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• Silverlight Tip of the Day #3: Silverlight Game Support, Limitations and Workarounds

  While exploring techniques for game programming with Silverlight I came across some hurdles and discovered some workarounds. I plan to use this blog to track these issues for the purposing of hopefully saving you time from having to do similar research... Posted Nov 18 2008, 01:27 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 – New Silverlight 2 Web Site Clean Up Check List

  When creating a Silverlight application with a web site there are a number of cleanups you will want to perform. I have created a little check list here that I will maintain and update as I get new ideas. Change the Page Title. By default the title is... Posted Nov 17 2008, 06:36 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, RTW, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #71 – 3D Support in Silverlight 3

  If you missed ScottGu’s blog on what’s upcoming in Silverlight 3 check it out here! Included is the feature I have waiting most anxiously for… 3D support and GPU hardware acceleration ! This is a huge win for game developers, worthy of a few fireworks... Posted Nov 17 2008, 12:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, silverlight resources, version 2, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #70 – Data Collection Support in Silverlight

  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... Posted Nov 14 2008, 03:30 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, RTW, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #68 – Great Silverlight Sessions to Watch from PDC 2008

  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... Posted Nov 03 2008, 05:46 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, PDC, Silverlight Tools, Performance

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #67 – Silverlight Performance Tips

  1. Debugging The following items will help you debug performance in your Silverlight application: EnableRedrawRegions – Turn on this debug setting to see what and where rectangles are being redrawn within your application. When enabled you can see what... Posted Nov 03 2008, 05:32 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RTW, Silverlight Tools, Performance

• 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 #64 – Deploying a Silverlight Application with a Web Service

  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... Posted Oct 20 2008, 08:06 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, 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 Tip of the Day #62 – How to Create a Hyperlink

  Hyperlinks are a graphic or string that connects readers to another web site when clicked. Generally these are a few words that are identified by a blue color and a underline. Here is an example of a hyperlink: Click Me In Silverlight Hyperlinks can be... Posted Oct 16 2008, 04:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, express, visual web developer

• Silverlight 2 has been Released!

  Today I am very proud to announce that Silverlight 2 has been officially released! Grab it today at http://silverlight.net/GetStarted . This is a phenomenal release that provides a powerful solution to creating rich web application. At the link above... Posted Oct 14 2008, 01:07 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, express, visual web developer

• 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