I wish I could remember where I stumbled upon this, but you have to check out this creepy Flash demo. Move your mouse around and watch the model. The movement is not super fluid, but impressive nonetheless. A company by the name of MotionPortrait created the demo.

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This week I was reading two of my favorite Microsoft Evangelist blogs; Kirk Allen Evans’ and Tim Heuer and was inspired to build upon two of their posts. Kirk wrote a great entry on Creating a JSON Service with WebGet and WCF 3.5 and Tim on Calling web services with Silverlight 2. I thought it [...]

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Check out this article on Cnn that describes the recent privacy breach that caught Facebook with there pants down.  A security lapse allowed strangers to access photos of Facebook member and their friends, even if the privacy settings were set to restrict who could see the photos. With over 67 million active users, Facebook will [...]

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In a move to make the Windows Mobile PC more usable, Microsoft announced that mobile phones running there operating system will include both Adobe’s Flash Lite and Adobe Reader LE. Microsoft has over 11 million phones running Mobile PC and hopes to grow that to over 20 million by next year. This move will certainly [...]

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One of the cool new features of Silverlight 2 is the concept of on-demand deployment of assemblies. In most interactive development there is a desire to minimize the amount of data a user has to download to get your RIA up and running. The application package (XAP) size can grow quite quickly if one tries [...]

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During the process of writing our Silverlight 2 game “Tunnel Trouble” we stumbled upon a fairly significant rendering defect in the Beta 1 version of the Silverlight 2 plugin. This defect appears to affect any UIElement (Rectangles, Paths, Images) that has been transformed on its X or Y coordinate. If the object breaks the bounds [...]

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At Mix08 one of the components of Silverlight 2 I was most intrigued by was the multi-scale image technology called “Deep Zoom” (formerly seadragon). The demos we saw were quite compelling. Immediately I thought of areas where our clients could improve their users interactive experiences through this new technology. Below you will find my first [...]

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Whenever possible developers should encourage designers to maintain all of their Silverlight storyboards within XAML. This allows the designers the optimum environment to use a tool like Blend to tweak the animation timing, easing and any relevant Key Splines. That said, there are situations where a developer may create a UserControl that requires full control [...]

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Even though Mix08 is now only a distant memory, the inspiration I leave with will last for quite a while.  There is something quite powerful about being around thousands of professionals that are as passionate and enthusiastic about the future of interactive development.  For months now I have had the special opportunity to be working [...]

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A month ago Microsoft selected Terralever to conduct a in depth Case Study on our use of Silverlight 2 for creating a new Miniclip.com game Tunnel Trouble. This process was really exciting for Terralever.  I feel Microsoft did a great job of capturing the value we find in Silverlight and how this powerful framework allowed [...]

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