Jerry was asking me how to change the size of the DeepZoom “slide” I used in my MIX session. The DeepZoom is currently displaying at 1024 x 768px and we want to make that bigger. My Silverlight 1 knowledge didn’t help answer the question…( read more )…(read more)
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View Comments Tim Heuer revisits SL2 and WS, Jesse Liberty discussing how to get SL assistance, Bill Reiss on the DispatcherTimer, Pete Brown has links up for his WebCast on the 19th, Mike Taulty on SL2 sockets, Andy Beaulieu on asmx WS in SL2, Chrisshayuk on WCF and…( read more )…(read more)
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Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday's webcast. In the past, I've used slideshare for uploading slides, but if you use non-standard fonts, the processing munges it. This time, I've posted PDF and XPS versions of the slides. The XPS version…( read more )…(read more)
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John Stockton with a SL2 UserControl example and Tim Sneath on Web Server Configuration for SL2 content. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight 2: User Controls and Other Tips John Stockton has a very nice User Control post as his first Silverlight 2…( read more )…(read more)
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In Silverlight 2 Beta 1 some events bubble, and some do not. This can cause a bit of confusion, especially because the way this distinction is explained is itself confusing. To set the stage, let's examine the following simple event handling program…( read more )…(read more)
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I just noticed that the good folks at Pixel8 posted a podcast I did with them a while back. It was a fun conversation about a bit of .NET history as well as where we are going. Landing Page Download show I'd love the hear what you think! Read More…( read more )…(read more)
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Karen Corby provides us 3 SL2 controls, Carlos Figueira details the cross-domain policy file, Jesse Liberty starts a great tutorial sequence on data in SL2, Shawn Wildermuth on a VS2008 SL2 crash and workaround plus a pointer to a DeepZoom MSLabs site…( read more )…(read more)
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The MountainWest RubyConf 2008 is upon us just 2 weeks away in Salt Lake City, Utah. Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to be there given my travel with The Code Trip . IronRuby , however, was able to be a sponsor of this year's conference…( read more )…(read more)
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After skinning my nth control I got fed up with continually referring to the MS source code via reflector and made up my own diagram with all the control contracts in them. Print it out and stick it up on your work wall, hopefully you guys find it useful…( read more )…(read more)
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Silverlight 1.0 didn't have much in the way of accessibility - essentially the equivalent of alt tags. Silverlight 2 will change that by exposing a full accessibility tree to accessibility tools in builds post Beta 1. In this video Mark Rideout from…( read more )…(read more)
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