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We now have all the details confirmed for the next SLUG.   Date: Wednesday 22nd July 2009 Time: 6:30pm onwards Venue: Microsoft's Cardinal Place   The agenda is:   Speaker: Ian Ellison-Taylor the General Manager of Client Platforms and Tools at Microsoft.   Ian will be covering the new features and insights into ...

Big thanks to Ian Smith for recording the Silverlight User Group, here is the recording of the 1st session which was given by Tricky, Ben and Phil from TrickyBusiness.  You can also see the 2nd session by Paolo Barone on a previous blog.   Silverlight UK User Group Meeting#7 Talk#1: Building a 'Top Trumps' Twitter Application for ...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Silverlight User Group last week.  We had over 50 attendees, which was an impressive number since it clashed with the Champions League Final, and a number of new faces which is always great to see. We were very lucky to have Ian Smith at the event who kindly recorded it all for us. Here is the 2nd session ...

Summary I ran into an interesting issue with Popup controls and controls that derive from ItemControl the other day – essentially “it no worky” unless the Popup control is added to the visual tree: System.Exception: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) This forum post helpfully discussed the problem and ...

After reading Jobi Joy’s post about a 3D Flip Control he had built. It gave me an idea about creating a Silverlight 3D Flip Action that can be applied to any UIElement. It also meant that I got to play with the new Plane Projection bits in SL 3.0. To do this sort of interaction in WPF I use a series of data templates that using template binding ...

I have been working on a Silverlight project, and the experience of using it for a period of several weeks on a real application has been quite good. I thought I would highlight three aspects that made it good. 1: It has real C# and .Net inside. The CLR used in Silverlight may be cut-down, but the developer experience isn't. We used Visual ...

Behaviors are new to Silverlight 3 and WPF. The main reason we now have Behaviors in Silverlight was due to the lack of support in Silverlight of triggers. Triggers in WPF are incredibly useful as they provide the ability to change the look and feel  of UI Elements dynamically based on the state of the application directly in the Xaml. In ...

A big sorry to all those who were due to attend the Silverlight User Group that we had to cancel last night.  You will be pleased to hear that Mark Mann is fine after falling down the stairs, but is still not able to walk properly (just in time for the weekend). Ian Blackburn was due to present at the event so has been kind enough to post ...

EMC Consulting / EMC Conchango have decided to hold Grok Talks at the 6th Silverlight User Group.  This is an excellent opportunity for those who would like to stand up and speak but do not want to do so for a full session (it is a great intro to presenting).  You will have a 15 min slot to talk about anything you would like ...

Last week Microsoft published the January issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this latest issue I talk about carving up the User Interface from the different prospectives of the ...