As babies smash on the keyboard, colored shapes, letters and numbers appear on the screen. Baby Smash will lock out the Windows Key, as well as Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab so your baby can’t get out of the application. Pressing ALT-F4 will exit the application and Shift-Ctrl-Alt-O brings up the options dialog. I’m always interested in [...]
Sep
8
2009
8
2009
Baby Smash! by Scott Hanselman
Sep
8
2009
8
2009
Delay’s Blog : An "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release [HeadTraxExtreme sample application updated]
A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme, an organizational hierarchy viewer loosely based on an internal tool. That blog post has [...]
Sep
8
2009
8
2009
SharePoint Solutions Team Blog: Silverlight: The easiest method to get SharePoint list data
In this post, I will share the simplest, most direct method I’ve found to access SharePoint list data from a Silverlight control hosted within a SharePoint web part. Contrary to most examples I’ve seen, this methodology will not require any custom web services. I’m am however going to assume that you have a working knowledge [...]
Sep
3
2009
3
2009
Tutorials : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site
Data binding is a connection between the User Interface and a business object or other data provider . The User Interface object is called the target, the provider of the data is called the source.
Data-binding assists with the separation of the User Interface level of your application from the other layers of your application [...]
Feb
23
2009
23
2009
Creating a Sharepoint Web Part that hosts a data binding Silverlight application
In this tutorial I’m going to explain how you can host a Silverlight 2 beta 2 application from within a SharePoint Web Part. The Web Part will pass the URL of the SharePoint site together with the name of the list for which the Silverlight application will show the data. The retrieval of the data [...]