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March 2008 - Posts

Make a Silverlight Timer (Silverlight 2)

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:34 PM by wpfedevcon
I've seen several questions related to timers on forums and in internal mail so I thought I'd toss up a simple example. To create a timer, you have to use the DispatcherTimer in the System.Windows.Threading namespace. Here's an example of a simple counter Read More...
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Web Services and Silverlight

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:12 PM by wpfedevcon
I've been watching the Silverlight forums since the release of Silverlight 2, and I've noticed folks are having problems getting their Silverlight 2-based apps to work with Web services. There have been a number of API changes between Silverlight 1.2 Read More...
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Target Multiple Objects with one Animation (Silverlight)

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:19 PM by wpfedevcon
What if you want to use a single animation object (let's say DoubleAnimation) to target multiple objects? This is especially useful when you have a large number of objects that have similar animations applied to them. For example, you are displaying rows Read More...
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Create an Animation in Code (e.g. C#, VB .NET, etc)

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 10:17 PM by wpfedevcon
Sometimes you might want to create an animation in procedural code (e.g. C#, VB .NET, etc) rather than in XAML like in my previous Animation post . I've seen a lot of traffic on the Silverlight.net forums asking about this subject so in this post I'll Read More...
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Silverlight Animations (Part 1 - Basic Animation)

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 12:40 AM by wpfedevcon
Creating animations is one of the main reasons for even being interested in Silverlight and so I'm going to put together a series of posts that go over Silverlight animations - from dead simple to sophisticated and cool. Along the way, I'll be constantly Read More...
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What about the docs?

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 10:12 PM by wpfedevcon
It's been a little over a week since Silverlight 2 Beta 1 was released and I find myself wondering if anyone is reading our docs. I see all the action on the forums and the blogs, which is great, but when I see blog posts like this ( More Ways to Learn Read More...
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Silverlight 2 Beta 1 code for the How to: Use the Open File Dialog Box topic

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:41 PM by wpfedevcon
A typo in a link to the sample code caused the code to not appear in the topic How to: Use the Open File Dialog Box topic. Here's the C# and VB code you should have gotten with the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 SDK documentation. C# code from the Page.xaml.cs Read More...
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Silverlight Offline Documentation (March 2008)

Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 6:25 PM by wpfedevcon
You can get the offline CHM that contains Silverlight documentation updated for March 2008 here . This doc set was released during MIX 08. This CHM file is handy if you want to download the MSDN documentation right onto your machine but don't have Visual Read More...
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