Monthly Archives: January 2010

Capture usage information of a Silverlight application using Google Analytics and a Blend Behavior

It’s already more than a year ago since Tim Heuer published his article on Event tracking in Silverlight. Since that time we’ve got Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 beta. So it’s time for a different implementation that can even be … Continue reading

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Handing Events with Care?

URL: http://wildermuth.com/downloads/HandledWithCare… The way that events are handled in Silverlight occassionally surprises people.  For the uninitiated there are two types of events in Silverlight, direct and routed. Essentially direct events are events that one one type of element can fire … Continue reading

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MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid

Okay, first, understand that I’m in the position of running through the streets yelling at folks “c’mere! ya’ gotta see this!” and what I’m pointing to is the incredible new invention of… a laptop computer. Something that is undeniably amazing … Continue reading

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Comparing two ways of creating a full-size Popup in Silverlight

When it comes time to display a Popup that overlays the entire Silverlight plug-in, most people do it the same way. Unfortunately, although the typical approach appears correct at first glance (and may even survive a test pass!), there are … Continue reading

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Google Analytics in Silverlight (Event Tracking)

Google Analytics in Silverlight (Event Tracking) Tagged in: google analytics | event tracking | invoke | webtrends As you may be aware, Google Analytics does not track any actions such as click and etc from inside Silverlight applications. To overcome … Continue reading

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Windows Azure’s Pricing Model Discourages Devs, Small-Scale Apps

The death of Silverlight Streaming (a free hosting service provided by Microsoft) made me finally think through the cost of hosting small apps and sites on Windows Azure. Although Azure’s pricing model might make sense for Enterprise scenarios, the math … Continue reading

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Creating Bing Maps Tile-Layers from SQL Server 2008 on the Fly

Many ways lead to Rome or in this case to a connection between your spatial data in SQL Server 2008 and the visualization in Bing Maps. You can overlay the data as vectors in a VEShapeLayer by retrieving spatial data … Continue reading

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Is anybody interested in open-source tool like Silverlight Spy?

A few months ago I started to work on a Silverlight project. It was a business-line application, pretty much standard of that type. It was my first project in Silverlight. Anyway, soon I found this great tool called Silverlight Spy. … Continue reading

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