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Friday, March 21, 2008 4:17 PM

Why Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom Really is Something New

The Hard Rock Memorabilia site got a lot of press MIX 08; TechCrunch called it the coolest part of the MIX keynote . It takes advantage of a new Silverlight 2 feature called Deep Zoom, which allows for smooth zooming and panning over a large collection...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 9:07 AM

What's been announced about Silverlight 2? See ScottGu's "First Look" post

I've had a lot of people ask me for hints about what's in Silverlight 2. My general strategy is to tell them to read Scott Guthrie's blog, then fake a seizure. That strategy will work even better starting today, since Scott just posted a First Look at...
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Friday, February 15, 2008 1:00 AM

Using Windowless Silverlight Controls To Blend HTML and Silverlight Elements

Silverlight 1.0 has no intrinsic controls. Forget about dropdowns and sliders, Silverlight 1.0 doesn't have textboxes or buttons. That doesn't mean you can't build and deploy advanced Silverlight 1.0 applications today, though. [ Sheesh, that sounded...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:05 AM

Video.Show 1.0 - A Ready To Run Solution For Hosting Video On The Web

I'm really excited to announce that Video.Show has officially been released. It's been available on CodePlex (under the liberal MsPL license) since our beta release back in November , but today it's officially been blessed as a 1.0 release. While we were...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:49 AM

Inkscape to support XAML export

Today, Adam Kinney gave me the tip off to some cool news: Inkscape is adding XAML export . Great, what's Inkscape ? Glad you asked! Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, like Adobe Illustrator. Rather than drawing in pixels (like you'd do...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:30 AM

Silverlight doesn't require any JavaScript

Summary It's easier to understand Silverlight when you understand that, at its heart, it's a simple browser plug-in. JavaScript is extremely useful for browser detection, and it's the only way to interact with Silverlight 1.0, but JavaScript not at all...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:11 PM

Speaking at the Silicon Valley Code Camp on 10/27

I'm presenting two sessions at the Silicon Valley Code Camp on 10/27. So, drop everything, sign up for my sessions, and get to Silicon Valley this weekend! But first, some quick Q & A time!!! Question : Why did you wait until Thursday night to blog...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:59 PM

Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha) cross domain webservice access makes mashups tricky

Any web mashups, by definition, require cross-domain calls. Those cross-domain calls may happen on the client (in the browser) or on the server. Regardless of the client technology (AJAX, Flash, Silverlight, etc.), cross domain calls on the client are...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 11:47 PM

Some keyboard input tricks for Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha)

Here are a few tricks I learned while doing my "hello world" maze game in Silverlight 1.1 . Silverlight doesn't fire the KeyDown event for cursor (arrow) keys However, just about all keys will fire a KeyUp event. In my case, I was able to just handle...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:05 AM

Silverlight content only prints in IE (for now)

Last night I made a simple Silverlight maze generator for my 6 year old daughter, who's really into mazes right now. When I tried to print the resulting mazes, I found that the Silverlight content was was blank in Firefox (left), but worked in IE (right...
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