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• Silverlight Tip of the Day #66 – How to copy XAML for Silverlight from Expression Designer

  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... Posted Oct 27 2008, 01:39 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, express, visual web developer

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #65 – Adding a Mouse Wheel Event Listener to your Controls

  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... Posted Oct 21 2008, 07:46 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, express, visual web developer

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #63 – How to Monitor HTTP Traffic for Errors

  Recently when deploying a Silverlight application with a web service I forgot to include a client access policy and cross domain file. As a result I got the following exception when attempting to browse to my application: The exception did not make the... Posted Oct 20 2008, 05:43 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, express, visual web developer

• Silverlight Breaking Changes Between Beta 2 and Release (Updated Document)

  As Silverlight RC0 and release come out, you will likely run into some breaking changes in your Beta 2 or older applications. The MSDN docs and SDK that is about to release has a breaking changes doc that lists most of these changes; however, due to these... Posted Oct 10 2008, 06:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight 2, Breaking Changes, RC0, RTW

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #60 – How to load a XAML Control From a File or String

  If you have a control written in XAML that is included in your project you can load and create it directly from file by using the method: System.Windows.Markup. XamlReader .Load(). This method can also be used to directly create a Silverlight control... Posted Oct 09 2008, 09:11 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, express, visual web developer

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #59 – How to Display Special Characters in XAML

  If you try to use the following characters in a string in XAML you will get a slew of errors in your Error List: < > & “ For example, if you tried to do this: < Button Width ="100" Height ="100" Content ="Click &... Posted Oct 09 2008, 08:38 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, visual web developer

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #58 – Text Wrapping and Line Breaks in TextBlocks

  TextBlocks are a great control to use in Silverlight to display read only text. In Tip of the Day #45 I covered the basic usage of TextBlocks including formatting and text runs. For this tip I would like to show you how to make a TextBlock with wrapping... Posted Oct 09 2008, 07:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, visual web developer

• Custom Controls – The Dénouement

  Over the past month I've posted half a dozen min-articles about creating custom controls that can interact with the Visual State Manager, and the underlying engine that makes it work; especially Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model . Intro... Posted Oct 09 2008, 09:47 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Digging Deeper, Templates, Custom Controls, RC0

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #57 – How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control

  Let’s say your site is entirely written in Silverlight but you want to be able to load and run a different Silverlight application within your main Silverlight application/site. Currently this scenario is not directly supported in Silverlight. However... Posted Oct 08 2008, 04:31 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, visual web developer

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #56 – Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight.

  In Silverlight you can interact directly with the HTML DOM (Document Object Model). This can be done through the HtmlPage .Document object: HtmlDocument doc = HtmlPage .Document; Make certain to first add a reference to the following namespace: using... Posted Oct 06 2008, 05:15 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, visual web developer

• Silverlight Controls, Controls Team, and Testing

  This blog will rarely be the place for breaking news, but there are two related pieces of information I want to ensure you know about at the risk of repeating news that has been blogged by others.  First, Shawn Burke’s team has announced their intention... Posted Oct 04 2008, 07:58 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Custom Controls, RC0

• Template Browser – an indispensible tool

  One way that many developers like to create styles and templates for controls is to modify the existing styles and templates. An unusual feature of Silverlight is that every control in the toolbox is lookless – its appearance is determined by its own... Posted Oct 03 2008, 12:46 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Templates, Custom Controls, RC0

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #55 – How to Apply Styles in Silverlight – Part I

  Styles are extremely important because they allow developers to control the look and layout of controls across their application. By using styles you can simply change the style declaration and all controls in the application are updated automatically... Posted Oct 02 2008, 08:37 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0, express, visual web developer

• Dependency Properties - Precedence

  Today we wrap up dependency properties by talking about one of the most important, though typically invisible aspects: DP precedence order. This is critical because dependency properties, by their nature, are designed to have their final value set from... Posted Oct 02 2008, 01:39 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, user interface, Digging Deeper, Custom Controls, Dependency Properties, RC0

• Dependency Properties, Continued

  First, a hearty thank you to " obsid " who wrote a great comment noting that by using reflector you can find that the documentation is not yet updated and System.Windows.PropertyMetadata's constructor is overloaded. While I am a fan... Posted Oct 01 2008, 02:03 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Digging Deeper, Dependency Properties, RC0