Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Architecture » Unicode   (RSS)
Friday, October 26, 2007 6:51 PM

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
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 4 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:08 AM

Zero to Hero: XAML from the ground up

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight In the last Episode, you looked into Getting Started with Silverlight where you had a simple XAML document containing a TextBlock that you then manipulated in code. XAML is at the heart of Silverlight.
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:07 PM

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
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 6 Comments
Monday, May 21, 2007 8:00 PM

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
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments
 
Page view tracker