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• Silverlight Tip of the Day #49 – How to Implement a Progress Bar

  With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there are three new controls we will be discussing that were not available for beta 2. The three new controls with a Tip of the Day for each include: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox For this tip we will be exploring... Posted Sep 29 2008, 05:41 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• EnvDTE.OutputGroup.get_FileCount() exception with Silverlight 2 RC0

  If you installed Silverlight 2.0 RC0 with the Blend 2.5 June Preview on the box you will notice the installer blocked on this version of Blend and gave the following error message: However, on the forums some customers have proceeded to install Blend... Posted Sep 29 2008, 03:58 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, beta2, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #48 – How to Implement a Combobox

  With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there are three new controls we will be discussing that were not available for beta 2. The three new controls include: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox For this tip we will be exploring the ComboBox control. The... Posted Sep 29 2008, 03:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• Silverlight Version 2 RC0 Released!!

  Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2 –> Release before the final release of the runtime is out. Please... Posted Sep 26 2008, 12:47 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #46 – Font Support in Silverlight

  Default Fonts By Default, Silverlight supports the following local fonts (as shown rendered in Silverlight):   You can also choose from a long list of East Asian fonts if they are available on your local computer: Batang BatangChe DFKai-SB Dotum... Posted Sep 25 2008, 01:52 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #45: Text Formatting with the TextBlock control

  Silverlight comes with a very useful control called TextBlock . This control allows you to render read only text.  Displaying text via this control is as easy as: < TextBlock Text ="Hello There"></ TextBlock >   There are... Posted Sep 24 2008, 05:41 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #44: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services

  In Tip of the Day #42 I talked about how to create and use a web service using WCF for your Silverlight application. For this tip I would like to briefly discuss WCF and some highlights on why you should use it over the traditional ASMX based Web Services... Posted Sep 22 2008, 02:38 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #43: Making it Snow in Silverlight

  I am not a big fan of winter, being that summer is my favorite season. However, this morning I woke up and heard it’s going to be snowing in the mountains (Cascades) so it inspired me to have a little premature fun by creating a snowy scene in Silverlight... Posted Sep 22 2008, 01:29 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #42: How to Create a Web Service for your Silverlight App

  Web services are essentially API’s that can be accessed over a network such as the Internet. Due to security Silverlight restricts a lot of important features such as saving to the disk. However, you can get around these restrictions by making calls to... Posted Sep 17 2008, 01:24 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #41: Using Bookmarks in your Silverlight Application

  Bookmarks are very useful in web sites because they allow people to directly navigate back to a section of the web site they visited before. This tip will show you how to apply and use bookmarks in Silverlight applications. For example, if a user types... Posted Sep 16 2008, 06:11 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #40: 1.05 != 1.05 - Peril with Floating Point Comparisons.

  The other day I found a bug in one of my Silverlight applications that was doing floating point comparisons. In my animation of an image I was increasing the ScaleTransform .ScaleX by “0.05” from “0.0” to “2.0 and checking to see when my ScaleTransform... Posted Sep 12 2008, 01:08 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #39 – How to Create a Zoom Toolbar

  Effects applied to toolbars are raising in popularity especially the zoom effect. For the purpose of this tip, I have created my own implementation of the zoom effect when applied to a toolbar. To preview the demo visit this link: http://silverlight.services... Posted Sep 10 2008, 08:43 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #38 – How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience

  If a user visits your Silverlight site without Silverlight installed they will automatically see the following image: While this is a clear message you may want to consider a better, more customizable experience for your web site that includes your web... Posted Sep 10 2008, 01:25 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #37 – How to Dynamically Load and Display Silverlight Applications

  Up to now we have been statically declaring our Silverlight application in our web page ASPX file directly like this: < body style =" height : 100% ; margin : 0 ; ">     < form id ="form1" runat ="server"... Posted Sep 09 2008, 04:59 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2, resources, silverlight resources

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #36 – How to Create Reflections and Shadows for Images and Text.

  Reflections are a cool affect you can apply to images and text elements through the use of RenderTransforms. For example, take a look at this screen shot below of reflections which were rendered using Silverlight. The first reflection is done on a TextBlock... Posted Sep 04 2008, 11:32 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2