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Friday, July 10, 2009 4:33 PM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Analytics

Silverlight 3 has new feature which should help us to understand how good our application performs. This feature is Analytics class. It Has 2 read-only properties AverageProcessLoad – average CPU used by this process across all the cores AverageProcessorLoad – average CPU usage across all cores In addition it has GpuCollection collection with objects of GpuInformation type. Each one of GpuInformation object provides information about: DeviceId – device ID of the GPU VendorId – vendor ID of the GPU...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:26 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Native Mouse Wheel Support

Silverlight 3 supports the mouse wheel events natively. To use this handy feature just subscribe to “MouseWheel” of UIElement. The reported values will be like follows: Positive for forward scroll Negative for backward scroll   Enjoy, Alex
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:25 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Out Of Browser Settings

In MIX 09 Beta build of Silverlight 3, when we wanted to enable out-of-browser experience, we had to edit manually AppManifest.xml. Now for Silverlight 3 projects in Visual Studio 2008 we got the out of browser settings helper dialog box The dialog will be saved in “OutOfBrowserSettings.xml” and this file contents will be merged on compile time to the AppManifest.xml. For hardcore programmers, who wants to write every single piece of the application without wizards/helpers – you still could use AppManifest...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:24 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Multitouch support on Windows 7

Silverlight 3 supports Multitouch on Windows 7. Touch class –provides input information and resides in System.Windows.Input namespace “FrameReported” event - fired when touch action occurs. Event arguments provide the following info: Timestamp: identify the touch event by time GetTouchPoints function (over specific UI Element) GetPrimaryTouchPoint function (over specific UIElement) SuspendMousePromotionUntilTouchUp function GetTouchPoints returns TouchPointCollection In TouchPointCollection first...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:23 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Browser Zoom Support

New version of Silverlight 3 supports zoom events from the hosting browser environment. “Zoomed” event is the new event in Content static object, and the current browser’s zoom factor in “ZoomFactor” property of the Content object:   App.Current.Host.Content.Zoomed += (s, e) => {     //Browser’s Zoom in:App.Current.Host.Content.ZoomFactor; };   Enjoy, Alex
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Friday, July 10, 2009 9:36 AM

Silverlight 3: Hebrew and Arabic Support

Since I’m constantly getting many questions about Hebrew and Arabic support and also huge amount of requests to provide/support it, I’ve updated the SilverlightRTL project at codeplex to support Silverlight 3. The project homepage here . Latest release for Silverlight 3 RTW is here .   The updated source also includes sample application to demonstrate Bidi controls usage and comparison with standard core controls with Hebrew and Arabic:     Enjoy, Alex
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Friday, July 10, 2009 5:25 AM

Silverlight 3 is RTW!!!

As expected , Silverlight 3 runtime is online via official homepage ! Downloading… Installing… The RTM version has build number:   Download links : Silverlight 3 tools for Visual Studio 2008  here . Blend 3 + SketchFlow (60 days trail) available here . DeepZoom composer here . Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 here . RIA Services July 2009 here .     Download and enjoy! Alex
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:21 AM

Silverlight 2 applications: a day after Silverlight 3 release

Silverlight 3 release date is approaching, and I’m getting questions what will happen to existing Silverlight 2 applications after it will be released. Also I’m getting questions about the runtime version upgrade. Let’s see what will happen after Silverlight 3 will be released… Those who already using Silverlight 2 and getting automatic updates will receive the new runtime automatically. Everyone else need to download and install it manually. The updated clients will be able to run Silverlight 2...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:08 AM

What’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 – DevDay (22 July 2009)

Silverlight 3 will be released very soon . Many new features were added, many improvements were made. Come and see me presenting what’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 at Microsoft Israel Offices, 22 July 2009. I will talk about new features, new and improved technologies. Will see Silverlight 3 tools and features in current version of Visual Studio 2008 and in upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 (Beta). Will see what’s new in Expression Blend 3. Many cool demos, tips & tricks...
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Friday, May 29, 2009 9:40 AM

Silverlight 3 Release Date

According to this resource Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 will be released 10 July 2009 . Prepare yourself to move to the new version, prepare for breaking changes and migration from Beta to RTW :)   More to come, stay tuned! Alex
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