In Mango we have enabled setting the referer header (and many other headers) on HttpWebRequests. One question that popped up a few times: how do I use this with the Image element and data-binding to download my images. Here is a quick sample to demonstrate...

I have attached the first of the demos from my MIX 2011 session . Note that I have attached two versions: the 'before' version to illustrate the problems, and the 'after' version to show the fixes. This post will walk you through each of the tips and...

I just got back from Las Vegas where I had the opportunity to attend and speak at the MIX 2011 conference. A recording of my session can be viewed here on Channel9: Expert Lessons: Top Tips for Building a Successful Windows Phone Application I had...

If you are developing for Windows Phone you have probably been using the the Image element in various places of your UI already. Using the Image element is very easy and wouldn't warrent a blog post: just set the Source property to the URI of your image...

For the last 18 months I have been (and I still am) working on an exciting new project: Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. I haven't had much of a chance to continue my posts about Silverlight, Tablet PC etc., but I am planning pick this up again now and...

I have been sitting on this sample for quite a while, but never found the time to get it ready for a post. Before I switch the focus of my blog over to Windows Phone 7 development, I wanted to get this out of the way first :-) With Silverlight 4, we...

Silverlight 3 Beta has been released today. This release includes a number of exciting new features that I want to illustrate with a series of quick samples on my blog. ( more info on Silverlight 3 Beta and how to get the bits and tools ). The first...

Drawing ink with the built-in stroke objects works great for handwriting and annotations. In some scenarios, however, you may want something more fancy that takes advantage of Silverlight's rich graphics capabilities. Creating ink strokes with a customized...

As addendum to my previous post Erasing Ink in Silverlight 2 I want to show how to enable back-of-pen erasing for users with a compatible stylus device (e.g. on a Tablet PC or with an external Graphics Tablet). The key that enables this scenario is...

Another frequently asked question around inking in Silverlight is about erasing Ink strokes after they have been collected or loaded. Unlike WPF or the Tablet SDK for COM & Winforms, Silverlight does not come with controls that have built-in eraser...

One of the questions I have seen quite a few times in the Silverlight.net forums is how to persists (and de-persists) ink in Silverlight 2. Unlike WPF, Silverlight does not support a binary persistence format (ISF), but you can write some code to save...

When writing an application that supports multiple input devices (mouse, stylus, touch) it is often neccessary to detect which type of device is sending the input events.Silverlight 1.0 offered a DeviceType property on the StylusInfo object that gets...

Now that Silverlight 2 is released, I finally got around to updating my blog after a long time of silence. For those of you interested in handwriting and Tablet related technologies, I want to start out with a canonical example of a Silverlight 2 Inking...

I am very excited to write my first blog post about Silverlight 2 today, the project I am currently working on. In early March 2008 we shipped a public Beta for Silverlight 2 that you can download (along with all the neccessary tools) from http://silverlight...

In the spirit of the holiday season, I have created a little eCard using the Silverlight v1.0 SDK. Use the buttons to add ice skaters and falling snow to the scene :-) Have a wonderful Holiday and a happy New Year 2008! P.S. I am using the Silverlight...

WPF's InkCanvas element provides a lot of built-in functionality for several common, ink-related tasks like stylus gesture recognition, point and stroke erase, as well as the selection, resizing and moving of ink strokes. The key to those features is...

One of my favorite tools on the Tablet PC is the 'Snipping Tool'. I have been using it frequently since the early XP days (back then we shipped it seperately as a Power Toy). Now in Vista, it's part of the main OS and I find myself using it quite often...

I have received several question from folks about my earlier post on Ink Reflections in WPF . People were curious how to accomplish the same or a similar effect in Silverlight, in the absence of the VisualBrush object. Clearly, WPF's VisualBrush is...

To follow-up on my previous blog post and to complete the story about rendering ink onto pictures and saving the results as a bitmap file, I want to show how this is done in WPF. In WPF all rendering uses the pipeline - pictures, videos, ink, text...

Annotating pictures with handwriting or drawings is a fun and useful scenario for digital ink. In many cases the application user wants to create a new image file with the ink annotation "burnt" into the picture, so they can use the result of their work...

Silverlight makes delivering video content in the browser very easy. Silverlight also has ink support built-in. So why not combine these two features to enable some great new scenarios? I have put together a little sample using Silverlight v1.0 to...

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at the Oredev conference in Malmo, Sweden. Thank you also for all the great questions and feedback after the sessions - much appreciated! I have attached my slide decks to this post for those who are interested...

Just a quick note: I am on my way to Oredev conference . I'll be presenting the following two talks there: Introduction to application development with WPF and Silverlight for TabletPCs and UMPCs Advanced application development with WPF and Silverlight...

Are you using Windows Journal to jot down your thoughts on your Tablet PC? Did you ever wish to publish your handwritten notes to your blog? Here is one way to do this: The TabletPC SDK provides a Journal Reader API that provides access to the content...

Want to create some fancy looking handwritten text or drawing? Tweaking the standard DrawingAttributes on an ink stroke won't get you very far - and creating a custom ink renderer is a lot of work. Why not just apply some of the WPF BitmapEffects to your...