Tag: Silverlight

Will it Blend: Wrapping the Text on Silverlight Chart Legends

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In the course of my building our ROI app, I was trying to figure out how to wrap the legends of charts when the text gets too long. This is what I get with the default chart. You’ll see here, there’s a lot of waste of space for the legend when what I really want… Continue reading Will it Blend: Wrapping the Text on Silverlight Chart Legends

Techfriday: Looping Panorama for Windows Phone 7 Series

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Just a quick note:  I’m sure MS will be providing controls to this interface in the future so we don’t have to spend too much time building these controls ourselves This post, as with the previous one, was meant more as an Expression Blend Exercise for myself to be explore the features of Silverlight /… Continue reading Techfriday: Looping Panorama for Windows Phone 7 Series

Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!

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I was reading through the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 Series and found out that there is currently no panoramic application template or control provided as part of the standard application platform. Nothing stops us from creating our own though. To make things easier, I’ve made a behavior library for everyone… Continue reading Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!

Consuming data from Nimbus Using LinqToXML (Updated) on iPhone + WP7!

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I’ve been starting to explore iPhone development lately. At first I was taking my time at learning at Objective C which went fine for a while but one of the guys on the project was asking if I could help build some apps for Project Nimbus, translation: build stuff fast. We talked about MonoTouch.NET which… Continue reading Consuming data from Nimbus Using LinqToXML (Updated) on iPhone + WP7!

Silverlight 2 & Dynamics CRM

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I was doing some research on Silverlight 2 & Dynamics CRM integration and found this post by Humberto Lezama Guadarrama where he posts a sample project that demonstrates how to consume Dynamics CRM Services directly from Silverlight 2. I was getting an initialize error when I tried to run the code though. This post helped… Continue reading Silverlight 2 & Dynamics CRM

PDC SOTD: Building a Graphics-Intensive Application in Silverlight

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There’s so much content on http://www.microsoftpdc.com and I’m trying to watch at least once a day. So my PDC Session of the Day is this Building a Graphics-Intensive Application in Silverlight by Seema Ramchandani She highlights quite a number of things to bear in mind when you’re doing lots of animations, image & video rendering… Continue reading PDC SOTD: Building a Graphics-Intensive Application in Silverlight

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Supports Solutions!

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With the goal of stressing out my new adopted baby, Brownie (yes I know it makes her sound like a dog but hey, what can I do, it’s brown and I wasn’t feeling very creative when I got her), I installed Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, because I figured that one day while sitting… Continue reading Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Supports Solutions!