http://www.robertjantuit.nl Developing Usability Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some things can just make me smile for a week. It doesn’t happen a lot but when it happens it is like drinking nectar of the gods ;) Today I had one of these moments when I received an email from one of my co-workers with in it a ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2009/08/27/how-many-gbs-6oz/ Yesterday, there was the long awaited release of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3. So now we can finally bring all the new and exciting things onto live environments, and share it with the world: See the Light! For those of you who haven’t had the time to follow ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2009/07/11/silverlight-expression-blend-3/ Just a quick post to hopefully save a lot of other people the trouble I just went through. I had a Silverlight 2 and Web solution in VS2008 and converted it to VS2010 and Silverlight 3. After this conversion a setting is removed from the properties of the ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2009/06/29/no-debugging-after-converting-solution-to-vs-2010-and-silverlight-3/ Since joining MSDN I have been very busy doing some awesome new stuff. The last couple of months have been like a trip on a high speed train, on the roof while juggling 3 melons and tweeting about it at the same time. Of course most of the things ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2009/06/06/msdn-redesign/ In this article: - Unpacking and loading the assemblies. - Direct & Deferred Loading - Download Progress In part 1 (click to open) : - Rebuilding the AppManifest.xaml ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2009/03/06/silverlight-2-dynamic-assembly-loading-part-2/ In this article: - Rebuilding the AppManifest.xaml - (Re)compressing .xap files with 7zip Coming in part 2 (Click to open): - Loading the assemblies. Silverlight 2 by default packages all the referenced assemblies into one big xap file. This is a nice for deployment scenarios, but when you have a lot of Silverlight controls, using ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2009/01/30/silverlight-2-dynamic-assembly-loading-part-1/ Silverlight's big brother WPF has a lot of functionality that you would like to have in Silverlight 2. One of these features is a Tiling Image Brush. As many of you have probably already found out, it is impossible to create your own brush ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2009/01/28/silverlight-2-image-tiling/ I know I have been quiet lately, one of the effect of my move to Vancouver BC, Canada. As some of you may know, I was asked to come and work for Microsoft, first in Vancouver B.C. Canada, and later to Redmond WA, USA. So here I finally ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2008/11/02/goodbye-europe-hello-north-america/ The 6th and 7th of October, we are organizing our 17th! SDN Conference. 2 days of international and national speakers. Be sure to be there for I believe that this year is going to be one of the best ones we ever did! So if you haven't gotten a ticket yet ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2008/09/20/software-development-conference-2008/ The Scrollviewer is a great panel and very easy to use. But it has a drawback. It uses a method to set the scrollbars and content position. This means you cannot use a storyboard animation to animate this. I had 2 projects that required ... http://www.robertjantuit.nl/index.php/2008/09/13/storyboard-animation-for-the-scrollviewer-animationhelpercontrol/