Silverlight Virtual Earth, Part 3 Project “Deep Earth” launches

soulsolutions.com.au — Today we launched project “Deep Earth” on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control. Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun Becker, Jonas Follesø, Bronwen Zande, Darko Radiceski, Nicolas Boonaert, Rob Farley and myself John O’Brien. What a great mix of people! read more...

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Silverlight Virtual Earth, Part 1 using Deep Zoom - Sample

submitted by crpietschmann 5 months, 12 days ago

soulsolutions.com.au — Silverlight and Virtual Earth are made for each other, but how best do we go about creating a Virtual Earth control in Silverlight? First up lets look at utilising the existing Deep Zoom control to serve up the base image tiles. In this proof of concept we have little more then a stock MultiScaleImage control hooked up to some appropriately created configuration XML, the output is only 6.8KB for the client! And check out the results on video: read more...

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Silverlight Deep Zoom Sample Code Part 2

soulsolutions.com.au — The Expression team have posted about how to manipulate collections within the Silverlight 2 multiscaleimage control. So what a great time to revisit my little sample code and make some improvements. Let make sure we have mouse, mouse wheel, keyboard, bounds checks and resorting. See my updated sample here. Use the "R" key to resort the collection read more...

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DownloaError error#1001 in control 'SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer1'

soulsolutions.com.au — I wanted to play with the Silverlight Streaming Server control that's part of the Live Tools for Visual Studio. When i went to run my application I got the following error: Sys.InvalidOperationExceptoin: DownloaError error#1001 in control 'SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer1': AG_E_UNKNOWN_ERROR I tried both the Dec CTP and the Feb CTP with the same error. Turns out you can't use a videos that were uploaded using the new "Manage Video" option, only applications. So I've switched back to using videos uploaded as applications and it works a treat :) read more...

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Order by with LINQ to XML

soulsolutions.com.au — Was playing with Linq to XML today and wanted to do an orderby based on one of the fields in the xml file. It's a bit different to SQL as the orderby goes between the from and the select. My code below shows selecting everything and ordering by the eventdate descending. read more...

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Visual Studio 2008 - Document Outline + Split View

soulsolutions.com.au — Have been using Visual Studio 2008 for awhile now so I thought I'd share some great features. 1. Split View - gives us the ability to see both Design/XAML or Design/HTML view on the same screen with real time update ..very cool 2. Document Outline - to turn this guy on goto View -> Other Windows -> Document Outline. This gives you a tree of all the objects on your page. You can use it to navigate to a specific item and it gives you a visual queue of what it looks like + with split view selects the item in desgn and code view. Using both of these features together is really useful to get to "hard to find elements". I've attached a screen shot to show both these features in action at once. Here I've selected a button in the Document Outline..it shows a popup of the button, selects it in the design view aswell as the xaml view. read more...

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Article: Messenger IM Control & Presence

soulsolutions.com.au — For those interested in the new IM Control and Presence API there is a new article on ViaWindowsLive Messenger IM Control & Presence API Introduction - This article gives a brief introduction to the Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API. It provides a walkthrough of how to setup, install and use the control from both an owner and a vistor user perspective. Anyone wanting to contribute articles to the site should goto the Contribute Page read more...

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Can't find ObservableCollection ... look in WindowsBase

soulsolutions.com.au — I wanted to use ObservableCollection for databinding in WPF cause it handles all the nofications of list changes and generally is just cool. The problem i had was I had my objects in a different project..a dll and I couldn't access the ObservableCollection object. It worked if I was in a WPF project though. My problem was essentially that I didn't read the object definition in MSDN very well cause it clearly states it's in the WindowsBase directory! So if you're having this problem..you can't find ObservableCollectioin...just include WindowsBase.dll in the project references. read more...

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