Tag Archives: Developer

Flash and Silverlight Jobs

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Silverlight has been Microsoft’s golden child since v2 was released last year. The impact within the community has been astounding. Some demand the use of Silverlight without actually recognizing when and where the technology makes sense and others scoff at … Continue reading →

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Making an Integrator

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Peter Loebel

There are still a lot of names for it but I’m going with ‘Integrator.’ I’m not sure exactly who coined this but I tend to like it. But what is an Integrator? At least in the context of the WPF/Silverlight … Continue reading →

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Install Error – Silverlight 3 on Developer Computer

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Peter Loebel

If you have a computer with the Silverlight 2 developer bits installed you might see the following message when installing Silverlight 3. Unable to install Silverlight. Your Silverlight developer components are out of date. more here

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Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio Beta land

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Peter Loebel

In a previous post I wanted to call attention to the multi-targeting and design surface improvements for Silverlight developers with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.  There has been some comments on that post and a few emails and Twitter replies … Continue reading →

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CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB is Live!

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Last October, DevExpress released a massively powerful FREE tool specifically for C# developers called CodeRush Xpress. Today, in partnership with Microsoft, DevExpress has outdone themselves with a brand new version of CodeRush Xpress containing full support for both C# and … Continue reading →

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Silverlight: developer win, designer fail?

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Peter Loebel

I posed this question in a post over on itjoblog. There are several reasons why Silverlight struggles to get designer attention, including: 1. Designers are pragmatic and target the runtime that is already deployed most broadly, ie. Flash. 2. Flash … Continue reading →

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WPF Design Surface Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Peter Loebel

After a short break for the show, Karl Shifflett is here to welcome us back with wide open arms, a Hawaiian shirt and a demonstration of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 for WPF development. This is definitely IDE wizardry at its … Continue reading →

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It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors!

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Developers take note, there is a new way of coding and it’s called Behaviors. Let me walk you through a very simple example of how powerful this new feature is… lets begin … Over the last couple of days playing … Continue reading →

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