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3 Easy Steps to WPF Pixel Shaders. Template Project and Five Shader Samples (Twirl UI, Light, Blobs, Grayscale and Wave reflection)

In This Tutorial: · Template project and simple 3-step instructions to kick start WPF pixel shaders · Introduction to Pixel Shaders in WPF · Source Code for 3 pixel shaders · Links to 2 pixel shader sources on the web Using Shaders in WPF: The Easy Way Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:10 AM by nikola | 14 Comments

Attachment(s): Beginner’s WPF Pixel Shaders.pptx

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

ASP.NET Authentication for Silverlight Applications (Accessing ASP.NET Membership, Profile and Role Services)

This is very good for web sites that have ASP.NET Authentication (or plan to have) and have Silverlight apps. Brad Abrams, from his blog: "Here is what I plan to show: 1. Login\Logout 2. Save personalization settings 3. Enable custom UI based on a user's Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:09 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