Feel the power of Silverlight 2

windowsclient.net — This is an excellent Silverlight site http://www.microsoft.com/defyallchallenges . You should check this out to experience the richness of Silverlight 2 and feel what Silverlight 2 is capable of. Check this out with IE . read more...

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Step Into The Art & Technology

blogs.windowsclient.net — Did you check out Microsoft’s Art & Technology site ? It has been launched to feature the cool and amazing Silverlight, WPF and Expression Studio examples created by the people. This site also features couple of wonderful case studies and sandbox section to prepare yourself with the code and design. read more...

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Reflecting the entire layout panel in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

windowsclient.net — 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. read more...

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IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

dotnetslackers.com — 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. read more...

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Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta – Part Five

dotnetslackers.com — In the last part I’ve shown how the VideoBrush can be used and videos can be animated by dividing MediaElement into two parts. In this demonstration of Silverlight animation I’ll focus on transitional animation. We’ve seen this type of animation many times in movies, television commercials, music videos, in sting which we see at the beginning of any news. The wipe effect and dissolves are mostly used in film and television. There are other effects which fall into the category of wipe and dissolves. read more...

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Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta – Part Four

dotnetslackers.com — 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. read more...

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Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta – Part Two

dotnetslackers.com — 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. read more...

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Using Microsoft Expression Design to design the control in Silverlight

blogs.windowsclient.net — I’ve used Expression Blend in many occasions but I’ve never experimented with expression design since the release of this product. After the release of version 2.0 Beta of Expression Design this is the first time I’m using Microsoft Expression Design. In this demonstration I’ll fix design of my control using Expression Design. Let’s dig into the story . read more...

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