There are two common idioms for creating events (and wiring up their handlers) for XAML objects. One is to place the name of the event and the name of its handler in the XAML itself <Canvas Canvas.Top= "180" Canvas.Left= "200" MouseLeftButtonDown…( read more )…(read more)
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View Comments This week we bring you two videos by J. Michael Palermo to help you when things go wrong with Silverlight 1.0 applications. The first video focuses on debugging your application in Visual Studio 2008, and the second shows you how errors are handled by Read More……(read more)
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i recently got an email from a rails developer who was using silverlight on a site to display high-quality media. what?! you though silverlight was a windows-only technology? blasphemy! you see, silverlight is a client-technology, which means as long…( read more )…(read more)
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A few months back Microsoft did a firestarter event in Redmond on Silverlight. For the vast majority of the world who didn't go to this event (including me), they recorded it, and stuck the videos online. You can download the videos from the mix site…( read more )…(read more)
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With Silverlight 1.1 (2.0 in the future), the holy grail of developer / designer interaction is infeasible (with WPF it is perfectly possible). Even when it is possible, there is a mindset which will need to be instilled to make this sort of progression…( read more )…(read more)
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I plan on putting a Silverlight Marquee on my site to announce upcoming meetings, events, etc. I want to read the info from the database and display it appropriately, with a link out to whatever is going on. To get ready to do that, I built a single page…( read more )…(read more)
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This tip is thanks to Adam Nathan and his excellent book Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed by Adam Nathan Read more about this title… You can achieve the startling effect of introducing sharp lines within a linear gradient by adding…( read more )…(read more)
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OK I admit it, I thought it was something I was doing incorrectly… or something I was doing caused by being in and out of various versions of various software or something, but I've got a collection of .chm files that won't open. I found that…( read more )…(read more)
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Free SL 1.0 Training at Lynda.com & view of facilities from Mike Harsh, Jon Galloway describes Inkscape's new XAML export support, Infragistic's Jason Beres video interview, Shawn Wildermuth with a WCF solution to cross-site scripting, and…( read more )…(read more)
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Watch Bill Gates’ keynote presentation at CES and get the latest from Microsoft at CES with this latest Showcase entry. Read More……(read more)
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