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• Silverlight Tip of the Day #77 - Creating an Efficient Random Generator

  In some of my older posts I was creating a separate random generator for each object. However, the documentation on Random states: "The default seed value is derived from the system clock and has finite resolution. As a result, different Random objects... Posted Dec 01 2008, 03:41 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, visual web developer, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #76 - Animating objects with DoubleAnimation.

  In Silverlight you can use the Storyboard control to animate properties of an object. It can be used against properties of type double, Color or Point. For example, you can animate changing the double type property Opacity of a Rectangle over time. A... Posted Dec 01 2008, 02:34 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #75 - Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools

  I am proud to announce we have released Silverlight 2 Tools localized in 7 languages! Please follow the links below to get the language of your choice. DMT page details: Chinese - China Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1-33DA... Posted Nov 26 2008, 02:48 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, version 2, visual web developer, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #74 - Monitoring for App.Current Events - Startup, Shutdown, UnhandledException & Exit.

  Ever noticed there was an event off the Page class called Loaded() that tells you when the page is loaded but none for for Exit() or Quit()? Example for Page.Loaded(): public Page() { InitializeComponent(); this .Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(Page_Loaded... Posted Nov 25 2008, 05:40 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, version 2, visual web developer, RTW, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #73 - Threading in Silverlight

  Threads are used to run multiple jobs concurrently within the same application. In a computer with a single processor, threads are time sliced and the processor will switch between the threads being run. In a computer with two or more processors, threads... Posted Nov 25 2008, 03:32 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, visual web developer, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 - How to call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs

  Your App class (App.xaml + App.xaml.cs) is primarily used for global events and declarations such as styles. The primary events this class handles by default include: Application_Startup() - called when the applications starts. Application_Exit() - called... Posted Nov 25 2008, 02:54 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #3: Silverlight Game Support, Limitations and Workarounds

  While exploring techniques for game programming with Silverlight I came across some hurdles and discovered some workarounds. I plan to use this blog to track these issues for the purposing of hopefully saving you time from having to do similar research... Posted Nov 18 2008, 01:27 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 – New Silverlight 2 Web Site Clean Up Check List

  When creating a Silverlight application with a web site there are a number of cleanups you will want to perform. I have created a little check list here that I will maintain and update as I get new ideas. Change the Page Title. By default the title is... Posted Nov 17 2008, 06:36 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, RTW, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #71 – 3D Support in Silverlight 3

  If you missed ScottGu’s blog on what’s upcoming in Silverlight 3 check it out here! Included is the feature I have waiting most anxiously for… 3D support and GPU hardware acceleration ! This is a huge win for game developers, worthy of a few fireworks... Posted Nov 17 2008, 12:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, silverlight resources, version 2, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #70 – Data Collection Support in Silverlight

  Silverlight provides a number of options for data collection, storage and retrieval. In this Tip I will be walking you through various ways of doing this. You will need to add a using statement in your page to reference System.Collections; BitArray. The... Posted Nov 14 2008, 03:30 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, RTW, Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #68 – Great Silverlight Sessions to Watch from PDC 2008

  The Professional Developer Conference of 2008 has concluded. If you were not one of the fortunate people to attend don’t fret you can still view the presentations online! The following links below are the Silverlight related presentations from PDC I have... Posted Nov 03 2008, 05:46 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, visual web developer, PDC, Silverlight Tools, Performance

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #67 – Silverlight Performance Tips

  1. Debugging The following items will help you debug performance in your Silverlight application: EnableRedrawRegions – Turn on this debug setting to see what and where rectangles are being redrawn within your application. When enabled you can see what... Posted Nov 03 2008, 05:32 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, RTW, Silverlight Tools, Performance

• 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 #64 – Deploying a Silverlight Application with a Web Service

  In Tip of the Day #42 I discussed how to create Silverlight-enabled WCF web service. In this tip I will discuss the steps necessary to take in order to publish and deploy the web service with your Silverlight application on your server. For security reasons... Posted Oct 20 2008, 08:06 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, resources, silverlight resources, version 2, express, visual web developer