WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 11 - Silverlight on Phone vs. Browser
See intro blogpost here.Well technically this is not a WPF vs Silverlight post, but a SL vs WP7, but it still kinda belongs in this series.Generally the differences in the API’s between Browser...
View ArticleWinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 0
I recently wrote a blog post series on how to share your code between Silverlight and WPF.With the announcements of Windows 8 at the //BUILD/ conference and the new Windows Runtime (WinRT) which can be...
View ArticleWinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 1 - XML Namespace
See intro blogpost here.For the most part your XAML ports right over to WinRT. However an important change is how you register namespaces from your assemblies.Here's how you do this in Silverlight and...
View ArticleWinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 2 - Code Namespace
See intro blogpost here.The namespaces in WinRT has changed for all the UI related classes. Generally System.Windows has been replaced with Windows.UI.Xaml, and the rest is the same below that. If we...
View ArticleWinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 3 - Dependency Properties
See intro blogpost here.UPDATE Feb. 29, 2012: As hinted at below that this would happen, this blogpost on dependency properties is now outdated. Since the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 released,...
View ArticleWinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 4 - Dispatcher
See intro blogpost here.In Silverlight and WPF you will often use the Dispatcher to return from a background thread to jump to the UI Thread. This is required when you need to update your UI, because...
View ArticleWinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 5 - Defining default style template
See intro blogpost here.Here's something that's actually NOT different in Silverlight (but it's different from WPF as it has always been). You declare your style using DefaultStyleKey. This means the...
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WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 7 - Making WebRequests
See intro blogpost here.In Silverlight and WPF you are probably used to using WebClient to perform downloads. This is a simple class for doing download/upload string or retrieving a response stream...
View ArticleWinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 8 - What other people are blogging
See intro blogpost here.Over the last few months several other people have been writing blog posts covering the transition from WPF/Silverlight/WP7 to WinRT. Below are some of the ones I’ve stumbled...
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Hacking the Silverlight Unit Tests to support returning Task
The Silverlight/Windows Phone unit test framework has always supported running asynchronous tests – a feature that until recently wasn’t there in WPF without jumping some really ugly (and flaky) hoops....
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