Thursday, August 7, 2008

Silverlight - some useful links (3)

Some information
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20698.aspx - 2.0.30523.6 vs 2.0.30523.8 (2 versions of SL2 Beta 2 runtime)
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22183/77994.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/ashish/archive/2008/04/03/silverlight-roadmap-questions.aspx - Silverlight roadmap questions (SL 2 RTM - summer 2008)
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22214/78128.aspx, http://silverlight.net/forums/t/19961.aspx - Silverlight for Mobile roadmap questions (beta - fall 2008, RTM - Q1 2009)
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/17852.aspx - Silverlight 2 beta 2 installation fails on Windows 2000
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/06/17/silverlight-and-firefox-3-updates.aspx, http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/07/02/updating-your-silverlight-javascript-detection.aspx - Firefox 3 and Silverlight
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/18477.aspx - Where is Isolated Storage for Silverlight actually stored?
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21051.aspx - IsolatedStorage on non MS platforms (eg OSX)
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21543.aspx, http://www.misfitgeek.com/SomeBlogPostsOnSilverlightSecurity.aspx - Security in Silverlight
http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/06/03/beta-2-event-bubbling.aspx - Beta 2 Event Bubbling
http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlightws/archive/2008/06/10/detailed-overview-of-silverlight-2-beta-2-web-service-features.aspx - Detailed Overview of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Web Service Features
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22034/77325.aspx - Dropdown control
http://silverlight.net/learn/dynamiclanguages.aspx/ - Dynamic Languages

Deep Zoom
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/18249.aspx - Dynamically add new images to Deep Zoom collection?
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/16830.aspx - Is there a Deep Zoom API?
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20045.aspx - Animations in Deep Zoom
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20378.aspx - MultiScaleImage background color
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/19260.aspx - MultiScaleImage Pan & Zoom in one operation
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21319.aspx - Deep Zoom only images

3rd Party Components
http://www.lhotka.net/cslalight/ - CSLA Light
http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP - Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint
http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight/overview.aspx - Rad Controls for Silverlight
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/Silverlight/Grid/ - AgDataGrid Suite
http://demos.devexpress.com/silverlight/ - AgLayoutControl for Silverlight
http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/thinking/archive/2008/07/09/silverlight-menu-or-toolbar-and-outlook-style-navigation-bar.aspx - Silverlight Menu (or ToolBar) and Outlook Style Navigation Bar
http://www.intersoftpt.com/WebUIStudio/ - WebUI Studio.NET (WebAqua.NET )
http://www.visualwebgui.com/ - Visual WebGui
http://www.netikatech.com/products/default.aspx - GOA WinForms
http://labs.componentone.com/Sapphire/ - ComponentOne Studio® for Silverlight
http://www.infragistics.com/hot/silverlight.aspx#InfragisticsandSilverlight - NetAdvantage for Silverlight
http://www.vectorlight.net/ - Silverlight .NET Controls
http://reuxables.nukeation.com/reuxables.aspx - Reusables
http://www.codeplex.com/SilverlightToolkit - Silverlight Control Toolkit
http://www.codeplex.com/agTweener/ - agTweener
http://www.codeplex.com/silverlight - Silverlight Library
http://www.visifire.com/ - Silverlight Charts

Skins
http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/archive/tags/Control+Skins/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/12/great-new-silverlight-control-skins.aspx

Custom implementations
http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/09/10/bringing-a-bit-of-html-to-silverlight-htmltextblock-makes-rich-text-display-easy.aspx , http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/06/11/again-with-the-support-for-simple-html-display-in-silverlight-htmltextblock-sample-updated-for-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx - Bringing a bit of HTML to Silverlight (HtmlTextBlock)
http://www.nunosantos.net/blog/?p=3, http://www.ucaya.com/blog/2008/07/11/SilverlightDockPanel.aspx - DockPanel
http://www.codeplex.com/SlideShow - SlideShow
http://www.realtimesilverlight.com/ - Right Clicks in Silverlight
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/04/29/rich-text-editor-for-silverlight.aspx - Rich Text Editor for Silverlight 2

