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Tall skinny data columns using improved WrapPanel for Silverlight

1 comments / posted by Matt Perdeck on Jul 23, 2008 (10 hours ago)

Reusable code to do narrow data columns with navigation buttons, such as address lists.

Introduction

When it comes to presenting data, there is a lot of emphasis on grids that present data in a single wide column, showing lots of fields horizontally.

However, some data tend to be presented in narrow columns, such as address lists and book indices...

Changes in the new DeepZoom Composer

0 comments / posted by Martin Mihaylov on Jun 17, 2008 (1 month ago)

What’s new?

Along with the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 a new version of the DeepZoom Composer was also released. After taking a look at it, I thought that it might be useful to make a list with the changes and the new features I found in it.

Output format changed to XML file
Image tags can now be added in the Compose section
Alignment to Grid and guidelines added to the Compose section
Export section enhancements (image formats, Silverlight project output)

Improved Version of Deep Zoom Composer Now Available

0 comments / aggregated from theADOguy on May 04, 2008 (2 months ago) / original article

URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/0...

The Expression team has released a new Beta version of the Deep Zoom Composer with a plethora of changes. These include:

Better Exporting
Improved Design Experience
Better Collection Exports
Help Actually works.

If you're looking at Deep Zoom, this is a must have.

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Popfly Game Creator

0 comments / aggregated from Somasegar's WebLog on May 03, 2008 (2 months ago) / original article

Watching Microsoft Popfly evolve has been incredibly exciting for me. With its Silverlight-based drag-and-drop capabilities, Popfly has been a fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly has won the hearts and minds of many, many people as evidenced by a lot of favorable press coverage and awards.

Today, I am excited to announce the alpha of the Popfly Game Creator.

The Silverlight-based Game Creator is a very rich and yet very simple way to create all sorts of casual games without having to write a single line of code. Whether it is a space shooting game, a racing game or a maze, the extremely friendly and interactive UI guides you, the user, to express your creativity.

You can start with a known collection of game templates that are already built in and customize and share them, or start with a fresh idea and a clean canvas and build your own game.

What fun: Popfly gets a game builder

0 comments / aggregated from Webware.com on May 03, 2008 (2 months ago) / original article

Microsoft's Popfly team is rushing to finish a major addition to its mash up maker so it can do demonstrations at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif., tomorrow. I got a quick demo earlier this week and I hope the product is ready in time, because it's a great new service, and just perfect for the audience the Maker Faire draws.

The new feature: an environment for building casual games (think Solitaire, not Half-Life), called Game Creator There are several templates with generic titles to start from (personal favorite: "Badly built wall") or users can create their own games from scratch using a scripting system and a built-in, and entertaining, library of graphics and sounds.

Indeed, that is a badly-built wall.

First Look at Popfly Game Creator Alpha

0 comments / aggregated from Frank La Vigne on May 02, 2008 (2 months ago) / original article

Adam Nathan and Suzanne Hansen discuss the Popfly Game Creator in this Channel9 interview.

Popfly Game Creator Alpha is available today, and it's a brand new tool for building 2D games in Silverlight that requires zero programming to build games.
How easy is it to build games? Well in this interview Adam Nathan builds three games from scratch including
- A Space invaders clone (3:15 - 23:55)
- A 2D car game that plays like "snake" (23:55 - 37:51)
- A 2D side scroller with a Ninja fighting rocket chickens (37:51- 55:04)

Hmm, I've got some ideas what do to with this technology.

Check out popfly game creator

0 comments / aggregated from Brad Abrams on May 02, 2008 (2 months ago) / original article

The Popfly guys are at it again. They just launched a very cool game creator tool that lets normal people create great Silverlight based games. The RIA development experience is very slick and I can't wait to see the games people create!

Check it out at Popfly.com and John's post.

Using the DeepZoom Composer

2 comments / posted by Martin Mihaylov on Apr 22, 2008 (3 months ago)

Update: You can read about the latest changes in the DeepZoom Composer here.

Introduction

First let’s see what stands behind the name SeaDragon. This is a project of SeaDragon Software, which are a part of the Microsoft Live Labs. Its main purpose is to make the browsing of a large amount of visual information, regardless of the device, smoother and independent from the bandwidth of the network. You can read more about it here. So what’s the DeepZoom Composer? It allows us to use some of the SeaDragon technology in Silverlight. To get started first download the DeepZoom Composer.

Silverlight Spy 2.0.0.3

0 comments / aggregated from First Floor Feed on Apr 11, 2008 (3 months ago) / original article

I've just released an updated version of the Silverlight Spy. Updates include:

statistics and resources views implemented
preview tab UI interface implemented (preview functionality itself not available yet)
minor updates to the XAML writer
minor UI changes

Enjoy!