Keyboard input is one of the most important aspects of truly rich programming environments. I understand that one usually identifies a rich interface as one which can interacted with visually. This interaction feels more natural than keyboard interaction. The mouse allows the user to feel as if he can truly manipulate the environment in which he ...

I've been playing with silverlight as a gaming platform for a few months now. I've not published or released anything I've done yet, but I expect I will at some point. I am not much of a game developer really, and I've been hacking things together as best I can. I, like many other developers, have always found game development to ...

I've been posting about some feature requests for ASP.NET/Visual Studio, so here's one more in that thread. One nice feature of Blend is the ability to select a chunk of XAML and choose to ''Extract User Control''.  The result works very nicely, creating the separate control and inserting the reference to that control into the original XAML ...

Check out Dan Fernandez, Adam Kinney, and others in this very funny 5 minutes video about Silverlight Rehab on On10.net.

The ASP.NET MVC library's source code has been made available on CodePlex, ScottGu announced today.  The project itself is still very much a work in progress, but with this you should be able to get a much better idea of how everything is laid out and working.  I think it's great the Microsoft is being this transparent with their ...

BradleyB has some great tips for troubleshooting installation problems with Silverlight 2 Beta 1, released at MIX last week.  I'm trying to avoid posts that don't do much more than link to someone else's blog, but in this case I was running into issues with my own Silverlight 2 upgrade and Brad's post had one of the things that I needed to ...

Playing with Silverlight and needed a simple way to redirect the page.  This isn't built-in yet but probably will be.  For now, you can call out to the page's script, and for this since I don't want to rely on the page having any particular function defined, I'm just using Eval() and passing in what I need. So, in a ...

So I'm working in XAML in Visual Studio 2008 and it has some nice statement completion features now, like automatically quoting my attributes for me (cool!).  When there's an item it knows, like Orientation=''Horizontal|Vertical'' it will give me a dropdown and after selection, put the cursor after the closing double quote, as you would ...

I missed this last week, but it appears that the 2008 Olympics in China will be made available online via Microsoft Silverlight.  Every minute of every event will be available on-demand.  Read more about it on Soma's blog. Obviously, this is a pretty major win for Microsoft as it tries to get penetration of Silverlight on as many ...

So I have been ignoring these messages I've been receiving for a while about Silverlight. Now I might not have ignored it, but it said my version of Silverlight expired. Ok so big deal. You might say, ''Why not just go get a new version?'' Well it says to go to a certain URL. You can't click on the URL, and you can't copy and paste the text. ...