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Silverlight 4 and building business applications (PDC09-CL19)
Continue reading →Hi everyone! Wow – yesterday was a big day, with a lot of amazing announcements at PDC ‘09 – especially the announcement that the Silverlight 4 Beta was publicly available. I was very excited to be given an opportunity to give a talk at PDC this year, and it was a real treat. My talk – Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4 (PDC09-CL19) – focused on the new features in Silverlight 4 that are particularly useful in business applications, especially those that are data-centric. (Please ignore the abstract given on that page for the talk – it wasn’t updated properly from a change we made to it early on! :))
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Relative hyperlinks with Silverlight navigation
Continue reading →If you haven’t noticed already, I happen to like the Navigation feature in Silverlight quite a bit (I wonder why? :)). In my other posts on Navigation, I’ve spent some time exploring how you can navigate to Pages in assemblies other than the main application assembly and how those assemblies can be loaded on-demand (granted, it uses some workarounds, but it gets us where we want to go!).
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Update 2: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application
Continue reading →Hi folks! It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged, but fear not, I’m still watching and hoping to blog more in the coming weeks.
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On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation
Continue reading →As those of you who’ve been reading my blog may know, I’ve been spending a bit of time with some enhancements to navigation in Silverlight surrounding the use of dynamically-loaded assemblies. I’ve still got a bunch of things I’d like to try to implement, but in the meantime I thought I’d share what I’ve got so far.
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Silverlight 3 Navigation: Adding transitions to the Frame control
Continue reading →Continuing with my recent theme of enhancing the built-in support for Navigation in Silverlight 3, I thought I’d use this post to look briefly at enhancing user experience during navigation. On the surface, the Frame control is pretty unexciting from a UX perspective – its job is really just to display pages as a result of requests to navigate (either through the browser’s address bar, responding to HyperlinkButton clicks, or direct calls to Frame.Navigate()). It has barely any UI of its own, and can usually be thought of as an enhanced ContentControl (incidentally, it is one!).
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