Demos

1. Introduction

In this article I’m going to introduce a first public component of our silverlight application framework called Halcyone. In this experimental component we provide simple way for rapid silverlight REST services development. We are using convection based approach to minimize boilerplate code and provide reactive api based on IObservable push collections introduced in dev labs reactive extensions.

You can get sources and samples from the project codeplex site:

http://halcyone.codeplex.com/

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Why is multitasking missing and how to hide the fact?

Windows Phone 7 at this very moment does not support Multitasking for 3rd party applications. There are a lot of reasons for that and as an IPhone user I could not agree more with this decision. Running different applications parallel means more power consumption, more memory consumption and higher cpu load. These factors directly lead to reduced User Experience, like your battery says goodbye in a couple of hours, the screen is not so smooth when using multitouch, it’s „lagging”, or changing between applications might get really slow.

Introduction

One of the main concepts, when you work over a complex (or not so) project, is “divide and conquer”. This is the need of splitting the whole project into small and reusable parts, called controls. Having lots of these smaller parts, you can easily manage them in a view (page, window, etc).

People who have worked with WinForms and ASP.NET are already familiar with this idea. It is realized both in WPF and Silverlight as well. Each control has its own behavior and style. The look and feel of each control can be tweaked through styles or can be entirely redesigned through templates, and the behavior of controls can be modified through event handlers.

1. Introduction

With the release of the new Silverlight 3, a lot of new cool features have been introduced. One of my favorite definitely is the support of behaviours and triggers. In WPF the triggers are extremely powerful. They allow you to declaratively associate an action with an event or property value. In the previous versions of Silverlight one of the things that were really missing were the triggers and the behaviors. It was not possible, for example, to add mouse-overs to objects declaratively (as in WPF).

I was working with one of the web application localization. I was searching with couple of translator's available with the web. The most popular of them are

1. Google Translation Service

2. Bing Translator Service

I tried using the Google API for the web and it was pretty good. Then in recent times I came across Bing translator and tools link in them gave me the way to implement the Bing API. Bing is making a revolution in the search engines and so I liked to use that here.

Following URL's are referred for this.

1. Introduction

The use of Deep Zoom Composer for creating deep zoom source files is often inconvenient.

For example, one guy has his online shop with thousands of high quality product images and after the release of Silverlight Deep Zoom technology he decided to use it. Surely he can’t decompose his images using Deep Zoom Composer, because due to the amount of existing site images it would take too much time.

And this is not the only case when you want to dynamically generate multi scale image tile source for high quality images without any other preparations.

Introduction

These series of posts will help you when creating rich data forms with Silverlight 3 in your projects. Silverlight 3 introduces a new control, called DataForm. It enables various methods for display, edit, update and navigation through data. I my previous two articles I gave you a clear view of this new cool control. I showed you how easily you can bind an object or a collection of objects to a DataForm control and the whole bunch of stuff you can do with every data source.

Introduction

These series of posts will help you when creating rich data forms with Silverlight 3 in your projects. Silverlight 3 introduces a new control, called DataForm. It enables various methods for display, edit, update and navigation through data. In my previous article I gave you a clear view of this new cool control. I showed you how easily you can bind an object or a collection of objects to a DataForm control and the whole bunch of stuff you can do with every data source.

In this article I will show you how you can style your control.

Silverligth 3 is the most awaited release of Microsoft. I found the download’s from the page Silverlight 3. The following are the utlities that can be found in this download page.

1. Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio
2. Microsoft Expression Blend 3 Preview
3. Silverlight Toolkit
4. .NET RIA Services
5. Silverlight 3 Beta Documentation

In this list the most attracting one is the RIA services which is making wonders with Silverlight now. I will be discussing about them in the later posts.