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Silverlight news for July 23, 2008

0 comments / posted by Ilia Iordanov on Jul 23, 2008 (11 hours ago)

Routed Events in Silverlight 2 by Hristo Hristov from Telerik. Nice first post by Hristo explaining the routed events in Silverlight with very useful demo application.

Silverlight Spy update is available, including one fix and one new feature. Go now and download it from here.

Alex from AGKDesign announced his new web site, go to http://www.agkdesign.net and enjoy the Silverlight goodness in there.

Using an Attached DependencyProperty to Implement Pixel Snapping as an Attached Behavior by Dave Relya –great post by Dave and find out how to achieve snapping using attached properties in Silverlight.

Silverlight news for July 22, 2008

0 comments / posted by Ivan Dragoev on Jul 22, 2008 (1 day ago)

Mike Taulty continues experimenting with a Silverlight Photo Control. Check his 4th part where he demonstrates some control styling with Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview. Also checks part one, two and tree.

Robby Ingebretson has new site. Go to NerdPlusArt and you'll see the nice silverlight made home page with some cool effects.

Page Brooks reminds us that if you want to participate in the Silverlight Control Builder Contest you have only 21 days left. Also they have tons of new prizes, so it worth to try take some of them.

Write and Win contest submissions

0 comments / posted by Martin Mihaylov on Jul 21, 2008 (2 days ago)

Here are three more submissions to the Silverlight Contest: Write and Win contest. The first one is from Antoni Dol and it’s about 10 Silverlight 2 gotchas resolved. The second is about Creating a Silverlight game and was sent by Boyan Mihailov. And the last submission is by Michael Washington. He wrote an article about the Drag, Drop, Import and Export in Silverlight.

You can find the other articles submitted for the contest here:

Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player by David
The Making of Deep Zoom Obama by Donavon West
Silverlight Web Chat (With WCF Callbacks) by Thomas Holloway

We remind you that 25th of July is the last date to participate in Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.

Silverlight news for July 21, 2008

0 comments / posted by Emil Stoychev on Jul 21, 2008 (2 days ago)

uCard YouCard: Implementing the ViewModel pattern - Jonas Follesø sent this awesome example of the ViewModel pattern and Commands in Silverlight. uCard is an application that aggregates content about your friends from Twitter and Flickr - you may have already seen in it REMIX08 keynote in Sydney. Thanks, Jonas, keep it coming!

WebFishEye First Look - WebAqua.NET 2.0 - Jimmy Petrus just announced that Intersoft Solutions' Silverlight controls are on their way.

Silverlight news for July 18, 2008 #2

0 comments / posted by Emil Stoychev on Jul 18, 2008 (5 days ago)

Alan Cobb just contributed an interesting news/article - Changing Silverlight properties dynamically with a "binding-relay" object. He discusses what a "binding-relay" object is, two-way databinding and shares some nice tricks. It is definately worth a read article. Great resource, Alan, keep on writing.

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Silverlight news for July 18, 2008

0 comments / posted by Nikolay Raychev on Jul 18, 2008 (5 days ago)

Layout Transitions - An Animatable WrapPanel – Read this article by Dave Relyea to see how he created his Silverlight animated WrapPanel.

More Polygon Physics with Silverlight – Andy Beaulieu wrote another article about manipulating polygons with the mouse in Silverlight using Farseer Physics Engine. There is a very interesting demo which you shouldn’t miss.

How to Increase the Isolated Storage Quota for your App - in this article Mike Snow describes how to prompt the user to increase the isolated storage quota for Silverlight applications.

Silverlight news for July 17, 2008

0 comments / posted by Martin Mihaylov on Jul 17, 2008 (6 days ago)

Tamir Khason together with the guys from Microsoft Egypt and Santeon are developing a Arabic and Hebrew languages bidirectional support for Silverlight 2.0 beta 2. They are already in alpha test stage, so if you are interested go and see the alpha release at CodePlex.

Delay writes about a little trick that can shrink the size of your XAP file. In that way the user should download less data and get the content much quicker.

A new update for Silverlight 2 is now available. It improves the stability, the media streaming, the auto-update component and the support for Firefox 3.

DevExpress Silverilght Data Grid sample: Creating an IM/Chat Server and Client using Sockets

0 comments / posted by Emil Stoychev on Jul 17, 2008 (6 days ago)

IM/Chat Client DevExpress have integrated their AgDataGrid in a pretty good sample of IM/Chat Server and Client. How cool is that? Azret Botash wrote how to fully implement the chat server and client. The sample is provided with full source code so go check out and try it for yourself.

Telerik: RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP2 release

4 comments / posted by Ilia Iordanov on Jul 16, 2008 (1 week ago)

Today Nikolay Atanasov from Telerik annonuced the RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP2 release. Most of the controls are also available for WPF and share the same API and features. The other controls included are:

WrapPanel, DockPanel, UniformGridPanel, PanelBar;
ComboBox, NumericUpDown;
Calendar, DatePicker;
ProgressBar;
Menu;
TabControl;
TreeView;
MediaPlayer;
Window;
Cube, Upload.

On-line demo of the controls you can see here.

Silverlight news for July 16, 2008

0 comments / posted by Ilia Iordanov on Jul 16, 2008 (1 week ago)

Updates to Amazon S3 and Silverlight is Tim Heuer’s second part of the posts related to the usage of Amazon’s Simple Storage Solution (S3) service for object storage ‘in the cloud’. If you haven’t read the first part, check it here.

It is time for Tip #18 by Mike Snows. This time he reveals the secret around how to set browser cookies from within Silverlight. Very clear and focused post!

VisualStateManager is and always will be an interesting topic to blog about.