As Jesse Liberty promised, he had posted the article “Building a HyperVideo Player – Phase 1”. In this segment he demonstrates how to use Encoder to add markers to a video or to use it to create a player, how to modify the player Encoder to create using templates and finally – how to have the player respond to each marker as it is encountered. Jesse’s next stop will be a true hyper video player.
Yesterday Braulio Diez Botella added his
Silverlight DB Schema Editor to our gallery. Learn something more about this free Silverlight application.
Andy Beaulieu has a new post – “
Blend and Silverlight with VS Dev Web Server”. While working on a recent Silverlight project Andy discovered that the project would work fine when launched from Visual Studio, but when launched from Expression Blend, it would fail on web service calls.
Experienced the same problem? Then read this article and learn how to fix it.
Steve from the team blog of the Expression Blend and Design products has published the article “
A UserControl base class for Visual State Manager”. If you want to write your own UserControl then you will need to add your own states to the control and you will also need to know how to handle events and call VisualStateManager.GoToState() to transition between your states. In this post you will find one base class which could be a good starting point for you.
Jeff Paries has a post called “
Shrinking XAP Size” in which he describes a tool named PNGGauntlet. This is a terrific, free utility that can shrink the file size of PNG.
John Stockton has an article on Silverlight animations, in which he explains
what are KeySplines and why should you care. What John is going to talk about in this post is something known as easing and how you do it in Silverlight.
Bill Reiss announced that he is
looking for Silverlight/Cloud/Online Services speakers at South Florida Code Camp 2009. Code camps are a great way to get into the world of speaking if you're a first timer or haven't done it very much, and the South Florida Code Camp on Feb 7, 2009 is one of the biggest in the nation. Being in the Miami area for the second weekend of February isn't such a bad deal, so be sure to check Bill’s offer.
Gerard Leblanc has posted the first part of his articles about master pages in Silverlight. Here you will see how to implement master pages in Silverlight. That first implementation is basic but it will be improved in forthcoming posts.