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• Dev Teach 2008 Toronto Canada

  looks like we are going to Canada: read more at: http://hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com/2008/08/dev-teach-2008-toronto-canada.html Posted Aug 19 2008, 08:04 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, Silverlight 2.0

• Control Library on Codeplex

  I started a code plex project on code plex... dah... that has a Silverlight control library solution with items from the forth coming book. right now I only did unit tests for 7 of the controls namely multi panel and some of the other panels and then... Posted Jul 07 2008, 09:37 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, C#

• Hacking Silverlight 2 on Amazon

  Available for pre order on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Silverlight-2-David-Kelley/dp/1933988576/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213734172&sr=8-1 Posted Jul 07 2008, 09:34 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML

• Silverlight MIX Announcement(s)

  In the keynote today Scott G annouced SL 2. is publicly available. very cool. my favorite part whas how much they showed our Entertainment Tonight work in Silverlight. among my favorite features annouced include (I will skip all the new bits Scott put... Posted Mar 05 2008, 02:53 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, Silverlight 2.0, MIX

• Using the Silverlight 2.0 Xaml StackPanel Element

  The next advanced layout element in Xaml is the stack panel. The StackPanel lays out it’s children either horizontally or vertically without having to define the exact location in the visual tree in Xaml. Take the following listing example of a stack... Posted Feb 28 2008, 07:25 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, layout, Silverlight 2.0, stackpanel

• Using the Silverlight 2.0 Xaml Grid Element

  The Grid is basically just that a grid of a set number of colums and rows. Elements in the grid must then be placed into a cell in the grid by setting the Grid.Column and Grid.Row property of the element in questions. To start using a grid you first need... Posted Feb 28 2008, 07:23 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, layout, Silverlight 2.0, grid

• Anatomy of a Silverlight Animation

  For the most part we should be using Storyboards to do animations. Though it is possible to do programmatic animation and we do sometimes programmatically set properties the Storyboard infrastructure in Silverlight provides a standard easy to use and... Posted Jan 30 2008, 08:49 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, animation

• Video Brush in 5 minutes or less

  The Video brush is a great way to do some cool special effects. To make a video brush work on you have to have a named media element that you can bind to. That has a bound source. In the sample below we have a source. We have set the element to be muted... Posted Jan 22 2008, 06:55 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, XAML, brush

• Microsoft® Media Encoder™ in 5 minutes or less

  Expression Media Encoder is a Microsoft tool in the Microsoft Expression Suite of tools specifically designed to take media content and either tanscode/encode it or produce in a form that can be consumed online in the form of some kind of Silverlight... Posted Jan 21 2008, 05:35 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, expression, encoder, streaming

• Silverlight Streaming in 5 minutes or less

  Microsoft as part of the whole Silverlight ‘thing’ has provided a service to allow people to upload videos and get those video streamed along with providing other video streaming services. At the time of me writing this book it is a free service up to... Posted Jan 19 2008, 09:00 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, expression, encoder, streaming

• Silverlight on the iPhone

  don't get to excited Silverlight wasn't running ON the iphone but we did manage to get a silverlight app servered up from an iphone... So we thought we would have some fun and install an entire web site on an iphone, install it on our network... Posted Jan 03 2008, 02:07 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, Devin Brown, fun, iphone

• Silverlight Video Scrubbing

  A common feature of most video players is the ability to ‘scrub’ video or to ‘scrub’ the time line of a video. When we say ‘scrub’ we basically mean being able to change the position of the video by clicking on a line or icon and dragging it along a line... Posted Jan 02 2008, 07:59 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, XAML

• Quick and Dirty JSON

  So you want to write a JSON service for your Silverlight application? Basically this entire thing is a giant hack. first JSON is just the string syntax for JavaScript so it is not like a real protocol of course I get a bit of heart burn calling 'SOAP'... Posted Jan 01 2008, 10:01 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: javascript, david kelley, silverlight, C#, Visual Studio, JSON

• Silverlight 1.1 is dead

  Silverlight 1.1 is now 2.0 as of this morning: http://hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com/2007/11/silverlight-10-is-dead.html http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/29/net-web-product-roadmap-asp-net-silverlight-iis7.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/tims... Posted Nov 29 2007, 10:16 AM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight

• Silverlight Sidebar Gadgets in 64bit Vista

  If you have a 64bit version of Vista and want to get Silverlight working in your side bar check this out: http://hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com/2007/11/silverlight-sidebar-gadgets-in-64bit.html - David Posted Nov 23 2007, 01:34 PM by david.kelley with | with no comments Filed under: david kelley, silverlight, C#, Visual Studio, Vista