Archive for the ‘Silverlight’ Category
New Year, New Goals…
Posted by: sarah on: January 4, 2011
- In: Community | Goals | PowerShell | Silverlight | Windows Phone
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With 2011 arriving, this means that it’s time to figure out what I want to focus on this year. Here are a few things I’m looking into: Silverlight - no, it’s not going way. No, it’s not dying. It’s still around, and I’ve got a bit of work to do with it. So I’m looking [...]
Saving Details in Silverlight with Roaming Profiles
Posted by: sarah on: August 29, 2010
As I’m working on my Silverlight app and releasing it in the wild, I’m finding some cases that I would not normally deal with as a website developer. The latest gotcha has been saving user settings. So going back to my GiveCamp app idea… let’s say that I want to give the end user a [...]
Follow up to “Stringing Along … in Silverlight”
Posted by: sarah on: August 16, 2010
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In follow up to the problem I’ve been running into with StringFormat in Silverlight…. yes, there really is a bug with it. Tim Heuer blogged about it a little more. Check out his post StringFormat and CurrentCulture in Silverlight for a workaround.
Stringing Along to Disappointment in Silverlight
Posted by: sarah on: July 20, 2010
- In: Silverlight | SUX
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As I write more Silverlight code, I get more frustrated with its quirks. I love that StringFormat is included in Binding. However, what I don’t understand and what I don’t like is that StringFormat doesn’t seem to respect the CurrentCulture. Let’s say I have an app that’s tracking GiveCamp participation. Let’s say that my [...]
Thought Processes from a Silverlight OOB App Dev
Posted by: sarah on: June 19, 2010
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As I’ve been working on a major Silverlight project recently, I was talking with some app devs, who kindly reminded me that I can’t account for every click and every end user behavior. But I’m determined to user-proof my app as much as I can. I want the user experience to be as enjoyable as [...]
SUX: Silverlight Edition
Posted by: sarah on: June 16, 2010
Sometimes, things appear in the SUX (Sarah on User eXperience) series because they work contrary to my expectations. Silverlight is one of those things. For a web technology, Silverlight is more an app developer’s domain than a website developer’s domain. It really requires an application development train of thought. In these past few weeks, I’ve [...]
Silverlight 4 - Webcam Permissions Out of Browser?
Posted by: sarah on: May 16, 2010
While playing around with Silverlight 4 and working on my demos for my talk on Tuesday at the Cleveland WPF User Group, I came across a peculiar situation. I’ve got a webcam demo and wanted to see just what I could do with it to add my touches to it. Of course, being the curious [...]
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