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Cool Silverlight Splash Screen Concept Demo (including Source Code)

In this tutorial: Creating a cool (and easy) Vista-like "ray of light" effect in Silverlight Creating images for splash screens The demo below shows a "core" that emits rays of light as a hypothetical download progresses. Download source code Images used Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:19 AM by nikola | 4 Comments

7 Easy Steps to Learn C#: Silverlight C# Compiler and Loading DLLs from a server at runtime in Silverlight

In This Tutorial: · C# compiler demo for the web - type code in a web page, compile and execute it on the client · How to enable dynamic code compilation for a Silverlight application · How to execute third party DLL from within a Silverlight application Read More...

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 8:35 AM by nikola | 1 Comments

Building the Reallistic Water Ripples Sample in Silverlight

In this tutorial: - creating and rendering water ripples - optimized image generation - JPEG decoding component for Silverlight Source code for this sample Algorithm The algorithm is based on Hugo Elias’ 2D water tutorial . On each render step we have Read More...

Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 10:26 AM by nikola | 4 Comments

Optimized Joe Stegman's Dynamic Image Generation (Twice the Speed)

I needed a good and relatively fast dynamic image generation code for Silverlight (for the next sample, you’ll see). Joe Stegman has an excellent post including source code for generating images in Silverlight: http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/archive/2008/04/21/dynamic-image-generation-in-silverlight.aspx Read More...

Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 10:19 AM by nikola | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): EditableImage.zip

EasyHyperbar Navigation Control - A hyperbar, only easier (in Silverlight)

In this Tutorial · Analysis of the usability of the typical Hyperbar Control · Silverlight sample with source code for a better control (in my opinion) There are two important traits of a navigation control: usability and looks. Usability of the control Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:17 PM by nikola | 1 Comments

Ray Tracing in Silverlight

I had some free time today and did this: I'd like to note that LukeH made the core raytracing engine in C#. He built it using linq and the code looks very elegant . I did the "Silverlight" part of it. There are some things to think about with ray tracing Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:16 AM by nikola | 2 Comments

Silverlight: How to Make Your WCF Web Service Work for All Users

Specification of the Problem A WCF web service works when a user types site in his browser with www in the name: · http:// www .nokola.com/SampleService/ServiceClientAppTestPage.aspx Works OK!, but it stops working if the same site is typed without www: Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 2:26 PM by nikola | 0 Comments