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• Building Silverlight Applications using .NET

  I'm just about to hop on the flight back to Seattle after finishing up a 10 day business trip to Europe where I spoke at conferences and user group events in Budapest, Amsterdam and Zurich. Although trips like these are a little exhausting, I find... Posted Jun 19 2007, 09:15 AM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Community News, .NET, Visual Studio, WPF, Talks

• 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 Book

  There have been lots of questions since MIX07 about a book on Silverlight. I'm working on one for MS Press, which is designed to be 1/3 ASP.NET, 1/3 AJAX and 1/3 Silverlight. It's intended to be an introduction to the Microsoft Stack for folks... Posted May 18 2007, 12:03 AM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, WPF

• Tip/Trick: Supporting Full Screen Mode with Silverlight

  One of the nice features that Silverlight supports is the ability to go "full screen" and effectively take over the entire screen of a computer (hiding everything else from sight - including the browser frame). This can be very useful when building... Posted May 17 2007, 09:56 AM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, .NET, WPF, Tips and Tricks