By Michael Washington on 8/21/2009 6:03 AM

We love SketchFlow over here at the Open Light Group. As Ian would say, it's "bomb-diggity". Well the Open Light Group has a Open Source project called SilverlightDesktop.net that uses draggable movable windows. We needed to make these windows in our SketchFlow projects because the point of SketchFlow is that you can quickly make a sketch that actually moves.

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By Michael Washington on 8/14/2009 9:38 AM

I finally got around to updating the Silverlight 3 Drag and Drop sample to use the latest Tim Heuer's Floatable Window.

His latest version fixed the problem with the left side moving while dragging the window to the right. We will work on this in the coming weeks as we prepare to eventually incorporate this into SilverlightDesktop.net. Our desire is to make Floatable Window work in SilverlightDesktop.net without modifying Floatable Window. This will allow SilverlightDesktop.net to benefit from future enhancements with Floatable Window.

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By Michael Washington on 8/9/2009 4:53 PM

I recently spent about 2 hours making a DotNetNuke Silverlight SketchFlow Viewer. After I had it working with about 20 files and directories the Blend 3 packager creates, I then realized that all you really needed to make it work is the .xap file.

Well Jan Olsmar already created a module Silverlight Media for DotNetNuke® that allows you to load a .xap file for a Silverlight application into your DotNetNuke site.

However, I didn't want my effort to go to waste so I added a way to upload the file through the application rather than requiring you to use the DotNetNuke...

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By Ian Lackey on 8/5/2009 12:21 AM

So I have been one of a dwindling number of VB.Net advocates since I moved from Classic ASP (or  in other words shortly after the dinosaurs went extinct and the wheel was invented). However, today was the first time I had to use C# because I simply could handle how I had to code the VB. Don’t get me wrong I am actually language agnostic and truly believe that any .Net developer worth their salt should be able to code in either C# or VB. I use C# for a few projects, but usually default to VB for production application because it is my “native” language. I figured I should preface this article with these statements in hopes of preventing the typical language wars that ensue when topics like this are addressed. Now to the point.

I have recently started an application for my employer (Washington University School of Medicine – Pediatrics Department) that would be built in Silverlight 3. It all began as every other project I have built for...

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By Ian Lackey on 8/4/2009 1:00 AM

In the previous article we outlined a possible solution to getting links to your Silverlight Navigation Application indexed in the search engines. However, the implementation of the process left much to be desired. This article will address how to make a more robust solution to the problem and deal with some rules imposed by the search engines to prevent your from penalized by the search providers.

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By Michael Washington on 8/2/2009 7:42 AM

The latest ADefHelpDesk release (A Free Open Source DotNetNuke Help Desk / Support Desk / Ticket Tracker Module) took over 30 hours of work. This is almost half the amount of time it took to create the first version. The reason it took so long is we finally added Localization. This allows users to create additional resource files that will allow site administrators to display ADefHelpDesk in different languages.

To implement Localization we had to go through every screen and replace all text with label controls and add a resource tag and an entry in a corresponding resource file. We also had to create an entry in the corresponding resource file and a reference to it in al the code behind code that generated any text on the page or in emails.

This allows site administrators to create or obtain resource files in additional languages that will allow them to display ADefHelpDesk...

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