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Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :)

A few new Silverlight Apps from our friends in the Netherlands are definitely worth checking out. First up is Monteverdi.tv, a portal for classical music events, built in PHP, but which delivers Silverlight: http://live.monteverdi.tv/rco/view.php It allows Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 9:24 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Silverlight 2 Update for BiDirectional Text in Hebrew and Arabic

In its early days, Silverlight concentrated on being Web friendly with its text, meaning that the number of fonts were constrained to those that would be available on most computers. On this blog I listed a number of workarounds for languages such as Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 11:12 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Silverlight 2 Book – In Russian

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight First of all I’d like to say a big Happy New Year to everybody reading, and in particular to my friends in Russia who have made my ‘Introducing Silverlight 2’ book a big success over there. С Read More...
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 12:32 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 6 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:51 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

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

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
 
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