripting lowers the barriers to building Silverlight applications … Continue reading →

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Custom Behaviors for Advanced Microsoft Silverlight UI Effects

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Learn how to light up your Silverlight application by using behaviors to add physics-based animation and rich interactivity. Hear tips and tricks on how to create advanced behaviors, techniques to make them extensible, and how they can be integrated to … Continue reading →

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Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and WCF Services

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Peter Loebel

I have already mention about how to handle exceptions with WCF RIA Services here: http://weblogs.asp.net/fredriknormen/archive/2009/12/08/wcf-ria-services-exception-handling.aspx, but this post is about different ways to handle exception occurred on the client-side and how to log those exceptions. Logging Services If you want … Continue reading →

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Introducing Silverlight Console

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Consoles are a unique animal in this day and age of multi-touch user interfaces – they stand productively tall despite all the enhancements in user-interaction over the years. And as Silverlight grows into a more rounded and generalized platform, there … Continue reading →

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Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 3

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Peter Loebel

UPDATE: There will be a fourth part that discusses the add/remove facility through RIA Services. Look for it soon at a blog near you. In the first part of this series, I looked at how WCF RIA Services can work … Continue reading →

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