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Is Silverlight 4 moving away from cross platform?
Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:30 PM
In a recent article in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/silverlight_4_windows_bias/ they make the case that COM support in Silverlight 4 has “crossed a threshold” that will make Silverlight less appealing to developers that want to... Read More...
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Blitting and Blending with Silverlight’s WriteableBitmap
Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:54 PM
Full source code: http://www.bluerosegames.com/BlitWriteableBitmapSample.zip This post is partially inspired by René Schulte’s series on extending WriteableBitmap. You can see his fantastic posts here: http://kodierer.blogspot.com/2009/11/drawing-shapes... Read More...
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Launch of the Dutch Silverlight and Expression Insiders User Group
Monday, November 02, 2009 9:00 AM
Today is the day the Dutch Silverlight and Expression Insiders User Group is officially launched. How did it start? A few months ago during the Dutch Microsoft DevDays I met Expression MVP Rob Houweling and creator of Silverlight Spy Koen Zwikstra. We... Read More...
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Silverlight 3 – Local Messaging Explained + Enhancement
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:30 PM
One of the new features Silverlight 3 introduced is called Local Messaging. This feature supports communication between different Silverlight applications that are running on the same client. This is particular useful in areas like Sharepoint where you... Read More...
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OpenID User Control in Silverlight – Part 2 OpenID Integration
Friday, September 11, 2009 4:01 PM
It’s already a long time ago when I posted part 1 of the OpenID User Control, but sadly I didn’t have any time to blog, until now. Recap: Part 1 explained how to create the visual design of the user control with two visual states. The visual design we... Read More...
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Windows 7 and Virtualization Technology
Friday, September 04, 2009 10:22 AM
Ok so this isn’t a game development related post, but gamers and game developers are usually more interested in their hardware than the casual user so I hope this isn’t too far off base. You’ve probably heard already that Windows 7 has an XP mode to run... Read More...
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OpenID User Control in Silverlight – Part 1 UI Design
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:07 PM
More and more I see sites supporting OpenID as Authentication mechanism. I’m for example a user of sites like: I need to read this, Get Satisfaction and Google Login more or less. To support my own family I set up OpenID on my own domain, http://openid... Read More...
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Game development on the Microsoft stack
Monday, July 27, 2009 11:15 AM
This blog is about Silverlight game development, but if you’re writing managed code for your Silverlight game, why not explore some of the other options available to you as well to get maximum exposure for your game and hopefully make some money as well... Read More...
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WriteableBitmap pixel format in Silverlight 3
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:17 PM
The WriteableBitmap is one of the most interesting new features in Silverlight 3, especially for game development. I’m looking forward to the first pixel perfect collision game using this technology, one of my favorites was the classic Lemmings game. ... Read More...
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A real “game” changer for Silverlight 3
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:29 AM
Pardon the pun, but Behaviors in Silverlight 3 have made me rethink game development in Silverlight and if you’re not looking at Behaviors you should be. I’ll be updating my old game tutorial posts building an asteroids game to use behaviors and I’ll... Read More...
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Tracking Silverlight (1, 2 and 3) support in Google Analytics
Sunday, July 12, 2009 1:47 PM
Half a year ago I blogged about tracking Silverlight support in Google Analytics. I’ve had a lot of reactions on how to track Silverlight support. In my original article I made use of virtual page views to track Silverlight support. But there are different... Read More...
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Silverlight 3 – Did we get support for Credentials?
Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:22 PM
A few months ago, I investigated Silverlight 3 Beta on support for Credentials. There are two classes that give a little bit of notion that they are supporting Credentials. Both WebClient and WebRequest have a property Credentials of type ICredentials... Read More...
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Silverlight 3 talking to a RIA Service, everything hosted on Windows Azure
Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:21 AM
This is my first tryout of Windows Azure. I wanted to know if it’s possible to run the Preview of RIA Service on the CTP of Windows Azure. First of all you’ll need a lot of different components, and if you want to host your solution in the cloud you’ll... Read More...
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Moved again, hopefully permanently
Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:46 PM
I’ve been contemplating a move to WordPress for a while for my blog, I’ve used Community Server and BlogEngine.net previously, and both of those have left me feeling lacking. I have been barraged with comment spam lately, and I hope that WordPress will... Read More...
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Moonlight 2 Preview 4, testing differently
Sunday, June 07, 2009 2:40 PM
I read we now have a new preview of the Moonlight runtime. It’s already the fourth preview. I’m giving a test run, just like I gave preview 1 and preview 3 a test run. But this time I did it differently. For the release notes see this page. What size... Read More...
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