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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Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak on Silverlight game programming at GameFest 2008. Working with Tim Heuer and two Silverlight MVP’s Bill Reiss and Joel Neubeck , we were able to hold two sessions that covered Silverlight. During my talk we covered topics including: Creating Silverlight projects using Visual Studio 2008. Creating a tile based map Scrolling the map via keyboard events. Demo of a multi-player game called “Fireball” as well as “Tank Wars”. I am going to be polishing up and optimizing…(read more)

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I responded to a question in a forum today, which got me thinking about running Silverlight Applications on the desktop.  So this got me thinking of the options available. File System Silverlight Applications Silverlight applications can run from…( read more )…(read more)

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So in the previous article I discussed what you can do today to run your Silverlight application independent of your web server.  These were running your Silverlight application from the file system, or running a Silverlight application Offline….( read more )…(read more)

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By the time Silverlight came around, the problems afflicting web applications all round were well known and somewhat well understood. The burden of dealing with network latency, cancellation and errors should not be thrust on every web developer. Platforms…( read more )…(read more)

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Mark Monster on Networking, Rich Griffen on Tweening and Baby Smash, Matt Perdick using WrapPanel, Bart Czernicki on SL and Multi-touch panels, Corinna Barber with 3 videos on Designer/Developer, Dan Wahlin on layouts, Laurence Moroney's SL2 book…( read more )…(read more)

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There has been a number of requests for videos, tutorials and Webcasts that dive deeper. A few weeks ago I scheduled a Webcast for this Wednesday to cover  the Visual State Manager which presents a good opportunity to do so. During this Webcast I…( read more )…(read more)

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