This is a list of the tutorials I’ve written recently. Most of the content focuses on user interface, graphics and animation techniques with Silverlight, specifically taking advantage of the authoring tool Expression Blend and behaviors.
HTML5 | Silverlight 4 | Silverlight 3
HTML 5
Canvas
Silverlight 4
PathListBox Series
- An introduction to the PathListBox
- Using multiple paths with the PathListBox
- A look at the PathListBoxItem control
- Creating a motion path with the PathListBox
- Text on a Path with the PathListBox
- Creating a carousel with the PathListBox
Fluid UI Series
- Introduction to Fluid UI
- A Simple use of the FluidMoveBehavior
- A Fluid Master Detail Display
- Layout States of the ListBoxItem
Graphics and Animation
- Avatar Mosaic -Experimenting with the Artefact Animator
- Using FluidMoveBehavior to animate grid coordinates in Silverlight
- BugCamSmash Dissected part 1 – Smash a Bug
- BugCamSmash Dissected part 2 – Make the Bugs Crawl
- CompositeTransform simplifies transforms
Webcam and Microphone
Expression Blend 4
Flash to Silverlight – Getting Started Series
- Setting up the Tools
- The Beginning
- Storyboard Animation
- Procedural Animation
- Color Scale and Rotation
Flash to Silverlight – API Guide
- Fundamentals and Tools
- Graphics and Images
- Displaying Objects
- MovieClip to UserControl
- Flex Components to Controls
Silverlight 3
Graphics
- Gesturecons – icons for prototyping Multi-touch applications
- Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code
- Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx
- Using a Border for a Glow Effect
Expression Blend 3
- Drawing an emoticon in Expression Blend
- Element Transformations
- Get Started with Animation
- Playing Video with the MediaElement
- Arranging Pictures to Learn Layout
- A Look at Text in Silverlight
- Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Blend
- Styling and Skinning Controls
- Styling and working with Design-Time Data
- Giving Behaviors a Test Drive
- How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3
- Transforming grouped elements in Expression Blend
- Simple Color Animation in Blend for a Button State
- Using ChangePropertyAction to fade in loaded Images
- Introduction to Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3
- Venture into Gaming with Behaviors in Expression Blend 3
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I’ve been enjoying your tutorials and knowledge of the Silverlight technology. I myself am a C# developer and have just recently got into silverlight development. I have a question for you that I hope you may be able to answer for me. I’m having some serious issues installing the Silverlight 4 Tools RC2 for Visual Studio 2010 update. I’m running Visual Studio 2010 Professional release. The issue is it just hangs up and does not actually install. Any ideas?
Hi Mike, Happy to hear you enjoy the tutorials, thanks. I’m sure what the problem may be, did you install any previous Silverlight beta releases? I would make sure to remove all previous tools and SDKs, there shouldn’t be a problem with the runtime itself upgrading to the new version.
hey im trying to get your xbox friend watcher to work is there a video tutorial or something as I have tried everything else and it still isn’t working
Hi Adam,
I have run your bugcam example with help of your provided tutorial and its working great, But I want to make some modification in that…
I wanted to add static buttons instead of moving bugs and according to gesture recognition I want to perform some action on those buttons, Can you plz help me out for these or can you provide some hint for these ?
Many Thanks
Nirav Patel.