Shazzam, my pixel shader utility continues to show up in books, blogs and articles.
The latest sighting is in:
Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference
By J. Ambrose Little, Jason Beres, Grant Hinkson, Devin Rader, Joe Croney
Read an excerpt
Custom Effects
Silverlight opens up a world of creativity possibilities by supporting custom High Level Shading Language (HLSL)- based effects. HLSL is the shader language used to define DirectX effects and was introduced with DirectX 8. Because HLSL has been around for a while, you can find a large number of articles and free resources (read "free effects") that you can take advantage of…
In order to use HLSL-based effects in Silverlight, you have to create a proxy class derived from ShaderEffect. It’s in the derived class that you load precompiled HLSL byte code and define proxy properties between your class and the underlying HLSL effect. In the the walk-through that follows you’ll first learn how to use freely available tools to tweak and compiles HLSL shaders and then see how to consume those effects in custom classes that can used in your Silverlight projects in the same way as native effects.
Getting the Tools
In order to compile HLSL shader, you’ll need the DirectX SDK, freely available on the Microsoft web sit. In addition to the SDK, I also recommend downloading Walt Ritscher’s Shazzam Shader Editing Tool. Shazzam is delivered as a ClickOnce application and provides a nice interface for editing and testing HSLS shaders.
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As always, you can install Shazzam here.
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[...] Craig Shoemaker and Polymorphic Podcast, Channel9, Andy Beaulieu, Bill Reiss, René Schulte, the Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference crew, Dave Campbell (WynApse and Silverlight Cream) , Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, Matt Castro [...]