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May 2007 - Posts

Silverlight: The OnLoad event

Lots of folks have been asking questions around their WPF/E applications and why the onLoad event that worked nicely with the CTPs breaks in the Silverlight 1.0 beta. Well, it's because the onLoad event signature has changed, and unfortunately the documentation Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:17 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments

Silverlight: Font Embedding

There's some great stuff been put together by Slyi on his blog around subsetting and embedding fonts. You've all been asking me lots of questions about it, but he answers it better than I ever could! Check it out at: http://wpf-e.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2B248D261D0E0035!122.entry Read More...
Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 12:32 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Silverlight: Convert Text to Path

The WPF APIs provide a FormattedText object that allows you to export its contents as a Geometry, which in turn allows you to generate its contents in the XAML Path Mini Language . Here's an example of a Web service that takes in the text, typeface, size Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:07 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 8 Comments

Silverlight: Using Text from Unsupported Fonts

In Expression Blend you have the facility to convert text from a textblock into a XAML path. This then has no dependency on the original font, and the text will be rendered by Silverlight. So, for example here's Expression Blend with some text written Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 8:00 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Silverlight Book

There have been lots of questions since MIX07 about a book on Silverlight. I'm working on one for MS Press, which is designed to be 1/3 ASP.NET, 1/3 AJAX and 1/3 Silverlight. It's intended to be an introduction to the Microsoft Stack for folks coming Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 5:03 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
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Silverlight TextBlock and Asian Fonts

In addition to using the Glyph to render Asian Fonts in your Silverlight Applications, you can also use the TextBlock if you download and set the font using a downloader object. Please note that you'll need permission to distribute any font you use with Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 4:30 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 13 Comments

Silverlight article in MSDN Magazine

MSDN Magazine's June 2007 issue will be carrying my Silverlight article. You can read it online here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/Silverlight/ There are a few more in the hopper. Enjoy! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:22 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
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Silverlight and Beijing 2008 Olympics

I've been working on a project involving Silverlight and the Beijing 2008 olympics. We demonstrated this at MIX 07, and the session is online here: http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2010,2011&pid=XB005&disc=&id=1557&year=2007&search=XB005 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:35 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Silverlight Install Modes

Did you know that there are two install modes for Silverlight -- inplace installation (aka 'Direct') and indirect installation. When you build your site or application using Silverlight, you can use the 'inplaceInstallPrompt' property in your call to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:27 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 6 Comments

Super Tuesday

Tuesday at MIX07 has been phenomenal! My session this morning on Silverlight and the 2008 Olympics went very well, we tag teamed 4 speakers from 4 companies who had three different primary languages, but it all went smoothly. We had huge inflatable versions Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:32 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
 
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