Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project

This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project (this post) After spending the day on Saturday consuming a lot of info on Silverlight [...]

Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started

This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started (this post) Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project Now I’m all set up I want to immerse myself with as much [...]

Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up

This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up (this post) Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project I already have Visual Studio 2010 Professional installed as I do a lot [...]

Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start

This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start (this post) Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project Okay so I set myself the fun goal of learning Silverlight. First thing [...]

Learning Silverlight

This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight (this post) Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project It’s been a while since I dived into Silverlight and rolled my sleeves [...]

New company website

We have just launched our new company website at Moov2.com where I’ve put a couple of posts on the new company blog. I’m going to try to keep this blog more technical now and keep them both updated… as per my usual posting diligence Also check out the all new Moov2 twitter account.

Flash Player Mousewheel event not firing

I’m not sure if this is an issue with a recent Flash Player, Browser updates, OS, Hardware or whatever but in a recent application I noticed really poor responsiveness on mousewheel scrolling. This was also picked up by the client so it was time to sort it. These sort of issues are always a real [...]

You’re doing handlers wrong

Okay so it’s a link bait, sensationalist title, but that fact I’ve recognised that fact makes it okay yeah? Anyway like I said you’re doing handlers wrong… or rather, to stop with the hype-generating, FUD-like statements; If you’re waiting for RPC/Async handlers to return in order to update your application’s interface then allow me to [...]

Fla to FXG to Flex 4 Spark Skins

I’ve been taking a look at Flex 4 skinning recently, a little late to the game but as the rest of the team was getting familiar I decided it was my time to step up. My first impressions were not that great but after familiarising myself with it I started to see the benefits. One [...]

DDD8a Review

Yesterday I attended DDD8a at Microsoft UK, Reading. DDD events are .net events organised by a group of members of the .net community touted as “by developers for developers” and this certainly holds true. This was the first ddd event I have attended but will certainly try to attend more in the future. The following [...]