About Mike Snow

Hello and welcome to my blog! I am currently working for Microsoft as an SDET Lead in the Visual Studio Web Development Tools team.  I live in Sammamish, WA near the Microsoft campus with my wife and four crazy kids (3 girls/1 boy). 

While my team at Microsoft no longer works on Silverlight directly (unfortunately), it is still my top passion when it comes to technologies both for the Web and for Mobile.

The purpose of this blog is to gradually go through every aspect of Silverlight giving readers a quick and dirty “How to” tutorial/tip so they can quickly learn how to get the job done in Silverlight.

I would love to hear your feedback especially if you know of a better way to accomplish something in Silverlight that I cover.

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  1. Logan Smith
    19. May, 2010 at 3:47 pm #

    Hello, I’ve been going over your book and really enjoy it, but I’m having trouble using your code in Silverlight 4.0 . If you could post something in regards to what is needed to convert it to 4.0 it would be a big help…

  2. Snowman
    19. May, 2010 at 4:57 pm #

    Hi, what errors are you seeing? I’ll have to get the code and try it out tomorrow.

  3. S
    27. May, 2010 at 10:08 pm #

    The page by page scrolling on this site is awful! Please get rid of it!

  4. Snowman
    28. May, 2010 at 7:29 am #

    what do you mean page by page scrolling? Thanks.

  5. Praveen
    04. Jun, 2010 at 10:23 pm #

    When I press arrow key down then the page is scrolling not just one or two lines. Seems like jumping to the next post!!! This is really awful. What if I want to read the post and move to next one line at a time? I am using Mozilla now.

    thanks
    -http://praveenbattula.blogspot.com

  6. Miguel Mayorga
    10. Jun, 2010 at 8:06 am #

    Mike.

    What considerations should be taken into account when publishing an application SILVERLIGTH, Silverlight-enabled WCF, on a different server to the development machine, In order not to have problems with NotFound message and crossdomain ?.

    Thank you very much.

  7. Blender3DLive
    10. Jun, 2010 at 9:06 am #

    If I can get some programmer hours on to the Silverlight RPG code base, would you have a list of features that are TODO’s. That is current TODO’s not V.2 features.

    Please let me know the V.1 features TODO list, and I’ll get this restarted.

  8. Snowman
    10. Jun, 2010 at 7:37 pm #

    Praveen – I am looking into fixing it :)

    Miguel – I have a blog on deploying WCF to a server. See http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/05/03/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-11-deploying-silverlight-applications-with-wcf-web-services/

    Blender3dLive – Hi, sorry, I am currently not working on the RPG code. I hope to get back to it once I finish a HUGE project I am working on that is going to be very cool :)

  9. Dennis
    19. Jul, 2010 at 2:42 pm #

    Hi SM,

    I am doing some coding in silverlight3. Everything works except the loading of dynamic image.
    I have an image control on the screen and i use the set value to set its imagesource property to a newly uploaded file in a folder inside my project. Even though i can see that image is uploaded, but the old image still shows on the image control. If i came back to the screen again, its still the old image. No idea from where this image is getting loaded.