Learning more about WPF and Silverlight
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 Your Silverlight developer components are out of date.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.
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Navigate to a Web site with Sliverlight 3 [...]
Posted in Blend, Silverlight on Jun 30th, 2009
A common UI metaphor in recent times is the circular wait cursor or progress indicator. This article shows some easy techniques within Expression Blend 2 that simplify creating this modern UI indicator. After showing how to easily layout multiple child elements in a 360-degree pattern, I will show animation techniques for spinning, sizing and fading [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Video on Jun 29th, 2009
By default any Silverlight video you create in Expression Encoder 2 has AutoPlay set to true. Therefore if you have a Web page with several of these Silverlight applications embedded they’ll all start playing at the same time.
Figure 1: Turn it off.
Hidden Setting in Expression Encoder 2
There is a way to configure AutoPlay in [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Jun 26th, 2009
Show off your superb Silverlight skills and win $10,000 USD.
http://www.componentart.com/community/competition2009/
ComponentArt is excited to host the 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition and award $10,000 USD to the author of the best application as selected by our expert panel and the community. Authors of the two runner-up applications will each receive ComponentArt licenses (a $1,299 USD [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Tools on Jun 21st, 2009
Erno de Weerd has released a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that simplifies inserting a Silverlight application into your WordPress blog post. It’s works in conjunction with Tim Heuer’s Silverlight WordPress plug-in.
Learn more about the Erno’s SL to WordPress plug-in.
It Works for Me
I installed the plug-in today and it seems to work as advertised. I’ve [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Jun 18th, 2009
Jaime Rodriquez posted a must read article regarding the Silverlight 3 PlaneProjection feature.
Silverlight3 introduces a new Projection property on UIElement. The property is of type Projection (an abstract class). In SL3, the only implementation of Projection class is PlaneProjection, which is an implementation of a 3D PerspectiveTransform. As of SL3 beta1, the implementation is software-based [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Apr 9th, 2009
Al Pascual has created a nice Silverlight plug-in that visually pinpoints your recent website visitors on a map.
You can see who is on your website or blog and can be added to any website. Will keep track of the hits since the day you install it. I’ll create more custom reports as this project [...]
Posted in MIX, Silverlight on Mar 18th, 2009
The stream of product announcements and feature enhancements during the Mix09 keynote was non-stop. I estimate that Scott Guthrie must have rattled off ninety or more of these tidbits in the two and a half hour Mix09 kickoff. At a rapid pace Scott discussed IIS, Silverlight Expression Blend, the Microsoft Web Installer, adaptive streaming and many [...]
Posted in Conferences, Silverlight, WPF on Mar 16th, 2009
Attend a keynote at a big Microsoft conference and at some point in the presentation you will hear a musical fanfare followed by a breathless product announcement.
Depending on the show and the time of year the announcements can be hum-drum or spectacular. Do you remember when Microsoft announced a new development framework called .NET [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Feb 23rd, 2009
Ever week a new crop of Silverlight/WPF tools crosses my desk. It’s hard to keep up with the steady flow. You can’t beat Silverlight Cream for a daily list of what’s new.
The latest item that caught my eye is SilverlightContrib. This open source Silverlight library just shipped v 1.0.
Silverlight Contrib is a continuously evolving collection [...]
