Category Archives: Silverlight

I’m talking about WP7 at the UK Silverlight Group – 21 July

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

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 →

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Bloggers: Win a free place to the Silverlight Masterclass (worth £1095!)

Posted on April 27, 2010 by

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 →

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Using the DataStateBehavior for “Loading animations” in MVVM

Posted on April 26, 2010 by

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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I am talking at the UK Silverlight User Group tonight

Posted on September 29, 2009 by

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 →

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Pushing Data From the Server to Silverlight 3 using a Duplex Wcf Service

Posted on June 23, 2009 by

During a recent course with Stan James  we discussed how Silverlight 3 could be used with duplex services to push data from the server to the clients; I wanted to produce a simple example of how to do this.  Pushing data this way has a number … Continue reading →

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You’ve arrived at the new location for the “Silverlight for Business” blog

Posted on May 16, 2009 by

Silverlight for Business has been hosted over on Live Spaces for the last 6 months.  However there are quite a few issues with using that platform which don’t look like been fixed any time soon.  So for that reason I … Continue reading →

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