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• 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

• 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 Tip of the Day #47 – How to Implement a Password Box

  With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there is are a number of new controls that were not available in beta 2 including: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox Password boxes are great in that they hide the characters a user is typing for privacy and security... Posted Sep 29 2008, 01:30 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight 2, game programming, 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