The first stable release of the Silverlight 5 Multi-Window Controls project is now available on CodePlex which brings external window support to the ChildWindow and ContextMenu. So what’s next if anything? I came across Tim Heur’s Silverlight Floatable[...]

It’s just before lunch and nearly 4 hours into the 8 hour game writing competition and we have about 200 lines of F# and some sprites on the screen. Keys: Z=left, X=right, Q=up, A=down, Space=shoot As you can see we've gone for a bit of a[...]

Does your application have long context menus that get clipped inside small windows? First ask yourself is this the right user interface. If so then one solution is to add a vertical scroll bar automagically to the context menu. IntelliSense in Visual[...]

Silverlight has become increasingly popular for applications that run both in-browser and on the desktop like Sky’s Go. One of the key new features in Silverlight 5 is multiple window support for desktop applications (often referred to as Out-of-Browser ([...]

A ChildWindow in Silverlight is a control that can be displayed over a parent window blocking its interaction. Silverlight 5 introduces multiple window support for Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications with elevated trust. Unfortunately the ChildWindow contro[...]

Silverlight 5 provides multi-window support for Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications with elevated trust. Unfortunately the ContextMenu provided in the December 2011 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is not multi-window aware which means that context menu’s[...]

It’s a bit of a long story. A chain of events would unfurl that would lead me inextricably to writing a clone of a 70s video game. It started a few weeks ago while exploring early 90s dance tracks on Spotify, when I happened upon the seminal EP - Clonks C[...]

The F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group will be starting 2012 with a code Kata on Thursday January 26th at 6:30pm at Skills Matter.   Kata The term Kata comes from martial arts. A code Kata is a short programming exercise for practicing an aspect of so[...]

  Microsoft Research are seeking candidates for a 6-month contract position in F# programming to help improve the capabilities of F# in the area of cross-platform and web-delivered data-rich programming. The candidate should have several of the following:[...]