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Silverlight 3 – System Colours

Silverlight 3 has a new class called SystemColors and hanging off that class are a bunch of properties as below; If I write a Silverlight application today and draw a button on the screen as in; < Button Content ="Click Me" FontSize ="24"...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 6:39 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

“Getting Started with Silverlight”

I hadn’t come across these resources; before today so I thought I’d flag them up – I haven’t watched them myself yet and I’m guessing that these are more designer focused than developer focused but I’d imagine there’s a bunch of stuff worth learning in there...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 2:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Silverlight 3 – Simple “Flip Control” built on PlaneProjection

Just sharing a very small experiment I did with building a simple control that would use the new PlaneProjection capabilities in Silverlight 3 in order to present double-sided content which was capable of being flipped over. I did a similar thing in this FlickR...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 4:46 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 3 – Simple Control for Online/Offline

Given that Silverlight 3 can detect the online/offline status of the network, I thought I’d have a play with a simple control that displays something when the network is online and something else when the network is offline. I started with a UserControl but...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 4:17 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 3 – Knowing When Images Are Loaded

I’m sure there’s a lot out there on this already but one of the things that I encountered in making this little application was the need to know when an image loaded from the network is actually ready to display in Silverlight. In that application, I have 2...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 10:11 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight Session in the City Today

If you came along to my Silverlight session at “a company in the City” today then the relevant links are all here

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 9:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, UKCommunities

Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications on the Mac

At the webdd on Saturday, a couple of people asked me about Silverlight 3 Out-Of-The-Browser applications ( or SLOOBs ) and questioned; Whether the actually work on the Mac What the experience is like for the user It occurred to me that this might be a reasonably...

Published Tue, Apr 21 2009 1:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 3 – FlickR Client

This was really a “just for fun” thing that I started because I was stuck in a hotel the other night ( hotel rooms are great for writing code ) and I wanted to play with using the PlaneProjection in Silverlight 3 to produce a flip effect and I ended up writing...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2009 12:09 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Videos from DevWeek: Catching up with Aaron Skonnard

I was lucky enough to have a chance to chat with Aaron Skonnard at DevWeek last month and I captured a few videos which I thought I’d share here. Aaron (as you probably know) is a co-founder of the Pluralsight company and is a great trainer and technical presenter...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2009 10:47 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WindowsLive, LiveFramework, AzureServicesPlatform, Mesh

Setanta Sports on Silverlight

I got a mail from Mark over at EMC Conchango about the new Setanta Sports site that’s gone live on Silverlight. Mark also runs the Silverlight User Group in London. Here’s my first run of the Setanta app (the first image is hyperlinked to the site itself);...

Published Sun, Apr 19 2009 5:06 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions

Yesterday, by mistake, I tried to combine 2 features of Silverlight 3 that don’t work together. Unfortunately for me, it was in front of a bunch of people :-) I’d been briefly showing how you can decrease the size of a Silverlight 3 XAP by using the new project...

Published Sun, Apr 19 2009 1:19 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 3 and GPU Acceleration

I learnt something this week so I thought I’d share. I’ve heard a number of people say “Silverlight 3 has hardware acceleration” and I didn’t really know what it meant (and perhaps still don’t, fully) so I thought I’d do a bit of an experiment with it. In Silverlight...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 6:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 3 – Navigation & Prettying my URI’s

Ian saw my post with a little Silverlight navigation application and dropped me a mail saying “couldn’t you make those URI’s a little more pretty with the UriMapper?” and he’s right :-) Tim has an explanation of UriMapper up here so I just followed that and...

Published Sat, Apr 11 2009 2:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

PropertyChangedNotification Snippets

If I’ve written code around PropertyChanged notification in Visual Studio once then I must have done it thousands of times so I thought I’d do a quick snippet and drop it here. Snippet for a class that implements INotifyPropertyChanged; <?xml version="1...

Published Thu, Apr 9 2009 6:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#

Silverlight 3 and Navigation Applications

I’ve had a quick experiment with Silverlight 3 and navigation applications. There are some new classes in the assembly System.Windows.Controls.Navigation.dll – specifically one called a Frame and a base class to derive from called Page along with some helpers...

Published Thu, Apr 9 2009 3:20 AM by mtaulty

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Silverlight 3 – System Colours

“Getting Started with Silverlight”

Silverlight 3 – Simple “Flip Control” built on PlaneProjection

Silverlight 3 – Simple Control for Online/Offline

Silverlight 3 – Knowing When Images Are Loaded

Silverlight Session in the City Today

Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications on the Mac

Silverlight 3 – FlickR Client

Videos from DevWeek: Catching up with Aaron Skonnard

Setanta Sports on Silverlight

Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions

Silverlight 3 and GPU Acceleration

Silverlight 3 – Navigation & Prettying my URI’s

PropertyChangedNotification Snippets

Silverlight 3 and Navigation Applications