Faisal's Blog

Composite Application Development With David Kelly

ilves — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:42:00 GMT

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) , Author of the book “Hacking Silverlight” and User Experience Architect David James Kelly has discussed composite application development in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on...(read more)

Introducing Surface LibraryBar And LibraryStack Control

ilves — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:20:00 GMT

Introduction This is my first effort on writing something about Microsoft Surface. I assume by now most of you have already known what Microsoft Surface is. For those who are not sure what really it is, the best way to know about all the stuff regarding...(read more)

Creating RIA Services With Silverlight 3 Part-2

ilves — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:44:00 GMT

Introduction In the first part of this series I showed you how to bind and display data in a control using C# code in a DataGrid. In this part I will show how the same thing can be done declaratively using Xaml. Read More...(read more)

Creating Breadcrumb Design for Silverlight 3 in Expression Blend

ilves — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:13:00 GMT

Designing the patterns for your user interface is crucial as far as the user experience is concerned. The need for implementing the Breadcrumb design pattern arises when you need to place an option for the users of the application to know where they really...(read more)

RIA Services With Silverlight 3 - Part 1

ilves — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:53:00 GMT

With the invention of Silverlight 3 Microsoft introduces the RIA Services which have given a new dimension to the traditional n-tier application pattern. With this pattern you can write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to...(read more)

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-7

ilves — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:18:00 GMT

Introduction Welcome to the part seven of NikeClone series. In the last part I showed you how to design the UItemplates UserControl. In this part I’ll explain the rest of the functionality of UITemplates and how they are implemented. Starting The Implementation...(read more)

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-6

ilves — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:16:00 GMT

Introduction Welcome to the sixth part of my NikeClone series. In the last part I showed you how to create ExpandableMenu and Background control. In this part I’ll show you how I created UITemplates Control where I placed all the styled and templated...(read more)

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-5

ilves — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:52:00 GMT

Introduction This is the fifth part of my NikeClone series. In the first part I showed you how to create SoccerItemList which will serve the pupose of being a MenuControl in our main page. In the second part I showed how to create LoginWindow. In the...(read more)

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4

ilves — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:19:00 GMT

Introduction This is the fourth part of my NikeClone series. In the previous part we addes some code in the btnLogin’s Click event and created a StyledSearchTextBox and template for the search buttons. In this part I’ll show you how create CardsUI. Adding...(read more)

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-3

ilves — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:07:00 GMT

Introduction This is the third part of my NikeClone series. In the second part I showed you how to create LoginWindow. In this part of the NikeClone series I will add some code in the btnLogin click event handler In SoccerItemList which we created in...(read more)

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-2

ilves — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:41:00 GMT

Intorduction This is the second of my NikeClone Series. In the first part we designed and implemented some functionality behind a UserControl named SoccerItemList. Which is intended to be used as expandable Menu and also Inclused a Login Button. Here...(read more)

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-1

ilves — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:52:00 GMT

Introduction NikeClone, this is the app I showed at MS Tech Day Dhaka. I’ve decided to explain this to the people who are interested to know how I created clone of the original Nike site. The reason is, I really liked the design of the Nike web site and...(read more)

Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

ilves — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:52:00 GMT

Microsoft Day @ Dhaka will be held 20th of this month. This event is specially dedicated to Microsoft technology professionals and students. Check out http://msdnbangladesh.net/content/msday.aspx for more information . I'll be speaking on the basics...(read more)

Book Review: WPF In Action with Visual Studio 2008

ilves — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:03:00 GMT

Written By : Arlen Feldman and Maxx Daymon Pages : 520 ISBN : 1933988223 Publisher : Manning Publications Co. Introduction If you’re already a .Net developer and want to know about next generation smart client application development in Windows Presentation...(read more)

First Experience With Behaviors In Silverlight 3

ilves — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:53:00 GMT

Introduction Behaviors is a new feature included in Silverlight 3 to solve the problems of not being able to take full advantage of Triggers in the previous versions of Silverlight. We used Triggers in WPF which provided us the ability to change the look...(read more)