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Reflecting the entire layout panel in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

After my post on creating reflection with Silverlight 2 Beta . I was asked several times by couple of Silverlight enthusiasts questions like this : is there any way i can reflect an entire grid?, is it possible to make a reflection of lets say a grid with multiple buttons since there is no VisualBrush in Silverlight?, is there any chance to reflect some generic Control(Framework element etc)?. So I started to think about how entire Layout Panels like Grid,Canvas,Border etc. can be reflected. In WPF I did this stuff so easily. But in Silverlight I didn't find any any way till last night. The idea behind Layout reflection is , creating a mirror effect of a Container Control, which means child controls placed inside the container will also be reflected.

5 Useful Tips for ASP.Net Application

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:16:02 GMT

There are so many tasks or operations that are repeatedly used in ASP.Net applications. This article will list some of the useful tasks that we can use in our asp.net application extensively.

Path to .NET 3.5 Developer Certification

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:31:05 GMT

If you are trying to figure out the new certification exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for .NET Framework 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 then you may be interested in a diagram that I put together to helped me to visualize the path through the required certification exams.

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:16:16 GMT

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF.

IE8 Beta 2 is out and aggiorno express will help you get ready

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Just minutes ago Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest public available release of its Internet browser. Getting your sites ready for IE8 don't have to be an impossible task at first, it is as easy as launching the application, selecting the source folder of your web site, deciding where the new web site should be stored, choosing the flag you want to meta tag your pages with and hitting Start! This is a temporal solution while you get your site ready, then u can use aggiorno express as well to remove the tag.

Embarcadero to Upgrade Windows RAD Tools

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:33:34 GMT

Products bring together CodeGear and Embarcadero's DatabaseGear functionality into a single offering featuring support for Microsoft's Silverlight.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Download Links

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Download Links Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Installer (4.66 MB) & SDK Beta 2........................

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page Hope these Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links will help your SILVERLIGHT development. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Sysinternals, now easier to get than ever

Sat, 31 May 2008 14:01:07 GMT

The sysinternals team has placed all their tools on a network share... on the internet. Now you can copy and run any of their tools from the command line. Anywhere. With no installs, website googling, unzipping or anything. \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Four

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:01:02 GMT

In this example I'll show you how animations can be performed using a VideoBrush. This is one of the examples that attracts the users attention by completing the animation at the right time. The video will be clipped and rotated during the animation.

The Open Closed Principle

Fri, 30 May 2008 13:16:10 GMT

The first installment of a new MSDN Magazine column by Jeremy Miller.

My First Silverlight Game

Thu, 29 May 2008 21:04:22 GMT

I've been neglecting this blog but I have the perfect excuse: I was very busy creating my very first Silverlight Game.

Getting around Silverlight 2 beta 1 error 4002 changing visibility

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:41:45 GMT

While working on Bumble Beegger we came across a daunting problem that only seemed to happen under certain conditions. Silverlight error message ErrorCode: 4002 ErrorType: ManagedRuntimeError Message: System.Exception: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Three

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Here's an example of an animation where clicking a button will increase the size of the font of the button. First I've declared two constants of type double, one for the font size of the button at the initialization time, which is declared as initFontSize; and the other one at runtime when the button is clicked. When clicked, the event handler creates a DispatcherTimer that generates Tick events every tenth of a second. The TimerOnTick method here increases the FontSize by two units every tenth of a second until the size reaches 48 units, at which point the button is restored to its original size and the timer is stopped.

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 2)

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Part One described the process of getting Silverlight to interact with a WCF web service, and showed how to bind EntitySpaces based data objects (WCF client proxies) to Silverlight controls, specifically a DataGrid control. While there were a lot of pages of review in Part One, it was mostly point-and-click "configuration coding", as MyGeneration, EntitySpaces, and Visual Studio did most of the work for us. But showing data in a grid isn't very exciting. It's time to look at some interaction with data and give EntitySpaces a little more credit than just a data wrapper.

VE Sessions at Where 2.0

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:20:19 GMT

Chris' session was a deep dive on the Virtual Earth Platform and goes into some details about our UltraCam digital aerial camera that we use to capture imagery. He also talks about how we create 3D models and some cool demos as well on Virtual Earth. Finally he does the Silverlight VE control demo that he showed at MIX 08. Steve's session went deep on the Collections stuff that he works on in the Virtual Earth team. He also showed some of his favorite Map Cruncher Collection demos as well as others. There's also a little surprise at the end of this video that if you were around three years ago when Virtual Earth was created you might have seen.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Two

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:31:07 GMT

I mentioned in the first article that a Storyboard controls animations with a timeline, and provides object and property targeting information for its child animations. This is the cornerstone of Silverlight animation. A Storyboard is a set of one or more animations. It is comparable to a <TransformGroup> element. Storyboard does exactly the same things for animations that <TransformGourp> does for transformations. Storyboard has a Children property that enables you to access all the animation objects within a given Storyboard. Animations do not add or remove elements, they temporarily alter the property values of existing elements. If you create a new Storyboard and add a new rectangle to the canvas, that rectangle will be available to all Storyboards, not just the current one. The rectangle was added to the scene's base canvas and is not specific to the active Storyboard.

.NET Rocks! 342

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:08:44 GMT

In episode 342 of .NET Rocks! Dan Wahlin talks about his experiences with Silverlight 2.0 and WPF.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part One

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Animation allows us to create attractive user interfaces. Animation is used to apply dazzling effects such as spin a logo or video, make text scroll, make images grow when the mouse is over them etc. Animation is much like varying the property value over time as far as Silverlight 2.0 is concerned. This will be clear if someone takes a closer look at the animated stuff done in Silverlight/WPF applications.

Beginning Silverlight - First Steps

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:31:02 GMT

I decided to get adventurous and see what all the fuss was about. So, I'm going to record my experiences as I try to "do something" with Silverlight! Fasten your seat belt and come on a drive-along.

VisualBrush and deep clone in Silverlight

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:13:21 GMT

The article about how to build VisualBlush and how to clone objects in Silverlight, when nothing is accessible for developer.

Convet an excel graph to a dynamic graph in Silverlight (tutorial)

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:01:07 GMT

See how to convert an excel graph with Paste2Xaml to a Silverlight application. To show the power of Silverlight we add a starup animation and a dynamicaly showing graph data on moving the mouse over graph's bars. The tutorial can be also used for WPF applications.

Get Control of Silverlight Callbacks With Asynchronous Functions

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:52:47 GMT

This article presents a simple C# library that can be used to return both exceptions and arbitrary return types, making it possible to compose asynchronous actions out of smaller asynchronous actions

Dynamically Loading Images Silverlight 1.0

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:46:21 GMT

This shows how to load images dynamically in silverlight 1.0 utilizing C#

Using Microsoft Expression Design to design the control in Silverlight

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:01:02 GMT

I've used Expression Blend in many occasions but I've never experimented with expression design since the release of this product. After the release of version 2.0 Beta of Expression Design this is the first time I'm using Microsoft Expression Design. In this demonstration I'll fix design of my control using Expression Design. Let's dig into the story .