Silverlight

Susan shares her insights on how to do quick and dirty UX testing to help your application be more successful. Susan (who works with great people on the UX team, including Corrina Black, Tsitsi Gora, and Arturo Toledo) has a lot of experience working on usability and spends a lot of time working…

In this episode, Deepesh Mohnani of the WCF RIA Services team discusses all of the new features introduced since the initial RIA Services release. These include expanded localization support, improved MVVM support, Windows Azure table storage, datetimeoffset, operation tag, jQuery client, and…

In this short video, Jennifer Marsman gives a quick introduction to multitouch development in Silverlight.  She briefly discusses the major differences between multitouch development in Silverlight and WPF, and then demonstrates a Silverlight multitouch code sample where an "Ouch"…

The Exception Handling Application Block (EHAB) helps developers create a consistent strategy for processing exceptions. Now it can be used in Silverlight applications. The centralized exception management functionality is configured as a set of poicies that can be defined in an external…

Want to optimize how a list of images loads and scrolls in your Windows Phone application? Jobi Joy, UX Architect with IdentityMine and key contributor to the IRC chat app in the MIX11 Day 2 keynote, returns to discuss with John how he handles image scenarios such as this, as well as how he…

Building on the foundations of the “Windows Phone 7 Overview” session, Laurent will take you for a ride in advanced topics related to Windows Phone 7 development. With many samples, we will see how to preserve an app’s state, how to connect to web services (WCF and REST) and many other exciting…

The release of the Windows Phone 7 operating system in 2010 opened very exciting perspectives for all .NET developers. In this session, Laurent will introduce the WP7 development tools and practices to help you create your first apps. Speaker: Laurent Bugnion Presentation (PPTX)

Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices. Silverlight 5 offers enhanced data binding, text management, vector printing, 3D api, p/invoke support,…

Taking user feedback about the application into consideration, it’s time to make some improvements! J Here are some of the reports we got from the users: The application is too slow when exchanging currencies It uses too much data traffic/should cache the exchange rates It doesn’t work for some…

Ever wonder how to use sockets or what they're good for? In this video, Peter Smith of the Silverlight networking team joins John to discuss these topics and demonstrate how sockets work by using them to play an "I Spy"-like game that Peter created. The game results and scores are updated…