Hi,Today I wanted to share a link to my first Windows 8 application - Roman Empire. Took me 6 months to create it but I am happy from the results and I hope you will also like it :)Link to Roman Empire: http://apps.microsoft.com/w... is simple and it's about dragging your units between ......

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After few minutes of playing with new Microsoft Lab's gadget -> Zoom.it, I decided to share with you few comments. First It looks so nice and it gives a lot of fun :D Check for example how my blog looks like as a one image :D link: http://zoom.it/zFq1 Second Great API! Both, JavaScript http://zoom.it/pages/api/qu... and Silverlight ......

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If you are interested in my last post about "How to center and scale Silverlight applications using ViewBox control", I just published behavior that you can use instead of making changes in code. How it works? 1. Download behavior (http://gallery.expression.... ) 2. Add dll to your application <UserControl ..... xmlns:interaction="clr-name... ......

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There are many ways to make your application scalable in Web Browser window and align it in the center. Usually we use two Grid controls to align and panel control (like Canvas) to scale our apps. Not the best solution <UserControl … > <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <Grid HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"> ......

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Few days ago I faced a problem with printing in new Silverlight 4 RC. When you try to dynamically load image (in code behind) and print it, it doesn't work. Paper sheet is blank. Problem XAML file: <Image x:Name="image" Stretch="None" /> XAML.cs: image.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(imageUri, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute)); Print: var pd = new ......

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After my last successes with TextBox Button Inovker Behavior, which was downloaded more than 700 times in 7 days and recommended by Silverlight sites like http://silverlike.net/invok... http://silverlightcream.com/, http://geekswithblogs.net/W... , I got motivation to share with you one more. This time my behavior ......

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As I promised in my last post about Surifty.com ( http://geekswithblogs.net/S... ) I did some performance improvement but still you have to run it on good PC to see 100% power of visual search engine. From now on application need less than 250MB in memory (I know, It’s still a lot!). I ......

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For those of you who would like to add (attach) behavior to control in code behind, there is a simple solution. Adding Behaviors Let's say that we have xaml code like this one: Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:Standardowy; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; ......

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Few days ago I wrote a small behavior, which I think, can be used in many applications, so I decided to share it with you :) What are behaviors in Silverlight I won't write in this post, because there are many other places where you can find nice tutorial about this. I personally recommend this one: http://www.silverlightshow.... ......

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/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; ......

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