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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:10 PM

Read a Silverlight book - with Silverlight! [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer adaptation by Laurence Moroney]

At the bottom of the post on migrating SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer to Silverlight Beta 2 , I hinted at "a cool, practical, relevant use of SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer that I'll be able to share sometime soon". "Soon" is now, and I'm happy to point readers
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:59 PM

Maintaining access to Silverlight 2's generic.xaml resources [SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser updated for build 2.0.30523.8 and beyond!]

A few days ago the Silverlight team released a minor update to Beta 2 , changing the version number from 2.0.30523.6 to 2.0.30523.8 in the process. The version number is part of Silverlight's install path and SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser (background
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:47 PM

Smaller is better! [A simple step to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications]

When putting content on the web, it's important to get that content to the user as quickly as possible. In general, reducing the amount of data users need to download is a big step in the right direction. As such, the XAP packaging format used by Silverlight
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Attachment(s): XapReZip.cmd
Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:00 AM

The layout system lies have become a bit more elaborate [LayoutTransform functionality updated and enhanced for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

In the introductory post for LayoutTransformControl , I showed a trivial use case to demonstrate the need for LayoutTransform in some scenarios. I also noted that Silverlight 2 supports only RenderTransform , but went on to demonstrate how it was possible
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Attachment(s): LayoutTransformControl.zip
 
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