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• 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 #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 #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

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #57 – How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control

  Let’s say your site is entirely written in Silverlight but you want to be able to load and run a different Silverlight application within your main Silverlight application/site. Currently this scenario is not directly supported in Silverlight. However... Posted Oct 08 2008, 04:31 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 #56 – Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight.

  In Silverlight you can interact directly with the HTML DOM (Document Object Model). This can be done through the HtmlPage .Document object: HtmlDocument doc = HtmlPage .Document; Make certain to first add a reference to the following namespace: using... Posted Oct 06 2008, 05:15 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 #55 – How to Apply Styles in Silverlight – Part I

  Styles are extremely important because they allow developers to control the look and layout of controls across their application. By using styles you can simply change the style declaration and all controls in the application are updated automatically... Posted Oct 02 2008, 08:37 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 #54: How to Develop with Silverlight Tools for Free

  The recent RC0 release of Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio is now compatible with Visual Web Developer Express with SP1 installed! Express is FREE and can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ . This version only supports the... Posted Oct 01 2008, 01:57 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 #53 – MessageBox is now Available in Silverlight 2

  In Silverlight 2 you can now put up Message Boxes. The call is simple and straight forward and can be made without any input from a user. This method takes the following three parameters with the last parameters being optional: String – The message you... Posted Sep 30 2008, 01:32 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #52 – How to Popup a Browser Window

  Let’s say a user clicks on a button and you want to popup a separate browser and point them to a specific web page. How do you do this in Silverlight? Silverlight now supports a method called HtmlPage .PopupWindow(). For security reasons this call can... Posted Sep 30 2008, 01:07 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #51 – How to Enable and Disable Controls

  With Silverlight 2 RC0 Silverlight Controls can now be enabled/disabled via the property IsEnabled . This property is supported with all XAML controls found in the toolbox except those controls that are non-interactive (I.e. An ellipse, image, line, etc... Posted Sep 30 2008, 12:49 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #50 – Main Game Loop Revisited!

  In the recent release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there is a new event that fires once before the rendering of each frame in your browser. This rendering event is routed to the specified event handler after animation and layout have been applied to the composition... Posted Sep 29 2008, 08:00 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RC0

• 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