The first contest is the Silverlight Control Builder Contest put on by a few people you might know Page Brooks and Silverlight Cream's David Campbell. Custom controls submitted will be judged on their usefulness, creativity, experience and how easy they are to template. And the big bonus is that…
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With the recent announcement of the Silverlight Controls Builder Contest, I thought it may be useful to post code that creates a very simple custom control. The example I'm posting isn't even worth a screenshot as all the control does is render the text "Hello property_value_here".…
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After a few changes the Xbox Friends Watch Gamercard now runs on Beta 2. The few changes I had to make included updating the project file in Visual Studio to match Beta 2 Adding System.Net as a reference since the WebClient class has moved there Changing Storyboard.GetClockState to…
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I remember the days back on the were-here forums (now sadly defunct) when there was this guy who went by the alias rpenner and he schooled us all in math and showed us how to do very cool things in ActionScript. Robert Penner's equations have been perfected, published and translated to C#. Le…
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United States Map Tornado Stars When I'm thinking of a UI or visualization design, its very cool to think of the possibilities when moving from Silverlight to WPF as your platform. Hardware acceleration, real 3D objects which are fully interactive, Dire…
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After some research, I'm recommending the use of Empty Storyboards for procedural animations. What is an "Empty Storyboard"? It is a Storyboard with no animations or specific target that simulates a game loop or per frame callback by having a short duration and once its Completed it…
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This is a list of all the 3rd Party controls that have demos or samples running on the latest version of Silverlight.
#vendors tr td{border-bottom:dotted 1px #a4a4a4} ComponentOne A full suite of components including custom layout panels, menus, treeview, textboxes, charts a…
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After all of the interest shown in the WPF 3.5 SP1 graphics video, I was planning on writing a tutorial showing how to create your own simple custom effect. Noe need. Instead, I will point you to Anders Bursjöö Grayscale Effect tutorial. Anders walks step by step through the…
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So nice to see you out in the wild! Dave Campbell has a nice list of Beta 2 blog posts to read ranging from a Silverlight 2 Game Framework to What's changed in Beta 2 to DataGrid Control Beta 2 Changes and more.…
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