June 30, 2008Reading through the Silverlight.net forum I still see a ton of people struggling with how to load an image procedurally. I thought it would be beneficial to included a quick sample of four different ways you can set the Image.Source property within Silverlight 2.
Image 1 - Resource Loaded via XAML - The easiest [...]
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June 24, 2008Yesterday Tim Heuer made a great suggestion that we submit our collaboration on a Silverlight 2 Video Player as Open Source to CodePlex. You can now find the latest source at http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer. As we find any “undocumented features” or add new and exciting ehancments we will push these up to CodePlex.
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June 23, 2008On July 22nd at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle Washington, Bill Reiss and myself will be co-presenting a session titled “Building Games with Silverlight”. This session is part of the casual game track and will focus on our experience being involved in the development of a Silverlight game. [...]
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June 21, 2008Back in April I created a very simple Video Player in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 which Tim Heuer took to a whole new level. In his first pass he added dynamic resizing and initParams to load the video source. Then back a few weeks ago Tim brought it up to speed for Beta 2 and [...]
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June 18, 2008Recently I have been asking myself the question, what makes some companies so successful while other seem to have great ideas and amazing people, yet still struggle to find real meaning. I stumbled on this video from about two years ago where Guy Kawasaki is speaking about his take on what should motivate someone [...]
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June 18, 2008On July 2nd from 6pm-8pm there will be another open forum on Silverlight at Interface Technical Training in Phoenix. Back in Nov Mike Palermo started the Arizona Silverlight User Group and I have heard great things about the topics being discussed. I have never had the opportunity to attend, but I look forward to going [...]
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June 6, 2008It took a bit of time, but I got most of my recent samples updated to the latest bits. In most cases it required opening the solution and allowing VS2008 to fix a few things automatically, than a recompile to generate an updated .xap file.
Issue #1
All of my samples are loaded into a page [...]
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June 6, 2008Today Microsoft released the long awaited Silverlight 2 Beta 2. I am pleased to say there looks to be some great improvements. Even more exciting is that the majority of my existing Beta 1 code works without any drastic code change. There are certainly a few exceptions, and over the next few days [...]
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June 6, 2008Last week I presented a session at DesertCodeCamp 2008 on Developing Casual Games with Silverlight 2. Excluding some technical difficulties, getting my MacBook to connect to dual projectors, the presentation went well. There is certainly interest in the community to begin using Silverlight as a casual gaming platform.
The goal of this presentation was to [...]
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