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Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:15 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #3: Creating custom easing for Silverlight animations

This time I’ll show how to use new easing functions for animations. In Silverlight 3 we could apply one of existing easing functions to our animation (storyboard) or create our own. First, let’s apply existing easing function. On my sample page I have a bunch of buttons to control UI, a stack panel with some path that looks like a spring and a ball attached to it. Also I created a storyboard to animate the Width property: < StackPanel x:Name ="LayoutRoot" Background ="LightGray"...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:13 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #2: How to prepare your Silverlight 3 application offline

Today I’ll show probably one of most expected features – taking Silverlight application offline. To do it all you need to do is to add new section to AppManifest.xml. The section should be like following example: < Deployment.ApplicationIdentity > < ApplicationIdentity ShortName ="Silverlight Offline Demo" Title ="Silverlight Offline Application Demo" > < ApplicationIdentity.Blurb > This is sample application to show Silverlight 3 offline support. Created by...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:30 PM

What’s new in Silverlight 3 Beta 1?

As just announced at MIX09 keynotes, new version of Silverlight will hit our machines – this time it will be Silverlight 3 Beta 1. Here is the short list of what’s new in there: Go offline with your application: Silverlight 3 provides all the features you need to store your application on your users machine, and then work against their data in the your isolated cache or under their MyDocuments. Your application can ask the user if they want to add a link to your application on their desktop or start...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:31 PM

Silverlight 3 Beta 1 available

Mix09 keynotes just around the corner (3 more hours), but MS Downloads center already has a links to Silverlight 3 Beta build and Ria Services (former Alexandria). Microsoft .NET RIA Services March '09 Preview (4.1 MB):  The .NET RIA Services is an framework that provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. Microsoft Silverlight 3 SDK Beta 1 (9.6 MB):  The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:49 AM

MIX09 – Day 0

Today I attended to MIX09 workshops day. Unfortunately I could make to the morning session and get for 2nd workshop only but I believe I choose the best one. I was at Jaime’s Rodriguez & Co. “Hiking Mt Avalon”. Nice session: many cool demos, best practices, tips and tricks!!! For me – MIX09 started the best way it could! Waiting for tomorrow – the official first day of the conference and the Keynotes!!! More updates to come!   Alex
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:43 PM

Teaser

Something BIG is coming… I’m flying this weekend to attend MIX09 in Las Vegas, NV, USA and promise to post updates and news from there. Cool samples, “how-to’s” and “Quick Tips” will be posted here at the moment I’ll be able to post them :) Come back next week to get the full details. Stay tuned, Alex
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Friday, January 16, 2009 7:59 AM

Silverlight 3 Sessions at MIX09 announced

  New sessions related to Silverlight 3 just announced at MIX09!   The sessions are: What’s New in Silverlight 3 .  Learn about the new experience-oriented Silverlight 3 features, and see how to build Silverlight 3 applications using Expression Blend and Visual Studio. What's New in Silverlight 3 Media.   Learn about the latest media features available with Silverlight 3. Deep Dive into Silverlight Graphics.   Hear about the Silverlight 3 rendering pipeline, and learn...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:57 AM

Silverlight Game of Life

Microsoft just started “<10k” coding challenge with grand prize of pass to the MIX09 event, 3 nights at The Venetian Hotel and a $1500 Visa gift card ! The rules are simple – develop cool WPF or Silverlight application with total sources under 10 kilobytes of code :) The submissions gallery here I’ve just submitted my entry: Silverlight The Game Of Life   Click to add more cells to the board and see how they will survive If you like it please vote for me!   Thanks and Enjoy, Alex
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