Going to MIX 09

I’ve signed up for MIX 09, so I’ll be headed to Las Vegas this March. If you’re thinking about it, they’re having a pretty solid promotional where you can register for 40% off the standard cost with the RSVP code “MIXspecial1”. Go do it Interesting stuff happening at MIX this year… Johnny Lee, whose idea…

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XAML Intellisense for Blend

Karsten Januszewski has a post on getting intellisense into Blend. Apparently it only works for WPF (it “works” for Silverlight, but it pulls from the WPF XML schema, which sounds like it could be more confusing than useful). I’ve been begging for this for a while. I’m glad to see it in there… its has…

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Tips for Creating a Silverlight 2 Gadget for Vista

First, glance over at Chris Szurgot’s post on creating a Silverlight Gadget. It really is as easy as he says it is. Just build your project in Visual Studio and in the html page replace the: <param name=”source” value=”ClientBin/MySilverlightApp.xap”/> with <param name=”source” value=”x-gadget:///MySilverlightApp.xap”/> There are a couple things that should be noted though. Here is…

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