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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

• 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

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #35 – Full Screen Mode Implementation

  To have your application enter into full screen mode all you have to do is execute the following line of code: Application.Current.Host.Content.IsFullScreen = true; Once in full screen Silverlight will briefly show the following message that will fade... Posted Sep 04 2008, 05:13 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, game programming, beta2