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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.

Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:16:14 GMT

I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known WPF gurus. Seeing their example I thought It's also possible to try something Vista style in Silverlight. Since Silverlight has many things common with WPF. So I started to get my feet wet to create a Vista style Login Screen using Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

Silverlight Developer Reference Posters

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:46:08 GMT

Silverlight Developer Reference Posters - Silverlight 1.1 & Silverlight 2

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Five

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

In the last part I've shown how the VideoBrush can be used and videos can be animated by dividing MediaElement into two parts. In this demonstration of Silverlight animation I'll focus on transitional animation. We've seen this type of animation many times in movies, television commercials, music videos, in sting which we see at the beginning of any news. The wipe effect and dissolves are mostly used in film and television. There are other effects which fall into the category of wipe and dissolves.

Presenting Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview is now available which can be downloaded here. Now it's possible to edit the ControlTemplates from Blend using Visual State Manager to change the look and feel of the controls.

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial applications. There will be some API changes between Beta2 and the final release, so you should expect that applications you write with Beta2 will need to make some updates when the final release comes out. But we think that these changes will be straight-forward and relatively easy, and that you can begin planning and starting commercial projects now.

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

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.

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.

The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

Mon, 26 May 2008 09:31:04 GMT

The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean.

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.

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.

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 .

ASP.NET MVC Action Filter - Caching and Compression

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Playing with Action Filters

Kigg - Upgraded to MIX08 ASP.NET MVC Release

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:46:03 GMT

Kigg upgraded and few thoughts on ASP.NET MVC

Creating reflection with Silverlight 2.0 beta

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:16:02 GMT

I was searching for some WPF videos, after googling I found a site named contentpresenter . I found couple of interesting video there on WPF. After releasing of Silverlight 2.0 beta , my intention is implementing those WPF stuff in Silverlight as much as possible cause they're quite similar now. Let's start how I did this

Changing the visual appearance of the control with Silverlight 2 Beta

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Now Silverlight has become quite similar to WPF, it's become easier to change the visual appearance of the controls.With the beta 2 release of Silverlight we've found rich set of controls now to work with.In this demonstration of changing appearance of the controls,I just tried to apply what I learnt from WPF.Those useful styling and Templating of controls by using Style and ControlTemplate.

Kigg - A Digg like application developed in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg/DotNetKicks like application in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ To SQL and ASP.NET Ajax.

Creating ImageListBox in WPF

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:10:30 GMT

In Windows Presentation Foundation Images can be added as ListBox items and this is one of the coolest features of WPF to me.But i never thought that this can be done so easily.In this post i tried to explain how i built that.

AjaxDataControls v1.0 Goes Live

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:31:06 GMT

The Final release of v1.0 of AjaxDataControls goes live.

AjaxDataControls GridView Drag and Drop

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Shows how to add Drag and Drop and Persistence support in the GridView Control.

Ajax Control Toolkit - Multipart Series Article

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:01:02 GMT

A multi-part series article on Ajax Control Toolkit.

Silverlight object's sub-objects

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:23:10 GMT

The silverlight object has two sub-objects: content and settings.

Implement JSONP in your Asp.net Application

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:16:02 GMT

Shows how to implement JSONP in your Asp.net Application.