Neville Campbell

A visitor to NevLab Theater may not have Silverlight installed, or may have an old version, or use a browser that is unsupported by Silverlight. These situations need to be detected, and people should be helped to understand and rectify the problems. It is also worthwhile to provide a brief indication of the joys in store for those with the appropriate Silverlight plugin. In addition to a short description, I provide a screenshot of the page that is being missed:

These issues are addressed by the Microsoft Silverlight Installation Experience White Paper and sample code, which appears to be based on an earlier entry in Laurence Moroney’s blog.

Welcome to a new place on the net for programmers. Your host has been building a website in Silverlight lately.

Lots of websites have sample source code. How many allow you to run the code directly on the page, while you monitor the code in a debugger that lives on the same page?

Call me eccentric, but I like setting breakpoints, examining variables, stepping into, over, and out of methods, running to the next breakpoint or until I pause the program, walking the stack, and so on. I also want to have some control over the speed of a program’s execution. All while the code is performing some visible task.

Curious? Try out the new NevLab Theater for some wacky algorithm demos. It is also a place to experience odd bugs or incompatibilities that I find. The site is new, and there’s not much content yet, but more is on the way.

Stay tuned…