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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:42 PM

Following up on some of the attention [Live sample posted and a *very* small tweak to the Html5Canvas source code!]

I posted the source code for a Silverlight implementation of the HTML 5 <canvas> API yesterday and some readers have been pretty interested in the concept/implementation. Thanks for all your comments and feedback! Earlier today, kind user Fabien
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Monday, August 24, 2009 1:26 PM

Using one platform to build another [HTML 5's canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!]

Background There's been some buzz about the upcoming HTML 5 standard over the past few months. In particular, there are a couple of new features that people are looking forward to. One of them is the new <canvas> element which introduces a 2D drawing
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:12 AM

Ambiguous contract is ambiguous [Minor bug fix for CRC32 and MD5Managed HashAlgorithm implementations]

Kind reader Gregor Zurowski contacted me over the weekend to let me know that he was using my free CRC-32 HashAlgorithm implementation in his project and he'd found that omitting the call to the Initialize method lead to incorrect hash values being returned.
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:42 AM

The proverbial "one line fix" [ComputeFileHashes works around a troublesome Silverlight-on-Mac issue]

When I achieved cross-platform parity by adding MD5 support to the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes , I thought I was done for a while. But then I got an email from a coworker reporting that the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes running
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:25 AM

Thank goodness for reference implementations [Low-overhead .NET MD5 implementation (source code and tests) works great on Silverlight!]

In yesterday's post announcing ComputeFileHashes's new support for MD5 on Silverlight , I promised to share some details about my experience getting an MD5 HashAlgorithm implementation for Silverlight. Recall that an MD5 class is available in the desktop
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Monday, January 26, 2009 11:09 PM

Cross-platform feature parity: achieved [Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes now includes MD5!]

I was very happy with last week's release of ComputeFileHashes supporting the command-line, WPF, Silverlight, *and* ClickOnce . Only one thing bothered me: the Silverlight version didn't do MD5 due to the lack of support for that type of checksum by Silverlight
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:13 AM

Gratuitous platform support [ComputeFileHashes works on the command-line, on WPF, on Silverlight, and via ClickOnce!]

Last week, I released the ComputeFileHashes tool for calculating file checksums . (To read more about what checksums are and why they're useful, please refer to that post.) ComputeFileHashes is a fairly simple .NET command-line application for calculating
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