Gavin Gear's Tech Blog

Today at Mix Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta was announced. One of the exciting features in Silverlight 1.0 Beta is the addition of Ink support and pen input. This is a ground breaking moment for the Tablet PC as this is the first cross-platform cross...

With Mix07 just around the corner, I’d like to give everyone attending an invitation to drop by the Sandbox and come see what my team has been working on for Silverlight. I can’t talk about these innovations until they are announced at Mix, but I can...

On of the really cool things about Microsoft Silverlight is the ability to implement animations in xaml. What I'm going to demonstrate here is how to extend the code we looked at in my previous post about the PathMaker tool to animate the toucan up from...

Today Microsoft announced the official name for WPFe: Microsoft Silverlight! I think that sounds better than WPFe (Less acronym'ish) :) If you write applications/content for the web, you should definately check out Silverlight! It's a great way to...

In WPFe JavaScript code, it's handy to be able to build up a xaml string dynamically, then call CreateFromXaml() to create the elements on the fly. What can be a pain is coding up your string buildup in JavaScript. I wrote a quick tool (depends on...