MIX08: Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2, Part 2

NB: All the demos from the talk are on Mike Harsh's blog.

  • Create a Custom Panel
    • Add new class
    • Inherit from Panel
    • Public default constructor (for XAML)
    • Override Measure and Arrange
    • Use in XAML
  • AnimatingPanelBase (by Robbie Ingebretsen) demoed by Mike Harsh right now, nice!
  • Showing customization of controls using Styles and Skins.
  • IsolatedStorage, nothing is new, same as in Alpha version of SL.
  • INavigationState interface allows Back and Forward button to work with the Silverlight app easily.
  • DeepZoom, sweet...
    • Preprocessing tool to prepare the images (can be downloaded)
      • Breaks the image into tiles
      • Generates lower resolution images
    • MultiScaleImage control for the behaviour. Just set its Source to the ".bin" file generated by the tool.
    • Cool demos of the Deep Zoom feature.
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