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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:51 PM

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
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
Sunday, April 06, 2008 4:54 PM

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
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 4 Comments
Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:14 PM

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
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 9 Comments
Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:32 PM

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
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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
Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:43 AM

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
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
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:32 PM

Improving performance in WPF applications

If you've been using WPF with layered windows to provide transparency [with the Windows.Transparency option set to true ], you may have noticed that the performance isn't what you might expect. A supported hotfix to the problem can now be downloaded.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:12 PM

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.
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:32 PM

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
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
Monday, June 04, 2007 10:49 PM

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! :)
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Friday, June 01, 2007 6:33 AM

Silverlight: Convert Ink to Xaml

I have to say that I absolutely love the path mini language that is part of XAML. If you haven't heard about it, there are more details here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752293.aspx So, while playing with ink in Silverlight, I realized
Posted by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:17 PM

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
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
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