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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Xaps One of my favorite new features of Silverlight 2 is the new Application model. Moving on from version 1.0, where JavaScript instantiation was the only way to start your app and you were restricted to the same origin as the web page, enter the Xap. The new packaging model, not only …
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Starting last week on March 5th after Silverlight 2 Beta 1 was announced, a lot has been said about Silverlight 2. Presentations have been given, demos have been shown, bits have been released, tutorials have been posted and many conversations have been had. As an attempt to catalog som…
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How would I use JSON data with Silverlight? I've been asked this a few times and it happened again today. So tonight is the night to write a quick tutorial on how easy it is to do this. You can start from scratch or from any Silverlight 1.0 template, but I will be walking through the st…
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Reading the release notes for Dojo 1.0, I found a line item that said "dojox.gfx now includes Silverlight support". For those in the know this was actually added back in v0.9, but it was a new to me and I've been wanting to give it a test drive since I read about it. From the Dojo docs …
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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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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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