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Visual State Manager [20:47m]:
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In Silverlight, controls (checkboxes, buttons, and most everything else) have a complete separation between appearance and behavior. This allows developers and designers to strip out the visual elements of a control and completely replace them. Without affecting behavior! This show is dedicated to showing you how to completely re-skin controls.
Parts, States, Groups–
There’s a lot of terminology specific to skinning. We explain, in a simple way, what these words are and how they’re used.
Visual State Manager-
The Visual State Manager (VSM) is a critical part of the skinning process. It helps simplify skinning in a way that’s unexpected.
Transitions-
How controls change their appearance is critical. Should you customize how this is done?
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffiths blog - http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/
Ian’s article on visual state in Silverlight control templates - http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2008/06/10/visual-state
Karen Corby 1of 4: Parts and States at a conceptual level - http://scorbs.com/2008/06/11/parts-states-model-with-visualstatemanager-part-1-of/
Karen Corby 2 of 4: Basics of skinning a control - http://scorbs.com/2008/06/18/parts-states-model-with-visualstatemanager-part-2-of-4/
Karen Corby 3 of 4: Parts and States with custom controls and more sophisticated transitions - http://scorbs.com/2008/06/23/parts-states-model-with-visualstatemanager-part-3-of-4/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
July 9th, 2008
Corrina Barber interview [13:09m]:
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Silverlight Skinning
Corrina Barber joins us to talk about the different ways to change appearance in Silverlight.
Skinning Words-
Corrina tells us about the different words used in Skinning. What are they? What do they mean? How are they being used on an everyday basis?
Different Ways–
Corrina talks about the different levels of changing controls. Do you want a movie to play inside of a button? Do you want to change the font of a text control? Do you want to completely change the appearance of a control?
Handoff-
The way that we copy skins between projects isn’t immediately obvious. Corrina tells us how it’s done.
Corrina’s blog
Useful links for the show:
Corrina’s blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
June 30th, 2008
Web V.next with Ted Neward [18:54m]:
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Ted Neward
Ted Neward rejoins us to talk about web V.next. What do we want it to look like? What rules should we follow when implementing it? What about this competition between Adobe, Sun and Microsoft, is it going to be a good thing?
Ted’s Blog
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
June 18th, 2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 [19:06m]:
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2
It’s out. You can download and play with the bits, and you can even build commercial applications on the web. However, there are some things you should know.
The Big Changes
Shawn tells us the major changes. What does it mean for developers? What new stuff do we get, and what old stuff has changed?
Gotchas
Shawn guides us through the potential problems with upgrading to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Listen as he explains his experience and shares tips.
Direction
Learn what’s publicly known about Silverlight’s status. Where are we and where are we heading?
Click here for Shawn’s incredibly popular Silverlight courses:
Useful links for the show:
Shawn’s blog - http://adoguy.com/
Shawn’s post on changes in Beta 2 http://adoguy.com/2008/06/06/What_s_Changed_in_Silverlight_2_Beta_2.aspx
Shawn’s post on upgrading to Beta 2 - http://adoguy.com/2008/06/06/Upgrading_your_Silverlight_2_Projects_to_Beta_2.aspx
Getting started with the new bits: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
June 12th, 2008
Ted Neward Interview [20:10m]:
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Ted Neward interview
Silverlight seems like an amazing and novel thing: we have rich programming constructs that execute on the client. But this has been tried before. Welcome to the late 90s. On this show, Ted Neward explains what went wrong and why.
Useful links for the show:
Ted’s blog - http://blogs.tedneward.com/
Additional information - http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/03/top-5-reasons-why-java-applets-failed/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
June 5th, 2008
Future with Silverlight:
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Silverlight in the Future
Ian (author of a premier WPF book) joins us again to talk about, among other things, the future of Silverlight. He’s got some well reasoned and informed points. Here are some of the things we discuss in today’s show:
Silverlight video and 3D
– Silverlight doesn’t have some of the fancy graphical effects that are in WPF. Ian takes us on a tour of why this is.
XAML everywhere?
