wintellect-blogs|Mar 14, 2012

Understanding the Portable Library by Chasing ICommand (3 of 3)

Part 1: Creating the Portable Library (this post)Part 2: Portability in Silverlight and WPF: a Tale of Type ForwardersPart 3: Portability in Metro: A CLR and WinRT Love Affair (this post) Portability in Metro: A CLR and WinRT Love Affair In this series we’ve covered the portable library and reviewed how it allows you to…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 9, 2012

Understanding the Portable Library by Chasing ICommand (2 of 3)

Part 1: Creating the Portable LibraryPart 2: Portability in Silverlight and WPF: a Tale of Type Forwarders (this post)Part 3: Portability in Metro: A CLR and WinRT Love Affair Portability in Silverlight and WPF: a Tale of Type Forwarders In the last post, I walked through creating a portable assembly that will target Silverlight 4.0…
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Blogs|Feb 29, 2012

Windows 8 Consumer Preview 101

It’s finally here! Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you have heard the buzz around the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. If you haven’t had the opportunity to grab it and install it, I suggest you browser over to this link now and download your copy! There are many exciting new features, and this post…
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Blogs|Feb 9, 2012

Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack

Many eyes will be focused on Barcelona on February 29, 2012 when Microsoft releases the Windows 8 Consumer Preview or what many are calling the beta version of the new platform. You’ve probably heard quite a bit about the Metro interface. It has design roots in Zune, Windows Media Center, and Windows Phone. It presents…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 15, 2011

If Silverlight is Dead…

Once again speculation and worry has developers around the world biting their fingers and lamenting the end of a new era. It almost seems developers want to stick a fork in their Silverlight development because so many are latching onto the hype wagon, calling .NET “legacy” and refusing to see the bigger picture. Microsoft announces…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 14, 2011

Windows 8: What you Need to Know

If you are trying to follow the hash tag for the //BUILD conference you are probably dizzy by now. I don’t blame you for trying to sort through all the messages about standing in line for the toilet or what someone is having for breakfast. I thought it might be a good time to step…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 12, 2011

My Windows 8 Build Predictions

Tomorrow is the start of the major event that has been hyped as heralding the most significant changes to Windows in the past 15 years (the last was when Windows 95 was announced). There has been a lot of speculation around what will happen tomorrow. Some people claim it will be the death of Silverlight…
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Blogs|Aug 20, 2011

Tablet Development with Microsoft Silverlight

On August 6th I gave a presentation for ReMix South about tablet development with Silverlight. It was a fun presentation to give. I presented using a Motion Computing CL900 to demonstrate the difference between standard applications and ones that are touch-optimized. I also spoke quite a bit about why Silverlight was the strategic choice for…
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