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Silverlight Movies (Silverlight + Live Search)

Nov 21 2008, 03:56 AM by Kathy Kam

In my last post , I said I have been working on a demo project that I had to wait to till PubCon's announcement of Live Search 2.0 API ! So without further ado... here is a preview...

WUX 203: Introduction to the Silverlight Controls Framework

Nov 21 2008, 03:17 AM by Kathy Kam

Sorry it took me a little longer to post everything, but here is my deck and my demo . Please note that the demo is provided under the Microsoft Public License , and I provide...

MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 Beta on its way...

Nov 20 2008, 05:00 PM by Marcelo's WebLog

As announced on the XML team blog, MSXML 4.0 SP3 beta is coming ... This is of course a great opportunity to remind everyone that MSXML 6 is the version you probably want to be using...

Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help

Nov 19 2008, 10:39 PM by Windows Presentation Foundation SDK

If you've installed the Silverlight Toolkit after Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected...

Discount pricing on Surface in the US extended

Nov 19 2008, 07:30 PM by Tales from the Microsoft Surface team

At PDC we announced special pricing for Microsoft Surface. We've now extended that pricing through the end of November. It's a great discount for those developers who got their...

Limiting how many entities are returned from an ADO.NET Data Service

Nov 19 2008, 05:00 PM by Marcelo's WebLog

If you want to limit the number of entities returned from a service, you have a few alternatives... If you're writing code for the client, the easiest way is to just use the '...

WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008-11-19

Nov 19 2008, 07:31 AM by Rob Relyea - XAMLified

WPF Controls Jaime Rodriguez – Jaime did a quick port of the Chart controls from the Silverlight Toolkit to WPF . And he gave me a quick jab at the end of the post. :-) WPF Mike...

How to P/Invoke VarArgs (variable arguments) in C#? ... or hidden junk in CLR

Nov 19 2008, 06:44 AM by Just code - Tamir Khason : WPF

Recently I wrote a cheat sheet for pinvoking in .NET . Shortly after I got a question in comments about how to deal with variable arguments, when it's more, then one parameter....

Discuss! Is there confusion about styles versus templates?

Nov 18 2008, 07:30 PM by Windows Presentation Foundation SDK

Are you or have you been confused by what is a style and what is a template? Our documentation hasn’t always been as clear as it can be when discussing Styles and Templates and we’re...

Filter not working in ADO.NET Data Services?

Nov 18 2008, 05:00 PM by Marcelo's WebLog

I know this probably sounds kind of silly for a blog post, but: 9 times out of 10, if your ADO.NET filter isn't changing the results you get back, make sure you are using "path...