No game is complete without a great sound track and sound effects! This tutorial will show you how to do both with a very small amount of code. Silverlight currently supports the following formats: Video WMV1-3 (Windows Media Video 7, 8 & 9 respectively). WMVA (Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, non VC-1). WMVC1 (Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, VC-1). Audio MP3 – ISO/MPEG Layer-3 Sampling frequencies: 8, 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz Bit rates: 8-320 kbps, variable…(read more)

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I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not…( read more )…(read more)

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I’ll be covering this in videos and tutorials in depth, but I’ve come to realize that in-state animation is so straight forward that it can be explained in a quick blog entry. In fact, the really hard part is explaining what it is viz: the Visual State…( read more )…(read more)

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Vlad Filyakov on Devexpress' Layout Control, Bart Czernicki with Part 3 of his Silverlight Master Series, Dave Relyea with Part 2 of his Layout Fundamentals, and Mike Snow on adding sound effects and video. Adam Kinney has a post up about Silverlight…( read more )…(read more)

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