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Silverlight 3 Beta has been released today. This release includes a number of exciting new features that I want to illustrate with a series of quick samples on my blog. ( more info on Silverlight 3 Beta and how to get the bits and tools ). The first new
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I am hosting this sample here to demonstrate the solution to this forum thread: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/51139/134135.aspx
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Drawing ink with the built-in stroke objects works great for handwriting and annotations. In some scenarios, however, you may want something more fancy that takes advantage of Silverlight's rich graphics capabilities. Creating ink strokes with a customized
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As addendum to my previous post Erasing Ink in Silverlight 2 I want to show how to enable back-of-pen erasing for users with a compatible stylus device (e.g. on a Tablet PC or with an external Graphics Tablet). The key that enables this scenario is the
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Another frequently asked question around inking in Silverlight is about erasing Ink strokes after they have been collected or loaded. Unlike WPF or the Tablet SDK for COM & Winforms, Silverlight does not come with controls that have built-in eraser
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One of the questions I have seen quite a few times in the Silverlight.net forums is how to persists (and de-persists) ink in Silverlight 2. Unlike WPF, Silverlight does not support a binary persistence format (ISF), but you can write some code to save
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When writing an application that supports multiple input devices (mouse, stylus, touch) it is often neccessary to detect which type of device is sending the input events.Silverlight 1.0 offered a DeviceType property on the StylusInfo object that gets
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Now that Silverlight 2 is released, I finally got around to updating my blog after a long time of silence. For those of you interested in handwriting and Tablet related technologies, I want to start out with a canonical example of a Silverlight 2 Inking
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I am very excited to write my first blog post about Silverlight 2 today, the project I am currently working on. In early March 2008 we shipped a public Beta for Silverlight 2 that you can download (along with all the neccessary tools) from http://silverlight.net/
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In the spirit of the holiday season, I have created a little eCard using the Silverlight v1.0 SDK. Use the buttons to add ice skaters and falling snow to the scene :-) Have a wonderful Holiday and a happy New Year 2008! P.S. I am using the Silverlight
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WPF's InkCanvas element provides a lot of built-in functionality for several common, ink-related tasks like stylus gesture recognition, point and stroke erase, as well as the selection, resizing and moving of ink strokes. The key to those features is
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One of my favorite tools on the Tablet PC is the 'Snipping Tool'. I have been using it frequently since the early XP days (back then we shipped it seperately as a Power Toy). Now in Vista, it's part of the main OS and I find myself using it quite often
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I have received several question from folks about my earlier post on Ink Reflections in WPF . People were curious how to accomplish the same or a similar effect in Silverlight, in the absence of the VisualBrush object. Clearly, WPF's VisualBrush is the
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To follow-up on my previous blog post and to complete the story about rendering ink onto pictures and saving the results as a bitmap file, I want to show how this is done in WPF. In WPF all rendering uses the pipeline - pictures, videos, ink, text, all
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Annotating pictures with handwriting or drawings is a fun and useful scenario for digital ink. In many cases the application user wants to create a new image file with the ink annotation "burnt" into the picture, so they can use the result of their work
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