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When designing UI’s in WPF and Silverlight, you may wish to make your layout fluid and auto-expandable in order to take the most out changing UI context. For instance, when data quantity and quality changes, available space may also change and objects in the layout need to adapt to these changes. When an auto layout is needed, no width nor height are specified which can be troublesome since the design view tends to collapse available space. For instance, a variable size user control with a data-binded listbox has no child items in design time, so you’ll see nothing but a...
Saw a great vide this weekend about Silberlight 4’s new OOB capabilities. Joe Stegman, Director of Program Management on the Silverlight team, went on camera in Channel 9 to talk about Silverlight 4's Out of Browser improvements. OOB means that you can run a Silverlight application on your desktop, outside the usual browser enviroment.
Check it out here: Channel 9
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A lot has happened in PDC 2009. Although I couldn’t make it this year, I’ve been watching it very closely from the keynotes, session contents, technologies, attendees, the space, chill out zone and merchandising. XAML-wise, there were some glorious days.
Some cool WPF 3 and 4 apps were shown in day 2 of this year’s PDC, like Saesmic, a Tweeter and Facebook desktop client for MAC and Windows, Pivot, from Microsoft labs, Fishbowl, another facebook desktop client, and I’ve been inspecting every one of them. Aside from the release of Silverlight 4 Beta, IE 9 video demo, Office 2010 Beta,...
Yesterday at PDC 2009, Microsoft unveiled the Beta version of Silverlight 4. This latest version has a lot of new features and everyone’s talking about it. Amongst the new features there’s: New Features for Application Developers Comprehensive printing support enabling hardcopy reports and documents as well as a virtual print view, independent of screen content. A full set of forms controls with over 60 customizable, styleable components. New controls include RichTextbox with hyperlinks, images and editing and Masked textbox for complex field validation. Enhanced controls include DataGrid with...