XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Silverlight, Tools on Aug 23rd, 2009
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 [...]
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 Your Silverlight developer components are out of date.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
