With GIF's, which isn't supported in Silverlight2, transparency is fairly easy because you can just specify what color in that GIF you want to be your transparent color. With PNG's, it's a little tougher. You will need to use an editing tool to go in and "clear" out the sections of the bitmap that you do not want displayed. There are tool that do this, and I will walk you through one such scenario. STEP 1. Find a image editing tool that supports PNG file format and a feature…(read more)

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One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing.  This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can…( read more )…(read more)

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I was at the VS2008 "Heroes Happen Here" Launch Event in Phoenix yesterday so am somewhat backed up on everything, but before the day gets rolling, there are some congratulatory messages to pass along, and I'm going to do them alphabetically…( read more )…(read more)

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The Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Evangelism Team have put together a great free event in NJ with Silverlight, SQL Server, Surface, Silverlight Mobile, WPF, AJAX and lots more. April 22 - April 24 2008 Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel…( read more )…(read more)

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Michael Sync posted a list of SL2B1 problems, Rob Houweling produced a Motion Blur demo, LeeOnTech with a SL2 MasterPage proposal, egoZd on uploading with SL2 and asmx Web Services, Laurent Bugnion's bug tracking of the ScrollViewer, Scott Guthrie…( read more )…(read more)

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