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• Silverlight Video Scrubbing

  A common feature of most video players is the ability to ‘scrub’ video or to ‘scrub’ the time line of a video. When we say ‘scrub’ we basically mean being able to change the position of the video by clicking on a line or icon and dragging it along a line... Posted Jan 02 2008, 07:59 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, XAML

• Quick and Dirty JSON

  So you want to write a JSON service for your Silverlight application? Basically this entire thing is a giant hack. first JSON is just the string syntax for JavaScript so it is not like a real protocol of course I get a bit of heart burn calling 'SOAP'... Posted Jan 01 2008, 10:01 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, C#, Visual Studio, JSON

• Silverlight Firestarter

  Come up to Microsoft and check out this free conference they are putting on. I'll be there. You be there too :) November 29, 2007 Microsoft Redmond Campus 1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA Building 33, Kodiak Room ** Please have a photo ID with you to register... Posted Nov 08 2007, 08:11 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight

• Silverlight, JSON and Automatic Design Asset Zip and index generation...

  Lets say we have a huge silverlight application. And lets say that we have a lot of images, xaml and media that we use in our application. Silverlight does a great job of allowing us to use downloaders and catch events and deal with it but lets say we... Posted Oct 23 2007, 02:01 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, C#, Visual Studio, JSON

• Popfly goes Beta

  Yea, Popfly Beta has gone live and now is open for everyone. I'll have to go in and clean up some of the controls I did... Posted Oct 18 2007, 10:41 AM by david.kelley with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: javascript, popfly, david kelley, silverlight, blendables

• Wiring Silverlight Into the Browser History/Back Button

  While watching a presentation Jason Cook was doing on flash he suggested some of the tricks used by other technologies could be used with Silverlight. The trick I was interested in was particularly being able to wire things into the browser history so... Posted Oct 16 2007, 11:19 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Jason Cook

• Building a TextBox in Silverlight 1.0...

  One of the problems I have seen a lot of is building full blown forms in Silverlight 1.0. For the most part, Silverlight apps have placed HTML over Silverlight. This certainly works, albeit not the ideal situation and Silverlight 1.1 promises to deliver... Posted Sep 26 2007, 03:04 PM by david.kelley with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Textbox

• Parsing XML in Silverlight 1.0 - Cross Browser

  So the little XML mini me is great for simple stuff but when you really need to do real work with XML you really need a more robust solution that includes a real XML parser. Now that can prove problematic especially when it has to work in lots of browsers... Posted Sep 25 2007, 07:36 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, XML

• Path Performance Issues in Silverlight

  So I was talking to Jared and Devin and the other designer/integrator types this morning and some one pointed out that when you create a Path that uses stretch and has a height and width Silverlight takes a huge preformance hit. Not sure why this is as... Posted Sep 24 2007, 11:29 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Jared Potter, Devin Brown

• Silverlight Host Loosing Mouse Capture...

  So one issue we have had to deal with in Silverlight is loosing Mouse Capture. So inside the context of a silverlight application this isn't an issue. The problem is when we have a small embeded silverlight app, say a media player for instance that... Posted Sep 18 2007, 10:36 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Jared Potter

• Cross Browser XML Parsing in Silverlight

  One problem we have seen and dealt with allot lately is parsing XML client side. My favorite solution I must admit is to just toss out XML and use JSON as it is so much more elegant. In the case of the ET Minisite we did as of late this turned out to... Posted Sep 09 2007, 06:11 PM by david.kelley with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, XML

• ET Online and Silverlight

  Check out this site that we build in Silverlight... http://www.etonline.com/emmys/ This site was built in one week... lots of blood sweat and tears and thousands of lines of JavaScript... The fact that we build this in one week really show cases the ability... Posted Sep 05 2007, 10:27 AM by david.kelley with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Jared Potter, Devin Brown, Mark, andrew

• Identitymine Does it Again...

  check out this link: http://www.brockett.net/?p=232 More to come... Posted Sep 05 2007, 07:43 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Jared Potter, Devin Brown, Kurt Brockett

• JavaScript Class Structures

  So 8 years ago or so I worked for this company and was hired to fix and admin tool they wrote in JavaScript... The system had 10's of thousands of lines and loaded as an HTA and looked and feeled like a win 32 app. This was cool but everything they... Posted Sep 05 2007, 07:23 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Jared Potter

• Silverlight 1.0, JSON and (gasp) PHP

  So we are doing this really cool Silverlight app that I'll blog lots about when it goes live but one particular thing that is cool is our use of JSON. One one isues was that we are hosting this on a non microsoft approved web server... gasp (I know... Posted Sep 04 2007, 05:15 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, Mark