XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Silverlight, WPF on Jul 24th, 2009
Dev102.com has a nice post explaining how to write a Brightness extension method. Excerpt: Suppose you have several objects in your WPF application filled with similar Brushes which differ in brightness only. Like in this image: The nine rectangles use the same RadialGradienBrush but each rectangle is a little darker than previous. You can create [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Tools, WPF on Jul 14th, 2009
Pixel Shader Effects are starting to go mainstream. Now that Silverlight 3, WPF and Expression Blend support Shader Effects I expect to see a blossoming of interesting effects libraries. A case in point. Charles, over at digitalepiphania.com has an new pixel shader that is worth investigating. His shader effect converts any XAML visual into a [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Jul 10th, 2009
If you have a computer with the Silverlight 2 developer bits installed you might see the following message when installing Silverlight 3. Unable to install Silverlight. Your Silverlight developer components are out of date. Here’s a typical install sequence on a Windows Vista computer that results in this error message. 1. Navigate to a [...]
