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Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:36 PM

Utility: Extmap Maker v1.1

Quite some time ago, I wrote small utility which helped to create external map manifest file for Silverlight assemblies. This manifest is needed to enable XAP reduction feature (you can read more about it here ). I have been told, that the utility is not working with assemblies compiled with Silverlight 5, so I decided to update it. The new version compatible with Silverlight 3, 4 & 5 assemblies. Please note, that new version requires .NET 4.0 Client profile in order to work. Updated version...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:44 PM

MIX11

This year (3rd or 4th time in row) I’m attending MIX11 conference in Las Vegas. The conference takes place at Mandaly Bay Hotel April 12-14, 2011. The pre-conference boot camps are taking place April 11. If you want to meet and/or ask some Silverlight , XNA and Windows Phone 7 related questions I will be around from April 11. Also, 11 more colleagues from Sela (top rated senior .NET consultants) will be around – I could connect you with them! Drop me a message via Contact Form or tweet me @DevCorner...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:42 PM

Thoughts about application packaging, Resources, MVVM and others

I thought a lot before decided to write this post… First - I’d like to thanks Ariel Ben Horesh for “inspiring” me to write this post and for dedicating so much time to write his post! After reading his post I thought a lot and my thoughts about the post are the follows: 1. First, I thought about the applications and the way to provide user with best experience while loading those applications… The users shouldn’t wait minutes for application to download… While authoring large Silverlight applications...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:23 AM

Utility: Extmap Maker

Silverlight 3 has nice feature to reduce the XAP package size of application by providing external assembly parts. To enable this feature use Silverlight project properties: When this enabled, most of Microsoft assemblies will not reside inside XAP package, but as ZIP files alongside the XAP itself. The application manifest will point to those ZIP files. This will enable browser caching mechanism. Actually, compiler “decides” which assembly will could be used as external ZIP assembly by presence...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:31 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #5: Assembly Caching

Always wanted to have smaller XAP files and take control of external assemblies, that are not part of core runtime? Using Silverlight toolkit and want to cache this assemblies on client machines to keep the resulting XAP smaller? Well, if so new feature in Silverlight 3 Beta will help you. To enable assembly caching, in Silverlight project properties check “Reduce XAP size” checkbox: The effect are following: In standard non-checked compilation the XAP file has all the external assemblies being referenced...
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