Tips & tricks
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/17513/58312.aspx - What happened to Control.InitializeFromXaml?
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22082/77566.aspx - How to read the client regional settings...
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22114/77725.aspx - WebBrowser hosting XAP and WPF interop
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/21675/75775.aspx - Ado.net data service Vs wcf/asp.net web service for binding to sql db
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/03/18/configuring-a-web-server-to-host-silverlight-content.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/14/using-silverlight-2-on-a-production-web-server.aspx - Configuring server to host Silverlight content
http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-tell-silverlight-assembly-from.html - How to tell a Silverlight assembly from a .NET Framework one?
http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/06/30/tip-of-the-day-13-getting-an-images-width-and-height.aspx - How to Get an Images Dimensions in Silverlight
http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/03/30/silverlight-dynamic-languages-in-visual-studio.aspx - Silverlight Dynamic Languages in Visual Studio
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/14599.aspx - Design tutorials
http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2008/04/03/creating-a-custom-panel.aspx - Creating a custom panel
http://blogs.msdn.com/devdave/archive/2008/05/26/pixel-snapping-the-snapper-element.aspx - Pixel snapping
http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-tell-screen-resolution-from.html - How to tell the screen resolution from within a Silverlight app
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/13729.aspx - Dynamic reflection using silverlight-2
http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/05/31/multi-page-applications-in-silverlight.aspx , http://www.flawlesscode.com/post/2008/03/Silverlight-2-Navigating-Between-Xaml-Pages.aspx - Navigating between Xaml Pages
http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2008/06/pages-in-silverlight.html - Pages in Silverlight
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21341.aspx , http://silverlight.net/forums/t/17993.aspx , http://silverlight.net/forums/t/14301.aspx - Threading
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21082.aspx - Performance issues.... too many images??
http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2008/07/silverlight-desktop-application.html - Silverlight Desktop Application Launcher
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/8691.aspx - Silverlight standalone exe application
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/19239.aspx - Obfuscator for Silverlight
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/27/silverlight-extensibility-the-calculator.aspx - Silverlight Extensibility: The Calculator
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/16831.aspx - Modal-Dialogs and MessageBox-Like behaviour
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21548.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/07/16/smaller-is-better-a-simple-step-to-shrink-the-download-size-of-silverlight-2-applications.aspx - Reducing xap size
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/10443.aspx - Silverlight security / privacy
http://www.nikhilk.net/SilverlightCarousel1.aspx - Photo Carousel
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode18DeepZoomSeadragonSilverlight2MultiScaleImageMouseWheelZoomingAndPanningEdition.aspx - Silverlight 2 MultiScaleImage Mouse Wheel Zooming and Panning Edition
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21343.aspx - Focus issue
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/18310.aspx - How to use ResourceDictionary in Silverlight ?http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20371.aspx - How to have localization follow browser language
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20887.aspx, http://web-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/06/creating-sketch-application-in_23.html - Ink deserialization in the server
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21140.aspx - Ink Division for Silverlight
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21031.aspx - Redirect user if Silverlight not installed
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21257.aspx - How to open a new browser window in code?
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20861.aspx - How can I get the current WindowsPrincipal?http://www.coreysportfolio.com/post/2008/05/Silverlight-2-and-User-Identity.aspx - Silverlight 2 and User Identity
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/23/using-asp-net-authentication-in-a-web-service-with-silverlight.aspx, http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideo.aspx?video=56228 - ASP.NET authentication in a webservice with silverlight
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20436.aspx - Best practices for protecting WCF
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/16305.aspx - Call a silverlight application from another silverlight application
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21433.aspx - Hosting in WPF?
http://jonas.follesoe.no/PermaLink,guid,7f8857dc-5f37-4a8a-bd35-fd4b624af45b.aspx - Webcam in Silverlight 2 - MacGyver style!
http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=503 - Play YouTube FLV Videos with Silverlight 2.0

Missing features
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22144/77846.aspx - How to type vietnamese(unicode) in textbox control ?
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/18631.aspx, http://geekswithblogs.net/dtotzke/articles/24571.aspx - Calling REST service using HttpWebRequest with Basic Authentication
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/13967.aspx - How to reference a .NET class library in silverlight 2.0
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/15047.aspx, http://www.amyuni.com/silverlight/ , http://www.codeproject.com/KB/showcase/PDFForSilverlight.aspx , http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21347.aspx - Displaying A PDF Document Inside A Silverlight UserControl
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/19212.aspx, http://silverlight.net/forums/p/878/1801.aspx - Silverlight Printing
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/18409.aspx - How to call the COM in silverlight 2.0
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/622.aspx - Automate Office applications from Silverlight
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21406.aspx - Decorator control missing
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21560.aspx - Multi pick in a listbox
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21313.aspx, http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20318.aspx- Microphone & Camera Support in the future ?
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22225/78194.aspx - Bluetooth Connection Via Silverlight
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22290/78443.aspx - FTP Upload in sl2.0 Beta2

Latest books
http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/07/29/read-about-silverlight-in-xps.aspx
Laurence Moroney Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 (first 3 chapters free)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Silverlight - some useful links (2)

UI Automation
http://blogs.msdn.com/gisenberg/archive/2008/07/12/ui-automation-in-silverlight-simulating-user-interactions.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/gisenberg/archive/2008/07/17/ui-automation-in-silverlight-part-ii-the-easy-way.aspx http://visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/Silverlight-2-Accessibility-with-Mark-Rideout/
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21658.aspx

Unit testing
http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/03/31/silverlight2-unit-testing/
http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/06/11/silverlight-unit-test-framework-download-for-silverlight-2-beta-2/
http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/06/06/unit-testing-templates-for-microsoft-silverlight-2-beta-2/
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/18/test-driven-development-with-silverlight-2.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/04/02/unit-testing-with-silverlight.aspx
http://jonas.follesoe.no/PermaLink,guid,f2fc834b-704e-40ae-9684-44cfa8096bed.aspx
http://www.codeplex.com/UnitDriven - Unit Driven

