Subject: Silverlight and Microsoft Phone

Start: To be discussed at 9-10:00 with  1 hour lunch break at 12-12:30

End: approx. 15:00 – 16:00

Location: To be announced (until 24 July) – unfortunately, seems that everyone is in holiday, so organizing this workshop location will take a while.. Sorry guys!

Language: The talk will be given in English.

We’ll have quite a few products presented in the first part, allowing anyone to get a familiar with:

Microsoft Phone is the newest type of phone on the market and it is driven by Windows 7. Unlike the iPhone, the specifications of Microsoft Phone are available for other phone producers, for example Asus, LG, HTC or Samsung, who have in development different versions of the device. Thus this is an open platform, ready to be accepted by the world.

Silverlight is now at the 4^th version, proving itself a reliable tool to create a wide range of applications starting from mobile applications to dynamic banners and up to database driven business applications. Silverlight is a real candidate to the Adobe Flash / Flex platform. It also worth mentioning the hardware acceleration and full HD playback features.

Expression Blend is the counterpart of Visual Studio for designers. It has deep integration with it and allows designers to easily create rich visual application. We’ll just scratch the surface of designing in Blend; hopefully you’ll get to love this smart tool.

In the second part of the workshop we will create a Twitter client on the Microsoft Phone simulator (the physical device is not available yet) using the knowledge accumulated prior.

Content:

1. Microsoft Phone general presentation
2. Guidelines for designing mobile application
3. Silverlight 4 – introduction to mobile development
4. Blend – basic design functionalities
5. Development of an Twitter client on Microsoft Phone

Target audience and prerequisites: The target audience of this workshop is young developers. Programming experience at Beginner level is required.

if you choose to bring your laptop, be sure to have installed the following:

• Windows Professional 7
• .NET Framework 4.0 RTM
• Expression Blend 4 RC
• Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh (incl. VS2010 Express for Windows Phone und XNA Game Studio 4.0)
• Microsoft Expression Blend Add-in Preview 2 for Windows Phone
• Microsoft Expression Blend SDK Preview 2 for Windows Phone

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Silverlight and Windows Phone Workshop

Itemis company is specialized in Model Driven Software development. Its products ranges from mobile and embedded applications to Eclipse Modeling Project. They also offer Consulting and coaching and Agile project management.

We acknowledged today that there's more in SCRUM than just that we learned  from the Agile Lab and OOSC class: we had the opportunity to get real life, production-grade advices on how actually this technique (who is used to manage the projects) can help companies to finish projects in a timely and budget manner. Also, we understood that Agile techniques complement really well the SCRUM managing by filling the gap in software development. So both these methodologies can drive creation of a software product to a success if properly managed and understood.

We had in the first part a general theoretical presentation of the concepts and the involved roles who helped me remember the key concepts learned also in the Agile lab. In the second part, we had a more practical presentation on how these techniques are applied. Mr. Trompeter was very patient with us, students, interrupting himself many times to respond to our questions.

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Today's presentation came as a practical complement to the Object Oriented Software Construction(OOSC) course, who introduced us with concepts as

With all these in mind, I'm very happy that I took part to this presentation. I left with a very nice package of information who I hope will help me in my career.

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SCRUM Presentation

As example, you can find mine by following the link: https://mcp.microsoft.com/authenticate/validatemcp.aspx and insert Transcript ID: 770644 and Access Code: radupoenaru.

New exam, new MCP ID

I recently took a Microsoft Certification exam. I passed it and now I’m Certified Technology Specialist in .Net 3.5. As a parenthesis, Microsoft, in its attempt to save the nature and thus paper, give  the paper certificate only upon request. And because in my staying in Germany, I started appreciating more and more the nature, so I don’t believe that I’ll request it.

But more than this, the Certification center sent me a link to activate my Microsoft Certified Professional program. This also implies that you’ll get a new MCP ID. So I am in the position of having 2 separate places to show to my possible employers that I own the certifications.

How can one merge its 2 MCP IDs?

In the mail, received after my certification exam, there were 3 pieces of important information:

• Microsoft Certification ID
• Access code
• Microsoft Learning Assisted Support – where I found a number for Microsoft help center in Germany -  (0800) 7563210* (toll-free number). Business hours are : Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M) in Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time).

*(please check their website again before you call) 

The information that you need when calling there are:

1. your MCP ID found by following these few easy steps:

• on https://mcp.microsoft.com/mcp – you need to login with your Live ID that is attached to the ID,
• then from the left menu click on View my … menu item.
• From the new page that opens, click on the Transcript link, just under the big, central picture
• then scroll down to the Microsoft Certified Professional Transcript section and just beneath you’re address you’ll find the Microsoft Certified Professional ID: xxxxxxx . It has 7 digits in my case.

