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Spinning Wait Symbol in Silverlight, Part 4

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:19:45 GMT

Creating a spinning wait symbol in Silverlight, Part 4. Added rotation animation to the symbol to give it the spinning effect.

Developing Silverlight Analog Clock - pattern oriented approach

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:59:27 GMT

A nice article about creating an analog clock in Silverlight 2 using the MVP pattern.

Spinning Wait Symbol in Silverlight, Part 3

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:18:41 GMT

Programmatically build a spinning wait cursor symbol in Silverlight. Added curvature to the "pizza" slices.

Silverlight 2 Elliptical Control 3D (Carousel)!

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:34:34 GMT

I recently got myself set up with Silverlight so I could have a go at writing an app and seeing just what is the difference between it and WPF. I set myself the target of porting the 3D Ellipse control from my last post and this is the result. A 3D carousel control written in Silverlight 2. It is just as configurable as the last (well a little more as you can specify the focal length of the camera) and makes use of some neat tricks to get around the lack of 3D support in Silverlight. Screenshots, source code (Silverlight 2.0, C#) and walkthrough available.

Spinning Wait Symbol in Silverlight, Part 2

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:14:40 GMT

An exercise in Silverlight: how to programmatically create a shape (or "pizza") with slices somewhat similar to the rotating wait cursor in Mac OSX.

Spinning Wait Symbol in Silverlight

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:08:21 GMT

Simple animation using Silverlight to emulate the wait symbol on a Windows Mobile Treo.

101 Free Silverlight Controls

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:31:10 GMT

Awesome collection of FREE silverlight controls.

Bouncing Balls in Silverlight, Part 1

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:49:41 GMT

Simple sample of bouncing ball in Silverlight. It is just intended to demonstrate the basics of a simple ball motion.

Is Switch same as a bunch of If-Else-If statements?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:29:53 GMT

The article describes how the C# compiler handles the switch statement, which might be a bit surprising for some.

SET VS SELECT - When to use what in SQL Server

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:01:02 GMT

When to use SET and when to use SELECT ?

SQL SERVER - Better Performance - LEFT JOIN or NOT IN?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

What do you think? I am sure result will surprise you.

Quick guide to resizing virtual disks in VMware

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:08:09 GMT

Step by step guide on how to resize virtual disks in VMware. Useful when Windows, SQL Server, BizTalk, Visual Studio, and Office take far more space than you expected!

Set the FieldSpecified property automatically in WSDL generated files

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:21:19 GMT

If you use the nillable or minOccurs attributes in the WSDL files, the wsdl.exe tool generates a boolean 'Specified' field. In order to transmit the field value, this field must be set 'true' even if a value is assigned to the field. This post shows how to automatically add code to set the Specified property in WSDL generated files.