Andrej Tozon

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  Integrating Silverlight with Community Server 2008.5 I’m sure Telligent will fully enable Silverlight parts into future Community Server releases, but until then, a couple of tricks are needed to make Silverlight play well with CS. The following points were made with Community Server 2008.5 release. Include... 11-03-2008, 1:18 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Community, Layout, Silverlight

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  PDC is over Now we dance :)... 11-01-2008, 17:03 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Personal

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  Let there be Light! We all knew it was coming. Although not so soon. Now it is here. Silverlight 2. Open your Visual Studio. Grab your trusty mouse. Download the bits . And Light Up the Web! [4MB download 10 seconds install]... 10-14-2008, 0:51 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Silverlight

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  Developing for ASP.NET mobile Visual Studio 2008 introduced a lot of new features to support new technologies, adding some cool new designers to developer’s tool belt. On the other hand, support for some technologies was simply left out, leaving a some developers very unhappy. One... 09-29-2008, 1:44 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Software, Expression, Silverlight, ASP.NET

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  Until we meet again... You left so sudden I couldn't even say goodbye. You've lived a hard life, but did everything to make mine easier. Your faith, courage and love will continue to live on through your words and wishes: " Love one another ". I'll miss you, Mom!... 08-23-2008, 9:30 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Personal

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  Creating splash screens with Expression Designer Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer ? Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics... 08-15-2008, 15:28 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, WPF, Expression, User Experience

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  Splash Screen in WPF 3.5 SP1 Besides improving application startup time, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 also allows developers to add a splash screen to WPF applications. The splash screen is shown using native code, even before WPF application starts to load. In reality this means the splash... 08-11-2008, 14:03 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Software, WPF, User Experience

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  Live Europe Weather Map in action As promised , here’s my Live Europe Weather Map in action . This is still just a basic example of displaying icon pushpins on a map, and because I’m using Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control , I don’t need to worry about how map is handled and pushpins... 08-11-2008, 2:12 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development

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  VSM4WPF While next release of WPF (3.5 SP1) won't yet align with Silverlight's " Parts & States Model "  by not introducing VisualStateManager into its API, it's good to know that VSM is definitely coming to WPF. Even more, John Gossman has... 08-09-2008, 0:50 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, WPF, Silverlight

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  Silverlight Olympics Want to tune into 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games with Silverlight ? Not in the United States, you say? Well, tough luck ;) This IP restriction thing is getting sillier by the day... Isn't Internet supposed to be global? What happened to World Wide... 08-08-2008, 11:09 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Software, Silverlight

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  The tide is high – new MS downloads SQL Server 2008 RTM is out! Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 RTM is out! Sync Services [now @ v2] is “synchronized” with Sync Framework Peer 2 peer database sync support Sync with device’s Database SQL2008 Change Tracking supported Sync process tracing A... 08-06-2008, 11:57 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Software

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  Live Europe Weather Map with Windows Live Tools Map Control A while ago I built a sample weather map using Atlas [now Microsoft Ajax] and VirtualEarthMap control, which used real-time data to display current weather conditions. VirtualEarthMap control was steadily progressing all this time as a part of a separate... 08-04-2008, 14:28 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development

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  Label.Target Pt.2: The return of the (not so) attached property Following my previous example , this is another experiment with the Label.Target property. Suppose you want to restrict user’s progression with data input on a form by disabling some crucial input fields, which input depends on some other fields on the... 07-31-2008, 18:21 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Layout, WPF, User Experience

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  Label.TargetProperty as a Source One of probably most underused features in windows desktop UI development world is got to be the use of a Label as an accessor to its pair control. I rarely see developers using this possibility to enhance keyboard UI navigation. A couple of things changed... 07-29-2008, 16:43 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Layout, WPF, User Experience

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  Do it with Style! In my previous post I've shown how to create a named brush resource in WPF, which can be used and reused through whole application. Although I gave a brush a meaningful name (WindowBackgroundBrush), it can as well be used to paint areas other than... 07-25-2008, 16:54 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, WPF, User Experience

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  In the beginning, it was Black This is the first post of what I would like to believe will be a series of thoughts on creating a good User Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation. I have no idea where this will take me, but I'll start with a color. You like black? We've got... 07-23-2008, 6:26 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, WPF, User Experience

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  Code'n'slides from this year's NTK conference The following are the links to the materials I used on my talks on this year's NTK08 conference : What's new in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5? PowerPoint Code/Demo Solution [C#] Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 [2+hr Hands-On-Lab] Manual SQL... 05-19-2008, 6:43 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog

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  They tried to make me go to [Silverlight] rehab... ... I said no, no, no... It's too late for me, I'm afraid. But this guys went after experiencing Silverlight 2.0. Here's their story: Silverlight Rehab - You're not alone   [recommended viewing for some April 1st fun] . And how long will it take... 04-01-2008, 15:04 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog

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  Experience new Silverlight skins Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for giving your application a sketchy appearance when in early stages of development. However, if you don't find the green color she used sketchy enough,... 03-24-2008, 15:24 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Layout, Expression, Silverlight

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  Silverlight 2.0: Creating a basic animation through code In my previous Silverlight post, I mentioned Silverlight 2.0 API now allows creating animations through code. While this wasn't possible with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha [you would have to create of piece of Xaml, declaring a storyboard with all animations... 03-10-2008, 0:52 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development, Silverlight

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  Installing Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview If you're considering installing Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview over Expression Blend 2 December Preview, make sure you uninstall the December Preview first, and then continue with March Preview installation. When doing vice versa, you'll lose... 03-08-2008, 2:50 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Software, Expression

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  First couple of days with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Here's some notes on my first experience with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1: Installation Runtime - quick, smooth. Like it's supposed to be. Tools for Visual Studio 2008 - if running Alpha version of the tools, you'll have to uninstall it first. During the install,... 03-07-2008, 16:13 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Software

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  Mix'n'stuff As expected, a lot of stuff was shown and discussed on the MIX08 keynote today: eight - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ( download ): better standards compliance, backward compatible mode, faster faster JavaScript implementation, embedded debugging tools,... 03-05-2008, 17:11 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Software, WPF, Expression, Silverlight

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  How well do you know your Culture? When doing code reviews, I often stumble upon a piece of code with some culture-specific information hard-coded in it. One example of this being month names: string [] months =     {         "January"... 02-28-2008, 6:33 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Development

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  WLM tip: just paste the image to send it over While conversing over Windows Live Messenger the other day, I became aware that not everybody knows about its feature to send an image over by simply pasting it into the message window. You know, instead of the lengthy process of pasting PrintScreen -ed... 02-24-2008, 14:23 by Andrej Tozon to Andrej Tozon's blog Filed under: Software