Everything you wanted to know about databinding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 (Part One)
Colin Eberhardt, April 5th, 2012
OK, so the title is a little ambitious, but there is nothing wrong with setting yourself lofty aims! Because of the depth of this topic I have decided to split this tutorial up into a series of blog posts, each of which explore a different aspect of the binding framework. I don’t usually write tutorial [...]
Visualising StackOverflow Tag Relationships with Silverlight
Colin Eberhardt, February 20th, 2012
UPDATE: I have posted the sourcecode for this control on codeproject. Recently I have been wondering about the wealth of information that can be gleaned from the 2.5 million programming question on Stack Overflow. A few weeks back I found a tag trending tool, which can be used to measure the rise and fall in [...]
The Gradual Decline in Silverlight Adoption
Colin Eberhardt, February 13th, 2012
Around one year ago I made the prediction that Silverlight would have an overall adoption of 81% by the end of 2011. The adoption statistics are now available and indicate that my predictions were wrong by more than 10%, with Silverlight adoption reaching just 67% at the start of this year. So what went wrong? [...]
TweetSearch – A Cross platform Metro UI WinRT and Silverlight Application
Colin Eberhardt, September 16th, 2011
With the Windows 8 preview release earlier this week, developers are now faced with a whole new and exciting Microsoft stack. The Windows 8 architecture has something of a split-personality, incorporating a completely new runtime, WinRT together with the older Win32 and .NET framework. However, these sit on different sides of a physical divide in [...]
Windows 8 – An OS of two halves.
Colin Eberhardt, September 15th, 2011
In this blog post I take a look at Windows 8 on the outside, from a user perspective; and on the inside, from a developer perspective to see how it will change the way we develop with Windows on tablets, smartphones and the desktop when it is released next year. In Anaheim, California, the Microsoft [...]
Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable?
Colin Eberhardt, August 16th, 2011
Microsoft’s recent change in stance over Silverlight, promoting HTML5 as “the only true cross-platform solution for everything”, seems to have sidelined Silverlight as a niche framework. This has understandably caused a great deal of upset and confusion in the .NET development community. Despite this, Microsoft are remaining steadfast and tight-lipped about their vision for tighter [...]
Silverlight UK User Group Presentation on Cross Platform XAML
Colin Eberhardt, July 1st, 2011
Earlier this week I presented a talk to the Silverlight UK User Group on cross-platform application development with WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Thanks to Gergley Orosz for these pictures Thanks to all who attended my talk. Here is a copy of the presentation I gave: You can see the Windows Phone 7 XAML [...]
Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide…
Graham Odds, May 6th, 2011
Building on the experience and expertise within Scott Logic, my colleague, Colin Eberhardt, has produced an excellent whitepaper considering the three big web technologies at the moment: Flex, Silverlight and HTML5. Recent advances in web technologies have resulted in a complex landscape for application developers to navigate. Coupled with the recent boom in new platforms, [...]
White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide…
Colin Eberhardt, May 5th, 2011
When meeting current and prospective clients the subject of web technology choice often arises. There has been a great deal of confusion and uncertainty out there, even before Microsoft’s perceived change of stance with respect to Silverlight emerged. This white paper is intended to help technology decision makers come to an informed choice when faced [...]
Announcing Visiblox Charts for Windows Phone 7
Imported Article, February 21st, 2011
We are proud to announce that Visiblox Charts for Windows Phone 7 Beta has been released in version 1.9 of Visiblox Charts and can be downloaded for free here.