Silverlight Guide

Silverlight and MS CRM Services

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:57:35 +0000

Had enough media players, games, and animated shapes with Silverlight ? How about integrating into some line of business applications? Microsoft produces an application called Microsoft CRM, now in it’s 4th release (those closer to the CRM information Read More……(read more)

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A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:57:35 +0000

Back in June I posted a blog entry on how to get started with Silverlight; it seems it is time to update that as the world changes very quickly and we have many new resources. Each of us has our own way of learning, but here is my suggested path through…( read more )…(read more)

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Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2008 — #353

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:57:35 +0000

Page Brooks with CoolMenu and Custom Collections for Controls, Bill Reiss on Calling WCF on local server, Mike Snow on Fast Sprite Animation, Tom Fischer on getting a color or brush from a string, Shawn Wildermuth on User Controls Base Classes, Tim Heuer…( read more )…(read more)

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I’ve joined Facebook

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:57:35 +0000

I am an early adopter in many areas, unfortunately Facebook is not one of those areas. I’ve decided to join Facebook so if you want to connect with me that would be very cool (link is below): http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1421300085 This is probably…( read more )…(read more)

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Tutorial Feedback – Leave a Comment Why Dontcha?

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:04:25 +0000

I’m incredibly pleased to say that we have implemented a comments section for each tutorial, just as we do for each video Please leave your comments and I will subscribe to the comments list and try to respond as quickly as possible (if your comment goes…( read more )…(read more)

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Tip of the Day #29: Creating a Transparent, Draggable Dialog with Rounded Corners

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:04:25 +0000

For this tutorial we will step you through the basics of what you need to do to create a dialog that you can: Drag/drop. Add transparency (opacity) to. Round the corners. To preview and run this application please visit this link: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Border%20Demo/iframe.html . Move any of the sliders as well as mouse left click, hold and drag/drop the dialog. Step 1: Creating a Transparent Dialog with Rounded Corners For the background of the dialog we will use a Border…(read more)

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Silverlight Cream for August 19, 2008 — #351

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:04:25 +0000

Martin Mihaylov on Resizing the SL Object, Dan Wahlin on the Grid and a Flyout StackPanel, Robby Ingebretsen with a Particle Generator, Mike Snow on Terrain Part 2, Custom Mouse Cursor, and Transparent Draggable dialog, Mike Taulty with MessageBox(),…( read more )…(read more)

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Joining IdentityMine (and leaving Siemens)

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:04:25 +0000

These last months have been amongst the most intensive I have ever been in my life. Since my last blog post, I have been extremely busy finishing writing my Silverlight book and starting the editing work. It is well underway, and we will publish later…( read more )…(read more)

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Four Transforms

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:23:58 +0000

I haven’t really written much about transforms in a long while. We looked at them in depth during the Silverlight 1.0 time frame and then more or less took them for granted ever since. It may be time for a review – perhaps a quick video (it’s on my list…( read more )…(read more)

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Silverlight Cream for August 17, 2008 — #349

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:23:58 +0000

Bill Reiss announced a SL Game contest, Matt Berseth with Custom DataGrid icons, Palard Julien provides password control, Sean Blakemore on IOC and Moq, Somesegar describes the olympics process, Laurence Moroney with a fun app, Scott Barnes on RSS, Tim…( read more )…(read more)

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