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September 2007 - Posts

• Silverlight 1.0: Applying a Render transform dynamically

  Here is an interesting one. Typically with the Silverlight 1.0 object model you can access properties and methods directly through Javascript. Now given this you would expect that to dynamically set a Transform, for example a rotation on a TextBlock, Read More... Posted 27 September 2007 11:57 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 2 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• CreateSilverlight.js and Silverlight.js

  When you starting using Silverlight you will quickly become aware of these magic javascript files called CreateSilverlight.js and Silverlight.js that are part of your projects. I've seen a number questions around why these scripts are there and how Read More... Posted 27 September 2007 09:21 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 1 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, MSDN

• Silverlight error codes

  When working with Silverlight you can often come across cryptic error messages.Fortunately Benjamin Nitschke has done a great job in attempting to document some of the more common ones that occur and made avaible on his blog. This can be a real time saver Read More... Posted 25 September 2007 13:02 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 1 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Deploying a Silverlight application to IIS and nothing shows up?

  I'm currently working in the depths of Silverlight and we've recently come across a interesting issue when trying to deploy to a test environment. As ever, everything was working fine locally, but when we deployed to a W2K3 box the Silverlight Read More... Posted 21 September 2007 10:15 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 2 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, IIS, Fiddler

• Good engineering practices breed good software

  Seems obvious when you state it out loud, however it is quite amazing how many companies seem to miss this crucial fact when trying to deliver software. To give some context to this topic I was going through my usual evening reading of blogs when I came Read More... Posted 04 September 2007 20:19 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 0 Comments Filed under: Ruby on Rails, .Net, Convention, Development, Configuration, TFS, Google, Engineering