2. the Access code from the mail

3. your home’s Address with which you’re registered on the MCP site (for extra verification I suppose)

I called and after selecting  1 -  For Microsoft certifications I was redirected to a nice lady who helped me consolidate my accounts. The help was prompt and very useful.

At the final, she’ll ask you if you want to keep the old MCP ID or the new one, generated with the latest certification. I choose to keep the old one, as I have it on my website and also in my profiles on LinkedIn or Xing.

Still, beware of the fact that this modifications usually happen in a 5 Business days time span, so it is better not to have any exam in this window of time or you’ll have to call the center again

What’s next?

I asked also what should-I do at my next certifications exams in order to receive all my certifications in one place. The answer is as you register for a certification to mention that you already have a MCP ID and thus your new certificates will be added under it.

That’s it, folks! Another cool experience with a very Happy User Experience from Microsoft.

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How to Consolidate 2 Microsoft Certified Professional IDs

Lately, I wanted to update my blog’s theme to the newest version. But hey! I had a lot of modifications such the one above that kept me from doing a smooth update: BNR Slider, custom images for RSS and Twitter, hints, Syntax Highlight and so on.

The newest solution that I come up with is using a child theme, feature provided by WordPress engine. Basically, you have a theme applied to you blog that you like. Instead of modifying it, you create a new folder in theme’s directory with a special name who’ll be applied OVER your base theme, customizing only the aspects you need. Assuming that your theme’s name is MyFavoriteTheme, you’ll have to create the child theme as MyFavoriteTheme-child.

In order to use your new theme, you’ll have to create in the MyFavoriteTheme-child folder two files:

1. styles.css – required – who’ll mark your folder as a child theme
2. functions.php – optional – for our example is required, as we’ll write code inside of it

First, you Really need to setup the styles. The content is simple and explained in this straight-forward article.

The most interesting part is the functions.php, where we’ll define code to add our Syntax Highlight classes. You’ll have to put all needed JavaScript files in the /scripts folder, in the root of the WordPress install, and the css files respectively in /styles folder. This is just for easy of migration from one theme to the other, if you get bored or want to change your current one.

Then, in the aforementioned functions.php from your MyFavoriteTheme-child folder you have to insert the following text:

<?php
$path_to_scripts = "/scripts/";
$path_to_styles = "/styles/";

function register_syntaxhighlight() {
  wp_enqueue_script('shcore',  $path_to_scripts.'shcore.js');

  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushcsharp', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushCSharp.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushcpp', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushCpp.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushcss', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushCss.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushobjc', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushObjC.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushjscript', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushJScript.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushphp', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushPhp.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushplain', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushPlain.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushruby', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushRuby.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushsql', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushSql.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushxml', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushXml.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushas3', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushAs3.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushjava', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushJava.js');
  wp_enqueue_script('shbrushSql', $path_to_scripts.'shBrushSql.js');

  wp_enqueue_script('shstarter', $path_to_scripts.'shstarter.js', array('shcore'));

  wp_enqueue_style('shcore',  $path_to_styles.'shcore.css');
  wp_enqueue_style('shThemeDefault', $path_to_styles.'shThemeDefault.css');
}

add_action('init', 'register_syntaxhighlight');

?>

The code explanation:

1. First we set some global vars, to know where the directories are;
2. Then we create a new function in which we add one by one the scripts required for the site – you can add the ones that you use and when you’ll post some content that requires a new brush, the shCore will kindly alert you that one of the brushes is missing, specify also the name of it. This way you’ll load only the ones used and no more, keeping the webpage size low and quality high.
3. wp_enqueue_script assures that the script will be loaded once. So if it is already loaded by any other plugin or theme, you will not have it downloaded twice;
4. finally, we add an WordPress action, binding to the init hook and add there our code.

After uploading your code to your WordPress install (be careful to names – Linux is case sensitive), you’ll have to select as theme the child theme, so your modification will be applied. Until you’ll select the child theme, you will not see any changes!

That’s it, folks!

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How to add Syntax Highlight to WordPress

Yesterday I’ve become Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Applications by passing the 70-562 exam!

First, I want to share with you my web development background:

• I have around 4 years of ASP .Net experience. Mainly, my experience is on .Net 1.1 and 2.0. I developed for mobile devices when there weren’t yet smart phones around us. I’ve worked on a solution that connected an Asus Palm to Nokia phones, first providing the interface, second providing the connectivity to a collection of webservices who provided encrypted and authentication for data exchanged.
• Then I’ve worked on a governmental website, creating features and maintaining it.
• Later on, I’ve managed the entire lifecycle of a website, from hosting, Windows Server / IIS maintenance to development and deployment of the website.

