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Will your code blend? : Toronto Code Camp 2010 : Barry Gervin View more presentations from Barry Gervin. This past weekend I gave a talk on “Blendability”; The ability to maintain and leverage blend design time compatibility with your WPF and Silverlight projects. Thanks to everybody who came out to the talk, we had some good discussions ...

Let me officially call this the Grey Screen of Death. You create a lovely sketch flow prototype in Expression Blend and it looks great at design time, but at run-time you get nothing. If you’re clever, you’ll try to dig into the java script error, which fortunately, the nice folks on the SketchFlow player team have raised up from the ...

This may result in a “geekasm” – you’ve been warned. http://stargate.mgm.com/photosynth   How’d they do it? MGM Stargate Case Study

Silverlight 3 will soon be released.  And to properly celebrate the excitement of its release, ObjectSharp is teaming up with Microsoft to present an action-packed first look at the UX3 platform, live from the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto.  As one of the first companies to be featured on Microsoft’s Silverlight gallery, our ...

My final presentation in my April World Speaking tour was at the Toronto Code Camp this afternoon. As always, the code camp was a huge success. The efforts of many people went into making it so, but the organization was top notch. As part of the lead-up to my presentation, Joey de Villa made good on a promise to wear Microsoft branded assless ...

One of the most common comments from Silverlight and WPF developers is their lack of design sense. Over the next little while, I’ll be posting (interspersed with other topics) on some of the basics of color theory and how they can be applied to WPF and Silverlight. To start with, let’s talk about one of the fundamental artifacts of color theory – ...

One of the first questions that arose from the announcement of off-browser Silverlight was “What will happen to WPF?” The obvious source of this concern is that since Silverlight 3 can run either as part of a Web page or installed in an off-browser mode, why would there ever be a reason to write a WPF application? And since Silverlight seems to be ...

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 and WordPress that can be automatically installed onto a web server through the Platform ...

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 that I’m in (particularly the keynotes) as a way of note taking, if nothing more. In this ...

I have been working with WPF and Silverlight pretty steadily for the past 6 months or so. And thanks to Rocky Lhotka, a problem that I didn’t even realize I had has been (probably) corrected. The problem was that occasionally Visual Studio would just go away. No warning. No error. Just disappear. It didn’t happen that often for me, but I have had ...