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Silverlight Charting Performance Test Amended with amCharts

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:35:34 GMT

A week ago Colin Eberhardt has published a post in Scott Logic blog comparing performance of several Silverlight charting libraries. Surprisingly the tests didn't include amCharts. This blog post fixes this.

Developing Controls for Windows Phone 7 as a Business

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:49:58 GMT

Is there a market for 3rd party Windows Phone 7 Silverlight controls? A purely speculative opinion.

Unit Testing Combo WPF/Silverlight Projects

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:33:03 GMT

Approaches and issues with unit testing WPF and Silverlight applications sharing the same code.

Introducing Quick Charts for Windows Phone 7

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:09:58 GMT

amCharts has made available a version of their free and open source charting controls for Windows Phone 7. This version is specifically tailored for touch based interface and smaller screen.

Side Effects of Silverlight Marketing

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:51:22 GMT

According to Tim Heuer "WPF and Silverlight feature (dis)parity" is the number one reported Silverlight "issue". This post tries to identify the cause of this issue becoming number one.

OXM - Object XML Mapping framework

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:52 GMT

OXM is a framework for transforming .NET objects from/to XML. It features: - Full control over the generated XML. - POCO approach i.e. no attributes to pollute your domain entities. - Fluent DSL for defining the mapping. - Strongly typed which is good for refactoring. - No reflection.

amCharts Quick Charts for WPF & Silverlight - Open Source Charts

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:15:52 GMT

amCharts has released a feature complete version of Quick Charts for WPF & Silverlight. Quick Charts support line, column, area and pie charts. It's easy to use, fast, small and absolutely free under Ms-PL license.

Debugging Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications on 64-bit Windows

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:58:34 GMT

There's a concise and to the point guide on debugging Silverlight 3 applications in out of browser (OOB) mode by Jimmy Lewis. Problem is that when you follow it in Visual Studio 2008 running on 64-bit Windows you get this message box when you try to start debugging...

VisualStudio.NET vNext Feature Request: Multi-target IntelliSense

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:53:55 GMT

With all the partitioning happening in the WPF-like framework world (WPF, Silverlight, Silverlight for Windows Phone 7) there's a need for assistance from the tools in creation of code that works in all (several) of them. Here is an idea for one such feature for Visual Studio.

Ghost Lines in Silverlight

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:36:56 GMT

It looks like screen coordinates of (some) objects in Silverlight are limited by what appears to be Int16 range even though these coordinates are doubles. This results in some odd behaviors.

Windows Phone at MIX10: Cooling down the hype

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:05:42 GMT

I've attended Windows Phone 7 track of sessions at the MIX10 conference (for the most part) and unfortunately everything that I've learned cooled my enthusiasm for WP7 down one step at a time. Here's what's wrong for me first as a consumer and then as developer.

Creating a Weather Gadget for Windows 7

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:45:05 GMT

In this article we will see how you can develop a Weather gadget for Windows 7 which uses Yahoo Weather API for fetching Weather data. The application will also have some of the latest exciting features of Windows 7 like Thumbnail Toolbar and Progress bar.

Open source 3D Tic-Tac-Toe game in Silverlight

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:05:16 GMT

Everybody knows how to play Tic-Tac-Toe. How about the same classic game but in 3D? Here's a Silverlight game with complete source code included.

WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 6: Adding XAML files as links

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:26:31 GMT

"Add As Link" technique is a powerful tool for sharing code between WPF and Silverlight projects. However it doesn't work that well with XAML files. This article presents a solution to this issue.

Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:28:31 GMT

ASP.NET includes a plethora of functions and utilities to retrieve information about the current requests and paths in general. So much so that it's often hard to remember exactly which path property or method you are actually looking for. This update to an old and very popular post from this blog summarizes many of the paths and path related operations that are available in ASP.NET.

Open Source Silverlight Battleship Game

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:01:44 GMT

Here's an open source Silverlight Battleship game. Sources are released under Ms-PL.

Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 5: Adding PropertyChange

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:16:56 GMT

This part presents a workaround you can use in Silverlight to set a handler to be called when value of inherited dependency properties changes.

Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 4: Geometries

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:29:12 GMT

This post covers differences in working with Geometries in WPF and Silverlight.

Stock Chart Control for Silverlight

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:15:00 GMT

amCharts has released a Silverlight edition of their stock chart control. It's a powerful application that lets you forget about most of the boring parts in building complex statistical systems in Silverlight.

Silverlight 4 Beta - A guide to the new features

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

"This beta release is a developer release. This means that this is a preview mostly for developers to understand the new features and continue to get feedback. No "end-user" runtime is available for this release, nor is a "go-live" license for customers wishing to put their applications into production. If you have questions on this, feel free to leave a comment here. Enough blabbing, here's the goods. WARNING: Long post ahead.but filled with information."

Setting Pens on Shapes in WPF

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:49:08 GMT

Sometimes you need to draw various shapes, drawings and objects using the same elaborate pen. Problem is that some WPF elements like GeometryDrawing (represented by star in this picture) take Pen object for their pen settings and classes derived from Shape (like Rectangle, Ellipse, etc.) expose all the pen settings directly in the form of StrokeXxx properties.

Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 3:Brushes/Strokes/Dashes

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:16:23 GMT

Third part of the series discussing differences in usage of brushes and related aspects in WPF and Silverlight.

Tic-Tac-Toe: Open Source Silverlight Game

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:11:57 GMT

A simple good looking Silverlight 3 game complete with source code.

Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 2: Dependecy Properties

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:35:14 GMT

Dependency properties are one of the core concepts of both WPF and Silverlight. This post describes some of the differences in declaration and usage of dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight.

Visual Studio 2010: Visualizing dependencies

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:31:53 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 introduces new and cool feature - architecture diagrams that visualize dependencies between assemblies, namespaces and classes. In this posting I will show you how these diagrams look like and provide some explanations about how to read them.