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The Internet provides us with an ever-increasing amount of information. Despite this fact, most people are still not very good at multi-tasking. Unlike a computer, human context-switching wastes a tremendous amount of time and energy. As a result we have...
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I've been working on a massive cross browser, cross platform Silverlight application for the last year or so. One of the major components is file drag and drop (heretofore D&D, not to of course be confused with Dungeons and Dragons). Getting this...
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In my second-to-last post , I talked about showing Flash superimposed over Silverlight without the need to enable IsWindowless mode on the plugin. Something I foreshadowed but didn't discuss was where the Flash content came from, so I wanted to continue...
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Now, a lot has been written about Silverlight interop with regard Flash, not to mention HTML, JavaScript, WCF, and even other Silverlight controls. Like my last few postings on the topic, I want to call out that even though there's much blogging that's...
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Every once in a while you are presented with an opportunity to write something that is truly cool . And by "cool" I don't mean programmatically interesting or logically fun. I've done cool things with SharePoint list event handlers and...
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Something that's always impressed me about Silverlight (and has made my life a lot easier) has been the browser integration, both in terms of the HTML bridge and the navigation history functionality. I want to focus on the latter; the former has been...
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The SUESS Series Introduction Stage 1 - Upload Stage 2 - Encode Stage 3 - SmoothStreaming Our in-depth media adventure begins, well, at the beginning of the SUESS "lifecycle" with Uploading. This stage contains two sub-components: the Uploader...
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The SUESS Series Introduction Stage 1 - Upload Stage 2 - Encode Stage 3 - SmoothStreaming When Silverlight first came out, I was initially excited simply because, as I told my colleagues, "Now, we can do all that Flashy stuff too!" Growing up...
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Microsoft has done a great job with Silverlight 4, but many people don't know what the primary differences are, specifically as it relates to search engine optimization (SEO). The purpose of this blog post is to illustrate the primary differences...
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Hard coding, as anyone who has been development software for more than 20 minutes knows, is bad news. Yet it happens over and over, but probably more as a result of laziness than anything else. And I'm not afraid to say that I've been guilty too...
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No Thanks. I'll take my chances.