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• 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

• Silverlight: Font Embedding

  There's some great stuff been put together by Slyi on his blog around subsetting and embedding fonts. You've all been asking me lots of questions about it, but he answers it better than I ever could! Check it out at: http://wpf-e.spaces.live.com... Posted May 24 2007, 07:32 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International, MIX07

• 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

• Silverlight and Beijing 2008 Olympics

  I've been working on a project involving Silverlight and the Beijing 2008 olympics. We demonstrated this at MIX 07, and the session is online here: http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2010,2011&pid=XB005&disc=&id... Posted May 09 2007, 03:35 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, Chinese, MIX07

• Silverlight Install Modes

  Did you know that there are two install modes for Silverlight -- inplace installation (aka 'Direct') and indirect installation. When you build your site or application using Silverlight, you can use the 'inplaceInstallPrompt' property... Posted May 08 2007, 06:27 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, MIX07

• Illuminate the Web: Silverlight is unveiled.

  Microsoft have announced Microsoft Silverlight, our next generation, cross platform, cross browser runtime for building rich media experiences on the Web. Silverlight, formerly known as WPF/E is the beginning of the next generation of the web, empowering... Posted Apr 16 2007, 10:17 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT

• Chinese, and other International Text in WPF/E

  For our friends in the international community, text rendering is possible by means of the Glyph tag. So, for example this XAML: < Canvas x:Name = " GlyphDisplayCanvas " Canvas.Left = " 0 " Canvas.Top = " 0 " > <... Posted Apr 06 2007, 01:10 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International