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Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file

Mar 18 2010, 10:16 PM by Nick on Silverlight and WPF

Here's the API listing for the Silverlight 4 release candidate (RC). I included mscorlib.dll this time, as well as a couple DLLs I forgot the last time. For more details about these...

Encoding fun with XmlWriter and StreamWriter

Mar 18 2010, 05:00 PM by Marcelo's WebLog

This post provides the results for yesterday's post , where we discussed encoding for XML, Unicode and the presence of the Byte Order Mark (BOM). Without further ado, here they...

MIX videos and slides available for download

Mar 18 2010, 01:00 PM by Marcelo's WebLog

This was actually available as of at least yesterday: go to http://live.visitmix.com/Videos and get your fill of MIX session videos and slides. There are even a few scripts that help...

Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4

Mar 18 2010, 12:37 PM by Even a chimp can write code

Thanks to all those who attended the talk "CL10 - Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4" at the Mix 2010 conference or caught it via the recorded session online...

XmlWriter, encodings and BOM

Mar 17 2010, 05:00 PM by Marcelo's WebLog

Today I want to talk about XmlWriter and the generation of a Byte Order Mark (BOM). XmlWriter provides an API that generates, unsurprisingly, XML. This XML will typically end up as...

OData rocking at MIX10

Mar 16 2010, 05:00 PM by Marcelo's WebLog

Today is the second day of MIX10, and if you've watched the keynote, you know there is a huge commitment to OData, with both runtimes and a data marketplace ("Dallas"...

Bing for Nokia S60

Mar 16 2010, 04:38 AM by Stimulant

Silverlight application for Nokia S60 Read More...

Deploying Application built using RIA Services RC

Mar 16 2010, 03:24 AM by Saurabh Pant's Weblog

Today at MIX ‘10 we announced the public availability of WCF RIA Services RC bits. A few months back, at PDC ‘09 when we released our Beta bits we received strong feedback around making...

David Poll: Silverlight 4 XAML Parser Overhaul

Mar 15 2010, 11:27 PM by Rob Relyea - XAMLified

At PDC09, we discussed that our direction was to invest in improving the Silverlight XAML parser. We didn’t announce a timeframe, but I’m happy to see that this work successfully...

The Surface team gets visitors, with toys! (the D&D kind)

Mar 15 2010, 08:34 PM by Microsoft Surface Blog

There was a lot of excitement last month over in Surface-land. We had visitors from Carnegie Mellon University bringing over their Dungeons & Dragons application. The Microsoft...