Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help
12 hours, 54 minutes ago by Microsoft Weblogs
If you've installed the Silverlight Toolkit after Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected. You'll see this with types and members that are "shared" between...(
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A Better Multi-Page Solution
1 day, 21 hours ago by Microsoft Weblogs
I've posted on multi-page Silverlight applications, and in fact have two videos ( here and here ) that show an approach that works quite well and that I was happy to steal at the time. I recently received email from Lucas Stark (Senior Web Developer at...(
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On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day...(
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Managed Html Controls source code
2 days, 15 hours ago by Microsoft Weblogs
In early October I blogged about the managed wrapper for client-side HTML controls that we use in the Silverlight unit test framework.
If you were intrigued by it, you’ll be happy to know that the source code is published and part of the Silverlight...(
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When I first wrote about adding full LayoutTransform fidelity to Silverlight with my LayoutTransformControl project, I mentioned that I'd found two scenarios where LayoutTransformControl's behavior differed from WPF's LayoutTransform . (Background reading...(
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140+ hours of video on Expression training
2 days, 22 hours ago by Microsoft Weblogs
See you in 5.83333 days... :) Hat tip to Arturo Videos are here ( RSS feed here )...(
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I've teamed up with the chaps from Tricky Business , Splendid and my northern pal Phil Winstanley to organise an evening focused on design and what Microsoft has to offer designers and developers who care about Experience/UX/Silverlight/WPF/Expression...(
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Hello! Some of you might have visited www.microsoft.com/videos. It’s a Beta version portal for video that uses Silverlight. Microsoft Expression has its own channel in there and currently has 140+ videos and we are continously adding more. This...(
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Hello Central Eastern Europe! I hope you are already having an amazing time in the Microsoft virtual event REMIX event called VORTEX. If you are still not there visit the VORTEX site and login into the sessions which are being broadcasted live! I have...(
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Nine New Community Gallery Entries
4 days, 14 hours ago by Archived News
Learn some advanced Silverlight programming techniques with Pencho Popadiyn’s Silverlight AnalogClock , check out a Silverlight map tutorial , do some math with a Calculator for Silverlight , view an Animated Tag Cloud and more in the Silverlight Community...
Becoming a Silverlight Programmer
4 days, 15 hours ago by Microsoft Weblogs
I received a wonderful and very kind email from saleh alabbas who asked this canonical question: "imagine you have good knowledge in C#, what plan you would draw for yourself to become an expert in developing web and Silverlight applications?" I'm asked...(
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The auto complete functionality that IE and Firefox provide in the URL address bar is nice: both these browsers (and many other auto complete implementations) highlight the text that you’ve typed, inside the results display. If you use the Silverlight...(
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I'd almost finished patting myself on the back for managing to implement WPF's LayoutTransform on Silverlight using just the RenderTransform available on that platform. (Background reading for LayoutTransformControl: Motivation and introduction for Beta...(
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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...(
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I’m posting this because the documentation on ViewportOrigin is wrong and it might be a while before it can be updated on the live site. In the meantime, this post discusses how to use ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth to control the viewport. Controlling...(
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