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Meet Silverlight Authors and Anders Hejlsberg at PDC

There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book launchings, book signings and more. In addition to me being there on Monday signing 'Introducing Silverlight 2', we'll all have the privelige of being able to Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:43 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Panoramic Deep Zoom -- Question of the Day -- Repost

If you want to learn how to stitch diverse photos together into a panorama, and then turn it into a Deep Zoom application, it's actually very easy, and I've got the full details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/10/18/panoramic-deep-zoom-question-of-the-day.aspx Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:20 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:14 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 9 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:32 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 6:51 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 4 Comments

Zero to Hero: How to Check if Silverlight is installed.

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight I've been getting lots of questions on how to check to see if Silverlight is already installed. This is actually very easy to do, but has somehow slipped through the cracks (I even missed it when Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:43 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 4 Comments

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. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 8:08 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments

Silverlight: Data Binding with XML

The fact that XAML is just XML empowers a lot of interesting scenarios. In my MSDN Article for an RSS Hero Bar, I used a XAML Template to drive the look and feel for the applicaiton, and then use the System.XML.XmlDocument to load and manipulate the template. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:12 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Silverlight and 3D

I just stumbled across this excellent work in Silverlight and 3D. Another great example of how the power of the .NET framework behind Silverlight can empower the developer to drastically extend the runtime. http://www.dolittle.com/blogs/einar/archive/2007/05/19/3d-in-silverlight-1-1-alpha.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:32 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

More Silverlight and Ink

Some great stuff by Julie Lerman on her Blog, who got this up and running today despite her blog being under attack by forces unknown! http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/ In a famous ice cream store parlance: Like it! Love it! Gotta have it! :) Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 10:49 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
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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: 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

WPF/E: Part of a bigger EcoSystem

The neat thing about WPF/E is that it is not a standalone technology. It is based on standard, open, technologies such as XML (for XAML) and JavaScript (for programming). This opens up some wonderful opportunities for integrating WPF/E with other applications, Read More...
Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 8:47 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 0 Comments
 
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