Let’s get to my experience in this exam…

Why .Net 3.5?

Almost all blog posts claim that the .Net 3.5 is just an extension of .Net 2.0, but when getting deeper, you realize that those developers who worked on it really produced a good quality product with many improvements and many added features over the previous version. Mainly, you’ll understand here the point of having a .Net 3.5 certification.

Comparing .Net 2.0 to 3.5 we’ll find a big difference. For example:

• ASP.NET AJAX
• New ListView and DataPager Controls
• LINQ
• WCF Support for RSS, JSON, POX and Partial Trust
• JavaScript Debugging and Intellisense
• Multi-targeting Support

.. and more on this you can read on Microsoft Official Statement.

Preparing the Exam

I first took a very good first look at the Self Paced Book. Considering my experience (but I believe I was too confident in it), I proposed myself that I will need a half month to prepare for this one. I’ve thoroughly read the book, I’ve read all the stuff and did the exercises in the Labs and also thought and implement the use cases. This was very helpful, but frankly not enough applied information, as the theoretical part was predominant. My goal was to learn and apply it, not just pass the exam.

So I used both the official preparation guide and a few other complementary good books to cover some of the aspects the training kit did not cover well enough, as follows:

	MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-562): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Application Development Your 2-in-1 SELF-PACED TRAINING KIT features official exam prep and practice for Exam 70-562. Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-562—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.
	Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this groundbreaking new technology. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 as a whole, illustrating both the brand–new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 3.5 applications in the best possible style.
	Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 Rather than obscure the relevant LINQ principles in code examples by focusing on a demonstration application you have no interest in writing, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 cuts right to the chase of each LINQ operator, method, or class. However, where complexity is necessary to truly demonstrate an issue, the examples are right there in the thick of it. For example, code samples demonstrating how to handle concurrency conflicts actually create concurrency conflicts so you can step through the code and see them unfold.
	Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls and AJAX Components Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls and AJAX Components is a reference for the serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object–oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, and server control development. This book also covers SharePoint and targets the latest version of Visual Studio (2008) and the .NET Framework (3.5).

As I proceeded with my learning, I end up to the conclusion that I have to do the following steps in order to get it right:

1. Read a chapter
2. Reflect on it
3. Find another good book if there were still questions on the theoretical part
4. Do the labs
5. Take the practice tests
6. Find good solutions for the test cases – this is important because that gives you “company-like” training. They represent the best source of understanding the underlying technology better.

Taking the Exam

First of all, you should find a testing site on Prometric. Then you might want to call them to enroll for a test or just register at a test site that you’ve find on the website. They have a lot of 0-800 no-charge lines here. Beware that there are some very busy periods in the year, when a lot of people schedule their 2nd shot. I was in the position of searching all test sites in a city to find that 1 out of 10 had free seats.

Duration: 3 hours (but in the exam registration confirmation they say 4 hours)

Passing score: 700 / 1000

The required score to pass this exam is 700/1000. At the end of exam, you’ll get  the score and note that there is only the pass or fail grade as the end result; beyond that the actual score you get does not have any importance.

During the exam, the best approach that I found was getting through the full set of questions once, set my responses and then going back for review each of them. Some questions body might be the answer for others if you are lucky enough(I suppose they have a huge database with questions for each exam, so the chance of two people having same questions is slim)

In the process of navigation from one question to the next there is a slight delay (in order of 4-8 seconds). You might want to consider these as well when setting up your time for your questions review. I only needed 2 hours for my exam so I finished really early.

My Points and Suggestions

1. Use the training kit as a guide only. The questions in exam, even if they resemble with the ones from kit, are really deeper, tougher and trickier. You can get a deeper knowledge by practicing and reading the details on the documentation (MSDN).
2. During the exam, you have to rely also on your feeling on technology – there are questions that can’t be found in the Training kit. Educated guessing and luck is the key for these. In my personal example, the mobile section needs further reading.
3. A good idea is to have with you a bottle of water and some Mars or Snickers – the exam will be very brain intensive so you might need more fuel along the ride
4. Don’t forget the two different papers required for your admission. They don’t mess with Identity.

That’s all, folks! Good luck with your certification!

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MCTS in ASP .NET – exam 70-562

We were 5 students(unfortunately, one is missing from the picture), most of us Junior Students Partners. We were also preparing our first workshops. This training combined theoretical and practical knowledge, helping us in creating a better atmosphere and easier share the knowledge to our auditorium.

