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re: Silverlight Tip of the Day #60 – How to load a XAML Control From a File or String

Grey Matter — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:48:02 GMT

DjoDjo, make the following steps:

1. Click on your project, and go to Add->Existing Item.. and then chose your Button.xaml file. It must contain something like this:

2. Now when your XAML file's been added to your project click on it to open it's properties.

3. In the Properties pane chose option "Resource" for the "Build Action" field.

Now it has to work well.

re: Game Programming with Silverlight.

ADHDeveloper — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:37:56 GMT

I had this pre-ordered from amazon.ca for the past 2+ months....and now they are out of stock and my order is not shipped.

I guess you had a lot of Canadians pre-ordering it even before I did :)

re: Silverlight Tip of the Day #12 - Full Implementation of a Silverlight Policy Server.

goberman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:02:26 GMT

Yes, there is a bug in this code: OnReceive should check for 0 _received. 0 indicates that socket is closed. Something like below:

// socket closed

if (_received == 0)

{

_connection.Close();

return;

}

It is a shame Microsoft cannot just package a policy server implementation in the Silverlight installation as a tool and has to use these blogs to show how to write one...

And what is the deal with '_' before field names? Some new naming convention?

re: Game Programming with Silverlight.

tanmoy.r — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:22:43 GMT

Kool. I am also going to buy this book.

re: Game Programming with Silverlight.

jt715 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:28:21 GMT

I bought it yesterday, just waiting for Amazon to ship it.

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re: Game Programming with Silverlight.

BenHayat — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:10:58 GMT

Mike, thank you for your answer. I've always enjoyed your tips and I think the least I can do to return the favor, is to buy the book and support your cause and learn new things. Thanks and talk to you soon!

..Ben

re: Silverlight Tip of the Day #107 – Animation Easing Demo

LenR — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:57:31 GMT

I just got a note from Amazon saying they will cancel my preorder today if I don't say I want them to keep trying. As it is shipping today I wonder how many others will get canceled. I told them to keep trying, the book looks interesting. I also bookmarked the site.

Thanks for the good stuff.

LenR

re: Game Programming with Silverlight.

Deepak Verma — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:44:15 GMT

Congratulations Mike, on having the book out!

re: Game Programming with Silverlight.

mike.snow — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:51:38 GMT

Hi Ben- I would agree that these techniques can be used for both game and other LoB type apps. The way I look at it the techniques in this book really just show you how to get things done using Silverlight. How you apply these techniques really depends upon what exactly you are building. If you have any specific examples or questions let me know.

Also, you can reach me directly at msnow @ microsoft.com

I will be OOF though on vacation 1 week starting today.

Thanks,

--Mike

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re: Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 – Use Integers for Layout Calculations

DDtMM — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:25:26 GMT

If you check the documentation on UseLayoutRounding you'll see it is True by default... yet I've gotten results similar to the top (bad) screenshot. Maybe it is different in SL3? I haven't tried.

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