Pete Brown has done an amazing work with his dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with overlays. One effect you can achieve with an overlay, is a glassy effect. But overlays aren’t something built into the control, you have to do a little playing around with them to achieve this. Follow Pete’s amazing example and soon you’ll have your own dazzling Pie Chart. Pete has another recent post. It’s about creating a Silverlight Control that stays square . It’s not as fascinating as the first one but still might help you to solve a problem some day.
Tim Heuer has published an article about using Encoder 2 templates for existing media. When you use Expression Encoder, you are typically going to be encoding media to a format to consume. But what if you have a media file that doesn’t need encoding or you have a streaming URI and you don’t need to encode anything, but want the player? In this case you better read Tim’s article and find the answer.
Koen Zwikstra decided to join the MIX 10K challenge and has now submitted his version of Tetris squeezed in only 10K. Play Tetris now!
Mike Snow has posted another tip in his blog. He will show you how to crop an object. If you only want to display part of an object, you can do this through the Clip property. Find more information and a small example at Mike’s blog.
Mike Taulty's previous post called “Live Framework SDK - Inviting Others”, made him thinking that the WPF application that he built across these three posts – “Live Framework SDK - More Steps”, “Live Framework SDK - Having a Single MeshObject” and “Live Framework SDK - Adding a Silverlight MEWA”, would start to improve if he offered the opportunity to "invite others" to shared groups of photographs. So he re-worked the code and published it together with some explanations in his latest article “Live Framework SDK - more on inviting others”.
Gerard Leblanc has released the second part of his articles about master pages in Silverlight. Here Gerard will improve the previous program by adding an animation that is executed at page switching time.