By now most Silverlight developers should have stumbled on a great new feature of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blends, custom Triggers and Behaviors. I seriously don’t know how I lived without them!
In this blog post I am going to demonstrate a simple, yet useful, example of a behavior which allows a UIElement to become drag [...]

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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 [...]

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Back a few weeks ago I posted an example of how to create a 3D flip animation similar to the effect seen on an iPhone. Today I will build upon that procedural animation and simulate the flipping tile affect seen in the iTunes album art screen saver, available on a Mac.

In my example I have [...]

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Up until now I have not had an opportunity to create any Silverlight procedural animations that were more complicated then positioning an object with some simple easing. I thought it would be fun to attempt to duplicate one of the transitions used on the iPhone. While making a phone call, if you choose to [...]

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For those of you who might not have seen our presentation at Mix, Terralever recently completed a second Silverlight game for Miniclip.com called Tunnel Trouble. This game is entirely written against the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 plugin. I am not sure that it has been spotlighted on there web site, but Microsoft has placed [...]

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For the past few weeks, Terralever has been developing our second game using the Silverlight framework. Our first, Zero Gravity was a great success and highlighted the power that Silverlight can bring to casual gaming development. For years, Terralever has been developing games in Flash and is very fortunate to have some incredible flash interactive [...]

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An integral part of our proof-of-concept for the Phizzpop design challenge was a grid of tiles that represented a variety of TV shows and Movies. Transitioning from screen to screen we needed to repopulate this grid with a new set of tiles based on search criteria and filters. To improve the effect of [...]

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The PhizzPop Design Challenge pits top interactive, Web, and design agencies against one another to push the limits of technology and creativity in a battle royale. Think Mad Max for design.
The regional teams have been selected and Terralever was selected.  To get prepared Scott, Craig and Myself will be attending two days of [...]

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