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Tomorrow, June 30th, is the release date for my book titled “ Game Programming with Silverlight ”. Writing this book was a great experience as it was the first book I have ever written. It was extremely time consuming mostly because it was a learning...
From within VS you can specify which Internet browser you want launched when running your Silverlight application. Your default system browser is not affected by this setting. To make this change right click on your startup web page and choose Browse...
Silverlight currently has full mouse support for single click. However, double click is a another story. In this tip I will show you how to implement double click. You can apply this technique for an individual control or even your entire page. The key...
If you would like to disable your Silverlight application from having access to your browser DOM you can do so through the parameter called EnableHtmlAccess. For example, to disable the access in your HTML page that hosts your Silverlight component you...
The purpose of this post is to create an outline summary all the blogs from my Silverlight Tips of the Day blog. Hopefully this will be easier than paging through multiple pages of blogs to find what you need. I will be keeping this list up-to-date as...
In Tip of the Day #77 I explored using DoubleAnimation to animate a given controls property value using the From/To method. In this tip we will be exploring DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames . Unlike DoubleAnimation which goes from one value to another, DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames...
I am proud to announce we have released Silverlight 2 Tools localized in 8 languages! Please follow the links below to get the language of your choice. Download page details: Chinese (CHS) Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1...
Threads are used to run multiple jobs concurrently within the same application. In a computer with a single processor, threads are time sliced and the processor will switch between the threads being run. In a computer with two or more processors, threads...
Silverlight provides a number of options for data collection, storage and retrieval. In this Tip I will be walking you through various ways of doing this. You will need to add a using statement in your page to reference System.Collections; BitArray. The...
The Professional Developer Conference of 2008 has concluded. If you were not one of the fortunate people to attend don’t fret you can still view the presentations online! The following links below are the Silverlight related presentations from PDC I have...
After watching Seema’s PDC talk on Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight I thought it would be useful to summarize what I learned. 1. Debugging The following items will help you debug performance in your Silverlight...
I am proud to announce we have released the official version our Silverlight Tools for Silverlight 2. Prior to this release we had released an RC1 candidate alongside the RTW version of Silverlight. If you have the RC1 or any previous version please upgrade...
Microsoft Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements. This tool is especially great for creating vector based graphics for your elements. If you do not have Expression Designer, check...
In Tip of the Day #23 I showed you how to capture the mouse wheel event. In this tip we will take it one step further by implementing a IMouseWheelObserver interface that your Silverlight elements and controls can inherit from. This way, anytime the mouse...
In Tip of the Day #42 I discussed how to create Silverlight-enabled WCF web service. In this tip I will discuss the steps necessary to take in order to publish and deploy the web service with your Silverlight application on your server. For security reasons...
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