2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 13 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 84 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 18mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was July 15th with 134 views. The most popular post that day was Silverlight 4 Windows Authentication.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were channel9.msdn.com, twitter.com, blogs.msdn.com, healthfitnesstherapy.com, and forums.silverlight.net.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for silverlight 4 clock, silverlight clock control, silverlight menuitem control, silverlight clock, and silverlight 4 menuitem.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Silverlight 4 Windows Authentication July 2010
Creating a Silverlight 4 clock control May 2010
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Silverlight 4 Custom MenuItem Control with Sub Items June 2010
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Creating a Silverlight 4 FileMenu control from a ComboBox June 2010
Creating a Silverlight 4 Duplex Application May 2010
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IE9 Beta is out
Just installed the IE9 beta and looks way more cleaner and simple.
As from the past half year Microsoft is creating a new direction towards the future. Read more…
Single/Double click Silverlight 4 trigger
This one’s about triggers…
Having as start point Shemesh‘s blog post http://shemesh.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/silverlight-double-click-trigger-call-method-action/ I modded his code to my own needs. Read more…
Silverlight 4 Windows Authentication
Today I’m going to talk to you about two simple ways to enable windows authentication in your Silverlight 4 apps.
Source code: here
1. First of all, you’ll need to create a new Silverlight application project in VS2010 Read more…
Every dev needs a blog
Hey all developers out there!
Today I watched an interesting keynote by Scott Hanselman here.
He’s basically talking through the reasons that, I quote: “every working professional developer who is interested in his career” would have to create a professional blog.
Yeah, Scott is a great guy. Congrats!
Creating a Silverlight 4 FileMenu control from a ComboBox
Recently I had to create a simple FileMenu control. As you are all aware this is very similar to a ComboBox control.
The difference is that the ComboBox control cannot be used on the fly to contain a collection of MenuItems.
For this I had to create a custom ComboBox control which I called FileMenuItem. This control offers a Title dependency property to set the content for the Menu. Read more…
Silverlight 4 Custom MenuItem Control with Sub Items
In this post I tackle an inherent problem everyone faces with the Silverlight 4 Toolkit MenuItem.
