October 2008 Entries
As previously announced by Shawn Burke on his blog, the Silverlight Toolkit has just been released! Much like the AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET, the Silverlight Control Toolkit Team will be introducing new controls and features which may eventually make it into the Silverlight platform. I like to think of it as an incubator for new controls in Silverlight. This is really cool because it gives the community the chance to use the controls much earlier and provide valuable feedback to help influence the product direction. Another added benefit to this is that the...
It’s been a while, but Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 – Alpha 2 has finally been released! I have to admit that I changed the original goals for this release, but that’s the type of thing that happens when you get tons of unexpected support from the community. I’d like to personally thank Koen Zwikstra, Rob Houweling, and Shawn Wildermuth for helping with this release. Be sure to check out the new site at SilverlightContrib.org. While most of the project will be hosted on CodePlex, this site will serve as the main...
In a press conference today, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 2 on October 14th, 2008! Congratulations to the Silverlight team on this exciting release, this is going to be a great product!
Quite often, I hear people asking if they can use .NET assemblies compiled for the full .NET runtime in Silverlight. Unfortunately, this just isn’t possible, the Silverlight runtime is a subset of the full .NET runtime and for code to run correctly under the Silverlight runtime, there are various dependencies that must be linked and verified at compile time. But (there is always a but), there is one technique that you can use that effectively allows you to write your code once and have it work in both Silverlight and regular .NET applications. This isn’t a new technique, but I’m...
Chris Love will be presenting at PDANUG on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008. See you there! Topic: Leveraging httpHandlers and httpModules in ASP.NET Tuesday, October 14th, 2008, is the next meeting of the Pee Dee Area .NET User Group. Custom httpHandlers are a key concept eventually every ASP.NET developer needs to understand and start to leverage. Nothing is actually served from ASP.NET without a custom handler being responsible for it, even static content. Chris Love Chris Love has over 14 years of experience in software design,...