Silverlight 2 RC0 is Now Live!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
A year and a half ago we got a taste of a new technology. This was a technology designed to leverage developers knowledge of .NET on the client side browser. Some call it Microsoft’s answer to Flash, but mostly everyone just calls it Silverlight. Today we’ve reached a milestone in this long and sometimes rocky road to having a small .NET CLR running cross platform in the browser. Today, Silverlight 2 RC0 went live.…
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Saturday, September 27, 2008
RTW for Silverlight is still off in the near future. The RC0 build of Silverlight is mainly for developers, but you have a very important web site launching in 22 languages over the next couple of weeks. The ad campaign can’t wait for the RTW of Silverlight 2. What on Earth are you to do? Well as I see it you really have a few options. Wait for RTW to switch to a newer build.…
It must be nice to be an MVP (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love Vista)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
A couple weeks ago a Microsoft MVP screamed at the top of his blog that he’d give Vista 2 more weeks and then he’d leave for the murky waters of XP forever. Well some folks at Microsoft jumped onto the case and figured out the problem . I have co-workers and friends and acquaintances and people that I probably won’t ever talk to again tell me that they hate Vista so much that they’ll never use it.…
Now Loading - A Public Service Announcement
Saturday, July 26, 2008
This is a web page. The browser says that it is done. There’s nothing obvious going on with the screen and for all that I know the page just won’t render. However, if you look really closely at the top left, in browser default font there is a number that is counting up. Eventually it reaches 100 and the site finally appears, but considering I have a truly blazing Internet connection I don’t usually expect to wait 30 seconds to see anything on a site.…
KB955011 Silverlight Update
Friday, July 18, 2008
Some of you may have noticed that there is a new critical update on Windows Update. This update brings Silverlight 2 Beta 2 up to a new build described in KB955011 . This update improves stability, media streaming, and the auto-update component. Most importantly for a lot of people is that this build improves support for Firefox 3. Up till now, I’ve received a lot of questions from people about Silverlight on Firefox 3.…
Silverlight.js V1 to V2 Change in Functionality
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
I’m sure there are a lot of changes in functionality in the Silverlight.js file from version 1 to version 2 beta 2. One of the ones I’m most excited about is that version 2 will automatically refresh the page after you’ve installed Silverlight so you don’t need to ask the user to restart their browser However, today I was updating the Server Unleashed site with the new Silverlight.js file and I found a breaking change that I hadn’t seen documented anywhere.…
WebClient Does not Send HTTP Headers By Default
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Something to keep in mind as you are coding your Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications is that the WebClient does not send any HTTP Headers by default. If you need some headers you must explicitly add them. For example, if you have a form you wrote in Silverlight and you need to post that data off to a web service or a POX page what you need to do is add something like this right after you initialize your WebClient (in this case the WebClient is called request):…
IE6 Is Now Dead to Me
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Hello out there in Internet-land. There is a shocking number of you coming to my web sites using Internet Explorer 6. I don’t think that you realize that a lot has happened in browser technology since August 27, 2001. You see, that date almost 7 years ago is the day that Internet Explorer 6 was released. At the time it was a fine browser, but that time has passed. It is time to move on.…
Get Ready for Silverlight 2 Beta 2
Saturday, June 7, 2008
We are down to the last hour that we have to live without Silverlight 2 Beta 2. I’m sure that many of you are wondering what you can do to help pass the time. Well you can get your computer prepared for the new bits by following a few simple rules: First, be sure to uninstall all of that old beta 1 crap from your machine. That includes any beta 2 builds that you may have been lucky to get.…
Why Silverlight?
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Today I was pointed to an essay by W. Daniel Hillis titled “Richard Feynman and The Connected Machine .” This essay started off with a phrase that I wish I could say, but never will get a chance to, “One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman.” Start an essay like that an I am hooked. Most of the essay is about Mr. Hillis starting a company that was building a massively-parallel-processor computer.…