Posts by Jeff Prosise

Silverlight 5 boasts a wealth of sexy new features, including a full-blown, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics API, support for custom markup extensions, multiple-window support in trusted out-of-browser apps, and the ability to run trusted applications in the browser (with sufficient permissions, of course). Post-beta, even more features will be added, such as support for invoking native…

Another of the minor but potentially useful new features coming in Silverlight 5 – and already present in the Silverlight 5 beta – is style data binding. Simple put, style data binding allows you to use data-binding expressions to assign values to style setters. It may not sound that exciting, but among other things, it…

Silverlight 5 boasts a lot of big new features, but sometimes it’s the little things that count. A case in point is the new RichTextBoxOverflow control, which simplifies the process of implementing newspaper-style layouts in Silverlight applications. It may not be as sexy as the new 3D graphics API, but RichTextBoxOverflow will be your best…

HTML5’s Canvas and CanvasRenderingContext2d bring something to HTML5 that has long been missing from HTML: the ability to draw pixels into a browser window. I wrote about the canvas API in a previous post entitled Making HTML5 Come Alive with the Canvas API. This time, I’d like to build on that post by exploring a…

One of the remarkable aspects of Windows Phone 7’s WebBrowser control is that you can build an entire Web site in isolated storage, point the WebBrowser control to it, and view the Web site on your phone. Once IE for Windows phones comes to support HTML5 (and that day can’t come soon enough, IMHO), this,…

I recently worked on a phone project that required me to tombstone a MediaElement control. Basically, I needed to save the current playback position when the app was deactivated, and restore it when (and if) the app was reactivated. So I whipped up something like this:   protected override void OnNavigatedFrom(NavigationEventArgs e) {     this.State["Pos"]…

Recently I have heard of a couple of cases in which apps submitted to the Windows Phone Marketplace were rejected because they continued running when an incoming phone call arrived. While the Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements don’t specifically state than an application must pause when a call arrives, it seems that certain actions…