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Where does Off-Browser Silverlight Run?

Off-browser Silverlight is pretty cool. And one of the first questions that got raised is ‘where is it running’. Obviously, it’s not running within the browser. I mean, duh. But if not there, then where? I got the first inkling of an answer listening Read More...

Consuming WCF in Silverlight 3 Session at MIX ‘09

This session covers three separate scenarios for Silverlight and WCF interactions. The basic functionality of adding a service reference, creating proxy class and calling method hasn’t changed. However, they are trying to address some of the common pain Read More...

Off-line and Off-Browser Silverlight

The big announcement at yesterday’s keynote was the availability of an off-line and off-browser mode for Silverlight 3.0. Just to clarify the terms, off-line mode indicates that Silverlight will not require a live connection to the Internet in order to Read More...

Having an Out-of-Browser Silverlight Experience

The fundamental philosophy used to develop the off-browser functionality for Silverlight applications was to reduce the friction surrounding the moving of the application from in-browser to out-of-browser. Specifically, there is no separate download that Read More...

Go Beyond Best Practices Session at MIX ‘09

Because I already had some exposure to Silverlight 3 at the MVP Summit, I thought I’d start off with a session directed at creating user experiences. Not to mention that I was interested in the idea of going beyond the superlative of ‘best’ :) The basic Read More...

MIX ‘09 Keynote – Part 3

Some additional Silverlight 3 improvements that are being announced. Data Binding improvements, specifically element-to-element bindings Validation error templates, although there is no support for the IDataErrorInfo interface improvements on the ability Read More...

MIX ‘09 Keynote – Part 2

More stuff on the Web server side of the equation. There is a new version of the Web Platform Installer. This doesn’t have any impact on me, at least not in the past. But there is now a gallery of community-based applications, such as DotNetNuke, DasBlog Read More...

MIX ‘09 Keynote – Part 1

The first part of the keynote was Bill Buxton talking about the benefits of considering user experience and design when creating an application. Certainly a good speaker with passion about hit topics. But I’m afraid that he’s preaching to the converted. Read More...

On the Road to MIX ‘09

I’m writing this particular blog post while in the air on the way to Las Vegas. For the next three days, I’m going to be at the MIX ‘09 conference. For regular readers of my blogs, that means you can expect a flurry of posts. I tend to live-blog the sessions Read More...