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Peak-IT Summer DevNight 2008
Yesterday evening (June 3) I did a Silverlight 2 presentation at the PeakIT Summer DevNight 2008. An introduction of Silverlight 2 in about one hour along with some live samples and demo's. I had great fun presenting Silverlight 2 and a thank you to the audience for the positive feedback. The slidedeck...
Declarative Tweening (2)
In my previous article on Declarative Tweening I talked about a solution for having Tweening animations declared in XAML. One major benefit of this model is that Tweening animations have become first class citizens in the Silverlight animation framework. Using attached properties is has become very easy...
Declarative Tweening
Since I started working on the next version of my Slideshow application , I have this fascination with Tweening . Tweening is the process of creating a (complex) animation based on a start frame and end frame. Silverlight supports animations out of the box in the form of Linear, Discrete and Splined...
Spy in SL2B2, you win some, you loose some
The first version of Silverlight Spy for SL2B2 is out, and one of the improvements of SL2B2 is the VisualTreeHelper providing a complete view of the live object tree of a Silverlight application. That's really great and helps anyone who wants to dig deep into an object tree to figure out how stuff is...
Silverlight Spy for Beta 2 available
I just finished uploading an updated version of the Silverlight Spy which is capable of spying on Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications. The list of changes: Fully supports Beta 2 XAML Explorer provides a complete overview of an application's object tree. In Beta 1 it wasn't possible to fully explore the...
Silverlight P2PLib for SL2B2 now available too
Now that's a lot of 2's. The Silverlight P2P library has been migrated to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. I have uploaded the modified source files to CodePlex and created a new release set. What is P2P Lib? The Silverlight P2P library integrates Silverlight 2 Beta 2 with Live Messenger Activities, introducing...
Keep in touch using MSN
As of today, you can contact me on MSN. Contact details over here. The right pane reveals whether I am online or not.
Undocumented Silverlight 2 Beta 2 layout changes?
Both Slideshow 2 previews (available here and here ) are now running on Silverlight 2 Beta 2. However, there seem to be some issues with the layouting system. Things worked fine in Beta 1 and no longer in Beta 2. I haven't found any documentation on this yet and I don't know the exact cause. I'm pretty...
VisualTreeHelper is a Spy's best friend
As you probably are aware by now, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is upon us with quite a few modifications I might add. I am busy migrating Silverlight Spy to Beta 2 and discovered this nice little class called VisualTreeHelper (available in System.Windows.Media). VisualTreeHelper provides all the information...
Another Slideshow 2 preview
And another demonstration of a couple of features I've added to the slideshow. What you are looking at is the slideshow in carousel mode displaying WMF (Window MetaFile) images. The Windows Metafile format is not natively supported by Silverlight. I have written a WMF to XAML converter which is capable...
