Jose Fajardo
Silverlight and WPF
Monday April 28, 2008
Mesh has the potential to be HUGE
Once in a blue moon a technology comes along that knock's me over. Mesh is one such technology. Today I start on my "tour of duty" in the world of Mesh. Join me as I grow with this new technology.
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Thursday April 17, 2008
My "Digg Mashup" part 2 - laying your project out
Here are some reasons for how I structured my project Read more...
Monday April 14, 2008
My "Digg Mashup" that taught me so much about Silverlight 2.0 beta - part 1
Let me take you on a journey that taugh me so much about Silverlight 2.0 Read more...
Friday March 28, 2008
Live Messenger - Login Screen UI
On my adventures of learning Silverlight 2 I've recreated the UI for the login screen of Live Messenger. Alot of lessons learnt and great experience in first hand at building a realworld RIA, a video of my adventures will soon follow this post. Read more...
Tuesday March 25, 2008
How to create a spiral xAML asset
So many times I needed to create a spiral like shape in blend, I new that it could be done with mini-path language BUT the process to actually create it eluded me TILL NOW! With the help of some guru's over at the expression forums and the design tool I was able to create my spiral and cut-paste it in raw xAML form to blend :) Read more...
Tuesday March 18, 2008
Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 - Windows Media Player redone
I am going to walk through a sample I created that shows just how powerful the new layout controls and control skinning framework is within Silverlight 2.0. In a previous post I showed different skinning techniques and I will use that knowledge in this exercise. Read more...
Sunday March 16, 2008
Silverlight control contract diagram - useful for skinning
This is a diagram of all the Silverlight controls and there exposed contracts. This is useful when skinning controls, otherwise you would need to interrogate the MS source code all the time. Read more...
Friday March 14, 2008
Skinning a button - 4 different ways and counting!
On my adventures to remake Messenger into a Silverlight project I hit a snag, "how do you skin a control?". Well it's taken me a little while but now I know how to skin. The sum knowledge of what I have learnt over the last couple of days is in this post. Read more...
Thursday March 13, 2008
Silverlight 2.0 Beta Control Hierarchy
A graphical illustration of the Control Hierarchy of the Silverlight Controls. I thought that some people may find this useful, I plan on maintaining this diagram overtime. Read more...
Friday March 07, 2008
Live Messenger done with Silverlight 2.0 - Login Screen Layout
In this posting I will walk through the creation of a layout for the Login page. Using grid controls I will show how to achieve a near exact replication of the live messenger application. Read more...
Thursday March 06, 2008
Live Messenger done with Silverlight 2.0 - the beginning
Silverlight 2.0 beta is a platform designed for rich internet applications. Come with me as I prove this by taking you on a journey of rebuilding the Windows Live Messenger as a Silverlight application. I going to utilise all the cool new powerful features of Silverlight 2.0, hopefully by the end of this journey you will all be experts! Read more...
Wednesday March 05, 2008
Silverlight & WPF, what it means to me
Silverlight & WPF are technologies that are designed to take us .NET developers into the next decade. Just as .NET changed our coding world, so will Silverlight/WPF change our UI designing world. This posting is my rant on why I believe Silverlight and WPF are worth skilling up on now versus later. Read more...
Friday February 29, 2008
We need to Learn from flash
Flash has had several years to perfect it's craft, let's learn from our big brother! Read more...
