I am very excited to announce that for the second year Terralever has the great honor of presenting a breakout session at Microsoft’s Mix 09 conference in Las Vegas, March 18-20 2009. Last year I had an amazing time presenting on our use of Silverlight as a Gaming Platform. If you have not had a [...]
Entries from February 2009
Mix09 – Creating a Great Experience on Digg with Windows Internet Explorer 8
February 25, 2009
Silverlight, thanks for the Grid, but I still love my Canvas!
February 20, 2009
When Silverlight 2 was first released, we all caught our first glimpse of a new layout control, the “Grid”. Back in the SL1.0 and SL 1.5 Alpha the community asked for more choices then just a Canvas and Microsoft delivered. In fact, they gave us three, the Canvas, Grid and StackPanel. Microsoft even took it [...]
Tip: Don’t be scared to use x:Name in XAML
February 17, 2009
Yesterday I was working on some Silverlight production and needed to create a custom UserControl that had some text. The trick was that I wanted the user placing the control to choose which color the text would be, inturn effecting the second key frame on a simple ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames My animation was really simple, I wanted [...]
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