Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight

Posted By: jbienz | Jun 22nd @ 11:50 AM | Comments: 2

Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and&nbsp;Silverlight

In this session we go beyond skinning built-in controls and learn what’s required to create our own skinnable (or ‘lookless’) controls.[more

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Tags: Expression, Expression Blend, Silverlight, WPF

Skins for WPF and Silverlight

Posted By: jbienz | Jun 22nd @ 11:42 AM | Comments: 5

In this screencast we discuss the topics you’ll need to understand when creating custom skins for WPF and Silverlight controls.[more

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Tags: Expression, Expression Blend, Silverligt, User Experience, WPF

Live Framework and Always-Available Social Applications

Posted By: jbienz | Jan 27th @ 2:35 PM | Comments: 3

Live Framework and Always-Available Social&nbsp;Applications

Learn how Live Framework and Live Mesh help you build social applications that are always available across devices.[more

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Tags: Azure Platform, Azure Services, Live Framework, Live Mesh, Silverlight 2, Social, Social Networks

Triggers vs. Visual State Manager

Posted By: jbienz | Oct 9th, 2008 @ 2:38 PM | Comments: 0

The Visual State Manager is on a very short list of features that exist on Silverlight today but do not exist on Desktop WPF. This short screencast introduces the Visual State Manager and illustrates the value it adds to the Silverlight platform. It shows how the Visual State Manager can be used in control templates as well as full application screens.

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Tags: Silverlight, Triggers, Visual State Manager, WPF

Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS

Posted By: jbienz | Jun 30th, 2008 @ 8:25 PM | Comments: 3

Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with&nbsp;VIEWS

VIEWS (the Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight) provides a fully managed wrapper around Virtual Earth for Silverlight applications. Learn how you can add mapping to your applications without getting deep into JavaScript.[more

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Tags: CLR, maps, Silverlight, Virtual Earth

Silverlight Image Search with LINQ to XML

Posted By: jbienz | Jun 11th, 2008 @ 12:22 PM | Comments: 3

Silverlight Image Search with LINQ to&nbsp;XML

Using Silverlight 2 and LINQ to XML to create an Image Search application.[more

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Tags: LINQ, Silverlight

Service Enabling Workflows

Posted By: jbienz | Apr 28th, 2008 @ 2:53 PM | Comments: 8

Part three in my short series on Workflow Foundation covers service enabling workflows. Service enabling a workflow doesn’t necessarily mean WCF, though WCF is certainly an option. In this screencast we look at leveraging services to enable activities that can run in various host environments. This is a continuation from part 2, so you may want to view that screencast first if you haven’t seen it. Part 1: From Code Activity to Custom Activity Part 2: Activity Defaults and Validation Files: Service Enabled Sample Files[more

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Tags: MS Field, Visual Studio, Windows Workflow

Activity Defaults and Validation

Posted By: jbienz | Mar 5th, 2008 @ 7:49 AM | Comments: 1

This is part two in my short series on writing custom activities for the Workflow Foundation. In this screencast I cover data defaults and validation for your custom activities.

This is a continuation from part 1, so you may want to jump over and view that now if you haven’t seen it already.

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Tags: MS Field, Visual Studio, Windows Workflow

From Code Activity to Custom Activity

Posted By: jbienz | Feb 8th, 2008 @ 10:57 AM | Comments: 2

From Code Activity to Custom&nbsp;Activity

With the new workflow extensions added to .Net 3.5, some of the ISVs I work with have expressed a renewed interest in the Workflow Foundation. This screencast is the first in a series of short clips intended to help developers begin writing activities quickly.

Part 2 is now up: Activity Defaults and Validation

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Tags: MS Field, Visual Studio, Windows Workflow

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