August 1, 2008Over the past few months I have created a handful of Silverlight 2 examples that demonstrate basic physics. In this example I am going to demonstrate containment of a variable number of spheres with gravity causing deceleration. Below you see a simple Grid which I will place a set number of spheres within. Each sphere [...]
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July 25, 2008Today I received a comment on a Poll I created which asked the question “Will Flash developers learn Silverlight”? 20% said there was no chance unless Microsoft bought Adobe. Here is what the comment has to say. “Nobody in their right mind will use SilverLight on the internet for a long time…..Until a user can [...]
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July 19, 2008Yesterday I completed the first version of Closed Captioning support for the Silverlight 2 Video Player on CodePlex. It definitely in an alpha phase, but with some polish it should be reliable and more usable. Here is an image of how the captions are being displayed. In this first version I made a decision to [...]
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July 17, 2008Last night Microsoft released a Hotfix for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The update is just over 6.4MB and is said to include fixes for the following: This update for Microsoft Silverlight 2 includes stability, media streaming, and auto-update improvements as well as improved support for Firefox 3. Here is a link to a full description [...]
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July 8, 2008Not sure where I stumbled on it, but recently I watched video online where as the video was playing, a banner ad on the same page changed as the context of the video changed. I was intrigued by the potential this technique had in interactive marketing. As I was watching the video I was envisioning [...]
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July 3, 2008As part of the ongoing evolution of our Open Source Silverlight Video Player on CodePlex, I added the ability to asynchronously load a set of TimeLineMarkers from an XML document. The goal was to allow users a choice between encoding there video with markers or defining those markers in an external xml file. What I [...]
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July 1, 2008I am very excited to say that today I received an email from Microsoft informing me that I have been selected as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2008. I am not sure I genuinely deserve the honor, but I am very excited for the recognition. My selection is within Client App Dev which [...]
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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 and [...]
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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. We hope to [...]
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