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Reflecting the entire layout panel in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

After my post on creating reflection with Silverlight 2 Beta . I was asked several times by couple of Silverlight enthusiasts questions like this : is there any way i can reflect an entire grid?, is it possible to make a reflection of lets say a grid with multiple buttons since there is no VisualBrush in Silverlight?, is there any chance to reflect some generic Control(Framework element etc)?. So I started to think about how entire Layout Panels like Grid,Canvas,Border etc. can be reflected. In WPF I did this stuff so easily. But in Silverlight I didn't find any any way till last night. The idea behind Layout reflection is , creating a mirror effect of a Container Control, which means child controls placed inside the container will also be reflected.

MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly's Journey

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:46:13 GMT

Yes, I know you've read this before so stop rolling your eyes and skip it if you're not interested. I'm not coming at this from the perspective of an expert imparting knowledge but as a hillbilly who has ignored the question too long. And now that I have to dive into it for the book, all the vagueness that I've been able to shunt aside to a little corner of my brain has surfaced like a long-lost brother beggin' for college money.

Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-|

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:16:16 GMT

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF.

ASP.NET Caching and Performance

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:01:10 GMT

Steve Smith, owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve's expertise in this area comes from first-hand experience as Lake Quincy's ad system serves over 60 requests per second and handles over 150 million requests per month.

Loading Images Asynchronously Inside an ASP.NET GridView

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:31:04 GMT

Retrieving and displaying images in a GridView is a time consuming task. If done synchronously, this task can at times test the user's patience. One way to provide a good user experience is to load the images asynchronously. So when the GridView loads, we initially display a default image for the user to view, while the actual images are being loaded from the database. In this article, we will see how to do so.

Class Library in Silverlight 2.0

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:45:45 GMT

This step by step tutorial shows how to build a class library (DLL) for Silverlight 2.0 using Visual Studio 2008 and C# and how to use it in a client application. First part of this tutorial creates a class library and second part creates a Silverlight Web application that consumes the class library.

Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:16:14 GMT

I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known WPF gurus. Seeing their example I thought It's also possible to try something Vista style in Silverlight. Since Silverlight has many things common with WPF. So I started to get my feet wet to create a Vista style Login Screen using Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:39:10 GMT

Somebody asked the other day how one can cut a shape in Blend. Blend doesn't currently have a scissor tool, but Blend has a set of geometric operations that can be used for this. Suppose we have a shape like this:

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Download Links

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Download Links Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Installer (4.66 MB) & SDK Beta 2........................

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page Hope these Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links will help your SILVERLIGHT development. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

REMIX08 Demo of using DeepZoom to it's fullest

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:06:58 GMT

DeepZoom at REMIX08

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Four

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:01:02 GMT

In this example I'll show you how animations can be performed using a VideoBrush. This is one of the examples that attracts the users attention by completing the animation at the right time. The video will be clipped and rotated during the animation.

Getting around Silverlight 2 beta 1 error 4002 changing visibility

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:41:45 GMT

While working on Bumble Beegger we came across a daunting problem that only seemed to happen under certain conditions. Silverlight error message ErrorCode: 4002 ErrorType: ManagedRuntimeError Message: System.Exception: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Three

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Here's an example of an animation where clicking a button will increase the size of the font of the button. First I've declared two constants of type double, one for the font size of the button at the initialization time, which is declared as initFontSize; and the other one at runtime when the button is clicked. When clicked, the event handler creates a DispatcherTimer that generates Tick events every tenth of a second. The TimerOnTick method here increases the FontSize by two units every tenth of a second until the size reaches 48 units, at which point the button is restored to its original size and the timer is stopped.

How to make HyperlinkButton to open new window

Mon, 26 May 2008 07:33:15 GMT

HyperlinkButton can navigate within the same window or tab. This article speaks about how to make it open new windows or tabs by using well-known key-modifiers

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 2)

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Part One described the process of getting Silverlight to interact with a WCF web service, and showed how to bind EntitySpaces based data objects (WCF client proxies) to Silverlight controls, specifically a DataGrid control. While there were a lot of pages of review in Part One, it was mostly point-and-click "configuration coding", as MyGeneration, EntitySpaces, and Visual Studio did most of the work for us. But showing data in a grid isn't very exciting. It's time to look at some interaction with data and give EntitySpaces a little more credit than just a data wrapper.

Databinding In Silverlight With New ItemContainerStyle

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:26:41 GMT

Recently on OzSilverlight mailing list a question was asked about data-bindings. The issue was how do you use data-binding once you have replaced ItemContainerStyle for a ListBox. The answer is that you can replace the entire Template by giving it a new ControlTemplate and specify your bindings within the new template. I have created this example to illustrate this.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Two

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:31:07 GMT

I mentioned in the first article that a Storyboard controls animations with a timeline, and provides object and property targeting information for its child animations. This is the cornerstone of Silverlight animation. A Storyboard is a set of one or more animations. It is comparable to a <TransformGroup> element. Storyboard does exactly the same things for animations that <TransformGourp> does for transformations. Storyboard has a Children property that enables you to access all the animation objects within a given Storyboard. Animations do not add or remove elements, they temporarily alter the property values of existing elements. If you create a new Storyboard and add a new rectangle to the canvas, that rectangle will be available to all Storyboards, not just the current one. The rectangle was added to the scene's base canvas and is not specific to the active Storyboard.

Webcast - Full-Blown Silverlight Line-of-Business App in 20 minutes

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:21:32 GMT

The presenter is Guy Peled (Chief Technology Officer, Gizmox Ltd)

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part One

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Animation allows us to create attractive user interfaces. Animation is used to apply dazzling effects such as spin a logo or video, make text scroll, make images grow when the mouse is over them etc. Animation is much like varying the property value over time as far as Silverlight 2.0 is concerned. This will be clear if someone takes a closer look at the animated stuff done in Silverlight/WPF applications.

Beginning Silverlight - First Steps

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:31:02 GMT

I decided to get adventurous and see what all the fuss was about. So, I'm going to record my experiences as I try to "do something" with Silverlight! Fasten your seat belt and come on a drive-along.

VisualBrush and deep clone in Silverlight

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:13:21 GMT

The article about how to build VisualBlush and how to clone objects in Silverlight, when nothing is accessible for developer.

Make Silverlight Games with Popfly Game Creator

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Just released on the Popfly site is alpha of the new Popfly Game Creator feature, which provides a great way to create and share some interesting games without having to deal with some of the complexities normally associated with game creation, all using Silverlight.