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June 2008 - Posts

Text; from a slightly different perspective [VerticalTextBlock Control sample for Silverlight 2]

During an informal discussion yesterday, the question of displaying text vertically (i.e., letters stacked on top of each other instead of side-by-side) came up and I offhandedly said it would be pretty easy to do. Later on, I got curious about just how
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Attachment(s): VerticalTextBlock.zip

Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Earlier this week I was asked about an update to my SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample for the newly released Silverlight 2 Beta 2 . (Background reading: Introductory Post , Beta 1 Update .) I spent a bit of time on this just now and migrating SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer
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Again with the support for simple HTML display in Silverlight [HtmlTextBlock sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

A customer recently asked about an update to my HtmlTextBlock sample for the newly released Silverlight 2 Beta 2 . (Background reading: HtmlTextBlock Announcement , Improvements , Beta 1 Update , Data Binding Support ) I'd meant to eventually migrate
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Continuing access to Silverlight 2's generic.xaml resources [SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Silverlight 2 Beta was released earlier today and one of the big changes is the switch to using Visual State Manager for control design/development. Another is that many of the core controls (Button, ListBox, etc.) have moved from the SDK into the Silverlight
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