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• Panoramic Deep Zoom -- Question of the Day -- Repost

  If you want to learn how to stitch diverse photos together into a panorama, and then turn it into a Deep Zoom application, it's actually very easy, and I've got the full details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/10/18/panoramic-deep-zoom... Posted Oct 19 2008, 08:20 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Web.NEXT, Architecture, Silverlight Book Errata

• 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

• Japanese Pop (JPop) and Silverlight

  I'm currently in Tokyo for ReMIX Tokyo, and have seen some amazing stuff. Last night, a singer, Ai Takekawa, who is new to the music scene played a concert at our venue. She was _amazing_ and sure to be a huge hit in the JPop scene. This girl can... Posted Sep 19 2007, 07:18 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Web.NEXT, Japan

• Some more great Silverlight games

  Check out Bubble Factory by Vincent Vergonjeanne who in four days went from no knowledge in Silverlight 1.1. to writing this pretty cool little game: http://cosmik.members.winisp.net/BubbleFactory It's a fast frenetic puzzle game where you have to... Posted Jul 05 2007, 03:57 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Web.NEXT, Games

• Great Silverlight Game

  You just have to check out Zero Gravity, a cool and cute Silverlight puzzle game based at: http://www.ltbennett.com . This is the result of 4 weeks work from a team of 5 people (designers, developers, animators and artists) using Expression Design, Blend... Posted Jul 03 2007, 11:58 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Web.NEXT

• 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: 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: 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

• 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 article in MSDN Magazine

  MSDN Magazine's June 2007 issue will be carrying my Silverlight article. You can read it online here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/Silverlight/ There are a few more in the hopper. Enjoy! Read More......( read more ) Posted May 09 2007, 06:22 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Web.NEXT, MIX07

• 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