– XAML is appearing everywhere in the Microsoft world. Why? What’s great about it? And where are some of the unexpected places we might see it cropping up?
Silverlight’s Future
– Ian takes a look in his crystal ball and gives us a guess as to what the Silverlight situation will be a year from now. In the process, he points out a surprising problem with Silverlight. A “problem” that is also one of Silverlight’s greatest strengths.
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffith’s blog - http://interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/ http://shrinkster.com/x7s
Ian’s WPF book - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-WPF-Chris-Sells/dp/0596510373/ http://shrinkster.com/xul
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 29th, 2008
Silverlight can be used for all sorts of things. This week we tell you how to make yourself smarter with Silverlight. We also bring up and answer some points from last week.
Useful links for the show:
Mindhacking with a Silverlight application - http://www.soakyourhead.com/
Neal Ford’s blog entry - http://memeagora.blogspot.com/2008/05/ria-platform-play.html
Shawn Wildermuth’s comment on Neals blog - https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9944221&postID=4109252449740897643
Our show with Neal - http://www.sparklingclient.com/will-we-regret-silverlight-neal-ford/
Special thanks to people who have helped make this show possible:
Jason Mauer
Jer Warren
Tyler Sample
Scott Hanselman
Ted Neward
Craig Shoemaker
Lots of others with help and advice
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 21st, 2008
Potential problems with Silverlight [17:46m]:
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*-Neal has put up a companion blog post. To read it, go here.
Silverlight is an impressive new technology, but will we regret adopting Silverlight a year from now? Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks makes the case that we will. In this show:
Platform Play
On the surface, Silverlight appears to be fairly open. Neal explains why this isn’t the case and why it is going to matter to businesses.
Testability
Neal makes the argument that Silverlight is not as testable as open-standards based technologies.
Last 10%
Neal thinks that Silverlight won’t be able to implement the last 10% of user needs. And that will leave Silverlight adopters in the lurch.
Useful links for the show:
Neal’s blog - http://memeagora.blogspot.com/
Neal’s site - http://www.nealford.com/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 14th, 2008
Neurons and Silverlight [17:52m]:
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Silverlight Interactions
Ian is a consultant, developer, speaker, and author. His excellent book on WPF (written with Chris Sells) can be found on Amazon. He knows Silverlight. And he knows WPF. This week he helps us with the following topics:
Why Silverlight?
– There are a lot of options out there. Why is Silverlight the right choice? Why isn’t it?
Neurons and Silverlight
– Old movies had a simple trick for freaking people out. Ian explains how this worked and how we can do the opposite in our Silverlight applications.
Where are the WPF applications?
- WPF has been out for a while now. But where are all of the WPF applications? Does this mean trouble for Silverlight? Ian guides us through these questions.
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffiths’ blog - http://interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/
Ian’s WPF book - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-WPF-Chris-Sells/dp/0596510373/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 8th, 2008
Silverlight Backup Plan
What if you have to ship an application immediately, but you need Silverlight-like features? Is there an option? Billy explains how XBAP might be a viable alternative in this week’s show. Here are some of the topics we discuss:
Interaction Design
– It is so critical in Silverlight, but how do you get started? Can anyone do it? Billy helps us out with these questions.
XBAP in place of Silverlight
– Sometimes Silverlight isn’t a viable alternative (after all it’s in Beta). There is a trick, though, that you can use: deploy as an XBAP application initially and then (when Silverlight 2 is released) role that code into Silverlight. However, it is a tricky process. Billy’s doing it in his consulting business, and he tells us some of the things to consider.
Billy’s upcoming WPF book
– Billy tells us about his book and how it’s different than the other books that are out there.
Useful links for the show:
Billy Hollis’ site - http://www.dotnetmasters.com/ http://shrinkster.com/x7q
Billy’s WPF book (not yet released) - http://www.amazon.com/Windows%C2%AE-Presentation-Foundation-Pro-Developer/dp/0735624186 http://shrinkster.com/x7r
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Don’t Stay In Bed by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
April 30th, 2008
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