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September 2008 - Posts

Maintaining pretenses with the layout system [LayoutTransform functionality updated for Silverlight 2!]

In the introductory post for LayoutTransformControl and the feature-enhancing follow-up , I gave a variety of examples to convey the need for LayoutTransform . I also noted that Silverlight 2 supports only RenderTransform , but went on to demonstrate
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Attachment(s): LayoutTransformControl.zip

Preserving access to Silverlight 2's generic.xaml resources [SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser updated for the Silverlight 2 RC!]

Last night the Silverlight team released Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 ! The new bits include a minor change with a big impact on SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser (background reading available here , here , here , and here ): the path for default styles
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"MouseButtonClicker clicks the mouse so you don't have to!" [Releasing binaries and source for a nifty mouse utility]

I first came across the notion of automatic mouse button clicking some time ago. The basic idea can be summarized as follows: The nearly universal pattern of mouse use is: move/click/wait... move/click/wait... move/click/wait.... In the overwhelming majority
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Make life a little easier for designers [WPF Triggers with a little less XAML and a little less code]

When I was writing my video frame grabbing sample , I came up with a potentially useful technique for maintaining the developer/designer separation that's so sought after in the WPF (and Silverlight) world. I'm sure something similar has been discussed
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Video frame grabbing made easy [How to: Quickly capture multiple video frames with WPF]

When I transfer clips from my digital camera to my computer, I briefly check that the video transferred successfully. For images, this is usually a matter of opening a few of them - for video files I usually load them in Media Player and seek to a couple
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Attachment(s): VideoThumbnailer.zip
 
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