IBloggable - implemented

I found something weird this time when it came to ASP.NET MVC 2 release. A very handful of people ‘made noise’ about the release.. at least on the asp.net blog site, usually there’s a big ‘WOOHAA… <something> is released’, kind of a thing. Hmm… but here’s the reason I’m writing this post.

Oh no, not another Model Binding blog!!

It's been a while since I wrote.. just too many things happening on my side.

Another article in the ‘– Silverlight 4’ series. I don’t have an extra license for Office suite, but I did want to play with COM Automation feature in Silverlight 4. I said to myself ‘lemme try OpenOffice’. This is a close match to Microsoft’s Office package and it’s FREE. It definitely is compatible with files created in MS Office. So, I installed OpenOffice on my virtual machine and I was able to build a small application (an OOB with elevated permissions).

I’ve always wanted to write a program that ‘opens-up’ a .xap file and go through its contents, kinda like Red-Gates’ Reflector, only that this one does it for .xap files… this marks the birth of a XapReflector. Here are the features of the application:

Alright, here’s what I learnt tonight while playing with the WebBrowser control in SL4. I built a basic app that looks like this:

Yep, we’re moving back to India; yea, it’s that time. Although this is not a technical article, I just wanted to share with you the time spent in the US of A. Below are some of the highlights:

Another article in the ‘- Silverlight 4’ series (read the first two here: DragNDrop, Right-Click Save As and Local File Access). In this one we’ll talk about using the ICommand feature, now implemented in Silverlight. Read the announcement in Tim Heuer’s own words here.