Author Archives: ianblackburn
I’m talking about WP7 at the UK Silverlight Group – 21 July
I am presenting on Windows Phone 7 at the next SLUGUK meeting – should be fun. Rich Griffin will be joining me and we are expecting to have a real device or two to show off. Details are here: http://consultingblogs.emc.com/markmann/archive/2010/07/07/silverlight-uk-user-group-july-2010-agenda.aspx … Continue reading
Posted in Silverlight, Silverlight User Group UK (SLUGUK), WP7
Tagged Silverlight, SLUGUK, WP7
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Silverlight Masterclass Blog Entry Winner! – UPDATE
UPDATE: Unfortunately Alexsandar can’t make the course because he is based in Serbia and cannot get to the UK for these dates. So we redrew the competition and the winner (for the second time) is Gary Pretty – congrats to … Continue reading
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Silverlight Masterclass Bloggers Competition Extended
We are extending the date for the bloggers competition – it will now be draw on July 1st for the masterclass at the end of July so if you haven’t blogged yet have a go and enter the competition! Details … Continue reading
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Bloggers: Win a free place to the Silverlight Masterclass (worth £1095!)
bbits are giving away a free ticket for the Silverlight Masterclasses in June To enter the raffle all you need to do is use the exact text between these lines in your blog post, including all the links, then email … Continue reading
Posted in Blend 4, Designers, Developers, M-V-VM, PRISM, RIA Services, Silverlight
Tagged Blend, Masterclass, MVVM, Prism, Silverlight
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Using the DataStateBehavior for “Loading animations” in MVVM
Behaviours are growing in importance within Blend – especially for developing Silverlight and WPF apps using the MVVM pattern. In fact they are becoming so useful we have to wonder when they will be made available in the editor of … Continue reading
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Tagged Behaviors, Blend, MVVM, Silverlight
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Follow-up from Silverlight User Group Talk
Thanks everyone who attended my talk at the Silverlight User Group last night. I really enjoyed myself and was glad to see a hearty discussion around RIA services – which is surely the point of these sorts of events; to … Continue reading
I am talking at the UK Silverlight User Group tonight
I am chuffed to be talking at the user group meeting tonight, along with Ian Smith. Details here I will be talking about two things : Silverlightpulse.net This was the micro app I created before the Mix 09 conference in … Continue reading
Posted in RIA Services, Silverlight
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TDD Masterclass Free Draw – and the winner is….
Thanks for everyone who entered the competition for a free ticket for the TDD Masterclass with Roy Osherove, 21-25 September in Kent, UK. We had lots of entries and all the names were printed out and put into a bowl … Continue reading
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Bloggers: Win a free place for Roy Osherove’s TDD Masterclass (worth £2395!)
bbits are giving away a free ticket for Roy Osherove’s TDD Masterclass in September in the uk. To enter the raffle all you need to do is use the exact text between these lines in your blog post, including all … Continue reading
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New Silverlight 3 Training in the UK
bbits have produced 2 new Silverlight 3 courses; one targeted at designers, the other at developers building line of business applications. Both are bang up to date, including Sketchflow and Blend 3 for designers and RIA Services, PRISM and M-V-VM … Continue reading
Posted in Blend 3, Designers, Developers, M-V-VM, PRISM, RIA Services, Sketchflow, Training
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