After enjoying the China Moon Festival Card, I wanted to try my hand at creating a holiday card with Silverlight. I've also been looking for the opportunity to dive into vertex animation which is a big part of this demo. I also wanted to add sound but the animation took a bit more tim…
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Recently I posted about the Remembering the "yet to install" audience, in regards to creating an experience that provides context for those who have not installed SIlverlight yet. The idea being that if your viewer visits your site and was greeted with the just the Silverlight instal…
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Friday afternoon at work we were treated to a live band outside of our offices. The Greenwood All*Stars were invited as an event that was part of our Employee Give Campaign. We brought the people food and beer and the All*Stars brought the rock. So much so they were having power …
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Laurence Moroney, a prolific author on my team, has released his first book on Silverlight fittingly entitled Introducing Silverlight 1.0. Laurence has nicely posted the chapter summaries on his site which look to be pretty interesting. I'm especially looking forward to Chapter 1 enti…
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Wow, so much feedback on the Xbox Friends Watch Gadget its crazy. Major Nelson did end up posting a link to the gadget (thanks Duncan) and the flood gates opened. 47 comments so far on my post, 120 comments on Major Nelson's, 1,388 views on the demo screencast on Channel 9 and according …
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[UPDATE: version 1.1 has been posted, performance improvements and an auto version checker now included.]
HALO 3 is out and my Xbox is now getting the love it truly deserves. Multiplayer mode in HALO is a lot of fun and even more fun when you can play with friends. Thus, a perfec…
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Part of creating a good user experience involves thinking about the design from all different views. Nice clean seams and edges on the underside of a seat cushion, for example. Remembering the user who has yet to install or has disabled your plug-in of choice is another ex…
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Silverlight 1.0 has been out long enough its time to get your hands on some books. And luckily there are some folks who have spent their nights and weekends turning their experiences and lessons learned to words, sentences and all that authoring stuff. Silverlight 1.0 Written by Devin R…
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This is another demo created for my "There's more than a Media Element in Silverlight 1.0" presentation that I gave at REMIX Boston. This was a lot of fun to create. I definitely pushing vector graphics to act organically. The demo shows off four different concepts: CreateFr…
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The first time I posted this demo, I got a few confused comments on how to actually use it and what the purpose was. This time around I've added a few more UI elements to better explain what is going on. Tool tips when hovering over the mod and code buttons, a thumb and some depth was ad…
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I created this demo for my "There's more than a Media Element in Silverlight 1.0" presentation that I gave at REMIX Boston. The demo shows off three different concepts: Retrieving dynamic content from packages Using SetFontSource for custom fonts Sound playback is simple Instructions:To fade the …
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This week I attended REMIX Boston 07 and gave two presentations. First time in Boston, "go Red Sox!", I felt left out since I didn't have a Red Sox hat like everyone else. Maybe not everyone, maybe just 7 out of 8 people. Next time I would like to see more of the city, as most of…
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