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No Preview Images in File Open Dialogs on Windows 7
March 10, 2010 @ 1:55 pm

I ran into a problem with a File Open dialog in Silverlight (but this applies to any Windows File Open Dialogs) where I could not get image previews to work. It turns out this setting is controlled by Explorer Customization settings which is a pain to figure out while tracking down the issue.

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Silverlight ListBox Selections or what’s with SelectionChanged Events?
December 11, 2008 @ 5:18 pm

I was musing today on Microsoft’s obsession with OnSelectionChanged events on list controls in general and particularily in Silverlight, which is what I’m working with at the moment.In one of the apps I’m mucking around with I have a ton of sidebar menu selections that get displayed and the easiest way to drive these is with ListBoxes. They look something like this: As you can see this...

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Silverlight and Data Communications
November 20, 2008 @ 4:09 pm

Silverlight sports a host of 'data access' mechanisms that allow consumption of data from the server. However, if the data is highly dynamic and changeable the combination of a lack of dynamic data retrieval mechanisms, plus use of a static language like C# has made me wonder how to best approach the data access for a very dynamic application.

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Silverlight Adventures
May 07, 2007 @ 3:16 am

Well, here we are again - let the hype begin!!! Yup, we have a new toy to get excited about and this time it's Silverlight or Microsoft's entry in the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) space. RIA's are interesting to a lot of developers. I can't tell you how often I've heard the request over the...

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Silverlight and Threading
May 05, 2007 @ 7:11 am

I've spent the better part of the last couple of days playing around with Silverlight 1.1 and it's been an interesting experience. It's both exciting and frustrating at the same time - exciting because it's incredibly nice to see .NET code running in the browser and being able to debug it....

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Adobe Flex to go Open Source
April 30, 2007 @ 12:06 pm

Apparently Microsoft's entry into the RIA space with Silverlight is spurring Adobe to keep its lead in this space by going open source with Adobe Flex. For those of you that don't know, Flex is a pretty good Flash hosted application framework that is squarely geared at the application development...

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Beyond HTML: Rich Internet Applications
April 15, 2007 @ 4:58 am

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is a term used to describe non HTML based, low impact Internet applications. RIA’s typically run in the browser (although they don’t have to) and get their data from the Web server over HTTP. One of the big selling points of RIA’s is that they provide many of the...

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Mulling over WPF/E
March 03, 2007 @ 2:52 am

Spent the last few days looking over WPF/E finally and started to think about some of the implications or how it might fit into the Web dev platform for what I do. Answer - I'm not quite sure. There's some nice stuff, but it's also pretty limited and in a way not quite what I expected. This post is a mini walk through and some thoughts on the matter.

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