Some of you who follow my blog (which I apologize for how stale it has been) know that Tim Heuer and I worked on a Silverlight Video player which we posted on CodePlex.  Every once in while Tim clues me into people that might be using it and this one popped up today.  I thought [...]

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This week Microsoft published the latest issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this latest issue I was asked to contribute the second of a six part series of [...]

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This past Wednesday I was asked to present at the Phoenix Silverlight users group on the topic of writing custom controls. Back a few months ago I created a very simple version of a Silverlight Rating control and thought it would be a great example to demonstrate how to leverage Control Templates, Visual State manager [...]

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This morning Terralever updated its first Silverlight 2 game, Zero Gravity. If you have never had a chance to play the game, make sure to go check it out. I think the game is a blast, not to mention a bit addictive.

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Microsoft made it official, Silverlight 2 will be available for download on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight. This has been a long time in the coming and I am extremely excited for what this means for Silverlight and the future of the framework. Over the last few days I have update the majority of my [...]

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This morning Microsoft released the following press release which suggests that Silverlight RTM may only be days away. If you have not done so, make sure to download the Breaking changes doc and RC0 build to start testing how your Beta 2 code will behave with the RTM release. Next week could be a very [...]

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This week Microsoft published the latest issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this latest issue I was asked to contribute the first of a six part series of [...]

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In my exploration of Silverlight I have looked at a ton of code samples, and not once have I seen an example that chooses MatrixTransform as the class used to render a transformation.  We all should be familiar with the four transform classes Silverlight provides for 2-D transformations.  Each allows us to manipulate the underlying [...]

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Anyone that has been working with the standard set of controls for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been exposed to the concept of template binding and how VisualStateManager (VSM) controls state.   In this example I will build a templated control  to learn how to use VSM, template binding and the ContentControl base class.  The control [...]

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Last week someone requested a new feature to the Silverlight 2 Video player on CodePlex that would allow users to create an external list of “bookmarks”, that would link to a specific marker or moment in playback.  The idea would be to have a series of links outside of Silverlight, that once clicked,playback would jump [...]

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