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Downtime – Apologies…
Continue reading →Hey folks! For those of you who were trying to access my blog in the last 3 or 4 hours (or more, I’m not 100% sure when it started), you were probably not met with much success. Unfortunately, my server’s ISP had been hit with a DDoS attack, bringing down my server’s internet access. I just finished working with my service provider to get things up and running again. In the meantime, my sincere apologies! I hope it didn’t leave folks in the dark for too long!
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Silverlight 3 Navigation: Navigating to Pages in referenced assemblies
Continue reading →At long last, Silverlight 3 has arrived! That, in and of itself, is worth a thousand blog posts, but since there’s a plethora of folks out there doing precisely that as I type, I’ll start right out with some content on one of the new features of Silverlight 3 – Navigation.
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Update: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application
Continue reading →Well, it’s been a while since I first posted on this, but the feedback was incredible, and I got some great suggestions. As a result, I’ve updated the Activity control and (finally) have a running sample on the web! The fundamental idea of the control has remained the same, as well as the mechanisms by which it can work. It’s still a prototype, but a very useful one at that!
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Playing around with Silverlight 3… a late Easter Egg hunt – Revealed!
Continue reading →About a week and a half ago I issued a challenge to folks to figure out what the Silverlight 3 application below does. I dropped a few hints, but nobody guessed it! I had hoped for a few more guesses, but c’est la vie, I suppose. In the meantime, I should fulfill my end of the bargain and reveal the secrets of my mystery application, and some of the things I learned while putting it together.
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Logging Navigation in the Silverlight 3 Beta
Continue reading →I’ve been playing around recently with my webserver – I recently switched from a hosted ASP.NET service to a virtual dedicated server, so I’m getting a chance to play with having full control over my server for the first time. I spent some time setting up logging and statistics on the server using IIS’s logging feature and some 3rd party log-crunching software. Having that logging data is invaluable – among other things, it helps me know which pages folks are interested in and gives me insight into whether it’s too hard to reach certain sections of my page. With the addition of navigation controls in the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK, having a logging solution that cooperates with my web server seems only prudent!
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