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Show/Hide a Border and other Border fun

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:08 PM by mparsons
While adding a bunch of content to the Border class documentation, I discovered many questions about using borders. I'm going to attempt to address one issue which is how make a border appear and disappear. Before I get into it, if you are interested Read More...
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More on layout and the LayoutInformation APIs

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:04 AM by wpfedevcon
As I was digging around in an old spec, I came across some very enlightening drawings which I pushed through art review and I will now share with you. Ashish wrote a nice post on the layout and rendering engines which might help you understand what's Read More...
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Deep Zoom (Zooming and Panning Images using Silverlight & SeaDragon)

Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:07 PM by wpfedevcon
Deep Zoom which is a technology that combines Silverlight with SeaDragon is a powerful and easy way to impliment zooming and panning large images. Below are a few examples. Exploration of Very Large or High Resolution Images with Great Performance: Take Read More...
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A day in the life of a Programming Writer

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:39 PM by wpfedevcon
Ever wonder how the MSDN documentation gets written? Who are these people? What do they do? Where do they come from? Here are the answers to a few of those questions as I blog about a random day as a writer on the Silverlight User Education team. 7am Read More...
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Creating a Custom Panel

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:10 PM by wpfedevcon
I've spent time the last couple weeks trying to figure out how to create my own panel. At first I was completely confused and it seemed like I would change something small and the entire layout of my panel would radically shift. But after stumbling around Read More...
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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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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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Silverlight Dev FAQ Wiki

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 10:24 PM by wpfedevcon
There are a number of FAQs that are comming through the Silverlight forums and so we created a wiki page up on channel9 to list the FAQs. http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Silverlight.SilverlightDevelopmentFAQ And best of all it's a wiki so YOU Read More...
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QuickStart for using Blend 2 to make Silverlight apps

Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:48 AM by wpfedevcon
Blend 2 is a design tool that greatly simplifies and speeds up development of Silverlight applications. Blend 2 is currently just a Beta but the cool thing is that you can download a free trial and play with it. This new QuickStart will walk you through Read More...
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