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Just a quick reminder that there is still space available for the SA Developer .NET session Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams . Please take a moment and RSVP over here on the forum thread. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
If you are busy trying to develop using Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 and Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview you might have encountered errors while working in Blend such as The TypeConverter for "DataGridLength" does not support converting from a string. although Visual Studio doesn’t complain about the XAML and the code runs just fine. Read more about the problem here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
When Microsoft released Silverlight 2 beta 1 they included a really cool control called the System.Windows.Controls.WatermarkedTextBox control. It lived in the assembly System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll and was included in your XAP file when you did a build. However in Silverlight 2 beta 2 the one control that didn’t make it was the WatermarkedTextBox control. See my blog post here for the workaround and updated source code for the control. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it!...
Yes after they promised earlier this week its finally available for download. See my post over here for all the details. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
It looks like Microsoft has been busy lately as not only do we have a new beta of Visual Studio 2008, but we now have a Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate 1 sporting stability improvements not to mention almost 2000 bug fixes. In addition they have dropped a Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh that includes the same core improvements featured in Silverlight 1.0 RC1. There are some breaking changes which are listed here but nothing that looks too serious. In addition you might want to grab the July ASP.NET...
Have you tried out Microsoft Silverlight under the Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Orcas) Beta 1 Virtual PC image yet? I have an by default it doesn't work as you would expect. For those not familiar with the Windows Server 2003 security default lock-down policies it might be a little too much for you so I thought I'd explain how to make it work. So you start off and create a new Silverlight project and run it. And you get presented with an Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration...