December 2007 Entries
SilverlightCream.com hits 400 entries with the addition of Sean Blakemore's blog. Sean started off with a SL 1.0 Video player extension for Blogengine.net From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight video player extension for Blogengine.NET Sean has a multi-skinned (14!) video player extension for BlogEngine.net, with source... good job and thanks, hope to see more from Sean :) Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Michael Washington came back last night with a DNN Silverlight Detection Post From SilverlightCream.com: What if they don't have Silverlight installed? Similar to his last entry, Michael does the same trick in DotNetNuke this time. Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Matt Casto Sent me a link to a Silverlight 1.1 application that is a scheduler program for an upcoming CodeMash conference. From SilverlightCream.com: CodeMash Session Scheduler Matt promises some in-depth info about parts of the application, but wanted to let folks see what he's done... and it's very well done! Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Christmas Cream from Michael Washington: Detection of Silverlight Installation From SilverlightCream.com: Detect if Silverlight is Installed Michael produced and explains a page that will hide the DIV containing the Silverlight plug-in and show a DIV that will display a message if Silverlight is not installed... much kinder on our users :) Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Merry Christmas from SilverlightCream -- Here's a whole bunch of things that found it's way into SilverlightCream over the last couple weeks but for one reason or another was never blogged... enjoy! From SilverlightCream.com: Christmas Ball Breaker From Frank at Frank's world -- something to take the stress out of the holidays :) Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha? Tim Sneath discusses SL 1.1 and why you may have problems with some 1.0 sites among other things 3D collision detection,...
Cream will continue to flow along with the Eggnog during the holidays, so as you get your fun projects ready for prime time, send them along! I've got one Farseer Physics tutorial from Andy Beaulieu, and Michael Washington pointed me at a great set of SL1.0 controls from Jaime Rodriguez From SilverlightCream.com: Getting Started with Farseer Physics and Silverlight We've seen the Farseer Physics Engine in other things... Andy rolls out a great tutorial to get us grinding away on some animation during...
A few from today, I'll catch up over the weekend when I can get into the database: 2 Parts of a series from Dave Wheeler on building a SL Media player, and Liquid Boy discusses uploading images to Flickr. From SilverlightCream.com: So what is Silverlight? In a Post at DeveloperFusion, Dave Wheeler starts on a SL 1.0 mission to explain the creation of a media player -- looks like a good start Have you seen the Silverlight? – More Silverlight - Handling Events Part 2 of Dave Wheeler's Media Player...
Yes I'm going to discuss this again, so if you know me personally, or have heard me talk about it before, just click the "Delete" button :) Somewhere around the fall of 2003 I was working for what was essentially a failed dot com. The product was great, but nobody could figure out how to get US banks to buy into it. Maybe someday, but not then, and not even now for the unfortunate folks that are still trying to make it work. I was working from home, elbow-deep in Win32, MFC, platform SDK in C++,...
Everybody must be in 'Holiday' mode. No submittals, so I'm going with product I've found: Tafiti is now on CodePlex, SL Christmas Cards, XAMLPad 3.0, SL 1.0 Template in VS2008, and Telerik announces their new RAD controls. From SilverlightCream.com: silverlight search app goes shared source Tim Heuer reports that the Tafiti search site is now on CodePlex -- how cool is that? ... code to look at inbetween putting Christmas toys together :) Silverlight Christmas Cards Tim Sneath has a collection of...
I have this book, and it's the one that kicked me past the point of wanting to use AJAX and actually doing so... good stuff, a good read, and on-topic. I haven't read it all. I took potshots where I looked for information to get the job done, and even reading that way, it worked! So go over to Encosia, and follow the instructions to try to win one of the 3 copies Dave is giving away. The 'first comment' is undoubtedly gone by now, but there's two others up for grabs... trust me, you won't be disappointed...
Frank of Frank's World has produced the first (that I'm aware of) Silverlight Christmas Card. From SilverlightCream.com: Frank's World Christmas 2007 I've been wondering if we'd start to see some of this going on this year. In the past I've seen many Flash animation cards. I'm not creative enough to do something like the flas ones, but Frank has bridged the gap :) Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
One year ago today I blogged my first 'article' on WPF/E. WPF/E CTP'd on December 4, 2006. I didn't see it until the 6th. I read about it and was confused, but I kept going back to it, and kept playing with the QuickStart. Finally I started to catch on and thought there may be something to all this. I got to go to MIX '07 in May 2007, and WPF/E became Silverlight and exploded all over the web. On July 1, I was awarded MVP: Visual Developer - Client Application Development, 'nuff said! I'm sitting...
Rick Barraza at CynergySystems, fresh back from winning PhizzPop, posts a very nice Custom Animation tutorial From SilverlightCream.com: Dirty Dozen #03: Custom Animations This is *way* cool to watch... I haven't looked at the code yet, but it's definitely there! The only negative comment I could possibly make is it wants to run IE and FF as hard as possible. Congratulations on the PhizzPop Win! Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight...
Second half of the list from yesterday: UCAYA has an SVG to XAML converter, Omar Al Zabir has a Silverlight Pagecast, Christmas CoolWall from Tim Sneath, an Expression Encoder plugin tutorial from Tim Heuer, Sprawl2 from the Expression Team Blog, Paul Laberge put up a tutorial on the SL Streaming Publishing Plug-in for Encoder, and Karsten Januszewski discusses streaming an audio file and shows some Encoder Template tweaks. From SilverlightCream.com: XamlTune -- SVG to XAML This might not be completely...
That's a great line from "Dancing with Wolves". Robert Pastorelli delivered the line about a skeleton that was found: "I'll bet someone back east is going, Now why don't he write?" In trying to answer a question on the Silverlight.net forum, I went to my site as a reference, and found something that didn't work. Hmmm... so then I tried another page and found more 'somethings' that didn't work. I get quite a few visitors a day, and nobody has written to say anything about that Apparently I'm going...
Offbeatmammal has taken Vertigo's Slideshow out for spin, and wantes everyone to know how easy it is to use. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Sideshow From the author: "It's not really a how to, or even something folks will learn from... just a "hey I found something really cool in Silverlight" that folks might be interested in..." ... and those are good too! Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
First of two-parts of Cream I've found in my blog-reading: Koen of FirsFloor demonstrates a Slideshow of Picasa WebAlbums, Michael Cameron takes 2D collisions into 3D, Jesse Liberty's first 4 "Did You Know" posts, Bret Ahlstrom discusses the Blend SP1 Update, and Pete Brown in a podcast about Silverlight and the Carbon Calculator application. From SilverlightCream.com: How to integrate Slideshow with the Picasa WebAlbum API Koen of FirstFloor shows how he integrated his very nice Slideshow with Picasa...
Joe Engalan from VectorForm sent me a link to their Christmas Game: XMas Drop -- Help Milo Save Christmas From SilverlightCream.com: Happy Silverlight Holidays from Vectorform The VectorForm guys are so great, I added this to SilverlightCream without even running it... The 'Christmas Present' is not only the game, but this puppy's got all the C# source... go play it, download it, and then go back and say Thanks to the VectorForm guys! Note: If the link to the demos doesn't work it's here! Stay in...
Some weekend cream from Michael Washington: His Toolbar now scrolls, and has duplicated it in DNN, plus Michael passed in the link to Adam Nathan's Silverligth Unleashed 1.0 Book code. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Toolbar Tutorial (updated) Michael has his toolbar scrolling ... very cool... now if I could just find a suitable replacement for that SilverlightCream logo :) DotNetNuke Silverlight Toolbar I don't know any DNN, but this looks like the same toolbar, and from the description,...
Early Cream from submittals: Joe Engalan of Vectorform announced SilverlightShooter From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Shooter nears completion I thought this was seriously cool, but hey, I'm old what can I say :) Joe Engalan of Vectorform says this isn't done yet, but it sure plays like it! Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Some fun Silverlight things I didn't want to fall off my desk: Mike Ormond blogged about a series of Designer and Developer Webcasts for Silverlight and Kate Lee opens the doors on "Silverlight tutorial". From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Webcasts Looks like MSEvents is cooking up a big list of WebCasts for Developers and Designers alike. Unfortunately, the Designers ones started on Monday, so hopefully we can get those offline later. The Developer ones start next Monday, and there are some...
