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Learning Silverlight: Auto-run a Storyboard in Sketchflow

One thing I want to have in the project prototype I’m working on in Sketchflow is the ability to run a storyboard automatically when a form loads. This is a fairly straightforward process. I’ll demonstrate it using a progress bar whose value progresses from 0 to 100 after the screen loads. Click [...]

Installing XAMPP on Windows 7

I just switched over to using Windows 7 with a full development setup including IIS 7 and Sql Server 2008 (including reporting services). I also use Apache to edit a local copy of my blog and websites. I decided to let apache run on the default port 80. In order to do [...]

Setting SketchStyles in SketchFlow

When I first started up SketchFlow to create a prototype, by default all of the controls were styled using the standard controls styles rather than the sketch-like style I had seen in the SketchFlow demos. It wasn’t obvious to me how to use the sketch style and I didn’t find it easily, so here’s [...]

Learning Silverlight: Hosting Silverlight Content

One of my latest quests is to learn more about Silverlight.

One of the first things I wanted to figure out is how, if I’m going to be developing Silverlight apps, can I publish them on my site so I can share them. So far I’ve found three ways to do it. For purposes [...]

Using Git and OpenSSH for Windows Development

I have a linux server I’m hosting over at Linode that I use to host this blog along with a git repository for my development projects. I found that there are many guides on configuring git for use with your own remote repositories on linux, but getting things set up on windows was a [...]

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