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• Silverlight: Great showcase of Silverlight 1 wins, and information on updates...

  Technorati Tags: Silverlight     del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight While many among you are focusing more on Silverlight 2, I still strongly recommend that you look at Silverlight 1 for your development needs. If you weren't at MIX, there's... Posted Apr 08 2008, 08:51 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, International, Architecture

• If you care about Internationalizing your Silverlight Applications...

  del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight You should really take a look at Justif-Josef Angel's blog, where he presents some brilliant work that he has done with Silverlight, in particular his work on supporting Right-To-Left languages... Posted Oct 27 2007, 01:32 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, International, Architecture

• Zero to Hero: How to Check if Silverlight is installed.

  Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight I've been getting lots of questions on how to check to see if Silverlight is already installed. This is actually very easy to do, but has somehow slipped through the cracks (I even missed... Posted Oct 24 2007, 07:43 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, Architecture, ZERO HERO

• Improving performance in WPF applications

  If you've been using WPF with layered windows to provide transparency [with the Windows.Transparency option set to true ], you may have noticed that the performance isn't what you might expect. A supported hotfix to the problem can now be downloaded... Posted Aug 08 2007, 01:32 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF, Architecture

• Silverlight and 3D

  I just stumbled across this excellent work in Silverlight and 3D. Another great example of how the power of the .NET framework behind Silverlight can empower the developer to drastically extend the runtime. http://www.dolittle.com/blogs/einar/archive... Posted Jun 14 2007, 06:32 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Web.NEXT, Architecture

• More Silverlight and Ink

  Some great stuff by Julie Lerman on her Blog, who got this up and running today despite her blog being under attack by forces unknown! http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/ In a famous ice cream store parlance: Like it! Love it! Gotta have it! :)...( read... Posted Jun 04 2007, 05:49 PM by Blogs Filed under: Web.NEXT, Architecture, Ink

• Silverlight: Convert Text to Path

  The WPF APIs provide a FormattedText object that allows you to export its contents as a Geometry, which in turn allows you to generate its contents in the XAML Path Mini Language . Here's an example of a Web service that takes in the text, typeface... Posted May 22 2007, 06:07 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International, WPF, Architecture

• Silverlight: Using Text from Unsupported Fonts

  In Expression Blend you have the facility to convert text from a textblock into a XAML path. This then has no dependency on the original font, and the text will be rendered by Silverlight. So, for example here's Expression Blend with some text written... Posted May 21 2007, 03:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International, Architecture