The workshop, who was a fully blown 2 days (on the second day we had like 10 hours). We started with a base line presentation. This was supposed to be a baseline, to understand where we need improvement and a comparison base for the presentation in the final, to see what we learned.

In meanwhile, we learned more about

• speech,
• gestures,
• body language,
• how to use and smoothly change different media types (projector, board, pin wall etc.)
• how to understand better our audience,
• how to avoid and solve conflicts

.. and many more.

The atmosphere was typically Microsoft – I enjoy it fully! We had a lot of types of juices, water, coffee (really good one) – I felt like in Google’s movies about how their employees work. Here are a few pictures on us:

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I left this workshop with a real satisfaction – it was worth the time! I meet new people, talk on the technologies that I love, get real advices about how a real spokesman should be. If you have the chance of doing an workshop like this, don’t miss it!

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Rhetorik und Präsentationsworkshop

The next workshop of the Microsoft Student Partner in cooperation with the student body of Uni Bonn is coming!

This time is about the basics of ASP.Net and Visual Studio 2010. The workshop provides a starting point in Web programming by many practical exercises in small groups. Aim is the development of smaller Web projects, such as photo albums or guest books.

The registration is free. You can register until Thursday, the 20.01.2010 12: 00 pm by E-mail to schaller@informatik.uni-bonn.de. Space is limited by the number of available computers in the CIP pool. We have 24 fixed stations and six more places available for students with their own laptop. Please give at registration details if you will bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2010.

All participants can receive, upon request, a certificate of participation in the workshop.

Content: Basic Visual Studio 2010 development

Target: Web development

Requirements: there are no previous experience required. Each student can participate, the new Visual Studio 2010 is the pleasure to learn.

Language: The presentation will be held in German.

Speakers:

1. Ali Albazaz (ali.albazaz@studentpartners.de). He studied computer science at the University of Bonn and 2 since April 2010 as Microsoft Student partners on the road.
2. Radu Poenaru (radu.poenaru@studentpartners.de). He studied media Informatics at RWTH Aachen and is since April 2010 as Microsoft Student partners on the road. More information you can find on http://www.radupoenaru.com/

We are waiting for you here (Windows-CIP-Pool N222 in  Römerstraße 164, Bonn, Germany ):

Come, learn and share!

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Workshop: Introduction to ASP .Net

As I presented earlier, you can easily create a Silverlight video player and you can see it working pretty nice. Not to mention that it can play  a lot of formats and it is only 344 kb in size!  Now let’s see how this is possible and how can one do it on his website.

From the start, Silverlight was meant to be as easiest as possible to develop and deploy. Also, the cross browser (running on all major browsers) and cross platform (running on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows) was a requirement. But more than this, not to depend on the server side on .Net framework was also important. So you can deploy and run (only for running you’ll need the Silverlight Runtime installed) your app no matter the OS (Operating System).

This is why we discuss today on adding Silverlight to WordPress and not on How to deploy Silverlight on Linux. From the server’s OS point of view, Silverlight is just another file so you don’t need any plugin nor installs on the server side. It is on the client side where it is downloaded, setup with parameters and processed and here you need to install the Silverlight runtime – a mere of 4 Mb. If you’ve developed prior Adobe Flash application, you’ll feel very natural on the process. So let’s begin our ride to add your Silverlight application to WordPress.

Step 1.

Develop your Silverlight application. You should have a .xap file built in order to go further.

Step 2.

Upload to your WordPress blog your Silverlight application to a folder of your desire and then the Silverlight.js file that you find in your Visual Studio solution, in the web application project (I prefer to the root’s scripts folder). If you don’t find it, you can take it from here, but beware that this might be outdated. Afterwards, create a new file, called silverlight_app.js ( I prefer lowercasing all my server side files so I won’t have problems with case-sensitive OS like Linux). In that file, paste the following script (the default way to handle Silverlight errors) and then upload it also:

function onSilverlightError(sender, args) {
    var appSource = "";
    if (sender != null && sender != 0) {
        appSource = sender.getHost().Source;
    }

    var errorType = args.ErrorType;
    var iErrorCode = args.ErrorCode;

    if (errorType == "ImageError" || errorType == "MediaError") {
        return;
    }

    var errMsg = "Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application " +  appSource + "\n" ;

    errMsg += "Code: "+ iErrorCode + "    \n";
    errMsg += "Category: " + errorType + "       \n";
    errMsg += "Message: " + args.ErrorMessage + "     \n";

