This tutorial will show you how to use the second major development tool for creating Silverlight Applications: Expression Blend. Jesse Liberty walks you through Expression Blend 2.5 using a chat client as a metaphor. Read More……(read more)
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View Comments I'm doing a MSDN GeekSpeak next week on Connecting Silverlight and wanted to make sure I had another shot at working with sockets before then, so here is part 2 of the Chat Application post. This is Part 2 of the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 simple chat application…( read more )…(read more)
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During all my Silverlight and WPF talks, one point I try to make is that in those technologies, the important aspect of an out-of-the-box control is not its particular display properties, but its model and its ability to be customized. Back when we used…( read more )…(read more)
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Joel Neubeck animates user controls, Tim Rule on Scale 9 Images, and Tamir Khason On manipulating ObservableCollection objects. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight Circular Motion Animation This is one of the cooler effects I've seen since the…( read more )…(read more)
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Yesterday the WPF team shipped some major horsepower features in the vastly understated preview Service Pack to .NET Framework 3.5. It is an exception to the rule for an SP release to have features, and not just bug fixes. In the mold of Windows XP SP2…( read more )…(read more)
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In my last post I discussed how HTML was being completed weirdly, and I posted that to the SlickEdit forum. I got a response back that I needed to pick up a couple patches… so that was cool… I hadn't thought of that, I'm sensitized to checking…( read more )…(read more)
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My colleague at AIS , Tad VanFleet , just created a cool Silverlight 2 application for tracking NFL Free Agent movement. Tad is on our BI/Data Visualization team, and has shown a strong interest in, and skill with, Silverlight 2. One of the earliest demos…( read more )…(read more)
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I am in Bristol tomorrow at the .NET Developer Network (DotNetDevNet) User Group presenting Silverlight 2 Unplugged . Anyways, I think it's going to be a fun night and I hope to see you there…( read more )…(read more)
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Michael Washington with Silverlight Desktop and SL Resizable, Draggable WIndows, Lee on Changing Itemtemplate to show details, BBC SL Zoom and WOW, and Jeff Paries Timeline Infographic. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight Desktop Michael Washington…( read more )…(read more)
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Nikolay Raychev with a couple articles about SL2 buttons, DanWahlin continuing his SL 1.0 series, and Todd Anglin on SL2 UI Controls in general. I've had 4 emails about running SilverlightCream.com really wide and having the CSS cause problems, but…( read more )…(read more)
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