Codeappeal - A Microsoft Developer's Journal

Wrox Blox and Silverlight Animation

2007-10-10T19:14:00.001-07:00

Wrox has launched a new series of technology shorts named 'Wrox Blox' (formerly eBriefs). More in depth than your typical article yet more concise than your average book, these technology shorts are great for getting up to speed quickly on new technologies and subjects of interest. From the Wrox website: "Written by the best programmers in the their fields, Wrox Blox are short informational

Silverlight: Useful Tips for Working with the Latest Bits and Tool Previews

2007-08-09T21:50:00.001-07:00

The latest bits were just released for Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 along with updated previews of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Expression Blend August Preview, ASP.NET Futures, etc. That's a lot of updates - and a lot of hassle - but definitely well worth the effort. Of course, with every refresh of bits and update of tools, there's bound to be a few

Silverlight: Resizing a Canvas and its Child Elements - Together

2007-07-03T23:52:00.001-07:00

I was reading through the Silverlight forums this evening when I came across a seemingly obvious question, that had an answer that surpised me. Well, it probably wouldn't have surprised anyone else, but hey...The question asked was basically 'When I resize a Canvas object, how do I resize all of the child elements of the Canvas as well?'.My first thought was to iterate over the children

Silverlight Makes a Big Splash Today...

2007-04-30T21:40:00.000-07:00

If you are paying attention to the Silverlight blog-o-sphere today, you know that there were a lot of big announcements at Mix 07! Tim Sneath posted a bunch of screencasts on Silverlight highlighting some cool features and how-to's. (my favorites are the Video Overlay and Video Scrubbing tutorials).Mike Harsh announced on his blog that CLR support is now ready for a test drive in Silverlight.

Getting Started with WSS and MOSS Development Links

2007-01-10T21:15:00.000-08:00

The following list is my starting point for links to WSS and MOSS development. Really, this is just for my own organization efforts, but maybe someone else will stumble on these and get a head start. A lot of people have put a great effort into documenting their own lists already, so I've linked to them here as well. Thanks to them all for their effort!MSDN: Windows SharePoint Services Developer

Microsoft Offers Free SharePoint 2007 eClinics

2007-01-07T23:56:00.000-08:00

Microsoft is offering two free 2-hour eClinics on the following Office 2007 subjects:Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)These are an excellent way to get up to speed quickly on the capabilities of these new and upgraded products.Here are the links.. hope you enjoy:Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint®

WPF Composite Transformations - Order Matters

2006-12-07T02:27:00.000-08:00

Today, I got it in my head that I wanted to create some code that could break apart an image and then reconstruct it using animation. I wanted the image to simply “tear” apart, piece by piece, one piece at a time. Using WPF I was able to make this happen. The code to do this is actually very straight forward. In XAML, I

WPF Routed Event Model - Part 1

2006-11-01T20:37:00.000-08:00

WPF introduces a rich new event model for windows development. In windows forms development, an event is directed to a single object, usually the control that initiated the event. In WPF, events are routed through the Visual Tree, offering far greater flexibility in what we can do with the event and which element or elements can respond to it.

What is XAML?

2006-10-22T02:29:00.000-07:00

I've been digging in deep to Windows Presentation Framework for a while now. It is an incredible programming model, so I am going to be posting about it whenever I can.So, what is XAML? XAML is the new XML-based declarative language and part of .Net 3.0. If you haven't already read about it, it is used to declare WPF objects, properties, and event handlers using XML elements and attributes. The

Microsoft Offers Free .Net 3.0 eClinics

2006-10-16T00:26:00.000-07:00

Microsoft is offering three free 2-hour eClinics on the following .Net 3.0 subjects:WPF - Windows Presentation FoundationWCF - Windows Communication FoundationWF - Windows Workflow FoundationThese are listed on the MicrosoftLearning website as:"Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005"You can go here to check it out.

I'm Mike, This is my Blog

2006-10-15T11:00:00.000-07:00

Hi and welcome to my blog-space on the web!I am a software consultant working with Microsoft technologies - primarily .Net - and living in 'the OC'.I am a technology enthusiast as much as I am a developer and I plan to write as much as time allows about software, code, and .Net - especially topics relating to .Net 3.0I look forward to feedback as I hope to use this as a learning tool and