    if (errorType == "ParserError") {
        errMsg += "File: " + args.xamlFile + "     \n";
        errMsg += "Line: " + args.lineNumber + "     \n";
        errMsg += "Position: " + args.charPosition + "     \n";
    }
    else if (errorType == "RuntimeError") {
        if (args.lineNumber != 0) {
            errMsg += "Line: " + args.lineNumber + "     \n";
            errMsg += "Position: " +  args.charPosition + "     \n";
        }
        errMsg += "MethodName: " + args.methodName + "     \n";
    }

    throw new Error(errMsg);
}

Add references to both files in your WordPress theme’s header file, inside the <head></head> tag (you can edit the header.php).Note that even if the theme’s folder way deep from the root, the actual page processing is done in the root, where core web files are located. This is why we have added scripts with this path:

<script src="scripts/silverlight.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="scripts/silverlight_app.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Step 3.

Create a new article in which you put the Silverlight object. Note that some blog editors (like Windows LiveWriter doesn’t like to have inside the article < or > so you’ll have to replace them with their HTML equivalents &lt; and &gt;). Also replace the PathTo with your actual path  where you uploaded your Silverlight application ( can be a relative path or full http path – as long as you point to the application’s directory) and YourSilverlightApplicationName.xap with the actual name of your application :

<form id="form1" style="height:100%">
<div id="silverlightControlHost" style="width:400px; height:300px" >
    <object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%">
	  <param name="source" value="PathTo/YourSilverlightApplicationName.xap"/>
	  <param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
	  <param name="background" value="white" />
	  <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="4.0.50401.0" />
	  <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
	  <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=4.0.50401.0" style="text-decoration:none">
			  <img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161376" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/>
	  </a>
    </object><iframe id="_sl_historyFrame" style="visibility:hidden;height:0px;width:0px;border:0px"></iframe></div>
</form>

Step 4.

Post the article and your hard worked Silverlight application!

That’s all!

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Add Silverlight to WordPress

I am and will be a Microsoft Developer. While working for convenience with other tools, I love strong type languages. I don’t want to ship products because I saved once and hit “s” one more time, so my product will be shipped with that small, human and yet unpardonable error in code.

How many times did you loose your time and effort with PHP in order to find a small mistake like this?

In my pursue on Microsoft tools path I started enjoying the Silverlight technology. Who might not know, Silverlight is a competitor to Flash. By now, on its 4th version, is way above Adobe Flash in almost all areas (I actually worked with Flex and Flash recently, so I really know what I’m talking about):

• Easy to develop : the C# language is a world class, easy to write in, with good compiler, a lot of resources and a VERY good IDE (try to write code and animations in same time in that Flash IDE and you’ll see what I mean)
• Supports Full HD (there are examples on the net with 2 or 3 full HD movies playing), while Flash just tries to get HD with lots of CPU used.
• The model of development is the same for in Browser and Out of Browser – you don’t need to change the tool from Flash to Flex in order to have same product for Desktop and Web.

So I want to really learn, but what example shall I have? My second job as student is to work in Uni-Bonn, developing a Ruby on Rails solution for them. While this is also an interpreted language, the RubyMine IDE makes it possible not to miss a variable or a mistyped string. It doesn’t provide types, but still, it’s a step forward. To improve my Rails skills I use a lot the website of a professional Ruby developer, Ryan Bates. He has a lot of RailsCasts and he adds one each week. But unfortunately, being an Apple user, the movie is encoded as .mov file. I discovered that on the second link, with smaller font, provides also an .m4p link.

So I  started developing a web Silverlight player for its movies. Yeah, I know, the web is full of them, but I wanted to lean this technology and also improve my access to Rails Casts.

I begun with a simple Silverlight project, adding a MediaElement on the canvas and set its Source property to a movie. It immediately started playing – was a nice experience by now. But you need controls for moving along the movie timeline, a list from which to choose your desired movie.

Thus, I started creating two User controls – one for MediaElement controls, and other for retrieving the guy’s rss feed, parse it and display it nicely. While the controls were quite fast to develop, the list took more time. Also because I wanted to learn a little bit of Expression Blend. So I used the Shawn Wildermuth’s Dirty Little Secret #2 and learn deep custom templating for a Listbox.

Putting all together was a breeze, the most time used was for testing the final product.

You can go directly to the Silverlight player and see the result.

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Silverlight VideoPlayer for RailsCasts

This is my second shot to create a better player for Railcasts. As you can see, it goes better and better. Who knows what might be next?

• How and why I choose the Silverlight platform
• How to integrate your Silverlight content with your WordPress blog (and presumable all blog systems who allow you to add JavaScript)

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Railscasts Silverlight video player