Jeff Wilcox has collected the 10 most popular Silverlight-related posts from his blog over the past year, according to Google Analytics. If you missed any of these, now’s a great time to catch-up! Another recent post of Jeff’s is about ‘09 blog housekeeping & thanks. He presents three key RSS feeds for his blog and gives a little information for the new visual design, styles, and functionality of his site.
Jesse Liberty has posted an article about
Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel. His mini-tutorial includes a working example. Jesse has not posted the source code because it's all there.
Terence Tsang has two new posts about Flash vs. Silverlight. The first one is about
theming and styling. Terence uses a simple example to illustrate how to style the UI in both of the technologies. The second one is about
driving game with hit test. This is an enhanced version of the Simple Game System. A road background is added to the game and the car can eat up the “food” on the road.
Hannes Preishuber has a post about
Silverlight 2.0 Compression Rate. After a short discussion in silverlight forums with a guy who have only 19kb line, Hannes checked out compression for XAP files. In the comments after the article there is a link to another blog post handling the same topic.
Mike Taulty has written the article “
Live Framework SDK - Having a Single MeshObject”. This is a continuation of his
previous post where he had been trying to write a little bit of code that shares some photographs via the Live Mesh using a standard, installed, client application written in WPF. Now he wants to have a single MeshObject which has a single DataFeed. Look how Mike has accomplished this.
Ray Booysen has a blog post about
WPF TextBox with Watermark.
The idea for it came up on Ray while working on a project that required a watermarked textbox for displaying some contextual help.
Alexey Zakharov has created a
Minesweeper game for Silverlight, which size is less than 10 Kilobytes. He had submitted it in the 10K contest. Try it now and have fun.
Mike Snow has a post which purpose is to create
an outline summary of all the blogs from his Silverlight Tips of the Day blog. He has even distributed the tips in categories for your facilitation.
Suprotim Agarwal wrote the article “
Reading and Displaying RSS Feed in a Silverlight DataGrid”. The SyndicationFeed class in Silverlight 2 makes it easy to parse the feed response. The process of reading a feed is as simple as reading a RSS/ATOM feed using the WebClient class, load the stream into the SyndicationFeed class and bind it to a Silverlight UI. The parsing is done by the SyndicationFeed class.