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• An Early Look at Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit 1

  Posted: 14 Jun 2009 at 11:33 by Michael Sync

  Introduction This post is just an early look of upcoming Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit. I know that this is very early state but I’m writing about this here because I would like to get the feedbacks from the community so that I can prioritize the plans based on what the community want. If you are a fan [...]

• Silverlight Attached Properties: Binding.UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged

  Posted: 10 Jun 2009 at 07:50 by Michael Sync

  Note: It is one of my answers from Silverlight Forum. Problems UpdateSourceTrigger is not supported in Silverlight until version 3.o. Workaround You will need to set the focus on other controls and re-focus to the control that you are using. For example: You are typing in TextBoxA. You want to have UpdateSourceTrigger support for that textbox. So, what you have [...]

• Bindable WPF RichText Editor with XAML/HTML Convertor

  Posted: 09 Jun 2009 at 15:33 by Michael Sync

  Introduction This post will give you some tips/tricks of using Rich Textbox in WPF. As we all know, the build-in WPF RichTexbox doesn’t provide some features that we are looking for so if you are in need of using RichTexbox in WPF project, you should know that you will need to roll your own implementation (at [...]

• Xuenn + RTI (Real-Time Innovations) Data Distribution Service!!

  Posted: 09 Jun 2009 at 13:50 by Michael Sync

  RTI (Real-Time Innovations ) posted the news saying that we, Xuenn, are using their Data Distribution Serivce in for our Sport Betting Platform. You can read the details here.

• Things that make me disappointed these days

  Posted: 08 Jun 2009 at 15:37 by Michael Sync

  1. Windows 7 on Sony VAIO - VGN-C25G/B I love technology. I love the most latest things when it comes to technology. This is what I am. I can’t control myself not to install Windows 7 on my machine as soon as it’s up on MSDN subscription downloads. then, CRASH!!  I don’t want to repeat how [...]

• Be careful when you are naming the Silverlight Class Library!!

  Posted: 04 May 2009 at 09:02 by Michael Sync

  Do you know why? because there are some limitations that you can’t use when you are naming Silverlight Class Library. It happened to us. We named one of our Silverlight Class Libraries with “.Resources” postfix. Then, we got a lot of trouble. I’m not sure whether you guys are aware of this “by-design” issue or [...]

• Did you know? - Silverlight Class Library can’t be named with “.Resources”

  Posted: 04 May 2009 at 09:02 by Michael Sync

  Not sure whether you guys are aware of this “by-design” issue or not. We got a lot of headaches when we are implementating the localization for WPF and Silverlight project. We have spent around 1 or 2 days just to solve this problem. Here is the steps to reproduce the issue. Create Silverlight Application (e.g. SilverlightApplication4 ) with [...]

• My Wedding!!

  Posted: 03 May 2009 at 14:41 by Michael Sync

  April 20, 2009. Yes. I got married on April 20, 2009. I married with my girlfriend of 7 years 10 months. We have been together since 2001 (our collage time) and I’m glad that we finally did it.

• Hpa An, Kayin State

  Posted: 03 May 2009 at 13:54 by Michael Sync

  Hello everyone!! I hope you all are doing well. Yes. I’m back!!! I was on long vacation and was very far away from Internet for two weeks so that a lot of mails are waiting for me. anyway, let’s forget about works and mails for now and let me upload some of my cool photos [...]

• Silverlight/WPF: Implementing PropertyChanged with Expression Tree

  Posted: 09 Apr 2009 at 15:34 by Michael Sync

  Source Code: RaisePropertyChangedExample.zip [94.4 KB] Credits: Thanks to Paul Strong and Soe Moe for sharing this code with me. Introduction This article will show you how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface with Expression Tree. I’m sure that the most of WPF/Silverlight developer are already familier with implementing INotifyPropertyChanged interface because this is the most important thing that you [...]

• My blog is 3 years old now!

  Posted: 03 Apr 2009 at 16:04 by Michael Sync

  Note: This post has been posted with back date since I couldn’t write anything on that day. Hey there!! My blog is 3 years old now. It was so fast!! I’m still feeling the day that I started this blog. As I wasn’t that familiar with any blogging software, I did a lot of searches and [...]

• Silverlight MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Award

  Posted: 02 Apr 2009 at 21:02 by Michael Sync

  Hello everyone! I got MVP award for Silverlight this year. I’m really really happy about that.  (Thanks, god! It wasn’t April Fool! ).  Thanks so much, everyone! I would like to give my special thank to Justin Angel and Lilian Quek. I promise that I will try to contribute as much as I can for [...]

• Silverlight 3: Array Helper

  Posted: 22 Mar 2009 at 13:03 by Michael Sync

  Here is the collection of Array-related functions that are missing in Silverlight. I will upload the sample file with Unit Test later. The Silverlight Unit Test Framework which is released in December is not upgraded with Silverlight 3 so I will wait for new version. Please feel free to give any suggestion, feedback or report any [...]

• Download Silverlight 3 (Beta1) - Download

  Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 12:32 by admin

  Download Links for Silverlight 3 (beta1) Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1  ( download ) Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 SDK Beta 1 ( download ) Silverlight 3 - Documentation ( read here )

• Book Review: Silverlight 2 in Action

  Posted: 17 Nov 2008 at 17:15

  Have you guys read Silverlight 2 in Action book? I just finished reading the final version of this book. It was great! This is my second time that I read this book. I’ve read the early version of this book because Steven Hong, Marketing Coordinator of Manning Publications send me the MEAP copy

• Silverlight Glass Button

  Posted: 08 Nov 2008 at 10:54

  Martin Grayson wrote an amazing tutorial about how to create a WPF glass button using blend in his blog. He explained each and everything in very details with the step-by-step instruction. (You can find Tutorial.doc in the sample file of his post.)  I’ve been thinking to create the similiar on

• Silverlight Toolkit - Using Silverlight TreeView Control

  Posted: 28 Oct 2008 at 17:55

  The tutorial is written for those who are very new Silverlight TreeView control. The control that I’m using in this tutorial is from Silverlight Toolkit CTP - October release. Contents Introduction Getting Started with Silverlight Treeview Adding the TreeViewItem from Cod

• Silverlight Toolkit CTP released

  Posted: 28 Oct 2008 at 17:22

  What is Silverlight Toolkit? Silverlight Toolkit is the set of controls and utilities for Silverlight Developers. Those controls are not integrated yet with Silverlight Core Library but its likely to be a part of Silverlight Core in future. As the time of writing, the following controls are availabl

• Silverlight 2 Contest: Time to vote

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 03:37

  Hey everyone! This is time to choose the winner from The Silverlight 2 ‘Write and Win’ contest. There are 8 articles submitted in total. Please vote your favorite article here. You get a chance to vote your faviorite author until 23:59 GMT 05 October. The winners will be announced on 06

• Silverlight 2 Contest: Time to vote

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 03:37 by Michael Sync

  Hey everyone! This is time to choose the winner from The Silverlight 2 ‘Write and Win’ contest. There are 8 articles submitted in total. Please vote your favorite article here. You get a chance to vote your faviorite author until 23:59 GMT 05 October. The winners will be announced on 06