Deep Zoom Collection Downloader
Just for fun I’ve implemented a Deep Zoom Tiles Downloader which recreates the original image from a deep zoom composition. Additionally the downloader can download the original composition from the...
View Articleevidence nova running on Windows Phone 7 Series
Panoramic applications are a part of the core Windows Phone 7 CTP experience. We already have a large web application built with Silverlight 3. The fact that Windows Phone 7 supports Silverlight as its...
View ArticleOpening a Microsoft Office documents with Silverlight
Situation From our Silverlight application we must be able to view documents. Documents are stored in an existing document management system and are accessible through a WCF REST service. It sounds...
View ArticleOptimize Data Contracts for better WCF Performance
Out of the box Silverlight provides two message encoding types for sending SOAP messages over the wire. These are TextEncoding and BinaryEncoding. MTOM encoding is still not available within...
View Article.NET Reflector – Working with different profiles for Silverlight and the Core...
.NET Reflector is a one of the 10 Must-Have utilities for .NET developers. If you need to work with more than one version of the .NET Framework, especially with Silverlight and the Core Framework (3.5...
View ArticleListening to DependencyProperty changes in Silverlight
The dependency property system is a pretty nice concept. Receiving notifications for dependency property changes on an existing object is a very common scenario in order to update my view model or the...
View ArticleType.GetType implementation with help of XamlReader
The Type.GetType method is different in Silverlight than in the standard .NET runtime. In Silverlight we must provide the fully qualified assembly name to get a type from an assembly. Only built in...
View ArticleRelativeSource Binding with FindAncestor mode in Silverlight
Silverlight 3 introduced the RelativeSource Binding that is well known from WPF. Unfortunately Silverlight only supports the two modes Self and TemplatedParent. I don’t know why the FindAncestor mode...
View ArticleExpression Blend Samples not working with Silverlight 4 and WPF 4
This blog post is just to document my experience with the Expression Blend Sample source together with Silverlight 4 or WPF 4.0 If you are using the Expression Blend Samples from codeplex...
View ArticleVideo about my first Windows Phone 7 App in the marketplace
It demonstrates the access to our backend system called “evidence” and allows to browse online through different data objects. Check out the video (put sound on…)
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