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Silverlight: Great showcase of Silverlight 1 wins, and information on updates...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight     del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight While many among you are focusing more on Silverlight 2, I still strongly recommend that you look at Silverlight 1 for your development needs. If you weren't at MIX, there's

Live IT : I'm speaking at Tech ED Israel Tomorrow

If you happen to be hanging out in Eilat, Israel tomorrow, I'm speaking on 'Go Gold With Silverlight' tomorrow afternoon at 2PM local time. I'll be going into detail on what Silverlight is, and where it fits in with Microsoft's overall UX strategy. I'll

Introducing Silverlight 1.0 Book is now available...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight My First Silverlight book: Introducing Silverlight 1.0 is now available. I have to say that I am very proud of this book, and I think it is the best book that I have written. It goes through Silverlight

If you care about Internationalizing your Silverlight Applications...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight You should really take a look at Justif-Josef Angel's blog, where he presents some brilliant work that he has done with Silverlight, in particular his work on supporting Right-To-Left languages

Zero to Hero: Using the Browser Cache in Silverlight

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight You may be using the Silverlight downloader object to download content such as fonts but you may have noticed that every page needs to download the resources seperately, making for poor UX. Well

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

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
 
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