Early Cream again today, this from a new submitter (is that even a word?): Offbeatmammal talks about the In-Place Install. I'm getting enough submissions lately, I need to keep good track of things I've found myself for posting later! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Inplace Install Offbeatmammal talks about making the install process a little gentler and kinder for first-timers... worth a read... anything to help your gramma get on-board with Silverlight is good :) Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight...
Michael Scherotter Gives us a Silverlight Hannukkah gift just in time for tonight. From SilverlightCream.com: A Silverlight Hanukkah Gift This is very cool. Michael provides all the source, plus an iframe snippet to drop into your site or blog. I put it on the left sidebar of my blog and by the time I got home, the main candle and one of the others was lit... very cool :) Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Early Cream from Gwynn Kruger with an MVC/Silverlight.NET article. From SilverlightCream.com: Model-View-Controller Can be Done in Silverlight 1.1/2.0 Gwynn Kruger of SilverSpud is staying on the edge of things, showing us how to use MVC with Silverlight .NET Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...
Silverlight I found on the Blogosphere: Brad Abram's Intro to Silverlight Webcast, Video.Show 1.0 RC at CodePlex, Game Graphics in Expression Design, Jesse Liberty on 1.0, and great UI ideas from Scott Barnes. From SilverlightCream.com: MSDN Webcast Video Posted: An Introduction to Silverlight (Level 100) This is a WebCast that Brad Abrams did last week that I was too busy to get to, so I'm going to be looking at this... might be worth a look to someone else! Video.Show Update: 1.0 Release Candidate...
I received email from Fayez Mutairi, and he asked "Have you ever seen your blog posts in a web browser"? ... ummm... maybe not, or obviously not in a manner that looked bad I was reading his email on my cell phone, and obviously couldn't see the very detailed images he sent me (thanks -- I did later!). Apparently whatever Mr. Mutairi is using for reading my feed isn't dealing well with my fake XAML titles on my Tooltips -- too bad, I thought they were clever :) So... I have changed them all to remove...
Early Cream from submittals: An "Experimental Silverlight Game" from Jim Walt with great graphics, and a Voting Control for your site from Ivan Dragoev... all good stuff... thanks guys! More later from my travels... From SilverlightCream.com: Experimental Silverlight Game This game from Jim Walt comes up as 'alien love ship', so you're on your own ;) ... since it's a puzzle and I looked at it about 5:30am, I didn't get very far. No source but the graphics is very cool. Interactive Silverlight Voting...
Short notice if you weren't expecting it, but we're having our 2nd Phoenix Silverlight User's Group meeting Wednesday(December 5) evening from 6pm to 8pm at Interface Technical Training. If you need an incentive other than to collaborate with fellow Silverlight Developers, apparently Tim Heuer has provided some swag for giving away! I thought the first meeting was good, so come on out and help Michael define the roadmap to follow going into 2008! See you there...
If you're having trouble figuring out where the borders of your canvas are while playing with XAML, or where the horizontal center really is at run-time, this Tooltip might help. There are a couple things I always do while building my page, and as I was setting up a new page today I thought I'd share these with anyone interested. Read my seventh Tooltip to see my thoughts on the subject. Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight...
Rant warning... just click on to the next! I don't know why I punish myself sometimes... I mean I'm *not* looking for a job, I'm *not* looking to leave where I am. It's a good 'showup job' as my buddy Steve says, and close enough to the technology edge that it feels good, not to mention it pays well. The only negative is the hour+ it takes to drive 27 miles on the Outer Loop. After some email banter back and forth with some Silverlight guys, I kinda/sorta backed myself into a phone interview that...
Jeff Paries gave up the link to the zoom page I referred yesterday... this is very cool stuff. From SilverlightCream.com: Jeff Paries' Image Zoom page I really like this image zoom Jeff has. You can move the rectangle aroundin the target to zoom specific parts of the image. Now all we need is some code :) Stay in the 'Light! Silverlight Tagged Web Articles | Silverlight Articles | Silverlight Tutorials | Silverlight Tooltips | SilverlightCream...