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API Diff Lists for .NET, Silverlight, and Windows Phone
First Floor Software has just released an updated version of their Diff Lists for .NET, Silverlight, and Windows Phone. These updated lists make it easy to see what classes and method are available when moving code from one platform to another.
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A Portable HTTP Client for .NET
Until recently, one of the problems with sharing code across .NET, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and Windows Store is the inability to make HTTP requests. Each framework supports one or more HTTP clients, but they are incompatible each other at an API level. The Portable HTTP Client package adds an adapter to paper over these differences.
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Phil Japikse on Telerik DevTools for .NET Q2 2013
Telerik has announced the roadmap for DevTools for .NET Q2 2013 which includes addition of new controls and features to their Ajax, Windows Forms, Reporting, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 product suites.
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Netflix Gives Up Silverlight, Chooses HTML5
Netflix has announced their intent to switch their video player from Silverlight to HTML5, the first implementation of the new player being done in Chrome/Chrome OS, with Windows and Mac OS X following soon.
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RadPivotGrid with Filters and OLAP
Telerik recently released RadPivotGrid control that enables you to build Microsoft Excel look and feel applications for WPF and Silverlight.
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NetAdvantage Reporting with Hierarchical Data and Enhanced Report Engine
Infragistics NetAdvantage Reporting 2012 volume 2 includes support for Hierarchical Data and Visual Studio 2012. It also ships with an Enhanced Report Engine and Pagebreak Control.
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Tools for Building Advanced Media Applications
In the //Build/, Mike Downey demonstrated the key technologies that are employed by developers to create advanced media rich applications using Windows 8.
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Silverlight.net Unplugged
Microsoft closed the official Silverlight resource site and redirected it to the MSDN developer center spreading rumours about the end of Silverlight.
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Math.NET Numerics with F#, Intel MKL and Vector Slicing Support
Math.NET recently released numerics library with improved F# including support for Windows Phone 8 and vector slicing.
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Avoiding Performance Pitfalls With XAML
The DependencyProperty and DependencyObject which form the building blocks for most XAML features come with a performance cost. An MSDN article “Optimizing C# for XAML Platforms” discusses this in detail along with ways to minimize its impact.
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Undo-Redo Frameworks For WPF and Silverlight
Undo and Redo are commands that are commonly expected by end users and, when well implemented, can improve an application's usability significantly. At least two libraries exist that can help WPF and Silverlight developers for this purpose - a recently announced Undo-Redo framework from Infragistics (CTP) and an open source library called Undo.
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Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet
Silverlight was originally seen as a Flash killer, but Flash itself is being replaced by HTML5. It was also seen as a way of delivering cross-platform applications, but iOS made that a non-starter as well. Surprisingly it is thriving in areas that were supposed to be the domain of WPF such as internal business applications and Silverlight 5’s updated security model reflects this.
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PhoneGap Now Fully Supports WP7
PhoneGap now supports all native functionality on Windows Phone 7 being on par with iOS and Android.
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Silverlight 5 – Full 3D Stack, Better Binding, Enhanced Trust Mode
Silverlight 5 has finally been released by Microsoft, with a lot of new features such as full 3d stack with XNA Libraries, several binding related enhancements, unrestricted File System access and more.
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Silverlight Has Had a Bumpy Road. Will It Have a Smooth Transition to WinRT?
Microsoft had a great vision for Silverlight, a framework and a set of tools that would dominate the web development landscape, but it fell short of that. There are rumors there won’t be any Silverlight 6. If that happens, how easy is for the Silverlight developer to transition to WinRT? Some numbers show that it is pretty easy.