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by jeff via Design with Silverlight on 8/18/2009 3:31:39 AM
After reading a recent blog post from Tim Heuer that covers Silverlight 3 multi-touch, I got my interest piqued. I had wanted to play around with multi-touch computing for a while, and it seems like Silverlight 3 just dropped an affordable way to do that right into my lap. The next few blog posts I [...] ...
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by jeff via Design with Silverlight on 1/5/2009 2:53:02 AM
There have been plenty of posts describing how inefficient the zip compression is on XAP files, and how it's possible to shrink the size of a XAP by simply unzipping and rezipping using a utility like WinZip. Another tool we've tested that has now become a regular part of our toolbox is PNGGauntlet, which is a [...] ...
by jeff via Design with Silverlight on 12/31/2008 4:40:46 PM
There's a site online I've seen a few times through the years, and always thought it was cool. It shows a photo of Seattle's waterfront taken in 1907, and there's a slider you can move to see it in 2002. I emailed the creator of the site, Alan Taylor, and got permission to do a [...] ...
by jeff via Design with Silverlight on 12/23/2008 3:14:27 AM
After I saw the announcement of the MIX10K Challenge, I knew I wanted to put something together. I spent some time thinking it over, and created an example that leverages code found in my book. My entry includes physics, collisions, drag and drop, throwing, controls, etc. As it turned out, I had some room to spare [...] ...
by jeff via Design with Silverlight on 11/15/2008 9:49:46 PM
I stumbled upon this the other day, though in hindsight, it's obvious that it would be there. Just as with the hyperlinks in HTML, you can use the hyperlink in Silverlight to invoke the user's default mail client. This is commonly referred to as a "mailto" link. To do it, just set the hyperlink's "NavigateUri" property [...] ...
by jeff via Design with Silverlight on 11/4/2008 4:05:40 AM
In case anybody needs it, here's a Silverlight/XAML gauge object. The downloadable project includes a single gauge object which is instanced twice so you can see how to change the color of the gradient background. My trial period for Design expired, so I did all of the design work in Blend. There's also a storyboard to "idle" [...] ...
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