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• Remix videos online

  Remix was only a few weeks ago now, and for those that missed out on the experience we have uploaded all the sessions and recordings for the event to the Remix site.   Highlights for me: Anything by Bill Buxton! How we built the wall by AllofUs Becoming... Posted Oct 07 2008, 08:29 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, WPF

• 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

• Client-side HTML controls for Silverlight 2

  What if you could use and create ASP.NET-like web controls that are 100% client-side, powered by the Silverlight 2 runtime? What if ViewState was a thing of the past? Would you like to cut your web application’s load on your servers from 50 pageviews... Posted Oct 05 2008, 05:51 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, JavaScript, Software Development, web, c#, web development

• 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 Unit Test Framework: New features & download for RC0

  Enhanced interactive results, more log providers, dynamic test methods and attributes, tag expressions: there’s a whole lot of fun new test-dev-geek candy in the latest Silverlight Unit Test Framework download on the MSDN Code Gallery (download... Posted Sep 30 2008, 04:29 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, testing

• Silverlight Unit Test Framework: Breaking changes from Beta 1 to Release Candidate

  Update your test projects to the first Silverlight Unit Test Framework update in half a year, it should take two minutes to update and get the awesome new features and functionality. The improvements and changes made to the surface area of the test framework... Posted Sep 29 2008, 11:09 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Software Development, c#, web development, testing

• 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

• 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 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