Custom implementations
http://www.codeplex.com/Kit3D , http://www.codeplex.com/Balder - 3D graphics
http://www.codeplex.com/NavFx - Navigation Framework
http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/06/13/proof-of-concept-silverlight-xps-reader-comes-to-beta-2-simplesilverlightxpsviewer-sample-updated-for-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx - XPS reader for Silverlight!
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/03/06/a-great-early-silverlight-2-showcase-textglow.aspx - Silverlight 2 application that reads Word .docx files
http://www.codeplex.com/SilverlightP2P - Silverlight P2P Library
http://www.codeplex.com/SilverlightTreeView - Silverlight TreeView
http://www.codeplex.com/richtextedit, http://www.vectorlight.net/silverlight_rich_textbox_demo.aspx - RichTextEditor on SilverLight
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2008/04/29/viewbox-for-silverlight2.aspx, http://silverlight.net/forums/t/19828.aspx - Viewbox control
http://www.vectorlight.net/controls/progress_bar.aspx - Silverlight Progress Bar
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/05/06/drawingbrush-and-deep-clone-in-silverlight.aspx - Drawing Brush
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/STextBox.aspx, http://leeontech.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/combobox-code-updated-to-beta2/ - ComboBox
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/10756.aspx - PasswordBox Control
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/SilverightFlyoutPanel.aspx - Silveright FlyoutPanel
http://www.nikhilk.net/Silverlight-Effects-Transitions.aspx - Effects and Transitions (framework)http://blogs.msdn.com/timrule/archive/2008/04/29/innerglow-effect-for-silverlight-2-beta-1.aspx , http://blogs.msdn.com/timrule/archive/2008/04/21/shadow-effect.aspx , http://blogs.msdn.com/timrule/archive/2008/04/17/glow-effect-for-silverlight-2-beta-1.aspx - Innerglow, Shadow, Glow Effects
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathykam/archive/2008/06/23/watermarkedtextbox-for-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx - Watermarkcontrol for Silverlight 2 Beta 2
http://scorbs.com/2008/07/17/flickrviewr-using-devdaves-animatingwrappanel/ - FlickrViewr Using DevDave’s AnimatingWrapPanel

Tips & tricks
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20368.aspx - Images with ResourceManager http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/07/01/tip-of-the-day-14-how-to-right-click-on-a-silverlight-application.aspx - How to Right Click on a Silverlight Application
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/19089.aspx - Button Access Key
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/16981.aspx - Problem with Focus and KeyDown, KeyUp Events
http://blogs.msdn.com/shrib/archive/2007/09/25/saving-a-file-to-the-local-disk-in-silverlight.aspx, http://silverlight.net/forums/t/16847.aspx - Saving a file to the local disk http://www.alancobb.com/blog/2008/07/17/ChangingSilverlightPropertiesDynamicallyWithABindingrelayObject.aspx http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=201, http://leeontech.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/dynamic-styles/ - Theming and Skinning (dynamic!)
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/17309.aspx, http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2007/05/vista-sidebar-gadget-using-silverlight.html - Vista Gadgets
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/11138.aspx , http://silverlight.net/forums/t/14769.aspx - Html page in Silverlight area
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21318.aspx - Customizing Mouse Pointer in Silverlight 2 beta 2
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/13587.aspx - How to implement LayoutTransform in Silverlight?
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/15712.aspx - Problem while saving ink presenter content to png image
http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/06/06/browser-resize-how-to-determine-your-browser-size.aspx - How to capture the size of your browser when it is resized
http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/07/15/tip-of-the-day-18-how-to-set-browser-cookies.aspx - How to Set Browser Cookies

Missing features
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/10951.aspx - Silverlight 2.0 missing features
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/1134.aspx , http://silverlight.net/forums/t/8913.aspx - Silverlight and 3D
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/18910.aspx - Triggers in Blend 2.5 June CTP
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/17428.aspx - Capturing Function Keys (F5, F3, F1)
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/20199.aspx - Semaphore?
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/19123.aspx - Ink and Image
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/21581.aspx - Xps Documents in silverlight
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/2223.aspx - Tiling Bitmaps in an ImageBrush

Cool websites
http://www.silverlightcream.com/

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

My photo gallery with new Deep Zoom Composer!



Microsoft released new version of Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 on 1st August. Because of the issues with new functionality, an updated preview have been released on 3rd August (2 days later!)

The major new features include Panoramic Stitching and PhotoZoom Upload.

New Deep Zoom Composer integrates with the Live Labs PhotoZoom service: http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com. You can simply publish your image galleries with Deep Zoom on the Internet. I uploaded my photo album to PhotoZoom -;) My puzzle: how many photos can you find in main photo? (look at the beer can!)

The application now allows you to stitch similar images using technology from Microsoft Research's Interactive Visual Group.

More details about new Deep Zoom Composer: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/default.aspx