Are you interested in keeping up to date and discussing topics about Windows 8, WinRT, Windows Store Apps?
Don’t forget to join the new “Windows 8 Experts” Group on Linkedin and start creating awesome applications for this great platform!
Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications and Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Windows Phone 7.1 (“Mango”) applications.
The new version 4.1 released on February 2012 is available for download here.
Read the official announcement by Blaine Wastell: Prism for Silverlight 5 Ships.
Today I’ve received the official communication: for the third year I’ve been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Silverlight expertise!
It’s always a great honor to be recognized and having the possibility to be part of this group of awesome people sharing knowledge and… passion.
My heartful thanks to all the people who supported me: my family, the great Silverlight team, my MVP lead Alessandro Teglia and all the community. You, all, rock!
I’m looking forward to a new year of amazing technologies: Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, WinRT, XAML, Windows 8 – WOW!
As usual, happy Silverlighting all!
During the //Build conference in Anaheim the release of Windows 8 Developer preview has been announced: you can download it from this link.
To get started an impressive number of video tutorials is available in the official site of the conference: http://www.buildwindows.com/.
Check out also this great post by Michael for downloading all the Build videos in your pc.
Useful resources are available in the SDK: all the XAML Metro style app samples are available following this link.
It’s possible to install Windows 8 side by side with your operating system using a boot from VHD: I’ve followed the instructions described here by Mister Goodcat and all went smoothly.
Also available for download:
For those like me (also) interested in WPF, a list of the new features is available here.
I’m pretty excited about all these news and I’m looking forward to all the great applications that will be built using XAML, Windows 8, Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone!
Happy XAMLing!
Great news today!
Silverlight 5 RC is available for download from the Silverlight.net official site:
http://www.silverlight.net/learn/overview/what’s-new-in-silverlight-5
This release contains a lot of new features including:
Pete Brown has a great post here and “the big list of what’s new and improved” here.
Some useful downloads and links:
Go, grab the new bits and Happy Silverlighting!
I’ve just published on CodePlex and the Expression gallery a new release of the Multi-Touch behaviors including these new features:
The source code and samples are available for download here.
Happy Silverlighting!
Landsat Touch for Silverlight is a new Silverlight based web application for browsing the newly published Landsat imagery available in ArcGIS on-line by Esri.
The sample comes complete with source code and uses the Silverlight/WP7 Multitouch Behavior available on Codeplex.
Happy Silverlighting!
Check out the original post by Grigori Melnik about the new release of Silverlight Integration Pack for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0.
A Quick look:
| Asset | Description |
| Validation Application Block | The Validation Application Block supports the following scenarios:
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| Logging Application Block | Allows you to decouple your logging functionality from your application code. The Logging Application Block routes log entries to various out-of-the-box or custom destinations (locally or through a web service), it supports runtime changes to, for example, turn existing logging up and down or change logging destinations. Batch logging is supported. The block is shipped with an implementation of a WCF Remote logging service that integrates with the desktop version of the Logging block. Additionally, tracing feature allows you to correlate log entries to a specific activity/workunit scope. |
| Caching Application Block | A brand new implementation of the Caching application block, which is mimicking the System.Runtime.Caching API from .NET with support for in-memory caching and persistent caching (via isolated storage). It has support for expiration and scavenging policies as well notification of cache purging. |
| Exception Handling Application Block | A port of the desktop version of the Exception Handling Application Block, which allows you to handle exceptions that might occur in any layer of your application in a consistent manner. |
| Interception & Policy Injection Application Block | Update to Unity container for Silverlight with support for type and instance interception. |
| Configuration support | The Silverlight Integration Pack offers flexible configuration options, including:
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| Reference Implementation | New Developer’s Guide and an accompanying Reference Implementation to illustrate the typical challenges when building a Silverlight LOB application.StockTrader V2 Reference Implementation (RI) (via a separate download) |
More resources, documentation and download links are available in the public announcement.
Happy Silverlighting!
David Catuhe has announced the availability of Babylon, a 3D engine written to demonstrate the power of Silverlight 5 Beta.
The source code is available for download here together with many other samples for Silverlight 3D in the MSDN Code samples gallery.
Also check out these useful resources by Aaron Oneal:
Happy Silverlighting!
Great announcements today during MIX11 in Las Vegas: Silverlight 5 Beta is available for download!
This is a list of some of the new features available:
Check out these useful links:
Happy Silverlighting!
