Posts Tagged ‘Silverlight’

Creating an Epic Wedding Reception with Silverlight 4

By Petteri Lehtonen
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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This might no be very useful information when creating line of business applications, but I thought that it is cool enough that it’s worth sharing.

It all started when my brother decided to get married and organize a party after the ceremony… you know the usual wedding stuff… As a best man i wanted to do something to make this wedding stand out from the rest. Since i pretty much suck at everything not computer related so that’s what I had to go for. :)

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Silverlight 4.0 Navigation Framework and Prism

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

A few weeks ago I had a problem how to combine the Silverlight Navigation Framework (now on NF) with Prism. It is a known fact that the Prism and the NF are not directly compatible. The main problem was that the Prism makes the UI composition with regions and the NF uses frames. I wanted to use the NF because it interacts with the Browser History journal.

I googled to find a good way to do this  but all the solutions where somewhat limited or required some kind of hack. I was not happy with those so I dived deeper to the NF. I found out that in Silverlight 4, the navigation framework allows one to write own content loaders for the Frame. This is great because I could build my own content loader using Unity.

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From Windows Forms to Silverlight (WPF)

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Friday, January 22, 2010
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I usually start learning new technologies by doing something more than hello world example. This time I wanted to learn Silverlight and decided to build Othello game. I have done it with other technologies as well like Java ME so I was quite familiar with the game concepts. So I just rushed to code.

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