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Making printing easier in Silverlight 4
Continue reading →Well, what an exciting week! First Visual Studio 2010 is released, followed by Silverlight 4 yesterday! Consequently, I was inspired to post about something new! I’ve been spending some time looking at the new printing feature in Silverlight 4, and while on the surface it looks like a pretty simple and lower-level set of APIs, it’s possible to build rich frameworks on top of them for accomplishing common printing tasks. In this post, I’ll take a look at an attempt I made (and added to SLaB) at building such a higher-level API over printing that makes printing collections of data easier.
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Silverlight 4 Released!
Continue reading →It’s an exciting day in Silverlight land! Today, Silverlight 4 was released, along with tools for working with it in Visual Studio 2010 and an RC of Blend 4!
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New in the Silverlight 4 RC: XAML Features
Continue reading →Today, the Silverlight 4 RC was announced and made available to the masses. But you may be asking yourself: what’s new since the beta? Well, I’d like to dive into one of the areas where a bunch of new work was done to improve the development experience – the XAML Parser. With Silverlight 4, we’ve done a significant overhaul of the XAML Parser, allowing us to add new features and improve consistency within the platform and with WPF’s XAML support.
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Silverlight 4 RC Announced at MIX 2010!
Continue reading →If you’re not watching already, head on over to http://live.visitmix.com to watch the keynote, where Scott Guthrie has just announced the Silverlight 4 RC!
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On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation – Revisited for Silverlight 4 Beta
Continue reading →Way back in July, shortly after Silverlight 3 was released, I posted a technique that allowed you to use the Navigation framework in the SDK to load pages in dlls that would be downloaded as part of the navigation process. The solution relied on two things: a workaround to the navigation framework’s inability to navigate to Pages in dynamically-loaded assemblies, and a derived version of the Frame class that hid many methods in order to orchestrate downloads of dlls and their dependencies.
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