Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2008 -- #399

In this issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Laurence Moroney, Dave Relyea, Mike Taulty, Andy Beaulieu, Brad Abrams/Tim Heuer, and David Anson

Michael Washington reported a new Silverlight 2 release of Silverlight Desktop and discusses an issue he found along the way in.

Jeff Paries reports his Project Updates for Silverlight 2, as does Terence Tsang with his Silverlight 2 Upgrade: 3D Text Space.

Martin Grason has been Silverlight 2 busy with Silverlight 2 RTW, the Patient Journey Demonstrator and Blacklight.

Pete Brown announed another GeekSpeek:... I think I'm going to be flying then, so I'll have to catch it in re-runs:(


From:

DevReach Example Code

Shawn Wildermuth is probably back on home turf now from DevReach, but he has posted the material he presented there... so if you were lucky enough to be there or not, the material is waiting!

Understanding Image and Media Failed Errors

Shawn also has exposed some image and media error messages and a work-around for them.

Panoramic Deep Zoom – Question of the Day

Laurence Moroney takes another daily question and shows us in really nice detail how to stitch images together in DeepZoom.

Customizing a ToolTip

Dave Relyea has a great article up on how to spiff up your tooltips.

Mike Taulty has part two of his SL2/HTML Dom interoperability article up... lots of code:)

Physics Helper Beta 1!

Andy Beaulieu has some very cool updates to the physics helper he did that are usable in Blend as well. He even has a video up to show how to do the fun stuff.

Silverlight 2 Interview on HerdingCode PodCast

Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer were interviewed about all things Silverlight on the latest Herding Code Podcast... give that a listen... these guys know what they're talking about.

SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample does not work on Silverlight 2 RTW

David Anson discusses a problem surrounding fonts that are blocking his updating of his SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer. He offers up some suggestions but none he likes... see if you agree with him.

Stay in the 'Light!


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This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Dave Campbell

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